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Plot Summary:
Five old men and a kid are travelling in a train's cabin without purpose. They travel because it's free and they don't have another place to stay. From their conversations we learn the tragedies of their lives. Also the hidden interlockings of their faith will out slowly.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 85 min
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Before Twilight (2008)
Plot Summary:
The film is about a group of old retired theatre actors in a retirement home for actors who aim to regroup and stage Goethe's Faust.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 96 min
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Man Walking on Snow (2001)
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Mashike, a city on the Japanese island of Hokkaido. Nobuo Honma is a 63-year-old sake producer. He has lived with Yasuo since his wife died two years ago. Yasuo is his youngest son to whom he has entrusted his trade. Every day Nobuo goes for a walk which leads him to a fish-breeding center, located in the mountains. He fills his loneliness by attentively observing the development of thousands of little fish poured into the pool. The second anniversary of his wife's death approaches. Nobuo insists on the presence of Ryoichi, his elder son whom he hasn't seen for a long time. Nobuo and his two sons, along with their partners, gather for the commemoration. Unspoken feelings resurface and clash with each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min
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Eiszeit (1975)
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Based on a very successful play of the same name by Tankred Dorst, this film tells a story about Norwegian author Knut Hamsun (here played by O.E. Hasse), a Nobel prizewinner for literature who was notorious for having collaborated with the Nazi regime. After the war, rather than hand him over for prosecution, he was sent to a retirement home. A young man, bitter about the war, tracks him down and begins to harass him in various ways. The author handles everything that comes to him with remarkable dignity, which eventually removes some of the taint from his actions.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany, Norway
Duration: 115 min
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Dalkeith (2001)
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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
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Silberdisteln (1998)
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: dark comedy
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Be Somebody (2021)
Plot Summary:
A group of filmmakers are gathered in a dark and windy night for preparation of shooting a film based on a sensational murder case. It's unrealized that they are placed in the real crime scene and the true murderer is among them.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 989
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: China
Duration: 123 min
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Everyday God Kisses Us on the Mouth (2001)
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Dumitru is a two-faceted killer: he kills animals and called a hunter, and kills people, and branded as an assassin. Dumitru is just out of prison, for the first time since the fall of communism. Even on the train taking him home, he is planning to return to his past practices as he is involved in a blood thirsty card game with some gypsies. The game turns out badly, and one of those making up the table is killed. He starts on a flight again, this time, bound for his home town, where he finds his wife pregnant by his own brother. Blind with a thirst for vengeance, Dumitru commits one more murder that unleashes a sequence of new crimes and makes him into a wanted serial killer. Life becomes a burden that is too heavy for Dumitru who decides to abbreviate his existence. However, he soon discovers he does not hold all power over himself. God has other plans for him and condemns to him to stay alive. Written by Gonz30.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, disturbing, semi serious, humorous, black comedy
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The Big Ceremonial (1969)
Plot Summary:
Fantasy is a favourite theme for directors, since it enables them to give vent to diabolical situations with unlimited licence. This film is of this category. It is the story of a jealous and protective mother who allows her son only home-made dolls to satisfy his sick fantasy. But as in all fairy stories, there comes a day when a real, warm girl enters the sheltered life of the son. His natural and innate thirsts for oddities soon make him repeat on the girl what, until then, he has been doing with the dolls. The story then evolves into a fight of wills between the mother and the girl.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 24
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
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Promised Heaven (1991)
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In the new Russia, former middle class citizens find themselves out in the dumps. Literally. They build homes, elect their own government, work, beg, scavenge, date and fight all while living in a huge city dump. Some try to beat the odds and return to society, but it seems that there is only one place left for them to go.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 983
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 125 min
