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Plot Summary:
A sharp-witted comedy that follows a group of apparent strangers in interlocking stories taking place in ten different bars during the course of one evening throughout Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy
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The Boys & Girls Guide to Getting Down (2006)
Plot Summary:
Tongue-in-cheek look at 20-something singles clubbing and partying in L.A. Voice-over narration, charts and graphs, and visits to a research laboratory punctuate the story of a single night when groups of friends go out, drink alcohol, take drugs, dance and talk, and look for someone to go home with.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, not serious, mockumentary, feel good, psychedelic, stylized, realistic, sexual, independent film
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The Photographer (2000)
Plot Summary:
A year after becoming the toast of New York City's art scene, photographer Max Martin has lost his ability to take a decent picture. On the night before his make-or-break gallery opening, surrounded by the trappings of success but devoid of inspiration, Max embarks on a bizarre trek through the city in search of ten mysterious photographs that could save his career. Shot in brilliant color and dramatic black and white, first-time director Jeremy Stein's industrial New York City is a wonderland, roamed by witches and magical creatures, where survival hinges on the completion of a simple quest. Accompanied by an unlikely crew of strangers he meets along the way, Max trips through a modern-day Oz and rediscovers the easily forgotten value of seeing magic reflected in everyday life.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 355
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, offbeat
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Spin (2007)
Plot Summary:
Six young people spend the morning after a wild club spree trying to piece together their misadventures from the night before, including a trip to the veterinarian hospital, at least one breakup and the unexpected discovery of a mobster's corpse. As the group shares their fragmented memories, some of their stories start to fit together while others just lead to more questions.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, offbeat, realistic, semi serious
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Get Well Soon (2001)
Plot Summary:
After having a nervous breakdown, a popular talk-show host confronts his ex-girlfriend who is dating a cross-dresser.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: talky, semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, clever, cynical, biting, suspense
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Free Samples (2012)
Plot Summary:
A Stanford law-school dropout named Jillian escapes to the anonymity of Los Angeles to figure out what she wants to do with her life, and on the day of her college boyfriend's birthday, she finds herself stuck running an ice cream truck fending off locals and oddball friends alike. This one day spent in a truck on the streets of Los Angeles will wake Jillian from her aimless daze and make her see that life doesn't stop just because you want it to.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, talky, cynical, semi serious, independent film, realistic, witty, whimsical
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Modern Girls (1986)
Plot Summary:
Margo, Kelly, and CeCe have three things in common: they're roomates, they're gorgeous, and they're hooked on the glamour and excitement of L.A.'s rock and roll night life. When they get mixed up with a rock star, an arrogant ex-boyfriend, a pseudo-sadist, and the nicest nerd in The City Of Angels, it's a full night to say the least!.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, light, sincere, offbeat, sexual, sexy, cult film
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Elektra Luxx (2010)
Plot Summary:
A favor for a woman from her past throws the life of a pregnant, retired porn star into chaos.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, parody, feel good, light, captivating, erotic, sex comedy, sensual, realistic
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I'm Reed Fish (2006)
Plot Summary:
When an old high school crush returns to his small hometown, Reed Fish's once simple, calculated life begins to unravel. A drunken incident prompts Reed's fiancee (Alexis Bledel) and the entire town to turn against him. This one-of-a-kind hilariously clever comedy features an up and coming ensemble cast and an unforgettably captivating original soundtrack.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sentimental, light, independent film, realistic
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California Suite (1978)
Plot Summary:
Misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: funny, clever, humorous, witty, talky, captivating, realistic, semi serious, sketch comedy, light
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Some Girl (1998)
Plot Summary:
Four unstable twenty-something women search for long-term relationships in 1990s Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 983
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, talky, semi serious, independent film, clever, realistic
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Barfly (1987)
Plot Summary:
