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Plot Summary:
On a hot summer night in Brooklyn, singles and couples converge in a brownstone apartment to flirt, fight, hook up and break up. A dreamy comedy-drama about sex, love and freedom, "Home" packs a lot of stories into just two floors.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Hurry Up, or I'll Be 30 (1973)
Plot Summary:
Comedy directed by Joseph Jacoby.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Spike of Bensonhurst (1988)
Plot Summary:
Spike Fumo is an Italian kid apsiring to be a boxer. He falls in love with a rich girl, who turns out to be the daughter of a Mafia boss. Spike is threatened to leave Bensonhurst by the mob, and then goes to a poverty-stricken Puerto Rican part of Brooklyn.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 459
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, gay cinema, cult film
Similar in 83%
Bittersweet (1995)
Plot Summary:
Finnish movie.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Four Letter Words (2000)
Plot Summary:
A study of the post-adolescent male psyche, Four Letter Words gives an often humorous but raw unadulterated look at the views, attitudes, and language of young men in suburban America. The film focuses on a dwindling summer night's party, at which the characters gather for the first time since high school graduation. As the night's activities take their toll, the immaturity level rises, the profanity flies and of course the drunken brawl breaks out. It will be a night to remember although some would wish to forget.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags:
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Pavithram (1994)
Plot Summary:
A young man's relationship with his career, fiancee and brother is brought under stress by the birth of an unexpected sister.The film deals with the relationship between siblings Unnikrishnan (Mohanlal) and Meenakshi (Vinduja Menon) who have an almost 30 year age difference between them. The film won Mohanlal the 1994 Filmfare Award for Best Actor.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 854
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 156 min
Plot tags: sad
Similar in 79%
Betsy & Leonard (2012)
Plot Summary:
When DJ Alex is placed under house arrest, he is forced to live together with his ex-girlfriend Karen.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film
Similar in 86%
Good Posture (2019)
Plot Summary:
After breaking up with her boyfriend, Lillian moves in with married couple Julia and Don only to overhear them arguing in the night. The front door slams as Don moves out, and the following days sees Lillian, selfish and irresponsible, having to earn her keep by cooking for Julia, a reclusive, distrustful writer who rarely emerges from her room. Though communicating largely through notes, the odd couple gradually forge a bond and help one another to negotiate the foibles, phobias and obstacles that have long hindered their happiness.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 921
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: touching, melancholic, disturbing, sentimental, light, sincere
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Body/Antibody (2007)
Plot Summary:
Kip Polyard is an obsessive-compulsive shut-in whose antiseptic world is invaded by Celine, the beautiful seductress who moves in next door to Kip's rent-controlled Manhattan apartment. Kip and Celine begin a tentative love affair that turns passionate and then deadly, as Celine's secrets turn Kip's perfectly organized life upside-down.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, neo noir, independent film
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Babyfever (1994)
Plot Summary:
Gena is an average woman who is torn between her current boyfriend's desire to marry her and start a family, and the unexpected arrival of an old boyfriend wanting to pick up where they left off. To further complicate matters, she might be pregnant herself. In the mist of this unsettled personal life, Gena leaves her two men to attend a baby shower party for a girl friend and talks with the various female attendees all of whom are facing their own ticking biological clocks.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: independent film, erotic, psychological, light, sexy, thought provoking, clever, touching, unusual plot structure, melancholic
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To a Tee (2006)
Plot Summary:
A seriocomic feature about a playwright who feeds off his stubborn attraction to the wrong type of guy. When he attracts the attention of a newspaper columnist who will champion his work, success seems guaranteed until he meets her boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 661
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy, queer cinema
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After Class (2019)
Plot Summary:
A dysfunctional family attempts to work together to support their grandmother during her final days of life.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 850
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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According to her (2016)
Plot Summary:
Love, motherhood and a musical career strike dissonant chords in this dark tale of a young Russian woman who tries to keep her balance among wealthy French expats in New York.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, tense, touching, unusual plot structure, contemplative
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Forever Young (2022)
Plot Summary:
At the end of the 1980s, Stella, Victor, Adèle and Etienne are 20 years old. They take the entrance exam to the famous acting school created by Patrice Chéreau and Pierre Romans at the Théâtre des Amandiers in Nanterre. Launched at full speed into life, passion, and love, together they will experience the turning point of their lives, but also their first tragedy.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: semi autobiographical, interesting
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Saturday Night at the Baths (1975)
Plot Summary:
The Continental Baths, a favorite hangout of New York homosexuals, provides the background of this socially conscious comedy drama that tries to examine the relationships between gay and heterosexual people. The story centers around a macho, heterosexual piano player who gets a job at the notorious nightclub and must therefore reconsider his attitudes. His girl friend helps him too. In the end, he winds up becoming sure of his sexuality when he tries to sleep with a gay man.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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The Christmas Cottage (2017)
Plot Summary:
When Lacey takes a rare break from work for her friend Ava's Christmas Eve wedding, she reconnects with her former flame, Ean. The two decorate the cottage where the newlyweds will spend their honeymoon – a cottage said to bring true love to anyone who stays there – and feel their chemistry return.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sweet, funny, light, feel good, romantic drama
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Dean (2016)
Plot Summary:
A freelance illustrator in New York suffers a quarter-life crisis and leaves his home for the west coast.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: romantic, humorous, disturbing, semi autobiographical, independent film
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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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The Daytrippers (1996)
Plot Summary:
Eliza D'Amico thinks her marriage to Louis is going great, until she finds a mysterious love note to her husband. Concerned, she goes to her mother for advice. Eliza, her parents, her sister Jo and Jo's boyfriend all pile into a station wagon, to go to the city to confront Louis with the letter. On the way, the five explore their relations with each other, and meet many interesting people.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, hilarious, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, road movie, offbeat, cynical
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Drinking Buddies (2013)
Plot Summary:
Weekend trips, office parties, late night conversations, drinking on the job, marriage pressure, biological clocks, holding eye contact a second too long… you know what makes the line between “friends” and “more than friends” really blurry? Beer.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, independent film, enigmatic, melancholic, sexy, humorous, semi serious, clever, realistic, talky
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Heartburn (1986)
Plot Summary:
Rachel is a food writer at a New York magazine who meets Washington columnist Mark at a wedding and ends up falling in love with him despite her reservations about marriage. They buy a house, have a daughter, and Rachel thinks they are living happily ever after until she discovers that Mark is having an affair while she is waddling around with a second pregnancy.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: melancholic, lyrical, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, talky, emotional, sex comedy, cult classic
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Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring Jewish actor moves out of his parents' Brooklyn apartment to seek his fortune in the bohemian life of Greenwich Village in 1953.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: funny, romantic comedy, sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, semi autobiographical
Similar in 79%
Unpregnant (2020)
Plot Summary:
A 17-year old Missouri teen named Veronica discovers she has gotten pregnant, a development that threatens to end her dreams of matriculating at an Ivy League college, and the career that could follow.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: road movie, sweet, psychological, touching, humorous, captivating, feel good, sad, cult classic, teen
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City Baby (2013)
Plot Summary:
Sexy. Style-conscious. Extreme love affairs. Complicated friendships. Life happens all too quickly when Cloey is reluctantly plucked from her comfort zone and complete reliance on others is overturned – a secure relationship with her boyfriend unravels, her childhood best friend is moving away and daddy’s (Daniel Baldwin) checkbook closes. City Baby comments on the ladder-climbing mentality of always reaching for the next bigger, better thing – relationship, city, job – when sometimes what's right in front of us is just fine. Scattered with cameos from Portland musicians like Stephen Malkmus of Pavement, live musical performances by Glass Candy and Starfucker, and a thoughtful soundtrack featuring all Portland bands and musicians, City Baby depicts a playground for semi-adults, revolving through the lives of cool kids.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, captivating, psychological, sexy, independent film, sincere, semi serious, sexual
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1999 (1997)
Plot Summary:
The century is coming to an end, and New York City is freaking out. "1999" takes place at a New Year's Eve party on December 31, 1999. As a group of neurotic characters gather at a Greenwich Village apartment, everyone struggles to come to terms with their identities, relationships, and self-doubts before the millennium turns. The partygoers are astonished and reawakened as passions flare and ignite, gunshots are fired, battling lovers reunite, and as the new century dawns, all are joined in the curious sense that the best is yet to come.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: neurotic, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
Similar in 81%
Breaking & Exiting (2018)
Plot Summary:
Harry, a charming house thief, gets more than he bargains for during an attempted burglary when he stumbles upon Daisy and decides to save her from herself, sending both of them into a darkly comedic journey of self discovery and love.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, independent film
Similar in 78%
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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Me and Orson Welles (2008)
Plot Summary:
New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar becomes attracted to a career-driven production assistant.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: talky, emotional, sentimental, touching, realistic, stylized, compassionate, cult classic, serious, sincere
Similar in 81%
Listen Up Philip (2014)
Plot Summary:
Anger rages in Philip as he awaits the publication of his second novel. He feels pushed out of his adopted home city by the constant crowds and noise, a deteriorating relationship with his photographer girlfriend Ashley, and his own indifference to promoting the novel. When Philip's idol Ike Zimmerman offers his isolated summer home as a refuge, he finally gets the peace and quiet to focus on his favorite subject: himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: independent film, atmospheric, stylized, surreal, psychological, sincere, cerebral, cult classic, mumblecore, sexy
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Lovelife (1997)
Plot Summary:
Lovelife is a 1997 romantic comedy film written and directed by Jon Harmon Feldman. The ensemble cast includes Matt Letscher, Sherilyn Fenn, Saffron Burrows, Carla Gugino, Bruce Davison, Jon Tenney and Peter Krause. Lovelife was nominated for a Feature Film Award at the 1997 Austin Film Festival, and won an Audience Award at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival. The film was winner of the screenplay award at the L.A. Indie fest.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 481
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, sentimental, clever, touching, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, semi serious
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Swingers (1996)
Plot Summary:
This is a story about Mike, a guy who left his girl in New York when he came to LA to be a star. It's been six months since his girlfriend left him and he's not doing so good. So, his pal and some other friends try and get him back in the social scene and forget about his 6 year relationship.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 87000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: entertaining, funny, realistic, feel good, cult classic, independent film, clever, witty, talky, sex comedy