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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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People (2016)
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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Tweek City (2005)
Plot Summary:
Tweek City is a week in the life of Bill, a potentially closeted, half-Latino, small-time speed dealer in San Francisco's Mission District. Bill is stuck on an endless walk from one empty experience to the next. Only Bill's friend Jerm has the ability to connect and ground him in reality. When Jerm makes an ill-advised stage dive, Bill plunges into a downward spiral that takes him on a nocturnal journey through the streets of San Francisco and ultimately down to Los Angeles where he crashes his high school sweetheart's wedding. From his sleep-deprived, hallucinogenic state, Bill fails miserably in a desperate attempt to reconnect with his first and only love. With nowhere else to go, Bill jacks a car and ends up at the deserted drive-in theater of his childhood where he is forced to confront the ghosts that he had tried to leave behind.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 188
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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Crucial Years (1967)
Plot Summary:
Juraj, a Slovak artist living in Prague, takes stock in hus life, realizing that his days pass without purpose. He lives a carefree life. But now he has to choose between two women, between the city and the country, and between creative work and craftsmanship. He has a passion for art but he also has to make a living. Through his relationships with close people, he grows aware of his position and this knowledge helps him to live a more fulfilling and better life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: freeze frame
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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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A Wind from Wyoming (1994)
Plot Summary:
Manon, is obsessed with famous writer Chester Celine, who hails from Wyoming. Manon learns Chester is coming to town and becomes a slinky, svelte temptress.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: black comedy, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Lighter Fluid (2016)
Plot Summary:
An experimental look into the lives of teens and young adults in a dysfunctional town.
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Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 66 min
Plot tags: experimental
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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
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Two Tons of Turquoise to Taos Tonight (1975)
Plot Summary:
A film without a beginning or an end, Moment to Moment is a rush of curious sketches, scenes, and shots that takes on a rhythmic life of its own.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: absurd, avant garde
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Toto Who Lived Twice (1998)
Plot Summary:
The film has three stories. First is about local village idiot Paletta, who can not afford the services of a whore and so steals a locket from a holy shrine belonging to local mafia don. Second shows the story of betrayal of Pitrinu (who's dead now) by his lover Fefe. Final episode is about lowlife Lazarus. He is killed by mob boss Toto, but raised from the dead by a local messiah, who is also known as Toto (and is played by same actor).
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 570
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: experimental, controversial, anthology, aesthetic, disturbing, avant garde, grotesque
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You've Got To Walk It Like You Talk It or You'll Lose That Beat (1971)
Plot Summary:
This oddball counterculture comedy/drama follows Zalman King through a series of kooky misadventures while he searches for his life's purpose in New York City.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Poodle (1979)
Plot Summary:
Bernard and his sister Eloisa live in a ramshackle house, the rest of their ancient past and prosperity. They are waiting for their old and sick Aunt Lina to die, to inherit her vast fortune and meanwhile have a morbid existence, full of obsessions and manias.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 375
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: controversial, ambiguous ending
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I Love You, Daddy (2017)
Plot Summary:
When a successful television writer's daughter becomes the interest of an aging filmmaker with an appalling past, he becomes worried about how to handle the situation.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: controversial, captivating, entertaining, visual, underground film, black and white
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The Right Way (2004)
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Amy and David are two underachievers from suburbia. Amy has had a rough life raised by her neglectful drug addicted single mother. David has been raised in a more conventional family, but his lack of motivation has driven his father crazy. When Amy meets David it seems they both find what they are looking for. But when Amy gets pregnant, both Amy and David go through a personal and surreal crisis in making choices. Which leads them to decide if they should do it the right way or the wrong way?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, surreal, controversial, independent film, humorous, semi serious, sex comedy, black comedy
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The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards (2015)
Plot Summary:
Seven vignettes explore the difference between fantasy and reality, memory and history, and the joy and agony of the human condition.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychological, thought provoking, serious, satirical, disturbing, existential
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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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Elevator Movie (2004)
Plot Summary:
Jim is a shy, withdrawn loner, pervert, and virgin. Lana is a friendly and outgoing born again Christian who has renounced her promiscuous drug filled past. They have never met until they step into an elevator together one day. The elevator gets stuck between floors, and they start to get to know each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, minimal cast, mind bending, psychedelic, surreal, cult classic, dark comedy
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The Illusionist (1983)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers end up separated for one of them has mental issues. Meanwhile one of the two follows his dream in becoming a magician. Filled with surrealism and slaspstick moments the film is a speechless adventure of emotions providing laughters and fear, emptyness and joy, but mostly a stunnig and memorable visual spectacle.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 720
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, offbeat, humorous, experimental, surreal, stylized, semi serious, silent, slapstick comedy, art house
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Henry Fool (1997)
Plot Summary:
An egocentric bum transforms the lives of a shy New Jersey garbageman and his sister.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: independent film, philosophical, cult classic, dark comedy, offbeat, humorous, talky, stylized, allegory, black comedy
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A Zed & Two Noughts (1985)
Plot Summary:
Oliver Deuce, a successful doctor, is shattered when his wife is killed in a freak car accident involving a car being driven by Alba Bewick colliding with a very large rare bird. His twin brother Oswald is researching how carcasses decay at the local zoo. Alba survives the accident although she loses one leg, and her sinister physician eventually removes the other 'because it looked so sad all alone'. Oswald and Oliver become involved in a menage a trois with Alba, and uncover very dubious trafficking in zoo property. But ultimately their only goal is to try and understand their mortal condition.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Netherlands
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: surreal, disturbing, dark comedy, mind bending, erotic, black comedy, clever, witty, talky, controversial
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Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)
Plot Summary:
The inhabitants of an institution in a remote country rebel against their keepers. Their acts of rebellion are by turns humorous, boring and alarming. An allegory on the problematic nature of fully liberating the human spirit, as both commendable and disturbing elements of our nature come forward. The film shows how justifiable revolt may be empowering, but may also turn to chaos and depravity. The allegory is developed in part by the fact that the film is cast entirely with dwarfs.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: black and white, cult classic, surreal, disturbing, art house, black comedy, atmospheric, experimental, dark comedy, mind bending
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Julien Donkey-Boy (1999)
Plot Summary:
A portrait of the effects of schizophrenia on family life is the central focus.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: disturbing, art house, experimental, surreal, controversial, psychological, talky, intellectual, depressing, independent film
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Palindromes (2004)
Plot Summary:
Aviva is thirteen, awkward and sensitive. Her mother Joyce is warm and loving, as is her father, Steve, a regular guy who does have a fierce temper from time to time. The film revolves around her family, friends and neighbors.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: bleak, psychological, disturbing, surreal, controversial, cynical, humorous, art house, independent film, dark comedy
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The New Age (1994)
Plot Summary:
Peter and Katherine Witner are Southern California super-yuppies with great jobs but no center to their lives. When they both lose their jobs and begin marital infidelities, their solution is to start their own business together. In order to find meaning to their empty lives, they follow various New Age gurus and other such groups. Eventually, they hit rock bottom and have to make some hard decisions.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: satirical, melancholic, meditative, disturbing, humorous, cynical, realistic, witty, semi serious, cult classic
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The Guatemalan Handshake (2006)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious power failure in a small mountain town coincides with the disappearance of one of its most eccentric young residents. Mystery piles upon mystery as his family and friends search for him, fail, and ultimately try to forget about him, an undertaking that results in many unexpected, and in some cases bizarre, effects on the town's already peculiar community.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: stylized, humorous, realistic, surreal, semi serious, mumblecore, independent film, offbeat, black comedy, dark comedy
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Human Nature (2001)
Plot Summary:
A philosophical burlesque, Human Nature follows the ups and downs of an obsessive scientist, a female naturalist, and the man they discover, born and raised in the wild. As scientist Nathan trains the wild man, Puff, in the ways of the world - starting with table manners - Nathan's lover Lila fights to preserve the man's simian past, which represents a freedom enviable to most.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: surreal, humorous, philosophical, witty, semi serious, psychological, black comedy, dark comedy, clever, talky
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The Big Feast (1973)
Plot Summary:
A group of men hire some prostitutes and go to a villa in the countryside. There, they engage in group sex and resolve to eat themselves to death.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: erotic, disturbing, art house, surreal, humorous, controversial, atmospheric, black comedy, dark comedy, sexual
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Conspirators of Pleasure (1996)
Plot Summary:
Six outwardly average individuals have elaborate fetishes they indulge with surreptitious care. A mousy letter carrier makes dough balls she grotesquely ingests before bed. A shop clerk fixates on a TV news reader while he builds a machine to massage and masturbate him. One of his customers makes an elaborate chicken costume for a voodoo-like scene with a doll resembling his plump neighbor. She, in turn, has a doll that resembles him, which she whips and dominates in an abandoned church. The TV news reader has her own fantasy involving carp. Her husband, who is indifferent to her, steals materials to fashion elaborate artifacts that he rubs, scrapes and rolls across his body.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Switzerland, UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: surreal, experimental, sexy, dark comedy, psychedelic, psychotronic, sex comedy, erotic, mind bending, gothic
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Spanking the Monkey (1994)
Plot Summary:
Bright young student Raymond Aibelli is forced to sidetrack an important medical internship because his mother, Susan, is recovering from a broken leg. When he isn't tasked with the most mundane aspects of Susan's recuperation, Raymond finds distraction in a neighborhood girl, Toni Peck. But, as Susan begins relying on her son for both physical and emotional needs, Raymond starts developing disturbing and unwanted new yearnings.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, dark comedy, sexy, disturbing, controversial, psychological, romantic, cult classic, teen
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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