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Plot Summary:
Amelia and Pippo are reunited after several decades to perform their old music-hall act, imitating Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, on a TV variety show.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: sexy, emotional, black comedy, cult classic, sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, surreal, semi serious
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Marriage Italian Style (1964)
Plot Summary:
In Naples, in the Second World War, the wolf businessman Domenico Soriano meets the seventeen years old whore Filumena Marturano in a brothel during an allied bombing. Two years later, in the post-war, they meet each other by chance and begin a long affair. For twenty-two years, Filumena is his mistress and administrates his shops in Naples while Domenico is traveling. When Domenico decides to marry the young cashier of his bakery, Filumena lures him as if she were near to death and he marries her. Later he annuls their matrimony, and she tells him that she has three sons that she raised secretly, one of them is his legitimate son but she does not disclose his identity. The middle-age Domenico uses the most different subterfuges trying to find which teenager might be his son.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sentimental, witty, sexy, touching, captivating, realistic, romantic, social, semi serious, crying
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Divorce Italian Style (1961)
Plot Summary:
A married Sicilian baron falls in love with his cousin and vows to wed her, but with divorce illegal he must concoct a crime of passion to do away with his wife.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: black comedy, humorous, witty, light, atmospheric, talky, captivating, feel good, semi serious, dark comedy
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Interview (1987)
Plot Summary:
Federico Fellini welcomes us into his world of film making with a mockumentary about his life in film, as a Japanese film crew follows him around.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: art house, neorealism, mockumentary, sentimental, humorous, realistic, surreal, stylized, semi serious, meta
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The Voice of the Moon (1990)
Plot Summary:
Returning to themes he first explored in La strada (1954), Fellini crafts a parable on the whisperings of the soul that only madmen and vagabonds are capable of hearing. The odd couple, Ivo Salvini (Benigni), a fake inspector of wells, and Gonnella (Villaggio), a former prefect, wander through the Emilia-Romagna countryside of Fellini's childhood and discover a dystopia of television commercials, fascism, beauty pageants, rock music, Catholicism, and pagan ritual.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: postmodern, offbeat, humorous, surreal, stylized, semi serious
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Macaroni (1985)
Plot Summary:
A businessman from the United States returns to Italy for the first time in four decades only to discover that an old girlfriend of his, along with her brother, have involved him in a massive hoax.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 841
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Whiskey with Vodka (2009)
Plot Summary:
A renowned actor named Otto is the epitome of the problematic but beloved ladies man. Even when drunk he still knows more about filmmaking than does the amateur who is directing him in his latest movie. But what should the unreliable star do when a local actor joins the crew as his understudy? Comic situations arise not only because of the well-known environment, but also from an inclination to authentically capture the various relationships.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 529
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, contemplative, semi serious, offbeat
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True Enough (2007)
Plot Summary:
Anne is an attractive woman on the cusp of middle age trying in vain to divide her time fairly between her demanding job as a television presenter and her family. Her colleagues and friends have similar problems though.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexy, sexual
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Tickets (2005)
Plot Summary:
A train travels across Italy toward Rome. On board is a professor who daydreams a conversation with a love that never was, a family of Albanian refugees who switch trains and steal a ticket, three brash Scottish soccer fans en route to a match, and a complaining widow traveling to a memorial service for her late husband who's accompanied by a community-service volunteer who's assisting her. Interactions among these Europeans turn on class and nationalism, courtesy and rudeness, and opportunities for kindness.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, anthology, road movie, islamic, realistic, contemplative
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Everybody's Fine (1990)
Plot Summary:
Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat, a widower with five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. He decides to surprise each with a visit and finds none as he imagined.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: psychological, philosophical, sentimental, clever, serious, emotional, tragicomedy, realistic, contemplative, road movie
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City of Women (1980)
Plot Summary:
A businessman finds himself trapped at a hotel and threatened by women en masse.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: surreal, satirical, art house, cerebral, atmospheric, mind bending, psychedelic, cult classic, clever, offbeat
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Roma (1972)
Plot Summary:
A virtually plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its most famous citizens.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: art house, atmospheric, stylized, non-linear, visual, colorful, neorealism, visually appealing, cerebral, surreal
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Roseanna's Grave (1997)
Plot Summary:
Roseanna is dying of a heart condition, and all she wants is to be buried next to her daughter, in a cemetery that is getting full fast. The cemetery can't expand because Capestro, the man who owns the land next to the cemetery, won't sell. While Marcello is doing good deeds to make sure no one dies, Roseanna thinks of Marcello's future.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, sentimental, romantic, sweet, melancholic, talky, semi serious, humorous, realistic
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One Stays, the Other Leaves (2005)
Plot Summary:
A story about two couples, longtime friends in which both husbands engage in long-term affairs and, as the title says, ultimately one remains with his wife and one makes a new life with another woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 649
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of 'Mork & Mindy' (2005)
Plot Summary:
An inside look at the ABC sitcom which turned Robin Williams into a star in 1978.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, sitcom
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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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Garbo Talks (1984)
Plot Summary:
A New York accountant (Ron Silver) sets out to grant his dying mother's last wish--to meet film star Greta Garbo. Sidney Lumet's bittersweet 1984 comedy also stars Anne Bancroft, Catherine Hicks, Carrie Fisher, Harvey Fierstein, Howard Da Silva, Steven Hill, Hermione Gingold, Dorothy Loudon and Betty Comden.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sad, sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Queen of the Lot (2010)
Plot Summary:
An electronic ankle bracelet and being under house arrest aren't about to stop up-and-coming actress Maggie Chase (Tanna Frederick) from the two things she craves the most: real fame and true love. With more "Google points" than her Iowa hometown, but far less than Angelina Jolie, Maggie is desperate to claw her way off the B-list of action/adventure pictures and into major movie stardom.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious, independent film
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No Shame (2001)
Plot Summary:
A script fell to Isabel by chance. In reading it you realize it's the same story of the romance she had with the film director Mario Fabra, author of the script. Isabel decides appointment with Mario, who was not seen again, but at the moment of truth she feels ridiculous and pretends not to recognize him. He has also recognized that, reacts the same way. Both have young lovers: Mario has to Cecilia, a soap opera actress with self-esteem issues, Isabel has to Albert, a professor of physical expression, as primal as a dependent. Mario needs new actors for his film. After thinking, Isabel chooses to use and your school to get them. Actually he wants to be near as much as Isabel Isabel wants encounter him.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 522
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, clever, realistic, biting, parody, suspense
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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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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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Cleopatra (2003)
Plot Summary:
A retired teacher and a soap star leave their routines and the men in their lives behind and embark on a weekend trip.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 622
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, emotional, realistic
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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 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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Intrepido: A Lonely Hero (2013)
Plot Summary:
A middle-aged man tries to get by in Milan while trying to retain his dignity.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 738
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic, light, feel good
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Manual of Love (2005)
Plot Summary:
Four intertwined episodes on the joys and sorrows of love.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, sexy, saga, realistic, anthology
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I Remember (1973)
Plot Summary:
In an Italian seaside town, young Titta gets into trouble with his friends and watches various local eccentrics as they engage in often absurd behavior. Frequently clashing with his stern father and defended by his doting mother, Titta witnesses the actions of a wide range of characters, from his extended family to Fascist loyalists to sensual women, with certain moments shifting into fantastical scenarios.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: art house, surreal, sentimental, atmospheric, visual, stylized, meditative, colorful, realistic, philosophical
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Different for Girls (1996)
Plot Summary:
Karl Foyle and Paul Prentice were best mates at school in the Seventies. But when they meet again in present-day London things are definitely not the same. Karl is now Kim, a transsexual, and she has no desire to stir up the past while she's busy forging a neat and orderly new life. Prentice, on the other hand, has charm but is a social disaster stuck in a dead-end job. His main talent is for getting them both into trouble. Amid the squabbles, they start to fall in love. One night, Kim invites Prentice to a romantic dinner at her flat. Prentice, finding the seduction unexpectedly effective, freaks out. He proceeds to make a public display of both of them and winds up in court. Humiliated and angry, Kim runs away. Only she can save Prentice now, but will true love triumph for a new made woman and an aging punk?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sexy, touching, sentimental, clever, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, romantic, thought provoking
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Kryptonite! (2011)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1970s Naples, bullied nine year-old Peppino is watching the world around him as his extended dysfunctional family change. Psychedelic flower power and hippie love is threatening the old traditional southern Italian family. Dad is having an affair and Mom has taken to her bed with depression. Super-mod brother and sister Titina and Salvatore take the boy under their wings, introducing him to demonstrations and love-ins, whilst caped superhero Gennaro visits Peppino even after being knocked down and killed by the number 12 bus. It is the imaginary appearances of this older superman cousin that help the nine-year-old navigate the complicated adult world.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 695
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: semi serious, sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic
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5 Flights Up (2014)
Plot Summary:
A long-time married couple who've spent their lives together in the same New York apartment become overwhelmed by personal and real estate-related issues when they plan to move away.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious, sweet, entertaining, comedy drama, humorous, independent film