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Plot Summary:
A very fantastic story about a robber (Hector) and a magitian (Maria). Once they were lovers, but he left her. One fine day they reenccount and become lovers again. She takes him appart from the 'bad road' and they then work as child party's magitians. One day, while she was away in a bussines trip, her car cracks up in the middle of the highway, during a storm. She is picked up by an mental hospital's bus that takes her there. Now she cannot get out because everyone thinks she is mental sick.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 137 min
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Red Ribbon Blues (1996)
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After attending his 23rd funeral for a friend with AIDS, Troy and his friends hatch a plan to steal the HIV drugs that they need. One sucessful heist leads to another and another until they have so much inventory they decide to begin their own community distribution program.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Dress Rehearsal (1967)
Plot Summary:
In La prova generale, Carlo (Carlo Cecchi) interviews with a tape machine and a microphone his young lover while the two wander in the beautiful splendour of a wood on the edge of the city.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: underground film, independent film
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Saltburn (2023)
Plot Summary:
Struggling to find his place at Oxford University, student Oliver Quick finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton, who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric family's sprawling estate, for a summer never to be forgotten.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, psychological thriller
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El hombre propone... (1965)
Plot Summary:
Anthology film, four stories set in Guadalajara and environs.
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Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Kick-Off (1990)
Plot Summary:
A group of students with varying family backgrounds begin to question their lives and the hypocritical values of their corrupt socialist society. Their decision to follow their own ideals brings them in disrepute with those closest to them. Their support of one another finally brings them to realise a friendship based on loyalty and belonging.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 110 min
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Chameleon (2008)
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While cleaning offices at night, Zsolt Kovàcs learns a lot about his invisible employers by examining what they leave behind, carefully choosing his targets, often disillusioned women whom he seduces, methodically taking their money. An artist of manipulation, with a generous dose of humor and the ability to assume different personalities, Zsolt begins to work in a psychologist's practice, where he meets Hanna, a 30 year-old dancer who is physically incapacitated and the daughter of a millionaire. The ideal victim if love doesn't get in the way.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hungary
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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Snide and Prejudice (1997)
Plot Summary:
At a mental institution, the resident physician, Dr Cohen, encourages his patients who believe they are important Nazi figures to act out their fantasies. The therapy sessions show Hitler consolidating his power by assembling his gang of supporters; however, they are interrupted at times, once because Davidson's uniform is at the dry cleaners, and another time because a patient who believes he is Picasso interrupts a session.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: christian film, independent film, black comedy
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Extremely Easy Job (2022)
Plot Summary:
Remake from Korean movie "Extreme Job".
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags:
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Matinée (1977)
Plot Summary:
Jorge and Aarón, two young boys growing up in a quiet town often miss classes to go together to the cinema matinee. One day they are kidnapped by robbers while traveling in a truck. After the disintegration of the band, they begin to participate in the robberies until the adventure turns into something more sinister and dangerous.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Twenty Dollar Star (1990)
Plot Summary:
A successful Hollywood actress by day prowls the streets at night as a sex worker.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Under a Kaleidoscope (2014)
Plot Summary:
Caleb Loomis is an agoraphobic twenty-something. In his spare time he makes UFO videos with miniature cities and takes an unhealthy amount of LSD. One afternoon he hears Beatrice, the lady next door, being abused. After striking an odd friendship through the wall Caleb is made aware of who lives with Beatrice.. setting in to a motion a pitch-black psychedelic revenge fantasy.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, underground film
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The Passion of Berenice (1976)
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Berenice (Navarro) is a woman with a mysterious past. A scar crosses her face and nightmares of fire and horses fill her lonely nights. She maybe killed her husband but nobody can be sure. In the present, Berenice lives with her godmother (Roldán) a money lender so fragile that she's always resting in her bed. The two women live in an almost perpetual seclusion, except on Sundays when they go to the church and to the movies. One day, the godmother's doctor dies and she asks Berenice to go to his velatory. There they meet Rodrigo (Armendáriz Jr.) the doctor's son, a handsome and free-spirited young man for whom Berenice falls in love.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: vintage
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In the Thick of It (1995)
Plot Summary:
This optimistic Italian slice-of-life drama chronicles a typical day in the lives of teenagers living in the grim suburbs of Rome. The story is set in the suburb of Tuscolano which is located near the Cinecitta studios and concerns a group of friends in their mid-teens. In the beginning, Lorenzo, the imaginative leader of the group convinces the rest of them one of them is terminally ill. The rest then become determined that the dying group member should have at least one fling with the local whore, that is if they can convince her into performing the merciful act. Two years pass and the youths are seen engaging in various endeavors ranging from petty theft to manual labor, or both. The boys are also seen pursuing romance. Troubles ensue when Lorenzo's brother disappears, and when one of the thieves is captured.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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National Mechanics (1972)