Downtrodden writer Henry and distressed goddess Wanda aren't exactly husband and wife: they're wedded to their bar stools. But they like each other's company- and Barfly captures their giddy, gin-soaked attempts to make a go of life on the skids.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: talky, depressing, melancholic, touching, humorous, semi serious, intellectual, dark, stylized, black comedy
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The Pompatus of Love (1995)
Plot Summary:
Four guys sit around drinking beer and talking, trying to figure out the meaning of "the pompatus of love" (from the Steve Miller song "Joker") and analyzing their relationships with women.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 620
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: clever, talky, independent film, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, sexual, neurotic, light
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Playing by Heart (1998)
Plot Summary:
Eleven articulate people work through affairs of the heart in L.A. Paul produces Hannah's TV cooking show. Mark is dying of AIDS. Men have scalded Meredith so she rebuffs Trent's charm, but he persists. The trendy, prolix Joan tries to pull the solitary Keenan into her orbit. An adulterous couple meet at hotels for evening sex. Hugh tells tall tales, usually tragic, to women in bars.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: sincere, light, romantic, sweet, independent film, sentimental, touching, realistic, talky, anthology
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Hollywood Dreams (2006)
Plot Summary:
The tale of a young girl fresh off the bus from Iowa, who falls in love with a sexy and promising young actor, though their relationship threatens to complicate her own obsessive goal of becoming a famous actress. The film perfectly captures the delightful and desperate lives of those chasing dreams in Hollywood: One day they are shuffling down a boardwalk with too many suitcases, and the next they are lounging in contemporary hillside homes with a view of the city. Though neither state is permanent the more desirable one fuels the dream. The story's extraordinary execution portrays Hollywood as the fantastic and insane place that it is. Written by Lane Kneedler, American Film Institute Magazine.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: semi serious, captivating, psychological, emotional, sex comedy, independent film, humorous, realistic, witty, talky
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Women in Trouble (2009)
Plot Summary:
A serpentine day in the life of ten seemingly disparate women: a porn star, a flight attendant, a psychiatrist, a masseuse, a bartender, a pair of call girls, etc. All of them with one crucial thing in common. Trouble.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, humorous, semi serious, realistic, sex comedy, offbeat, witty, stylized, independent film
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Echo Park (1985)
Plot Summary:
In the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, everybody is somebody else. May, a single mother who delivers strip-O-grams, dreams of being an actress. She rents one of her rooms out to a pizza-man cum songwriter named Jonathan. Meanwhile, in the next apartment, August, an Austrian bodybuilder, fancies himself the next Arnold Schwarzenegger. As the pressures of everyday life in LA mount, Jonathan and August vie for May's love.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 718
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Austria
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, clever, touching, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Wild Roomies (2004)
Plot Summary:
After his last girlfriend slept with his last roommate, Reno Rizzolla moves to L.A. with his new girlfriend... and chaos ensues when the debt on the house forces him to get roommates.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, scenic, independent film, sex comedy, hot, campy
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Bad Boy (2002)
Plot Summary:
To inherit a million dollars, an egotistical man must find the women he's betrayed and convince them to forgive him.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic, talky
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All Night Long (1981)
Plot Summary:
Executive George Dupler loses his temper and is demoted to the night manager at a 24 hour drugstore. After he suggests to his teenage son Freddie that he stop having an affair with suburban housewife Cheryl Gibbons, who is a distant cousin, Cheryl tries to seduce George. At home, in front of his mother, Freddie accuses his dad of stealing his girl, because he found Cheryl serving George a meal in the middle of the night, while her husband Bobby was on duty at the fire station. George then separates from his wife Helen, quits his job, moves into a warehouse, and asks Cheryl to move in with him.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic, offbeat, sexual, sexy
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200 Cigarettes (1999)
Plot Summary:
A collection of twentysomethings try to cope with relationships, loneliness, desire and their individual neuroses.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: talky, witty, melancholic, feel good, semi serious, humorous, funny, entertaining, offbeat, realistic
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A Good Day to Be Black & Sexy (2008)
Plot Summary:
A between-the-sheets peek at Black Love and Sexuality.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 511
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sexy, sincere, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, sexual
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Luke and Brie Are on a First Date (2008)
Plot Summary:
It is the first date of Luke and Brie. They will spend the night together at bars, parties and streets of Los Angeles. The risk of a first encounter, and the relentless pursuit of naturalness, will make their relationship dance between flirting and misunderstandings.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, touching, realistic, independent film
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Party Girl (1995)
Plot Summary:
Although Mary has little income, she still finds ways to spend her nights at clubs. After being arrested for throwing an illegal rave, she asks her aunt Judy for bail money. Judy then finds Mary a job at her library so that Mary can repay her. Initially, Mary finds the job as a clerk boring and stifling, and prefers to get to know a street food vendor whom she likes. However, Mary must refocus her life once she loses her job and apartment.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, surprise ending, clever
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Quarter Life Crisis (2006)
Plot Summary:
A Hindu, and a believer in Astrology, Neil Desai is a second-generation East Indian-American, who is 27 years of age, works for an ad company, and has been in a relationship for over 6 years with Angel Matthews, and lives with her in a small apartment in New York. Before that could happen, misunderstandings crop up, and Neil moves out. He gets a ride from Limo driver, Dilip Kumar, who tells him that since he is his 100th customer, he will get a week of free rides. Neil and his friends decide to take good use of Dilip's offer, and Neil, desperate to get into another relationship, dates a wide assortment of girls, and takes them to a variety of destinations in the limo. A week later, he still misses Angel, and returns to her, little knowing that Dilip is a the producer of a TV serial 'Love In The Backseat' and has a hidden camera that has been recording Neil, his interactions with various women, and is all set to telecast this on TV.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic
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Live Nude Girls (2014)
Plot Summary:
When Shane inherits a gentleman's club from his estranged uncle, he leaves his Midwestern home for Los Angeles. Run by a booze hound and employing a dozen out of control strippers, Shane must do everything he can to save the club from bankruptcy and maybe make history in the process.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, entertaining, sensual, realistic
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Dorfman in Love (2011)
Plot Summary:
Unknowingly trapped in her role as caretaker of her unappreciative family, a young single woman desperately needs to get her own life. When she volunteers to cat sit at her unrequited love's downtown L.A loft, her world, as she knows it, changes forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, humorous, emotional, semi serious, romantic, romantic comedy, realistic, independent film
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2 B Perfectly Honest (2004)
Plot Summary:
Business partners Frank and Josh go bankrupt after their dot-com start-up collapses before it goes online. Frank, a bachelor and broke, reluctantly moves back home to live with his parents while Josh, a hippie computer wiz who's married and has a son, is forced to consider the unthinkable - getting a real job.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Take Me Home Tonight (2011)
Plot Summary:
Recent MIT grad Matt Franklin should be well on his way to a successful career at a Fortune 500 company, but instead he rebels against maturity by taking a job at a video store. Matt rethinks his position when his unrequited high-school crush, Tori, walks in and invites him to an end-of-summer party. With the help of his twin sister and his best friend, Matt hatches a plan to change the course of his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 55000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: romantic, funny, light, humorous, stylized, realistic, sentimental, semi serious, entertaining, feel good
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Kicking and Screaming (1995)
Plot Summary:
After college graduation, Grover's girlfriend Jane tells him she's moving to Prague to study writing. Grover declines to accompany her, deciding instead to move in with several friends, all of whom can't quite work up the inertia to escape their university's pull. Nobody wants to make any big decisions that would radically alter his life, yet none of them wants to end up like Chet, the professional student who tends bar and is in his tenth year of university studies.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: talky, humorous, independent film, depressing, melancholic, realistic, semi serious, clever, witty, mumblecore
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Watching TV with the Red Chinese (2012)
Plot Summary:
In New York City in 1980, Dexter Mitchell plays half-willing big brother to his neighbors, a trio of exchange students from the People's Republic of China.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat, non-linear, independent film