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Plot Summary:
Newlyweds Alex and Alice host a New Year's Eve party for their closest friends at a remote cabin in the mountains. However, when an unexpected guest shows up, the group's facades begin to crumble.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 415
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: semi serious, sentimental, realistic, light, sincere, gloomy, independent film
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Period of Adjustment (1962)
Plot Summary:
George Haverstick, a Korean war veteran, hastily marries Isabel, whom he met in hospital while he was recovering from a nervous condition. To Isabel's horror, they drive to Florida on their honeymoon in an old hearse. They spend much of the time quarreling, and then, on Christmas eve, they visit George's war buddy, Ralph Baltz. However Ralph's wife Dorothea has just walked out on him, taking their child. Each couple then observes the marital difficulties of the other couple.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: retro, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Among Ravens (2014)
Plot Summary:
The story of a group of friends who reunite for their annual 4th of July weekend only to be confronted by Chad, a strange and beautiful nature photographer who begins to change their lives one by one.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, touching, realistic, semi serious, captivating, light, independent film
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The List of My Desires (2014)
Plot Summary:
When the little haberdasher Arras discovers she's won 18 million in the lottery and can now afford anything she wants, she has only one fear: losing the small joys of life made simple it cherishes above all. But fate is obstinate, and this is giving too long this good fortune will trigger it, despite herself, a hurricane that will change everything. Everything except her.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, semi serious
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Bridge and Tunnel (2014)
Plot Summary:
Unspooled through a series of vignettes, this slice-of-life tale follows a group of young college graduates who are forced -- because of a bleak economic environment -- to shack up with their parents and settle for low-paying jobs.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sincere, realistic, talky, semi serious, independent film
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Looking for Kitty (2004)
Plot Summary:
A high school baseball coach and a down-on-his-luck private investigator form a bond as they scour New York City for the coach's wife, who's run away with a second-rate rock star.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 960
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, melancholic, sentimental, disturbing
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Fourplay (2018)
Plot Summary:
A story of friendship, love, marriage, secrets, lies that unfolds between two couples in one apartment during a Sunday brunch that will affect their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Meet Bill (2007)
Plot Summary:
A mild-mannered bank executive (Aaron Eckhart) mentors a teenage con artist and tries to make a career change as a doughnut merchant.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sexy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, surreal, clever, light, feel good, hilarious, biting
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Tyler Perry's Diary of a Mad Black Woman - The Play (2002)
Plot Summary:
Before it was a movie, it was a theatrical phenomenon! When Helen learns that her husband is leaving her for her best friend, the women in her family are ready with advice. Her devout mother preaches strength and forgiveness, while her parolee grandmother shows up with a gun! Acclaimed African-American playwright Tyler Perry dares to mix sacred and secular humor with riotous results. Experience his most famous morality tale, now a major motion picture, in its original stage format...complete with live musical numbers!.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, emotional, semi serious, sentimental, realistic, independent film
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Tomorrow's Another Day (2000)
Plot Summary:
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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An Unmarried Woman (1978)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: sentimental, psychological, touching, humorous, emotional, sincere, semi serious, retro, independent film, romantic comedy
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Happy Hour (2003)
Plot Summary:
Set in present day New York City, "Happy Hour" is a literate and often funny story of love and how to receive it. Tulley, a once-promising literary star now biding his time as an advertising copy editor, moves from cynicism to acceptance as he secretly hopes to write a great novel only to learn that his life of booze will end all too soon. Levine, his best friend and Natalie, the woman who might have saved him, suffer the pain of Tulley's anger and rejection.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 441
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, emotional, serious, realistic, independent film
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An American Reunion (2003)
Plot Summary:
The reality of life slams into the proverbial wall when a group of necessitous best friends and ex-lovers are reunited at a milestone reunion, igniting an already passionate and combustible past.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, captivating, sincere, serious, realistic, independent film
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Queens Logic (1991)
Plot Summary:
When childhood friends Al, Dennis and Eliot get together for Ray's wedding, which may or may not happen, they end up on a roller-coaster ride through reality. During one tumultuous, crazy weekend, they face adulthood and each other with new found maturity and discover what Queens Logic is all about. This comedy takes a look at friendship, loyalty, and love.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, clever, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious, independent film, philosophical, sexy, thought provoking
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Five Aces (1999)
Plot Summary:
Chris Martin has a problem: his impending marriage. Like any other man about to enter into the holy vows of matrimony, Chris has begun to second guess himself. Is married life what he really wants? While his bride-to-be takes care of the wedding plans, Chris returns to the neighborhood of his youth to consider his married future and to spend one last week of bachelorhood with his four high school buddies: Ray, Ash, Todd and Sean. Together, the reunited "Five Aces" enjoy a funny bittersweet week reminiscing about a time when they had all the answers... only nothing turned out the way they planned. As the week's events unfold, the Five Aces begin to realize exactly what life and friends mean to each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 682
