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Plot Summary:
Mikko Virtanen feels like a Swedish soul trapped in a Finnish body. Full of disgust for everything Finnish, he sees Sweden as heaven. Upon meeting a suicidal Swedish psychologist Mikael Anderson, he seizes an opportunity for an identity switch. Raspberry Boat Refugee is a comedy about cultural differences in the Nordic countries, their nationalism and, not least, prejudices about our neighbours. It also proves how futile it is to try to escape oneself.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 94 min
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Hung Like a Horse (1997)
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He was already different even before he was born. His eccentric mother took fancy on horses during her conception, and this led to his being born with animal appeal. As he grew up, he became the object of people's curiosity. But the moment he became a full grown man, his strange physical endowment turned him into an object of desire. Girls and even gays fell under his incredibly wild sex appeal, and he got himself the reputation of being a ladies' man. Until he met the woman who would change his life forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 103 min
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Horsing Around (2005)
Plot Summary:
A single father is more occupied with his race horse than his daughter.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Mink Coat (1961)
Plot Summary:
A story of a mink coat passing from one owner to another binding their fates.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: black and white
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How Dark the Nights Are on the Black Sea (1989)
Plot Summary:
In this farcical dark comedy/melodrama, Lena (Natalya Negoda) manages to lose her place at college by virtue of throwing a minor hissy-fit when she catches her erstwhile boyfriend in bed with another girl. Instead of penalizing the boy for his behavior, Lena gets stuck with a court appearance and must pay a small fine, in addition to losing a boyfriend, her college career, and an apartment. Lena belongs to a film club which occasionally hands out awards, and the membership of it decides to send her into the Russian hinterlands to hand out an award to an obscure filmmaker. Once there, she is the object of many (married) men's attentions, which leads to one of the funnier moments in the film. Throughout the film, Lena has been associated with a bizarre con man named Stepanich (Alexei Zharkov) who, when his cons fall through, comes to her in the distant town she has gone to seeking her help in committing suicide.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union, Italy
Duration: 115 min
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Cockpit (2012)
Plot Summary:
After getting fired from his current job as a pilot and dumped by his current wife, he seeks to find a new job. Out of desperation on the job market he disguises himself as a woman in order to get a job from Silver, a company seeking a female pilot. The lines between his female and male life as well as his personal and love life starts to become a blur which he eventually cannot handle.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: low brow humor, queer cinema
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Fanatics (2012)
Plot Summary:
A buddy comedy about a fanatic small town football supporter who falls in love with a perfect girl, only to notice that his dream-girl supports the wrong football team. Now he has to befriend the enemy or forget the girl he loves.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: buddy comedy
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Dagmar's Hot Pants, Inc. (1971)
Plot Summary:
Known to her clients as Dagmar, she's a classy Swedish call girl in Copenhagen. After two years, she's ready quit, and we follow her on what she hopes is her last day in the trade. She wakes at 9 AM, gets her first call and a marriage proposal, checks in with her doctor, pays final visits to various clients, arranges to lease her flat, passes on her black book to a colleague, tries to beg off on an impromptu session with Japanese businessmen, has a quick conversation with her brother, and makes a couple of charitable contributions. All the while, her eyes on the clock, there's the threat of her pimp finding out about her plans. If she pulls it off, what awaits?.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 383
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Denmark, Sweden, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: erotic, sex comedy, independent film
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Vieraalla Maalla (2003)
Plot Summary:
A comedy of a Finnish man who falls in love, gets tangled deeper into a circle of lies and finds out that he has suddenly changed his name, nationality and skin colour for the sake of love.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 771
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 91 min
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Love Mates (1961)
Plot Summary:
Jan Froman is a young man with great plans for the future. He gets a job as an assistant janitor at a bank, but with inherited money he starts to buy and sell real estate which eventually increases in value. He falls in love with Margareta, whose father is a naval officer. Margareta is slighted by her fiance and follows Froman on a sailing trip in the archipelago. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 360
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 108 min
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A Piece of My Heart (2019)
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Isabella (35) is a driven business woman in Stockholm’s finance world. When she goes home to the small town she grew up in to celebrate her father’s sixtieth birthday, she feels like a winner, the only one in her old school gang that things have really gone well for. Isabella’s selfconfidence falters when she realizes that Simon, her great love from her teen years, is going to marry Isabella’s childhood friend Molly, and that she isn’t invited to the wedding. Isabella is accustomed to getting what she wants, and it disturbs her to see Simon so happy with someone else. Unfortunately, there are some feelings that never go away.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, colorful, inspirational, entertaining, unusual plot structure, emotional, colourful
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8 Days to Premiere (2008)
Plot Summary:
8 Days to Premiere is a love story set in the world of theater. Romeo and Juliet is to be the season´s grand premiere. Noora, the female lead in the play, breaks her leg at the kickoff party, and Laura, an actress who due to her debilitating stage fright has ended up as the prompter for the play, gets a chance of a lifetime. There are 8 days to the premiere.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 553
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags:
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Akaton mies (1983)
Plot Summary:
Farmer wants a wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags:
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Fingerpori (2019)
Plot Summary:
Live action comedy about a fictional town and it's uncommon people, based on a comic strip 'Fingerpori', by Pertti Jarla.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 598
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: double entendre
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The Man Who Couldn't Say No (1975)
Plot Summary:
Young priest returns from America to work in an old Helsinki neighbourhood with idyllic wooden houses. The shy but handsome bachelor is assigned the duty of marriage counseling but is soon overwhelmed by the ladies' romantic interest directed at himself. Trying to please everybody, he also creates confusion by taking both sides in the issue of whether to preserve the neighbourhood or to go along with the modernisation plans offered by property developers.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 367
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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Olympian Holiday (1976)
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After a mixup at the check-in, Aimo Niemi boards a charter plane bound for the sunny island of Rhodes, Greece, instead of the Innsbruck Winter Olympics he's packed for. It's the early days of package tourism, and he is too shy and clueless to really sort out any of his problems — a suitcase filled with women's clothes, a flirtatious female roommate, and no money to buy food since he was prepared for full room & board in Austria.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 414
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags:
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Tulipany (2004)
Plot Summary:
The story of male friendship, vitality and the joy of living, even after turning 60 years old. When one of the three friends is taken to hospital, the others are there for him.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Four Times that Night (1971)
Plot Summary:
John and Tina meet in a park one day. They immediately hit it off and go out on a date later that evening. Then late that night, Tina returns to her apartment with her expensive new dress badly torn apart, and John's forehead boasts some suspicous scratches. Three different people, John, Tina, and a doorman, give three separate and different perspectives on what happened that night before the truth is revealed.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 969
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy, West Germany, USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: erotic, surprise ending, sexy, sex comedy, independent film, hot
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Spindl (2017)
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When on the mountains, so to Špindl. In the snowy Špindlerův Mlýn the sisters Eliška, Katka and Magda go to the women's ride in the full-length winter comedy Špindl. They plan to enjoy relaxation, fun and perhaps a bit of love adventure. Eliška is fine, but Katka and Magda were already thirty and are still single. Does the right one appear in winter snow? It is certain that they will meet other participants and entertaining figures, and during the weekly stay, all of them will get an avalanche of love and livelihoods.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic
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(Girl)Friend (2018)
Plot Summary:
Vincent and Nefeli just moved in together. They're best friends and swore to never fall in love again. That is until Vincent meets Julie.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 836
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: light, entertaining, humorous, sentimental
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Porno (1990)
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Middle aged man lies sleeplessly in bed, recalling his numerous sexual encounters. The various couplings are haphazard, loveless affairs in which most of the women are as anxious to release sexual tension as he is. He fails to find fulfillment and is left with feelings of despair and hopelesness.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 531