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Eggs (1995)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers in their seventies, Pa and Moe, have lived together all their lives in a little house in the country, the only interruption being when Pa made a weekend trip to Småland on his moped during the second World War. The past returns when his adult son dating from his Swedish visit, Konrad, comes to live with them after his mother has fallen ill. Soon Moe is about to discover that three is indeed a crowd.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 948
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, cult classic, touching, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, cult film
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The House by the Sea (2017)
Plot Summary:
By a little bay near Marseille lies a picturesque villa owned by an old man. His three children have gathered by his side for his last days. It’s time for them to weigh up what they have inherited of their father’s ideals and the community spirit he created in this magical place. The arrival, at a nearby cove, of a group of boat people will throw these moments of reflection into turmoil.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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O'Horten (2007)
Plot Summary:
Odd Horton is dependable and contained: he's a train driver retiring after 40 years of service, living a simple life. His idea of adventure is to fly from one city in Norway to another. Starting on the night of his retirement dinner, Odd has a series of dislocating experiences: a boy insists that Odd sit by his bedside while he falls asleep; misadventure causes Odd to miss his last run; he witnesses an arrest; he assists an old man and makes a friend; he takes a trip with a blindfolded driver; he adopts a dog; he takes stock late one night at the roundhouse; he revisits his mother's disappointment in him. How should he live the rest of his life?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway, Germany, France, Denmark
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, surreal, contemplative, semi serious, sad, experimental, offbeat, gloomy
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The Days on Earth Are Flowing (1979)
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A profoundly empathetic, unpretentious and droll account of a how a swarthy, Hemingway-like sailor upends the droning routines of a nursing home when he checks himself in. Though his subtle interactions with the other residents – including his cantankerous roommate who obviously harbours resentment towards his family for putting him out to seed – the sailor gently whisks up an atmosphere of hope and happiness and allows the movie to deliver its beautifully simple message: that life should be savoured until the bitter end.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 87 min
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Act Your Age (2011)
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Lake, a young theater actor with no respect for the elderly, is forced to make himself look old, in order to land a part in a Broadway-bound play. His ego drives his girlfriend away, and when research for the play requires him to spend a week in a nursing home, he is forced to review his life choices. Lake eventually learns to abandon his preconceptions and rid himself of the anger that has been holding him back, in pursuit of his dreams.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, anime
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The Land of Steady Habits (2018)
Plot Summary:
After leaving his wife and his job to find happiness, Anders begins a clumsy, heartbreaking quest to reassemble the pieces of his fractured life.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, sentimental, sincere, ironic, witty, talky, semi serious
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The Most Beautiful Age (1969)
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An artist's studio is descended upon by a group of retired men and a young mother who agree to model in the nude for money. Comedy ensues as the students and the local bureaucracy react to the models, all in need of extra money. Several running gags border on slapstick as the officials and the students don't know what to do with the nude models.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 80 min
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Boppin' at the Glue Factory (2009)
Plot Summary:
A junkie nurse rules the night shift at a convalescent hospital.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: humorous, cynical, semi serious, realistic, independent film
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Unexpected Journey (2017)
Plot Summary:
Lasse is an old racist who has lives in an apartment block filled with a selection of refugees and immigrants. Kamal is a 16-year old boy who's fed up in his life in Finland, and dreams of moving to Nairobi to live with his father. Only problem is that he doesn't have the money to buy the ticket.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, psychological, light, feel good, unusual plot structure, contemplative
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The Interpreter (2018)
Plot Summary:
80-year-old Ali Ungar comes across a book by a former SS officer describing his wartime activities in Slovakia. He realises his parents were executed by him. He sets out to take revenge but finds instead his 70-year-old son, Georg, a retired teacher. Georg, who had avoided his father all his life, decides to find out more about him and offers Ali to be his interpreter.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 571
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic, Austria
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: road movie, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, melancholic, contemplative
