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Plot Summary:
A train-wreck on an adventure who is ready to give away her new-born baby. Joined by a cheeky street urchin, they are two diamonds in the rough on the run.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 94 min
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My Neighbor Adolf (2022)
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South America, 1960. A lonely and grumpy Holocaust survivor convinces himself that his new neighbor is none other than Adolf Hitler. Not being taken seriously, he starts an independent investigation to prove his claim, but when the evidence still appears to be inconclusive, Polsky is forced to engage in a relationship with the enemy in order to obtain irrefutable proof.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel, Poland, Colombia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Me, Natalie (1969)
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Since she was a child, Natalie Miller has always thought she was an ugly ducking. Despite her mother's encouragement that she will grow up to be pretty, Natalie has never believed it will happen. She rents a Greenwich Village apartment from an eccentric landlady and gets a job at the Topless Bottom Club. She rides a motorcycle to work, decorates her loft with a moose head, and rides up and down a dumbwaiter to get to her apartment. There Natalie meets David an artist, and the two have a love affair before she discovers he is married.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film
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Dancing Quietly (2016)
Plot Summary:
After many dark years of depression Luca seeks to gain her high school diploma. Her little dog Mata helps her to find motivation and keep a positive attitude towards life.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 401
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 69 min
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Kalyanaraman (2002)
Plot Summary:
An old man (Dileep) narrates his love story and about the curse his family possess to a bunch of teenagers.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 126 min
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Kaatrin Mozhi (2018)
Plot Summary:
A housewife's life changes drastically after becoming a radio jockey for the city's biggest radio stations.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 730
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 148 min
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Sarah Q (2018)
Plot Summary:
The adventures of a young woman who moves to New York City from a small town to become an actress.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
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Life as It Should Be (2020)
Plot Summary:
Immediately after the birth of their first child, Iris' friend Pieter confesses that he never wanted this child, has been having an affair for a year and will soon be leaving for Africa with his new love.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 870
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, captivating, realistic
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Rare, Medium, Well Done (1985)
Plot Summary:
Anssi Mänttäri’s low-budget movies with their intimate content have become classics. In this black comedy that takes place in Helsinki in summer the main character (played by Mänttäri himself) jumps from one bar and bed to the next. Especially vulgar black humour.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 67 min
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Good Posture (2019)
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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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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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Girlfriends (1978)
Plot Summary:
A photographer and her girlfriend are roommates. She is stuck with small-change shooting jobs and dreams of success. When her roommate decides to get married and leave, she feels hurt and has to learn how to deal with living alone.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, independent film, art house, cult classic
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Marvelous and the Black Hole (2021)
Plot Summary:
A teenage delinquent befriends a surly magician who helps her navigate her inner demons and dysfunctional family with sleight of hand magic.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining
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All Screwed Up (1974)
Plot Summary:
A group of immigrants from the south of Italy live collectively in the Milano's suburbia in the 1974.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot (2013)
Plot Summary:
A star studded special written and directed by Peter Davison. With the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who about to film, the 'Classic' Doctors are keen to be involved. But do they manage it?.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious
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Adam (2019)
Plot Summary:
Abla, a widow and mother to a 10-year-old girl, struggles to survive and give her child the best possible future. After the death of her husband, she starts a home-based business from her kitchen, which opens up on the street through a metal shutter. Every day, she makes and sells homemade bread and all types of traditional Moroccan pastries. Closed-off from life, leading an existence devoid of happiness and taking refuge in her work, Abla has become old before her time. Unable to manifest love towards her child, she has replaced tenderness with pragmatism. When Samia, a young woman who is heavily pregnant knocks on her door, seeking shelter and overwhelmed by the weight of her burden of giving birth to a child without a father, Alba is unaware that this chance encounter will change her forever.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Morocco, France, Belgium, Qatar
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Like Crazy (2016)
Plot Summary:
Beatrice is a blabbermouth and a so-called billionaire countess who likes to believe she’s in intimacy with world leaders. Donatella is a young quiet tattooed woman, locked in her own mystery. They are both patients of a mental institution and subject to custodial measures.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: humorous, road movie, touching, social, melancholic, sincere, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, philosophical
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Live Is Life (2021)
Plot Summary:
