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Plot Summary:
Adam unexpectedly visits his family house at Christmas after a few years of working abroad. No family member knows about his secret plans and the real reasons of his visit.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, disturbing
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Sieranevada (2016)
Plot Summary:
Back from a professional trip to Paris, a neurologist at the pinnacle of his career has to pick up his wife so that they can attend a family meal to commemorate his father, who died a year before. At his mother's flat, the guests are waiting for the priest to arrive while arguing about all kinds of things connected and unconnected with the world’s events and wars.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania, France, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia
Duration: 173 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, unusual plot structure, humorous, independent film, dark comedy, existential, crying, beautiful
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Body (2015)
Plot Summary:
A busy attorney, worried that his anorexic daughter Olga might try to harm herself, since she's still grieving over her recently deceased mother, sends her to see a psychiatrist, Anna, who's dealing with her own loss in an unusual way.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, sincere, humorous, captivating, melancholic, suspenseful, art house, comedy drama
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White Soup (2003)
Plot Summary:
The dramatic story of a woman's struggle to discover the identity of her grandchild's father. The grandmother becomes obsessed with discovering the identity of the man who fathered her daughter's child.The naive daughter is of little help with her mother with the search, which turns into a dangerous journey, filled with unexpected events. The mother is forced to face and overcome her own dark secrets and deepest fears, and her struggles provide her daughter with a new sense of hope and understanding of her own life.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating
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Mountain Men (2014)
Plot Summary:
Mountain Men is a comedy/drama that follows two estranged brothers, Toph and Cooper, as they journey to a remote family cabin in the mountains to evict a squatter. Buried resentment and bruised egos soon derail the plan and when the smoke clears they've destroyed their car and burned down the cabin, leaving them stranded in the cold Rocky Mountain winter. With their very survival at stake, they must learn to work together as brothers to get back to civilization.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: exciting, light, humorous, captivating, disturbing, funny, independent film
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Sophie's Misfortunes (2016)
Plot Summary:
Sophie is far from being the model little girl one would like her to be, unlike her friends Camille and Madeleine. She always insists on having her own way, often getting into trouble, to the despair of one and all. But her mother is unbending and otherwise inclined. She wants her daughter to enjoy the essential of a good upbringing. She will not let her get away with anything, and poor Sophie will often have to live with the consequences of her bad behavior and learn her lesson. Which is not always very easy!.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 436
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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The Price of Success (2017)
Plot Summary:
A comedian's relationship with his family crumbles when his career begins to take off.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 385
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, semi serious
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Dough (2015)
Plot Summary:
An old Jewish baker struggles to keep his business afloat until his young Muslim apprentice accidentally drops cannabis in the dough and sends sales sky high.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Hungary
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, sincere, captivating, culinary
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Stella's Last Weekend (2018)
Plot Summary:
Brothers Jack and Oliver reunite to put their beloved dog to sleep. While their zany mother plans a party to celebrate Stella's life, things go awry when the brothers discover they love the same girl.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, humorous, captivating, disturbing, sad
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Butterflies (2018)
Plot Summary:
Three strangers with one thing in common — the same father — come to a Turkish village to bury him, and learn about him and each other.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, captivating, disturbing, art house
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The In-Laws (2021)
Plot Summary:
Is a party after a canceled wedding a recipe for disaster? It is. And what a disaster it is! Two families differ in everything - origin, status, wallet content, taste. The parents of the groom and bride are initially shocked. What did such a thing happen? Who was at fault? What about the wedding party? Should they welcome the guests? Play music? Pour the vodka? Who will cut the cake? From word to word, polite smiles turn into public washing of dirt. And finally a real bomb goes off... And in the meantime, the wedding party turns into a wild party. And no one is bothered by the absence of the newlyweds.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Noodle (2007)
Plot Summary:
At thirty-seven, Miri is a twice-widowed, El Al flight attendant. Her well-regulated existence is suddenly turned upside down by an abandoned Chinese boy whose migrant-worker mother has been summarily deported from Israel. The film is a touching comic-drama in which two human beings -- as different from each other as Tel Aviv is from Beijing -- accompany each other on a remarkable journey, one that takes them both back to a meaningful life.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 925
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, captivating, humorous, sweet, sentimental, touching, serious, uplifting
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The Overbrook Brothers (2009)
Plot Summary:
Road movie about two brothers who drive to Texas to find out the truth behind their parents.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, captivating, light, emotional, entertaining, semi serious, crying
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Four Cousins and a Christmas (2021)
Plot Summary:
Four cousins are excited to celebrate Christmas with each other until their estranged grandfather summons them home for their beloved grandmother’s memorial.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing
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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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Holiday Date (2019)
Plot Summary:
When Brooke’s boyfriend, Ethan, breaks up with her just before the holidays, she agrees to go home with Joel, an actor who will pose as her boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: light, touching, humorous, captivating
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Christmas at Grand Valley (2018)
Plot Summary:
Burned out from the hubbub of the Chicago gallery world, artist Kelly returns home to the picturesque Grand Valley just in time for Christmas. Leo, businessman and all-star dad to his children, struggles to balance his time this holiday season. When he is assigned to review a hotel in Grand Valley for its value, he sees this as the perfect opportunity for a Christmas family vacation. It isn’t long until Kelly and Leo’s worlds collide.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: light, emotional, sincere, feel good, captivating
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On Strike for Christmas (2010)
Plot Summary:
After years of making sure everything is perfect for her family, Joy Robertson is saying “enough,” and decides to go on strike for the Christmas season. If her husband, Stephen, and their kids want to have the perfect holiday, they will just have to organize it themselves.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 967
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, emotional
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Season's Beatings (1999)
Plot Summary:
Christmas, family, and infidelity. Yvette's husband has died, and her grown daughters join her at the grave: Sonia, wealthy, bourgeois, and generous; Louba, living with their dad Stanislas, singing at a Russian restaurant, penniless, the mistress for the past 12 years of a man who will never leave his wife; Milla, the youngest, acerbic, lonesome. Christmas was when they learned their parents were divorcing 25 years ago. Over the next few days, yuletide depression, Louba's pregnancy, Sonia's crumbling marriage, Stanislas's overtures to Yvette, and Milla's attraction to the man who's her father's rent-free lodger lead each one to re-examine self, family, and hopes. Is renewal possible?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sentimental, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, entertaining, masterpiece
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The Wedding (2004)
Plot Summary:
Wojnar is a wealthy man who is marrying off his beautiful daughter Kasia, in a small town in present day Poland. Wojnar had to bribe the groom with a fancy car, since Kasia was pregnant by another man. At the end of the ceremony, the car is delivered by a gangster, who immediately demands the promised money and the deed to land from Kasia's grandfather. Unfortunately grandpa is unwilling to let go of the land. Meanwhile each of the workers at the reception demand to be paid, so Wojnar, who is very reluctant to part with his money, tries to haggle and bribe his way out of all the situations.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy, realistic
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Invisibles (2018)
Plot Summary:
Following a city councils decision, a women's shelter will soon be closed and social workers have only three months to accommodate the residents.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, humorous, captivating, disturbing, social
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An Ordinary Family (2011)
Plot Summary:
AN ORDINARY FAMILY is a humorous drama about one family, two brothers and a really big problem. Thomas Biederman is blindsided when his estranged brother, Seth, shows up unannounced to the annual family vacation… with his boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, emotional, psychological, captivating, independent film, sentimental, touching, realistic, talky, semi serious
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Don't Think About It (2007)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: captivating, feel good, humorous, light, sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious
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See You in Valhalla (2015)
Plot Summary:
After the bizarre death of her brother, Johana Burwood must return home after four years, to face her strange siblings, her out of touch father and her very touchy past.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, captivating, disturbing
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A Merry Friggin' Christmas (2014)
Plot Summary:
Boyd Mitchler and his family must spend Christmas with his estranged family of misfits. Upon realizing that he left all his son's gifts at home, he hits the road with his dad in an attempt to make the 8-hour round trip before sunrise.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, entertaining, slapstick, hilarious, independent film, interesting
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The Strange Little Cat (2013)
Plot Summary:
It is a Saturday in autumn, and Karin and Simon are visiting their parents and youngest sister Clara. This family gathering provides the occasion for a dinner together, at which other relatives appear over the course of the day. While the family members animate the apartment’s space with their conversations, everyday activities and cooking preparations, the cat and dog range through the various rooms. they too become a central element in this quotidian familial dance that repeatedly manifests stylized elements, disrupting any naturalistic mode of presentation. In this way, adjoining spaces open up between family drama, fairy tale and the psychological study of a mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: clever, touching, semi serious, humorous, realistic, beautiful
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Family United (2013)
Plot Summary:
The director Daniel Sánchez Arévalo ('Azuloscurocasinegro', 'Cousins'), he embarks on a new comedy that has as a backdrop the World Cup in South Africa and the setting is a wedding that takes precisely the day of the final. This will be the occasion in which five brothers, all with biblical names, Adam, Daniel, Caleb, Benjamin and Ephraim, gather to celebrate the engagement of Ephraim, the youngest of them, who marries his pregnant girlfriend. Will hours of uncertainty, joy and euphoria back, but it's time to unite for a common good. Can all together to face the situation and erected winners heading?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, captivating
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Lapland (2011)
Plot Summary:
Recently widowed Eileen Lewis,son Pete and his wife Mandy and daughter Paula with her spouse Ray,plus the grandchildren, leave Birkenhead to spend Christmas in Lapland.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, realistic, semi serious
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Mariages! (2004)
Plot Summary:
Ils ont 25 ans et se marient aujourd'hui.Ils ont 35 ans, se sont unis il y a dix ans et se déchirent aujourd'hui.Ils ont 45 ans, se sont déchirés il y a dix ans et tentent aujourd'hui de se réconcilier.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, exciting
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Mixed Nuts (1994)
Plot Summary:
The events focus around a crisis hotline business on one crazy night during the Christmas holidays.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, slapstick, humorous, christmas comedy, entertaining, offbeat, feel good, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Daddy Cool: Join the Fun (2009)
Plot Summary:
So, what can happen at a funeral? Even, if it's the funeral of Daddy Cool Douglas Lazarus? It's in Goa, tears, sad speeches, melancholia... right? Wrong! When... The coffin makers deliver the wrong body, all hell breaks loose in this witty comedy starring Sunil Shetty and many of B-Town's rich and famous as they try and find the body of their beloved.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 414
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, entertaining, captivating, realistic