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Plot Summary:
Divorced couple Charlie and Lisa Hunter once a song writing team decide to spend a weekend in the French countryside to inspire them to write one last song together. But there is one person who isn't too crazy about the idea... Charlie's fiance!.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 419
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Period of Adjustment (1962)
Plot Summary:
George Haverstick, a Korean war veteran, hastily marries Isabel, whom he met in hospital while he was recovering from a nervous condition. To Isabel's horror, they drive to Florida on their honeymoon in an old hearse. They spend much of the time quarreling, and then, on Christmas eve, they visit George's war buddy, Ralph Baltz. However Ralph's wife Dorothea has just walked out on him, taking their child. Each couple then observes the marital difficulties of the other couple.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: retro, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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I Take These Men (1983)
Plot Summary:
Moments before being surprised at an anniversary garden party thrown by her husband and their family and friends, Carol Sherwood shocks him by saying she wants a divorce and during the course of the party, she has three separate fantasies with three different men in attendance of being married to them. The first is with egotistical real estate magnate Craig Wyler. The second is with milquetoast English professor David Koenig. The third is with her best friend Elaine's husband Phil.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Old Love (2007)
Plot Summary:
Though approaching his eighties, Max Kohn shows no signs of slowing down. He pursues his love life - both real and imagined - with youthful vigor, thereby risking his relationship to Reisel, the woman he loves but neglects. LOVE COMES LATELY is a film about real and imagined longings, the never ending dream of love and the power of fiction.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 342
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Austria, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic
Similar in 81%
Am I Beautiful? (1998)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: humorous, emotional, realistic, semi serious
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I Couldn't Care Less (2000)
Plot Summary:
This European take on twenty-something woe introduces viewers to Jorge (Alejandro Cano), a self-help author suffering from writer's block who thinks he may be gay. Living with Jorge is Marta (Maria Jurado), a bisexual who wants to have a baby. Included in their circle are Eva (Melanie Olivares), Jorge's ex, and Alberto (Alvaro Gallegos), a gay man Jorge meets at a New Age healing session presided over by Ines (Begona Hernando). A number of encounters ensue, Marta moves in with the piggish Mario (Fernando Cayo), and Jorge decides to write a book based on his own experiences.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Tomorrow's Another Day (2000)
Plot Summary:
Such an inconsequential event - the unfortunate purchase of a package of cling film - reveals the character and behavior of a small group of individuals caught up in the chaos of today's society. Though it creates arguments and inner questioning, this event - and its various consequences - also creates bonds.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 535
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, clever, offbeat
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Nonna's Trip (2007)
Plot Summary:
A Mexican family, wanting to grant their Grandmother her last wish, embarks on a make believe trip to a small town in Italy ... in Mexico!.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, emotional, sentimental, realistic, semi serious, gloomy
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Mary and Rhoda (2000)
Plot Summary:
The old friends from "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," Mary and Rhoda, are reunited, only to discover that Mary has a daughter named Rose and Rhoda's daughter is named Meredith.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 445
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sitcom, sentimental, touching, humorous, talky, sincere, realistic, semi serious, clever
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Our Precious Children (2003)
Plot Summary:
30 ans, l'âge des responsabilités... Martin s'apprête à partir en vacances avec sa femme Ariane et sa fille Cerise, 4 mois... C'est alors qu'il croise Constance, son ex, son amour de jeunesse, elle-même flanquée de deux marmots. C'est décidé : on passera quelques jours ensemble, au soleil, dans la maison familiale. Comme au bon vieux temps.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 434
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, realistic, semi serious, sexy, sexual
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Heartaches (1981)
Plot Summary:
A young wife becomes pregnant, but the child's father is not her husband. Afraid to tell him, she leaves home, and meets an outgoing, free-spirited woman on a bus. Although the two are polar opposites, the wife moves in with the young woman, and finds out that they have much more in common than she realized.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, offbeat, humorous, emotional, realistic, semi serious, cult film
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Empty Nest (2008)
Plot Summary:
Empty Nest tells the story of a couple who have to struggle to find themselves after their children grow up and move out. It starts out as a fairly simple story of a couple but becomes complicated by a series of events that may or may not be occurring only in Leonardo’s mind.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 903
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, sentimental, realistic, semi serious
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Marine Life (2000)
Plot Summary:
Marine Life revolves around the choatic family life of June, a middle-aged lounge singer and mother. Aging and twice divorced, lounge singer June Nordstrom tries to cope with her fading beauty, her troubled offspring, her waning career and her young lover, who begins seeing a woman his age behind June's back.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, humorous, emotional, semi serious, captivating, independent film
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All Together (2011)
Plot Summary:
Five old friends decide to move in together as an alternate to living in a retirement home; joining them is an ethnology student whose thesis is on the aging population.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, sentimental, realistic
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Finding Joy (2013)
Plot Summary:
Pompous and self-absorbed Kyle, is unhappily stuck in his life, longing to relive the success of his first novel. His not-so-desirable life rapidly unravels forcing him to return home to his wildly eccentric family with his tail between his legs. Life at home begins to show signs of improvement when Kyle meets the spunky, vivacious girl across the street who recruits Kyle to help her make the world a better place, making him feel alive for the first time in ages and inspiring his writing. But its short-lived. Joys been told shes going to die soon and wants Kyle to write her obituary.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, touching, emotional, semi serious, offbeat
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The Lather Effect (2006)
Plot Summary:
On the eve of selling her mother's house, a thirty-something housewife wakes up to a hangover surrounded by her best friends from high school.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 712
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, talky, semi serious, realistic
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Gooische Vrouwen (2011)
Plot Summary:
Gooische Vrouwen (Vipers Nest) is based on a very popular Dutch TV series and can be described as a Dutch variation of Sex and the City and Desperate Housewives. The film tells the story of four girlfriends who live in the bourgeois area ‘t Gooi, where life always seems to run smoothly, but dark clouds are gathering on the horizon. A flight seems the only way out….
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, sexy, humorous, realistic, witty, offbeat, biting, sexual, suspense
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Hello Lonesome (2010)
Plot Summary:
Lonely since his wife left him and alienated from his daughter, a cantankerous voice-over artist strikes up an unlikely friendship with his regular deliveryman. Many suburbs away, an elderly widow loses her license to drive and turns to her wry younger neighbor for nostalgic cuddles and comfort. Meanwhile, a young urban sports fanatic meets a girl online and unexpectedly falls in love, though the trials the couple endure prove even more unexpected. Adam Reid's enchanting, compassionate debut weaves together the worlds of six lonely individuals as they negotiate the age-old process of giving and receiving love. It isn't easy, and it never happens the way they expect it, but for these isolated souls, there's an oddball magic in the way they make connections they never imagined.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: realistic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, psychological, independent film, touching
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Expecting (2013)
Plot Summary:
Lizzie's best friend, Andie, becomes pregnant and offers to give the baby to her. Lizzie's husband, Peter, reluctantly goes along with being the child's father, and Andie moves into the guest room for the remainder of the pregnancy.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, humorous, semi serious, indie film, independent film
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The Dandelions (2012)
Plot Summary:
A young girl is frustrated by her over-protective mom. At school, she meets another fearless little girl that is going to have a big influence on her.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, humorous, realistic
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Bastards of Young (2013)
Plot Summary:
Welcome to adulthood! When two early-30s couples celebrate their last annual Halloween party in New York, they are confronted with sex, lies, and unspoken drama which tests their relationships and futures.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Newlyweds (2011)
Plot Summary:
A newlywed couple's honeymoon is upended by the arrivals of their respective sisters.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, sincere, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film
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King Uncle (1993)
Plot Summary:
Ashok Bansal has a traumatic childhood which teaches him that money matters most to people, even more than their kids. Ashok starts hating poor people & starts working hard to get out of poverty, at the expense of his own family. However, Ashok’s life changes forever when Munna enters his life.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 171 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Mind the Gap (2004)
Plot Summary:
Five seemingly unrelated people decide to take huge risks in their personal lives in an effort to find happiness.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 997
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: humorous, talky, semi serious, captivating, sincere, sentimental, clever, touching, offbeat, realistic
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God Said, 'Ha!' (1998)
Plot Summary:
Julia Sweeney tells the viewers the monologue about the hard time in her life when her brother fought with cancer and she was also diagnosed with a rare form of cancer.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, witty, talky, independent film, clever, realistic, gloomy, semi serious, minimal cast
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Lovelife (1997)
Plot Summary:
Lovelife is a 1997 romantic comedy film written and directed by Jon Harmon Feldman. The ensemble cast includes Matt Letscher, Sherilyn Fenn, Saffron Burrows, Carla Gugino, Bruce Davison, Jon Tenney and Peter Krause. Lovelife was nominated for a Feature Film Award at the 1997 Austin Film Festival, and won an Audience Award at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival. The film was winner of the screenplay award at the L.A. Indie fest.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 481
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, sentimental, clever, touching, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, semi serious
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The Four Seasons (1981)
Plot Summary:
Three middle-aged wealthy couples take vacations together in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Along the way we are treated to mid-life, marital, parental and other crises.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, clever, semi serious, funny, light
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Frenchmen 3 (2013)
Plot Summary:
Alex, Antoine and Manu meet Jean, a loner who ignores the pleasures of friendship. Little by little, they learn to know each other, to appreciate each other. Jean is moved by the complicity and affection that fuels the relationship with his new friends.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 465
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty, light, feel good
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Walkaway (2010)
Plot Summary:
Walkaway, a light-comedy drama, mocks the clutches of social obligations on young Indian professionals settled in New York City.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 813
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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The Flats (2002)
Plot Summary:
The Flats tells a cautionary tale of friendship and desire played out among a group of 20-somethings transitioning into adulthood. Main character Harper and his buddies make the most of their freedom prior to an impending court-ordered jail sentence. Things get even more serious when Harper and his best friend's girlfriend, Paige, begin a sobering relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Stockholm Boogie (2005)
Plot Summary:
We are following the two cousins and best friends, Jerka and Hoffa, during a typical night out in Stockholm. It's summertime and anything can happen.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, semi serious, light, touching