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Plot Summary:
Sophie has been sleeping in her car. In it is everything she owns, but in an envelope in her glove compartment is a ring she bought for her fiancé. After an undisclosed amount of nights, she finally reaches out to her cousin, who seems to have it all in place- a house, a career and of all things, a wife. The cousins discuss their current lives in depth, leaving Sophie to feel disconnected and inferior to Jerzy- who is trying to bury himself in a cocoon of work, a job where he has control. But even that is unraveling. With Sophie thrown into the mix, they're forced to air out their differences. All the while Mary examines her own marital conflict with Jerzy.
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Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: mumblecore
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Life Is Beautiful (2022)
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Suddenly learning she is terminally ill, Se-yeon asks her husband, Jin-bong the absurd task of helping her find her first love, and he unwillingly joins her search. Along their journey, Se-yeon and Jin-bong are reminded of the most glittering, beautiful moments of their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 122 min
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Almost Hollywood (1994)
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In this tasty blend of sleaze and thriller, a producer of exploitation and sex videos finds himself accused of killing his own mistress and the boyfriend of one of his most promising stars.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Flareup (1969)
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A Las Vegas go-go dancer moves to Los Angeles to escape the psycho who has killed her partners.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 558
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Horned Bastion (1965)
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IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Comedy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 78 min
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Roof Jump (1978)
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Unable to stand up for himself, a talented scientist Rostislav Lyubeshkin is forced to leave the institute. Ordinary accountant Kosichkin is trying to protect a person he doesn't know in general. Kosichkin is demoted, his wife considers him a squabbler and a loser, and colleagues are gloating over the results of the audit.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 85 min
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Family Circle (1980)
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IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 83 min
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The Big Day (2005)
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Anne has started a wedding planning biz with happily flaming designer Lars and grumpy accountant Jesper. Hoping to make a big public splash, they land upcoming event that will marry TV chat hosts Anders and Signe. Instant attraction between Anne and Anders is complicated even further by her planned nuptials with boring b.f. Simon.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 478
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 95 min
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Billy Shakespeare (2014)
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What if William Shakespeare never existed... until now. Our Modern Bard is caught in a love triangle of confused sexuality, cross dressing, mistaken identity, and bedroom trysts. Does Shakespeare love his lusty best friend, Wilma Hartford, who's also a drag queen, or his lovely long-time girlfriend Anne Hathaway. This battle to understand Shakespeare's true heart is a comic romp. All the while, Shakespeare peddles his screenplays in Hollywood. Renaissance and modern sensibilities clash when an all-male stage version of Macbeth and the misogynistic low-budget film "The Taming of the Shrew" open simultaneously. The combustion makes "The Bard," played by comedic genius Jason D. Johnson, the most controversial screenwriter in Hollywood.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody
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Lions Love (1969)
Plot Summary:
Three actors in Hollywood live and love together. A director comes from New York to make a movie about actors and Hollywood.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: art house, tragicomedy, independent film, experimental, cinema verite
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Light in the Window (1960)
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 72 min
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Sock It To My Baby (1968)
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A bored couple separately seduces young girls, when the husband becomes obsessed with and begins to pamper a young neighbor with disastrous results.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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The Women's Room (1980)
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A wife is sick and tired of her husband's infidelities, so she leaves home and goes back to grad-school. There she meets many self-confident women who help her find her own voice.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min
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Vendus (2004)
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An adulterous man married to a wealthy Realtor plans on killing his wife with the assistance of his young lover. Little does the cheating husband know that his young lover is planning to blackmail him.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
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Crime of Crimes (1989)
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A Latino family new to Los Angeles find itself in trouble when the husband is arrested for a murder he didn't commit. His pregnant wife winds up in the hospital, and his little daughter is kidnapped by a child molester.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Limbo (2014)
Plot Summary:
LIMBO is set in a small town in rural Denmark, teenager Sara and young teacher Karen develop a connection. A quiet drama interested as much in the lives of its female protagonists as their surroundings.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark, Germany
Duration: 80 min
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Hollywood Confidential (1997)
Plot Summary:
A former LA cop runs a top-flight private detective agency that caters to spoiled Hollywood types.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tv series pilot
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Everything Relative (1996)
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Old college chums get together for a weekend reunion that is bound to open old wounds and perhaps heal them. New romances find a spark while old ones rekindle.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: independent film, queer cinema
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A Porn Star Is Born (2011)
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(Long Synopsis) "In this true story, beautiful Aliana Love (as herself) – like so many other young hopefuls – moves to Los Angeles with dreams of becoming a star … But quickly realizes that, in Hollywood, you are either on the plate or in front of it. Financial woes force a reluctant but desperate Aliana into the seedy world of adult films and porn king John Goldman (Peter Greene) is only too happy to exploit her looks and innocence … turning her into the biggest, X-rated contract star in years. Matters become even more bleak when Aliana begins a torrid love affair with the one of the genre’s other biggest stars, Tom Powers (porn star Mark Davis), who is addicted to drugs and begins to spiral out of control. As Aliana fights to save the man she loves, she also renews a relentless pursuit to achieve true stardom.".
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: captivating
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Adam (2019)
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Adam, an awkward teen, spends a summer with his older sister, who is part of New York City's lesbian and trans activist scene. He meets the girl of his dreams but can't figure out how to tell her he's not the trans man she thinks he is.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: controversial, queer cinema
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I Think I Do (2013)
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I Think I Do is a romantic-relationship comedy about commitment, cold feet, the endurance of true love, the importance of family ties and the hard lesson learned that, try as we may, life simply does not go as planned.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Bit (2019)
Plot Summary:
A teenage transgender girl moves to LA and gets involved with a group of intersectional feminist vampires.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema, humorous, queer horror, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, contemplative, queer cinema
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Candy Rain (2008)
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An omnibus film about four lesbian relationships, Candy Rain leads off with a tale of two old friends (Grace Chen and Belle Hsin), who are tested by their burgeoning lesbian relationship. They sleep together and bask in each other's company, but minor differences get in the way of a smooth ride to happily ever after, leading to an inevitable break up and a possible make up. Story two centers on an OCD-suffering introvert (Sandrine Pinna) who works as a chef and meets possible partners online. Her new girl is a forward older woman (Waa, doing her best Bai Ling impression), and the two manage some semblance of relationship progression before clashing personalities - and one partner's irrational need for loneliness - gets in the way of extended bliss.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 106 min
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Tortured Sex Goddess of Ming Dynasty (2003)
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Young Ngai planned to castrate himself to enter the palace for richness and fame. On his way, Ngai was attracted by Han, a showgirl from a sex torture show. They then ran away from Sun the eunuch, Ngai’s introducer, who meant to buy Han for sexual torture until death. Same night, Han showed Ngai the greatest sex torturing skills; but in return, after learning so, Ngai killed her in the middle of the torturing and handed her head to Sun for forgiveness….
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Closing Numbers (1993)
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Keith, Anna and their son Peter are a close, loving family living in a smart suburban street of a provincial city. Anna is a typical middle-class housewife, filling her day with good works, until one day, when she finds a note that leads to a shattering discovery - her husband has been having an affair. Anna's intense shock at finding out Keith's secret is compounded when she arranges to meet his lover. When Steve arrives at the meeting place, Anna is forced to accept the fact that Keith has been leading a double life for the length of their marriage. Steve stresses the risk of AIDS and urges Anna to have an AIDS test. To show her what it can be like to live with the disease, he introduces her to Jim, who needs 24-hour care and has developed a realistic attitude towards his own death. When Keith leaves home suddenly, Anna is forced to tell her son about the threat of HIV, but Peter turns violently against her and runs away.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Suicide Kale (2016)
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Jasmine and Penn, a new couple with an uncertain future, struggle through a lunch party after they stumble upon an anonymous suicide note in the home of the hosts.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, unusual plot structure, entertaining, queer cinema
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The Guest House (2012)
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Before leaving for college, a recently dumped goth girl's life changes forever when she falls in love with a smart and professional college grad who is staying in the family's guest house.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: sexy, sentimental, semi serious, realistic, erotic, independent film, sexual, gothic
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Tangerine (2015)
Plot Summary:
It's Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend hasn't been faithful during the 28 days she was locked up, the working girl and her best friend, Alexandra, embark on a mission to get to the bottom of the scandalous rumor. Their rip-roaring odyssey leads them through various subcultures of Los Angeles, including an Armenian family dealing with their own repercussions of infidelity.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: harsh, disturbing, enigmatic, talky, stylized, grindhouse, dark comedy, independent film, mumblecore, surreal
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Two Weddings and a Funeral (2012)
Plot Summary:
Kimjho Gwang-soo is one of the most recognized Korean gay activist as well as a filmmaker. This is his feature debut as a director and producer. A queer movie that delivers the goods—humorous and touching—and fulfills the director’s wish for a more “open” society. A story of two people that masquerade as a couple to hide their homosexuality and keep their real loves intact. Minsoo, who is gay and wants to escape from his meddling parents, and Hyojin, who is a lesbian and wants to adopt a baby, are both doctors working at the same hospital. To fulfill their wishes, they decide to fake their nuptials. Their marriage is surrounded by episodes, some are humorous and others full of pathos. Unlike other films dealing with similar subject matter, focusing on the darker side of the spectrum, the director’s choice to keep things lighter and brighter is also a virtue.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 507
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, light, humorous, contemplative, sex comedy, unusual plot structure, queer cinema
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Butterfly (2004)
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Flavia is a thirtysomething married teacher. She has suppressed the memory of her adolescent lesbian fling with Jin and is stuck in a stifling marriage. A chance encounter in a supermarket with the playful and seductive singer Yip reawakens dormant feelings and she begins to think back on her teenage affair with Jin.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: uplifting, queer cinema
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Gemini (2017)
Plot Summary:
A heinous crime tests the complex relationship between a tenacious personal assistant and her Hollywood starlet boss. As the assistant travels across Los Angeles to unravel the mystery, she must stay one step ahead of a determined policeman and confront her own understanding of friendship, truth and celebrity.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: twist ending, suspense, psychological thriller, neo noir, mumblecore, stylized, art house, crime drama, twisted, surprise ending