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Plot Summary:
Momoko is an ordinary girl, living an ordinary life. Ordinary, that is, if you define ordinary as wearing elaborate lolita dresses from the Rococo period in 18th Century France. However, when punk girl and self-styled 'Yanki' Ichiko comes calling, her days as 'ordinary' are most certainly numbered.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: surreal, humorous, sweet, light, melancholic, talky, stylized, feel good, semi serious, cult classic
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Adrift in Tokyo (2007)
Plot Summary:
Leading a lazy life, Fumiya has been a university student for 8 years and owes money to loan sharks. One day, a man named Fukuhara comes to collect the loan, which Fumiya cannot pay. So Fukuhara makes a proposition: He will cancel the debt as long as Fumiya agrees to walk with him across Tokyo to the police station of Kasumigaseki, where he intends to turn himself in for a crime he deeply regrets. Not having much choice, Fumiya accepts the deal. Thus begins their journey which will lead them to various unusual encounters, most of all with themselves.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, captivating, psychological, light, relaxing, clever, touching, offbeat, talky
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Instant Swamp (2009)
Plot Summary:
After being forced to resign from her publishing company job when her magazine goes out of circulation, office worker Haname Jinchoge (Kumiko Aso) is given the name of her real father-Noburo Jinchoge when her mother (Keiko Matsuzaka) falls into a coma after nearly drowning in a pond while searching for kappa. Unsure if Noburo (Morio Kazama) is her father, Haname decides to visit him but tells him that she is a distant relative, he happens to be the shopkeeper at an odd antiquities shop called Light Bulb Co., working for her father is a punk rocker named Gas (Ryo Kase).
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 705
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, feel good, entertaining, offbeat, not serious, weird
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A Boy and His Samurai (2010)
Plot Summary:
A samurai from the Edo Period time travels to present day Japan where he meets a divorcee and her son. Soon, he discovers a passion for making pastries.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 677
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sincere, feel good, captivating, light, humorous, sweet, sexy, crying
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Bakuman (2015)
Plot Summary:
Moritaka Mashiro (Takeru Satoh) doesn't want to follow in the path of his uncle who worked as a manga artist, but ultimately died because of exhaustion. Moritaka Mashiro figures he will graduate from school and work at an office. Things change though when falls in love with a girl at school. The girl, who hopes to become a voice actress, tells Moritaka they can marry, but only after they both achieve their dreams. Moritaka then teams up with fellow classmate Akito Takagi (Ryunosuke Kamiki) to publish their first manga.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, stylized, anime, manga
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Psychic Kusuo (2017)
Plot Summary:
To the average person, psychic abilities might seem a blessing; for Kusuo Saiki, however, this couldn't be further from the truth. Gifted with a wide assortment of supernatural abilities ranging from telepathy to x-ray vision, he finds this so-called blessing to be nothing but a curse. As all the inconveniences his powers cause constantly pile up, all Kusuo aims for is an ordinary, hassle-free life—a life where ignorance is bliss. Unfortunately, the life of a psychic is far from quiet. Though Kusuo tries to stay out of the spotlight by keeping his powers a secret from his classmates, he ends up inadvertently attracting the attention of many odd characters, such as the empty-headed Riki Nendou and the delusional Shun Kaidou. Forced to deal with the craziness of the people around him, Kusuo comes to learn that the ordinary life he has been striving for is a lot more difficult to achieve than expected.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 680
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: anime, parody, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, psychotronic, exciting
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Sharp as Marbles (2008)
Plot Summary:
Albert isn't the brightest bulb on the block. But that's okay, he's got his best friends, George and Ernie to help him out. Only problem, they're just as dumb as he is.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 812
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, light, captivating, entertaining, feel good, witty, independent film
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Hana and Alice (2004)
Plot Summary:
Two teenage best pals attracted to the same boy end up scrambling his life after he walks into a door and is knocked unconscious.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, erotic drama, gay cinema, hot
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Swing Girls (2004)
Plot Summary:
A tale of delinquent and lazy school girls. In their efforts to cut remedial summer math class, they end up poisoning and replacing the schools brass band.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, uplifting, sad, teen, realistic, cult film
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Linda Linda Linda (2005)
Plot Summary:
A group of four high school girls decide to put together a band for their school cultural festival. Three days before they are to play the festival, the guitarist and singer quit the band. The remaining members must figure out what to do or risk canceling. They need to find a new member to be the singer, so they ask the first girl who walks by. Unfortunately, she doesn't speak Japanese very well. Only three days before their high school festival, guitarist Kei (Yu Kashii), drummer Kyoko (Aki Maeda), and bassist Nozumi (Shiori Sekine) are forced to recruit a new lead vocalist for their band. They choose Korean exchange student Son (Bae Doo-Na), though her comprehension of Japanese is a bit rough! It’s a race against time as the group struggles to learn three tunes for the festival’s rock concert—including a classic '80s punk-pop song by the Japanese group The Blue Hearts called “Linda Linda”.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, uplifting, educational, realistic, weird
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Daisies (1966)
Plot Summary:
Two teenage girls, both named Marie, decide that since the world is spoiled they will be spoiled as well; accordingly they embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world about them. This freewheeling, madcap feminist farce was immediately banned by the government.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, avant garde, surreal, experimental, art house, dark comedy, mind bending, social, disturbing, cult classic
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Be Kind Rewind (2008)
Plot Summary:
A man whose brain becomes magnetized unintentionally destroys every tape in his friend's video store. In order to satisfy the store's most loyal renter, an aging woman with signs of dementia, the two men set out to remake the lost films.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 94000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: absurd, surreal, funny, light, touching, stylized, humorous, sweet, cult classic, indie film
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Wonderful World End (2015)
Plot Summary:
Seventeen-year-old Shiori’s Gothic Lolita garb attracts a lot of fans to her interactive video blog, a stepping stone she hopes will launch her career as a model and actress. One day while handing out promotional pamphlets, she meets Ayumi, a timid 13-year old who is in awe of her and her wardrobe. Shiori is initially wary of the attention but takes pleasure in being idolized, and eventually allows the girl to get closer. Ayumi’s growing infatuation becomes difficult to disguise, and their odd friendship takes an unforeseen turn after Ayumi runs away from home and quietly begins to infiltrate Shiori’s life and relationship with her boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, stylized, semi serious, captivating, offbeat
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The F**k-It List (2020)
Plot Summary:
After a prank blows up a studious high school senior's life, he shares a list of certain things he wishes he'd done differently — and maybe still can.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: light, semi serious, feel good, sentimental, humorous
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The Book of Caleb (2008)
Plot Summary:
A comfortable underachiever and serial prankster, in the midst of their quarter life crisis, reunite against childhood enemies in a contemporary suburban epic.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, light, feel good, independent film
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Daddy Cool (2008)
Plot Summary:
The story about the age gap between a scientist father, Philipe Le Tallec, and his newly discovered teen aged daughter, Eglantine.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 629
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic
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The Rage in Placid Lake (2003)
Plot Summary:
Placid Lake has always been different. As an odd fish in a sea of mediocrity, his brilliant ideas are bound to get him into more trouble than success. So when he finds himself flying off the school roof and breaking every bone in his body on graduation night, Placid decides to make a bid for the elusive normal life. To his parents' horror, he gets a normal job.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, cult classic, hilarious, offbeat, realistic
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Neuilly Yo Mama! (2009)
Plot Summary:
Samy moves from the underdeveloped crime-ridden French suburb to the riches of Neuilly.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, sentimental, melancholic, light, sincere, captivating, biting
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Wolf Girl and Black Prince (2016)
Plot Summary:
Erika Shinohara (Fumi Nikaido) is a first year of high school student. While talking to friends, she makes up a story about her "boyfriend." In reality, Erika Shinohara doesn't have a boyfriend. Erika's friends soon begin to doubt her story and Erika is also running out of lies. Erika then sees a pretty boy on the street and takes his picture discreetly. She later shows his picture to her friends as her boyfriend. The boy in the picture is Kyouya Sata (Kento Yamazaki) and happens to attend the same school as Erika. She tells Kyouya about her situation and asks him to be her pretend boyfriend. Even though Kyouya has a pretty appearance, he has a dark side.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: romantic, sentimental, uplifting, touching, feel good, humorous, sweet, shoujo
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Harold (2008)
Plot Summary:
A teenager with an early onset of male-pattern baldness befriends his high school's janitor.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, indie film
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Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997)
Plot Summary:
Two not-too-bright party girls reinvent themselves for their high school reunion. Armed with a borrowed Jaguar, new clothes and the story of their success as the inventors of Post-It notes, Romy and Michele descend on their alma mater, but their façade crumbles quickly.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 52000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, cult classic, hilarious, light, teen, entertaining, romantic comedy, relaxing, touching
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Cheats (2002)
Plot Summary:
While other kids buy into countless hours of studying just so they can get a mark in some teacher's report book, Handsome Davis sees it as nothing more than a system of control over your mind. That's why Handsome and his three best friends Sammy, Victor and the cribsheet genius Applebee have banded together and found ways to cheat on their tests all through their school years.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, light, realistic
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I Love You Too (2010)
Plot Summary:
Written by comedian Peter Helliar, I LOVE YOU TOO stars Brendan Cowell as Jim, a 30-something emotionally stunted man whose inability to declare his love to his girlfriend, Alice, threatens to cost him the best thing he ever had but leads him to befriend a talented dwarf who helps him find the words to get her back.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating, touching, offbeat, realistic, talky, weird
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Dirty Girl (2010)
Plot Summary:
It's 1987 and Danielle, the high school 'Dirty Girl', is running away. With her is chubby, gay Clarke, a bag of flour called Joan and a Walkman full of glorious '80s tunes.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: road movie, touching, teen, independent film, melancholic, sweet, humorous, realistic, semi serious, feel good
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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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Hating Alison Ashley (2005)
Plot Summary:
Classmates Erica Yurgen and Alison Ashley vie with each other to become the undisputed star of their class.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 904
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Ghost World (2001)
Plot Summary:
Two quirky, cynical teenaged girls try to figure out what to do with their lives after high school graduation. After they play a prank on an eccentric, middle aged record collector, one of them befriends him, which causes a rift in the girls' friendship.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 125000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK, Germany
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: black comedy, thought provoking, independent film, melancholic, teen, realistic, cult classic, atmospheric, indie film, humorous
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Dazed and Confused (1993)
Plot Summary:
The adventures of a group of Texas teens on their last day of school in 1976, centering on student Randall Floyd, who moves easily among stoners, jocks and geeks. Floyd is a star athlete, but he also likes smoking weed, which presents a conundrum when his football coach demands he sign a "no drugs" pledge.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 196000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: feel good, talky, teen, sentimental, cult classic, realistic, funny, melancholic, semi serious, touching
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Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
Plot Summary:
A high school slacker pretends to be sick to skip school and have an exciting day off alongside his girlfriend and his best buddy through Chicago, while trying to outwit his obsessive school principal and his unconformited sister along the way.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 380000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: feel good, entertaining, funny, light, teen, humorous, hilarious, intense, semi serious, inspirational
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Mean Girls (2004)
Plot Summary:
Cady Heron is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 417000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, teen, funny, witty, romantic, satirical, absurd, humorous, cynical
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Superbad (2007)
Plot Summary:
High school best buddies are facing separation anxiety as they prepare to go off to college. While attempting to score alcohol for a party with help from a fake ID-toting friend, the guys' evening takes a turn into chaotic territory.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 619000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, funny, teen sex comedy, hilarious, teen, humorous, feel good, entertaining, realistic, witty