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Plot Summary:
Scandals and pratfalls abound in this satirical and sexy look at the silent movie era. With Jennifer Tilly, Debi Mazar, and Tippi Hedren.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 211
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: humorous, psychological, light, unusual plot structure, contemplative, independent film, silent, silent film
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Matt's Chance (2013)
Plot Summary:
A dark comedic tale about love, revenge, and the fickle nature of human morality.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, semi serious, dark comedy
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Hunky Dory (2016)
Plot Summary:
A glam rock dilettante's life takes a dramatic turn when his ex unexpectedly drops their 11-year-old son off for the week.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema, tense, psychological, unusual plot structure, humorous, captivating, contemplative, gay cinema, queer cinema
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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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Dream with the Fishes (1997)
Plot Summary:
A suicidal man who can't kill himself agrees to finance his terminally ill neighbor's bucket list of fantasies if, at the end, the neighbor will kill him.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, grim, humorous, realistic, gloomy, semi serious, surprise ending, crying, black comedy, scary
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Camp Tough Love (2017)
Plot Summary:
Chloe, a troubled teen, meets other troubled girls and must come to grips with her Christian faith at a camp where she must earn her way out.
IMDB Rating:
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Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, christian film, tense, light, unusual plot structure, humorous, contemplative
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Scumbag Hustler (2014)
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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Glamour Dolls (2016)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of two male prostitutes who want to become professional actors and how they struggle to get into show business.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, sexy, humorous, captivating, independent film
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Lady Luck (2017)
Plot Summary:
Through their individual trials and turbulence, three strangers are drawn together under one roof.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: psychological, light, unusual plot structure, humorous, suspenseful, contemplative
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Dodgeball (2015)
Plot Summary:
An adaptation of a best-selling novel by Michal Viewegh is a comedy about friendship, fateful loves, beauty and ugliness, alcohol, and the search for human happiness. The plot revolves around three friends - Jeff, Skippy and Tom - whose ups and downs and relationship breakups keep bringing them back to a shared bachelor apartment. Their counterparts in the story are two women - the class beauty Eva, who becomes the object of desire of all three guys in turn, and the ugly Hujerova, whose ironic attitude to herself and life in general gives her the ability to survive in a world that prizes beauty and to find her own path to happiness. - Czech film center.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: non-linear, humorous, psychological, light, sexy, unusual plot structure, contemplative
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Jason and Shirley (2015)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story, Jason and Shirley recreates the 1966 power struggle between Jewish, Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Shirley Clarke and her subject, Jason Holiday, a fierce black gay queen over a 12-hour marathon filming session which gave rise to Clarke's iconic documentary Portrait of Jason.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: psychological, light, sincere, sexy, humorous, contemplative, cinema verite
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Man About Town (2006)
Plot Summary:
A top Hollywood talent agent finds his cushy existence threatened when he discovers that his wife is cheating on him and that his journal has been swiped by a reporter out to bring him down.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, cynical, romantic drama, clever, realistic, biting, crying, suspense
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The Wild Party (1975)
Plot Summary:
Loosely based on the Fatty Arbuckle scandal, an aging silent movie comic star tries for a comeback by staging a wild party that turns into a sexual free-for-all. The comic ends up killing his mistress and her latest boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 781
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, sentimental, serious, realistic, stylized, gloomy, period drama
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The Farewell (2000)
Plot Summary:
A portrait of a single day in the late summer of 1956, toward the end of Bertolt Brecht's life, as he prepares to leave his lakeside home, surrounded by the women who form his extended family.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Poland
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: crying
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On holiday (2010)
Plot Summary:
A young man named Peyton moves to Los Angeles with his girlfriend. Over the course of three years and six parties, Peyton goes into a world of drugs, sex and electronic blues music to find himself.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, light, erotic
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Detours (2016)
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
Plot tags: road movie, feel good, light, humorous, captivating, independent film
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A Month of Sundays (2015)
Plot Summary:
Frank Mollard, divorced but still attached, can't move on and also can't sell a house in a property boom, much less connect with his teenage son. One night Frank gets a phone call from his mother. Nothing out of the ordinary there – apart from the fact that she died the year before.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 493
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: unusual plot structure, humorous, psychological, light, feel good, independent film
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The Vicious Kind (2009)
Plot Summary:
A man tries to warn his brother away from the new girlfriend he brings home during Thanksgiving, but ends up becoming infatuated with her in the process.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, black comedy, sentimental, realistic, humorous, semi serious, indie film, sincere, erotic, melancholic
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Margot at the Wedding (2007)
Plot Summary:
Margot and her son Claude decide to visit her sister Pauline after she announces that she is getting married to less-than-impressive Malcolm. In short order, the storm the sisters create leaves behind a mess of thrashed relationships and exposed family secrets.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: talky, depressing, melancholic, stylized, humorous, tragicomedy, semi serious, cult classic, biting, deep
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Sexual Life (2004)
Plot Summary:
Disparate individuals rationalize their infidelities.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sexy, humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, realistic, sexual, hot
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Life During Wartime (2009)
Plot Summary:
Friends, family, and lovers struggle to find love, forgiveness, and meaning in an almost war-torn world riddled with comedy and pathos. Follows Solondz's film Happiness (1998).
