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Plot Summary:
The snow is staying away from the Bavarian ski village of Haunzenberg, and so are the skiers. Business is failing and so is Georg's relationship with Emilie. During his attempt to reignite the fires of passion, the wooden cross in the next room falls down, crushing Emilie's very Catholic mother Daisy. Wracked with guilt, Georg and his drinking buddies hatch a plan to have Daisy canonized by the Church, hoping to save both the village and his relationship. Everything goes according to plan until the Vatican sends a Priest to examine the miracles of Saint Daisy... Written by Anthony Parkhurst.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 795
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, touching, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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My Life in Orange (2011)
Plot Summary:
A look at a Bavarian commune of the Indian Bhagwan cult.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, funny, light, feel good, entertaining, spiritual, realistic, semi serious, sexual
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Manta, Manta (1991)
Plot Summary:
A not so clever guy called Berti with a Opel Manta (a low budget European sports-coupe from the '80s) gets competition in a street race from a guy with a fast Mercedes, and another slick guy with a Ferrari tries to get his hands on Bertis girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, light
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Seven Dinners (2019)
Plot Summary:
After five years of marriage, their relationships have come to a dead end – no kids, no common interests, almost no more love is left… When the wife asks for divorce, the husband tries the last remedy to cure their relationships – a scientific method known as "7 dinners".
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, sentimental, humorous, touching
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Jesus Loves Me (2012)
Plot Summary:
A girl who always tends to fall in love with the wrong guy meets one who believes the world is coming to an end next Tuesday.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, touching, light, feel good, offbeat
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Russian Disco (2012)
Plot Summary:
Russendisko is the story of Wladimir, Andrej and Mischa. Three young Russian friends, who move from Moscow to Berlin in a lucky wave of emigration right after the fall of the Berlin wall. They take their chance looking for a better life and find themselves involved in the tales of everyday lunacy on the streets of Berlin and its spirit of the early nineties. Russendisko is a modern fairy tale, a story of friendship, of love, of dreams and the search for happiness and its fulfillment. The film is based on the mega selling novel by Wladimir Kaminer.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, feel good, light, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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Sidetracked (2014)
Plot Summary:
A rural couple in crisis, who have a brother and sister with urban problems, and all of them trying to find a solution.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, light, touching, entertaining, biting, suspense
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Luck (2003)
Plot Summary:
Shane Bradley, who is fixated on ideas of luck and destiny, tries to win the girl of his dreams. After their relationship falters, Shane begins to think he might be unlucky and turns to gambling as an outlet for his obsession.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 448
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, feel good, touching, realistic, semi serious
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Dodging the Clock (2005)
Plot Summary:
The passage of time is probably the only concrete proof we have that justice exists in this cruel world. Some people would like to stop time in its tracks, while others choose to follow its path. In this story, three men in their early thirties have reached that age when it's time to start thinking about "getting a life", perhaps starting a family. But how do you handle the fact that your friendships are changing? That, slowly, your new family is becoming the center of your ever-shrinking world? What do you do when you realize your youth is a thing of the past?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, realistic, semi serious
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Iceberg! (2005)
Plot Summary:
Fiona is the manager of a fast-food restaurant. She lives comfortably with her family in the suburbs. In other words, Fiona is happy... until one day she accidentally gets locked into a walk-in fridge. She escapes the next morning, half frozen and barely alive, only to realize that her husband and two children didn't even notice she was missing. But when Fiona develops an obsession for everything cold and icy: snow, polar bears, fridges, icebergs--she drops everything, climbs into a frozen goods delivery truck and leaves home. For a real iceberg.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Belgium
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: road movie, captivating, entertaining, light, feel good, surreal, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Camping (2006)
Plot Summary:
Plastic surgeon Michel Saint-Josse is on his way to Spain where he hopes to spend a stress-free holiday in a luxury hotel with his teenage daughter Vanessa. When his car breaks down near a camping, Michel accepts the offer of help from an extrovert gigolo camper named Patrick Chirac. Whilst their car is being repaired, Michel and Vanessa agree to stay in Patrick’s well proportioned tent, not knowing that, thanks to a series of mishaps, it will be their home for several days.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Wedding Fever in Campobello (2009)
Plot Summary:
When Jan decides to marry his girl-friend Sara, he is not aware of his opponent: her father, who is an Italian.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, sentimental, realistic, feel good, captivating, semi serious
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Move (2012)
Plot Summary:
Eleven moving dates, eight friends: Philipp, Wiebke, Jessica, Maria, Swantje, Michael, Thomas, Dina – all in their twenties and mutually lonesome. And always searching: For a new city, a new job, an own apartment, a new, or even an old love. The search is never-ending, and so they repeatedly find themselves at a ritual gathering: someone moving. Boxes are shifted from one side of Berlin to the other, or the length and breadth of Germany, from one abode to the next as one life is exchanged for another. In 3 ZIMMER/KÜCHE/BAD, director Dietrich Brüggemann portrays existences in which relationships, social networks and backdrops are in a constant state of flux; where best friends are the only, and therefore the most valuable constant. Humorous sketches of the self-conception of a generation for whom moving has become the symbol of a life on the go.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, light, feel good, touching, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Oma in Roma (2012)
Plot Summary:
Where shall we put grandma? Her permanently anxious and stressed daughter, Marie, knows exactly where: the neighbourhood’s idyllically situated retirement homem where she can find friends of “her own age”. But Granny has other ideas: She wants to see the Pope in Rome, and no one can stop her plan. She wants to finally confess a troubling sin to the highest possible power. She resolves to make the journey alone, and ends up one day on the doorstep of her granddaughter, Martina. What she doesn’t know is that Martina has a secret too, and that a private audience with the Pope is virtually impossible for mere mortals. Together with sly bon vivant, Lorenzo, the three set off on an adventure – but their attempt to receive a Papal blessing almost ends in disaster.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, light, sincere, sweet
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The Closer You Get (2000)
Plot Summary:
Irish bachelors take out an ad in the Miami Herald, looking for love.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, sex comedy
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The Foursome (2006)
Plot Summary:
Four old friends reconnect at their 20-year college reunion.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 561
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, sex comedy
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Manna from Heaven (2002)
Plot Summary:
Manna From Heaven is a comedic fable about what happens when you get a gift from God (a financial windfall), but many years later you find out it was a just a loan and it's due immediately. Once upon a time, many years ago, a neighborhood in Buffalo, NY is mysteriously showered with 20 dollar bills. Theresa, a young girl who everyone thinks is a saint, doesn't have much trouble convincing her loose-knit "family" that the money is a gift from Heaven. Years later, Theresa, who has become a nun, has an epiphany that it is time to pay the money back, so she calls the eccentric group together to repay the "loan." The problem is, nobody wants to give back the money, nobody has the money, they don't know to whom it belongs, and most of them can't stand each other. Along the way, the characters learn about family, romance, reconciliation and redemption, and by working together they begin to realize their full potential.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 487
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: feel good, realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous, independent film, offbeat, fable
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Men in the City (2009)
Plot Summary:
The comedy about men and their struggles in life and love.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, realistic, semi serious, not serious
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Copacabana (2010)
Plot Summary:
Babou's daughter refuses to invite her mother to her wedding, prompting Babou to begin life anew.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, sincere, feel good, captivating, sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious
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Tortilla Heaven (2007)
Plot Summary:
Isidor's Tortilla Heaven is the best restaurant in New Mexico maybe even the world. But though his tortillas are scrumptious, his enchiladas divine, Isidor has never made a dime. Why? He lives in Falfurrias, population 73. One Sunday, while all the town, including his wife and son, are piously praying mass, a miracle occurs. Upon one of his famous, hand-made tortillas appears the face of Jesus Christ.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 457
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, independent film, touching, offbeat, realistic, semi serious
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Men in the City 2 (2011)
Plot Summary:
The sequel of the "Men in the city" movie which reunites all the characters.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, light, feel good
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Happy Birthday, Harris Malden (2008)
Plot Summary:
Harris Malden wears his insecurity on his face in a curious disguise for everyone to see. No one in the neighborhood, not even his best friend Paul or his brother Melvin, has the heart to tell him how ridiculous he looks with the thick black line above his lip. Harris Malden fakes his facial hair, and as far as he's concerned, nobody can tell.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, touching, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Did You... Score? (2012)
Plot Summary:
The real first comedy about love.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, realistic, semi serious, hot
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I Love You Too (2010)
Plot Summary:
Written by comedian Peter Helliar, I LOVE YOU TOO stars Brendan Cowell as Jim, a 30-something emotionally stunted man whose inability to declare his love to his girlfriend, Alice, threatens to cost him the best thing he ever had but leads him to befriend a talented dwarf who helps him find the words to get her back.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating, touching, offbeat, realistic, talky, weird
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Pretty Bird (2008)
Plot Summary:
A comic tale of three would-be entrepreneurs who set out to invent a rocket belt. The clash of their mismatched personalities soon dissolves the business into a morass of recriminations and retaliations, kidnapping, and murder in this parable of American dreams and delusions.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, sentimental, feel good, light, captivating, melancholic, independent film, exciting
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Bachelor Days Are Over (2011)
Plot Summary:
Arnaud nicknamed "Cui Cui" no longer knows which way to look. He is about to marry Anna but he is not sure he really loves her. To make matters worse, he falls in love during the stag party he has with his friends. And Léa, a nightclub singer, is obviously the woman of his dreams. What to do? Cancel the wedding and create a scandal but be able to live with a woman he loves truly and loves him in return? Or be a good boy and not disappoint the company but say farewell to happiness. For four days, Arnaud goes to and fro aimlessly between Anna and Léa, between his eccentric sister and his self-centered mother, between hope and depression.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, contemplative, light, feel good, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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Men Do what Men Can (2012)
Plot Summary:
Confirmed bachelor Paul falls for Iris, who’s unfortunately as good as married. Although his friends have women problems of their own, and all end up moving into Paul’s apartment, they concoct a daring plan to help Paul save Iris from marrying the wrong man.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, sincere, touching, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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The Yank (2014)
Plot Summary:
Tom Murphy, a middle-aged Irish-American man from Cleveland, travels to Ireland for his best friend’s wedding and to find the perfect woman.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, light, feel good, independent film
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Christmas in Compton (2012)
Plot Summary:
Big Earl, the owner of a Christmas tree lot in Compton, California runs into some trouble when his son Derrick crosses the line to prove to his father that he is a success.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, realistic, semi serious
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All in Good Time (2012)
Plot Summary:
East is East writer Ayub Khan-Din returns with another funny, tender-hearted portrait of family strife. Based on his popular play Rafta, Rafta (itself inspired by Bill Naughtons 1960s classic All in Good Time), the film is set in Bolton where Atul and Vina are celebrating their marriage. However, a honeymoon spent with his parents was not part of their plans. Thoughtless patriarch Eeshwar seems determined to emasculate and embarrass his son. As the weeks pass, consummating their union becomes an impossibility that threatens the couples entire future. A breezy mixture of heartbreak and hilarity, All in Good Time also offers peerless performances from original stage stars Harish Patel and Meera Syal.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, feel good, captivating, light, multicultural, sentimental, realistic, semi serious
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FC Venus (2006)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: semi serious, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic