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Plot Summary:
Dr. Ilic works in the hospital for compulsory treatment of alcoholics. By conducting his own "special treatment" through physical exercises, apple eating, the healing effects of listening to Wagner's music and psychodrama, a group of six patients have been taken to visit the brewery where there is a problem of alcoholism in the workplace.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 779
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Smiles of sad men (2018)
Plot Summary:
A writer gets into a rehab where he meets a lot of successful men who destroyed their lives with alcohol.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, thought provoking, humorous, captivating, melancholic, suspenseful, compassionate
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Who Has Seen the Wind (1977)
Plot Summary:
The coming-of-age of adolescent Brian O'Connal in small town Depression-era Saskatchewan is told. The son of the local pharmacist Gerald O'Connal, Brian is in many ways a typical boy, who dislikes school if only because of his run-ins with the nervous schoolteacher, Miss MacDonald, and who tries to catch gophers with his friends, Artie and Forbsie. His best friend and protector is slightly older Jonathan Ben, better known as The Young Ben (as his father is referred to as The Ben), who is highly regarded as a problem by those in town who see themselves as the moral authority if only because of The Young Ben's association to The Ben, the town still keeper and drunk. Brian's life takes a turn when his parents have to leave town temporarily, while Brian stays on his Uncle Sean's farm. That stint leads to a series of events which make Brian see life around him through slightly older and wiser eyes.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Effects of Lying (2023)
Plot Summary:
A dutiful husband and loving father whose life falls apart when decades of festering secrets are exposed and he's forced to face up to who he really is.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Sunday Lunch (1982)
Plot Summary:
A surgeon torn between his family and mistress sees his upcoming promotion as a salvation from midlife crisis.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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The Dog Who Loved Trains (1977)
Plot Summary:
A fugitive girl, a stuntman and a young man who lost his dog quite some time before, are joining together on a trip to reach each of their own destination. A youngster gets emotionally connected to the girl, and he'd try to help her to leave the bossy stuntman, to get false passport and escape to Paris.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 549
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Dimboola (1979)
Plot Summary:
Dimboola follows the interaction of various characters at a country wedding reception.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Tragic Burlesque (1995)
Plot Summary:
In a way of protesting for inhuman living conditions and the shortage of medications caused by the disintegration of Yugoslavia and its sanctions, a doctor in a hospital decides to close his clinic for mental illness. His wish is to return the patients to their homes or give them to someone who is willing to accept them temporarily.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 692
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: offbeat, black comedy
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The Marathon Family (1982)
Plot Summary:
The Topalovic family has been in the burial business for generations. When the old (150 yrs old) Pantelija dies, five generations of his heirs start to fight for the inheritance.
IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, parody, atmospheric, surreal, cult classic, sincere, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious
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Why Shoot the Teacher? (1977)
Plot Summary:
It's the winter of 1935 and Max Brown is newly arrived in Willowgreen, Saskatchewan - a rural Canadian prairie town - on his first teaching job in a one room schoolhouse. He quickly realizes that this is not his dream situation: the winter is harsher than he's ever experienced, he's living in the basement of the school, the older of his students treat him poorly and his wages are paltry if and when he ever does get paid. He also feels physically and emotionally isolated. There, he bonds primarily with two townsfolk. Harris Montgomery sees Max as an obvious choice to espouse the politics of socialism. And Alice Field sees in Max a person like herself: being a British war bride, she is an alien in a harsh environment. Alice is in an unsatisfying marriage and turns to Max for emotional support. As Max goes through his first year in Willowgreen, he learns to understand life in a rural prairie town, both from the viewpoint of his students and for his own benefit.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, thinking
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The Automatic Hate (2015)
Plot Summary:
When Davis Green's (Joseph Cross) alluring young cousin Alexis (Adelaide Clemens) appears on his doorstep one night, he discovers that a side of his family has been kept secret from him. Against his father’s wishes, Davis travels to rural, upstate New York to meet his other cousins. While wrestling with a taboo attraction to one another, he and Alexis attempt to reunite their families, uncovering the reasons behind a long-standing rift and the shocking secret that tore their fathers apart. Together, their discoveries force them to confront the temptation to keep their familial grudge going rather than end it.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, mumblecore
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The Days on Earth Are Flowing (1979)
Plot Summary:
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
Plot tags:
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How I Was Systematically Destroyed by Idiots (1983)
Plot Summary:
The film follows a life of a homeless, but very well read, Marxist who is coping with Che's death and wishes to live a life of revolutions and workers' uprisings. He is a hypochondriac, bitter at the world, and blaming his old capitalist boss for his life's misery.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: crying
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The Oak (1992)
Plot Summary:
A description of Romania before Ceausescu's downfall, through the story of Nela. Daughter of a former colonel of the Securitate, the romanian political police. She refused to become as her sister, an agent of this Securitate, and lives with her father. After he died, she leaves Bucarest, and ends up in a little town, where she meets Mitica, a surgeon, another herself, laughing of everything.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Romania
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: black comedy, parody, atmospheric, gloomy, semi serious, tension, dark comedy, suspense
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The Professional (2003)
Plot Summary:
Till recently a University professor, a bohemian writer, a member of Belgrade's intellectual circles and a passionate opponent of the Milosevic's regime meets the man, unknown to him, but who knows every tiny detail of his life. Man tells him a story and plot unfolds unimaginably.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Serbia and Montenegro
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, clever, cult classic, humorous, realistic, semi serious, intellectual, black comedy, dark comedy
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Rita, Sue and Bob Too! (1987)
Plot Summary:
Realistic story of working class Yorkshire life. Two schoolgirls have a sexual fling with a married man. Serious and light-hearted by turns. Rita, Sue And Bob Too was adapted by Andrea Dunbar from two of her own controversial plays. Rita (Siobhan Finneran) and Sue (Michelle Holmes) are two teenagers living on a run-down council estate in Bradford who both share a job babysitting for Bob (George Costigan) and Michelle's (Lesley Sharp) children. Whilst giving them a lift home one night, Bob decides to take Rita and Sue up to a deserted, country-side landscape. Clearly knowing what he has in mind, Rita and Sue are only too happy to oblige and both have a sexual encounter with him that becomes a regular occurrence. Despite the blatant politically-incorrect nature of the film, this does emerge as a somewhat controversial, though enduringly amusing film that has a sharp, gritty undertone.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, sex comedy, avant garde, cult classic, sexy, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, hot
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Elling (2001)
Plot Summary:
When his mother, who has sheltered him his entire 40 years, dies, Elling, a sensitive, would-be poet, is sent to live in a state institution. There he meets Kjell Bjarne, a gentle giant and female-obsessed virgin in his 40s. After two years, the men are released and provided with a state-funded apartment and stipend with the hope they will be able to live on their own.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, witty, semi serious, dark comedy, neurotic, feel good, experimental, controversial, black comedy
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The Elusive Summer of '68 (1984)
Plot Summary:
For the young man who lives in Serbian province town, the maturing coincides with the turbulent political events of the year 1968.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: parody, sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Balkan Spy (1984)
Plot Summary:
Balkanski špijun is a 1984 Yugoslav comedy/drama. Ilija Čvorović, a former Stalinist who spent several years in a prison on Goli otok, is contacted by the police to routinely answer questions about his tenant, Petar Markov Jakovljević, a businessman, who spent twenty years living in Paris, and now has returned to Belgrade to open a tailor shop. After only several minutes, Ilija is free to go, however, he is starting to suspect that his tenant might be a spy. As the movie goes on, his paranoia increases and more people gets involved: his wife, his daughter, his brother, Jakovljevic's friends.
IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: funny, black comedy, dark comedy, thought provoking, humorous, realistic, disturbing, semi serious
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That Trip We Took with Dad (2016)
Plot Summary:
Romania, 1968. Two very different brothers. Mihai is a secret police informant, Emil is a dedicated dissident. When they have the opportunity to have their ailing father’s eyes operated on in East Germany, the three set out on a moving odyssey.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 641
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Romania, Hungary, Sweden
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, realistic, entertaining, road movie, freeze frame
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The Party (2017)
Plot Summary:
Various individuals think they’re coming together for a party in a private home, but a series of revelations results in a huge crisis that throws their belief systems – and their values – into total disarray.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Denmark
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: minimal cast, dark comedy, humorous, black comedy, psychological, captivating, disturbing, philosophical, independent film, black and white
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The Road to Wellville (1994)
Plot Summary:
An unhappy young couple visit the infamous Kellogg spa in Battle Creek, Michigan while a young hustler tries get into the breakfast-cereal business and compete against John Kellogg's corn flakes.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: humorous, talky, witty, surreal, hilarious, clever, offbeat, feel good, captivating, satirical
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The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974)
Plot Summary:
The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make a name for himself in society. This film chronicles his short and dubious rise to power, as well as his changing relationships with family and friends. Along the way the film explores the themes of anti-semitism and the responsibilities which come with adulthood.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sad, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, biting, semi autobiographical, suspense
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Quality Time (2013)
Plot Summary:
You can’t choose your family – which is why Conrad limits his visits with his parents to an absolute minimum. When venomous, irritable Carl injures himself seriously in a fall, his reluctant son Conrad and the butt-of-all-jokes Jonas has no choice but to move back into his old childhood room. Three generations under one roof: a chance for reconciliation – or a total disaster?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, feel good, sentimental, realistic, semi serious, crying
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Outrageous! (1977)
Plot Summary:
Gay hair stylist Robin Turner does a lot of work for drag queens, all the while dreaming that he'll someday find the courage to perform in drag himself. When his schizophrenic friend, Liza, turns up looking for a place to stay, he little suspects that she'll be the one to finally motivate him. But over time the two form an increasingly tight bond, Robin helping Liza through an unplanned pregnancy and Liza pushing Robin to develop a successful nightclub act.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: thinking, independent film, clever, touching, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, queer cinema
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Who's Singin' Over There? (1980)
Plot Summary:
On April 5, 1941, a day before Nazi attack on Yugoslavia, entourage on a country road board Krstic's bus heading for Belgrade: two Gypsies who occasionally sing about misery, an aging war veteran, a Nazi sympathizer, a dapper singer, a consumptive, and a man with a shotgun. Krstic is a world-weary cynic, out for a buck; the driver is his son, the simple, cheerful Misko. En route they pick up a more people and head towards their destiny.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: road movie, dark comedy, atmospheric, surreal, art house, bleak, serious, realistic, black comedy, odd
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Don's Party (1976)
Plot Summary:
Don's Party stars John Hargreaves as Don Henderson, a schoolteacher living with his wife, Kath (Jeanie Drynan), in 1969. Out of boredom, he invites a small group of friends to celebrate a predicted Australian Labor Party (ALP) election victory, much to the dismay of his wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy, independent film
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SubUrbia (1996)
Plot Summary:
A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, teen, independent film, realistic, talky, cerebral, philosophical, art house, indie film, clever
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Rams (2020)
Plot Summary:
In remote Western Australia, two estranged farmer brothers, Colin and Les, are at war. But when Les' prize ram is diagnosed with a rare and lethal illness, authorities order a purge of every sheep in the valley - so the brothers must work together to to reunite their family, save their herd, and bring their community back together.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags:
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Introducing the Dwights (2007)
Plot Summary:
The shy son of an aging comedienne tries to find a balance between his demanding home life, his new girlfriend, and his mother's second chance at fame.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sentimental, feel good, realistic, entertaining, biting, crying, suspense
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Strange Relations (2001)
Plot Summary:
Drama - A NYC psychiatrist is diagnosed with leukemia - and when he finds out he was adopted, he travels to England in search of his birth mother and some answers. - Paul Reiser, Amber Sealey, Lachele Carl.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 807
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, emotional, semi serious, realistic, crying