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Plot Summary:
Lucia arrives to Buenos Aires with a mission, take care of a Hungarian filmmaker invited to present his film at the Buenos Aires Independent Film Festival. Lucia meets Pablo, who introduces himself as the angel of prestigious film director Béla Tarr. Lucia and Pablo will join Laszlo Novak in a tragic adventure, moving heaven and earth to find his lost film.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Argentina
Duration: 100 min
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Boxers Go to Heaven (1967)
Plot Summary:
Tragicomic story about a former boxing champion, unbeaten in the ring, but beaten by alcohol.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 88 min
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Este cura (1968)
Plot Summary:
Soledad has returned to the city single and with a son. Her father has taken she home, and the people village are trying to Major ejects she from the place. However, Pedro, the Major believes that the initiative has to start from the priest. So the father John after his journey to Rome, will have to face the stark reality and solve the problem.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 109 min
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A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (1988)
Plot Summary:
An elderly man with wings is blown off course during a tropical storm in this symbolic fantasy. The Old Man lands near a Caribbean island where a poor family gives him shelter in a chicken coop. Father Gonzaga is the skeptical priest who rushes to damn the creature. Soon the Old Man is the subject of curiosity seekers as Elisinda and Pelayo start charging admission. A traveling carnival of human oddities camps near the Old Man as people flock to see the show. The Old Man is reduced to being an unwanted pet, and after six years, he mends his wings and flies away. Nudity, simulated sex with a spider woman, and the ugliness of human exploitation definitely put this fantasy in a category not for children.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Cuba, Italy, Spain
Duration: 90 min
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In Between (1991)
Plot Summary:
Three strangers - two women and one man - find themselves trapped inside an unfamiliar house with no recollection of how they got there. They soon discover that the house has been borrowed to serve as a temporary way station between life and death.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: minimal cast, independent film
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Tobi (1978)
Plot Summary:
A story about a little boy who grows a pair of wings on his back, giving him the appearance of an angel. The boy draws the attention of his community including doctors, scientists and schoolmates. The wings are surgically removed but eventually they grow back.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min
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The Virgin's Bed (1969)
Plot Summary:
30 year old child enters the new city, riding on a donkey. He says he is the Savior. He has spent no time among men. He is trembling with cold. His clothes are soaked. His mother was overprotective ; his father conspicuously absent. He knows that he must face the mockery, refusal, ignorance and blindness of the men around him. They travel in gangs, in large numbers : soldiers, mercenaries or the like, on majestic, imposing horses. Everything is out of proportion to his thin, bewildered, innocent body ; he is the madman of the new city.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 438
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: avant garde, experimental
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Angels of Everyday (2014)
Plot Summary:
Based on a best-selling novel by Michal Viewegh, Angels of everyday focuses on a few intimate family members: a recently widowed young doctor Ester; a school canteen cook and her son; a driving instructor, his wife, and their closest relatives.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, suspenseful, psychotronic, urban fantasy
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Pak! Pak! My Dr. Kwak! (2011)
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Angelo dreams of creating a medicine that could cure his father’s illness. With some knowledge about medicinal herbs, he makes a living as a faith healer. Everyone believes him, except Cielo Delos Santos, a doctor who swears to do everything to uncover Angelo’s secret. Things get a little complicated when Angelito, an exiled angel comes down to earth to help Angelo become a better man. As the three of them try to achieve their own goals, they realize that they need each other more than they are willing to admit.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Philippines
Duration: 115 min
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Angel John (2009)
Plot Summary:
Maradonna (Shanthnoo) is an aimless youngster who likes to waste his time doing practically nothing other than fooling around. For him everything in life is Oru Rasam (just fun). He likes to take the easy way out and lacks focus in his life. He is the only son of Joseph (Lalu Alex), a Banker and Mary (Ambika), who dotes on him. The only person who has a soft corner for him is the beautiful Sofia (Nithya Menon) who has a limp and is the daughter of a failed filmmaker, Kuruvilla (Vijayaraghavan). Maradonna messes up his life by getting into company of friends and starting an internet café that fails and to recoup his losses and attracted by ‘easy money’ he gets into drugs. Soon he is conned and loses everything after pledging his house to a ‘blade’ moneylender (Salim Kumar).
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 404
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: India
Duration: 130 min
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7 Pecados Rurais (2013)
Plot Summary:
In "7 Pecados Rurais", Quim and Zé go to Lisbon to collect two distant cousins who want to revive a crazy last summer in Curral de Moinas. Along the way they bump into a flock of sheep and die.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Portugal
Duration: 97 min
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Ice Angel (2000)
Plot Summary:
The film tells the story of Matt, a male hockey player who dies in a game and comes back to life as Sara Bryan, a female figure skater due to an accident made by an angel that caused the hockey player to die. Both share the dream of competing in the Winter Olympics. The male hockey player specified that if he returned to earth, he wanted to have a chance to win an Olympic Gold medal on ice leaving the detail that he wanted to be on the hockey team implied. With time running short Matt has to get skating lessons from Sara's one-time rival if he wishes to earn gold.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 577
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, entertaining, touching, teen, nostalgic
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Earth Angel (1991)
Plot Summary:
When a prom queen dies in 1962, her only means of entering Heaven is by returning to 1990 earth, to assist friends from her youth.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 448
Genere: Fantasy, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
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The Kid with the Broken Halo (1982)
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Andy LeBeau is a fallen angel of sorts. He keeps messing up and causing trouble in angel training. The archangel, Michael, decides to give him one more shot. His mission: Help out the problems of three cases. First, the Desautel family, who are on the edge of breaking up. Then, the McNulty family, who are workaholics. Finally, Dorothea Powell who is a secluded, grumpy old woman. Andy's guide on earth is Blake, who is none too thrilled to work with Andy.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 264
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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Let There Be Light! (1998)
Plot Summary:
God comes to Earth in order to make a film.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
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The Discovery of Heaven (2001)
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Disappointed with humanity, God wants to revoke his contract with humanity and wants to take back the stone tablets containing the ten commandments. To this end an angel is sent out to affect the personal lives of three humans so an appropriate child may be conceived.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Netherlands, UK
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, suspense, tense, sentimental
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Darling, I Am Going Out For Cigarettes and I Will Be Right Back (2011)
Plot Summary:
The film takes places in different time periods and countries. It narrates the story of a common man, who after entering into a deal with a strange character with superpowers, has the possibility of going back to his own past and to live again his youth. Ernesto, the main character, will try to recover lost opportunities and to curb certain behaviors in order to change his gray and insipid present. Despite having the advantage of knowing all the necessary information about the future, experience will show him that this flat personality and his resentment can go beyond these benefits and that there is no possible excuse to overcome his infinite mediocrity.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 690
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Argentina
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing
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Sweet Rain: Accuracy of Death (2008)
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Chiba appears seven days before a person dies an unexpected death. His job is to observe the person for seven days then decide either to ‘execute’ or ‘pass over’. Today, again, in the rain, he waits. His subject, her death due in seven days, is Kazue Fujiki. She works for a manufacturing company in the complaints department. Exhausted after her day, she emerges from her office. It’s time for the Reaper to go to work.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, stylized, offbeat
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Wings of Fame (1990)
Plot Summary:
A famous movie actor claims that he has written a book. As result, a real author, not a very well known writer, vengefully kills him but then dies as a result of an accident. Next, they both find themselves in after-life, where souls of all famous people are gathered.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 996
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: black comedy, humorous, witty, semi serious, independent film, period drama
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The Milagro Beanfield War (1988)
Plot Summary:
In Milagro, a small town in the American Southwest, Ladd Devine plans to build a major new resort development. While activist Ruby Archuleta and lawyer/newspaper editor Charlie Bloom realize that this will result in the eventual displacement of the local Hispanic farmers, they cannot arouse much opposition because of the short term opportunities offered by construction jobs.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: touching, inspirational, entertaining, sentimental, light, melancholic, semi serious, humorous, captivating, clever
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Interview (1987)
Plot Summary:
Federico Fellini welcomes us into his world of film making with a mockumentary about his life in film, as a Japanese film crew follows him around.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: art house, neorealism, mockumentary, sentimental, humorous, realistic, surreal, stylized, semi serious, meta
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An Angel of the Lord (2005)
Plot Summary:
A screwup angel is exiled from the Heaven down to Earth, incarnated as a beggar.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 868
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, sincere, humorous, captivating, light
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Delivering Milo (2001)
Plot Summary:
A guardian angel has 24 hours to convince a soul that life on Earth is worth the effort.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, touching, captivating, independent film, offbeat, crying
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Toto the Hero (1991)
Plot Summary:
Thomas and Alfred were born around the same time; a fire in the nursery had nurses scrambling to save the newborns. Because he felt that he deserved Alfred's good fortune at being born into a wealthy family, Thomas conceives the idea that he and Alfred were switched at birth, and he can't help seeing that his unhappiness should be Alfred's, from the loss of his sister to his inability to have a relationship with the woman Evelyne. So, as his life is ending, he formulates a plan of revenge against his bitter enemy, his lifetime adversary, the man who stole his existence.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Belgium, France, Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: touching, inspirational, epic, sad, cult classic, sentimental, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, crying
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The Sandman (2011)
Plot Summary:
One fine morning, Benno finds sand in his bed. While he tries to ignore this at first, he soon must realize that he himself is loosing the sand.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 735
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, unusual plot structure, contemplative, surreal, independent film, disgusting, weird
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The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
Plot Summary:
A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 84000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, surreal, cult classic, visually stunning, satirical, humorous, dark comedy, cerebral, visual
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Dogma (1999)
Plot Summary:
The latest battle in the eternal war between Good and Evil has come to New Jersey in the late, late 20th Century. Angels, demons, apostles and prophets (of a sort) walk among the cynics and innocents of America and duke it out for the fate of humankind.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 226000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: humorous, satirical, clever, witty, funny, dark comedy, entertaining, hilarious, parody, offbeat
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Michael (1996)
Plot Summary:
Tabloid reporters are sent by their editor to investigate after the paper recieves a letter from a woman claiming an angel is living with her.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: feel good, uplifting, humorous, romantic, light, entertaining, road movie, sweet, spiritual, mind bending
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Watermelon Man (1970)
Plot Summary:
Jeff Gerber, an insurance agent, lives in a typical suburban neighborhood. He is also both racist and a fitness freak. But Jeff's bigoted world of taunting and harassing black people on and off the job is turned upside down when his skin inexplicably turns dark overnight. As Jeff tries to come to terms with this unexplained phenomenon that has befallen him, he soon becomes the victim himself when all of his friends and neighbors suddenly shun and harass him. This puts a strain on his marriage and loyal wife Althea, who begins to crack under the pressure. When all medical attempts to change his skin back to his former color fail, Jeff accepts that Kharma has caught up with him. Jeff tries to see the light of being a persecuted black man in this cruel and segregated world with the help of some of some new black friends, some of whom were people he, as a white man, taunted and harassed.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: surreal, cult classic, humorous, disturbing, biting, black comedy, funny, light, political, social
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Defending Your Life (1991)
Plot Summary:
In an afterlife resembling the present-day US, people must prove their worth by showing in court how they have demonstrated courage.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, humorous, philosophical, sweet, light, spiritual, semi serious, funny, cult classic
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Heart and Souls (1993)
Plot Summary:
A businessman is reunited with the four lost souls who were his guardian angels during childhood, all with a particular purpose to joining the afterlife.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, sentimental, humorous, light, sweet, semi serious, inspirational, romantic, entertaining