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Plot Summary:
Kaziuk, a stubborn peasant and his pregnant wife live in a backwood village, unaffected by the civilization. The village is once visited by a couple of wanderers, and strange things start to happen afterward. A new schoolteacher is sent to the area. She stirs erotic fantasies in Kaziuk. In a stir of frustration Kaziuk cuts down a family tree - a sacrilegious act in the eyes of his family. Going a step further and using a scythe for cutting the rye instead of a sickle brings the whole village against him.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 886
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min
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Potatishandlaren (1996)
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In this Swedish TV drama, a once-kittenish young woman has become a fortyish spinster, still helping her widowed father on the family farm. Marta drives tractors, does the planting and harvesting, and helps to maintain the property. Meanwhile her father Johansson worries and wonders if his aging daughter will ever find a man to marry her. Into this tense situation comes Sture, the potato seller,,,.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 678
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 48 min
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Random Love Story (1974)
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This 50-minutes long TV production, Wiszniewski's only feature film, is the story of a young worker, who is given a flat by his union commission on condition that he gets married.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 52 min
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Cheaters (1984)
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Swaying between pleasure and despair, Elric throws himself into his pathological passion for the casino. Meeting Suzie could have saved him, but the young woman also sinks into gambling hell. The couple then start getting involved in the fearsome world of professional cheaters.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 621
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, West Germany, Portugal
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The House of Fools (1985)
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The feature film debut of director Marek Koterski. Thirty-year-old Adaś Miauczyński visits his parents, which ends with his nervous breakdown.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 478
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 93 min
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A Bachelor's Life Abroad (1992)
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The action is set in the early 20th century. The film is made up of six sequences. In the first, Michal, young man who came from Poland to Germany, enrolls in a course on how to behave in social situations and on etiquette. However when he tries to approach girls using the rules which he's been taught... he only makes a fool of himself. Then, he goes to work for a man who owns a carousel and who loves to chase other women. In the next sequence, Michal meets the divorced landlady, Mrs. Luther, and goes through a whole lot of erotic experiences. When he escapes exhausted from his landlady, he starts working in a mine and visits brothels on a regular basis. He looks on women in a totally cynical manner. However, his persistent wandering must finally result in a true love.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 108 min
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How Far, How Near (1972)
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A middle-aged man sets out on a symbolic journey through past, present, and future to learn why an old friend committed suicide, and learns much about his own life along the way.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 303
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: surreal
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The Axiliad (1986)
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A young, idealistic poet, turns his back on civilization and goes to small, backwood village, rents a bed in the house of an old woman, and decides to make his living as a lumberjack. Soon he realizes that the world around him is far from perfect.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 82 min
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Operacja Dunaj (2009)
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Operation Danube was the cover name for the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact armies in August 1968. The fleet of Polish tanks which arrive to liberate their neighbor, ostensibly threatened by a counter-revolution, includes the old tank nicknamed Ladybird, which is the last to leave the barracks.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 407
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland, Czech Republic
Duration: 104 min
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The Last Switchman of the Narrow Gauge Railway (1986)
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The abolishment of a railway station in a remote Bosnian village affects the lives of the local railwaymen.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 99 min
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Back to the USSR (1992)
Plot Summary:
A film by Jari Halonen.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: cult film
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A Woman with Red Hair (1979)
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Kozo and his colleague rape their boss's daughter and have sex with an unnamed woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: erotic
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All Neat in Black Stockings (1969)
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A small comedy drama about the life and sex adventures of an amorous window cleaner, in the hip and swingin' London of the '60s.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film
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Matthew's Days (1968)
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A man who is socially inept and out of touch with the world lives with his sister in a small farmhouse. The overly sensitive man lives off his hard-working sibling, taking odd jobs as he gets them to secure his meager earnings. When he brings home a woodcutter from the forest, the sister and the newcomer fall in love. Terrified over a life without his sister, the man can't cope and decides to kill himself. This depressing tale of alienation, doubt and uncertainty was the Polish entry at the Cannes Film Festival in 1968.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 80 min
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The Magician of Lublin (1979)
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Yasha is a Jewish stage magician who tours through eastern Europe while destroying his career through personal problems. He has one more chance at theatrical success, but he needs to do a brand new trick in a Warsaw theater.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel, West Germany
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Telegraphist (1993)
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Set against the beautiful backdrop of northern Norway, this film tells the story of a telegraphist in a very small community at the turn of the century.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 667
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark, Norway
Duration: 102 min
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Johanneksen leipäpuu (1994)
Plot Summary:
Manical portrait of a small businessman.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: tragicomedy
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Tenets of the Maladjusted (2020)
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A group of maladjusted friends reunite and decide to compare their latest experiences and differing tenets.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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Sister Sister 2 (2023)
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A prostitute seeks to escape her life by becoming the protege of a lady of status and class.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 115 min
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The Howling Miller (1982)
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The main character is a miller, who sometimes acts strangely but is otherwise a goodhearted hardworking honest man. He sometimes keeps the villagers up all night by howling. Finally the villagers decide that the miller has to be committed into a mental hospital, where the hero does not have to spend too much time until he escapes. The miller takes to the woods near his home but there he is constantly harassed by the chief of the police with his posse.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 95 min
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Idlers of the Fertile Valley (1978)
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In this black comedy, the men in a lovely mansion slowly give in to a kind of terminal sloth after they are freed from the need to actually work. The father takes to his bed after his hernia acts up and never leaves it. Of his three sons, only one wants to do much about leaving, and he does in fact cross the front threshold of the house with his lover, who is also the maid. However, before he has gotten very far, he is very tired, and goes to sleep where he stands. One of the sons outdoes them all by sleeping literally all the time. He is not in a coma -- he is just very, very lazy and tired. Some critics have viewed this film as a sharply delineated social satire.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 854
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: allegory, black comedy, cult film
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Dad Is Gone, Mom Also (1989)
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A coming-of-age film: When Laurette's parents disappear following a row, Laurette assumes responsibility for the family. The initial fiesta of children alone gives way to abandonment and the pressures of responsibility.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
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Bedside Highway (1972)
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In this Danish sex comedy, precisely opposite goals lead a young official of the Department of Roads and Traffic and all the women of the local village to end up in the sack. His goal is to get them to sign papers allowing a new highway to go through the middle of town. Their goal is to get him to re-route the highway.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Comedy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy, hot
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Ninguém Ama Ninguém Por Mais de Dois Anos (2015)
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"No one loves anyone for more than two years" is an adaptation of Nelson Rodrigues' work about five couples that live in Brazil in the early 60's, who are seen by the society as conventional people, but whose intimate lives turn out to be morally questionable.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 86 min
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The Sensual Man (1973)
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From his youth, Paolo Castorini, a Sicilian baron, is as attracted to women as they to him. Giovanna, a servant girl, Lillian, a serious girlfriend in Rome, a hostess at a post-war party, Paolo makes love to them all. He also feels dissatisfied with a life only of the body, compared to his journalist friend Vincenzo and his own father, a sober and serious thinker. When his father is on his deathbed, Paolo learns of syphilis in the family and something of the curse of dissolution. Some years later, he resolves to marry Katrina, the pure daughter of the woman he should have married. He wants her purity to redeem him so he can make something of his life. But is it too late?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, hot
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The Body of the Stick (1979)
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Ulderico Quario hires as servant a very beautiful young woman Teresa. Ulderico decides to proceed like a new Pygmalion and he sets about teaching her the art of seductions. But Teresa together with Cecchina start using these newfound skills to persuade Ulderico to marry her in order to claim his inheritance.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy
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Camouflage (1977)
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A group of students are spending the summer vacation at a university camp studying the science of linguistics. One of the camp directors, Jaroslaw, is a young professor who prefers the straightforward, intimate approach to students. He is opposed in his liberal views by Jakub, who likes to manipulate people. There is a confrontation from the beginning when Jaroslaw allows to attend the seminar a student who presents the views not according to the official line. In the end, a jury prize is given to mediocre paper, while the suspected school of thought still draws a recommendation. Finally the deputy rector arrives for the closing ceremonies, and since he disfavors the line of thought awarded by the recommendation the tensions rise. They climax when student in question bites the rector in the ear while receiving recommendation. The confrontation results in a scandal and the police is called in.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: intellectual, thought provoking, clever, humorous, realistic, talky, cynical, semi serious, biting, crying
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Mug (2018)
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Jacek loves heavy metal and his dog. He converts the country lanes outside his door into a racing track and bombs down them in his little car. When he and his girlfriend Dagmara take to the dancefloor, everyone runs for cover. He enjoys his existance as a cool misfit in an otherwise stuffy environment, and keeps his muscles toned working on a building site close to the Polish-German border where the world’s largest statue of Jesus is being constructed. But then his life is thrown badly off course by a terrible accident at work that completely disfigures him. Eagerly followed by the Polish media, Jacek becomes the first person in the country to receive a face transplant. He may be celebrated as a national hero and martyr, but he no longer recognises himself in the mirror. Meanwhile, the statue of Jesus grows taller and taller. Whilst events around Jacek come thick and fast, the film never loses sight of the bigger picture and instead brings things even more into focus.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tragicomedy, uplifting, ironic, compassionate, social, crying, weird
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Village of the Stone Roller (1995)
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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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House of Angels (1992)
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In a small village in Västergötland, everything is turned upside-down when the local loner dies and his cottage is inherited by his unknown relative Fanny. She rides into tow on a big black motorcycle with her androgenic boyfriend Zack, wearing black leather and spikes. When they decide to stay, Flogfält's plans to buy the cottage are upset.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Police Chief Pepe (1969)
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A police commissioner in a little town in the Italian Venetian province investigates a prostitution ring run by two pensioners; during his investigations he also learns that a former manicurist shacks up with ten students, the prefect's daughter prostitutes to keep her pimp, a famous doctor has sex with his young patients, a headmaster has his eyes on the pupils, a noblewoman organizes orgies in her villa, the local convent is run by a dyke and his actual girlfriend poses for a hardcore magazine. He wants everything to come out in the open but his superiors try to put obstacles in his way.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco