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Plot Summary:
Mona (Sophie Simon) is the girlfriend of Pierre (Denis Lavant), who is a member of a rather pathetic rock band in France. Their hero is the singer "Johnny Valentine "(Johnny Thunders) who, seeing that Mona is being neglected, decides to make her his own.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
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Because of You (2016)
Plot Summary:
Crossword about seven interconnected stories of love, friendship, affection, guns, Balkan, stupidity and people caught in the moment.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Croatia
Duration: 115 min
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The Accidental Death of Joey by Sue (2010)
Plot Summary:
In the wake of Dia Day Los Muertos, a young couple has 24 hours to decide if their love should live or die. With Sue afraid of love and Joey afraid of not figuring out what he did wrong in the first place, the couple is swept away by the intoxication of Dia De Los Muertos where the dead walk the earth for a day and where phantoms of Sue's past may force Joey to end up on the altar as well.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
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White Powder (2016)
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White Powder is an award-winning, riveting micro-budget, independent, British gangsta film. It is set in modern-day, multi-cultural London and features a very diverse cast. It follows the story of 2 young lovers, who try to outwit a bunch of London gangstas, and each other, in an attempt to keep control of a stash of cocaine that they found.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film
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The Undercover Madams (2003)
Plot Summary:
Sophie Ngan is the police chief, and she sends three of her female officers under cover. All three of them fall in love with their targets.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 82 min
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I Love Greece (2022)
Plot Summary:
Jean and Marina go to Athens for their summer vacation. There they are reunited with Marina's family, while preparing to spend a romantic getaway, Marina's family decides to accompany them. But nothing will go according to the plan.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
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Elephant Juice (1999)
Plot Summary:
The story of Billy, Will, Jules, Daphne and Dodie, a group of people who prove that there are no secrets between friends. It all comes out in the end.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Julia Has Two Lovers (1990)
Plot Summary:
Julia gets a call to a wrong number, but stays on the phone with the man on the other end for the entire day.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 385
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Dancing Quietly (2016)
Plot Summary:
After many dark years of depression Luca seeks to gain her high school diploma. Her little dog Mata helps her to find motivation and keep a positive attitude towards life.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 401
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 69 min
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God, Sex & Apple Pie (1998)
Plot Summary:
A stockbroker caught in a scandal. A television reporter nailed by his own breaking news. A kinky lawyer seeking a new position. A beautiful model in love with sex. A tortured musician. A postman on the verge. Nine friends rendezvous at a resort town for a holiday weekend of partying and fun. With crimes and misdemeanors lurking in the background, they've come to escape everything. But as they cool off and kick back, all hell breaks loose in this sexy comedy/drama.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Workers for the Good Lord (2000)
Plot Summary:
After his wife leaves him, Fred goes on a cross-country crime spree in this dark but dreamy French comedy.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 339
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, art house, sensual, learning
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Vendues (2004)
Plot Summary:
7 young women from Eastern Europe accept to become prostitutes for a year in exchange for a journey that will take them from Belgrade to Marseilles and provide them with a French passport. Irina, a worker from a Moscow suburb, brings along Enki, her young son, hidden among her luggage. She's ready to do anything to give him a brighter future.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
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Waiting for Bojangles (2021)
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In front of their little boy, Camille and Georges dance on their favorite song "Mr Bojangles". With them, there is only place for fun and fantasy. The one who shows the way is the mother, an unpredictable wisp. She leads them into a whirlwind of poetry so that the party continues again and again, no matter what happens. Mad love has never lived up to its name so well.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 124 min
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Stinking Heaven (2015)
Plot Summary:
A black as tar comedy charting the dissolution of a commune for sober living in '90s suburban New Jersey.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: grindhouse
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White Hot (1988)
Plot Summary:
A young man, short of money, is persuaided into looking after the business of a local drug dealer for a week or two. Up until then, the guy had been an honest and clean of drugs, but when he spends his days surrounded by riches and drugs, he cannot resist... and neither can his addict wife. Written by Rob Hartill.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Anatomy of Love (1972)
Plot Summary:
A young attractive widow has a one-night stand with a handsome architect. The couple soon starts a tumultuous relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min
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Coach (2009)
Plot Summary:
Well-off Suzanna becomes a coach for the Moroccan Soukri. She tries to get him into acting school.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 80 min
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Anita: Dances of Vice (1987)
Plot Summary:
In modern-day Berlin (1987), Frau Kutowski goes insane, believing herself to be the (real-life) notorious Anita Berber, a nude art dancer/drug addict/scandalous figure of post-WWI Berlin. (Berber died of tuberculosis in 1928, having achieved significant success and recognition throughout the dance world.) Frau Kutowski is placed in a mental hospital, where in her own mind she acts out Berber's final days, including in her fantasies the hospital's staff and patients, to represent Anita's friends and associates.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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On Parade (2010)
Plot Summary:
An honest look at the lives of three self-absorbed men as they complicate their love lives.
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Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Opium (2013)
Plot Summary:
The frustrated loves of Jean Cocteau and Raymond Radiguet at the beginning of the 1920s. The death of Radiguet that sank Cocteau into opium. A story under the influence of drugs. A narrative in the spirit of Cocteau. And all this in a musical.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 505
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: semi serious, realistic, light, sincere, feel good, period piece
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Lover (1992)
Plot Summary:
Marie lives with Antoine, but while he is away she meets Paul, a filmmaker visiting from Canada.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
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Tuvalu (1999)
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Set in a dilapidated indoor swimming pool (the Central Baths in Sofia), the film details the efforts of Anton, a clueless dreamer who yearns to sail the world, and Martha, the button obsessed cashier, to maintain the illusion for Anton's blind father that business is thriving. Working to sabotage their efforts is Gregor - Anton's brother - an amoral developer who is determined to raze the entire town and construct a sprawling condominium complex. Gregor engineers an accident that seems certain to doom the business and in the process steals away Eva, the beautiful woman of Anton's dreams. Will Gregor's dastardly plan succeed?.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: surreal, visually stunning, atmospheric, stylized, sentimental, mind bending, psychedelic, experimental, expressionism, psychological
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The Bare Necessity (2019)
Plot Summary:
Pierre Perdrix has been enjoying an enchanted though restless existence since the enigmatic Juliette Webb burst into his life. a stranger who landed in his family's unique world like a meteorite, and who by her presence alone will force this tight-knit microcosm to redefie their boundaries and finally begin to fully live their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, captivating, disturbing
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Girl Walks Into a Bar (2011)
Plot Summary:
A sharp-witted comedy that follows a group of apparent strangers in interlocking stories taking place in ten different bars during the course of one evening throughout Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy
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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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E-Love (2011)
Plot Summary:
Paule is pushing 50, as she repeatedly observes in her voice-over commentary. When she – a philosophy lecturer with a 10-year marriage and a 15-year-old daughter – learns that her husband is having an affair with a 28-year-old, this number takes on a special weight. The Internet site “L’âme-sœur” is supposed to help Paule get through her burgeoning midlife crisis.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Tempting Devils (2018)
Plot Summary:
A woman discovers curious erotic messages on a lost cell phone in the train. When she meets the owner of the phone, a liberated young woman, the two of them embark on an erotic journey.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: erotic, romantic, uplifting, touching, sweet, art house, erotic drama
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The Summer of All My Parents (2016)
Plot Summary:
After attempting to set a mailbox on fire, Pimpette, 14, and her elder sister, Joséphine, 18, spend their summer holidays shuttling between their secretly pregnant mom and bachelor father. But when Joséphine gets involved with the wrong crowd, little Pimpette turns out to be more responsible than the grown-ups who spend their time educating her.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min
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The Lovers on the Bridge (1991)
Plot Summary:
Set against Paris' oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, while it was closed for repairs, this film is a love story between two young vagrants: Alex, a would be circus performer addicted to alcohol and sedatives and Michele, a painter driven to a life on the streets because of a failed relationship and an affliction which is slowly turning her blind.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: romantic, atmospheric, enigmatic, art house, touching, feel good, disturbing, stylized, offbeat, heartbreaking
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Chloe in the Afternoon (1972)
Plot Summary:
The last of Rohmer's Six Moral Tales. Frederic leads a bourgeois life; he is a partner in a small Paris office and is happily married to Helene, a teacher expecting her second child. In the afternoons, Frederic daydreams about other women, but has no intention of taking any action. One day, Chloe, who had been a mistress of an old friend, begins dropping by his office. They meet as friends, irregularly in the afternoons, till eventually Chloe decides to seduce Frederic, causing him a moral dilemma.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: clever, anthology, art house, psychological, serious, realistic, contemplative, talky, stylized, sexual
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Stop Calling Me Baby! (1977)
Plot Summary:
A man hires a P.I. to find a sexy woman he fell in love with. The woman lives with her underage teen sister who dreams about having sex for the first time, but wants a real man. That's when the P.I. shows up and stirs up the household.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
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