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: erotic, romantic, sexy, melancholic, realistic, controversial
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Miffo (2003)
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Tobias is the new, idealistic priest in a suburb but he soon learns that his flock is quite uninterested in Christianity. However, he befriends Carolina, a chain smoking woman his age, wheelchair-bound since birth. It is opposites attract although their backgrounds are different.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, emotional, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, sexual
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The Dog Trick (2002)
Plot Summary:
A shy but very romantic young man tries to meet a girl by walking a borrowed dog. The trick works unbelievably well. They fall in love.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic
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Manmadhudu (2002)
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Abhiram is a manager in his own ad agency. He hates women and he feels that all women are traitors. Abhirams uncle, who is the chairman of the ad agency, appoints Harika as an assistant manager. Though Abhiram does not like a girl joining his company, he has to live with it as the appointment is made by his uncle. He starts mistreating her. Harika, vexed by Abhirams acts, submits her resignation to Abhis uncle, who then narrates the flashback of Abhiram to Harika.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags:
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30 Beats (2012)
Plot Summary:
A summer heat wave and a series of sexual encounters connect a group of New Yorkers.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, contemplative, sexy, independent film, captivating, touching, sex comedy, sensual, semi serious
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In Search of an Impotent Man (2003)
Plot Summary:
Carmen Legg, a tall sporty red-head, is fed up with men and their one-track minds. She is thirty something, drives her own BMW, lives in her own apartment and likes to run her own life the way she wants it. What she needs, Carmen decides, is a man with higher things on his mind. So with her friend, an eighty-year-old neighbour with a traumatic past, she places a rather unusual advertisement.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Agata and the Storm (2004)
Plot Summary:
The story of a middle-aged bookshop owner, who becomes embroiled in a surreal swirl of romance and family secrets of infidelity, her energy levels registering in bursts of electrical interference - causing lightbulbs, traffic lights, toasters and computers to spontaneously spark and malfunction.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy, Switzerland, UK, France
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, tense, melancholic, sweet, crying, detective
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A December Bride (2016)
Plot Summary:
Aspiring interior designer Layla is dreading the Christmastime wedding of her cousin who’s marrying Layla’s ex-fiancé. Although Seth is the one responsible for introducing the bride and groom, she begrudgingly accepts his offer to be her date as she’s out of options. Seth gets carried away at the reception and announces they’re engaged, forcing a mortified Layla to keep up the pretense.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, feel good, humorous, entertaining, emotional, cute, romantic comedy
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Let My People Go! (2011)
Plot Summary:
Everyone knows that Ruben is Jewish, gay, half-French, half-Finnish, an ungrateful son and disappointing lover, a thief who can’t help himself, and possibly a murderer to boot. The only person who doesn't know who Ruben is is Ruben himself. When he comes to a major turning point in his life, Ruben cannot make up his mind which way to go. Should he follow his people or his heart?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 702
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, melancholic, captivating, biting, independent film, suspense, queer cinema, campy
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Western (1997)
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Catalonian Paco is a traveling rep for a shoe manufacturer. When he stops to pick up Russian emigree hitchhiker Nino, Paco soon finds himself on the side of the road with everything stolen out from under him. Local gift shop owner Marinette gives the Spaniard a lift. Their mutual attraction manifests itself quickly, and Paco, who was fired over the stolen-car episode, hangs around. When he happens to spot Nino in the same town, he beats up the scrawny Russian, who lands in the hospital. Oddly enough, this marks the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Paco and Nino soon take the trip down the road together.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, road movie, independent film
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Love and Lemons (2013)
Plot Summary:
Agnes has most things in life: a family who are always there for her, a good job in the restaurant industry, a boyfriend who loves her, and a best friend whom she knows inside out. Or does she? All of a sudden things begin to crumble, one by one, and soon nothing is as it was.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, extraordinary