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Plot Summary:
A delivery boy from a grocery store gets the dream opportunity of participating in his favorite reality show.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Dominican Republic
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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Diving In (1990)
Plot Summary:
A high school diver fights his fear of heights and diving to get onto the team. He gets onto the team, only to find that he must dive the high platform in order to compete. His problems are further compounded by social issues out of the pool. His sister is being taken advantage of by the local tough-guy, and his coach writes him off as a loser. To aid in his overcoming of his phobia, he enlists in a previous women's olympic coach, whom he falls for and crosses the line between business and pleasure. During his training with the new coach, he experiences a bad diving accident and is warned not to dive in the championship. He ignores these warnings, and enters the competition.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Second Chance (1972)
Plot Summary:
A rich stockbroker buys a Nevada ghost town as a community for people who need a second chance in life.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags:
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El peor comediante del mundo (2017)
Plot Summary:
Sometimes the comedy of life turns into a tormenting drama. Aurelio is a comedian who's paying in full the price of fame. His indiscipline and the way he managed his career have encouraged his exclusion from the stage. Now, locked in his house all day and with nothing to do, he's living the worst time of his life remembering his past glories. Martha, his woman, has left him, as did all those who were around in his good times. Sinking in depression, he has unsuccessfully tried suicide. With no work, no woman, no money and an uncertain future, he only has the company of his manager and best friend, Antonio, who finds him on the edge of despair. There, they seek the justification of their disgrace with a slight manifestation of hope and perseverance, leaving understood that not everything is lost, and despite the good-bye, there are always new opportunities to start over.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Dominican Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: black comedy
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Mit Burnout durch den Wald (2014)
Plot Summary:
Six wildly different people have no clue what's install for them on 'pioneering' burnout therapist Hannah's forest hike to a desolate hotel in Märkischen Schweiz, with some tricks to force them out of their comfort zones in completely different circumstances then those which gave them regular stress. Workaholic restructuring management consultant Johann Meininger was tricked to take the course as his PA convinced his boss to dump him due to expensive seniority, but finds a new challenge when sparks flow between him and equally cocky teacher Silvia Rautenberg, a disorganized single mother of two who has tinnitus. Editing lecturer Alfred is desperate after 500 failed job applications and hamburger jobs. Yuppie designer Rosa is stuck in short-term apprenticeships. Fresh pensioner Herbert wants adventure after 40 years of patient care, but his wife Gudrun fears any risk. Therapist Hannah looses control.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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All Fired Up (1982)
Plot Summary:
Victor Valance a quitté Paris depuis plusieurs années, laissant derrière lui sa mère et ses trois filles, pour réaliser de sombres opérations de casinos aux Bahamas et au Canada. Sa fille ainée, Pauline, est polytechnicienne, attachée au ministre des finances, et s'occupe de toute la petite famille.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 868
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags:
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Baby Comes Home (1980)
Plot Summary:
A family drama directed by Waris Hussein.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Chenkol (1993)
Plot Summary:
The sequel to Kireedam (1989), Chenkol continues the story of Sethumadavan who hopes to regain his lost life after 8 years in prison.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 857
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 163 min
Plot tags: touching, tragic ending
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Spirit (2012)
Plot Summary:
Raghunandan (Mohanlal) is a TV show host and a budding novelist. He is a loner and a compulsive alcoholic, the latter of which resulted in his divorce from Meera (Kaniha). Despite this Meera and her husband Alexy (Shankar Ramakrishnan) are his best friends. His alcoholism however starts taking a huge toll on his life and things take a turn for the worst. At this point he meets Maniyan (Nandu) a plumber who is a bigger alcoholic than he is which makes Raghu re-evaluate his relationship with alcohol.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 165 min
Plot tags: satirical
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Ride On (2023)
Plot Summary:
The once beautiful, now down-and-out Dragon Tiger martial artist Lao Luo lives with his beloved horse, Red Rabbit. Due to a debt dispute involving Red Rabbit, he is faced with the crisis of "father-son separation". In desperation, Lao Luo asks his daughter Bao and her boyfriend Naihua, who have misunderstood him for years, for help. On the road of self-help of three people and one horse, they make a lot of jokes and gradually get closer to each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags:
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Summer in Bethlehem (1998)
Plot Summary:
Summer in Bethlahem movie tells the story is all set in a hill station (Ooty) where a rich man comes with his five grand daughters for vacation. The fifth girl Abhirami(Manju Warrier) who is very smart, and she is the favourite of the grandfather. But she has some secret, which nobody knows. The girls meet two guys, one of them their own cousin who are their neighbours and they all play pranks on them.One of them Dennis (Suresh Gopi) falls in love with Aami, but she tells him that she loves Niranjan (Mohanlal) who is in jail and she will only marry him. This forms the climax of the movie.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: romantic
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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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A Brand New Life (1973)
Plot Summary:
After 18 years of marriage, a middle-aged couple has to face the prospect of having their first child.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags:
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Start-Up (2019)
Plot Summary:
Taek-il recklessly leaves home, defying his mother who asks him to go to college. In the unfamiliar neighborhood, he happens to get a job as a delivery man for a Chinese restaurant. And he mingles with new people such as Geo-seok, a chef, and Kyung-ju, a boxer. Meanwhile, Sang-pil, a friend of Taek-il, enters the private loan business to make money. At first, it seems easy to make a big fortune, but soon he finds himself in pain as he faces unexpected things.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: rough, suspense, tense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Bloody Marie (2019)
Plot Summary:
Marie Wankelmut, once successful comic artist, lives among the prostitutes in Amsterdam's Red Light District. Nowadays drunken and bold, she gets into one conflict after another. A gruesome sobering event at her neighbors, forces her to take action.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Heatwave! (1974)
Plot Summary:
The residents of an isolated mountain town must band together to survive during a devastating heat wave.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: disaster movie
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Having Babies III (1978)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Julie Farr presides over three impending births and cannot help but get involved in the lives of her troubled patients.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Having Babies II (1977)
Plot Summary:
The story of various couples who get caught up in the personal and emotional crises of birth, adoption and hospitalization, and also of the hospital and health care workers who take care of them.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Sinkhole (2021)
Plot Summary:
The average citizen Dong-won and his family move into a house bought after years of hard work. Filled with happiness, he invites his colleagues for a housewarming party, but the heavy rain during the night before creates a gigantic sinkhole, and in a mere minute, it swallows up the whole house and the people inside. Hundreds of meters down the hole, Dong-won, his neighbor Man-su, and the unfortunate guests must find their way out. Rain starts to pour down, filling the sinkhole with water, and they’re running out of time.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, disaster movie
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The Price of Success (2017)
Plot Summary:
A comedian's relationship with his family crumbles when his career begins to take off.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 385
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, semi serious
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Cristo Rey (2013)
Plot Summary:
Set in the Dominican Republic, Leticia Tonos Paniagua’s uniquely Caribbean retelling of Romeo and Juliet chronicles the love between a kind-hearted teenager, ostracized for his mixed Haitian-Dominican descent, and the beautiful sister of a local drug kingpin he’s hired to protect.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: Haiti, France, Dominican Republic
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, touching, realistic
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Home for Christmas (2010)
Plot Summary:
Adapted from a series of short stories by Norwegian author Levi Henriksen, Bent Hamers Home for Christmas weaves together the lives of people struggling to find their way home on a Christmas Eve, beneath the colors of the Northern Lights. The plot unfolds during a few afternoon hours on Christmas Eve. The individual stories, which at times intertwine, are set in the small town Skogli. The characters in the stories cover a great range in age and life situations, representing both reconciliation with their own lives and strong frustration. Some show the will to understand and do something about their lives, while others have given up. Deeply tragic and melancholy aspects are mixed with humour and rather frivolous solutions.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden, Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, emotional, semi serious, non-linear, realistic, gloomy
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Velaiyilla Pattathari (2014)
Plot Summary:
Raghuvaran, who is unemployed for years, gets his dream job but a powerful rival is keen to put him down. Can he take on his adversary?.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, psychological, realistic
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Sarileru Neekevvaru (2020)
Plot Summary:
A tough army major is deployed to Kurnool on a mission to keep the country safe from external threats.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 169 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, atmospheric, captivating
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Annaatthe (2021)
Plot Summary:
Kaaliyan is a village president in the Madurai district, who is fondly called Annaatthe. His nieces compete with each other to marry him. But, he falls in love with another woman who visits their village. Kaaliyan has a sister who gets married and shifts to Kolkata where she faces some unknown threats. Soon, her brother comes to her aid.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 163 min
Plot tags: captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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To Love and Die (2008)
Plot Summary:
A fun-loving 30-something (Shiri Appleby) with abandonment issues becomes convinced that her dating problems will be resolved if she can only track down the father she never knew. When she finds him (Tim Matheson), she discovers that he's an assassin and that she may have found her calling.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 471
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: semi serious, captivating, suspense, exciting, tense, offbeat, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, tv series pilot
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Bad Asses on the Bayou (2015)
Plot Summary:
The third installment in the successful Bad Ass action-comedy franchise. Bad Asses on the Bayou reunites the dynamic duo, Frank Vega (Danny Trejo) and Bernie Pope (Danny Glover), as they travel to Louisiana to attend the wedding of their dear friend Carmen Gutierrez (Loni Love). What was pictured as a wedding weekend escape to the south turns violently ugly as madness and mayhem ensue, pressing our senior heroes to once again serve justice.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, semi serious, action comedy, independent film
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My Wife Is a Gangster 3 (2006)
Plot Summary:
When Aryong, the daughter of a triad boss from Hong Kong is accused of killing the boss of a competing triad, she is goes into hiding in Korea. Upon arriving, she is guided by a nimble but loyal Gi-chul and his motley crew, who are assigned to protect her until her return.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China, South Korea
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, humorous, realistic, stylized, crime drama
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Bharat (2019)
Plot Summary:
At the cusp of India's birth as an Independent nation, a family makes an arduous journey to freedom at a cost. A young boy Bharat, makes a promise to his Father that he will keep his family together no matter what.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, captivating, disturbing, fast
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Dookudu (2011)
Plot Summary:
A young policeman hunts down the men who caused the accident that put his politician father into a coma.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags: humorous, exciting, captivating, tense, rough, realistic, semi serious
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Shamelessly She-Hulk (2009)
Plot Summary:
A young lawyer living in Los Angeles deals with the trials and tribulations of becoming a famous superheroine, and making a film about how all of that came to be. Visited by her cousin Bruce, who is on the run from the law, Jennifer Walters is shot by thugs hired by the gangster Nick Trask, and left for dead. Bruce saves her with an emergency blood transfusion, but in the process she takes on his powers and becomes a sensational new heroine. As her own father, Sheriff Morris Walters, declares war on the green "monster" she's become, and as Nick Trask declares war on her and her friends, Jennifer must decide if she's really the monster they say she is - the sort who would kill Nick Trask - or something entirely new. And she must decide if her blossoming romance with childhood friend Zapper is more important than her future as a superhero.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: parody, captivating, entertaining