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Plot Summary:
A narrative feature that tells the fictional story of five women artists in New York, Los Angeles and Washington DC. Told in five, separate vignettes, the characters each overcome artistic obstacles by using their bodies as artistic expression. Heavily driven by music from female bands and musicians, this provocative film explores the boundaries and definitions of art.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Still Orangutans (2007)
Plot Summary:
The film tells the story of sixteen people in the hottest day of the year in the city of Porto Alegre.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags:
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Hey DJ (2003)
Plot Summary:
From Miami to Ibiza, HEY DJ chronicles the meteoric rise to Fame of DJ HOUND DOG and the terrible mess he makes of his love life. Featuring an all star cast of the Worlds Greatest DJ's.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 709
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film
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Sitting on a Branch, Enjoying Myself (1989)
Plot Summary:
Pepe and Prengel, returning from war, meet Ester and both fall in love with the girl and live together in a deserted house. Fanatic communist, Zelmira, wants to turn their world upside-down.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia, West Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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She Should Have Stayed in Bed (1963)
Plot Summary:
A New York photographer takes photos of various tenants in a posh apartment building while waiting for a nude pin-up model to show up for him at his studio.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Lions Love (1969)
Plot Summary:
Three actors in Hollywood live and love together. A director comes from New York to make a movie about actors and Hollywood.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: art house, tragicomedy, independent film, experimental, cinema verite
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Klown Forever (2015)
Plot Summary:
Frank and Casper's friendship is put to a test, when Casper decides to leave Denmark to pursue a solo career in Los Angeles. Determined to win his best friend back Frank chooses to follow Casper insuring an eventful trip.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy
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All Inclusive (2017)
Plot Summary:
A trip to Croatia to celebrate Inger's 60th birthday. The whole thing sounded like a great idea until Inger caught her husband having an affair. When the plane takes off for Split the depressed Inger and her two daughters, much too sensible Malin (35) and chaotic Tove (32) are on board. Tove has to struggle to be included in Inger and Malin's circle, the sister's rivalry over their mother is so strong it quickly escalates into a competition of who can comfort Inger the best.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Take It Out In Trade (1970)
Plot Summary:
A couple hire a detective to locate their missing daughter. He finds her in a "house of ill-repute.".
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: detective, psychotronic
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(Untitled) (2009)
Plot Summary:
A fashionable contemporary art gallerist in Chelsea, New York falls for a brooding new music composer in this comic satire of the state of contemporary art.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, witty, avant garde, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, black comedy
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River of Fundament (2014)
Plot Summary:
Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings. In collaboration with composer Jonathan Bepler, Barney combines traditional modes of narrative cinema with filmed elements of performance, sculpture, and opera, reconstructing Mailer’s hypersexual story of Egyptian gods and the seven stages of reincarnation, alongside the rise and fall of the American car industry.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 319 min
Plot tags: surreal, disturbing, psychological, slow cinema, avant garde, experimental, philosophical, contemplative, art house
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Passion Holiday (1963)
Plot Summary:
Four women take a boat trip to an island and run into a group of gangsters.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Anita: Dances of Vice (1987)
Plot Summary:
In modern-day Berlin (1987), Frau Kutowski goes insane, believing herself to be the (real-life) notorious Anita Berber, a nude art dancer/drug addict/scandalous figure of post-WWI Berlin. (Berber died of tuberculosis in 1928, having achieved significant success and recognition throughout the dance world.) Frau Kutowski is placed in a mental hospital, where in her own mind she acts out Berber's final days, including in her fantasies the hospital's staff and patients, to represent Anita's friends and associates.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Tripping Forward (2009)
Plot Summary:
Ford Coleman is a struggling actor in Hollywood who fears never achieving fame other then appearing in local TV commercials. After over a year living in L.A., Ford is broke and in danger of being evicted from his apartment. His slacker roommate Tripp, who has given up his music career out of hopelessness, convinces Tripp to become a drug dealer to buy and sell cocaine to supermodels as their extra income, which brings both Ford and Tripp into danger as they venture into the Los Angeles underworld which also puts a risk on Ford's budding romance with Gwen, a struggling actress herself unaware of Ford's secret arrangement with Tripp.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film
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Aria (1987)
Plot Summary:
Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound (Vivaldi, Bach, Wagner), and is an interpretation of the particular aria.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anthology, erotic, mind bending, comedy drama, independent film, atmospheric, offbeat, captivating, experimental, stylized
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The Body of the Stick (1979)
Plot Summary:
Ulderico Quario hires as servant a very beautiful young woman Teresa. Ulderico decides to proceed like a new Pygmalion and he sets about teaching her the art of seductions. But Teresa together with Cecchina start using these newfound skills to persuade Ulderico to marry her in order to claim his inheritance.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy
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Thar She Blows! (1968)
Plot Summary:
A crazed sea captain goes on a bloody rampage after his vessel is commissioned by a sleazy film producer and a trio of vixens.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, psychotronic, independent film, grindhouse, cult film
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Swim Little Fish Swim (2013)
Plot Summary:
Between surrealism, unusual characters, art and magic tricks, "Swim Little Fish Swim" is a dreamlike journey from childhood to adulthood.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 839
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, touching, realistic, semi serious, mumblecore, independent film
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Downtown 81 (2000)
Plot Summary:
The film is a day in the life of a young artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, who needs to raise money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been evicted. He wanders the downtown streets carrying a painting he hopes to sell, encountering friends, whose lives (and performances) we peek into.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, sincere, atmospheric, clever, contemplative, grim, offbeat, gloomy
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Oh, Bloody Life (1984)
Plot Summary:
The Hungarian Oh, Bloody Life reflects on the heavy emotional toll taken by the repressive Stalin regime. Dorotya Udvaros plays a young actress from a high-born family. The government bias against persons of wealth threatens to destroy her career before it begins. As a final blow, she is threatened with deportation. The exasperation inherent in the film's title is only the tip of the iceberg.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 465
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags:
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Scumbag Hustler (2014)
Plot Summary:
Soloman Crow pays a visit to his god fearing, bible quoting, closeted homosexual brother and his sexually repressed wife. He enters their home with a proclamation to kick a drug habit that almost cost him his life. Broke, it doesn't take Soloman long to start conning and scheming his way around the city to feed his ravenous cravings for dope and sex. Even his brother's wife isn't immune to Soloman's mind games... If you want a hero with redeeming qualities, look somewhere else.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, humorous, light, feel good, contemplative, sex comedy, independent film, teen comedy, cult film
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Saturday Night at the Baths (1975)
Plot Summary:
The Continental Baths, a favorite hangout of New York homosexuals, provides the background of this socially conscious comedy drama that tries to examine the relationships between gay and heterosexual people. The story centers around a macho, heterosexual piano player who gets a job at the notorious nightclub and must therefore reconsider his attitudes. His girl friend helps him too. In the end, he winds up becoming sure of his sexuality when he tries to sleep with a gay man.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Heartbreakers (1984)
Plot Summary:
Best friends Eli and Blue, both at a crossroads in their professional lives, find their friendship put to the test when they become preoccupied with the same woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 599
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic
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The Year of the Yahoo! (1971)
Plot Summary:
A country-western singer is recruited to run for the U.S. Senate, and soon clashes with his unscrupulous campaign manager on the tactics to run his political campaign.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 183
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: political, independent film
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The Idol (2023)
Plot Summary:
After a nervous breakdown derailed Jocelyn's last tour, she’s determined to claim her rightful status as the greatest and sexiest pop star in America. Her passions are reignited by Tedros, a nightclub impresario with a sordid past. Will her romantic awakening take her to glorious new heights or the deepest and darkest depths of her soul?.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 109000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 276 min
Plot tags: controversial, interesting, queer cinema
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Girl 6 (1996)
Plot Summary:
Girl 6 is a 1996 American film by director Spike Lee about a phone sex operator. Theresa Randle played the title character, and playwright Suzan-Lori Parks wrote the screenplay. The soundtrack is composed entirely of songs written by Prince. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival. Directors Quentin Tarantino and Ron Silver make cameo appearances as film directors at a pair of interesting auditions.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sexy, surreal, talky, melancholic, humorous, sexual, absurd, touching, sex comedy, black comedy
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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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Pecker (1998)
Plot Summary:
A Baltimore sandwich shop employee becomes an overnight sensation when photographs he's taken of his weird family become the latest rage in the art world. The young man is called "Pecker" because he pecks at his food like a bird.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: absurd, humorous, witty, not serious, dark comedy, cult classic, independent film, art house, erotic, controversial
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Where the Heart Is (1990)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy businessman shows his young adult kids how tough life can be.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, melancholic, satirical, clever, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, parody, funny
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Krush Groove (1985)
Plot Summary:
Russell Walker is a young, successful manager of rap performers, handling acts for the Krush Groove label, including Run-DMC and The Fat Boys. When Run-D.M.C. has a hit record and Russell needs more money to press more copies, he borrows it from a street hustler and soon regrets his decision.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: hood, black comedy, grim, serious, captivating, realistic, eighties, black cinema, cult film
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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