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Plot Summary:
Comedy drama in which two actors who owe their entire careers to the Western genre seek revenge against a legendary screenwriter who once mistreated them on the set of an early film.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 350
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: neo western, cult film
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Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? (1970)
Plot Summary:
A rivalry is brewing between the soldiers at an otherwise tranquil Army base and the civilians of a nearby Southern town. With good intentions, Col. Flanders tries to keep the piece and uses Brian Keith to work community relations. However, peace is hard to come by with Ernest Borgnine as a beat first ask questions later sheriff. The Colonel organizes a dance and encourages all in the area to attend. But instead of merriment, tensions are even higher. Tony Curtis plays a wise cracking Sergeant who can't stay out of trouble and soon lands in jail. Brian Keith borrows a tank to release his friend from jail. A rebellious town leader Billy Joe Davis proclaims war against the military with his own private army. Suzanne Pleshette co-stars as the oh so lovable bar maid.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 435
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, political, independent film
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Mrs. Munck (1995)
Plot Summary:
A wronged woman takes revenge on her wheelchair bound father-in-law.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Queen and I (2018)
Plot Summary:
A new republican prime minister strips the British monarch and her family of their money and assets, and forces them to live on a rundown council estate.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 406
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags:
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The Naked Ape (1973)
Plot Summary:
Somewhat based on Desmond Morris's fascinating book of pop anthropology, this partially animated satirical docudrama produced by Playboy Magazine publisher Hugh Hefner, traces the evolution of human kind and offers insight into the reasons why we behave the way we do. Though often dealing with sexuality, nothing in the film is terribly offensive or graphic. A prime example of mainstream experimental film-making from the early 70's featuring a young and breathtakingly lovely Victoria Principal.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Men Cry Bullets (1998)
Plot Summary:
A young man wants to be a female impersonator, but gets mocked in his very first performance by a fierce older woman. He finds out where she lives and goes to her house expecting an apology. Instead, she locks him in her shed and rapes him. It makes him fall for her. But soon her even darker side reveals itself when she believes he is attracted to her more beautiful visiting cousin.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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You've Got To Walk It Like You Talk It or You'll Lose That Beat (1971)
Plot Summary:
This oddball counterculture comedy/drama follows Zalman King through a series of kooky misadventures while he searches for his life's purpose in New York City.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Heavy (2019)
Plot Summary:
Drug-dealer Sev and his equally broken girlfriend Maddie accept a risky deal from an old childhood friend, setting off an irreversible chain of events.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Beneath the Surface (2007)
Plot Summary:
By uncovering a world thought only to exist in his imagination, Ethan brings the love of his life back from the dead in order to clear her name and expose the truth behind her apparent suicide. However, he did not expect the chaos that would come back with her as well.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, satirical, disturbing, independent film
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Young Bodies Heal Quickly (2014)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers are fleeing arrest for the "accidental" killing of a young girl. Their destination is their estranged father's desolate compound on the sea shore.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, independent film
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American Fiction (2023)
Plot Summary:
Thelonious “Monk” Ellison's writing career has stalled because his work isn’t deemed “Black enough.” Monk, a writer and English professor, writes a satirical novel under a pseudonym, aiming to expose the publishing world's hypocrisies. The book’s immediate success forces him to get deeper enmeshed in his assumed identity and challenges his closely-held worldviews.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 966
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: satirical, dark comedy, alternative comedy
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To Dust (2018)
Plot Summary:
Shmuel, a Hasidic cantor in Upstate New York and distraught at the untimely death of his wife, struggles to find religious solace, while secretly obsessing over how her body will decay. As a clandestine partnership develops with Albert, a local community college biology professor, the two embark on a darkly comic and increasingly literal undertaking into the underworld.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, dark comedy
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Person to Person (2017)
Plot Summary:
Follows a variety of New York characters as they navigate personal relationships and unexpected problems over the course of one day.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: captivating, satirical, disturbing, mumblecore
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Quasi (2023)
Plot Summary:
A hapless hunchback who only yearns for love, finds himself in the middle of a murderous feud between the Pope and the King of France when each orders the hunchback to kill the other.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: satirical, slapstick comedy
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How It Ends (2021)
Plot Summary:
In this feel-good apocalyptic comedy, Liza embarks on a hilarious journey through LA in hopes of making it to her last party before it all ends, running into an eclectic cast of characters along the way.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, satirical, funny, road movie, humorous, apocalyptic
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Revenge for Jolly! (2012)
Plot Summary:
Harry (Brian Petsos) is having a very, very bad day. He returns home from an all-night drinking binge with his cousin Cecil (Oscar Issac), to discover that his little dog Jolly...Harry's one true love and the source of light in his dark, solitary life-has been murdered. Brokenhearted and beyond consolation, he vows to track down the dog's murderer at any cost. Armed with a stockpile of firepower in the trunk of his car, he and Cecil embark on a frenzied, alcohol-fueled wild-goose chase, leaving a bloody path of destruction in their wake.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: humorous, tense, psychological, captivating, road movie, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, independent film, ambiguous ending
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When Jeff Tried to Save the World (2018)
Plot Summary:
When Jeff discovers that the bowling alley he manages is being sold, he must do everything he can to save the place he's come to call home.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 637
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing
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Dial a Prayer (2015)
Plot Summary:
A troubled young woman working at a prayer call center makes a difference in other people's lives, forcing her to reconcile with her troubled past with the faith she brings out in others.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Breakable You (2017)
Plot Summary:
A divorced playwright and his therapist ex deal with new relationships and their daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 459
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Mr. Sadman (2009)
Plot Summary:
In 1990, before the First Gulf War, Mounir, an impressionable and sheltered Saddam Hussein body-double, loses his job and moves to Los Angeles in search of a new start. But once the real Saddam invades Kuwait and makes international headlines, Mounir learns the truth about the Iraqi dictator and vows to shed his Saddam persona forever. Unfortunately, he doesn't know how to be anyone else.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, independent film
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Mainstream (2020)
Plot Summary:
A young woman thinks she’s found a path to internet stardom when she starts making YouTube videos with a charismatic stranger – until the dark side of viral celebrity threatens to ruin them both.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, freeze frame, anamorphic, game show
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The Last Big Thing (1996)
Plot Summary:
From a bland tract house on the outskirts of Los Angeles, Simon Geist (with occasional help from his platonic girlfriend Darla) wages war against all of modern American popular culture. Geist starts up a magazine called "The Next Big Thing", which he uses to confront and insult upcoming actors, comics, models and rock bands. As Geist's mysterious Underground Agenda escalates, will he become the "last big thing", or be co-opted by the very forces he is railing against? Written by Van Film Fest.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 418
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: entertaining, independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, biting, sexual, surprise ending
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Bad Words (2013)
Plot Summary:
A misanthropic man sets out to exact revenge on his estranged father, by finding a loophole and attempting to win the National Spelling Bee as an adult. Figuring it would destroy his father, and everything he's worked so hard for as head of the Spelling Bee Championship Organization, Guy Trilby (Jason Bateman) eventually discovers winning isn't necessary for revenge, and that friendship is a blessing not a curse.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 55000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, not serious, dark comedy, clever, black comedy, feel good, social, spoof, romantic comedy
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A Happening of Monumental Proportions (2017)
Plot Summary:
During the course of one day, a group of students at a school in Los Angeles find themselves caught up in a plot of sex, lies and dead bodies.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: captivating, satirical, disturbing, sex comedy, semi serious
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Christmas Rematch (2004)
Plot Summary:
17 years after Regalo di Natale the same 5 players for a new challenge. Who can trust who?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 900
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, humorous, captivating, satirical, disturbing
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Night Owls (2015)
Plot Summary:
After workaholic Kevin has a drunken one night stand with the beautiful train-wreck Madeline, he's horrified to discover that she's actually his boss' jilted ex-mistress. When she takes a bottle of sleeping pills, Kevin is forced to keep her awake... and over the course of the night the two begin to fall for each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, ironic, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, dark comedy, whimsical
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Senior Year (2022)
Plot Summary:
A thirty-seven-year-old woman wakes up from a twenty-year coma and returns to the high school where she was once a popular cheerleader to finish her senior year and become prom queen. The main plot is the empowerment of LGBTQ rights and progress through the years.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: captivating, satirical, disturbing, psychological, semi serious, feel good
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The Hotel New Hampshire (1984)
Plot Summary:
The film talks about a family that weathers all sorts of disasters and keeps going in spite of it all. It is noted for its wonderful assortment of oddball characters.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: black comedy, offbeat, humorous, dark comedy, realistic, semi serious, independent film, erotic, psychological, road movie
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Remember the Daze (2007)
Plot Summary:
During the summer of 1999, a group of teenagers, through interconnected narratives, live through their last day of high school and prepare for the future. Holly, once the new girl in school, does whatever it takes to remain popular. Dawn, who is secretly a lesbian, battles drugs. Tori is the valedictorian of her class, but, on the eve of graduation, she decides to experiment with drugs for the first time.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic, funny, teen, psychotronic, independent film, weird
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The Joneses (2009)
Plot Summary:
A seemingly perfect family moves into a suburban neighborhood, but when it comes to the truth as to why they're living there, they don't exactly come clean with their neighbors.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: romantic, melancholic, satirical, cynical, realistic, semi serious, teen, clever, parody, funny
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Grassroots (2012)
Plot Summary:
Grant Cogswell, a liberal music critic decides to run for city council against a popular black incumbent and is assisted by a reporter who recently lost his job. Initially given no chance, things turn dark when Cogswell makes it into the general election. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, political, clever, biting, suspense