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Plot Summary:
Maggie, a quiet retiring grandmother, finds herself helpless as her grandson’s health deteriorates. When one last chance appears, but money is desperately short, Maggie acts to raise the cash in a fashion that surprises everyone but her.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, UK, France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, semi serious, erotic, suspenseful, melancholic, breathtaking, social, independent film, sexual
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Sex Lives of the Potato Men (2004)
Plot Summary:
Two lowlifes with active fantasy sex lives deliver potatoes to various restaurants and grocers.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, melancholic, sentimental, touching, erotic, sex comedy, offbeat, sexual
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The Redemption of a Dog (2012)
Plot Summary:
Will Austin is not only a successful executive, but an equally successful ladies man who sees nothing wrong with enjoying the fruits of his labor. But everything changes when he finds out the father he grew up idolizing was instead a man of abuse and deception.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, suspense, independent film
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The Ranch (2004)
Plot Summary:
A comedy drama about a few days in the lives of a group of "working girls" in Reno, NV. "The Ranch" is a legally operated brothel that operates under the careful watch of state health inspectors (who insist on weekly medical check-ups) and the semi-benevolent leadership of Mary, the manager. While the women on staff don't have to dodge the law like their comrades elsewhere, that doesn't mean they don't have their problems.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 670
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, sexy, realistic, semi serious, humorous, sexual
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Captain Pantoja and the Special Services (1999)
Plot Summary:
The Peruvian army captain Pantaleon Pantoja, a very serious and efficient officer, is chosen by his superiors to set up a special service of 'visitors' to satisfy the sexual needs of the soldiers posted on remote jungle outposts.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Peru, Spain
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, sex comedy, manga, romantic drama, erotic drama, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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The Storage (2011)
Plot Summary:
Antero Rousku is a storeman in a paint store. His job requires raw muscle power, mixing paints and carrying house repair materials around to earn his daily bread. But the basic salary is not enough for Rousku. He also sells a lot of stuff on the side from the storeroom directly to Jylhäkorpi, a frequent visitor, bypassing company bookkeeping. Rousku's colleague in the cellar storeroom is Raninen whose life consists of work, quarreling with his wife, and lottery. Raninen wants to win the main prize but he wants to have the right numbers in exactly the order in which they appear from the lottery machine. Raninen is not the sharpest pencil in the pencil box. Rousku's freedom is threatened by his relationship to the saleswoman Karita. Rousku wants to keep a distance to the woman except in bed. Karita has decided otherwise.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sexy, sincere, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, witty
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Scorchers (1991)
Plot Summary:
Bayou La Teche, Louisiana sizzles as the Cajun town celebrates the wedding of Splendid and Dolan. The trouble comes on the wedding night when Splendid is determined to maintain her innocence. On the other side of town Splendids' cousin has her own problems. Her man has been sleeping with Thais, the town hooker. She heads to the Tiger Cafe with gun in hand to get back her man.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 664
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: independent film, erotic, sexy, clever, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious, sexual
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The Reader (1988)
Plot Summary:
A multi-faceted film based on Raymond Jean's novel "La Lectrice". Constance (Miou-Miou) reads the novel aloud in bed to her lover. Inspired by the story of Marie, a woman who advertises her services as a reader of literature, Constance decides to do the same. Here the film takes on a kaleidoscopic effect as the lives of Constance and Marie become merged, making it hard to distinguish what is real and what is fantasy. This structure is further complicated when the lives of Constance's clients become tangled with the stories she reads. The film is interspersed with readings from well known literary sources as diverse as, amongst others, Baudelaire, Duras, Tolstoy, Lewis Carroll and de Sade's "120 days...".
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sexy, sexual, erotic, clever, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious, masterpiece
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Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2011)
Plot Summary:
Chronicles the romantic enchantment of a 90 year old reporter with a girl 70 years younger than himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, Spain, Denmark, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, erotic, sensual, offbeat, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Unmade Beds (2009)
Plot Summary:
Axl wants to find his long-lost father and rediscover his past. Vera just wants to forget hers as she tries to move on from heartbreak. Their stories come together in the melting-pot of 21st century London.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, erotic, sexy, clever, realistic, semi serious, avant garde
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Tapas Bar (2005)
Plot Summary:
The film centers on a Spanish tapas bar and the love lives of the loosely interconnected people in the neighborhood surrounding the bar. The pairs of lovers include a middle aged woman and a young man; an elderly, drug dealing woman and her terminally ill husband in poor health; the tapas bar owner and his estranged wife; and two Chinese immigrants.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina, Mexico
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, emotional, realistic
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8 ? Women (1999)
Plot Summary:
After the death of his wife, wealthy businessman Philip Emmenthal and his son Storey open their own private harem in their family residence in Geneva (they get the idea while watching Federico Fellini's 8½ and after Storey is "given" a woman, Simato (Inoh), to waive her pachinko debts). They sign one-year contracts with eight (and a half) women to this effect. The women each have a gimmick (one is a nun, another a kabuki performer, etc.). Philip soon becomes dominated by his favourite of the concubines, Palmira, who has no interest in Storey as a lover, despite what their contract might stipulate. Philip dies, the concubines' contracts expire, and Storey is left alone with Giulietta (the titular "½", played by Fujiwara) and of course the money and the houses.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: surreal, erotic, sexy, clever, talky, sex comedy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, contemplative
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Someone Else's America (1995)
Plot Summary:
This tale takes place in a bar. The Spanish Alonso and his blind mother run this place. Bay, who is Alonso's friend live here too. This story tells something about Alonso and Bay and the "American Dream".
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 715
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, UK, France, Germany, Greece
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Italian (2010)
Plot Summary:
Life smiles at Dino Fabrizzi,a cool forty-two-year old Italian. Not only is he the most successful salesman at The Maserati dealership in Nice but he has had a steady (and hot) relationship with Hélène,his girlfriend, who is beginning to contemplate marriage. To crown it all he is nearly certain to land a senior position at the dealership. But there is a tiny wee problem. The funny Italian is not Italian at all! His real name is Mourad and he is actually of Algerian origin. So, when to please his father (who does not know his son pretends to be Italian), he promises him to celebrate Ramadan he is bound to get into serious trouble.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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One Stays, the Other Leaves (2005)
Plot Summary:
A story about two couples, longtime friends in which both husbands engage in long-term affairs and, as the title says, ultimately one remains with his wife and one makes a new life with another woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 649
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic, sexual, sexy
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My Wife Is an Actress (2001)
Plot Summary:
My Wife is an Actress is a French Romantic Comedy/Drama film starring real life couple Yvan Attal and Charlotte Gainsbourg. Attal plays a journalist who becomes obsessively jealous when his actress wife gets a part in a movie with an attractive co-star. Attal also wrote and directed the film.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: melancholic, disturbing, stylized, touching, semi serious, humorous, witty, erotic, romantic comedy, clever
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Odette Toulemonde (2006)
Plot Summary:
Objectively, Odette Toulemonde has nothing to be happy about, but is. Balthazar Balsan has everything to be happy about, but isn’t. Odette, awkwardly forty, with a delightful hairdresser son and a daughter bogged down in adolescence, spends her days behind the cosmetic’s counter in a department store and her nights sewing feathers on costumes for Parisian variety shows. She dreams of thanking Balthazar Balsan, her favorite author, to whom – she believes – she owes her optimism. The rich and charming Parisian writer then turns up in her life in an unexpected way.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, offbeat, realistic, stylized, semi serious
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The Freebie (2010)
Plot Summary:
A couple hatches a highly dubious scheme to put the spark back in their marriage in this independent comedy drama. Annie (Katie Aselton) and Darren (Dax Shepard) have been married for seven years, and they love each other as much as the day they were wed; they're affectionate, have fun together, and enjoy games such as crossword puzzle races. They would seem to have a perfect relationship, except for one thing -- they haven't had sex in ages, and seem to have lost all interest in making love with one another, no matter how they try to put each other in the mood. Hoping to put some adventure back into their lives, Annie and Darren come up with an unusual idea -- they each get one night in which they're free to find someone and have sex with them, scot-free. But is this going to help their relationship, or is it just going to turn a small problem into a big problem?.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, sincere, humorous, realistic, semi serious, psychological, sentimental, clever, touching, independent film
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Some Voices (2000)
Plot Summary:
Schizophrenic Ray tries to adjust to the outside world after being released from an institution.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, erotic, mysterious, independent film
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Nationale 7 (2000)
Plot Summary:
In a nursing home for disabled near Toulon, René is unanimously hated by all. With fifty years and suffering from myopathy, has an irascible, rebellious character. But not resist provocations candor and uprightness of Julie, a special educator rookie. He confesses he wants to make love to a woman before her degenerative disease definitely catch it. Then Julie goes after one of the prostitutes who work in caravans along the N7.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 536
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, humorous, semi serious, sexy, offbeat, realistic, sexual
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Night Bus (2014)
Plot Summary:
The passengers on the Night Bus have many different stories -- some are lovers, some have dark secrets, some are looking for a fight, others are just trying to get through the night.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 384
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, contemplative, talky
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The Chops (2003)
Plot Summary:
A father arrives at his son's house one evening. They begin talking about women, love, relationships and things turn awkward fast.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 473
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sexy, humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty, sex comedy, clever, offbeat, cynical, biting
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Career Girls (1997)
Plot Summary:
Two young women reunite and rekindle their friendship after having said goodbye at their college graduation, six years earlier.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: cult classic, realistic, witty, talky, independent film, art house, sincere, touching, humorous, semi serious
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Entry Level (2007)
Plot Summary:
After losing his restaurant, chef CLAY MAGUIRE must start his career all over--at the bottom. Pushing forty with no "corporate skill-set", Clay enters the strange world of the Unemployable Interviewees of America. Clay and his fellow job-seekers strive for dignity, success, or at least a job taking customer service calls from prison inmates for minimum wage. A hilarious, insightful look at job interviews, finding the courage to start all over, and life at the ENTRY LEVEL.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Intimate Affairs (2001)
Plot Summary:
When a scholar, is haunted by an overwhelming desire to understand the mystery of sex, he decides to conduct an investigation. With two beautiful assistants joining the case, the stakes are raised.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, talky, psychological, witty, semi serious, sexy, erotic, clever, realistic
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Scenes of a Sexual Nature (2006)
Plot Summary:
Sex and love. Some seek it, some need it, some spurn it and some pay for it, but we're all involved in it. Set on one afternoon on Hampstead Heath in north-west London, the film investigates the minutiae of seven couples. What makes us tick?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, touching, suspenseful, controversial, sex comedy, sexual, cute, erotic
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How Much Do You Love Me? (2005)
Plot Summary:
After winning the lottery, François goes to a bar in Pigalle and offers one hundred thousand Euros per month to a prostitute named Daniela to live with him as his wife until his money runs out.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic, sexy, sexual, spiritual, sex comedy, sensual
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Cemetery Junction (2010)
Plot Summary:
In 1970s England, three blue-collar friends spend their days joking, drinking, fighting and chasing girls. Freddie wants to leave their working-class world but cool, charismatic Bruce and lovable loser Snork are happy with life the way it is. When Freddie gets a new job as a door-to-door salesman and bumps into his old school sweetheart Julie, the gang are forced to make choices that will change their lives for ever.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: witty, inspirational, stylized, funny, humorous, talky, semi serious, melancholic, atmospheric, clever
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West Is West (2010)
Plot Summary:
Comedy sequel to "East is East". Manchester, North of England, 1975. The now much diminished, but still claustrophobic and dysfunctional, Khan family continues to struggle for survival. Sajid, the youngest Khan, the runt of the litter, is deep in pubescent crisis under heavy assault both from his father's tyrannical insistence on Pakistani tradition, and from the fierce bullies in the schoolyard. So, in a last, desperate attempt to 'sort him out', his father decides to pack him off to Mrs Khan No 1 and family in the Punjab, the wife and daughters he had abandoned 35 years earlier. It is not long before Ella Khan (Mrs Khan No2) with a small entourage from Salford, England, swiftly follows to sort out the mess, past and present.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, witty, sentimental, semi serious, realistic
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How to Be (2008)
Plot Summary:
A young man having an existential crisis convinces a Canadian self-help guru to come to London and become his personal life coach.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, touching, melancholic, postmodern, indie film, clever, witty, talky
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Smart Ass (2014)
Plot Summary:
Kelly, Dan and Louis are students at a prestigious business school, destined to become tomorrow's elite. The industrious trio are determined to start putting their education into practise from the off in an attempt to make as much money as they can from their fellow students. Working on the theory that relationships between the sexes can be regulated by market principles, they begin to inflate the popularity of certain individuals artificially, by hiring beautiful and sexy off-campus women as their dates for exclusive and riotous college parties. However their perfect business model soon spirals out of control as their moneymaking scheme takes off in a big way across campus.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, sexy, semi serious, touching, art house, realistic, erotic, fake documentary