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, contemplative, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Almost Perfect (2011)
Plot Summary:
A 30-something career woman tries to find the balance between her demanding family and her perfect new boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, captivating, sentimental, light, sincere, semi serious, sexual
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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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The Lather Effect (2006)
Plot Summary:
On the eve of selling her mother's house, a thirty-something housewife wakes up to a hangover surrounded by her best friends from high school.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 712
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, talky, semi serious, realistic
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The Trouble with Bliss (2011)
Plot Summary:
35-year-old Morris Bliss (Michael C. Hall) is clamped in the jaws of New York City inertia: he wants to travel but has no money; he needs a job but has no prospects; he still shares an apartment with his widowed father; and the premature death of his mother has left him emotionally walled up. When he finds himself wrapped up in an awkward relationship with Stephanie (Brie Larson), the 18-year-old daughter of a former classmate, Morris quickly discovers his static life unraveling and opening up in ways that are long overdue.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, sincere
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Hello Lonesome (2010)
Plot Summary:
Lonely since his wife left him and alienated from his daughter, a cantankerous voice-over artist strikes up an unlikely friendship with his regular deliveryman. Many suburbs away, an elderly widow loses her license to drive and turns to her wry younger neighbor for nostalgic cuddles and comfort. Meanwhile, a young urban sports fanatic meets a girl online and unexpectedly falls in love, though the trials the couple endure prove even more unexpected. Adam Reid's enchanting, compassionate debut weaves together the worlds of six lonely individuals as they negotiate the age-old process of giving and receiving love. It isn't easy, and it never happens the way they expect it, but for these isolated souls, there's an oddball magic in the way they make connections they never imagined.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: realistic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, psychological, independent film, touching
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Bastards of Young (2013)
Plot Summary:
Welcome to adulthood! When two early-30s couples celebrate their last annual Halloween party in New York, they are confronted with sex, lies, and unspoken drama which tests their relationships and futures.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Newlyweds (2011)
Plot Summary:
A newlywed couple's honeymoon is upended by the arrivals of their respective sisters.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, sincere, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film
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The Big Ask (2013)
Plot Summary:
The Big Ask is a dark comedy about three couples who head to the desert to help their friend heal after the death of his mother. They would do anything for him - except for the one thing he wants.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 679
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, psychological, captivating, realistic, independent film
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Mind the Gap (2004)
Plot Summary:
Five seemingly unrelated people decide to take huge risks in their personal lives in an effort to find happiness.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 997
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: humorous, talky, semi serious, captivating, sincere, sentimental, clever, touching, offbeat, realistic
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18 Meals (2010)
Plot Summary:
Food, glorious food! Some of the most sumptuous and involving films revolve around that most common of acts: eating. 18 MEALS is an omnibus film of criss-crossing stories divided into three segments; breakfast, lunch and dinner. Jorge Coira's debut feature, shot over nine days in Santiago de Compostela has enough tasty portions to please audiences. Amongst Coira's expansive ensemble are aging street musician Edu, a pair awaking from a one-night stand, a businessman visiting his closeted homosexual brother and a lonely housewife, Sol. Victor and Sol are two of 18 MEALS' most fascinating characters as they each hide something - his sexuality, her depression - from those around them. Best of all is Pedro Alsono as Vladimir, a local celebrity actor who makes a meal for a mystery woman who never arrives. Who hasn't gone to a lot of trouble to do something extra special for someone just to have it go unappreciated?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 539
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: realistic, sincere, humorous, semi serious, culinary, feel good
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Changing Hearts (2002)
Plot Summary:
Based on Daniel Wright's award-winning play "Colored Eggs", is a drama/comedy about life, loss and love among an eccentric group of characters whose lives intersect under less than ideal circumstances.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 500
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sentimental, semi serious, sincere, touching, realistic, romantic, independent film, emotional, gloomy
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Dinner with Friends (2001)
Plot Summary:
A husband and wife reevaluate their marriage after their closest friends, another couple decide to split up after twelve years.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: talky, witty, sincere, realistic, clever, entertaining, stylized, romantic drama, tense, serious
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Between Us (2012)
Plot Summary:
A New York couple and their Midwestern friends find that drastic changes have occurred in their respective lives since they last met.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, exciting, tense, touching, independent film
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Brooklyn Lobster (2005)
Plot Summary:
Giorgio's Lobster Farm has been a tradition in Brooklyn for over 65 years. Manned by an eccentric crew and serving the best seafood in the state.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, emotional, atmospheric, captivating, sentimental, sincere, touching, realistic, semi serious, semi autobiographical
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The Four Seasons (1981)
Plot Summary:
Three middle-aged wealthy couples take vacations together in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Along the way we are treated to mid-life, marital, parental and other crises.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, clever, semi serious, funny, light
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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