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Plot Summary:
Romain is 23 years old. He would like to be a writer, but for now, it is night porter in a hotel. His father is 62 years old. He retires and pretends to fuck. His roommate is 24 years old. He thinks only one thing: to seduce a girl, any and all means. Her grandmother is 85 years old. She finds herself in a retirement home and wondered what she does with all these old. One day his father arrived in disaster. His grandmother was gone. She escaped somehow. Romain goes looking for him somewhere in his memories.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 996
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, sentimental, semi serious, sincere, captivating, touching, feel good, realistic
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We Love You, You Bastard (2014)
Plot Summary:
A war photographer and absent father, who spends more time taking care of his camera than his four daughters, enjoys a happy life in the Alps with his new girlfriend. But his life is turned upside down the day that his best friend tries to reconcile him with his family by telling them a big lie.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: humorous, contemplative, light, feel good, captivating, touching, realistic, semi serious
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Get Well Soon (2014)
Plot Summary:
After an accident, Pierre, a sixty years old grumpy man, ends up stuck on an hospital bed with a cast. While Pierre dreams of silence and solitude with his strong character, the whole world seems to invite himself to his hospital bed. Powerless, he has to support the daily visits of doctors,nurse and hospital staff then his closes including his brother Herve. Visits after visits, funny or touching, Pierre starts to reconsider some people and reexamine his environment. And after all, his stay becomes a second chance.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 752
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, psychological, light, captivating, realistic
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Age of Panic (2013)
Plot Summary:
May 6, 2012. Cable news reporter Laetitia is covering the French presidential elections, while Vincent, her ex-husband, demands to see their two young daughters. It's a manic Sunday in Paris: two agitated girls, a frazzled babysitter, a needy new boyfriend, a grumpy lawyer and France cut in half!.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 609
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, captivating, emotional, clever, semi serious
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Half-Sister (2013)
Plot Summary:
When Nénette discovers the identity of her father in a letter, she quickly goes off in search of him. But instead of finding her father, she is met by her half-brother, Paul. Paul, a bitter man who gave up his dream to take over his father’s pharmacy business, is less than thrilled at the arrival of his ‘embarrassing’ half-sister. After refusing to take her in, he soon gets a taste of his own medicine. Under the influence of a potent drug, for one day Paul is generous, happy and sensitive. The next morning, however, once the drug has worn off, his nasty side comes back.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, light, feel good, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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On My Way (2013)
Plot Summary:
Deneuve plays sassy grandmother Cathy who takes to the road after being betrayed by her lover and learning her business is on the verge of bankruptcy on the same day. During a weeklong odyssey across France, she spends time with a grandson she hardly knows and reconnects with her past as former Miss Brittany through a reunion for former beauty queens.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: road movie, realistic, touching, humorous, semi serious, contemplative
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In the Courtyard (2014)
Plot Summary:
Antoine is a musician. The forties, he suddenly decides to end his career. After a few days of wandering, he gets a job as a janitor. Mathilde lives in the old building in the east of Paris where he takes office. This is a young retiree, generous and involved, who divides his time between his associational activities and the life of the condominium. One night, she discovers a disturbing crack on the wall of his living room. Gradually, his anxiety grew to turn into panic and if the building collapsed ... Slowly, Antoine befriends the woman he feared to see slip into madness. Between slips and concerns, both form an awkward tandem, humorous and solidarity which will, perhaps, through this bad patch.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, semi serious, humorous, realistic
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A Short History of Decay (2014)
Plot Summary:
A failed Brooklyn writer, Nathan Fisher, visits his ailing parents in Florida. His mother has Alzheimer's and his father has recently had a stroke and his girlfriend has recently broken up with him.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 616
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, emotional, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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A Spot of Bother (2009)
Plot Summary:
Retired Englishman George Hall's hypochondria worsens and takes its toll on his family.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 576
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic, witty, clever
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Family Law (2006)
Plot Summary:
A man in his thirties does not want to be like his father, but that seems to be unavoidable.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Italy, Spain, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: semi serious, captivating, light, emotional, humorous, realistic
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Conversations with My Gardener (2007)
Plot Summary:
A successful artist, weary of Parisian life and on the verge of divorce, returns to the country to live in his childhood house. He needs someone to make a real vegetable garden again out of the wilderness it has become. The gardener happens to be a former schoolfriend. A warm, fruitful conversation starts between the two men.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, talky, captivating, sincere, realistic, semi serious, beautiful
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Nonna's Trip (2007)
Plot Summary:
A Mexican family, wanting to grant their Grandmother her last wish, embarks on a make believe trip to a small town in Italy ... in Mexico!.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, emotional, sentimental, realistic, semi serious, gloomy
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Kotch (1971)
Plot Summary:
Joseph Kotcher, retired salesman, walks out on his son and daughter-in-law after their attempts to put him in a retirement home. He tracks down their babysitter, sacked because she is pregnant, and rents a small house nearby. He finds a new purpose in life. Jack Lemmon's first film as director stars his old friend Walter Matthau.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Actresses (2007)
Plot Summary:
Comédienne hantée par son rôle de Nathalia Petrovna, l'héroïne de la pièce de Tourguéniev Un Mois à la campagne qu'elle répète difficilement, Marcelline tente de noyer ses angoisses dans une piscine sur un air de Glenn Miller. Mais rien n'y fait. Rien n'empêche le temps de courir et de lui imposer ses quarante ans et toujours pas d'enfant.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 771
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, psychological, captivating, touching, realistic, talky, semi serious
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The Amazing Catfish (2013)
Plot Summary:
Young Claudia works in a supermarket where she promotes various types of products. One night, she ends up in the emergency room with severe appendicitis and meets Martha, a patient, laying in the bed next to hers.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico, France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic, social, art house, road movie, beautiful
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The Quitter (2014)
Plot Summary:
When a failed baseball player's ex-girlfriend moves back to the neighborhood with her seven-year-old daughter, he realizes he carries more regrets than how he handled his baseball career.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, touching, realistic, independent film
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On Air (2012)
Plot Summary:
A well known radio talk show host lives as a recluse during the day, until she found her real mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 865
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, captivating, psychological, light, semi serious
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The Day I Saw Your Heart (2011)
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Justine, struggles with commitment, listens to old David Bowie covers, and uses her employer’s private MRI machines to make “X-Ray Art” After a trail of boyfriends, Justine thinks she has found The One, a hunky shoe salesman, but her temporary happiness is thrown when her neurotic 60-year-old Jewish father (Michel Blanc) suffers a delayed midlife crisis and announces that his young second wife is expecting a baby. Justine and her half-sister Dom, who is trying to adopt, are rather annoyed at the news. Coupled with resentment about her father’s absence when she was growing up, causes her to spiral into self-doubt. Overflowing with French charm, Justine gets by with the help of her family, friends, and newly discovered muse.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: feel good, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Empty Nest (2008)
Plot Summary:
Empty Nest tells the story of a couple who have to struggle to find themselves after their children grow up and move out. It starts out as a fairly simple story of a couple but becomes complicated by a series of events that may or may not be occurring only in Leonardo’s mind.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 903
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, sentimental, realistic, semi serious
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Paris of the North (2014)
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Seeking shelter from the trials and tribulations of city life, Hugi has built a quiet existence for himself in a tiny village in the middle of nowhere. Here, he passes his days jogging, attending AA meetings and taking Portuguese lessons online. But when Hugi’s estranged, boozy father shows up out of the blue, the precarious balance he has worked so hard to achieve is tested to the limit.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 419
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iceland, France, Denmark
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, contemplative
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All Together (2011)
Plot Summary:
Five old friends decide to move in together as an alternate to living in a retirement home; joining them is an ethnology student whose thesis is on the aging population.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, sentimental, realistic
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The Dandelions (2012)
Plot Summary:
A young girl is frustrated by her over-protective mom. At school, she meets another fearless little girl that is going to have a big influence on her.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, humorous, realistic
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The Santa Con (2014)
Plot Summary:
Small-time con man Nick DeMarco is ordered by his parole officer to take a minimum-wage job as a department store Santa during the holidays...and he hates it. Near the end of his first shift, he hastily promises a young boy, Billy, that Santa will bring his estranged parents back together by Christmas. Nick decides to make good on his promise to the child, somehow. But after meeting the boy's mother Carol, will Nick ultimately choose to put the happiness of others ahead of his own?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 701
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, light, sincere, captivating, entertaining, touching, realistic
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Mind the Gap (2004)
Plot Summary:
Five seemingly unrelated people decide to take huge risks in their personal lives in an effort to find happiness.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 997
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: humorous, talky, semi serious, captivating, sincere, sentimental, clever, touching, offbeat, realistic
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2 Francs, 40 Pesetas (2014)
Plot Summary:
Madrid, 1974. Six years have passed since Martin and his family have returned to Spain from Switzerland. A visit to their adopted country will bring complications.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating, sentimental, realistic
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My Father Is a Cleaning Lady (2011)
Plot Summary:
Polo is 16 and has all the worries of a teenager his age. Between a bedridden mother and a sister who dreams of being a Miss, the only one he can look up to is his father. Unfortunately, he works as a maid.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 325
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, humorous, captivating, psychological, light, entertaining, touching, realistic, 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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The Over the Hill Band (2009)
Plot Summary:
Upon the death of her husband, Claire (70) decides to reconnect with her estranged son, down and out R&B musician Sid. She asks him to help her restart the old girl group she used to sing in with two of her friends from the old days. The rebel son is hesitant at first but eventually agrees under one condition: the band has to play HIS music.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Delicacy (2011)
Plot Summary:
A French woman mourning over the death of her husband three years prior is courted by a Swedish co-worker.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, romantic, sincere, art house, sensual, happy, realistic
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Papa Was Not a Rolling Stone (2014)
Plot Summary:
The 1980s. Stéphanie grows up in La Courneuve, on the outskirts of Paris, in a home where her mother is rarely there and her step-father is brutal. She quickly decides to escape her morose everyday life. Thanks to her grandmother's love, reading, her passion for dance, and for French pop-star Jean-Jacques Goldman, Stéphanie copes in this colorful neighborhood where friendship is primordial. One day, she knows that she'll leave this place to lead the life she's always dreamed of.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Dad (1989)
Plot Summary:
A busy executive (Ted Danson) learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer to him (Jack Lemmon) than ever before. Estranged from his own son (Ethan Hawke), the executive comes to realize what has been missing in his own life.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, emotional, feel good, uplifting, inspirational, sincere, thought provoking, poignant, comedy drama