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Plot Summary:
Six vignettes pit an assortment of characters against each other in everyday situations.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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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
Plot tags:
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Love Matters (2009)
Plot Summary:
"Love Matters" is a movie revolving around three main protagonists - 52-year-old Tan Bo Seng, his 17-year-old teenage son Benny and 36-year-old Jeremy, Bo Seng's 'adopted' brother - and their accidental journey in seeking and keeping love and happiness. Bo Seng (Henry Thia) who leads a routine life attempts to revive the passion with his wife Jia Li (Yeo Yann Yann). Jeremy (Jack Lim) lives a colourful life; with "Never to commit" as his motto for love. Benny (Alex Leong) has just started school life and his only distraction is his crush, Jennifer (Natalli) who is his classmate's girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Singapore
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags:
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The Zoo Gang (1985)
Plot Summary:
A former boxer known as Old Leather Face opens a nightclub called the Zoo, which does not do a good business. A group of homeless teenagers want to rent the place and start what they hope will be a profitable business, but a gang threatens to shut it down. Old Leather Face accepts the teenagers offer and becomes involved with trying to help them succeed.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, teen comedy
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1941 Hong Kong on Fire (1994)
Plot Summary:
A family suffers at the hands of the Japanese during the occupation of Hong Kong.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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O'Hara's Wife (1982)
Plot Summary:
Workaholic attorney Bob O'Hara (Asner) is devastated when his wife (Hartley) dies suddenly. She returns to "haunt" him, however, (a la "Topper") and her mission is to persuade him to slow down, watch his own health, and renew relationships with his two grown children (Foster and Lang.).
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Spike of Bensonhurst (1988)
Plot Summary:
Spike Fumo is an Italian kid apsiring to be a boxer. He falls in love with a rich girl, who turns out to be the daughter of a Mafia boss. Spike is threatened to leave Bensonhurst by the mob, and then goes to a poverty-stricken Puerto Rican part of Brooklyn.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 459
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, gay cinema, cult film
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Welcome to the Quiet Room (2007)
Plot Summary:
28 year old freelance writer Sakura Asuka (Yuki Uchida) wakes up tied in a white room. The white room is a protected room located in an isolated ward of a psychiatric hospital. Sakura first became unconscious because of heavy alcohol use and a druge overdose. She’s confined in the single room because of her high risk of committing suicide. Sakura tried to talk to the nurses and doctors but they didn’t listen to her. Under the circumstances another patient Miki (Yu Aoi), who suffers from an eating disorder, leads her to understand the unknown world. But, Sakura is looking for the way to get back to the real world as soon as possible.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 708
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags:
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The Voyeur (1970)
Plot Summary:
Forty-year-old Sandro (Marcello Mastroianni) is married to Claude (Virna Lisi). Sandro has one strange obsession: he is a self confessed voyeur. He films his wife in all walks of life on his wobbly hand held camcorder. But everything changes when Mark (Timothy Dalton) enters their life. Written by Steven Dixon.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Period Piece (2006)
Plot Summary:
From Critically-Acclaimed Underground Filmmaker Giuseppe Andrews (Trailer Town, Touch Me in the Morning) comes Period Piece, his most ambitious film experiment yet! Featuring talking tater tots, fornicating teddy bears, a smoking dead pig and the most disturbing visage of God ever put on screen, Period Piece threads together multiple plotlines following a unique assortment of tragicomic characters living along the Ventura Highway. There’s the retired police officer (Walt Dongo), broken and homeless after the untimely death of his son during a birthday camping trip. The elderly homebound father (Tyree), hopelessly doomed to pantomime the sexual conquests of his glory days with an imaginary prostitute named Serenity. The French Midget writing his epic screenplay about a half-man/half-stuffed animal chauffeur. This truly independent masterpiece takes Andrews one-of-a-kind aesthetic to a new level of surreal hilarity, creating a portrait of love and death you’ll never forget.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: controversial, existential, independent film
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The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder (1974)
Plot Summary:
After returning home from the war, Vietnam veteran Julius Vrooder resides in a veteran's hospital, where he has been vaguely diagnosed as "psychiatrically impaired." Taking the news with an air of initially lighthearted defiance, Vrooder escapes and sets up camp under a highway, where he builds a paranoia-driven booby-trapped bunker for himself. Falling in love with not-so-bright nurse Zanni, Vrooder soon plans to elope with her to a remote Canadian outpost.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Paint (2023)
Plot Summary:
Carl Nargle, Vermont’s #1 public television painter, is convinced he has it all: a signature perm, custom van, and fans hanging on his every stroke… until a younger, better artist steals everything (and everyone) Carl loves.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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The Crazy Family (1984)
Plot Summary:
The Kobayashi family finally get the chance to move out of their tiny, cramped Tokyo apartment in favour of the suburban house of their dreams. But all is not well: the house is infested by termites and the family starts cracking up: Son Masaki is studying so obsessively for his exams that he's losing his mind; daughter Erika is oblivious of all but her forthcoming record company audition, grandfather Yasukuni starts getting World War II flashbacks and father Katsuhiko is so worried about his family's "sickness" that he thinks can only be cured by group suicide.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 950
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, deep, surprise ending, manga, allegory, black comedy, weird, cult film
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Tate's Voyage (1998)
Plot Summary:
Tate, a young and crooked businessman, thinks he can get rich quick by buying a Russian freighter in the port of Rotterdam. This turns out to be a fiasco because the ship has been arrested, the freight has been sealed by the customs and the crew has been waiting for months for their wages. When his girlfriend falls in love with the ship's mate, Tate makes a decision. He takes pity on the suffering crew and tries to save them from their helpless predicament. Written by Dennis Jansen.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Offset (2006)