Summer 1985. As every year, Rodri travels from Catalonia to Galicia and is reunited with his four friends. As real-world problems begin to undermine their friendship, the five of them embark on a nighttime adventure in search of a mythical object.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags:
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Animals (2019)
Plot Summary:
Laura and Tyler are best friends and drinking buddies whose hedonistic existence falls under the creeping horror of adulthood when Laura gets engaged to Jim – an ambitious pianist who surprisingly decides to go teetotal.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Australia, Ireland, Finland
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, captivating, indie film
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The Young Wife (2023)
Plot Summary:
A young woman grapples with the meaning of love and commitment over the course of her “non-wedding” day.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Keep Smiling (2012)
Plot Summary:
10 women, seven of them belonging to the poorest population, are desperately trying to win a beauty contest for mothers who have more than 3 children. The winner will get an apartment and $25000.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 608
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Georgia, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, unusual plot structure, humorous, contemplative, crying
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Baden Baden (2016)
Plot Summary:
Charts the trials and tribulations of Ana, a free-spirited 26 year-old returning home to Strasbourg for the summer after living abroad for long enough to feel out of place everywhere.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 753
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Zero Motivation (2014)
Plot Summary:
Filmmaker Talya Lavie steps into the spotlight with a dark comedy about everyday life for a unit of young female Israeli soldiers. The human resources office at a remote desert base serves as the setting for this cast of characters, who bide their time pushing paper, battling for the top score in Minesweeper, and counting down the minutes until they can return to civilian life. Amidst their boredom and clashing personalities, issues of commitment—from friendship to love and country—are handled with humor and sharp-edged wit. In Hebrew with subtitles.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, satirical, absurd, witty, talky, humorous, tragicomedy, realistic, cynical, semi serious
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The Divine Order (2017)
Plot Summary:
Nora is a young housewife and mother, living in a quaint little village with her husband and their two sons. The Swiss countryside is untouched by the major social upheavals the movement of 1968 has brought about. Nora’s life is not affected either; she is a quiet person who is liked by everybody – until she starts to publicly fight for women’s suffrage, which the men are due to vote on in a ballot on February 7, 1971.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, humorous, captivating, political, social
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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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Chance (2002)
Plot Summary:
'Chance' is a black comedy about how hard it is to find "the one". Mostly told from the point-of-view of a young, sexually aggressive woman, named Chance, whom according to her: "we're all out there looking for true love", which turns out to be a very elusive thing indeed, and Chance is no exception. She's desperately on the prowl for a man, but since she's more mouse than cat, she gets herself into scrape after scrape in her screwball pursuit of love. Surrounded by a bevy of adoring but completely wrong-for-her men (and one dead girl from Manchester, England), Chance has to pick her way through her messy life in order to figure out which guy is "it".
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, non-linear
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Longing for a Kiss (2016)
Plot Summary:
Pregnant, and at that age! This is the case twice with the Rosemeyer family. Both 16-year-old Viola and her mother Doris, in her mid-40s, are unexpectedly pregnant. Yet family life is already difficult anyway: teenage daughter Viola wants to go to London to play school and at the same time prove that she is very old enough to start a family with her boyfriend Jo. But Jo would not necessarily be in such a hurry to be a father.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: funny, light, captivating, entertaining
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Expecting (2013)
Plot Summary:
Lizzie's best friend, Andie, becomes pregnant and offers to give the baby to her. Lizzie's husband, Peter, reluctantly goes along with being the child's father, and Andie moves into the guest room for the remainder of the pregnancy.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, humorous, semi serious, indie film, independent film
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Boys on the Side (1995)
Plot Summary:
After breaking up with her girlfriend, a nightclub singer, Jane, answers a personal ad from Robin, a real estate agent with AIDS, seeking a cross-country travel partner. On their journey from New York City to Los Angeles, the two stop by Pittsburgh to pick up Robin's friend Holly, who is trying to escape an abusive relationship. With three distinct personalities, the women must overcome their differences to help one another.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: road movie, sentimental, touching, emotional, erotic, thought provoking, lgbt cinema, cult classic, hilarious, humorous
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Carrie Pilby (2016)
Plot Summary:
Awkward, isolated and disapproving of most of the people around her, a precocious 19-year-old genius is challenged to put her convictions to the test by venturing out on to the NYC dating scene, in this adaptation of Caren Lissner’s best-selling 2003 novel.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, humorous, psychological, sincere, captivating, offbeat, entertaining, romantic comedy, cute
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The Women (2008)
Plot Summary:
The story centers on a group of gossipy, high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon and haunting fashion shows. The sweet, happily-wedded Mary Haines finds her marriage in trouble when shop girl Crystal Allen gets her hooks into Mary's man.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: entertaining, witty, humorous, light, realistic, emotional, sexy, semi serious, erotic, clever