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Plot Summary:
It's 1990 and an Indonesian fishing boat abandons Iraqi and Cambodian refugees in a remote part of the Western Australia. Although most are quickly caught by officials, three men with nothing in common but their misfortune and determination to escape arrest, begin an epic journey into the heart of Australia.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 746
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sentimental, thought provoking, feel good, humorous, entertaining, exciting, tense, light, captivating, melancholic
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Charlie & Boots (2009)
Plot Summary:
Paul Hogan plays Charlie McFarland and Shane Jacobson plays his estranged son, Boots. After a family tragedy Charlie and Boots try and put their differences aside and head off on the road trip of a lifetime - from regional Victoria to the Cape York Peninsula - they overcome many challenges to reach their dream - to fish off the northern most tip of Australia.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: touching, road movie, sincere, humorous, contemplative
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A Few Less Men (2017)
Plot Summary:
Travel plans for three men in ill-fitting wedding tuxedos goes horribly wrong.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, entertaining, absurd, not serious, hilarious, happy
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The Adventures of Eliza Fraser (1976)
Plot Summary:
An old captain & his young wife share a lot of adventures after they're shipwrecked and captured by Aborigines on an island near Australia.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Merger (2018)
Plot Summary:
A country football coach who has a plan to rebuild the local football team by recruiting recently settled asylum seekers.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, captivating, independent film
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Lost in Russia (2020)
Plot Summary:
A story of a businessman who accidentally boards a train bound for Russia with his mother and has to overcome difficulties with his mother and problems in his family life.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 907
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: China
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, feel good, entertaining
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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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Not Like Dad (2021)
Plot Summary:
The story of the journey of an adult hero to his Bata, a stern Russian peasant who became a father at the dawn of the nineties and raised his son the way all Soviet people did.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Last Cab to Darwin (2015)
Plot Summary:
Rex is a loner, and when he's told he doesn't have long to live, he embarks on an epic drive through the Australian outback from Broken Hill to Darwin to die on his own terms; but his journey reveals to him that before you can end your life, you have to live it, and to live it, you've got to share it.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: road movie, light, captivating, melancholic, tense, touching, exciting
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Mr. Know-It-All (2018)
Plot Summary:
A football coach afraid of commitment has to take care of his nephew with Asperger's Syndrome.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 799
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: captivating, light, sincere, humorous, feel good
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Taxi to Treasure Rock (2019)
Plot Summary:
Two desperate men turn in an uncomfortable business partners to find a secret gold looking for change their bad star.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 699
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, road movie
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Upright (2019)
Plot Summary:
When family outcast Lucky Flynn learns that his mother is dying, he decides to drive to the other side of Australia to see her, packing nothing but an upright piano for the journey. But his plans are soon turned upside down when he meets the runaway teenager Meg, who’s dealing with some family demons of her own.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: road movie, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, anthology
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A Month of Sundays (2015)
Plot Summary:
Frank Mollard, divorced but still attached, can't move on and also can't sell a house in a property boom, much less connect with his teenage son. One night Frank gets a phone call from his mother. Nothing out of the ordinary there – apart from the fact that she died the year before.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 493
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: unusual plot structure, humorous, psychological, light, feel good, independent film
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The Last Shift (2020)
Plot Summary:
Stanley, an aging fast food worker, prepares to work his final graveyard shift after 38 years. When he's asked to train his replacement, Jevon, Stanley's weekend takes an unexpected turn.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, sentimental, light, humorous, captivating, melancholic
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Ten Canoes (2006)
Plot Summary:
A story within a story within a story. In Australia's Northern Territory, an Aboriginal narrator tells a story about his ancestors on a goose hunt. A youngster on the hunt is being tempted to adultery with his elder brother's wife, so an elder tells him a story from the mythical past about how evil can slip in and cause havoc unless prevented by virtue according to customary tribal law.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, melancholic, realistic, serious, parody, witty, disturbing, anthropological, touching, funny
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Josh and S.A.M. (1993)
Plot Summary:
Josh and Sam are two brothers facing change, their mother is about to marry a French accountant and the kids are sent to go live with their father in Florida. Meanwhile Josh tells Sam that he is a "S.A.M." that is going to be sent to Africa to fight in a war and that Canada is a safe haven for any S.A.M. unwilling to fight. The cross-country journey begins when the 2 boys think they killed a drunk and steal his car en route to Canada where they encounter The Liberty Maid. Will Josh & S.A.M. make it to Canada or will they wish they should have never left home.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, exciting, light, melancholic, suspenseful, tense, road movie
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Race the Sun (1996)
Plot Summary:
A bunch of high school misfits in Hawaii, introduced by their new teacher, attend a science fair in which they draw up inspiration to build their own solar car and win a trip to compete in the 1990 World Solar Challenge in Australia.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: light, entertaining, feel good, exciting, serious, realistic, parody, inspirational, romantic, sexy
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Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)
Plot Summary:
In 1931, three aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domestic staff and set off on a trek across the Outback.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, poignant, factual, heartbreaking, thought provoking, serious, independent film, realistic, sad
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Like Father (2018)
Plot Summary:
When a workaholic young executive, is left at the altar, she ends up on her Caribbean honeymoon cruise with the last person she ever expected: her estranged and equally workaholic father. The two depart as strangers, but over the course of a few hilarious adventures, a couple of umbrella-clad cocktails and a whole lot of soul-searching, they return with a renewed appreciation for family and life.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, sweet, touching, humorous, captivating, entertaining, psychological, funny, happy
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The Relatives (2021)
Plot Summary:
One morning, the father of the family decides to fulfill his lifelong dream: to go with his family to the Grushinsky festival and perform his song there. The family is forced to come to terms with the desire of a tyrant father and go on a road trip across all of Russia. Along the way, they will have adventures, various tests and a test of their relationships for strength. But the most important thing they will understand only at the end of this extraordinary trip.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 561
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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My Father's Bike (2012)
Plot Summary:
Grandfather's wife unexpectedly leaves him for another man and this sparks a series of events. His son and grandson arrive from abroad and set of for a journey to find a woman dear to each of them.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 930
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, emotional, road movie, captivating, light, entertaining, touching, realistic, semi serious
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Dad for Rent (2014)
Plot Summary:
A unemployed father, due to his laziness, is supported by his wife. Their daughter decides to put their lazy dad up for rent on a secondhand site.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Almanya: Welcome to Germany (2011)
Plot Summary:
After living 45 years in Germany, the Turkish Hüseyin Yilmaz, seventy, announces to his family that he has bought a house in Turkey and they should return to make the necessary reforms. The idea is unwelcome and causes very heated discussions. In addition, Canan, a granddaughter of Hüseyin, announces she is pregnant and the father is her English boyfriend, and no one knew anything. To comfort his cousin Cenk, a child of six years, who was humiliated at school and labeled as "foreign", Canan tells a fantastic story about how they left Turkey and went to Germany.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, captivating, sincere, intercultural, sentimental, semi serious
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Lapland (2011)
Plot Summary:
Recently widowed Eileen Lewis,son Pete and his wife Mandy and daughter Paula with her spouse Ray,plus the grandchildren, leave Birkenhead to spend Christmas in Lapland.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, realistic, semi serious
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Journey of Hope (1990)
Plot Summary:
In a village in eastern Turkey, tales of the economic success of Turks in Switzerland inspire Haydar to convince his wife Meryem that they must go. He sells their livestock and small plot of land in exchange for passage for two. He wants to leave their seven children in the care of the eldest and his parents; his father advises him to take one son to be educated in Europe, as economic insurance. The three set off for Istanbul, Milan, and Switzerland, stowing away on a ship. At Lake Como, they pay the rest of their money to unprincipled men who abandon them at an Alpine pass before a blizzard. Father and son are separated from Meryem. Will anyone reach the land of promise?.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Switzerland, Turkey, UK, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sad, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, road movie
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Jumping Ship (2001)
Plot Summary:
Joseph, Matthew and Andrew Lawrence (TV's Brotherly Love) star in this thrilling, action-packed sequel to the Disney Channel Original Movie Horse Sense. It's first-class adventure on the high seas for Michael Woods (Joseph Lawrence) and his cousin (Andrew Lawrence) when they charter a private yacht for a fun-filled cruise off the coast of Australia. But the yacht turns out to be a broken-down fishing boat complete with rusting hull! When they find themselves being chased by modern-day pirates, they decide that Jumping Ship with the boat's captain Jake Hunter (Matthew Lawrence) is the only option. Stranded on a desert island without any conveniences from home, these three castaways must work together as a team if they hope to survive and be rescued.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, talky
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Pirates of the Great Salt Lake (2006)
Plot Summary:
Kirk Redgrave and Flint Weaver met only three weeks ago. But that hasn't stopped them from becoming the greatest pirates the Great Salt Lake has ever known. Still, pirate life isn't all that it's cracked up to be. For Kirk, it's a life of failure. For Flint, one without reward. That is until they stumble across a long lost treasure map that has the power to not only fulfill their wildest pirate dreams but curse them as well.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, entertaining, exciting, offbeat, semi serious, independent film
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The Trip to Spain (2017)
Plot Summary:
Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon embark on a road trip along the coast of Spain.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, light, feel good, unusual plot structure, contemplative, exciting, freeze frame
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The Sum of Us (1994)
Plot Summary:
"The Sum of Us" is an Aussie story about a father and a son both searching for love and sharing an unconventional bond. Harry, the father, is the caring and open-minded "mate" that borders on annoyance. His son Jeff unsuccessfully searches for love, with the unwanted guidance of his father.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, melancholic, sentimental, emotional, independent film, lgbt cinema, cult classic, humorous, realistic
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Tracks (2013)
Plot Summary:
Accompanied only by her faithful dog and four camels, an Australian satisfies her craving for solitude by embarking on a solo trip across the desert from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: uplifting, touching, scenic, atmospheric, sexy, feel good, social, artsy, independent film, cerebral
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The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir (2018)
Plot Summary:
The story of Ajatashatru Oghash Rathod, a fakir who tricks his local village in Rajasthan, India into believing his possesses special powers and into paying him to fly to Paris to buy a bed of nails from an Ikea store.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: France, India, Belgium, Singapore, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: captivating, touching, light, sincere, feel good, fairy tale, inspirational