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Plot Summary:
Two brothers got separated after their first love for the same girl. Richard Rohan is an ex-soldier taking care of his two daughters living in a small town. His brother Mikulas Rohan is a neurosurgery expert living in the capital. Both of them have something which the other one doesn't. We follow their separate lives, their everyday mistakes, their memories to slowly reveal the core of their grudge. Inevitable decisions lead to their most important choice in their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic
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House for Two (1988)
Plot Summary:
House for Two is a 1987 Czechoslovak drama film directed by Miloš Zábranský. This film stars two of the most recognized Czech actors, Ondřej Vetchý who plays Dan, and Jiří Schmitzer as Bóza. (From Wikipedia).
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags:
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Some Secrets (2002)
Plot Summary:
Ovdovělá matka, dvě dospělé, tápající dcery, snad až příliš hodný zeť, temperamentní babička a malý vnuk - tihle všichni se nasoukají do dvou aut a vyrazí z Rakovníka na Slovensko, aby vyhověli otcovu poslednímu přání. Fádní rodinná povinnost se ovšem brzy začne měnit v putování, které má změnit vše, co následuje.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Schoßgebete (2014)
Plot Summary:
A comedy centered on a sexually adventurous young woman who is trying to be the perfect wife, mother, and lover.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 625
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: neurotic, serious, captivating, humorous
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Ene bene (2000)
Plot Summary:
Alice Nellis's small-scale debut tragicomedy spotlights small-town elections. The protagonist, a university student name Jana (Theodora Remundová) who is trying to solve a troubled relationship with a married man, takes her mother's place on the election commission. In the meantime the mother (Iva Janzurová) is going through her own small domestic crisis with her husband (Leos SucharÃpa). Thanks to excellent acting performances and restrained direction, the film convincingly outlines interpersonal relations and their light social overtones.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Photographer (2015)
Plot Summary:
The story is freely inspired by the life and work of Jan Saudek, who is probably the most well-known Czech photographer internationally and has indisputably been involved in the development of international photography. He has exhibited and sold his work in the largest galleries and art houses, he has earned international recognition and awards, he enjoys great popularity and interest - he is a true phenomenon.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, realistic, crying
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Red Vacance Black Wedding (2011)
Plot Summary:
Red Vacance A young woman and a married middle-aged man have been involved in an affair for 6 years. They plan to go on a vacation, but the man's wife learns of their affair and takes her husband to a remote place. There the wife asks the husband about his affair. As the husband explains his affair, the wife becomes angrier. The wife is about to burn her husband. Meanwhile, the young woman who was involved in the affair receives a text message from the married man. The young woman goes to meet him, but the text message was actually sent by his wife. All three persons then meet at a vacation home.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 183
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, light, romantic, humorous, captivating, naughty, gloomy, sexual
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Four Suns (2012)
Plot Summary:
Fogi is enjoying his never ending puberty. But simultaneously Fogi is also trying to live up to his family duties and bring up Véna, his son from the first marriage. He did not get married again but lives with Jana, a post office employee. Together they have little Anicka and they all live in a flat in a small town. At first, Jana is trying to tolerate Fogi's moods, but her patience is running out. Fogi loses his job. On top of that he starts to see himself in his adolescent son and realizes with horror that Véna repeats his own mistakes. The first fights, bans and mutual misunderstandings are approaching.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 330
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: realistic, sincere, semi serious, sentimental, touching, offbeat, contemplative, crying
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Four Friends (1981)
Plot Summary:
Also known as Moritorium and Georgia's Friends, Four Friends follows the titular quartet from high school to young adulthood. The film is set during the tumultuous 1960s, an era when everyone's values were turned inside out, shaken around, and reassembled. The central character is first-generation American Craig Wasson, who confounds his Yugoslavian father (Miklos Simon) by pursuing his own let-it-all-hang-out lifestyle. Wasson's best friends are athlete Jim Metzler and chubby Michael Huddleston; all pursue the affections of bewitching Jodi Thelan. Though they are obviously deeply in love with one another, Wasson and Thelan continue to foolishly avoid a long-term commitment as the sixties unfold around them. Four Friends calls for a fresher approach than the one offered by director Arthur Penn, whose handling of the material is much too pat and old-fashioned.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: esoteric, sincere, serious, emotional, realistic, non-linear, independent film, intellectual, eighties, cult film
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Home Care (2015)
Plot Summary:
Dedicated home care nurse Vlasta attends her whimsical patients in Czech wine country and lives for her husband Lada and her daughter, but one day things change and Vlasta is forced to reach outside of her comfort zone. Drama and gentle humor intertwine as Vlasta realizes, for the first time in her life, that she might need some care, too.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 492
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, humorous, captivating, disturbing, talky, crying
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Who Loves the Sun (2006)
Plot Summary:
A man (Lukas Haas) encounters a childhood friend (Adam Scott) who had an affair with his wife (Molly Parker) five years earlier.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 648
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, emotional, touching, serious, realistic
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Ice Mother (2017)
Plot Summary:
After her husband's death, Hana lives on alone in the family villa. Her two sons visit her with their families, but these visits frequently end in quarrels. When Hana meets Brona, a hardy fellow, inured to winter swimming, a new world opens before her. Brona's team-mates absorb her into their team and Hana gradually learns to overcome her fear of icy water. Her relation with Brona grows into love.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 649
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic, France, Slovakia
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: humorous, serious, captivating, realistic, funny, light, romantic, entertaining
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Les papas du dimanche (2012)
Plot Summary:
The movie tells a story about a family in France, in contemporary times, and its problem such as bittersweet and sincere, breakup, family problems, parents and children.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, realistic, captivating
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Dirty Tricks (2000)
Plot Summary:
Martin Clunes plays Edward, an English tutor at an Oxford language school. Seemingly charming and thoughtful, Edward is really a calculating liar and manipulator. A series of events triggered at a dinner party leads Edward down a very precarious and hilarious path.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 183
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 162 min
Plot tags: humorous, serious, captivating, realistic, erotic, thrilling
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The Snake Brothers (2015)
Plot Summary:
Brothers Grass and Cobra Snake, in their late and early thirties respectively, live in a small Czech town not far from Prague. Coming from a disfunctional family, they both feel unable to build up a life to be satisfied with. Grass, unemployed and still without a girl, does not know how to escape from the shadow of his druggie and troublemaker brother Cobra. Things seem to change for Grass when all at once he gets the opportunity to be part of a promising business and starts a relationship with the waitress of a local pub. It is just then when Cobra and his addiction show up in his life once more to put him on the verge of losing everything he achieved. But this time Grass is determined to not let anybody or anything stop his last chance in life to be happy and he decides to teach his brother a life lesson he should never forget.... A lesson that uncontrollably turns into a nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 548
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: humorous, serious, captivating, suspenseful, entertaining
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That Trip We Took with Dad (2016)
Plot Summary:
Romania, 1968. Two very different brothers. Mihai is a secret police informant, Emil is a dedicated dissident. When they have the opportunity to have their ailing father’s eyes operated on in East Germany, the three set out on a moving odyssey.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 641
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Romania, Hungary, Sweden
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, realistic, entertaining, road movie, freeze frame
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Man About Town (2006)
Plot Summary:
A top Hollywood talent agent finds his cushy existence threatened when he discovers that his wife is cheating on him and that his journal has been swiped by a reporter out to bring him down.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, cynical, romantic drama, clever, realistic, biting, crying, suspense
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Private Life (2018)
Plot Summary:
Richard and Rachel, a couple in the throes of infertility, try to maintain their marriage as they descend deeper and deeper into the insular world of assisted reproduction and domestic adoption.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, realistic, disturbing, clever, serious, mumblecore, cult classic, indie film
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Unfaithful Women (2004)
Plot Summary:
A television survey says over sixty percent of women in Chile are unfaithful. True or not, this movie presents some interesting answers.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, serious, realistic, erotic, sexual, sexy
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My Suicidal Sweetheart (2005)
Plot Summary:
A suicidal comedy about two young lovers who get married and escape from a mental institution in search of new ways to die...and the white light.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: light, touching, captivating, melancholic, crying
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Cosy Dens (1999)
Plot Summary:
Two families, Sebkovi and Krausovi, are celebrating christmas, but not everyone is in a good mood. Teenage kids think their fathers are totaly stupid, fathers are sure their children are nothing more than rebels, hating anything they say. Written by Antonín.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: cult classic, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, tragicomedy, inspirational, cult film
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Beauty in Trouble (2006)
Plot Summary:
Marcela can't bear Jarda any longer, so she threatens divorce and takes the kids to her mom's, whose husband is a creep. While Marcela is there, Jarda is jailed, because he is part of a gang steeling cars and they get caught in the act. Benes, the urbane man whose car got stolen by Jarda and his gang, befriends Marcela. Soon she feels drawn to Benes and all of a sudden she must make up her mind: Jarda is still sexually attractive to her, but Benes offers security, and her own body and mind may not pull at the same strand.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 977
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, psychological, clever, realistic, offbeat, stylized
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Bonobo (2014)
Plot Summary:
Judith, an uptight divorcee, is appalled when her daughter Lily quits law school to move into a commune of hippie-misfits who live according to the behavioural principles of the bonobo monkey, a species famous for its 'make love not war' philosophy.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 546
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, psychological, light, realistic, sexual
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100 Things (2018)
Plot Summary:
Best friends Toni and Paul decide to relinquish all of their belongings for 100 days, whereby they receive one of their items back on each day. During this challenge the two realize, that the only thing they cannot be without is their friendship. A story about contemporary materialism and the quest for the truely important things in life.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: inspirational, thought provoking, captivating, semi serious, sincere, satirical, realistic, happy, crying
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Peep World (2010)
Plot Summary:
On the day of their Father's 70th birthday party, four siblings come to terms with the publication of a novel written by the youngest sibling, that exposes the family's most intimate secrets.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, talky, cynical, semi serious, funny, sad, independent film, crying
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Hippocrates (2014)
Plot Summary:
Benjamin is meant to be a great doctor, he’s certain of it. But his first experience as a junior doctor in the hospital ward where his father works doesn’t turn out the way he hoped it would. Responsibility is overwhelming, his father is all but present, and his co-junior partner, a foreign doctor, is far more experimented than he is. This internship will force Benjamin to confront his limits… and start his way to adulthood.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, semi serious, captivating, social, humorous, contemplative
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Some Voices (2000)
Plot Summary:
Schizophrenic Ray tries to adjust to the outside world after being released from an institution.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, erotic, mysterious, independent film
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Family United (2013)
Plot Summary:
The director Daniel Sánchez Arévalo ('Azuloscurocasinegro', 'Cousins'), he embarks on a new comedy that has as a backdrop the World Cup in South Africa and the setting is a wedding that takes precisely the day of the final. This will be the occasion in which five brothers, all with biblical names, Adam, Daniel, Caleb, Benjamin and Ephraim, gather to celebrate the engagement of Ephraim, the youngest of them, who marries his pregnant girlfriend. Will hours of uncertainty, joy and euphoria back, but it's time to unite for a common good. Can all together to face the situation and erected winners heading?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, captivating
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The Acid House (1998)
Plot Summary:
THE ACID HOUSE is a surreal triptych adapted by "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh from his acclaimed collection of short stories. Combining a vicious sense of humor with hard-talking drama, the film reaches into the hearts and minds of the chemical generation, casting a dark and unholy light into the hidden corners of the human psyche. Directed by Paul McGuigan, the film dramatises three stories from the book: 1- The Granton Star Cause, 2- A Soft Touch & 3- The Acid House.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychedelic, mind bending, dark comedy, disturbing, humorous, absurd, independent film, clever, controversial
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This Is Where I Leave You (2014)
Plot Summary:
When their father passes away, four grown, world-weary siblings return to their childhood home and are requested -- with an admonition -- to stay there together for a week, along with their free-speaking mother and a collection of spouses, exes and might-have-beens. As the brothers and sisters re-examine their shared history and the status of each tattered relationship among those who know and love them best, they reconnect in hysterically funny and emotionally significant ways.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 88000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, independent film, emotional, melancholic, funny, realistic, hilarious, teen, thought provoking
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Terms of Endearment (1983)
Plot Summary:
Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma's marriage, Aurora shows how difficult and loving she can be. The movie covers several years of their lives as each finds different reasons to go on living and find joy. Aurora's interludes with Garrett Breedlove, retired astronaut and next door neighbor are quite striking.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 64000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: tear jerker, touching, emotional, sad, heartbreaking, sentimental, compassionate, romantic, crying, realistic