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Plot Summary:
Martin is the ambitious one in the family. He is poised to start on his doctorate, when he is diagnosed with testicular cancer and all his future plans begin to unravel. The removal of one testicle reduces the most immediate threat, but the cancer has already spread and Martin's doctor argues for an operation that would save him, but could also castrate him.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 627
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy
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Love Your Female Neighbor! (1998)
Plot Summary:
Two young and attractive social workers/nuns bring fresh air into a city missionary station, but are also challenged by lust and money, offered by a millionaire.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
Similar in 81%
Of Horses and Men (2013)
Plot Summary:
A country romance about the human streak in the horse and the horse in the human. Love and death become interlaced and with terrible consequences. The fortunes of the people in the country through the horses' perception.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Iceland, Germany, Norway
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: sincere, bleak, stylized, semi serious, atmospheric, humorous, realistic, black comedy, thought provoking, offbeat
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Emma's Bliss (2006)
Plot Summary:
Upon being informed that he is fatally ill with cancer, Max, who works at a used car store, steals money which his boss has gained through illegal means. When fleeing from the scene of the crime Max crashes his car. He is pulled unconscious from the destroyed vehicle by a homely young woman, Emma, who lives alone on a farm where Max decides to stay in order to hide from the police and his boss.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, thought provoking, captivating, romantic drama, sentimental, offbeat, realistic, semi serious
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The Pharmacist (1997)
Plot Summary:
Hella is around 30 and works in a pharmacy. She is waiting for the right man to step into her life, but as she has a certain affinity for losers, she is kind of disillusionized. When she gets to know Levin, a dentist student who likes cars most, her dreams seem to come true. Levin has a very rich grandfather who likes her at first glance. The old man thinks of changing his last will to the condition that Levin has to marry Hella in order to inherit his fortunes. Like in a fairy-tale the door to a new life opens for Hella, but can she take it?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 986
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: manga, atmospheric, humorous, realistic, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy
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The Farewell Party (2014)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends at a Jerusalem retirement home build a machine for self-euthanasia in order to help their terminally ill friend. When rumors of the machine begin to spread, more and more people ask for their help, and the friends are faced with an emotional dilemma.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, tragicomedy, semi serious, existential, dark comedy, humorous, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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Gigantics (1999)
Plot Summary:
The Hamburg friends Walter, Ricco and Floyd take each day as it comes between the estates of tower blocks and fast food restaurants. All three are in their early twenties and are dreaming of another life when Floyd suddenly takes a job on a freighter going to Singapore….
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film, road movie, touching, humorous, emotional, realistic, semi serious, spoof, feel good, parody
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The All Together (2007)
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IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 906
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, semi serious, realistic, not serious, surprise ending, independent film, black comedy, neo screwball comedy
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My Words, My Lies - My Love (2009)
Plot Summary:
David, a waiter, finds an unpublished manuscript in a dresser drawer. To impress a girl, he claims to be the author. When the novel becomes a best-seller the real author introduces himself in his life and begins to take-over David's life.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Pushing Tin (1999)
Plot Summary:
Two air traffic controllers who thrive on living dangerously compete to outdo each other on several levels.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: humorous, intense, feel good, realistic, witty, talky, semi serious, clever, dark comedy, romantic
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Auntie Danielle (1990)
Plot Summary:
Tatie Danielle is a black comedy about a widow who is intent on ruining the lives of her great-nephew and his wife. Tsilla Chelton plays the title character, who mourns the death of her husband by tormenting everyone she meets. Eventually, she moves in with her nephew and his vain wife. Soon, her family is at war with Tatie, and takes off for Greece, leaving her in the care of Sandrine (Isabelle Nanty), an au pair who is as equally bitter as Tatie herself. At first the two don't get along, yet the two eventually become friends. However, Sandrine is invited to accompany an American student for an overnight stay at the beach, which would leave Tatie alone for a night. Angered, Tatie fires Sandrine, and while she is alone, she goes into deep depression, eventually setting the family's apartment on fire. The fire becomes a national story, with Tatie cast as a poor old lady and the family labeled as cruel and heartless villains.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, funny, black comedy, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious
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The Mule (2014)
Plot Summary:
In 1983, a naive man is detained by Australian Federal Police with lethal narcotics hidden in his stomach. After being apprehended, ‘The Mule’ makes a desperate choice... to defy his bodily functions and withhold the evidence – literally.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, cynical, semi serious, realistic, stylized
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Hammersmith Is Out (1972)
Plot Summary:
The Faust legend retold (loosely) and applied to a mentally disturbed patient in a hospital run by a doctor of dubious sanity himself. The patient (Burton) offers the innocent orderly (Bridges) vast riches if he'll help him escape.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy
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Buba (2022)
Plot Summary:
When a small-town con artist joins the local mafia with his manipulative brother, his obsession with balancing his karma gets hilariously brutal.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, semi serious, dark comedy
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Critical Care (1997)
Plot Summary:
Werner Ernst is a young hospital resident who becomes embroiled in a legal battle between two half-sisters who are fighting over the care of their comatose father. But are they really fighting over their father's care, or over his $10 million estate? Meanwhile, Werner must contend with his nutty supervisor, who insists that he only care for patients with full insurance. Can Werner sidestep the hospital's legal team and do what's best for the patient?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: black comedy, humorous, cynical, dark comedy, independent film, clever, realistic, witty, semi serious, biting
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Commandments (1997)
Plot Summary:
Seth Warner has reached the end of his rope. Ever since his wife died two years earlier, his world has been in turmoil. He is despondent, his career has fallen apart, even his house has been destroyed. There seems to be nothing left for him to live for. Confused and angry after two years of suffering, he finally directs his wrath at God from the rooftop of his apartment building in New York City. In the midst of a wild thunderstorm he demands to know why he has been betrayed by the god he has believed in and honored his whole life. God's answer is to strike down Seth's dog in a bolt of lightning. Pushed beyond his limits, Seth decides to respond to his years of torment by breaking each of the biblical Ten Commandments.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, black comedy, dark comedy, offbeat, witty, cynical, semi serious, detective, light, romantic
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Satan's Brew (1976)
Plot Summary:
This fast-paced black comedy by wunderkind director Rainer Werner Fassbinder follows the frantic efforts of a starving and confused writer, Walter Kranz to beg, borrow or steal enough money to survive on, and at the same time make some sense of his confusing life. Unable to write enough to keep his publisher's royalty advances coming, he seeks out a woman he imagines is a prostitute and interviews her for material. He is also inspired to utter some poetry, which his brassy, outspoken wife identifies as coming from the famous homosexuality-advocating mystical German poet, Stefan George. This inspires Walter to take a closer look at the gay scene, and he quickly becomes a sort of celebrity there.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: cynical, humorous, semi serious, art house, dark comedy, clever, offbeat, realistic, witty, biting
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3 (2010)
Plot Summary:
Hanna and Simon are in a 20 year marriage with an unexiting relationship. By chance, they both meet and start separate affairs with Adam. Adam has no idea that his two lovers are married, until they are all found out when Hanna becomes pregnant, with the natural doubts stemming from their situation.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: sensual, realistic, semi serious, sexy, sexual, humorous, emotional, sincere, queer cinema, gay cinema
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The Clink of Ice (2010)
Plot Summary:
An alcoholic writer is visited by an incarnation of his cancer.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, cynical, semi serious, clever, offbeat, biting, suspense
Similar in 77%
The Medicine Show (2001)
Plot Summary:
A cynical young man, diagnosed with cancer, meets a brash young leukemia patient in the hospital who more than matches his distaste for IV drips and weepy sentimentality.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, independent film, clever, offbeat, black comedy, dark comedy
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My Brother the Vampire (2001)
Plot Summary:
Josh is about to turn 30; he's mentally retarded, and likes to play at being a vampire. His sister Nicole is 15, and dealing with her impending womanhood; middle brother Mike is the "normal" one, but in some ways the most childish - his latest conquest is Nadine, who runs the dog kennel at his security guard job. Nic is fixated on getting laid, and watches Mike and Nadine through the skylight with Josh. Josh also gets fixated on sex, though he has no clear idea what it's all about, and in particular on Nadine; to Mike's chagrin, she seems more interested in Josh than in him.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 520
Genere: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, funny, romantic, captivating, entertaining, offbeat, homoerotic
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Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2002)
Plot Summary:
The strange comedy film of two close brothers; one, Wilbur, who wants to kill himself, and the other, Harbour, who tries to prevent this. When their father dies leaving them his bookstore they meet a woman who makes their lives a bit better yet with a bit more trouble as well.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, UK, Sweden, France
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, black comedy, dark comedy, independent film, offbeat, clever, realistic, semi serious
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Roseanna's Grave (1997)
Plot Summary:
Roseanna is dying of a heart condition, and all she wants is to be buried next to her daughter, in a cemetery that is getting full fast. The cemetery can't expand because Capestro, the man who owns the land next to the cemetery, won't sell. While Marcello is doing good deeds to make sure no one dies, Roseanna thinks of Marcello's future.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, sentimental, romantic, sweet, melancholic, talky, semi serious, humorous, realistic
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Shoppen (2006)
Plot Summary:
An almost bombproof method of staying single is called "speed dating". 18 people participate in such an event. Nine men and nine women are sitting opposite each other in order to sell optimally under the pressure of time and to find a partner. They are looking for a date - and have nothing else in common. They talk about allergies, cappuccino, consumer behavior, buses and designer clothes: the list of serious embarrassments is long. Yet none of the lonely hearts has given up the hope of romance.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, feel good, surreal, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Frau Ella (2013)
Plot Summary:
A young man goes on a road trip with an old lady he saves from a hospital.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, road movie, feel good, captivating, light, touching, realistic, semi serious
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Aaltra (2004)
Plot Summary:
In this pitch black comedy the rivalry between two neighbors escalates into an all out war. Through a maintenance error on a tractor they both end up, paralyzed, in a wheelchair. It seems they are doomed to stay together. They no longer focus their rage on each other but on the manufacturer of the tractor, in Helsinki. So get ready for a hilarious wheelchair road movie.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: road movie, dark comedy, humorous, semi serious, black and white, black comedy, dark, offbeat, tragic
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Miss You Already (2015)
Plot Summary:
The friendship between two life-long girlfriends is put to the test when one starts a family and the other falls ill.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, sad, humorous, realistic, depressing, tear jerker, social, happy, black comedy
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Making Mr. Right (2008)
Plot Summary:
Eddie, a poor street conman, has his 'guess in which briefcase' trick ruined by Manhattan lifestyle magazine deputy editor Hallie Galloway. Due to a bet with her boss, she must transform Eddie into a dashingly eligible bachelor for a charity auction. In order to pay back his generous benefactor, restaurateur Angelo, Eddie accepts. He not only proves a quick learner and born charmer, the gentleman in him awakes and so does love in their harts. But their true pasts catch up.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 563
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, humorous, sexy, feel good, captivating, light, sexual
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The Girl with Nine Wigs (2013)
Plot Summary:
The true story of a young woman whose lust for life means she is determined to be so very much more than just another cancer patient.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Belgium
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: tragicomedy, touching, humorous, realistic, emotional, captivating, sincere, semi serious
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The Opposite of Sex (1998)
Plot Summary:
A 16-year-old girl visits her gay half-brother and ends up seducing his boyfriend, thus wreaking havoc on all of their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: biting, dark comedy, independent film, black comedy, teen, erotic, humorous, witty, talky, sexual
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Happily Ever After (2007)
Plot Summary:
Director Yukihiko Tsutsumi wrings laughs out of an unlikely topic -- domestic violence -- in this dark comedy about noodle-shop waitress Yukie Morita (Miki Nakatani), who puts up with the fiery temper, gambling and cruelty of her shiftless, ex-gangster boyfriend (Hiroshi Abe). But as flashbacks reveal, there's a reason behind Yukie's unconditional love for her man. Yûko Natori and Mayumi Sada also star.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 353
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: stylized, humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat