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Plot Summary:
Thursday morning, Jerusalem. Nira goes to work. Ahmad in London does the same, Ralf in Cologne and a priest in Prague too. Matija, Croat, goes to work as well. Ok, he doesn't, but he acts as if he does. Ahmad is taking his routine red bus journey. Out-of-breath young man comes in and interrupts it. Schoolteacher Nira is also interrupted - her pupil jumps out and performs a love rap song he wrote for her. The priest in Prague doesn't feel like singing today, he is in the mood for (over)sleeping instead. Someone falls asleep, someone else - Ralf - falls in love. All five mentioned above are listening to the top-news about the disappearance of bees. And trying their best, each one of them in his or her own 'hive': Zagreb, Jerusalem, London, Cologne, Prague.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Croatia, Czech Republic, UK, Israel, Germany
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: anthology, intercultural
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Crooked Tongue (2009)
Plot Summary:
Listen to my heart, not my tongue. Crooked Tongue highlights the journey of self-discovery of a young adult Hispanic stutterer, his trials and tribulations, his yearning to be able to speak freely, and the characters he meets along the way.
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Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: spiritual, hispanic
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Wolves Cry Under the Moon (1997)
Plot Summary:
Episodic drama from Taiwan. Was nominated for nine awards at the Golden Horse Film Festival.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: anthology, road movie, allegory, black comedy
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A Stranger of Mine (2005)
Plot Summary:
In one long Friday evening, Takeshi Miyata (Yasuhi Nakamura), a straight-arrow businessman, will encounter a number of people (some only fleetingly) who have intertwining fates. The plot of the film is presented in succession first from the point of view of Maki Kuwata (Reika Kirishima), a young woman disappointed in love, then from Takeshi's point of view, then of his friend, Yusuke Kanda (Sō Yamanaka), a private detective, then of Takeshi's former girlfriend, Ayumi Kurata (Yuka Itaya), then of a wannabe-tough Yakuza, Asai (Kisuke Yamashita).
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Dear Emma, Sweet Böbe (1992)
Plot Summary:
The story shows Emma's and Böbe's fight for survival, for keeping their position in society which they achieved with hard work in the previous regime. They don't want to lose their place and become village girls again.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 635
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Hungary, Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Dear Galileo (2009)
Plot Summary:
Dear Galileo is created by the director who was behind the runaway success of “Seasons Change”. It’s the story of two friends, Tai and Toey. One wants to runs away from school and the other is running away from love. They decide to travel and work as waitresses in Europe. Their goal is to see the birthplace of Galileo.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 394
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags:
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Downstream from the Sun (1969)
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Young teacher first experience in their profession acquired in a remote mountain village, which has no school building. Life of a farmer, a clash between two warring race, then the conflict between the government and farmers for cutting the national forests needed to build new schools and the presence of a young teacher who doubt the search for truth, that will lead to major conflicts and tragedies.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: black and white, crying, learning
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Inside Out II (1992)
Plot Summary:
Playboy does to softcore sex films what HBO's Tales from the Crypt did for horror. Contains the stories: "Mis-apprehended"; "I've Got A Crush On You"; "The Freak"; "There's This Travelling Salesman, See"; "Double Vision"; "Busty Gusty and her Twin 50's"; "Some Guys Have All The Luck"; "The Hitchhiker"; and "The Right Number".
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anthology, mockumentary
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Moscow, I Love You (2010)
Plot Summary:
18 directors, 18 novels, 18 short stories about Moscow.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, contemplative
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To Miss with Love (1992)
Plot Summary:
When a new teacher (Sharla Cheung) arrives, she finds herself caught up in the affairs of the students from her class. Jimmy Lin is harbouring an unrequited crush on childhood friend Athena Chu. However, he is too shy to reveal his feeling to her when he discovers that she has fallen for the cool kid in class, Nicky Wu. Meanwhile, another student Dicky Cheung has gotten himself into trouble with the triads after failing to pay a debt owed to them. With so much going on, how will Sharla Cheung find a way to solve the troubles of her students and get them to study hard to pass their exams?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Hot Cat? (1968)
Plot Summary:
This love story finds a lonely teacher resisting the advances of an interested co-worker. She is fearful of affection and relationships due to a previous romance that did not work out. The small-town school marm tries to help a male student who has been suspended for drunkenness. She tutors the young man, and soon the two engage in a tender and passionate love affair in which both people reach out and touch each other physically and emotionally.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags:
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Sunday Lovers (1980)
Plot Summary:
A sex comedy anthology containing four stories, each from a different country (England, France, USA and Italy). "An Englishman's Home" "The French Method" "Armando's Notebook" "Skippy".
