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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 826
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Origin of the Species (1998)
Plot Summary:
A weekend in a summer house, where six late twenties friends have reunited. A series of life crises force them to confront their relationships and lives, leading them to discover what it really means to grow up.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Hardly a Butterfly (1998)
Plot Summary:
Heavily built young woman Kaisu comes to work in a small grocery store in the countryside, run by a bossy old lady and her tiny and quiet grown-up son Erni. Faced with a common enemy, the unlikely young couple find support in each other, despite their physical differences.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 343
Genere: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Finland
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Cheaters (1984)
Plot Summary:
Swaying between pleasure and despair, Elric throws himself into his pathological passion for the casino. Meeting Suzie could have saved him, but the young woman also sinks into gambling hell. The couple then start getting involved in the fearsome world of professional cheaters.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 621
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, West Germany, Portugal
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Many Faces of Ito (2018)
Plot Summary:
Seijiro Ito possesses good looks, but also has an overinflated ego. He gets involved with five different women. Rio Yazaki is one of the women involved with Seijiro Ito. She wants to revive her career as a screenwriter, by using other people's unhappiness.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags:
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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
Plot tags:
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The Wrestler (1985)
Plot Summary:
An ageing wrestler and circus strongman is put in an institution located somewhere in a world of its own.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Finland
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Summer Girl (1983)
Plot Summary:
When seductive young Cinni comes to babysit for a troubled couple, she's after more than extra spending money. Starting with the kids and working around to the husband, evil Cinni plots to take over a young mother's life--ruthlessly dealing with anyone who gets in her way.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sexy, cult film
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Dalkeith (2001)
Plot Summary:
Tells the true story of the residents at Dalkeith Residential Home who sit around every day just waiting to die until staff buy them a greyhound. Naming the dog Dalkeith after the home, they discover she is a phenomenal runner and she is soon entered into the greyhound races. Soon residents are betting on the outcome of the races, and they are given a new reason to live. But the board of trustees learn what is going on, through the disgruntled daughter of one of the residents, and heavily handedly put an end to the fun and games. After the board's intervention the residents sink into a new form of despair as life becomes even duller and more boring than before. That is until the aloof pensioner, played by Ray Barrett, reveals he was once a high profile barrister and challenges the decision in court.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Hustlers (2010)
Plot Summary:
The director Lauri Nurkse tells that Veijarit is a film about "arjensietokyvyttömyys" (= inability to tolerate everyday life) and about the Peter Pan complex. The main actor Mikko Leppilampi says it's about "kolkyttoistavuotiaat" (= thirtyeenagers = people of thirty behaving like teenagers). An immediate reference point is the commedia all'italiana of the 1950s and the 1960s, the black comedy often exposing the infantile stage of development of the Italian male. Saku and Ässä are anti-heroes, but we never fail to sense the humanity behind their shallow and crazy ways. Veijarit is a satire and a parody of a superficial way of life, but there is a vitality in the protagonists that we feel can lead them to a more meaningful stage of existence after the prolonged youth full of sound and fury. There is a motif of transcendence in the imagery of flying: will the balloons carry me or will they burst.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 979
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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The Liar (1981)
Plot Summary:
Talkative, hyperactive young drifter Ville Alfa goes around Helsinki, basically trying to borrow money from friends and strangers by means of an incessant delivery of quirky and snappy quasi-intellectual lines and fabricated excuses.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 609
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland, West Germany
Duration: 53 min
Plot tags: black and white, student film
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The Howling Miller (1982)
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The main character is a miller, who sometimes acts strangely but is otherwise a goodhearted hardworking honest man. He sometimes keeps the villagers up all night by howling. Finally the villagers decide that the miller has to be committed into a mental hospital, where the hero does not have to spend too much time until he escapes. The miller takes to the woods near his home but there he is constantly harassed by the chief of the police with his posse.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Brothers in Trouble (1995)
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Amir is an illegal Pakistani immigrant smuggled into England in the 1960's to work, to send money to his family and perhaps even bring them over with him. A skilled laborer, he is forced to do unskilled work like shoveling sheep dung and processing wool. He lives in a boarding house with nearly a dozen other men, under the supervision of Hussein Shah. He befriends a young student, Sakib, who dreams of being a writer. Their existence is punctuated by secret movies, a visiting prostitute, fear of detection and deportation, and the gangster-like smuggler who comes by for his take every week. The household is shaken up by the arrival of a white girl, Shah's girlfriend, and the sense of femininity and family she brings.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: independent film, dark comedy
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Summertime (2014)
Plot Summary:
25-year-old Iiris and Karoliina have been best friends since childhood. Karoliina has been travelling and living abroad for some years now, but is coming back home for the summer as Karoliina has gotten them a job as waitresses in Hanko, the best summer city in Finland!.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 950
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, bleak, humorous
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Dad Is Gone, Mom Also (1989)
Plot Summary:
A coming-of-age film: When Laurette's parents disappear following a row, Laurette assumes responsibility for the family. The initial fiesta of children alone gives way to abandonment and the pressures of responsibility.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Ninguém Ama Ninguém Por Mais de Dois Anos (2015)
Plot Summary:
"No one loves anyone for more than two years" is an adaptation of Nelson Rodrigues' work about five couples that live in Brazil in the early 60's, who are seen by the society as conventional people, but whose intimate lives turn out to be morally questionable.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Burning Love (1983)
Plot Summary:
A young painter takes up French lessons with an elder lady to ensure he’ll get a grant for a French arts institute. That way he meets Anna, a beautiful married woman nursing the lady’s old father, and falls in love with her.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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The House of Branching Love (2009)
Plot Summary:
A sort of "Divorce Finnish Style," Mika Kaurismäki's rambunctious comedy, The House of Branching Love , recounts the breakup of a thirty-something professional couple - Juhani, a family therapist, and his wife, Tuula, a successful business trainer.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, cynical, semi serious, dark comedy
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Village of the Stone Roller (1995)
Plot Summary:
Pekka (Martti Suosalo) saapuu pitkästä aikaa kotiseudulleen pieneen Jerusalemin kylään juhlistamaan kylän viimeisiä häitä. Hänen oma avioliittonsa näyttää ajautuneen umpikujaan. Kylän väki kokoontuu valmistelemaan tätä viimeistä tapahtumaa, ja yhteen kesäiseen vuorokauteen tuntuu tiivistyvän koko ihmiselon katkeransuloinen kirjo iloineen ja suruineen. Maaseudun kuvaus on nostalgista ja herkkää, ja tarinan dialogi osuvaa. Markku Pölönen on käsikirjoittanut ja ohjannut tämän Heikki Turusen kirjaan perustuvan elokuvan joutsenlauluksi elämänmuodolle joka loppui 70-luvun maaltamuuton myötä.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 981
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, emotional, realistic, semi serious
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Familyhood (2016)
Plot Summary:
An aging actress is desperate to become a mother. In menopause and too controversial for legal adoption, she decides to illegally adopt from a pregnant teenager while publicly faking pregnancy. The ensuing media circus at first revitalizes her career but then threatens to grow out of control and destroy everything she cares about.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 342
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Posthumous Memories (2001)
Plot Summary:
Free adaptation of Machado de Assis' classic. The narrator is a rich dead man, who tells us about his life and times, making fun of both.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 926
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Portugal, Brazil
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: contemplative, humorous, surreal, cynical, semi serious, suspense, biting
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Producing Adults (2004)
Plot Summary:
Longtime couple Venla and Antero come to a serious impasse. After years with Antero, Venla wants to start a family, but her boyfriend, worried that parenthood will stifle his speed-skating career, secretly gets a vasectomy. Determined to have a child, Venla seeks help from a female fertility doctor, a decision that breeds new possibilities for the prospective mother when she falls in love with the doctor.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sentimental, semi serious, sincere, realistic, queer cinema
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Captain Pantoja and the Special Services (1999)
Plot Summary:
The Peruvian army captain Pantaleon Pantoja, a very serious and efficient officer, is chosen by his superiors to set up a special service of 'visitors' to satisfy the sexual needs of the soldiers posted on remote jungle outposts.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Peru, Spain
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, sex comedy, manga, romantic drama, erotic drama, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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The Storage (2011)
Plot Summary:
Antero Rousku is a storeman in a paint store. His job requires raw muscle power, mixing paints and carrying house repair materials around to earn his daily bread. But the basic salary is not enough for Rousku. He also sells a lot of stuff on the side from the storeroom directly to Jylhäkorpi, a frequent visitor, bypassing company bookkeeping. Rousku's colleague in the cellar storeroom is Raninen whose life consists of work, quarreling with his wife, and lottery. Raninen wants to win the main prize but he wants to have the right numbers in exactly the order in which they appear from the lottery machine. Raninen is not the sharpest pencil in the pencil box. Rousku's freedom is threatened by his relationship to the saleswoman Karita. Rousku wants to keep a distance to the woman except in bed. Karita has decided otherwise.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sexy, sincere, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, witty
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To Find a Man (1972)
Plot Summary:
A boarding-school girl (Pamela Sue Martin) comes home pregnant and asks the boy (Darren O'Connor) next door for help getting an abortion.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, sincere, touching, humorous, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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Heartburn (1986)
Plot Summary:
Rachel is a food writer at a New York magazine who meets Washington columnist Mark at a wedding and ends up falling in love with him despite her reservations about marriage. They buy a house, have a daughter, and Rachel thinks they are living happily ever after until she discovers that Mark is having an affair while she is waddling around with a second pregnancy.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: melancholic, lyrical, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, talky, emotional, sex comedy, cult classic
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Frau Ella (2013)
Plot Summary:
A young man goes on a road trip with an old lady he saves from a hospital.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, road movie, feel good, captivating, light, touching, realistic, semi serious
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Kotch (1971)
Plot Summary:
Joseph Kotcher, retired salesman, walks out on his son and daughter-in-law after their attempts to put him in a retirement home. He tracks down their babysitter, sacked because she is pregnant, and rents a small house nearby. He finds a new purpose in life. Jack Lemmon's first film as director stars his old friend Walter Matthau.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Bad Mother's Handbook (2007)
Plot Summary:
Karen Cooper wants to domineer her family and believes she's its pillar. In fact she does everything wrong. Thus she messes up all their lives and futures, rather then help her loved-ones.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, emotional, semi serious, funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, realistic
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The Good House (2021)
Plot Summary:
Hildy Good, a wry New England realtor and descendant of the Salem witches who loves her wine and loves her secrets. Her compartmentalized life starts to unravel as she rekindles an old romance and becomes dangerously entwined in one person’s reckless behavior.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, India
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, comedy drama
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Emma. (2020)
Plot Summary:
In 1800s England, a well-meaning but selfish young woman meddles in the love lives of her friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, China
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, entertaining, costume drama, captivating, period piece, historical drama, aesthetic, sweet, sentimental