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Plot Summary:
A group of friends and family reunite at the fancy new holiday home of a woman who is about to turn 40.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, cynical, semi serious, light, touching, captivating, suspense, realistic
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Fat People (2009)
Plot Summary:
"GORDOS" is a comedy about life's excesses and deficiencies; about our insecurities, phobias, obsessions, traumas, mistakes, fears, blame, desires, hopes, challenges, concessions, goals, relationships, love, sex, health, family... about survival in the widest and "largest" sense of the word.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, sincere, touching, semi serious
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Our Women (2015)
Plot Summary:
Max, Paul and Simon have been friends for 35 years. They take great pleasure in their one vacation a year together without their partners and meet-up regularly to spend evenings drinking or playing cards. Each has a successful career and they all appear to have perfect lives until the night Simon announces to his friends that he has just strangled his wife, Estelle after a blazing row. Max and Paul are horrified by Simon's confession, but worse is to come when Simon asks them to lie and provide him with an alibi for the time Estelle was killed. Both men are torn between lying or turning over their best friend to the police.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 559
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, cynical, semi serious, captivating, realistic, talky
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Carmina or Blow Up (2012)
Plot Summary:
Carmina, 58, runs a shop selling Iberian products in Seville. After several robberies and no help from her insurance company, she comes up with a way to recover the money she needs to keep her family. While she waits in her kitchen for her plan to kick in, she thinks back over her life, her work and her miracles.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: realistic, contemplative, humorous, captivating, bleak, social, sincere, offbeat, talky, semi serious
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Barbecue (2014)
Plot Summary:
On his 50th birthday, a man who's been watching his weight, health and temper all his life suffers a heart attack. He's been doing everything he was told he should do and it still didn't help. He decides to turn the page and let loose.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, profound
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Half-Sister (2013)
Plot Summary:
When Nénette discovers the identity of her father in a letter, she quickly goes off in search of him. But instead of finding her father, she is met by her half-brother, Paul. Paul, a bitter man who gave up his dream to take over his father’s pharmacy business, is less than thrilled at the arrival of his ‘embarrassing’ half-sister. After refusing to take her in, he soon gets a taste of his own medicine. Under the influence of a potent drug, for one day Paul is generous, happy and sensitive. The next morning, however, once the drug has worn off, his nasty side comes back.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, light, feel good, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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Family Law (2006)
Plot Summary:
A man in his thirties does not want to be like his father, but that seems to be unavoidable.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Italy, Spain, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: semi serious, captivating, light, emotional, humorous, realistic
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Days and Nights (2014)
Plot Summary:
Reckless desire wreaks havoc over Memorial Day weekend as a family confronts the volatile and fragile nature of love. A modern retelling of Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull", set in rural New England.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, realistic, talky, captivating, light, clever, semi serious, independent film
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Couch Potatoes (2017)
Plot Summary:
Giorgio and Tito, father and son. A successful journalist and a lazy teenager apparently impossible to understand. Giorgio's dream is to take Tito to the Nasca Hill in Liguria, but Tito prefers to spend his entire day with his group of friends, eating, talking about nothing and playing video games. Until one day when he suddenly informs his father that he would join him in this trip. After a series of accidents and misunderstandings, at the end, somehow father and son will find the way to communicate … or at least they will try.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 685
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, humorous, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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A Gun in Each Hand (2012)
Plot Summary:
A comedy centered on eight men in their 40s, all with identity crises.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, cynical, psychological, captivating, sentimental, sincere, realistic, witty, semi serious, anthology
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Scandal Makers (2008)
Plot Summary:
Former teen idol Nam Hyeon-soo is now in his thirties and working as a radio DJ. One day a young woman named Jeong-nam shows up and claims to be his own daughter. She also has a son whom she claims to be Hyeon-soo's grandson. Their relation is proven via DNA tests by Hyeon-soo's brother. This leads to Hyeon-soo attempting to avoid a scandal concerning him having children "unknown" to the media.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, entertaining, sad, touching, offbeat, realistic, semi serious
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The Quitter (2014)
Plot Summary:
When a failed baseball player's ex-girlfriend moves back to the neighborhood with her seven-year-old daughter, he realizes he carries more regrets than how he handled his baseball career.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, touching, realistic, independent film
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A Beginner's Guide to Endings (2010)
Plot Summary:
The film centers on three brothers who, upon learning they only have a few days left to live, set off to reverse a lifetime of mistakes. Hopper and Simmons are playing the brothers' father and uncle, respectively, while Caan is one of the brothers. Helfer is Caan's girlfriend, a woman with a dangerous past.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, contemplative, offbeat, realistic, witty
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Colombian Love (2004)
Plot Summary:
Tali and Ori are a young Israeli couple. After attending their best friends' wedding, which ended in disaster, they have a big fight, which leads to Ori proposing. But there is trouble in paradise when Ori's conservative father meets Tali, and all hell breaks loose.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 430