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: disturbing, dark comedy, psychological, independent film, melancholic, talky, stylized, black comedy, humorous, psychedelic
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Music from Another Room (1998)
Plot Summary:
Music From Another Room is a romantic comedy that follows the exploits of Danny, a young man who grew up believing he was destined to marry the girl he helped deliver as a five year old boy when his neighbor went into emergency labor. Twenty-five years later, Danny returns to his hometown and finds the irresistible Anna Swann but she finds it easy to resist him since she is already engaged to dreamboat Eric, a very practical match. In pursuit of Anna, Danny finds himself entangled with each of the eccentric Swanns including blind, sheltered Nina, cynical sister Karen, big brother Bill and dramatic mother Grace as he fights to prove that fate should never be messed with and passion should never be practical.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, sweet, light, semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, talky, crying
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Miss Stevens (2016)
Plot Summary:
A high school English teacher becomes a weekend chaperone for three students at a drama competition.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, captivating, sincere, feel good, funny, independent film, comedy drama, corny
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Lucy (2003)
Plot Summary:
MOW about the life of Lucille Ball, focusing on the loving yet tumultuous relationship with Desi Arnaz.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 946
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: captivating, light, humorous, emotional, realistic, semi serious
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Sade (2000)
Plot Summary:
A man prepares himself to be transferred to a detention center and rest home where he will relive one more time the highlights of his youth.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, atmospheric, realistic, sexy, sexual, melancholic, sensual, tense, erotic, independent film
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Salome's Last Dance (1988)
Plot Summary:
Oscar Wilde watches an outrageous staging of his banned play "Salome" at a London brothel, with parts played by prostitutes, Wilde's host, his lover Bosey, and Lady Alice.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: biblical, art house, sex comedy, costume drama, historical drama, independent film, psychological, atmospheric, offbeat, humorous
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Being the Ricardos (2021)
Plot Summary:
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz face a crisis that could end their careers and another that could end their marriage.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: satirical, historical drama, independent film
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Babylon (2022)
Plot Summary:
A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films and to sound films in the late 1920s.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 155000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 189 min
Plot tags: visual, costume drama, meta, family comedy, comedy drama, crying, postmodern, masterpiece, period drama
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476 A.D. Chapter One: The Last Light of Aries (2014)
Plot Summary:
After General Flavius Aetius frees the Roman Empire from the clutches of Attila the Hun, Rome is once again secure. However, this assurance is short-lived, as Attila is no longer a threat, it only brings the Germanic tribes to once again unite against Rome. As the growing power of General Flavius Aetius becomes a threat to the Roman Senate, and the Emperor of Rome, Flavius becomes a victim of assassination to the Roman political hierarchy, which leaves Rome to two decades of corruption and turmoil. This unrest causes an intense decline in its infrastructure, finally brings the Empire to its inevitable demise. Leaving the Barbarians to finally fulfill their 400 years old dream, to destroy Rome once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Croatia, USA, Italy
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: captivating, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, contemplative, independent film
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Mumford (1999)
Plot Summary:
In the small town of Mumford, a psychologist of the same name moves in and quickly becomes very popular, despite a questionable past.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, psychological, melancholic, compassionate, light, touching, semi serious, clever
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Norma Jean & Marilyn (1996)
Plot Summary:
This film follows Norma Jean from her simple, ambitious youth to her sex star pinnacle and back down. She moves from lover to lover in order to further her career. She finds fame but never happiness, only knowing seduction but not love.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, serious, realistic, disturbing, contemplative, gloomy, iconic