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Plot Summary:
The meeting of Manuel, a lady's dancer, Petrus, an unfortunate gambler, and Corinne, a fast-food waitress. The drifting of three drop-outs, three solitary dreamers, adventurous waverers.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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12 Hours (2001)
Plot Summary:
A night in the life of a cab driver in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Puerto Rico
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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On the Come Up (2022)
Plot Summary:
Bri, a young rapper and the daughter of an underground hip hop legend who died just before making it big. Her father’s legend makes him a hard act to follow, but between Bri being bullied and watching her mother struggle after losing her job, she pours out her frustration into songs that become big viral hits.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 701
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags:
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Life is to Whistle (1998)
Plot Summary:
Three characters in present-day Havana must choose between clinging to their self-restricting beliefs, or getting rid of them to live more freely. Ballerina Mariana has promised God celibacy if she gets the role of "Giselle"; Social-worker Julia always faints after hearing a certain word; and pot-smoking percussionist Elpidio was abandoned by his mother, coincidentally named Cuba, some time ago and has not yet gotten over the loss.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 700
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Cuba, Spain
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: surreal, realistic, semi serious
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Little Paris (2008)
Plot Summary:
"Little Paris" is the nickname given to Luna's hometown in provincial Baden Württemberg. Its name comes from a replica of the Eiffel Tower on a factory roof on an industrial estate next to the A9 autobahn. Luna knows she has to leave her home, the dead-end part-time jobs and a relationship which has about as much going for it as the local market. And that's not a lot. With the arrival of the mysterious dancer G. in the small town, life in the place is suddenly shaken up his erotic vibes and moves. Luna finds herself in love with G. who is different to her childhood sweetheart Ron. G. is the first one to recognize her talent and together they start rehearsing at the "Pink Palace", a huge disco, for an audition for a dance contest in Berlin. If they win, they could end up starring in a music video. With the support of G., with whom she's falling deeper in love.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: Germany
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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Midnight Dancer (1988)
Plot Summary:
16 year old Australian girl Belinda (Deanne Jeffs) wants to become a ballerina. To makes ends meet, she takes a job as an exotic dancer in a Sydney cabaret. Eventually, she is able to reach her goal, but not before experiencing humanity at best and worst of times.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Student and Mister Henri (2015)
Plot Summary:
Because of his wavering health, Monsieur Henri can no longer live alone in his Paris appartment. Particularly grumpy, he ends up nonetheless accepting his son Paul's suggestion that he let one of his rooms out to a young female student. Far from falling for her charms, Henri uses her to orchestrate utter family chaos.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sentimental, captivating, humorous, melancholic, suspenseful, exciting
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Day Off (2001)
Plot Summary:
Day Off (French: Mercredi, folle journée !) is a 2001 French drama film directed by Pascal Thomas.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, light, humorous, captivating, suspense, melancholic, sensitive
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Break (2018)
Plot Summary:
Lucie, a young dancer suffers an accident. When she wakes up from a coma, she and her partner start training for a dance show. On the way, she starts looking for her estranged father, a path that might lead her to life-changing love.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sincere, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Our Women (2015)
Plot Summary:
Max, Paul and Simon have been friends for 35 years. They take great pleasure in their one vacation a year together without their partners and meet-up regularly to spend evenings drinking or playing cards. Each has a successful career and they all appear to have perfect lives until the night Simon announces to his friends that he has just strangled his wife, Estelle after a blazing row. Max and Paul are horrified by Simon's confession, but worse is to come when Simon asks them to lie and provide him with an alibi for the time Estelle was killed. Both men are torn between lying or turning over their best friend to the police.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 559
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, cynical, semi serious, captivating, realistic, talky
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Roller Boogie (1979)
Plot Summary:
Teen lovers Bobby and Terry band together with other roller skaters to try and prevent a powerful mobster taking over the land their favourite skating rink sits on, and compete in the Boogie Contest.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic, cult film
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The Summer of All My Parents (2016)
Plot Summary:
After attempting to set a mailbox on fire, Pimpette, 14, and her elder sister, Joséphine, 18, spend their summer holidays shuttling between their secretly pregnant mom and bachelor father. But when Joséphine gets involved with the wrong crowd, little Pimpette turns out to be more responsible than the grown-ups who spend their time educating her.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Tap (1989)
Plot Summary:
Max Washington has just been released from prison after serving time for burglary. He returns to his old hangout, a hoofer club. His old girl friend, Amy, who still works at the club as a Tap instructor, is less than thrilled to see him. Her father, Little Mo, is happy to see him, because he has plans for a show involving Max. In addition, Max's old partners in crime have another job for him.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: black comedy, feel good, captivating, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, inspirational, clever, touching, unusual plot structure
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Blinded by the Light (2019)
Plot Summary:
In 1987, during the austere days of Thatcher’s Britain, a teenager learns to live life, understand his family, and find his own voice through the music of Bruce Springsteen.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: captivating, touching, feel good, humorous, tense, retro, emotional, independent film, semi autobiographical, fun
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Band of Outsiders (1964)
Plot Summary:
Cinephile slackers Franz and Arthur spend their days mimicking the antiheroes of Hollywood noirs and Westerns while pursuing the lovely Odile. The misfit trio upends convention at every turn, be it through choreographed dances in cafés or frolicsome romps through the Louvre. Eventually, their romantic view of outlaws pushes them to plan their own heist, but their inexperience may send them out in a blaze of glory -- which could be just what they want.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: black and white, cult classic, neo noir, atmospheric, witty, talky, stylized, postmodern, art house, visual
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Real Love (2018)
Plot Summary:
Forbach, East of France, today. Mario, a man without much ambition, except where love is concerned, is back to square one after his wife left home. He now must raise his two adolescent daughters by himself, while going through some sort of a teenage crisis of his own. 14-year-old Frida blames her father for their mother's leaving and she develops ambivalent feelings towards her new girlfriend. 17-year-old Niki will soon leave home. Until then, she lives the good life. Mario can't help but lose the women he loves. Yet they must all agree to let one another go.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 759
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, light, feel good, unusual plot structure, humorous, contemplative
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Look at Me (2004)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of human beings who know exactly what they'd do if they were somebody else, but can't handle being themselves very well, who are very simply struggling to find out who they are.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: stylized, lyrical, sincere, semi serious, humorous, talky, realistic, witty, contemplative, biting
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Let's Dance (2019)
Plot Summary:
After his crew breaks up, a gifted but insecure hip-hop dancer teaches at a top ballet school in Paris, where he falls for an aspiring ballerina.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Happily Ever After (2004)
Plot Summary:
Is love compatible with coupledom? And what of freedom and fidelity? These are some of the questions facing two married men.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: witty, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, sex comedy, cult classic, sexy, clever, realistic, talky
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Dance-Off (2014)
Plot Summary:
DANCE-OFF is a tongue-in-cheek family comedy set in the world of competition dancing starring talented dancers and choreographers from TV’s “So You Think You Can Dance!” Two rival studios pick their stars Jasmine and Brandon to compete against each other for a $25,000 prize. Jasmine and Brandon have history. They were dance partners and mutual crushes as children. But Brandon quickly moved away not allowed to say goodbye to the heartbroken Jasmine. Luckily, both kept up their dancing. Years later Jasmine shines at the well-funded Diamond Dance Studios and deals with her crazy “dance mom” Jo-Ann . Brandon leads rival Shockwave Studio that desperately needs the $25,000 to stop it from closing. Unable to deny their feelings and both wanting to win, the star-crossed lovers feel pressure from Jo-Ann, competition owner Mary , and her son JT to triumph at all costs. How can they compete against the person they love?.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 877
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: inspirational, sincere, serious, captivating, disturbing
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Attila Marcel (2013)
Plot Summary:
Paul is a sweet man-child, raised — and smothered — by his two eccentric aunts in Paris since the death of his parents when he was a toddler. Now thirty-three, he still does not speak. (He does express himself through colourful suits that would challenge any Wes Anderson character in nerd chic.) Paul's aunts have only one dream for him: to win piano competitions. Although Paul practices dutifully, he remains unfulfilled until he submits to the interventions of his upstairs neighbour. Suitably named after the novelist, Madame Proust offers Paul a concoction that unlocks repressed memories from his childhood and awakens the most delightful of fantasies.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, aesthetic, offbeat, postmodern
