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Plot Summary:
Une journée dans la vie d'un groupe de femmes qui se retrouvent chaque semaine depuis quinze ans dans la salle d'attente d'un médecin qui prétend arriver à les faire maigrir.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 322
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, captivating, realistic, talky, semi serious
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Ladies Room (1999)
Plot Summary:
In an ethereal, high-ceilinged room, women stand, waiting. Perhaps it's Purgatory and they're dead. In the room, two young women, one an actress and the other a psychologist, watch the last few days of their lives on a TV screen. Both are having affairs with married men, each has a long encounter with her lover's wife, and both these scenes take place in a ladies' room, one backstage at a play that's about to preview, the other at an opera house during the first act. The relationships between each pair of younger and older women take surprising turns, and in the room with the TV, a sylph asks probing and challenging questions of the two young women as they watch.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 616
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, offbeat, humorous, realistic, surreal, semi serious
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Laura Cadieux II (1999)
Plot Summary:
-Laura Cadieux reçoit en cadeau d'anniversaire des billets pour une croisière sur le fleuve St-Laurent (au Québec), et décide d'inviter toutes ses amies à l'accompagner. Mais voilà que madame Therrien, toujours aussi distraite, s'embarque par erreur sur un cargo russe.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: touching, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick, slapstick comedy
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Village of the Stone Roller (1995)
Plot Summary:
Pekka (Martti Suosalo) saapuu pitkästä aikaa kotiseudulleen pieneen Jerusalemin kylään juhlistamaan kylän viimeisiä häitä. Hänen oma avioliittonsa näyttää ajautuneen umpikujaan. Kylän väki kokoontuu valmistelemaan tätä viimeistä tapahtumaa, ja yhteen kesäiseen vuorokauteen tuntuu tiivistyvän koko ihmiselon katkeransuloinen kirjo iloineen ja suruineen. Maaseudun kuvaus on nostalgista ja herkkää, ja tarinan dialogi osuvaa. Markku Pölönen on käsikirjoittanut ja ohjannut tämän Heikki Turusen kirjaan perustuvan elokuvan joutsenlauluksi elämänmuodolle joka loppui 70-luvun maaltamuuton myötä.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 981
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, emotional, realistic, semi serious
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When the Party's Over (1992)
Plot Summary:
The story takes place in LA, in the house of four housemates, three women, MJ, Frankie and Amanda, and an homosexual, Banks. MJ is the kind of girl to whom money means everything and to whom others mean almost nothing. Frankie is a social worker and Amanda, a painter. Banks is an unfortunate actor. The problem is that Frankie is deeply in love with Taylor, and he loves her back, but he's sleeping with MJ, for sex. MJ will become more and more jealous of Frankie as days flow.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, gloomy, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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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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The Board (2006)
Plot Summary:
Ten years after hanging their diploma on the wall, four friends who graduated together from a business management school reach a conclusion: while they believed that their academic training would be the corner stone of their lives, that is not the case.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 384
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, semi serious
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A Matter of Heart (2009)
Plot Summary:
Garage owner Angelo and big-time film producer Alberto find themselves occupying neighbouring beds in a Rome hospital after suffering heart attacks. Alberto is a gregarious joker - and chain smoker - who has a strong effect on the impressionable Angelo. However, as one of the men's condition deteriorates, the other becomes more deeply involved in his personal life.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 875
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat
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I Couldn't Care Less (2000)
Plot Summary:
This European take on twenty-something woe introduces viewers to Jorge (Alejandro Cano), a self-help author suffering from writer's block who thinks he may be gay. Living with Jorge is Marta (Maria Jurado), a bisexual who wants to have a baby. Included in their circle are Eva (Melanie Olivares), Jorge's ex, and Alberto (Alvaro Gallegos), a gay man Jorge meets at a New Age healing session presided over by Ines (Begona Hernando). A number of encounters ensue, Marta moves in with the piggish Mario (Fernando Cayo), and Jorge decides to write a book based on his own experiences.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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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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Jack & Jill (1999)
Plot Summary:
A lighthearted romantic comedy about post-collegiate life, love and career in New York City.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sitcom, talky, sexual
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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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Dysfunctional Friends (2012)
Plot Summary:
A group of college friends are reunited after the death of their very successful friend. The will dictates that each person will receive a large sum of money if they can all successfully stay in his mansion for a week. If one person leaves, everyone forfeits the money.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 924
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: humorous, talky, captivating, light, realistic, semi serious
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An Ordinary Family (2011)
Plot Summary:
AN ORDINARY FAMILY is a humorous drama about one family, two brothers and a really big problem. Thomas Biederman is blindsided when his estranged brother, Seth, shows up unannounced to the annual family vacation… with his boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, emotional, psychological, captivating, independent film, sentimental, touching, realistic, talky, semi serious
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Face the Music (1993)
Plot Summary:
Divorced couple Charlie and Lisa Hunter once a song writing team decide to spend a weekend in the French countryside to inspire them to write one last song together. But there is one person who isn't too crazy about the idea... Charlie's fiance!.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 419
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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A Girl Is a Girl (1999)
Plot Summary:
Imagine "High Fidelity" as directed by Jean Luc Godard and you've basically got the gist of "A Girl is a Girl.".
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sex comedy, sexy
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Leaving Normal (1992)
Plot Summary:
A female buddy story in which Meg Tilly plays a child-like 20-something who has just walked out on her abusive husband. Darly (Christine Lahti) is fleeing a life as a waitress and stripper and is on her way to Alaska to claim a home and family she abandoned eighteen years earlier after giving birth. The two run into each other on the road and Darly welcomes the company as they head north from Wyoming.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: road movie, sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, crying
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Eating (1990)
Plot Summary:
At a spacious house in Los Angeles, Helene is turning 40-years old and her friends whom include French filmmaker Martine, house guest Sophie, and Lydia throw her a party. But also there is Kate a friend turning 30, and Sadie a Hollywood film agent turning 50. So, all of Helene's, Kate's, and Sadie's friends arrive for the party where Martine films the events with her movie camera and the shocking secrets revealed by Helene's mother Whitney, and her younger sister Nancy whom confide in their interviews about their obsession with food, and their roles in life.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: independent film, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, contemplative, talky, semi serious
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Heartaches (1981)
Plot Summary:
A young wife becomes pregnant, but the child's father is not her husband. Afraid to tell him, she leaves home, and meets an outgoing, free-spirited woman on a bus. Although the two are polar opposites, the wife moves in with the young woman, and finds out that they have much more in common than she realized.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, offbeat, humorous, emotional, realistic, semi serious, cult film
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Marine Life (2000)
Plot Summary:
Marine Life revolves around the choatic family life of June, a middle-aged lounge singer and mother. Aging and twice divorced, lounge singer June Nordstrom tries to cope with her fading beauty, her troubled offspring, her waning career and her young lover, who begins seeing a woman his age behind June's back.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, humorous, emotional, semi serious, captivating, independent film
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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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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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2 Francs, 40 Pesetas (2014)
Plot Summary:
Madrid, 1974. Six years have passed since Martin and his family have returned to Spain from Switzerland. A visit to their adopted country will bring complications.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating, sentimental, realistic
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The Outlander (2005)
Plot Summary:
It is the early 20th century. A stranger arrives in the small, rural community and disrupts the lives of its inhabitants. The man, who refuses to give his name, is dubbed The Outlander. A traveller who disdains conventional behaviour and parochialism, The Outlander disturbs the villagers' complacency and scandalizes the community; he also elicits admiration and gains a woman's love. He ultimately leaves in the same manner he had arrived, but not before he has helped the villagers open their eyes to the larger world beyond their village.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 406
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, sentimental, touching, realistic, serious
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Either Way (2011)
Plot Summary:
Icelandic drama about two remote road-workers.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 631
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iceland
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, atmospheric, contemplative, captivating, psychological, offbeat, realistic, talky, semi serious
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The Van (1996)
Plot Summary:
Set in "Barrytown", a fictitious working-class quarter of Dublin. "Bimbo" Reeves gets laid off from his job. With his redundancy, he buys a van and sells fish and chips with his buddy Larry. Due to Ireland's surprising success at the 1990 FIFA World Cup, their business starts off well, but the relationship between the two friends soon becomes strained as Bimbo behaves more like a typical boss.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Ireland, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, independent film, social, touching, feel good, semi serious, parody, funny, light
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The Decline of the American Empire (1986)
Plot Summary:
Four very different Montreal university teachers gather at a rambling country house to prepare a dinner. Remy (married), Claude (a homosexual), Pierre (involved with a girlfriend) and Alain (a bachelor) discuss sex, the female body and their affairs with them. Meanwhile, their four female guests, Louise (Remy's wife of 15 years), Dominique (a spinster), Diane (a divorcée) and Danielle (Pierre's girlfriend) are spending the time at a downtown health gym. They also discuss sex, the female body and, naturally, men. Later in the evening, they finally meet at the country house and have dinner. A ninth guest, named Mario, who used to know Diane, drops in on the group for some talk and has a surprise of his own.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: talky, intellectual, humorous, sincere, realistic, semi serious, art house, sex comedy, independent film, cult classic
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I Don't Have Many Friends (2014)
Plot Summary:
Second year high school student Kodaka Hasegawa has transferred to his new school about a month ago, but he still hasn't made any friends. Kodaka Hasegawa was born from a Japanese father and a British mother. Because of his appearance, people think Kodaka Hasegawa is a troubled kid. One day, Kodaka Hasegawa sees classmate Yozora Mikazuki pleasantly talking to herself. Kodaka Hasegawa talks with her about how to make friends. To make friends, Yozora Mikazuki decides to form the Neighbor's Club and forces Kodaka to enroll in the club.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, touching, offbeat, realistic, stylized, manga
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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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5 Flights Up (2014)
Plot Summary:
A long-time married couple who've spent their lives together in the same New York apartment become overwhelmed by personal and real estate-related issues when they plan to move away.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious, sweet, entertaining, comedy drama, humorous, independent film
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Walkaway (2010)
Plot Summary:
Walkaway, a light-comedy drama, mocks the clutches of social obligations on young Indian professionals settled in New York City.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 813
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film