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The Good Heart (2009)
Plot Summary:
Brian Cox stars as Jacques, the curmudgeonly owner of a gritty New York dive bar that serves as home to a motley assortment of professional drinkers. Jacques is determinedly drinking and smoking himself to death when he meets Lucas (Dano), a homeless young man who has already given up on life. Determined to keep his legacy alive, Jacques deems Lucas is a fitting heir and takes him under his wing, schooling him in the male-centric laws of his alcoholic clubhouse: no new customers, no fraternizing with customers and, absolutely no women. Lucas is a quick study, but their friendship is put to the test when the distraught and beautiful April (Isild Le Besco) shows up at the bar seeking shelter, and Lucas insists they help her out.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iceland, Denmark, USA, France, Germany
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, sincere, realistic, independent film, thought provoking, social, sad, crying, psychological
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The Sunshine Boys (1996)
Plot Summary:
Two aging comedians who acrimoniously dissolved their act eight years earlier must overcome their differences when they have the chance for a lucrative movie comeback.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Lucky (2017)
Plot Summary:
Follows the journey of a 90-year-old atheist and the quirky characters that inhabit his off-the-map desert town. He finds himself at the precipice of life, thrust into a journey of self-exploration.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, philosophical, thought provoking, sad, captivating, disturbing, sentimental, funny, spiritual, heartbreaking
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12:08 East of Bucharest (2006)
Plot Summary:
It's the 22nd of December. Sixteen years have passed since the revolution, and in a small town Christmas is about to come. Piscoci, an old retired man is preparing for another Christmas alone. Manescu, the history teacher, tries to keep up with his debts. Jderescu, the owner of a local television post, seems not to be so interested in the upcoming holidays. For him, the time to face history has come. Along with Manescu and Piscoci, he is trying to answer for himself a question which for 16 years has not had an answer: "Was it or wasn't it a revolution in their town?".
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, witty, semi serious, dark comedy, contemplative, slow cinema, aesthetic, realistic
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Amour Fou (2014)
Plot Summary:
A "romantic comedy" based loosely on the suicide of the poet Henrich von Kleist in 1811.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Austria, Luxembourg, Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, psychological, realistic, touching, sexy, contemplative, stylized, gloomy, period drama
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I'm Not Rappaport (1996)
Plot Summary:
Old Nat Moyer is a talker, a philosopher, and a troublemaker with a fanciful imagination. His companion is Midge Carter, who is half-blind, but still the super of an apartment house. When he is threatened with retirement, Nat battles on his behalf. Nat also takes on his daughter, a drug dealer, and a mugger in this appealing version of a really 'odd couple'.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: talky, feel good, humorous, witty, not serious, funny, entertaining, realistic, cynical, independent film
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Cookie's Fortune (1999)
Plot Summary:
Conflict arises in the small town of Holly Springs when an old woman's death causes a variety of reactions among family and friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, independent film, southern gothic, hilarious, touching, feel good, realistic, semi serious, surprise ending
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One for the Road (2014)
Plot Summary:
Three octogenarians set out on a trip in order to fulfill the dying wish of a lifelong friend, in spite of the disapproval of their families and the limitations of their advanced age. Along the way, they find themselves embroiled in a series of comedic misadventures and meet a cast of colorful characters. Their journey fundamentally alters each characters' sense of self and their place in the world. There is, indeed, life after 80.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 343
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, satirical, road movie
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A Grandpa for Christmas (2007)
Plot Summary:
An old-time movie-star singer/ hoofer rebonds with his estranged daughter and 9-year-old granddaughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, sincere, realistic
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Everything Is Illuminated (2005)
Plot Summary:
A film based on the semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by American writer Jonathan Safran Foer, in which a young Jewish American man endeavors—with the help of eccentric, distant relatives—to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II, in a Ukrainian village which was ultimately razed by the Nazis.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 60000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: touching, road movie, tragicomedy, clever, scenic, sentimental, melancholic, humorous, feel good, sad
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All Together (2011)
Plot Summary:
Five old friends decide to move in together as an alternate to living in a retirement home; joining them is an ethnology student whose thesis is on the aging population.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, sentimental, realistic