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Plot Summary:
Two sisters share a disturbing family secret.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Breakup Girl (2015)
Plot Summary:
Three estranged sisters deal with the death of their father.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Rainbow Time (2016)
Plot Summary:
Todd grew up under the strange shadow of his older mentally challenged brother Shonzi. As kids, Shonzi forced Todd to make action movies. As adults he pressures him to share love life details, even showing Shonzi a sex tape he made with an old girlfriend to help him cope when family tragedy hits. When their dad suffers a heart attack, Shonzi (now 40, and still a virgin) moves in with Todd and his new girlfriend Lindsay. Shonzi wants desperately to be included in their relationship like old times. When Shonzi’s begging become threats to reveal secrets from their past, Todd must find the courage to be honest with Lindsay, even if it means the end of their relationship.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 807
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, independent film
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The Adults (2023)
Plot Summary:
The treasure hunt deep within as individuals and as a family is an admirable trio whose interpretation is as nuanced as it is poignant.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: poignant
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After the Wedding (2017)
Plot Summary:
Newlywed Diego Diaz heads down to Miami Beach for a few weeks to finish his latest novel, but when he becomes emotionally intimate with a sexy bartender, he and his wife are left to examine the true state of their young marriage.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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The Comic (1969)
Plot Summary:
An account of the rise and fall of a silent film comic, Billy Bright. The movie begins with his funeral, as he speaks from beyond the grave in a bitter tone about his fate, and takes us through his fame, as he ruins it with womanizing and drink, and his fall, as a lonely, bitter old man unable to reconcile his life's disappointments. The movie is based loosely on the life of Buster Keaton.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 905
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: cult film, nostalgic
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Sister Cities (2016)
Plot Summary:
Based on the internationally-acclaimed play by Colette Freedman, the story of 4 estranged sisters who reunite for their mother’s alleged suicide.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: captivating, touching, entertaining
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Which Way, Por Favor? (1999)
Plot Summary:
The breathtaking sights and sounds of Mexico's lush Pacific coast come alive in this captivating comedy-drama shot in the isolated seaside village of Yelapa. Join four offbeat travelers hunting for romantic adventure, hidden cash, a mysterious father, and the mythic sorceror, "Don Juan," made famous in books by Carlos Castaneda. Featuring a cast of North American actors and Yelapa locals and an original soundtrack recorded by members of the David Grisman Band, Tito Puente, Van Morrison, The Robert Gray Band -- and the grammy-winning CARLOS SANTANA Band.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, low-budget
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I Am Not Madame Bovary (2016)
Plot Summary:
Li Xuelian, a woman from the countryside is falsely accused by her husband of having an affair. To defend herself, Li moves from her small town to the big city until she reached the capital.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, disturbing, social, independent film, comedy drama
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Our Idiot Brother (2011)
Plot Summary:
Everybody has the sibling who is always just a little bit behind the curve when it comes to getting his life together. For sisters Liz, Miranda and Natalie, that person is their perennially upbeat brother Ned, an erstwhile organic farmer whose willingness to rely on the honesty of mankind is a less-than-optimum strategy for a tidy, trouble-free existence. Ned may be utterly lacking in common sense, but he is their brother and so, after his girlfriend dumps him and boots him off the farm, his sisters once again come to his rescue. As Liz, Miranda and Natalie each take a turn at housing Ned, their brother's unfailing commitment to honesty creates more than a few messes in their comfortable routines. But as each of their lives begins to unravel, Ned's family comes to realize that maybe, in believing and trusting the people around him, Ned isn't such an idiot after all.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 90000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, independent film, light, sweet, feel good, realistic, touching, comedy drama, indie film, thought provoking
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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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The Right Way (2004)
Plot Summary:
Amy and David are two underachievers from suburbia. Amy has had a rough life raised by her neglectful drug addicted single mother. David has been raised in a more conventional family, but his lack of motivation has driven his father crazy. When Amy meets David it seems they both find what they are looking for. But when Amy gets pregnant, both Amy and David go through a personal and surreal crisis in making choices. Which leads them to decide if they should do it the right way or the wrong way?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, surreal, controversial, independent film, humorous, semi serious, sex comedy, black comedy
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Happy Tears (2009)
Plot Summary:
Two sisters return home to care for their aging father.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, independent film, offbeat
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Detours (2016)
Plot Summary:
A newly single New Yorker must re-locate to Florida for her dream job. She drives south with her widowed dad, her mom's ashes in a coffee can, and a GPS with a mind of its own.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: road movie, feel good, light, humorous, captivating, independent film
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Shrink (2009)
Plot Summary:
Unable to cope with a recent personal tragedy, LA's top celebrity shrink turns into a pothead with no concern for his appearance and a creeping sense of his inability to help his patients.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, depressing, emotional, sentimental, serious, sincere, touching, dark comedy, philosophical
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Cookie's Fortune (1999)
Plot Summary:
Conflict arises in the small town of Holly Springs when an old woman's death causes a variety of reactions among family and friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, independent film, southern gothic, hilarious, touching, feel good, realistic, semi serious, surprise ending
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The House of Yes (1997)
Plot Summary:
Jackie-O is anxiously awaiting the visit of her brother home for Thanksgiving, but isn't expecting him to bring a friend. She's even more shocked to learn that this friend is his fiance. It soon becomes clear that Jackie Kennedy's obsession is nothing compared to her obsession with her brother, as it also becomes clear she isn't the only member of the family with problems.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, humorous, black comedy, independent film, surreal, absurd, offbeat, dark, cult classic, psychological
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Margot at the Wedding (2007)
Plot Summary:
Margot and her son Claude decide to visit her sister Pauline after she announces that she is getting married to less-than-impressive Malcolm. In short order, the storm the sisters create leaves behind a mess of thrashed relationships and exposed family secrets.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: talky, depressing, melancholic, stylized, humorous, tragicomedy, semi serious, cult classic, biting, deep
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Young Adult (2011)
Plot Summary:
A divorced writer from the Midwest returns to her hometown to reconnect with an old flame, who's now married with a family.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 87000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, realistic, talky, depressing, emotional, sincere, semi serious, melancholic, black comedy, cynical
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Life During Wartime (2009)
Plot Summary:
Friends, family, and lovers struggle to find love, forgiveness, and meaning in an almost war-torn world riddled with comedy and pathos. Follows Solondz's film Happiness (1998).
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: disturbing, dark comedy, psychological, independent film, melancholic, talky, stylized, black comedy, humorous, psychedelic
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Only When I Laugh (1981)
Plot Summary:
A boozy Broadway actress comes out of a 12-week cure to face the problems of her best friends as well as her needy daughter. She tries to balance the terrors of returning to work with the demands of all around her with humor and insight, while staying off the booze.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sentimental, clever, touching, realistic, talky, semi serious
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Nobody's Fool (1986)
Plot Summary:
Cassie has a miserable job in a bar, is lonely and depressed. Her boyfriend left her when she told him that she's pregnant. After several failed suicide attempts she'd given away her baby for adoption - and regrets it now. When a theater group from L.A. comes to the small town Buckeye, she meets stage technician Riley. Discreetly he starts wooing her... she likes him very much, but still has feelings for her former boyfriend Billy too.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 900
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Just Before I Go (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ted Morgan has been treading water for most of his life. After his wife leaves him, Ted realizes he has nothing left to live for. Summoning the courage for one last act, Ted decides to go home and face the people he feels are responsible for creating the shell of a person he has become. But life is tricky. The more determined Ted is to confront his demons, to get closure, and to withdraw from his family, the more Ted is yanked into the chaos of their lives. So, when Ted Morgan decides to kill himself, he finds a reason to live.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: emotional, dark comedy, realistic, semi serious, inspirational, independent film, sentimental, funny, feel good, freeze frame
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Sunshine Cleaning (2008)
Plot Summary:
A single mother and her slacker sister find an unexpected way to turn their lives around in the off-beat dramatic comedy. In order to raise the tuition to send her young son to private school the mom starts an unusual business – a biohazard removal/crime scene clean-up service.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 74000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: feel good, dark comedy, humorous, emotional, melancholic, black comedy, semi serious, witty, comedy drama, indie film
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The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Plot Summary:
Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children and then they separated. All three children are extraordinary --- all geniuses. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of betrayal, failure, and disaster. Most of this was generally considered to be their father's fault. "The Royal Tenenbaums" is the story of the family's sudden, unexpected reunion one recent winter.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 309000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, funny, humorous, talky, cult classic, indie film, visual, comedy drama, melancholic, artsy
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Are You Here (2013)
Plot Summary:
When Steve Dallas, a womanizing local weatherman, hears that his off-the-grid best friend Ben Baker has lost his estranged father, the two return to Ben's childhood home. Once there, they discover Ben has inherited the family fortune, and the ill-equipped duo must battle Ben's formidable sister and deal with his father's gorgeous 25-year old widow.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: light, funny, intense, humorous, dark comedy, happy, realistic, semi serious, independent film, psychological
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28 Days (2000)
Plot Summary:
After getting into a car accident while drunk on the day of her sister's wedding, Gwen Cummings is given a choice between prison or a rehab center. She chooses rehab, but is extremely resistant to taking part in any of the treatment programs they have to offer, refusing to admit that she has an alcohol addiction.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 53000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, emotional, melancholic, intense, compassionate, sentimental, humorous, motivational, feel good
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August: Osage County (2013)
Plot Summary:
A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 94000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, melancholic, independent film, depressing, stylized, humorous, realistic, semi serious, black comedy
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Mumford (1999)
Plot Summary:
In the small town of Mumford, a psychologist of the same name moves in and quickly becomes very popular, despite a questionable past.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, psychological, melancholic, compassionate, light, touching, semi serious, clever
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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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The Savages (2007)
Plot Summary:
A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: sentimental, realistic, independent film, emotional, compassionate, touching, depressing, melancholic, sincere, humorous