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 418
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, UK, USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: anthology, sex comedy, sexy, hot
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Sunstruck (1972)
Plot Summary:
Stanley Evans, a Welsh schoolteacher, decides to emigrate to Australia for a better life but ends up working in a school in the dead-end town of Kookaburra Springs. He forms a school choir and decides to compete in a singing competition in Sydney.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Three Fables of Love (1962)
Plot Summary:
Four stories, based on four fables of Lafontaine, shows a woman trying to get her husband a wretch who wants to commit suicide, a jealous man who becomes associated with his rival, and a couple who was locked in an apartment.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: anthology, fable
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American Curious (2018)
Plot Summary:
A mexican chef meets her love interest in an american man.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, multicultural, intercultural, inter cultural
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Arranged (2007)
Plot Summary:
ARRANGED centers on the friendship between an Orthodox Jewish woman and a Muslim woman who meet as first-year teachers at a public school in Brooklyn. Over the course of the year they learn they share much in common - not least of which is that they are both going through the process of arranged marriages.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, melancholic, realistic, touching, captivating, thinking, sincere, suspenseful, sweet, multicultural
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The Class Of Miss MacMichael (1978)
Plot Summary:
A dedicated teacher (Glenda Jackson) tries to reach out to juvenile delinquent students at a London alternative school.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, dark comedy
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Roommates (1961)
Plot Summary:
'Carry On' director Gerald Thomas helms this comedy caper featuring early appearances by James Robertson Justice, Sid James, Leslie Phillips, Kenneth Williams, Liz Fraser and Eric Barker. The film follows the hi-jinks of a group of music students who move into a shared flat in order to cut costs and have somewhere to practice their instruments. Things get tricky when Mervyn Hughes (Phillips) accidentally sells one of his compositions to an advertising agency and risks losing his scholarship. Can he and his friends find a way to raise the money to buy back the song rights?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 375
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick
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Words and Pictures (2013)
Plot Summary:
An art instructor and an English teacher form a rivalry that ends up with a competition at their school in which students decide whether words or pictures are more important.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada, Australia
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, independent film, sincere, light, captivating, intellectual, cult classic, cute, happy
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Morris from America (2016)
Plot Summary:
The romantic and coming-of-age misadventures of a 13-year-old American living in Germany.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, light, sincere, romantic, humorous, captivating, talky, cult classic, steamy
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A School Trip (1983)
Plot Summary:
Italy, 1914. Two teachers take their pupils for a school outing from Bologna to Florence.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Hope and Glory (1987)
Plot Summary:
British writer/director John Boorman (The Emerald Forest) draws us into an astonishing and exhilarating portrait of his own childhood, set against the terrors of a London torn apart by the onset of WWII. Seven-year-old Billy Rohan (Sebastian Rice Edwards) finds his childhood to be atime of great dangerand even greater discovery. From thunderous bombings at his own doorstep andthe constant threat of Luftwaffe air raids to the landing of a German paratrooper in his neighborhood and the joyous obliteration of his much-hated school, Billy's young life is shapedand even enrichedby the one positive thing war has brought him: liberation from the ordinary. And though Billy is surrounded by decimation and the smoking remnants of ruined lives, his sense of enchanted wonderment and innocence in the face of man's most destructive folly affect him in a way that alters his life forever.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, sentimental, humorous, talky, intense, sincere, historical drama, semi autobiographical, semi serious
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We'll Live Till Monday (1968)
Plot Summary:
Ilya Semenovich Melnikov is a history teacher in an ordinary Soviet high school. He is a very good teacher and his students and colleagues treat him with a great deal of respect. However, Melnikov faces a lot of difficulties in his work. In particular, everybody at school is spreading rumors about Natalya Sergeyevna, an Enlish language teacher and a former student of Melnikov, being in love with him. Exhausted by his mental suffering, Melnikov asks the principal to allow him to quit his job. At the end of the week that is to become the last week of Melnikov's teaching career the students of his class write an in-class essay on how they understand happiness. Svetlana Mikhailovna, their Russian teacher, is shocked by what one of the students wrote in her essay, nevertheless, she allows her to read it in front of the class. The other students express support of their classmate. Melnikov gets involved in the conflict, after which he reconsiders his decision to quit.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, captivating, intellectual
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
Plot Summary:
A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12 year old charges with her over-romanticized world view.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, talky, funny, retro, spiritual, tense, uplifting, touching
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Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)
Plot Summary:
A look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colorful, North London schoolteacher whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, sweet, emotional, sentimental, sincere, humorous, semi serious, independent film, realistic
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Valentin (2002)
Plot Summary:
Valentin, a 9-year-old boy living with his grandmother in late-1960s Buenos Aires, believes his family has problems that only he can solve. The youngster dreams of being reunited with his mother, who's separated from Valentin's abusive father.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, sweet, uplifting, realistic, lyrical, sincere, hispanic, serious, crying
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About a Boy (2002)
Plot Summary:
Will Freeman is a hip Londoner who one day realizes that his friends are all involved with the responsibilities of married life and that leaves him alone in the cold. Passing himself off as a single father, he starts to meet a string of single mums, confident in his ability to leave them behind when they start to ask for a commitment. But Will's hope of a continued bachelorhood is interrupted when he meets 12-year old Marcus, in many ways his complete opposite.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 190000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: feel good, sentimental, romantic, humorous, realistic, romantic comedy, hilarious, funny, light, sweet
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The History Boys (2006)
Plot Summary:
The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master, a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their test scores, a grossly out-numbered history teacher, and a headmaster obsessed with results, the boys attempt to pass.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: witty, intellectual, melancholic, stylized, semi serious, inspirational, clever, erotic, captivating, realistic
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My Son the Fanatic (1997)
Plot Summary:
Pakistani taxi-driver Parvez and prostitute Bettina find themselves trapped in the middle when Islamic fundamentalists decide to clean up their local town.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: talky, multicultural, independent film, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, thought provoking, enigmatic
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Cheeky Girls (2008)
Plot Summary:
Three teen-aged girlfriends navigate multiple love triangles.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 595
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, humorous, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011)
Plot Summary:
British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than its advertisements, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways as the residents find new purpose in their old age.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 99000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, uplifting, inspirational, sentimental, romantic, sweet, atmospheric, comedy drama, motivational