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Plot Summary:
A country romance about the human streak in the horse and the horse in the human. Love and death become interlaced and with terrible consequences. The fortunes of the people in the country through the horses' perception.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Iceland, Germany, Norway
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: sincere, bleak, stylized, semi serious, atmospheric, humorous, realistic, black comedy, thought provoking, offbeat
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Dark Horse (2005)
Plot Summary:
A young man spurs romance and helps his friend and himself go through the struggles of their ordinary life in Denmark.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, Iceland
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: sincere, semi serious, bleak, humorous, realistic, inspirational, independent film, black comedy, romantic comedy, offbeat
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Baikonur (2011)
Plot Summary:
“Whatever falls from heaven, you may keep.” So goes the unwritten law of the Kazakh steppes. A law avidly adhered to by the inhabitants of a small village, who collect the space debris that falls downrange from the nearby Baikonur space station. The last two youthful members of the village are the radio operator Iskander, known as Gagarin, and the spirited Nazira. While Nazira finds it increasing difficult to conceal her love for Iskander by means of her unconventional behaviour, Iskander is evidently not only crazy about Baikonur and the vastness of outer space, but also deeply smitten with the beautiful French astronaut Julie Mahé, whose journey to the stars he wistfully follows on television.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 574
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Russia, Kazakhstan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, offbeat
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No Rest for the Brave (2003)
Plot Summary:
A strange man is involved in a village massacre and drug dealing.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Austria
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: experimental, humorous, surreal, psychological, atmospheric, mind bending, offbeat, serious, realistic, stylized
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South from Granada (2003)
Plot Summary:
Brenan arrives at Yegen on foot, interrupting the funeral held for the daughter of the local cacique. He collapses from dysentery and soon learns that the local cacique, Don Fernando, is leaving for Granada with his wife. Brenan rents Fernando’s house for a year and soon enlists the services of María as housekeeper and cook and becomes friends with a local man named Paco. Brenan spends most of his time reading, walking, and trying to write poetry.His friends Dora Carrington, Lytton Strachey (who is ill), and Ralph Partridge visit for a couple of days. Brenan, who has been maintaining a correspondence with Carrington, learns during the visit that Partridge and Carrington are engaged. He is crushed, as he had been in love with Carrington.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 950
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: sentimental, atmospheric, realistic, semi serious
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Tuvalu (1999)
Plot Summary:
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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Undertaking Betty (2002)
Plot Summary:
A politician's wife and the mortician who has secretly loved her for years plan to fake her death so they can run away together.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, dark comedy, romantic, cynical, feel good, black comedy, hilarious, realistic, witty
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Don Juan (1998)
Plot Summary:
Spain in the mid-seventeenth century. A series of bloody wars has ravaged the nation. Don Juan the nobleman and his valet, Sganarelle, roam the countryside on horseback, on the run and lost.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 510
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Spain, Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, stylized, light, captivating, fairy tale, realistic, semi serious
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Children of Nature (1991)
Plot Summary:
An elderly couple leave their retirement home to make one last journey back to their home in the Western Fjords.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Iceland, Norway, Germany
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic
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The Man Without a Past (2002)
Plot Summary:
The second part of Aki Kaurismäki's "Finland" trilogy, the film follows a man who arrives in Helsinki and gets beaten up so severely he develops amnesia. Unable to remember his name or anything from his past life, he cannot get a job or an apartment, so he starts living on the outskirts of the city and slowly starts putting his life back on track.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, Germany, France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: bleak, satirical, black comedy, touching, humorous, semi serious, dark comedy, clever, contemplative, art house
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Gravehopping (2005)
Plot Summary:
Pero is a professional funeral speaker in a small Slovenian town. His unique gift is to make every funeral that extra bit special. Pero just can't help turning his eulogies into witty personal confessions that bring the grieving crowd to tears for all the wrong reasons.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 936
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Croatia, Slovenia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: bleak, humorous, semi serious, offbeat, realistic, slapstick
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House of Angels (1992)
Plot Summary:
In a small village in Västergötland, everything is turned upside-down when the local loner dies and his cottage is inherited by his unknown relative Fanny. She rides into tow on a big black motorcycle with her androgenic boyfriend Zack, wearing black leather and spikes. When they decide to stay, Flogfält's plans to buy the cottage are upset.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Skyskraber (2011)
Plot Summary:
Jon is 17. He lives in the midst of a claustrophobic world which once seemed destined to become a seething metropolis of high-rise tower blocks and intersections until one day an absurd traffic accident occurs. At the time, Jon was made responsible. He had just turned nine years of age. Ever since, Jon’s father has anxiously watched over Jon’s development. But then one day Jon’s desire is awakened by a girl and, all at once, his oppressive environment begins to change.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 470
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, touching, realistic, semi serious, humorous, dark comedy
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The Northerners (1992)
Plot Summary:
A black comedy set in the 1960s in a small Netherlands community, populated by a cast of eccentrics, all of whom hold a range of sexual obsessions and frustrated desires.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, slasher, art house, black comedy, cult classic, atmospheric, offbeat, humorous, realistic, surreal
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Mifune (1999)
Plot Summary:
Kresten, newly wed, is on the threshold of a great career success in his father-in-law´s company. But when the death of his own father takes him back to his poverty-stricken childhood home, far out in the country, his career plans fall apart. For one thing he has to deal with his loveable, backward brother, who is now all alone; for another, he meets a stunning woman who comes to the farm as a housekeeper, in disguise of her real profession as a call-girl.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Romance, Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: clever, dark comedy, romantic, psychological, sincere, atmospheric, offbeat, humorous, captivating, realistic
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Boats Out of Watermelon Rinds (2004)
Plot Summary:
In his award-winning debut feature film, director Ahmet Ulucay portrays the innocence of childhood and the lure of the cinema for two teens in a small Turkish village. Working for a watermelon seller by day, Remet spends his evenings trying to rebuild a film projector with his friend Mehmet. Both have big dreams to be famous film directors one day.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, humorous, sentimental, sincere, semi serious, art house, islamic
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Graduate First (1978)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends, coming to the end of their school years, fill their days with sex, drugs and rock'n'roll.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 978
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sincere, thought provoking, touching, bleak, serious, realistic, contemplative, cinema verite
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Love and Pigeons (1985)
Plot Summary:
Shown a life in the remote siberian village. Vasia, who never leave his family, village, comes to pass summer holiday on the Black Sea. New world, new people - so, hi's temted by a half-crazy woman (Raisa Zaharovna). And after short time Vasia returns to his wife and children.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, realistic, feel good, talky, sentimental, sincere, semi serious, touching
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Oyster Farmer (2004)
Plot Summary:
A love story about a young man who runs away up an isolated Australian river and gets a job with eighth generation oyster famers.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, offbeat, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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The Medicine Show (2001)
Plot Summary:
A cynical young man, diagnosed with cancer, meets a brash young leukemia patient in the hospital who more than matches his distaste for IV drips and weepy sentimentality.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, independent film, clever, offbeat, black comedy, dark comedy
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Cousin Bette (1998)
Plot Summary:
Cousin Bette is a poor and lonely seamstress, who, after the death of her prominent and wealthy sister, tries to ingratiate herself into lives of her brother-in-law, Baron Hulot, and her niece, Hortense Hulot. Failing to do so, she instead finds solace and company in a handsome young sculptor she saves from starvation. But the aspiring artist soon finds love in the arms of another woman, Hortense, leaving Bette a bitter spinster. Bette plots to take revenge on the family who turned her away and stole her only love. With the help of famed courtesan Jenny Cadine she slowly destroys the lives of those who have scorned her. Written by [email protected].
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, talky, realistic, semi serious, witty, stylized, black comedy, erotic, gothic
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Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2002)
Plot Summary:
The strange comedy film of two close brothers; one, Wilbur, who wants to kill himself, and the other, Harbour, who tries to prevent this. When their father dies leaving them his bookstore they meet a woman who makes their lives a bit better yet with a bit more trouble as well.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, UK, Sweden, France
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, black comedy, dark comedy, independent film, offbeat, clever, realistic, semi serious
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Monday Morning (2002)
Plot Summary:
A story told quietly of Vincent a welder at a large and seemingly toxic plant along the Rhône, living in a village with his sons, wife, and mother, saying little to each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: humorous, psychological, sincere, captivating, road movie, realistic, witty, semi serious
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The Merry Widow (2007)
Plot Summary:
Anne-Marie vient de perdre son mari dans un accident de voiture. Elle est enfin libre d'aimer celui qu'elle voit en cachette depuis deux ans. Mais elle n'a pas prévu que sa famille, pétrie de bons sentiments, a décidé de rester à ses côtés pour la soutenir dans son chagrin. Anne-Marie se retrouve alors encore plus prisonnière que lorsqu'elle était mariée.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 983
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, touching, captivating, biting, suspense
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All Night Long (1981)
Plot Summary:
Executive George Dupler loses his temper and is demoted to the night manager at a 24 hour drugstore. After he suggests to his teenage son Freddie that he stop having an affair with suburban housewife Cheryl Gibbons, who is a distant cousin, Cheryl tries to seduce George. At home, in front of his mother, Freddie accuses his dad of stealing his girl, because he found Cheryl serving George a meal in the middle of the night, while her husband Bobby was on duty at the fire station. George then separates from his wife Helen, quits his job, moves into a warehouse, and asks Cheryl to move in with him.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic, offbeat, sexual, sexy
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Enemies: A Love Story (1989)
Plot Summary:
A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: emotional, talky, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sad, gloomy, independent film, black comedy
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Divine Intervention (2007)
Plot Summary:
Reverend Robert Gibbs is a young, hip pastor who temporarily takes over the helm of a Fundamentalist Baptist church while his predecessor Reverend Matthews recovers from a stroke. While trying to impress Reverend Matthews, Gibbs has to win the approval of his congregation, the Deacon board, and most importantly Reverend Matthews? daughter Divine, who has recently lost her faith in God.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, christian film, spiritual, black comedy, offbeat, realistic
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Shadows in the Sun (2005)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring young writer (Jackson) tracks a literary titan (Keitel) suffering from writers block to his refuge in rural Italy and learns about life and love from the irascible genius and his daughters.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, realistic, sincere, romantic, light, philosophical, sentimental, humorous, semi serious
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The Seagull's Laughter (2001)
Plot Summary:
Post-war provincial Iceland: around 1950, Freyja, who'd been a plump teen, returns from America, a widow with a 20-inch waist, seven suitcases of dresses, and a list of who ever wronged or slighted her. She moves in with an aunt and socialist uncle: finding a new husband is high on her agenda, and she's mistrusted by Agga, a pre-teen who's our eyes and ears. The social order and Freyja are more complicated than they seem at first, and so may be her prospects. Class divisions, families ties, pride, the onset of puberty, and the power of Eros sliver the ice.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 695
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iceland, Germany, UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, humorous, realistic, semi serious, dark comedy
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101 Reykjavík (2000)
Plot Summary:
Thirty-year-old Hlynur still lives with his mother and spends his days drinking, watching porn and surfing the net while living off unemployment checks. A girl is interested in him, but he stands back from commitment. His mother's Spanish flamenco teacher, Lola, moves in with them for Christmas. On New Year's Eve, while his mother is away, Hlynur finds out Lola is a lesbian, but also ends up having sex with her. He soon finds out he and his mother are sharing more than a house. Eventually he must find out where he fits into the puzzle, and how to live life less selfishly.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Iceland, Denmark, France, Norway, Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, dark comedy, black comedy, humorous, realistic, sexual, sensual, sincere, clever, offbeat
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Happily Ever After (2007)
Plot Summary:
Director Yukihiko Tsutsumi wrings laughs out of an unlikely topic -- domestic violence -- in this dark comedy about noodle-shop waitress Yukie Morita (Miki Nakatani), who puts up with the fiery temper, gambling and cruelty of her shiftless, ex-gangster boyfriend (Hiroshi Abe). But as flashbacks reveal, there's a reason behind Yukie's unconditional love for her man. Yûko Natori and Mayumi Sada also star.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 353
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: stylized, humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat