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Plot Summary:
Story of the various joys and crises of neighbors who share terraces in a high-rise apartment building.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, tension, suspense
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Disfigured (2008)
Plot Summary:
Lydia is an overweight sales clerk in a trendy home furnishings store, nearing 30. Though she is a member of a Fat Acceptance Group (a movement dedicated to fighting prejudice against overweight people), she is still struggling with complex feelings about her body and its place in the world. Darcy, a recovering-anorexic real estate agent in her mid-20s, is struggling with the same issues from a very different perspective.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 344
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, touching, captivating, humorous, contemplative, semi serious
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Do Fish Do It? (2002)
Plot Summary:
16-year old Jan is absent-mindedly strolling through the streets when he's run over by roller-skating Nina. As fast as she has stormed into his life, however, she rushes off again. Nina is 15 years old and full of crazy ideas. She lives together with her brother, her father and his new girlfriend. Her mother isn't in touch much. That's why there is the unconventional Angel whose own daughter disappeared years ago and who is Nina's best friend and substitute mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate (2002)
Plot Summary:
Actor Gyung-soo (Kim Sang-kyung) is passed over for a part and decides to leave Seoul and visit a friend. His friend tells him the legend of the "Turning Gate," which foreshadows future events. During his visit, Gyung-soo meets Myung-sook (Ye Ji-won), a girl who quickly falls for him. After a night of passion, he boards the train back for Seoul and meets a married woman who claims to know him. Gyung-soo thinks he may be in love with her, but perhaps he's chosen the wrong woman.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, humorous, semi serious, poetic, sexual, sexy
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Little White Lie (2008)
Plot Summary:
Little White Lie follows the story of a luckless actor named Barry who has recently split from his girlfriend. He is seen wallowing at home in his pyjamas, where he becomes fixated on a children's television presenter who he sees on daytime television. The two accidentally collide at an awards ceremony and Barry sets out to impress the presenter. However, he inadvertently lies about his profession, ignoring his actorial status for a career in psychiatry.[5][6].
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: serious, touching, humorous, realistic
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Fairfield Road (2010)
Plot Summary:
Noah McManus is leaving his job with the Boston mayor's office for a dream gig in Washington, D.C. But in a single day, he finds out his new boss in Washington can no longer employ him and that his girlfriend has been cheating on him. Devastated, Noah travels to a quaint Cape Cod town and unexpectedly finds himself at home.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 887
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: emotional, realistic, captivating, sincere, touching, semi serious
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Red Meat (1997)
Plot Summary:
Chris and Stefan invite Victor to join their group where they talk about their experiences with women over a meal of red meat. As the night progresses, Stefan relates his wild encounters with fleeting sex, Chris talks about his need for intellectual stimulation, and Victor recounts his relationship with a dying woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, humorous, realistic, independent film, semi serious, sexual, sex comedy
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World Traveler (2001)
Plot Summary:
After hitting the road a man encounters characters that make him realize the importance of family.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, captivating, road movie, humorous, contemplative, talky, semi serious, independent film
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The Imperialists Are Still Alive! (2010)
Plot Summary:
A young artist in Manhattan falls in love with a Mexican.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 316
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, captivating, realistic, independent film
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Like You Know It All (2009)
Plot Summary:
Delightfully comic exploration of the emotional and social geography of an art-house film director.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 836
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: touching, captivating, realistic, uplifting, emotional, semi serious, offbeat, humorous
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God's Ears (2008)
Plot Summary:
Noah Connelly is a boxer with a tireless opponent: Autism. But when he meets a dancer named Alexia, the two discover together that the toughest fight may be not be of the body, but of the heart.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, sexy, humorous, sexual
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An American in Hollywood (2014)
Plot Summary:
A talented young filmmaker from New York sets off to Los Angeles in pursuit of the Hollywood dream, only to discover through his relationship with a beautiful feisty young actress, that Hollywood is not all that it seems.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, sincere, captivating, humorous, independent film
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The Californians (2005)
Plot Summary:
When real estate mogul Gavin Ransom announces his plan to cover California's northern coast with scores of mini-mansions, his environmentalist sister, Olive, launches a protest to stop him. But there's trouble ahead when Gavin begins falling for the pretty folk singer who's helping Olive's cause.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 445
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty
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Almost Heaven (2006)
Plot Summary:
A Canadian television director is hired to salvage an international fishing show in Scotland. The only hitch: his ex-wife is the host. What he finds in Scotland is love in the form of a local fishing guide (called a ghillie) and the chance to repair his life and his friendship with his ex-wife with whom he had a child who died.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: touching, realistic, semi serious, captivating, offbeat, humorous
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Love Chronicles: Secrets Revealed (2010)
Plot Summary:
Love Chronicles, a romantic “dramedy”, is set at Los Angeles radio station KLUV, where callers air their dirty laundry over the airwaves for all to hear. Over the course of one crazy day, show host and "relationship expert" Darren (Rockmond Dunbar) and Janet (Vivica Fox) have had another one of their epic fights that threatens to end their marriage and make a joke of Darren's career. At the radio station, street author Thomas Black (Mike Epps) advises cougar Monique (Elise Neal) how to stay married while DJ Mike V (Ving Rhames) helps out the good girl who falls for bad boy from the other side of the tracks.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: semi serious, talky, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, sincere, humorous, realistic, independent film
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Lotto Land (1995)
Plot Summary:
This film tells two interwoven stories of two single-parent families in a poor, racially-mixed neighborhood in Brooklyn. The first story is about a young black man (with aspirations of getting away from his friends who are involved in drugs) who falls in love with a latino girl (who is heading off to college on a full scholarship). The second is about their parents, (she works in the neighborhood liquor store; he works for the phone company). The story takes place against the backdrop of a winning lottery ticket worth $27 million being sold to someone in the neighborhood from the liquor store.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, thought provoking, clever, psychedelic, enigmatic
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Ana and the Others (2003)
Plot Summary:
Twenty-something Ana, now living in Buenos Aires, returns to her native city of Paraná. She meets old school mates, old friends, makes new ones, and starts to rethink her life, and perhaps change her future.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, realistic, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Sweet Lorraine (1987)
Plot Summary:
Serio-comic look at the residents and staff of a Catskill Mountains resort during its final days.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Game of Life (2007)
Plot Summary:
In Game of LIfe, a children's soccer team is the common link for a multi-layered story giving a candid look into the intersecting lives of five families living in Los Angeles. Game of LIfe examines the complexities of racial and class divisions, and reveals that despite the fragile volatility of human relationships, family is what holds us together and unites us all.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, independent film
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Luke and Brie Are on a First Date (2008)
Plot Summary:
It is the first date of Luke and Brie. They will spend the night together at bars, parties and streets of Los Angeles. The risk of a first encounter, and the relentless pursuit of naturalness, will make their relationship dance between flirting and misunderstandings.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, touching, realistic, independent film
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Breakfast with Curtis (2012)
Plot Summary:
Syd is an eccentric bookseller with delusions of grandeur fueled by red wine. He caused a rift 5 years ago between his bohemian housemates and the family next door, but now tries to recruit his 14-year-old neighbor as a collaborator.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 257
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, psychological, touching, suspenseful, offbeat, independent film
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Bastards of Young (2013)
Plot Summary:
Welcome to adulthood! When two early-30s couples celebrate their last annual Halloween party in New York, they are confronted with sex, lies, and unspoken drama which tests their relationships and futures.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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More Sex & the Single Mom (2005)
Plot Summary:
Single, divorced lawyer Jess Gradwell returns in this sequel as she tries to raise her new three-year-old son, Jake, while dealing with her teenage daughter, Sara's, growing carnal desires with a photographer she meets while planning her high school graduation. It all comes to a head when Jess' former flame and father of Jake, Alex Lofton, returns never knowing he has a son out of his and Jess' lustful fling and wants to be a part of her life again, despite Jess not wanting anything to do with Alex.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, emotional, realistic, semi serious, sexy, sexual
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Adopt a Sailor (2008)
Plot Summary:
Adopt A Sailor is about Patricia and Richard, a successful and hip couple from New York City who inadvertently "adopt a sailor" during Fleet Week in New York City and the young man form Turkey Scratch, Arkansas who changes their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: witty, semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, cynical, independent film
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Between Us (2012)
Plot Summary:
A New York couple and their Midwestern friends find that drastic changes have occurred in their respective lives since they last met.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, exciting, tense, touching, independent film
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The Year of Getting to Know Us (2008)
Plot Summary:
A commitment-phobic man reunites with his estranged, ailing father and comes to terms with his own childhood.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat, independent film
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Face (2002)
Plot Summary:
Genie, a Chinese-American teenager, develops feelings for a charming African-American DJ, but her grandmother forbids their romance forcing Genie to choose between family and love.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 350
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, emotional, sentimental, serious, realistic, contemplative
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Guilty Hearts (2006)
Plot Summary:
Over the course of this drama's six separate stories, a variety of couples struggle with the infidelity, dishonesty and heartbreak that plagues their varied pasts. In overcoming their challenges, these diverse individuals embrace a brighter future.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 818
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, realistic
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The Role of Her Life (2004)
Plot Summary:
Freelance writer in a fashion journal, Claire meets Elisabeth Becker, a movie star. Everything separates them, their characters, their relationships with men, and of course money. Claire is hired as Elisabeth's personal assistant.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 563
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious, captivating, humorous
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Swimming (2000)
Plot Summary:
Two girl friends in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina find their relationship changing as they encounter new arrivals to the town.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 943
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Just a Dream (2002)
Plot Summary:
Film crew arrives in a small town in Nevada desert. Ends up changing the life of a 12-year-old kid and a friend of his, a movie lover.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 367
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, sentimental, touching, realistic
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