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Plot Summary:
About a single Mom who moonlights as a contract killer. Maggie Marvel must balance career and family, murder and math homework. She is pushed into this dangerous world... only to find out she is very good at it.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining
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Sweet Lorraine (2015)
Plot Summary:
The double life of Methodist minister's wife catches up to her, as her husband campaigns for Mayor in a small New Jersey town.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining
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When Grandpa Loved Rita Hayworth (2000)
Plot Summary:
1969, the first winter after the violent end of the Spring of Prague: 13-year-old Hannah and her crazy young parents land as though on a completely different planet in the German economic wonderland.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany, Czech Republic, Switzerland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining
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The Enormity of Life (2021)
Plot Summary:
After a failed suicide attempt, a man receives a substantial inheritance from a long lost relative and meets a struggling single mom with an eccentric young daughter. Together they embark on a journey of self discovery and healing.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 378
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, light, captivating, entertaining
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Of Love and Lies (2019)
Plot Summary:
Twelve-year old Theo plays for a local soccer club and has enough talent to eventually go pro. But his father has been on a self-destructive spiral ever since he started drinking and got divorced, and Theo feels powerless and anxious as he watches his dad slowly destroying his own life. But he refuses to give up on him. When a recruiter for a prestigious British club takes notice of him, Theo sees an opportunity to rekindle his father’s hope, but despite all his efforts he is not selected. So he decides to lie and say he was, hoping to make his father happy and proud. Theo’s dad is so overjoyed that he puts all his heart into helping his son prepare for “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” gradually regaining his taste for life and motivation for the future. Until the lie reaches unforeseen proportions and completely spins out of control. Thankfully, Theo’s little lie has already operated big change and generated so much hope, that life is able to get back on track. Only better!.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 413
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: funny, light, captivating, entertaining
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Caravaggio and My Mother the Pope (2017)
Plot Summary:
Caravaggio's tortured life, his murder and the journey of his soul.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining
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Your Mother Should Know (2018)
Plot Summary:
A young photographer moves back in with his mother and has to adjust to his old hometown. Things get more challenging when she appoints him as her dating coach in order to spend more time together.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 558
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Young Bodies Heal Quickly (2014)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers are fleeing arrest for the "accidental" killing of a young girl. Their destination is their estranged father's desolate compound on the sea shore.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, independent film
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Everyone Says I Look Just Like Her (2010)
Plot Summary:
Two sisters, one white and one black, spend a week together at their famous father's summer home. A microscopic examination of the new American family unit, it's a deeply personal film about the human connections that bond us all together.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, light, captivating, entertaining, independent film
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We Are Brothers (2014)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers were separated in childhood at an orphanage, only to find each other as adults 30 years later. But right after their reunion, their birth mother, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, suddenly disappears. So Sang-yeon and Ha-yeon team up together and go on a road trip to search for her.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining
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Brothers (2002)
Plot Summary:
Three brothers, a cook, an author and a convict, reunite to look for their father after their mother dies in Germany. Soon they realize that they know less about their mother (and have less in common) than they had thought.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining
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Lies I Told My Little Sister (2014)
Plot Summary:
After the death of her oldest sister, a 30 year old globe-trotting nature photographer is guilted onto a family trip to Cape Cod - along with the younger sister she used to torment. Amid recriminations, revelations, a very weird shopkeeper and an old romance, they square off against the patterns of childhood.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining
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3 Days with Dad (2019)
Plot Summary:
The last thing Eddie Mills wants to do is go home to deal with his dying Dad. But the Catholic guilt gnaws at him, and he returns home to his crazy family, an overbearing step-mother, and his bear of a father. Once there, Eddie is confronted with a revelation that forces him to deal with the past he has always avoided.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 279
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining
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Friendsgiving (2020)
Plot Summary:
Newly-divorced actress Molly, her recently-dumped lesbian best friend Abby and Molly’s mother Helen host a dysfunctional, comical and chaotic Thanksgiving dinner for their motley crew of close friends and strange acquaintances.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, funny, satirical
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Money Trap (2019)
Plot Summary:
Asim Noyan swindles people with his lies and games. Asim Noyan and his gang, who no one else has been able to catch, get into a ruse again.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, romantic
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Small Town Killers (2017)
Plot Summary:
The two tradesmen Ib and Edward are tired of their lifeless marriages and dream of living the good life from the stash of money they've earned moonlighting for years. After a huge fight with their wives the two men get drunk and hire a Russian contract killer to do a hit on their spouses. But they have badly underestimated their wives, and this becomes the start of an absurd journey where Ib and Edward to their own horror end at the top of a kill list.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, ironic, semi serious
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Lovely by Surprise (2007)
Plot Summary:
Lovely by Surprise follows the journey of novelist Marian Walker as she attempts to finish her first novel. Facing the age-old problem of writer’s block, Marian seeks advice from a mentor and ex-lover. His seemingly innocent advice to kill the book’s protagonist unleashes chaos in her life as a willful protagonist escapes from her novel and appears in the unresolved corners of her past.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining
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Love by the 10th Date (2017)
Plot Summary:
Four friends balance their dating adventures with their career ambitions at an upscale magazine, teaching themselves and each other how to get the most out of love and life.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 636
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Downhill (2020)
Plot Summary:
Barely escaping an avalanche during a family ski vacation in the Alps, a married couple is thrown into disarray as they are forced to reevaluate their lives and how they feel about each other.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, funny, satirical, dark comedy
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Adopt a Daddy (2019)
Plot Summary:
Damien is a pawn in a primary school, and leads a quiet life. To rescue one of his young students, Bahzad, and his mother from imminent expulsion from the land, Damien reconnects with his parents' militant past and convinces his sister Mélanie, who has become a formidable business lawyer, her best friend Rudy and a bunch of unlikely pals to accompany him in his new fight. Together, they will break the law by solidarity. And very quickly to be completely exceeded.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, entertaining, funny, sincere, humorous, captivating
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Mother Ghost (2002)
Plot Summary:
Keith Bennets mother passed away a year ago, and he feels like he has moved on with his life, until one morning his mothers jewelry shows up on Keiths bathroom sink. The same jewelry she was buried in. Keith tells his wife Karen, about the jewelry and that is the last straw. She claims he is distant and has shut her out. Now he thinks he is seeing things that aren't there and if things don't improve, she will take their only son and leave. Forced with the ultimatum, Keith launches himself on a day of reclamation. Keith winds up on the phone with a popular radio Psychiatrist who guides Keith through what he cannot see on his own. Keith discovers a new man and a new attitude. Several people are listening to Keith's plight on the radio and are making changes of their own. Is this dead visitor all in Keith's head or is she truly a Mother Ghost?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 364
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, entertaining, sincere, realistic, independent film, crying
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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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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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Mothers of the Bride (2015)
Plot Summary:
Jenna is getting married, her mother is delighted until Jenna announces she wants to find her birth mother.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 354
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining
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Helicopter Mom (2014)
Plot Summary:
Maggie Cooper thinks it would be really cool if her son Lloyd were gay. So cool, in fact, that she outs him to the entire school.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Chicken Girls: The Movie (2018)
Plot Summary:
With a new principal in town and the Spring Fling in jeopardy, Rhyme and the Chicken Girls must band together to save the dance.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, unusual plot structure, captivating, entertaining, contemplative
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A Mother's Love (2011)
Plot Summary:
Regina Reynolds is a strong black woman in the truest sense -- but her taste for the good life doesn't necessarily include her husband, Marcus, or her daughter, Monica. It's going to take a mother's unconditional love to pray Regina down to earth.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, captivating, entertaining, christian film, independent film
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It Was the Son (2012)
Plot Summary:
The Ciraulo family lives in the miserable district of Palermo called "Zen". When one of their children dies in a shootout between mafia gangsters they receive compensation and buy a luxury black Volvo. Things go wrong when Trancredi, another son, takes the car out and damages the car door.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, light, humorous, serious, realistic, black comedy, dark comedy
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Bob Funk (2009)
Plot Summary:
After he's fired from his job -- by his mother, no less -- Bob Funk agrees to quit drinking, see a therapist, and eventually report to a new boss, who might just be the woman of his dreams.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 945
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, touching, realistic
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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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What Love Will Make You Do (2015)
Plot Summary:
Girl meets boy. Girl's daddy is in prison. Daddy's girl becomes a pawn for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining