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Plot Summary:
A feudal village in Southeastern Turkey in 1970's. A poor peasant, Feyzo returns from military service dreaming about getting married to Gülo, the love of his life.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: political, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Propaganda (1999)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story set in 1948, customs officer Mehti is faced with the duty of formally setting up the border between Turkey and Syria, dividing his hometown. He is unaware of the pain that will eminently unfold, as families, languages, cultures and lovers are both ripped apart and clash head on in a village once united.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: political, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, biting, suspense
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Village of the Stone Roller (1995)
Plot Summary:
Pekka (Martti Suosalo) saapuu pitkästä aikaa kotiseudulleen pieneen Jerusalemin kylään juhlistamaan kylän viimeisiä häitä. Hänen oma avioliittonsa näyttää ajautuneen umpikujaan. Kylän väki kokoontuu valmistelemaan tätä viimeistä tapahtumaa, ja yhteen kesäiseen vuorokauteen tuntuu tiivistyvän koko ihmiselon katkeransuloinen kirjo iloineen ja suruineen. Maaseudun kuvaus on nostalgista ja herkkää, ja tarinan dialogi osuvaa. Markku Pölönen on käsikirjoittanut ja ohjannut tämän Heikki Turusen kirjaan perustuvan elokuvan joutsenlauluksi elämänmuodolle joka loppui 70-luvun maaltamuuton myötä.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 981
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, emotional, realistic, semi serious
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Idiot in Paris (1967)
Plot Summary:
Goubi, the simpleton of his village in the French Department Allier, has but one wish: to see Paris. One day, the truckers Grafouillère deposit a drunk Goubi in the biggest market of Paris (the "Halles"). The poor man is completely lost, but the meat merchant Dessertine takes him under his wings when he hears that Goubi was likewise 'raised by the State'.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 371
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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The Source (2011)
Plot Summary:
A comedy/drama set in a village and centered on a battle of the sexes, where women threaten to withhold sexual favours as long as the men refuse to install a water pipe.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Italy
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: sentimental, realistic, stylized, feel good, political, social, profound, humorous, semi serious, interesting
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Dinner at Eight (1989)
Plot Summary:
A wry, insightful comedy of manners in which somewhat dizzy society matron Millicent Jordan arranges a dinner party to honor some visiting aristocrat while remaining oblivious to her husband's health and financial problems as well as her daughter's feelings and emotions. Party guests include the vain, the greedy, and the self-absorbed.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, cynical, semi serious
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Handle with Care (1977)
Plot Summary:
The interlaced stories of several characters in a small town united by their use of CB (citizen's band) radio.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 888
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: cult classic, humorous, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, independent film, sexy, thought provoking, enigmatic, bleak
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Wedding Fever in Campobello (2009)
Plot Summary:
When Jan decides to marry his girl-friend Sara, he is not aware of his opponent: her father, who is an Italian.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, sentimental, realistic, feel good, captivating, semi serious
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Over this long hot summer, Claude and Isabelle get their marriage back on track, while Bibou and Simon, spend a memorable summer discovering the world of grown-ups.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: feel good, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Plot Summary:
Ibrahim returns to Tinne, along with his girlfriend, Jessica, but will the tiny village become their new home?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, light, feel good, captivating, realistic
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The mysterious arrival of a foreigner to a small village in a Mediterranean island, awake the sudden interest from a diverse group of residents, who will appear unexpectedly in the stranger's life, believing that he's going to reopen an old shop. In contrast, the real intentions of the stranger are hidden behind an old Polaroid photo, which has led him to that place in search of answers.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, sincere, light
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Seventy-Two Days (2010)
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A family from isolated village in Lika makes a good living out of American pension earned by their late granddad Djuradj and received by his widow Nedja. The very existence of a family is threatened when Nedja dies, but the head of the family comes up with a cunning plan.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Croatia, Serbia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat
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The Easy Way Out (2014)
Plot Summary:
Patrick, a travel agent in his early 30s, lives with Arthur, an immigration lawyer; but for a long time, Patrick has been sleeping on an air mattress on the floor of their bedroom. His younger brother, Tony, plans to marry his high school sweetheart but is having an affair that is far more satisfying than his relationship with his fiancee. Their older brother, Ryan, is divorced, living at home and working at his parents’ hopelessly unprofitable men’s clothing store. And McCauley soon makes achingly clear that the parents’ marriage is far from happy.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Daughters, Daughters (1973)
Plot Summary:
In this Israeli comedy, a father is afraid that after having sired eight daughters, that he will never produce a son.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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Don Fabijan is a young priest who comes to serve on an unnamed small island in the Adriatic. In order to help increase birth rate on the island, he decides to pierce condoms before they are sold. He therefore teams up with the newsagent Petar and the pharmacist Marin. After they abolish all forms of birth control on the entire island, the consequences become more and more complicated.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, semi serious, tragicomedy, suspense, biting, dark comedy
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Tomorrow's Another Day (2000)
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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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The Pope's Toilet (2007)
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A small South American village is in a flurry over the Pope's 1988 visit.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Uruguay, Brazil, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, touching, captivating, hispanic, biting, suspense
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
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Duration: 98 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 903
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 419
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Duration: 98 min
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She drove me into a corner, then forced me to go beyond my limits. She made me confront the absolute: love, sacrifice, tenderness, abandonment. She dislocated me, transformed me. Why didn't anyone warn me? Why doesn't anyone ever talk about this?" Un heureux événement, or an intimate view of motherhood, sincere and with no taboos.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
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Plot tags: sincere, realistic, humorous, semi serious, sexy, crying
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, independent film
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Plot Summary:
Madrid, 1974. Six years have passed since Martin and his family have returned to Spain from Switzerland. A visit to their adopted country will bring complications.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 468
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Country: Spain
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IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 38000
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Country: Turkey
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
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Country: India
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
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Country: India
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A village-based singer attempts to find love and fame in the big city.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
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IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
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