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, sentimental, feel good, realistic, semi serious
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Hassan and Marcus (2008)
Plot Summary:
When the lives of Mahmoud, a Muslim Sheikh (Omar Sharif) and Boulos, a Christian Theologian (Adel Imam) are threatened by religious extremists on both sides, the Egyptian government inducts them into a witness protection program that requires them to disguise themselves as the Christian Marcus and a Muslim Sheikh, Hassan el-Attar, respectively. When, unwittingly, they move into the same building, a friendship blossoms that must, along with a romance between the protagonists' children, withstand the difficulties of prejudice and social persecution.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, captivating, light, touching, feel good, semi serious
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On Air (2012)
Plot Summary:
A well known radio talk show host lives as a recluse during the day, until she found her real mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 865
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, captivating, psychological, light, semi serious
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Easy! (2011)
Plot Summary:
Bruno Beltrame makes a living of sorts. He wanted to be a great writer but he is content to write the books of others. He also gives private lessons to students who are not serious. Among his pupils is fifteen-year-old Luca, more quick-witted and revolted than the others. The day he meets his mother, a woman he once loved, Luca gets upset when she tells him bluntly that not only Luca is his son but that she intends to entrust him to his care as well.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Family United (2013)
Plot Summary:
The director Daniel Sánchez Arévalo ('Azuloscurocasinegro', 'Cousins'), he embarks on a new comedy that has as a backdrop the World Cup in South Africa and the setting is a wedding that takes precisely the day of the final. This will be the occasion in which five brothers, all with biblical names, Adam, Daniel, Caleb, Benjamin and Ephraim, gather to celebrate the engagement of Ephraim, the youngest of them, who marries his pregnant girlfriend. Will hours of uncertainty, joy and euphoria back, but it's time to unite for a common good. Can all together to face the situation and erected winners heading?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, captivating
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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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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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Quitters (2015)
Plot Summary:
Quitters tells the story of the Raymans, a wealthy Jewish family that's falling apart. The son, Clark, is a bright and curious high schooler with a talent for manipulation. As his mother May enters treatment for a pill addiction, and he and his father Roger stop getting along, Clark thinks about running away from home. He just needs to decide where to go.
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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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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2 Francs, 40 Pesetas (2014)
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
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating, sentimental, realistic
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Preggoland (2014)
Plot Summary:
A 35-year-old woman fakes being pregnant to fit in with her friends.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 826
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating, offbeat, realistic
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And Now a Word from Our Sponsor (2013)
Plot Summary:
Adan Kundle, CEO of a major advertising agency, is discovered unconscious in front of a wall of TVs. When he wakes in the hospital, Adan can only communicate through advertising slogans.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 936
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, semi serious, biting, suspense
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Life's a Breeze (2013)
Plot Summary:
Life's A Breeze tells the story of a family as they search for a lost fortune around the streets of Dublin.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, Sweden
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious
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Manhood (2003)
Plot Summary:
A black comedy about a reformed womanizer who struggles to keep his family together.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 293
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, emotional, realistic, semi serious
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Two Shots Fired (2014)
Plot Summary:
One early morning, at the beginning of a very hot summer, Mariano, a sixteen-year-old teenager, returns home, jumps into the pool and does some laps with a stopwatch. Then he gets out and mows the lawn, where he accidentally cuts the mower’s power cord when he runs over it. Set on fixing it, he goes to find tools but stumbles across a gun that he brings back to his room to shoot himself twice. But Mariano survives: one bullet just grazed his head and the other one, he believes, is stuck somewhere inside his body even if the doctors can’t find it anywhere, nor any exit wound for that matter. The only aftereffect he seems to have is a mysterious double-note when he plays music with his friends, which according to him is probably the result of the bullet still being inside him. But Mariano’s impulsive act will have other consequences on the people surrounding him….
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 669
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Chile, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: semi serious, realistic, disturbing, offbeat, humorous
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Teen's Confessions (2013)
Plot Summary:
Four sisters work together to raise rent money after learning they have to move to another neighborhood in this coming-of-age drama based on the series.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 691
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, captivating, light, sentimental, sexy, realistic, semi serious
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Motherhood (2009)
Plot Summary:
Motherhood is a comedy written and directed by Katherine Dieckmann, and stars Uma Thurman, Anthony Edwards and Minnie Driver. Shot on location in New York’s West Village, focuses on the dilemmas of motherhood, such as marriage, work, and self, shown in the trials and tribulations of one pivotal day.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, touching, semi serious, independent film, neurotic