Plot Summary:
The plot focuses on the lives of the soon to be married Stefan, a German working in Romania for a wealthy and eccentric printing company owner, Nicu Iorga and his soon-to-be bride Brîndușa, who is Nicu's secretary.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Romania, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: intercultural
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Dream with the Fishes (1997)
Plot Summary:
A suicidal man who can't kill himself agrees to finance his terminally ill neighbor's bucket list of fantasies if, at the end, the neighbor will kill him.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, grim, humorous, realistic, gloomy, semi serious, surprise ending, crying, black comedy, scary
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Hungry Hearts (2002)
Plot Summary:
The story focuses on a young, up-and-coming chef who caters a party for four mysterious women only to discover they have a shocking surprise in store for him.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, black comedy, dark comedy
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Second Thoughts (1983)
Plot Summary:
Lawyer Amy finds herself courted by two very different men: her client, a roguish street musician named Will, and her ex John Michael. A curious triangle develops as Amy gets pregnant by Will and both men vie for her affections.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Hammer (2017)
Plot Summary:
When prison boxer George "The Hammer" Martin is offered freedom for fighting in the 1984 Olympics, he says no in order to protect the woman he loves, forcing his best friend to learn the true meaning of loyalty.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags:
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Two Days (2003)
Plot Summary:
Paul Miller (Paul Rudd - Friends, The Cider House Rules) has struggled as an actor in Hollywood for years, and now he's had enough. But not just of show business-of life. In two days, he's going to kill himself. But in true Hollywood style, he's hired a film crew to chronicle his last moments and the events leading up to them; it's the role of a lifetime. Often ironic and darkly comical, this is the story of a man searching for meaning and hope. This is the story of two days in the life of Paul Miller. The only question is, will they be his last?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 996
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: realistic, witty, semi serious, humorous, cerebral, offbeat, crying, mockumentary, documentary filmmaking
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Article 99 (1992)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Richard Sturgess leads a team of compassionate doctors at a veteran's hospital. Along with Drs. Morgan, Handleman and Van Dorn, he fights to deliver adequate care to needy veterans in the face of funding cuts and a corrupt administration. To succeed, the staff may have to bend the rules and circumvent the villainous "Article 99," a bureaucratic loophole that prevents veterans from receiving the benefits they deserve.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, thought provoking, realistic, semi serious, biting, medical drama, independent film, sentimental, light, feel good
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My Suicidal Sweetheart (2005)
Plot Summary:
A suicidal comedy about two young lovers who get married and escape from a mental institution in search of new ways to die...and the white light.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: light, touching, captivating, melancholic, crying
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Julian Po (1997)
Plot Summary:
Christian Slater is a stranger who comes to a small town. The local citizens think he's up to no good. After bothering him for a while, he blurts out in frustration, that he is there to kill himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: offbeat, psychological, touching, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious, independent film
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Shrink (2009)
Plot Summary:
Unable to cope with a recent personal tragedy, LA's top celebrity shrink turns into a pothead with no concern for his appearance and a creeping sense of his inability to help his patients.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, depressing, emotional, sentimental, serious, sincere, touching, dark comedy, philosophical
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Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981)
Plot Summary:
Ken Harrison is an artist that lives to make sculptures. One day he is involved in a car accident, and is paralyzed from his neck down. All he can do is talk and move his head, and he wants to die. Whilst he is in hospital he makes friends with some of the staff, and they support him when he goes to trial to be allowed to die.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: sad, touching, emotional, psychological, sincere, uplifting, serious, realistic, biting, sentimental
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Captain Fantastic (2016)
Plot Summary:
A father living in the forests of the Pacific Northwest with his six young kids tries to assimilate back into society.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 231000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: intellectual, philosophical, sad, cerebral, sweet, emotional, feel good, inspirational, touching, realistic
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Mumford (1999)
Plot Summary:
In the small town of Mumford, a psychologist of the same name moves in and quickly becomes very popular, despite a questionable past.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, psychological, melancholic, compassionate, light, touching, semi serious, clever
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Henry Poole Is Here (2008)
Plot Summary:
Henry Poole abandons his fiancée and family business to spend what he believes are his remaining days alone. The discovery of a 'miracle' by a nosy neighbor ruptures his solitude and restores his faith in life.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, intense, feel good, humorous, semi serious, philosophical, spiritual, existential, hilarious
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Happiness (1998)
Plot Summary:
The lives of many individuals connected by the desire for happiness, often from sources usually considered dark or evil.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 73000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: black comedy, cynical, independent film, dark comedy, depressing, bleak, art house, disturbing, psychological, psychedelic
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My Suicide (2009)
Plot Summary:
A teen coming-of-age romantic dramedy about a media-obsessed geek and the most beautiful and twisted girl in school.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film, depressing, teen, clever, offbeat
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Terri (2011)
Plot Summary:
Terri, a pajama-clad, disaffected high school student learns how to engage the world with the help of Mr. Fitzgerald, his assistant principal.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: melancholic, compassionate, mumblecore, clever, thought provoking, sweet, surreal, visually appealing, sex comedy, comedy drama