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Plot Summary:
An aging Hong Kong couple move to Australia with their two youngest sons. They stay with a daughter who has already begun a successful career. Meanwhile their eldest daughter lives in Germany and their eldest son remains in Hong Kong. The film explores the different ways the family members cope with isolation and alienation.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 305
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Welcome to Norway (2016)
Plot Summary:
A couple decide to open a home for refuges in the remote cold mountains of Norway.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Man Walking on Snow (2001)
Plot Summary:
Mashike, a city on the Japanese island of Hokkaido. Nobuo Honma is a 63-year-old sake producer. He has lived with Yasuo since his wife died two years ago. Yasuo is his youngest son to whom he has entrusted his trade. Every day Nobuo goes for a walk which leads him to a fish-breeding center, located in the mountains. He fills his loneliness by attentively observing the development of thousands of little fish poured into the pool. The second anniversary of his wife's death approaches. Nobuo insists on the presence of Ryoichi, his elder son whom he hasn't seen for a long time. Nobuo and his two sons, along with their partners, gather for the commemoration. Unspoken feelings resurface and clash with each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min
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Overseas and Under Your Skin (2009)
Plot Summary:
Ida is a woman who was adopted to Finland from Africa as a child. Ida is an unemployed seamstress approaching her thirties and still lives at home with her activist mother Kati. Kati wants to fix her daughter's life and offers her a job at her work. Encouraged by her new friend Ville, Ida, however, sets out for Berlin in order to find a job and to prove to her mother that she can manage on her own. Meanwhile, Kati has been told that she is seriously ill, but she does not want to mention it to Ida in fear of standing in the way of her daughter's struggle for independence. Ida wants to have a life of her own, but what will she have left at the end of the day?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland, Germany
Duration: 86 min
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Holiday (1999)
Plot Summary:
During a family reunion in 2000, guests decide to read out laud their "where i see myself in 10 years" wish lists which they wrote down during their 1990 family reunion.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Canada
Duration: 105 min
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Violet's Visit (1997)
Plot Summary:
Violet, a feisty 15 year-old who prefers the nickname "Scooter" , decides to run away from her boring life in a small town and goes to visit with the father she has never seen. She believes he lives in the city with his new wife, but in fact he is in a gay relationship with his long-time lover. This inevitably leads to changes and readjustments all round as dad gets to know, reluctantly, the daughter he never wanted.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Yen Family (1988)
Plot Summary:
Comedy about a family and their obsession for making money.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: independent film, black comedy
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The Head Of The Family (1967)
Plot Summary:
A man is delighted to hear that his wife is pregnant and he begins to prepare for the wonders of fatherhood. As time progresses along, the family grows larger with each successive child and the father feels his importance in the family has been lessened with all the children. This man's quiet desperation to hold onto his position is an interesting lesson in the family dynamic and how everyone is an important part of the whole.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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The Goddess of 1967 (2000)
Plot Summary:
A rich young Japanese man travels to Australia with the intention of buying a Citroën DS car (the goddess of the film's title - nicknamed the Déesse, after its initials in French, déesse being French for "goddess") that he has found for sale on the net. Once there things do not quite go to plan and he ends up on a road journey with a blind girl.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: serious, stylized, melancholic, captivating, erotic, touching, offbeat, experimental, road movie, dark comedy
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Midnight Dancer (1988)
Plot Summary:
16 year old Australian girl Belinda (Deanne Jeffs) wants to become a ballerina. To makes ends meet, she takes a job as an exotic dancer in a Sydney cabaret. Eventually, she is able to reach her goal, but not before experiencing humanity at best and worst of times.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film
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My Brother's Summer (2005)
Plot Summary:
When Sergio learns that he will soon have a baby brother, his imagination kicks into gear in devious and alarming ways. But when his mother suffers a miscarriage, Sergio's feelings of guilt are all too real.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining
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Fullt alvor (2018)
Plot Summary:
A father and son reunites for a summer vacation after the tragic loss of their cancer ill mother and ex-wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, realistic, suspenseful
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Friedliche Zeiten (2008)
Plot Summary:
Summer 1968. It has been seven years since the Striesow family fled the GDR to a quiet suburb in West Germany. But Irene, the mother, does not support her situation as a housewife. Especially since Dieter, her husband, is absent more and more. Their three children watch the couple tear each other apart, wondering if the divorce might end up being good.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Corona Depression (2020)
Plot Summary:
A pandemic strikes the world. What does quarantine do to a lonely woman's mind? Follow her from sense to insanity. No filters. Just you, her, and her more and more twisted mind.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 188
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, satirical, dramatic, absurd, semi serious
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The Spanish Woman (2001)
Plot Summary:
Lola, a hot-blooded Spaniard, is deserted by her husband for a cool and calculating Aussie blonde. Lola is pregnant again but she and their daughter Lucia are left to starve while Ricardo spends all their savings on a sleek new set of wheels for his mistress. When he dies unexpectedly the family fortune, one flash car, remains with the mistress. Despite all his betrayals, Lucia sides with her father. Desperate and destitute in a country she doesn't like or understand, Lola's quest for revenge begins. Caught in the tempests of begrudging love, revenge, sibling rivalry, jealousy and passion, fourteen year old Lucia must find the strength to survive on her own terms. Aided to break free of her mother by her eccentric Aunt Manolo she struggles to find her own identity and her own quest for justice puts her on a collision course with her mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 475
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sexy, captivating, light, realistic, witty, sexual, black comedy, dark comedy
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Mom Squad (2019)
Plot Summary:
New mother Line is living the high life in Hong Kong with husband Bjørn when she discovers that he has been unfaithful to her with their Filipino nanny, so Line takes her baby son and heads back to her old hometown in southern Funen.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 681
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Reach (2018)
Plot Summary:
A socially awkward band geek, Steven Turano, is planning on killing himself. However, when Clarence, the new quirky kid in school, befriends him, Steven's plans are sidetracked and he reaches beyond his comfort zone forming stronger relationships with his father, friends and teachers. The boys form an inseparable bond as Clarence finds creative ways to pull Steven out of his depression.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 364
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, touching, serious, realistic, captivating, disturbing, queer cinema
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Felicità (2020)
Plot Summary:
Tommy, 11 years old, is on the road again with her eccentric parents. This time, her freshly out-of-jail father has promised her: she won't miss the first school-day of the term! That was before her dad stole a sports car, her mother disappeared and an astronaut popped by.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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A Month of Sundays (2015)
Plot Summary:
Frank Mollard, divorced but still attached, can't move on and also can't sell a house in a property boom, much less connect with his teenage son. One night Frank gets a phone call from his mother. Nothing out of the ordinary there – apart from the fact that she died the year before.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 493
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: unusual plot structure, humorous, psychological, light, feel good, independent film
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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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Autumn Moon (1992)
Plot Summary:
A Japanese tourist, Tokio, meets a 15-year-old Hong Kong girl and her grandmother left behind in Hong Kong while their family emmigrates to Canada.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 369
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Japan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, crying
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Coconut Hero (2015)
Plot Summary:
It's not easy being a teenager and Mike, a sixteen-year-old, has it espcially hard. He lives in the sticks with his mother, a non-stop nagger, in Faintville, a Canadian timber industry town. He has no father, no friends, not even a favorite meal. Basically, his sole wish is simply to vanish from the face of the earth. One day, Mike writes his own obituary and shoots himself. To his great disappointment he wakes up the in the local hospital. During a routine examination, the doctors discover a plum-sized tumor in his brain. Mike can scarcely believe his luck and keeps the illness to himself to avoid undergoing surgery that would save him. Staring death directly in the eyes, however, changes Mike's point of view and he re-evaluates his opinion of both enchanting and crazy Miranda. Somebody seems to understand him after all.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 975
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, humorous, sincere, captivating, twisted
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The Guide to the Perfect Family (2021)
Plot Summary:
A couple in Québec deals with the pitfalls, pressure and high expectations of raising kids in a society obsessed with success and social media image.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, captivating, feel good
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I'd Like to Be Alone Now (2019)
Plot Summary:
After losing his wife and three kids, all Kyle wants is to mourn in peace. Unfortunately, his family insists on helping him.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, semi serious
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The Coca-Cola Kid (1985)
Plot Summary:
An eccentric marketing guru visits a Coca-Cola subsidiary in Australia to try and increase market penetration. He finds zero penetration in a valley owned by an old man who makes his own soft drinks, and visits the valley to see why. After "the Kid's" persistence is tested he's given a tour of the man's plant, and they begin talking of a joint venture. Things get more complicated when the Coca-Cola man begins falling in love with his temporary secretary, who seems to have connections to the valley.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: aesthetic, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film, erotic, light
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The Efficiency Expert (1991)
Plot Summary:
Wallace is an efficiency expert, managing the high-profile downsizing of a major auto parts factory. But when he is hired to evaluate a small moccasin factory which seems from another era, Wallace has to reconsider the rapid modernization he advocates, as he is confronted by the human faces such plans hurt.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: clever, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Introducing the Dwights (2007)
Plot Summary:
The shy son of an aging comedienne tries to find a balance between his demanding home life, his new girlfriend, and his mother's second chance at fame.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sentimental, feel good, realistic, entertaining, biting, crying, suspense
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Mullet (2001)
Plot Summary:
Eddie returns to his home town on the south coast of New South Wales. Having left for the city without explanation a few years previously, he tries to pick up the pieces of his life and fit back in to the lives of those he left, including his ex-girlfriend Tully and brother Pete.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, humorous, clever, offbeat, realistic, witty, talky, semi serious
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Soft Fruit (1999)
Plot Summary:
For the first time in 15 years, all four siblings in a family show up to care for their dying mother, who is only given a couple of weeks to live. One comes from America with her two children. A divorced sister also comes with her child and sneaks off regularly to meet a mystery man who may be her ex-husband. The third & youngest daughter is an unmarried nurse aware of her ticking biological clock. The only son chases after his grumpy father who seems to not care a whit about his wife's circumstances. The four are also faced my their mother's dreams to accomplish a few things before she dies - to visit a beach she had visited in the past, to see her youngest married, and to visit Paris. She also wants to be embalmed and be honored with a 21 gun salute. Thus the whole group has to set off in the quest to fulfill their mother's wishes.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 566
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, independent film, black comedy, sentimental, touching, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, dark comedy, erotic
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The Sum of Us (1994)
Plot Summary:
"The Sum of Us" is an Aussie story about a father and a son both searching for love and sharing an unconventional bond. Harry, the father, is the caring and open-minded "mate" that borders on annoyance. His son Jeff unsuccessfully searches for love, with the unwanted guidance of his father.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, melancholic, sentimental, emotional, independent film, lgbt cinema, cult classic, humorous, realistic
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The Castle (1997)
Plot Summary:
A Melbourne family is very happy living near the Melbourne airport. However, they are forced to leave their beloved home (by the Government and airport authorities) to make way for more runways. 'The Castle' is the story of how they fight to remain in their home.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, feel good, compassionate, melancholic, talky, realistic, not serious, funny, cult classic