Plot Summary:
A mechanic takes his family to a car race and a series of events occur which brings problems, betrayals, violence and the unexpected death of an elderly person.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy
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Offset (2006)
Plot Summary:
The plot focuses on the lives of the soon to be married Stefan, a German working in Romania for a wealthy and eccentric printing company owner, Nicu Iorga and his soon-to-be bride Brîndușa, who is Nicu's secretary.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Romania, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: intercultural
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Lulu by Night (1986)
Plot Summary:
German, a young theater director, tries to organize a theater play about Lulu, a prostitute that was killed in London by Jack the ripper. While looking for the protagonist, Rufo appears, an introvert jazz musician. He could play Jack the ripper.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: neo noir, neo screwball comedy
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Class Trip (2012)
Plot Summary:
Sometimes you can live your whole life in a few days... A high school graduation trip in which love, friendship, desire, illusion, innocence and the forbidden are all part of the adventure. Charm and disillusionment shine through teenage friendships as the characters try to understand what is happening to them and what they should do with their future.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1969)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of a bookstore thief named Birdy, who is led through various adventures in Tokyo's Shinjuku district by salesgirl Umeko.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 817
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: experimental, avant garde, weird
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The Telegraphist (1993)
Plot Summary:
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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A Midsummer Night's Dream (1981)
Plot Summary:
The second televised production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" with Helen Mirren in the cast, although this time in a different role (Titania). In the 1968 production, which was released to movie theatres in Europe, but premiered in the U.S. on CBS-TV, Ms. Mirren played Hermia.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags:
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The Comedy of Errors (1983)
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Aegeon of Syracuse has come to Ephesus to seek his son, who went in search of his missing twin and mother months ago. Too bad that Ephesus has just declared war on Syracuse, and will instantly put to death any Syracusean found within their borders unless a ransome's paid. Meanwhile, the son, Antipholus, and his servant, Dromio (also an identical twin), keep running into strangers who seem to know them.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min
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Captive (1998)
Plot Summary:
After a botched suicide attempt Sam Hoffman finds herself trapped in an evil insane asylum.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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La otra alcoba (1976)
Plot Summary:
Marcos, an important businessman working in Madrid, is wealthy, ambitious and has political aspirations. On top of it, he has a beautiful wife, Diana. Their married life, however, is marred by the fact that, after years of married life, they do not have children. At the last minute Diana backs down from adopting a Vietnamese orphan. She is determined to have a biological child. However, Marcos is sterile and has kept this a secret from his wife. When he tells her the truth, Diana reveals that she already knew it having recently consulted a gynecologist who determined that she can conceive.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, gay cinema
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The Love That is Wrong (1993)
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Amy (Daisy Wong) and Ann (Ellen Chan) are a lesbian couple but their relationship gets disrupted when Amy falls in love with her male office colleague named Wang (Michael Tao). As Amy spends more and more time with Wang Ann feels that she has lost Amy to Wang and develops a hatred towards men.....a hatred that will lead her to kill.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: detective
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A Wonderful World (2006)
Plot Summary:
A fairy tale about the political and socioeconomic realities of Mexico.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, social, disturbing, dark comedy, fairy tale, realistic, semi serious, biting, neorealism
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Fantasías (2003)
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IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, erotic
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Esmeralda Comes by Night (1997)
Plot Summary:
One bride, five grooms, a lot of explaining. Comedy by Jaime Humberto Hermosillo.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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La tarea prohibida (1992)
Plot Summary:
Expanding on ideas from "La Tarea" (Homework), Director Jaime Humberto Hermosillo continues his story, now of a young man completing an assignment for his film/video class. The young man invites Marieda, a middle-aged woman, over to his aunt's house to rehearse for a video drama she believes they will eventually record. But she doesn't realize that she is being videotaped since her arrival. After a faux-sex scene rehearsal, they do make love, which causes an unexpected reaction within the young man. Minutes later the real horror of their true relationship is revealed!.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Ramji Rao Speaking (1989)
Plot Summary:
The story revolves around three unemployed people who get involved in a kidnapping saga due to a case of mistaken identity.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: clever, surprise ending
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Homework (1991)
Plot Summary:
Virginia is taking a class at film school, and has decided on her solo project for the class. She will secretly film herself and her ex-husband Marcelo with a candid camera while they make love.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 817
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sensual, erotic drama, steamy, sex comedy, clever, humorous, realistic, semi serious