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Plot Summary:
Kind and lazy Jenya comes to Moscow from small village in Belarus for earnings. Criminal incident unexpectedly separates Jenya from companions and leaves him alone without money and documents. He has no friends or relatives in this big and hostile city and he is about to end as a homeless bum.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 466
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, art house, offbeat, realistic, saga
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Sous le figuier (2012)
Plot Summary:
Nathalie, Christophe and Joëlle are in the midst of an existential crisis. Brought together by Selma, 95 and seriously ill, they will spend a memorable summer on the banks of the Moselle. How ironic that the one whom they had intended to help to die should help them to live.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, emotional, realistic, contemplative, semi serious
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The Living Wake (2007)
Plot Summary:
“The Living Wake” is a dark comedy set in a timeless storybook universe. Self-proclaimed artist and genius, K. Roth Binew, has one day to live. He has enlisted his best and only friend, Mills Joquin, to take him around on a bicycle powered rickshaw. In a final attempt to probe life’s deepest mysteries, Binew endures one ridiculous trial after the next. He concludes his day with a final performance, his living wake. On a makeshift stage in an open field, Binew’s friends and enemies gather to witness his madness one final time.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 965
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sentimental, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, suspense, black comedy, offbeat, independent film
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The Reunion (2002)
Plot Summary:
35-year old Magnus Edkvist hates class reunions as much as anyone and usually skip them. Still he accepts an invitation for a reunion for class he left over twenty years ago. But he has his reasons, as there is a chance that his teen love Hillevi will show up. The girl he wanted to run away with and share the rest of his life. The girl that got away.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic, offbeat
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I Hate My Best Friends' Kids (2007)
Plot Summary:
A month of vacation with friends: difficult to bear the kids of his friends, especially when the methods of education differ and that some prove to be unbearable.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious
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Hollywood Palms (2001)
Plot Summary:
Set entirely in the Hollywood Palms apartment building and its yard, this movie shows how people there live and interact with each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic, biting, suspense
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August 15th (2001)
Plot Summary:
Three men are abandonned by their wives for a few days in the summer holidays. They are alone with five kids to feed and a house to maintain. And they will learn what they did wrong with their wives.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 964
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Oh, What a Night (1992)
Plot Summary:
During the summer of 1955, seventeen-year-old Eric Hansen embarks on a journey in his new town, a journey which will change his life forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 560
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: semi serious, sentimental, humorous, emotional, independent film, touching, realistic
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Waltzing Anna (2006)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Charlie Keegan is ordered to serve 6 months as the staff doctor at a second rate retirement home or lose his medical licence after accusations of swindling elderly patients. What the doctor expects will be a brief interruption from his lucrative career turns out to be something very different, thanks to the wacky residents and a beautiful nurse.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, emotional, realistic, semi serious, offbeat
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My Baby's Daddy (2004)
Plot Summary:
A trio of young men are forced to grow up quick when their girlfriends all become pregnant around the same time.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, funny, black comedy, realistic
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Lost Embrace (2004)
Plot Summary:
In Buenos Aires, the twenty and something year old Jewish-Argentinean Ariel Makaroff has left the University of Architecture and spends his time wandering through the downtown gallery where his mother has a lingerie shop and his brother runs an importation business, trying to get his Polish passport and move to Europe. Ariel has never understood why his father left him when he was a baby to fight in the Yom Kippur War in 1973. When his father returns to Buenos Aires, Ariel discovers the reason why his father left his family.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Argentina, France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic, talky, clever, contemplative
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Relative Strangers (2006)
Plot Summary:
An uptight professional meets his lower-class biological parents for the first time.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, funny, philosophical, independent film
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Father and Sons (2003)
Plot Summary:
Léo, un vieux père de famille ancien représentant de commerce, est prêt à tout pour retrouver l'affection de ses trois fils, David, Max et Simon. Il va même jusqu'à invoquer une maladie et une intervention chirurgicale pour les convaincre de l'accompagner dans un voyage au Canada, où il tentera de refaire l'unité du clan familial. Le quatuor de Français y fera la rencontre d'une guérisseuse et de sa fille.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 751
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, sincere, captivating, entertaining, emotional, realistic
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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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Madea's Big Happy Family The Play (2010)
Plot Summary:
Shirley has important news for her family, but she has five grown children with different lifestyles and finds it difficult to get them and the kids all together. So in steps Madea, the Matriarch General, to put the family's life in perspective with a hilarious twist on financial difficulties, drugs and, most important, family secrets. The next generation has a lot to learn. In her own way, Madea expresses how deliverance won't change you to be someone else, but will allow you to be who you really are.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, sentimental
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Caruso, Zero for Conduct (2001)
Plot Summary:
A movie directed by F.Nuti.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Manna from Heaven (2002)
Plot Summary:
Manna From Heaven is a comedic fable about what happens when you get a gift from God (a financial windfall), but many years later you find out it was a just a loan and it's due immediately. Once upon a time, many years ago, a neighborhood in Buffalo, NY is mysteriously showered with 20 dollar bills. Theresa, a young girl who everyone thinks is a saint, doesn't have much trouble convincing her loose-knit "family" that the money is a gift from Heaven. Years later, Theresa, who has become a nun, has an epiphany that it is time to pay the money back, so she calls the eccentric group together to repay the "loan." The problem is, nobody wants to give back the money, nobody has the money, they don't know to whom it belongs, and most of them can't stand each other. Along the way, the characters learn about family, romance, reconciliation and redemption, and by working together they begin to realize their full potential.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 487
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: feel good, realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous, independent film, offbeat, fable
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Leading Ladies (2010)
Plot Summary:
A zany comedy about two sisters, their gay best friend, and their overzealous stage mom.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, semi serious, light, captivating, touching, offbeat, realistic, independent film, queer cinema
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A Spot of Bother (2009)
Plot Summary:
Retired Englishman George Hall's hypochondria worsens and takes its toll on his family.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 576
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic, witty, clever
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Love Thy Neighbor (1984)
Plot Summary:
Suburbanites Danny and Linda try to overcome their various differences and try to get along after his wife and her husband run off with each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Cemetery Club (1993)
Plot Summary:
The story of three Pittsburgh widows who meet every year to visit their husband's graves and talk about perspectives in their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 928
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: feel good, sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Acceptance (2009)
Plot Summary:
"Acceptance" is a movie that is equivalent of being slapped on the wrist by your mother for not being like everyone. Forget about being different from others and being yourself. In the movie it shows how crazy students and parents can get when it comes to being accepted in different colleges.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 364
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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How to Be a Man (2013)
Plot Summary:
When former comedian Mark McCarthy is faced with a rare form of cancer, he hires a young, impressionable cameraman to document his crude and comical lessons on what it means to be a man for his unborn son.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, feel good, light, touching, captivating, cynical, semi serious, independent film
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Where's the Party Yaar? (2003)
Plot Summary:
The film is based on Sunil Thakkar's own experiences running and throwing parties for the Music Masala radio station, and having to discriminate between "Fresh off the Boat" Indians and the more fashionable, hip, Americanized Indians. Ironically enough, Thakkar's character in the film is exactly the type of person he barred from parties in those days.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, sexy, realistic, witty, hot
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Max (2012)
Plot Summary:
Max is 6 years old. She lives with her dad Toni, a small time crook with a golden heart. For Xmas, Max offers him Rose, a call-girl found on the street whom she’s very fond of. Despite the complicated situation, Toni’s gonna have a hard time refusing her daughter’s «gift» and must coexist with Rose.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, 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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Raising Flagg (2006)
Plot Summary:
A comedy centered on a handyman (Arkin) and his lifelong competition with his neighbor (Pendleton.).
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, touching, feel good, realistic, independent film
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The Yank (2014)
Plot Summary:
Tom Murphy, a middle-aged Irish-American man from Cleveland, travels to Ireland for his best friend’s wedding and to find the perfect woman.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, light, feel good, independent film
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A Madea Christmas (2011)
Plot Summary:
When a family meets for Christmas at their posh Cape Cod estate, family arguments and secrets cause a stir. It takes a real down-to-earth family - like Aunt Bam and the almighty Madea - to save this holiday.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 152 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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All in Good Time (2012)
Plot Summary:
East is East writer Ayub Khan-Din returns with another funny, tender-hearted portrait of family strife. Based on his popular play Rafta, Rafta (itself inspired by Bill Naughtons 1960s classic All in Good Time), the film is set in Bolton where Atul and Vina are celebrating their marriage. However, a honeymoon spent with his parents was not part of their plans. Thoughtless patriarch Eeshwar seems determined to emasculate and embarrass his son. As the weeks pass, consummating their union becomes an impossibility that threatens the couples entire future. A breezy mixture of heartbreak and hilarity, All in Good Time also offers peerless performances from original stage stars Harish Patel and Meera Syal.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, feel good, captivating, light, multicultural, sentimental, realistic, semi serious