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Plot Summary:
Two New York film editors balance their personal relationships while reworking a movie in crisis.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 993
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, witty, talky, semi serious, mumblecore, independent film
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Let Go (2011)
Plot Summary:
Walter Dishman, a married and melancholy parole officer, deals with three eccentric ex-convicts who have been placed under his supervision.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 874
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, cynical, captivating, light, touching, realistic, witty, talky, semi serious, independent film
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Blue in the Face (1995)
Plot Summary:
Auggie runs a small tobacco shop in Brooklyn, New York. The whole neighborhood comes to visit him to buy cigarettes and have some small talk. During the movie Lou Reed tries to explain why he has to have a cut on his health insurance bill if he keeps smoking and Madonna acts as a Singing Telegram.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: independent film, witty, talky, mumblecore, art house, colorful, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic
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The Cosmopolitans (2014)
Plot Summary:
A look at the lives and loves of a group of young ex-patriates living in Paris. Part of Amazon's Pilot Season, in which viewers, after watching the pilot episode, get to vote on which show they want to return for more episodes. "The Cosmopolitans" didn't get picked up by Amazon after the pilot.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 739
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 26 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty, talky
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Jay and Silent Bob Get Irish: The Swearing o' The Green! (2013)
Plot Summary:
You may see one show, but you haven't senn them all! Following on from the amazingly successful JAY AND SILENT BOB TEA BAGGING IN THE UK, Fast-talking, foul mouthed Jay and his "hetero life partner' Silent Bob return with their second instalment of their highly peaised, extremely dynamic live comedy show, Jay & Silent Bob Get Old Mach II.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 449
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, not serious, realistic, witty, talky
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These Old Broads (2001)
Plot Summary:
"These Old Broads" is a 2001 television film written by Carrie Fisher and starring her mother Debbie Reynolds, as well as Shirley MacLaine, Joan Collins, and Elizabeth Taylor in her final starring film role. Network television executive Gavin (Nestor Carbonell) hopes to reunite celebrated Hollywood stars Piper Grayson (Reynolds), Kate Westbourne (MacLaine), and Addie Holden (Collins) in a TV special after their 1960s movie musical "Boy Crazy" is re-released in the 1990s. Though the three women share the same agent, Beryl Mason (Taylor), Gavin's seemingly insurmountable obstacle is that they all cannot stand each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic, biting, suspense
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Hollywood Palms (2001)
Plot Summary:
Set entirely in the Hollywood Palms apartment building and its yard, this movie shows how people there live and interact with each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic, biting, suspense
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Let Them Chirp Awhile (2007)
Plot Summary:
The basic storyline of the film follows Bobby and Scott, two young men in their late twenties who are struggling to make careers out of their artistic dreams but their competitiveness with each other gets in the way.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, offbeat, independent film
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Beyond Therapy (1987)
Plot Summary:
Manhattanites Bruce and Prudence are each looking for a meaningful romantic relationship and have been encouraged by their psychiatrists to find someone through the personal ads. Their first meeting is disastrous, but they begin to hit it off during their second date. However, Bruce's bisexual, live-in lover does not want to share Bruce and is willing to do whatever it takes to keep him to himself.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, semi serious, biting, sexual, sexy
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Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald (1997)
Plot Summary:
A radio play is going to go on air at a Tokyo radio station. It is a weepy melodrama written by housewife Miyako, who is the winner of the competition run by the station. Suddenly, the hot-tempered lead actress Nokko decides she wants the name of her character to be Mary Jane and not Ritsuko. That leads to the chain of events which changes the play completely.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, slapstick comedy, slapstick, neo screwball comedy
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Festival in Cannes (2001)
Plot Summary:
Cannes, 1999. Alice, an actress, wants to direct an indie picture. Kaz, a talkative (and maybe bogus) deal maker, promises $3 million if she'll use Millie, an aging French star. But, Rick, a big producer, needs Millie for a small part in a fall movie or he loses his star, Tom Hanks. Is Kaz for real? Can Rick sweet-talk Alice and sabotage Kaz to keep Millie from taking that deal? Millie consults with Victor, her ex, about which picture to make, Rick needs money, an ingenue named Blue is discovered, Kaz hits on Victor's new love, and Rick's factotum connects with Blue. Knives go in various backs. Wheels spin. Which deals - and pairings - will be consummated?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 638
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, witty, talky, independent film, clever, realistic
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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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This Is Not a Film (2003)
Plot Summary:
New Yorker Michael Connor attempts to find the woman who left him by making a film about her, hoping that someone (maybe you?) will recognize his ex and convince her to get back together with him. To help the viewer understand who he is and why his girlfriend left, Michael opts to re-enact his failed relationship for the camera. He hires an actress to portray his ex-girlfriend, and during the process of filming she quickly and mercilessly points out all of his mistakes, blunders and inadequacies as a boyfriend. "This Is Not a Film" is a romantic comedy about making mistakes and recognizing them in the most painful way possible--by making them over and over again.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 305
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sentimental, realistic, talky, semi serious, humorous, witty, independent film, offbeat
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Sweet Liberty (1986)
Plot Summary:
Michael has written a schollarly book on the revolutionary war. He has sold the film rights. The arrival of the film crew seriously disrupts him as actors want to change their characters, directors want to re-stage battles, and he becomes very infatuated with Faith who will play the female lead in the movie. At the same time, he is fighting with his crazy mother who thinks the Devil lives in her kitchen, and his girlfriend who is talking about commitment.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: melancholic, humorous, witty, feel good, realistic, semi serious, clever, funny, light, romantic
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2 Million Stupid Women (2009)
Plot Summary:
A handful of insults and fighting best friends, not quite the Birthday presents every girl hopes for. Melissa s not every girl. She is determined to collect insults from all of her past boyfriends before her birthday night is over. But her journey to rid herself of her bad hook-up karma leads to some pretty strange situations, and by the nights end she might just learn a thing or two about relationships. Will things start looking up for the insulted party girl, or will she be stuck with bad karma for another year?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Lola Versus (2012)
Plot Summary:
Just three weeks before her wedding, Lola (Greta Gerwig) finds herself suddenly without a partner when her longtime fiance, Luke (Joel Kinnaman), dumps her. With her 30th birthday looming and being forced to re-enter the New York City dating scene, she feels adrift in a cold world. She leans on her friends (Zoe Lister-Jones, Hamish Linklater) for support but, after a series of romantic humiliations, professional blunders and boozy antics, Lola realizes that she alone is in charge of her fate.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, touching, realistic, semi serious, mumblecore, independent film, inspirational, sexy, talky
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How to Seduce Difficult Women (2009)
Plot Summary:
Philippe, a French-American writer living in Manhattan, decides to take on ten relationship-challenged men to help them learn the art of seduction.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 298
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sincere, sexy, realistic, witty, erotic, talky, sex comedy
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The Cult of Sincerity (2008)
Plot Summary:
A New York hipster sets out on a a quest to create the most sincere T-shirt ever.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, cynical, offbeat, independent film
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Mutual Appreciation (2005)
Plot Summary:
Alan is a musician who leaves a busted-up band for New York, and a new musical voyage. He tries to stay focused and fends off all manner of distractions, including the attraction to his good friend's girlfriend. Film of the "Mumblecore" genre.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, sincere, touching, humorous, witty, black and white, independent film, romantic, romantic comedy, clever
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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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6 Month Rule (2011)
Plot Summary:
A womanizer teaches his clueless friend the rules about being single and avoiding emotional attachment.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 733
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, thought provoking
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Pittsburgh (2006)
Plot Summary:
Jeff Goldblum put his Hollywood actor life on hold to star alongside his new girlfriend in a Pittsburgh regional theater production of The Music Man. Co-directors Bradley and LaBrache tread a surprisingly elegant line between genuine documentary and outright self-parody improv in this deliciously deadpan comedy.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 517
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: realistic, witty, semi serious, humorous, mockumentary, clever, talky
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Frownland (2007)
Plot Summary:
A rotten egg lobbed with spazmo aim at the spotless surface of the silver screen, FROWNLAND centers on social misfit and self-labeled "troll from under the bridge" Keith Sontag (Dore Mann). When he's not trying to sell coupons door-to-door, Keith struggles with evicting his roommate from their seedy apartment, helping a friend who's suicidal and just getting by as an outsider in the cruel city.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 758
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, humorous, semi serious, clever, realistic, witty, stylized, inspirational, controversial, offbeat
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Mona (2008)
Plot Summary:
Two 35 year old men going backwards in life meet a vibrant 23 year woman, bounding unselfconsciously forward.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, emotional, independent film, touching, realistic
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Should've Put a Ring On It (2011)
Plot Summary:
Robin Givens, Miguel Nunez, and Bobby Valentino star in this faith-based romantic drama about Thea Johnson, terribly desperate to be married to her longtime boyfriend Jamar. When he takes too long to propose, she decides to propose to him instead. Thea creates an elaborate proposal, but is thwarted by his reluctance. An obsessed ex-boyfriend, married & single friends, and Thea s father & pastor all take part in the tug of war for her heart.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexy, independent film, sexual
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That's What She Said (2012)
Plot Summary:
Longtime best friends Bebe and DeeDee are both wrestling with love. Bebe has met someone new and is in the exuberant phase of a budding romance. DeeDee is trying to move on from someone she can’t forget – mostly in destructive ways. As Bebe waits for the perpetually late DeeDee at their favorite coffee shop, she meets Clementine, a distraught young woman with love problems of her own. With Clementine in tow, Bebe and DeeDee soon embark on the kind of outrageous misadventure that only New York City can offer.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 724
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, light, sincere, feel good
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LOL (2006)
Plot Summary:
The relationships of three men are examined through their use of technology.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 910
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, sincere, humorous, talky, clever, touching, offbeat, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Newlyweds (2011)
Plot Summary:
A newlywed couple's honeymoon is upended by the arrivals of their respective sisters.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, sincere, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film
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Pipe Dream (2002)
Plot Summary:
A lonely plumber poses as a movie director to meet women, and the writer whose script he's stolen builds on his ruse to get her movie made.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, clever, semi serious, independent film
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The Utopian Society (2003)
Plot Summary:
6 college students from different backgrounds, are assigned to work together on a final project. These six students have so far spent no time together, can't stand each other and must pass this final assignment in order to pass the class. The assignment is to create a utopian society, on paper. They've had all semester to work on the project but in the tradition of most college group assignments, have opted to wait until the last minute to cram the entire semester's work into one night.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: semi serious, clever, touching, humorous, realistic, witty, mumblecore, talky
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Walkaway (2010)
Plot Summary:
Walkaway, a light-comedy drama, mocks the clutches of social obligations on young Indian professionals settled in New York City.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 813
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film