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Plot Summary:
16-yr.-old Ben wants to escape the small town he lives in, but a local bar owner persuades him to help with his idea to use UFOs to attract tourists.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
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California Girls (1985)
Plot Summary:
A New Jersey auto mechanic travels to California to find the girl of his dreams and woos a bikini fashion model while the time quarreling with her high-powered manager and avoiding his New Jersey girlfriend who comes looking for him.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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Mythopathy (2016)
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It is a movie following the coming-of-age for a boy; the story begins in the mid-60s, continues all through the 70s, and finishes in 1981. He is a creative young man facing the troubles of the first pangs of love and we observe the way he tries to handle them within his social surroundings, his family, and environment.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 99 min
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Legion of Doom (2018)
Plot Summary:
A loose mix of friends freeload through film school and beyond.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min
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I Dream Too Much (2015)
Plot Summary:
Dora Welles is an imaginative college grad ready to experience all the excitement of life. Instead she finds herself in snowy upstate New York caring for her reclusive great aunt (who has lived a much more exciting life than anyone realizes).
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 330
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
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Konopielka (1982)
Plot Summary:
Kaziuk, a stubborn peasant and his pregnant wife live in a backwood village, unaffected by the civilization. The village is once visited by a couple of wanderers, and strange things start to happen afterward. A new schoolteacher is sent to the area. She stirs erotic fantasies in Kaziuk. In a stir of frustration Kaziuk cuts down a family tree - a sacrilegious act in the eyes of his family. Going a step further and using a scythe for cutting the rye instead of a sickle brings the whole village against him.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 886
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min
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Fitting In (2023)
Plot Summary:
A teenage girl gets diagnosed with a reproductive condition that upends her plans to have sex and propels her into exploring unusual methods to have a sex life, challenging her relationships with everyone in her life, but most importantly, herself.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min
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The Bug Killer (1971)
Plot Summary:
A teenager fails to find (and keep) jobs which makes his father doubt the reason might be the boy's lack of sexual experience. As all his efforts prove to be unsuccessful, the father gives up, but not the boy's aunt.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 240
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 66 min
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The Last Pig (2016)
Plot Summary:
Plum out of luck, Swabian farmer Huber’s farm goes under. Then his girlfriend Birgit takes over her father’s newly-acquired firm – in former East Germany. That's reason enough for Huber to bail on his debts and head out on a road trip through southwest Germany.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Once Upon A Time In Indian Country (2017)
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A wild genre mix between a boxer film, urban western, road movie and music video, set at end of the summer holidays in a drab neighborhood in the outskirts of Hamburg suburbia. Young boxing talent Mauser is preparing for a pivotal competition when his father kills his step-mother and flees. Trying to find his father, Mauser embarks on a journey through the world of music, psychedelia, violence, love and a biblical thunderstorm. And what is with the Native American? "Once upon a time in Indian country" is a story that radiates both, heat and poetry.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min
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The Olive Tree (2016)
Plot Summary:
Alma’s family has been producing quality olive oil in the Baix Maestrat area of Spain’s Castellón for generations. Yet changing pressures in the industry have made their traditional practices economically untenable, and the family is now in the mass-production poultry business. Alma’s grandfather has not spoken in years. Sadness envelopes him, and he no longer wants to eat. His sons—Alma’s father and uncle—are impatient with him, but Alma understands her grandfather. She realizes he has been grieving for a thousand-year-old olive tree that the family has uprooted and sold to pay some debts. (A sadly common reality in Castellón at present.) Unable to bear the idea that her grandfather could die without seeing this terrible wrong corrected, Alma undertakes a quixotic mission to locate the tree and return it to the family orchard, so that her grandfather may have peace in his final days.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: road movie, sincere, touching, humorous, semi serious, silent, silent film
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Moon Dogs (2016)
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A wonderfully sustained feature debut from Philip John (who directed episodes of Downton Abbey and Outlander), this anarchic coming-of-age story makes the very best of some stunning Scottish locations. It follows the misadventures of two teenage step brothers (Jack Parry-Jones and Christy O’Donnell) as they head off on a road trip across Scotland, with their relationship challenged by Caitlin (a charismatic Tara Lee), the free spirited and enigmatic girl who comes between them. Cameos from Denis Lawson and Shauna Macdonald and Anton Newcombe’s soundtrack add much to the film.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 303
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 93 min
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Girlfriends (1978)
Plot Summary:
A photographer and her girlfriend are roommates. She is stuck with small-change shooting jobs and dreams of success. When her roommate decides to get married and leave, she feels hurt and has to learn how to deal with living alone.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, independent film, art house, cult classic
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Acting Hamlet in the Village of Mrdusa Donja (1974)
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In Shakespeare's Hamlet, the leading character observes "The play's the thing, wherein to catch the conscience of the king." In this Yugoslavian movie, a performance of Hamlet in a small village apparently catches the conscience of the whole town. The village commissar, who knows nothing of the play, insists on mounting a production of Hamlet over the objections of the village teacher, who knows the tale well. Thinking only of the prestige it will bring, the commissar plans to use local villagers in the parts. The son of a man the commissar had framed for theft gets the part of Hamlet, and the commissar plays the usurping king. During a fight scene, the boy Hamlet, manages to wrest a confession to the thefts from the town treasurer, but when he hears of his father's suicide, he promptly stabs the commissar. The commissar, bleeding, orders the post-performance dance to go on.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 96 min
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The Wicked Uncle (2011)
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In a small Swiss village, a school sports coach is accused of molestation by the mother of one of his pupils. The citizens are outraged…that the mother could make such a claim – for the coach she accuses is a local hero, a former world champion who has become the town’s closest thing to a sporting legend.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, satirical, disturbing, intellectual, independent film
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Grave Decisions (2006)
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In this black comedy set in small-town Bavaria, 11-year-old Sebastian thinks you can never be too young to be a murderer. He's convinced that he killed his mother on the day he was born and is certain he's already been condemned to purgatory. Deciding he might be able to knock off a few years of his sentence by doing good deeds, Sebastian sets out to find a wife for his father Lorenz. When Lorenz and Sebastian's schoolteacher Veronika fall madly in love with each other, it seems the heavens must be smiling. There's just one hitch: Veronika is married.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, psychological, realistic, dark comedy, offbeat
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Mendel (1997)
Plot Summary:
A Jewish family leaves Germany after surviving the Holocaust and heads to Norway. Mendel, their youngest son, is too young to make sense of the Holocaust but tries to comprehend his family's actions during the war and their nightmares now. His imagination frequently runs away from him.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: uplifting, touching, bleak, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy, fairy tale, crying
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Monkey King (2016)
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Wolfi is in his mid-40s and wants to revisit the good old days with his three best buddies in the Provence, where life is good. Little does he realize that his old chums are in the middle of growing up for real, bringing their wives and kids and all their everyday family problems too.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 98 min
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Gigantics (1999)
Plot Summary:
The Hamburg friends Walter, Ricco and Floyd take each day as it comes between the estates of tower blocks and fast food restaurants. All three are in their early twenties and are dreaming of another life when Floyd suddenly takes a job on a freighter going to Singapore….
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film, road movie, touching, humorous, emotional, realistic, semi serious, spoof, feel good, parody
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A Jar Full of Life (2018)
Plot Summary:
Marleen (Jella Haase) is 20, but can't choose, what to do with her life. Her older brother (Matthias Schweighöfer) traveled the world for years but never has been to the Antarctic. He is at home for a few days, but the ticket for the next ship is already bought. He loves adventures and just before he dies in a car crash, Marleen has to promise him, to start enjoying life and adventures. While her family mourns over his death, Marleen decides to fulfill her brothers last will and takes his trip to the Antarctic with no money in her pocket - and soon with a little goat at her side.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 581
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: road movie, light, sentimental, sincere, humorous, captivating
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We Need a Vacation (2002)
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It is the end of the school year for the children of a dormitory town. Most of them leave the place for a vacation with their parents but not Lucien and Adama whose parents can't afford the expense. While the big brothers of the housing estate are busy breaking the law Lulu and Adama manage to sneak into their neighbors' trailer. The two stowaways are elated until they reach their destination: a nudist camp...!.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min
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The Year of the First Kiss (2002)
Plot Summary:
31 year-old Tristan remembers the time when he was 15 and had just hit puberty. But he is not alone in this, he is with a large group of friends: Specki, a fat kid who is always stuffing himself, Streusel, a cheeky boy covered with spots, Tümai, a pretty Turkish girl, Kerstin, best friend of Tümai and very sporty, Elrond, with a heavy stutter, but regardless extremely popular and good looking, Lars and Simone, so far the only couple in the class who spend most of their time smooching and Long Jana, a girl who is at least 6 foot tall and extremely skinny.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 325
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Quality Time (2013)
Plot Summary:
You can’t choose your family – which is why Conrad limits his visits with his parents to an absolute minimum. When venomous, irritable Carl injures himself seriously in a fall, his reluctant son Conrad and the butt-of-all-jokes Jonas has no choice but to move back into his old childhood room. Three generations under one roof: a chance for reconciliation – or a total disaster?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, feel good, sentimental, realistic, semi serious, crying
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Solino (2002)
Plot Summary:
The movie portrays the story of an Italian family emigrated in Germany in the 1970s. Romano (Gigi Savoia), the father, decides to open a pizzeria which, by mutual decision with the wife Rosa (Antonella Attili), will call Solino, leaving his sons Gigi and Giancarlo to work there. A hostile relationship comes to life between the father and his sons, which will end up in the escape of the boys from family.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, independent film, offbeat
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The Art of Crying (2006)
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Life is not easy for 11-year-old Allan living in South Jutland during the early 1970s. His mentally unstable father frequently threatens suicide and his mother has long since given up. It's up to Allan to keep the family together. When a rival family threatens his father's livelihood, Allan starts committing atrocious acts.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, black comedy, cult classic, crying, cult film
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Smoke (1995)
Plot Summary:
Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul tells homeless Rashid that he wouldn't mind a short-term housemate. Still grieving over his wife's murder, Paul is moved by both Rashid's quest to reconnect with his father and Auggie's discovery that a woman who might be his daughter is about to give birth.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Japan, USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, sentimental, clever, touching, intellectual, feel good, mumblecore, anthology, art house
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The Chumscrubber (2005)
Plot Summary:
The Chumscrubber is a dark comedy about the lives of people who live in upper-class suburbia. It all begins when Dean Stiffle finds the body of his friend, Troy. He doesn't bother telling any of the adults because he knows they won't care. Everyone in town is too self consumed to worry about anything else than themselves. And everybody is on some form of drug just to get through their days.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: surreal, dark comedy, bleak, independent film, black comedy, humorous, semi serious, witty, dark, clever
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Two Bits (1995)
Plot Summary:
It's a hot summer day in 1933 in South Philly, where 12-year old Gennaro lives with his widowed mom and his ailing grandpa, who sits outside holding tight to his last quarter, which he's promised to Gennaro and which Gennaro would like to have to buy a ticket to the plush new movie theater. But grandpa's not ready to pass on the quarter or pass on to his final reward: he has some unfinished business with a woman from his past, and he enlists Gennaro to act as his emissary.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, emotional, independent film, anamorphic, cult classic, serious, realistic, thought provoking, feel good
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The Damned Rain (2009)
Plot Summary:
There's more at stake than just failed crops when a drought strikes a rural community in this comedy-drama from India.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: semi serious, atmospheric, captivating, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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Umrika (2015)
Plot Summary:
When a young village boy discovers that his brother, long believed to be in America, has actually gone missing, he begins to invent letters on his behalf to save their mother from heartbreak, all the while searching for him.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious, avant garde
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Angus (1995)
Plot Summary:
Angus is a large, pathetic 14 year old whose thoughts are most often filled with the image of one Melissa Lefevre. Angus is shy and thinks that he has no chance of ever 'getting' her. Being especially uncool, he is incredibly surprised (along with the rest of the school) that he is chosen to dance with her at the Winter Ball. The only one not surprised is the cool-kid who set him up to fail, but Angus' best friend is going to help him win the heart of Melissa by developing a new look for him.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, sentimental, humorous, teen, touching, realistic, epic, semi serious, independent film