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Plot Summary:
Eddie Luca is the youngest son in a family of Italian immigrants who has moved to London. Beginning from nowhere, they open a cafe in an Italian neighbourhood. One day their father loses the cafe, the home and his wedding ring by gambling.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 541
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? (1999)
Plot Summary:
It's 1976, and Vinny is a confused teenager who can't decide whether he is a disco king or a proto punk rocker.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: melancholic, feel good, humorous, witty, semi serious, independent film
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Room to Rent (2000)
Plot Summary:
Ali is a young Egyptian screenwriter determined to succeed in London, where he has been a student. He loves the artistic and political freedom, the colours, the music, the individualism. But he has little money, his student visa is about to expire and he has been thrown out of his lodgings. And so Ali moves in with a succession of eccentric and colourful London flatmates: Mark, a photographer with a very individual style, Linda, a young, blonde, very sexy model and Marilyn Monroe impersonator, and Miss Stevenson who is convinced that Ali is the reincarnation of her long dead Egyptian lover.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 556
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, sexy, independent film, offbeat, sexual
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Morgan Stewart's Coming Home (1987)
Plot Summary:
After seven years in boarding school, Morgan Stewart is finally coming home. He discovers it's not the same happy home it used to be.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: cult classic, humorous, independent film, feel good, realistic, semi serious, scary, romantic, sexy, clever
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A Sinful Life (1989)
Plot Summary:
A former 'Sonny and Cher' dancer tries to pull her life together when social services threaten to take her daughter away from her.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, thinking, independent film, touching, offbeat, humorous, emotional, realistic, semi serious
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The Reunion (2002)
Plot Summary:
35-year old Magnus Edkvist hates class reunions as much as anyone and usually skip them. Still he accepts an invitation for a reunion for class he left over twenty years ago. But he has his reasons, as there is a chance that his teen love Hillevi will show up. The girl he wanted to run away with and share the rest of his life. The girl that got away.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic, offbeat
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White on Rice (2009)
Plot Summary:
40-year-old Jimmy is growing up, or at least he's getting older. While mooching the upper bunk of his ten-year-old nephew's bed, he enjoys the never-ending generosity of his sister Aiko, and dodges the wrath of his impatient brother-in-law Tak. He thinks that if only he could get married all his problems would be solved. But when he falls head over heels for Tak's niece things only go from bad to worse.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 545
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat
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The Cabin (2011)
Plot Summary:
A pair of single parents, who have each brought their children to a remote Scottish resort for an annual family-and-games event, are accidentally booked into the same cabin. Naturally, they can't stand each other...at first.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 377
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, realistic, not serious
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Lost Embrace (2004)
Plot Summary:
In Buenos Aires, the twenty and something year old Jewish-Argentinean Ariel Makaroff has left the University of Architecture and spends his time wandering through the downtown gallery where his mother has a lingerie shop and his brother runs an importation business, trying to get his Polish passport and move to Europe. Ariel has never understood why his father left him when he was a baby to fight in the Yom Kippur War in 1973. When his father returns to Buenos Aires, Ariel discovers the reason why his father left his family.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Argentina, France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic, talky, clever, contemplative
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With a Little Help from Myself (2008)
Plot Summary:
Besieged matriarch Sonia tries to make certain her daughter's nuptials come off flawlessly even as events spiral out of control is in this dark comedy helmed by François Dupeyron. With Sonia's wayward eldest son under arrest on drug charges, she then discovers that her no-account hubby has gambled away the money set aside for the reception. Will Sonia and her family triumph or crumble in the face of adversity?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, cynical, semi serious, gloomy, biting, suspense
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We Think the World of You (1988)
Plot Summary:
An aimless young man, Johnny, is sent prison. He entrusts his beloved dog, Evie, to the care of his former lover and best friend, Frank. When he gets out of prison, he has to face difficulties at home. Added to this, is the fact that he may have to give up Evie to Frank.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 476
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, offbeat, humorous, emotional, realistic, semi serious, eighties, cult film
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Greetings From Tucson (2002)
Plot Summary:
In this autobiographical family comedy, based on the life of series creator Peter Murrieta, life is seen through the eyes of 15-year-old David Tiant as he faces the challenges of growing up in an ethnically mixed, upwardly mobile family.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, sitcom, realistic
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Madea's Big Happy Family The Play (2010)
Plot Summary:
Shirley has important news for her family, but she has five grown children with different lifestyles and finds it difficult to get them and the kids all together. So in steps Madea, the Matriarch General, to put the family's life in perspective with a hilarious twist on financial difficulties, drugs and, most important, family secrets. The next generation has a lot to learn. In her own way, Madea expresses how deliverance won't change you to be someone else, but will allow you to be who you really are.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, sentimental
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Starlings (2012)
Plot Summary:
Starlings is a British comedy-drama written by Steve Edge and Matt King who also play the roles of Fergie and Uncle Loz. It is one of the few new television comedy series that has been commissioned and aired on Sky1.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic, light, feel good
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Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution (2007)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story, MRS RATCLIFFE'S REVOLUTION, is the tale of a family from Bingley in Yorkshire, who defect to East Germany. Here they find a nightmare of rationing, censorship and the most spied upon people in history rather than the Marxist utopia they were expecting. But if they thought getting in was difficult wait until they try to get out.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 651
Genere: Comedy
Country: Hungary, UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, realistic, semi serious, humorous
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Caruso, Zero for Conduct (2001)
Plot Summary:
A movie directed by F.Nuti.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Chain (1984)
Plot Summary:
Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 433
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, biting, suspense
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Raised by Wolves (2013)
Plot Summary:
Set on a Wolverhampton council estate, Raised By Wolves is modern day reimagining of the childhood of Caitlin Moran and her brothers and sisters. Single-mum Della lives in a three bedroom council house with Germaine, Aretha, Yoko, Mariah, Wyatt and baby Cher. She is attempting to raise the children by herself, but does have visits from Grampy, who likes to come around to dispense his wisdom to his grandchildren.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Daddy Cool (2008)
Plot Summary:
The story about the age gap between a scientist father, Philipe Le Tallec, and his newly discovered teen aged daughter, Eglantine.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 629
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic
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No Pain, No Gain (2001)
Plot Summary:
David is a teenager who feels he doesn't belong to a life where his family, friends and the girl he loves seem not to understand him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, humorous, emotional, realistic, semi serious
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Copacabana (2010)
Plot Summary:
Babou's daughter refuses to invite her mother to her wedding, prompting Babou to begin life anew.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, sincere, feel good, captivating, sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious
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Love Thy Neighbor (1984)
Plot Summary:
Suburbanites Danny and Linda try to overcome their various differences and try to get along after his wife and her husband run off with each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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She's Out of Control (1989)
Plot Summary:
A Los Angeles radio-station manager's girlfriend shows his teenage daughter how to be sexy.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, entertaining, melancholic, feel good, semi serious, realistic, independent film, funny, sexy
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Relative Values (2000)
Plot Summary:
A comedy of discriminating taste and dirty little secrets, the story is set in 1952 England, where Nigel, the Earl of Marshwood, woos Hollywood star Miranda Frayle, upsetting both his mother, Countess Felicity of Marshwood, and her former love, fellow Hollywood star Don Lucas. Right before the engagement party to be held at Marshwood, Moxie, the Countess's personal maid and best friend reveals that Miranda is her estranged sister. Crestwell, the Countess's butler, quickly devises a plan-but an inebriated Lucas's arrival at Marshwood to try to talk to Miranda causes all chaos to break loose.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic, witty, stylized, independent film, clever
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American Fusion (2005)
Plot Summary:
Yvonne is a divorced middle-aged Chinese immigrant who thinks her life is over, and she is doomed to spend the rest of her days as a slave to her large and eccentric family. Suddenly, romance enters her life and Yvonne gets a long deferred chance for true love. However, she falls for the last person a Chinese family would ever accept, Jose, a Mexican-American dentist. It doesnt matter what race or culture youre from, deep down inside we are the same. And from this lesson Yvonne and her family begin to love each other for who they are and to accept Jose into the family.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, captivating, light, realistic, semi serious
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Raising Flagg (2006)
Plot Summary:
A comedy centered on a handyman (Arkin) and his lifelong competition with his neighbor (Pendleton.).
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, touching, feel good, realistic, independent film
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A Beer Tale (2012)
Plot Summary:
A coming of age romantic comedy centered around the lives of twin brothers Luke and Corey Frankenstein in the pivotal months following college graduation. Orphaned at the age of five, the brothers inherited their family brewery and were left in the care of their uncle, a well-meaning but less than ideal paternal figure. Raised on beer, with the assumption they're all grown up, Luke and Corey decide it's time to finish their family beer; a beer their parents started but were never able to finish twenty years ago. But when the idealistic Luke meets a girl whose family shows him the home life he's always wanted, he abandons Corey and their family beer in pursuit of this budding relationship. Corey, however, refuses to go down without a fight, and the ensuing mayhem that follows pits brother against brother and forces the Colorado wild boys to finally grow up and decide what kind of men they really want to be.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Two-Bit Waltz (2014)
Plot Summary:
Suspension from school, the loss of a friend, a broken heart and lack of inspiration lead to Maude's downfall in this romp through teenage error. Your teenage years are never easy… but for Maude, things couldn't be worse. Within one week, she is suspended from school, stranded by her best friend, dumped by the boy she loved and inherits an enormous amount of money with the passing of her grandmother– only to be claimed under one condition: Maude must prove by age 18 that she knows exactly what to do with her life. But with her 18th birthday rapidly approaching, Maude must dive into a world of self-discovery or else lose the inheritance.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 455
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic, witty, stylized, clever, offbeat, independent film
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Rolling Family (2004)
Plot Summary:
A wedding invite from an estranged sibiling inspires a grandmother to assemble her family and embark on a roadtrip in a broken down caravan.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, Spain, UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: road movie, touching, semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, offbeat
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The Year of Getting to Know Us (2008)
Plot Summary:
A commitment-phobic man reunites with his estranged, ailing father and comes to terms with his own childhood.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat, independent film
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All in Good Time (2012)
Plot Summary:
East is East writer Ayub Khan-Din returns with another funny, tender-hearted portrait of family strife. Based on his popular play Rafta, Rafta (itself inspired by Bill Naughtons 1960s classic All in Good Time), the film is set in Bolton where Atul and Vina are celebrating their marriage. However, a honeymoon spent with his parents was not part of their plans. Thoughtless patriarch Eeshwar seems determined to emasculate and embarrass his son. As the weeks pass, consummating their union becomes an impossibility that threatens the couples entire future. A breezy mixture of heartbreak and hilarity, All in Good Time also offers peerless performances from original stage stars Harish Patel and Meera Syal.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, feel good, captivating, light, multicultural, sentimental, realistic, semi serious