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Plot Summary:
With his 20th reunion looming, Dan can’t shake his high school insecurities. In a misguided mission to prove he’s changed, Dan rekindles a friendship with the popular guy from his class and is left scrambling to protect more than just his reputation when a wild night takes an unexpected turn.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, realistic, funny, freeze frame
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The D Train (2015)
Plot Summary:
All his life, Dan Landsman (Jack Black) has never been the cool guy. That's about to change - if he can convince Oliver Lawless (Marsden), the most popular guy from his high school who's now the face of a national Banana Boat ad campaign, to show up with him to their class reunion. A man on a mission, Dan travels from Pittsburgh to LA and spins a web of lies to recruit Lawless. But he gets more than he bargains for as the unpredictable Lawless proceeds to take over his home, career, and entire life. Showcasing Jack Black and James Marsden's most outrageous performances to date, THE D TRAIN serves up the question: how far would you go to be popular? Co-starring Kathryn Hahn and Jeffrey Tambor.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, light, entertaining, independent film, freeze frame
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Who Loves the Sun (2006)
Plot Summary:
A man (Lukas Haas) encounters a childhood friend (Adam Scott) who had an affair with his wife (Molly Parker) five years earlier.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 648
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, emotional, touching, serious, realistic
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Glamour Dolls (2016)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of two male prostitutes who want to become professional actors and how they struggle to get into show business.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, sexy, humorous, captivating, independent film
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Dodgeball (2015)
Plot Summary:
An adaptation of a best-selling novel by Michal Viewegh is a comedy about friendship, fateful loves, beauty and ugliness, alcohol, and the search for human happiness. The plot revolves around three friends - Jeff, Skippy and Tom - whose ups and downs and relationship breakups keep bringing them back to a shared bachelor apartment. Their counterparts in the story are two women - the class beauty Eva, who becomes the object of desire of all three guys in turn, and the ugly Hujerova, whose ironic attitude to herself and life in general gives her the ability to survive in a world that prizes beauty and to find her own path to happiness. - Czech film center.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: non-linear, humorous, psychological, light, sexy, unusual plot structure, contemplative
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Bad Words (2013)
Plot Summary:
A misanthropic man sets out to exact revenge on his estranged father, by finding a loophole and attempting to win the National Spelling Bee as an adult. Figuring it would destroy his father, and everything he's worked so hard for as head of the Spelling Bee Championship Organization, Guy Trilby (Jason Bateman) eventually discovers winning isn't necessary for revenge, and that friendship is a blessing not a curse.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 55000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, not serious, dark comedy, clever, black comedy, feel good, social, spoof, romantic comedy
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Match (2014)
Plot Summary:
A Seattle couple travel to New York to interview colorful former dancer Tobi for research on a dissertation about dance. But soon, common niceties and social graces erode when the questions turn personal and the true nature of the interview is called into question.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: captivating, humorous, light, feel good, independent film, tense, serious, realistic, talky, crying
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Dirty Weekend (2015)
Plot Summary:
During a layover in Albuquerque, work colleagues Les and Natalie discover more about each other than they ever thought possible. Anxious and irritable, Les is drawn back into the city by past experiences he can’t forget (even if he doesn't really remember the particulars of his previous drunken adventure). Natalie, refusing to leave his side, follows along as her own secrets are slowly revealed, leaving her feeling both vulnerable and unbound.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, funny, independent film
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Unfinished Business (2015)
Plot Summary:
A hard-working small business owner and his two associates travel to Europe to close the most important deal of their lives. But what began as a routine business trip goes off the rails in every imaginable – and unimaginable – way, including unplanned stops at a massive sex fetish event and a global economic summit.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, funny, entertaining, sexual, realistic, not serious, road movie, sexy, feel good
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The Adventures of Sebastian Cole (1998)
Plot Summary:
In June, 1983, in Dutchess County, New York, Sebastian Cole joins his mother, step-father, and sister for dinner. Hank, Sebastian's step-father, drops a bomb: he announces he's changing sexes. Sebastian's sister splits immediately for California, and his mother takes him back to England. Jump ahead eight months, Sebastian is back in New York, knocking on Hank's door. Hank (now Henrietta, although all the surgeries aren't complete) takes Sebastian in and is his rock over the next few months of high school. Sebastian's "adventures" are mostly self-destructive.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, clever, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, road movie, sexy, enigmatic
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The Thing About Harry (2020)
Plot Summary:
Two high school enemies, uber-jock Harry and out-and-proud Sam, are forced to share a car ride to their Missouri hometown for a friend's engagement party on Valentine's Day. Things take a turn when Sam learns Harry has come out.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: feel good, lgbt cinema, psychological, romantic comedy, uplifting, neurotic, crying, romantic, gay cinema, queer cinema
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Lazy Eye (2016)
Plot Summary:
Passions re-ignite and secrets revealed when a graphic designer reconnects with the great, lost love of his life for a weekend tryst at a house in the desert near Joshua Tree.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema, humorous, psychological, light, sincere, unusual plot structure, contemplative, cute, erotic, gay cinema
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Looking: The Movie (2016)
Plot Summary:
Patrick returns to San Francisco for the first time in almost a year to celebrate a momentous event with his old friends. In the process, he must face the unresolved relationships he left behind and make difficult choices about what’s important to him.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, light, feel good, unusual plot structure, humorous, contemplative, lgbt cinema, queer cinema
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Meet Bill (2007)
Plot Summary:
A mild-mannered bank executive (Aaron Eckhart) mentors a teenage con artist and tries to make a career change as a doughnut merchant.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sexy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, surreal, clever, light, feel good, hilarious, biting
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Last Weekend (2014)
Plot Summary:
When an affluent matriarch gathers her dysfunctional family for a holiday at their Northern California lake house, her carefully constructed weekend begins to come apart at the seams, leading her to question her own role in the family.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sincere, captivating, independent film, queer cinema
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Chuck & Buck (2000)
Plot Summary:
Buck is a man-child who has lived his existence in a life of kindergarten collages and lollipops. Buck remembers his old childhood friend Chuck, with whom he feels a need to reconnect with after having invited him to his mother's funeral. Buck treks out to LA where Chuck, now a music record executive, is living his life. Buck ends up developing an obsession with Chuck and begins stalking him.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, stylized, dark comedy, humorous, cynical, disturbing, black comedy, independent film, scary, controversial
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Good Kids (2016)
Plot Summary:
Four high school students look to redefine themselves after graduation.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: teen sex comedy, sexy, humorous, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, funny, scenic, teen, happy
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Orange County (2002)
Plot Summary:
Shaun Brumder is a local surfer kid from Orange County who dreams of going to Stanford to become a writer and to get away from his disfunctional family household. Except Shaun runs into one complication after another starting when his application is rejected after his dim-witted guidance counselor sends the wrong application.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 52000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, entertaining, semi serious, realistic, witty, scary, spiritual, dark comedy
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Cherry (2010)
Plot Summary:
Ivy League Freshman, Aaron Milton (17) gets a different kind of education when he falls for Linda (34) a vivacious former wild-child who has returned to college to straighten out her life. The curriculum gets more challenging when Aaron meets Linda's sarcastic 14 year-old daughter, Beth - who quickly develops a crush on him. The math doesn't work in either direction but the dysfunctional triangle becomes a learning experience for all involved.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, independent film, light, feel good, teen, erotic, offbeat, sex comedy, sentimental
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Dysfunctional Friends (2012)
Plot Summary:
A group of college friends are reunited after the death of their very successful friend. The will dictates that each person will receive a large sum of money if they can all successfully stay in his mansion for a week. If one person leaves, everyone forfeits the money.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 924
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: humorous, talky, captivating, light, realistic, semi serious
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Cougars Inc. (2011)
Plot Summary:
When Sam learns his mother cannot afford to send him to another school after he is kicked out, he and his friends start their own escort service for mature women to pay for his tuition.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, semi serious, captivating, realistic, independent film, sexy, sexual, hot
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Just Before I Go (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ted Morgan has been treading water for most of his life. After his wife leaves him, Ted realizes he has nothing left to live for. Summoning the courage for one last act, Ted decides to go home and face the people he feels are responsible for creating the shell of a person he has become. But life is tricky. The more determined Ted is to confront his demons, to get closure, and to withdraw from his family, the more Ted is yanked into the chaos of their lives. So, when Ted Morgan decides to kill himself, he finds a reason to live.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: emotional, dark comedy, realistic, semi serious, inspirational, independent film, sentimental, funny, feel good, freeze frame
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Helicopter Mom (2014)
Plot Summary:
Maggie Cooper thinks it would be really cool if her son Lloyd were gay. So cool, in fact, that she outs him to the entire school.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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As Cool as I Am (2013)
Plot Summary:
A smart teenage girl comes of age in a small town with her self-centered parents who had her when they were teenagers.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, independent film, vintage
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G.B.F. (2013)
Plot Summary:
The bitter fight for supremacy between the three most popular girls at North Gateway High takes an unexpected turn when their classmate, Tanner, is outed and becomes the school’s first openly gay student. The trio races to bag the big trend in fashion accessories, the Gay Best Friend, while Tanner must decide whether his skyrocketing popularity is more important than the friendships he is leaving behind.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, sweet, semi serious, erotic, lgbt cinema, sex comedy, realistic, independent film
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Welcome to Me (2014)
Plot Summary:
A year in the life of Alice Klieg, a woman with Borderline Personality Disorder who wins Mega-millions, quits her meds and buys her own talk show.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, black comedy, disturbing, surreal, talky, independent film, semi serious, realistic, dark comedy, psychological thriller
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Pretty Persuasion (2005)
Plot Summary:
A 15-year-old girl incites chaos among her friends and a media frenzy when she accuses her drama teacher of sexual harassment.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, independent film, biting, cynical, stylized, realistic, erotic, teen, twisted, black comedy
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Fat Girls (2006)
Plot Summary:
Fat Girls is an original off-beat comedy feature. It focuses on Rodney Miller, not your typical Texas high school student...he is a theater lover and his ultimate dream is to be on Broadway. Awkward and shy, he doesn't have many people to talk to in his small Texas town that understand him. He ends up finding what he was looking for in his theater teacher, Mr. Cox.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 583
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, clever, realistic, sexual, crying, freeze frame, sexy, cult film
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Geography Club (2013)
Plot Summary:
At Goodkind High School, a group of students of varying sexual orientation form an after-school club a as a discrete way to share their feelings and experiences.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: witty, touching, semi serious, sexual, teen, humorous, lgbt cinema, thrilling, realistic, sexy
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Edge of Seventeen (1998)
Plot Summary:
A gay teenager finds out who he is and what he wants, who his friends are, and who loves him, in this autobiographical tale set in middle U.S. in the 1980s. Growing up, learning about life, love, sex, friends, and lovers.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: teen, independent film, touching, realistic, sexual, crying, lgbt cinema, avant garde, sentimental, sincere
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Men, Women & Children (2014)
Plot Summary:
Follows the story of a group of high school teenagers and their parents as they attempt to navigate the many ways the internet has changed their relationships, their communication, their self-image, and their love lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: realistic, sexy, bad ending, dramatic, stylized, humorous, serious, semi serious, independent film, touching