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Plot Summary:
When an English cartographer arrives in Wales to tell the residents of the Welsh village of Ffynnon Garw that their "mountain" is only a hill, the offended community sets out to remedy the situation. The film is based on a story heard by Christopher Monger from his grandfather about the real village of Taff's Well, in the old county of Glamorgan, and its neighbouring Garth Hill. However, due to 20th century urbanisation of the area, it was filmed in the more rural Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant and Llansilin areas in Powys.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: period piece, feel good, humorous, romantic comedy, uplifting, offbeat, cult classic, touching, realistic, semi serious
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Tells of the daring heist of The Stone of Destiny in the 1950s by a charming group of idealistic Scottish undergraduates, whose action rekindled Scottish nationalistic pride.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, History
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, touching, semi serious, humorous, realistic, uplifting, feel good, cult classic
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American Friends (1991)
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Francis Ashby, a senior Oxford don on holiday alone in the Alps, meets holidaying American Caroline and her companion Elinor, the blossoming Irish-American girl she adopted many years before. Ashby finds he enjoys their company, particularly that of Elinor, and both the women are drawn to him. Back at Oxford he is nevertheless taken aback when they arrive unannounced. Women are not allowed in the College grounds, let alone the rooms. Indeed any liaison, however innocent, is frowned on by the upstanding Fellows.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 847
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, independent film, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, period drama
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Napoleon, exiled, devises a plan to retake the throne. He'll swap places with commoner Eugene Lenormand, sneak into Paris, then Lenormand will reveal himself and Napoleon will regain his throne. Things don't go at all well; first, the journey proves more difficult than expected, but more disastrously, Lenormand enjoys himself too much to reveal the deception. Napoleon adjusts somewhat uneasily to the life of a commoner while waiting, while Lenormand gorges on rich food.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, Germany
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, fairy tale, entertaining, witty, clever, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, feel good
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Cold Comfort Farm (1995)
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In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste, a plucky London society girl orphaned at age 19, finds a new home with some rough relatives, the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm. With a take-charge attitude and some encouragement from her mischievous friend, Mary, Flora changes the Starkadders' lives forever when she settles into their rustic estate, bringing the backward clan up to date and finding inspiration for her novel in the process.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: period piece, offbeat, humorous, talky, avant garde, cult classic, historical drama, sentimental, touching, feel good
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Greenfingers (2000)
Plot Summary:
Clive Owen stars as a prison inmate who goes into an experimental "open" prison where the inmates walk around freely and get job training for their impending releases. While there, he discovers he has a talent for growing flowers. His talent is recognized by a gardening guru who encourages him and four other inmates to enter a national gardening competition.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: entertaining, period piece, humorous, talky, realistic, semi serious, costume drama, romantic comedy, spiritual, clever
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 188
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Country: UK, Spain
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 21000
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 13000
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Country: UK
Duration: 104 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 190000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 101 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
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IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 357
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 299
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
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Country: UK
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 23000
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 13000
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 16000
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 41000
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
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Country: UK, USA
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 11000
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 24000
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 163000
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 199000
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 100000
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 99000
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IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 123000
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