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Plot Summary:
Todd grew up under the strange shadow of his older mentally challenged brother Shonzi. As kids, Shonzi forced Todd to make action movies. As adults he pressures him to share love life details, even showing Shonzi a sex tape he made with an old girlfriend to help him cope when family tragedy hits. When their dad suffers a heart attack, Shonzi (now 40, and still a virgin) moves in with Todd and his new girlfriend Lindsay. Shonzi wants desperately to be included in their relationship like old times. When Shonzi’s begging become threats to reveal secrets from their past, Todd must find the courage to be honest with Lindsay, even if it means the end of their relationship.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 807
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, independent film
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Plot Summary:
In between caring for her mother, a young woman works part time at a prison. The rookie guard gets a chance to prove her mettle when she's tasked with accompanying a hell-raising inmate on an emergency furlough to visit her dying mother. But things soon spiral out of control, sending the pair on a hilarious, surprising, and ultimately touching road trip.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: light, thought provoking, touching, captivating, entertaining
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Plot Summary:
Four people deal with all the pain and sadness they have and find the root cause.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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Plot Summary:
A young boy is looking for his girlfriend in the city of Vladivostok.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, romantic, humorous, captivating
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Plot Summary:
Laura and Tyler are best friends and drinking buddies whose hedonistic existence falls under the creeping horror of adulthood when Laura gets engaged to Jim – an ambitious pianist who surprisingly decides to go teetotal.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Australia, Ireland, Finland
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, captivating, indie film
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Plot Summary:
Soloman Crow pays a visit to his god fearing, bible quoting, closeted homosexual brother and his sexually repressed wife. He enters their home with a proclamation to kick a drug habit that almost cost him his life. Broke, it doesn't take Soloman long to start conning and scheming his way around the city to feed his ravenous cravings for dope and sex. Even his brother's wife isn't immune to Soloman's mind games... If you want a hero with redeeming qualities, look somewhere else.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, humorous, light, feel good, contemplative, sex comedy, independent film, teen comedy, cult film
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Plot Summary:
New mother Line is living the high life in Hong Kong with husband Bjørn when she discovers that he has been unfaithful to her with their Filipino nanny, so Line takes her baby son and heads back to her old hometown in southern Funen.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 681
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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The Intervention (2016)
Plot Summary:
A weekend getaway for four couples takes a sharp turn when one of the couples discovers the entire trip was orchestrated to host an intervention on their marriage.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, captivating, sexy, humorous, suspenseful, light, lgbt cinema, queer cinema
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Kiss through the Wall (2011)
Plot Summary:
Kesha, a young magician assistant, is desperately in love with a young journalist Alisa. He is ready to do everything possible to conquer her.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 304
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Misconceptions (2008)
Plot Summary:
The story centers on a religiously conservative, married southern woman who receives a message from God instructing her to act as a surrogate mother and carry a child for two married gay men who live in Boston - a Jewish doctor and and African-American dance choreographer. All Hell breaks loose when the African American man comes to her home down south to micro-manage her pregnancy, and he won't leave.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 625
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Plot Summary:
During a layover in Albuquerque, work colleagues Les and Natalie discover more about each other than they ever thought possible. Anxious and irritable, Les is drawn back into the city by past experiences he can’t forget (even if he doesn't really remember the particulars of his previous drunken adventure). Natalie, refusing to leave his side, follows along as her own secrets are slowly revealed, leaving her feeling both vulnerable and unbound.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 93 min
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Plot Summary:
A newly single New Yorker must re-locate to Florida for her dream job. She drives south with her widowed dad, her mom's ashes in a coffee can, and a GPS with a mind of its own.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
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Plot Summary:
Stanley, an aging fast food worker, prepares to work his final graveyard shift after 38 years. When he's asked to train his replacement, Jevon, Stanley's weekend takes an unexpected turn.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, funny, satirical, dark comedy
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 415
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 108 min
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 384
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Country: USA
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 494
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Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 686
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
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Country: Ireland
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
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Country: USA
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 363
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 568
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Plot Summary:
A unemployed father, due to his laziness, is supported by his wife. Their daughter decides to put their lazy dad up for rent on a secondhand site.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 102
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Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
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Plot Summary:
After he's fired from his job -- by his mother, no less -- Bob Funk agrees to quit drinking, see a therapist, and eventually report to a new boss, who might just be the woman of his dreams.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 945
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
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Papadopoulos & Sons (2012)
Plot Summary:
Following his ruin in the latest banking crisis, a self-made millionaire reluctantly re-unites with his estranged freewheeling brother to re-open the abandoned fish and chip shop they shared in their youth.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
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