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Plot Summary:
When 17 year old Joanna comes to Swinging London, she meets a host of colourful characters, discovers the pleasures of casual sex and falls in love. That's when things get complicated.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 485
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Sticky Notes (2016)
Plot Summary:
The story of an emotionally detached backup dancer named Athena, who must return home to Florida to help care for her estranged father, Jack, after he gets diagnosed with cancer. There she must contend with Jack’s irresponsible lifestyle while looking after six year old Honey Bunny who is only beginning to grasp the err in Jack’s ways.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 995
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, thought provoking, touching, erotic, independent film
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I Am a Groupie (1970)
Plot Summary:
A bored teenage girl decides that she wants to meet rock stars, and the best way to do that is to become a groupie. She finds herself going on the road with a rock band called Opal Butterfly, and soon discovers that being a rock band's groupie isn't as glamorous or exciting as she thought it would be.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Drama, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film
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The New Adventures of Heidi (1978)
Plot Summary:
Heidi leaves the mountains of Switzerland for a trip to New York City.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Bronco Bullfrog (1970)
Plot Summary:
Del and his friends agree to take part in a robbery with a boy fresh from the borstal. When Del falls in love with Irene they decide to run away from their nagging parents - and the law.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 376
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: offbeat, neorealism, freeze frame, cult film
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The Excitement of the Do-Re-Mi-Fa Girl (1985)
Plot Summary:
A country girl visits a college in Tokyo in search of her high school band heartthrob. In the course of finding him, she runs into various odd inhabitants of the college campus--a constantly horny coed, a psychology professor in search of the theory of shame, and of course her Mr. Yoshioka who still sings but has become an elusive campus nobody. Other students also come in and out, engaged in a rather bored campus life-- flirting, having sex, joining campus group activities, running around posing as revolutionaries.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 240
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy
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Bran Nue Dae (2009)
Plot Summary:
In the Summer of 1965 a young man is filled with the life of the idyllic old pearling port Broome - fishing, hanging out with his mates and his girl. However his mother returns him to the religious mission for further schooling. After being punished for an act of youthful rebellion, he runs away from the mission on a journey that ultimately leads him back home.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, stylized, semi serious, captivating, art house, exciting, feel good, realistic, witty, campy
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Up the Junction (1968)
Plot Summary:
A girl from a rich family in Chelsea is bored and decides to go "slumming" in depressed Battersea.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 992
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967)
Plot Summary:
Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life. In very dramatic fashion, he quits his job to return to writing for a small literary magazine. He wants to leave his former life behind, going as far as saying good-bye to his wife and mistresses. He finds, however, that it's not so easy to escape the past.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: erotic, weird
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Little Boxes (2016)
Plot Summary:
It's the summer before 6th grade, and Clark is the new-in-town biracial kid in a sea of white. Discovering that to be cool he needs to act 'more black,' he fumbles to meet expectations, while his urban intellectual parents Mack and Gina also strive to adjust to small-town living. Equipped for the many inherent challenges of New York, the tight-knit family are ill prepared for the drastically different set of obstacles that their new community presents, and soon find themselves struggling to understand themselves and each other in this new suburban context.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Hooking Up (2020)
Plot Summary:
Bailey and Darla embark upon a misguided and mutually deceitful form of therapy, one in which they must drive across the country re-enacting Darla's colorful history as a sex addict. As their true motivations for the road trip come to light, the unlikely pair force one another to confront their issues, discovering that there might actually be more to love than just sex.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, disturbing, controversial, independent film, erotic, sex comedy
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My Sweet Charlie (1970)
Plot Summary:
A pregnant white Southern girl and a black New York lawyer, both on the run in rural Texas, meet up in a boarded-up, abandoned house and realize they both need each other in order to survive.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tension, suspense
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Georgy Girl (1966)
Plot Summary:
Georgy has resigned herself to being one of life's accidents. She disapproves somewhat of her father's butlering James Leamington. She's tall, plump, sloppy and wistfully envious of what she conceives to be the life led by her beautiful, but icy roommate. Where her roommate, Meredith, is cool and calculating, Georgy gets so involved with the people around her she behaves like an affectionate puppy. Most of all she burns to be a mother. But it is Meredith that is in the hospital having an unwanted child.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: retro, romantic comedy, sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic, road movie, atmospheric
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Hairspray Live! (2016)
Plot Summary:
A teenage girl living in Baltimore in the early 1960s dreams of appearing on a popular TV dance show.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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The Queen of Hearts (2009)
Plot Summary:
Adèle une jeune trentenaire se fait quitter par Mathieu, l'amour de sa vie. Anéantie, suffoquée, Adèle ne veut plus qu'une chose : mourir. Rachel, une cousine éloignée, la prend en charge. Elle décide d'aider Adèle en essayant de lui trouver du travail, de lui redonner goût à la vie et de la conseiller sentimentalement. Son principal conseil : coucher avec d'autres hommes afin de désacraliser cette histoire... À son corps et coeur défendant, Adèle part au combat.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 609
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, feel good, light
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Carbon Copy (1981)
Plot Summary:
A white corporate executive is surprised to discover that he has a black teen-age son who can't wait to be adopted into the, almost-exclusively-white community of, San Marino, California.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, intelligent, independent film, clever, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, biting, hilarious