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10,000 Saints (2015)
Plot Summary:
A sweeping multigenerational story set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring New York City of the late 1980s; adoption, teen pregnancy, drugs, hardcore punk rock, the unbridled optimism and reckless stupidity of the young—and old—are all major elements in this heart-aching tale of the son of diehard hippies and his strange odyssey through the extremes of late 20th century youth culture.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, crying
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Taking Off (1971)
Plot Summary:
Unable to deal with her parents, Jeannie Tyne runs away from home. Larry and Lyne Tyne search for her, and in the process meet other people whose children ran away. With their children gone, the parents are now free to rediscover/enjoy life.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, social, clever, offbeat, humorous, captivating, realistic, witty, talky, semi serious
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Twist and Shout (1984)
Plot Summary:
Danish teens come of age in 1963. Bjorn and Erik are close friends. Bjorn is pursued by Kirsten, a future Stepford wife, but he falls for Anna, who initiates him into love and sex. Erik is somber, caring for his home-bound mentally-ill mother while his strict father rules his life. He desires Kirsten, but she's unattainable. Pregnancy, a horrific abortion, an engagement party, and a revelation about the rectitude of Erik's father lead to a climax: Bjorn and Erik must stand up to controlling adults.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Denmark
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, crying
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Camping 3 (2016)
Plot Summary:
Like every summer, our friends, the Pics, Jacky and Laurette, Gatineau, recently divorced from Sopie, and Patrick Chirac, ever true to form, get together at the Blue Waves camping grounds. This year, Patrick has decided to try car sharing. Believing that he'll travel through France alone with Vanessa, he finds himself accompanied by three young Dijon inhabitants: smooth-talking Robert, good-looking Benji and loudmouth José. Of course, after car sharing Patrick is forced to try out bed sharing.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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The Bélier Family (2014)
Plot Summary:
The whole Bélier family is deaf, except for sixteen year old Paula who is the important translator in her parents' day to day life especially when it comes to matters concerning the family farm. When her music teacher discovers she has a fantastic singing voice and she gets an opportunity to enter a big Radio France contest the whole family's future is set up for big changes.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: touching, suspenseful, emotional, semi serious, humorous, sincere, sexy, feel good, sad, tear jerker
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Take the Lead (2006)
Plot Summary:
A former professional dancer volunteers to teach dance in the New York public school system and, while his background first clashes with his students' tastes, together they create a completely new style of dance. Based on the story of ballroom dancer, Pierre Dulane.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: inspirational, sexy, entertaining, captivating, feel good, teen, spiritual, epic, educational, sincere
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Honey 2 (2011)
Plot Summary:
Sequel to the 2003 dance movie Honey. Recently released from juvenile detention, talented dancer Maria Ramirez finds an outlet for her passion with a new dance crew.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: uplifting, touching, feel good, captivating, serious, realistic, romantic, teen, exciting
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Footloose (2011)
Plot Summary:
Ren MacCormack is transplanted from Boston to the small southern town of Bomont where loud music and dancing are prohibited. Not one to bow to the status quo, Ren challenges the ban, revitalizing the town and falling in love with the minister’s troubled daughter Ariel in the process.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 52000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: feel good, romantic, teen, entertaining, absurd, sincere, serious, intense, humorous, cute
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Strictly Ballroom (1992)
Plot Summary:
Brave new steps put Scott's career in jeopardy. With a new partner and determination, can he still succeed?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: romantic, humorous, sexy, touching, melancholic, sweet, surreal, sincere, feel good, visually stunning
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Shall We Dance? (1996)
Plot Summary:
A bored Japanese accountant sees a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly starts taking dancing lessons to be near her, and then over time discovers how much he loves ballroom dancing. His wife, meanwhile, has hired a private detective to find out why he has started coming home late smelling of perfume.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, romantic, thought provoking, offbeat, independent film, feel good, realistic, semi serious, funny