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Getting Straight (1970)
Plot Summary:
Graduate student Harry Bailey was once one of the most visible undergraduate activists on campus, but now that he's back studying for his master's, he's trying to fly right. Trouble is, the campus is exploding with various student movements, and Harry's girlfriend, Jan, is caught up in most of them. As Harry gets closer to finishing his degree, he finds his iconoclastic attitude increasingly aligned with the students rather than the faculty.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: sentimental, thought provoking, touching, humorous, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, reflective
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The Ruling Class (1972)
Plot Summary:
When the Earl of Gurney dies in a cross-dressing accident, his schizophrenic son, Jack, inherits the Gurney estate. Jack is not the average nobleman; he sings and dances across the estate and thinks he is Jesus reincarnated. Believing that Jack is mentally unfit to own the estate, the Gurney family plots to steal Jack's inheritance. As their outrageous schemes fail, the family strives to cure Jack of his bizarre behavior, with disastrous results.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 154 min
Plot tags: surreal, dark comedy, humorous, satirical, disturbing, talky, black comedy, semi serious, psychological, cult classic
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The Dirtiest Girl I Ever Met (1970)
Plot Summary:
A naive couple leave their small town for success in London's adult entertainment culture.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 429
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sensual, sexy, independent film, hot
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Dutchman (1966)
Plot Summary:
A young conservative black man, minding his own business, rides a nearly empty subway car. The only other passenger, a blonde vixen looking for trouble, sizes him up. Sexual tension, racial bigotry and righteous fury collide in a razor's edge confrontation between this unlikely pair.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 477
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: neo noir, allegory, independent film, tension, suspense, black cinema, cult film
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Leo the Last (1970)
Plot Summary:
Prince Leo, last in the line of rulers of a long-deposed monarchy on continental Europe and jaded with the frenetic search for kicks with the European jet-set, returns to his father's London town house for rest.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 649
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: surreal, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, biting, suspense
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Alfie (1966)
Plot Summary:
The film tells the story of a young man who leads a promiscuous lifestyle until several life reversals make him rethink his purposes and goals in life.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: witty, ironic, emotional, talky, intense, melancholic, sex comedy, humorous, realistic, funny
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Hairspray (2007)
Plot Summary:
Pleasantly plump teenager, Tracy Turnblad and her best friend, Penny Pingleton audition to be on The Corny Collins Show – and Tracy wins. But when scheming Amber Von Tussle and her mother plot to destroy Tracy, it turns to chaos.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 137000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: feel good, romantic, entertaining, lyrical, humorous, light, cute, teen, thought provoking, captivating
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Antonia's Line (1995)
Plot Summary:
After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Antonia's late mother has bestowed a small farm upon her. There, Antonia settles down and joins a tightly-knit but unusual community. Those around her include quirky friend Crooked Finger, would-be suitor Bas and, eventually for Antonia, a granddaughter and great-granddaughter who help create a strong family of empowered women.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, UK, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: touching, intellectual, melancholic, sentimental, independent film, funny, epic, experimental, dramatic, manga
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Unexpected (2015)
Plot Summary:
An inner-city high school teacher discovers she is pregnant at the same time as one of her most promising students and the two develop an unlikely friendship while struggling to navigate their unexpected pregnancies.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, realistic, semi serious, feel good, independent film, humorous, captivating
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Hawks (1988)
Plot Summary:
Two terminally ill patients in a hospital yearn for relief from their predicament. With little or no friends, they form an uneasy alliance and plot an escape for one last wild time.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: black comedy, sad, crying, humorous, realistic, semi serious, road movie, sex comedy, independent film, dark comedy
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Kisses for Everyone (2000)
Plot Summary:
Three students are sent by their families to Cadiz in 1965, his last chance to pass and become what is expected of them. The appearance of some dancers disrupts their commitments: boys lose the course and girls, their work. But together they learn to decide their future.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 398
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, touching, manga, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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School Daze (1988)
Plot Summary:
In the South of the United States are taking place confrontations between two groups of students who have different ideas and are not able to accept the one of the oponent.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: hood, cult classic, black comedy, social, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, biting, light
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Halls of Anger (1970)
Plot Summary:
An all-black inner city school has to become an integrated school. Few dozen white kids are transfered there, but the black students are aggressively opposed to this. The school then approaches a tough black teacher for help.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: black and white, independent film, sincere, thought provoking, bleak, serious, realistic, black cinema
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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
Plot Summary:
Matt and Christina Drayton are a couple whose attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: emotional, sentimental, touching, intense, compassionate, sincere, semi serious, black and white, clever, realistic
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Mr. Church (2016)
Plot Summary:
A unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead spans fifteen years.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sad, sentimental, compassionate, emotional, melancholic, touching, dramatic, motivational, sincere, thought provoking