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Plot Summary:
A tramp tries to trick the community into paying for the funeral of his fellow tramp who was found frozen to death.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Austria, Switzerland, West Germany
Duration: 108 min
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Loco Fever (2001)
Plot Summary:
When the Chilean officials lift the ban on harvesting the shellfish "el loco" (which purportedly is an aphrodisiac) in the seaside village of Puerto Gala greed and lust take hold. Greed is embodied by Carlos Maldonato, "El Canuto," who attempts to buy all of the shellfish for a Japanese company, and by a traveling band of prostitutes that accompany the influx of fishermen. El Canuto also wrangles to get into good stead with an old flame, Sonia, who is now the proprietor of "La Pincoya," a local restaurant. But "el loco" proves more effective, and more damaging, than anyone could have guessed.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 398
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Chile, Mexico, Spain
Duration: 97 min
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Big Shot's Funeral (2001)
Plot Summary:
Yankie director Don Tyler faces mounting insecurity and declining health while on location in Beijing, so his assistant hires down-and-out camerman YoYo to take the reins. Scrambling, studio boss sells the sagging picture to a Japanese media company. But YoYo is determined to upstage the whole production by granting the director's wish to have a grand "comedy funeral". To raise the money for it, he auctions off advertising and sponsorships for the funeral to companies around the world. But wait...is Don getting better?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, epic, realistic, suspense, crying, freeze frame, documentary filmmaking
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In the Middle of the Night (1984)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: cult classic, cult film
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One Last Chance (2004)
Plot Summary:
A group of slackers think they have found gold in the Highlands.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Norway
Duration: 96 min
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In the Thick of It (1995)
Plot Summary:
This optimistic Italian slice-of-life drama chronicles a typical day in the lives of teenagers living in the grim suburbs of Rome. The story is set in the suburb of Tuscolano which is located near the Cinecitta studios and concerns a group of friends in their mid-teens. In the beginning, Lorenzo, the imaginative leader of the group convinces the rest of them one of them is terminally ill. The rest then become determined that the dying group member should have at least one fling with the local whore, that is if they can convince her into performing the merciful act. Two years pass and the youths are seen engaging in various endeavors ranging from petty theft to manual labor, or both. The boys are also seen pursuing romance. Troubles ensue when Lorenzo's brother disappears, and when one of the thieves is captured.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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When the Dead Start Singing (1998)
Plot Summary:
At the beginning of 1990s, two Croatian emigrants, economically minded Cinco and politically minded Marinko, arrive in Croatia from Germany, homesick for their families and hometowns. In order to get a German pension, Cinco pretends to be dead and travels in a coffin. Soon, Marinko joins him because he is running away from an old agent of the Yugoslav State Security Service. On their trip in a motor hearse, Cinco and Marinko face many adventures, which culminate when they are stopped at Serbian barricades close to their destination.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Croatia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: neo screwball comedy
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Fishbowl California (2018)
Plot Summary:
A man struggling to find purpose in life is enlightened by a drunk ailing widow.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 925
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, crying, independent film, cult film
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Smiles of sad men (2018)
Plot Summary:
A writer gets into a rehab where he meets a lot of successful men who destroyed their lives with alcohol.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, thought provoking, humorous, captivating, melancholic, suspenseful, compassionate
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The Liar (1981)
Plot Summary:
Talkative, hyperactive young drifter Ville Alfa goes around Helsinki, basically trying to borrow money from friends and strangers by means of an incessant delivery of quirky and snappy quasi-intellectual lines and fabricated excuses.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 609
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland, West Germany
Duration: 53 min
Plot tags: black and white, student film
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Frozen Stiff (2002)
Plot Summary:
The basic plot revolves around drug dealer Limeni (Tin Man) who is said to have no heart, and two men, Lemi and Kiza, who are trying to transport their dead grandfather for burial, until their car breaks down and they end up struggling to get him home onboard a train. This is when these two plots intersect and all hell breaks loose.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, road movie, queer cinema
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Outing - Engaged by Mistake (2013)
Plot Summary:
In their village of Puglia (Southern part of Italy on the Adriatic side) Federico and Riccardo have been best friends since childhood. Federico is a penniless playboy, while Riccardo is a young fashion designer. To pursue his dream, Riccardo trades his home for Milan. When Frederick discovers that the Puglia Region provides funding in support of business activities, he convinces Riccardo to come back and open a fashion house. But there is a problem: funding is only available to common law couples, and so Federico and Riccardo must pretend to be a gay couple, and enlist the help of the local newspaper editor, a journalist and Richard’s despotic girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 374
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, semi serious
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The Honest One (1984)
Plot Summary:
When an incorruptible government pay clerk, who isn't taken seriously by anyone including his family, get robbed while carrying huge amount of work money, he becomes popular because people believe he faked the robbery and kept the money.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Pearls of the Deep (1965)
Plot Summary:
A manifesto of sorts for the Czech New Wave, this five-part anthology shows off the breadth of expression and the versatility of the movement’s directors. Based on stories by the legendary writer Bohumil Hrabal, the shorts range from the surreally chilling to the caustically observant to the casually romantic, but all have a cutting, wily view of the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 776
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: anthology, avant garde, tragicomedy, fairy tale
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Night Shapes (1999)
Plot Summary:
The Pope is in town and the night of his stay is anything but heavenly for some of Berlin′s inhabitants. Rich and poor, down-and-outs and policemen, street kids and taxi drivers - in their search for a little bit of happiness, they all end up on an amusing and at times harrowing odyssey through the labyrinth of the big city.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 717
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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Everything's Jake (2000)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, psychological, independent film
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Vodka Lemon (2003)
Plot Summary:
Hamo, a handsome 60-year old man, lives alone in a Romenian village with one of his daughters and his granddaughter. He also owns a retirement of seven dollars per month, a closet, an old russian television set and a military costume.A letter from his second daughter arrives from France.A rumor runs through the village: the envelope would be full of money...But Hamo doesn't think but of the beautiful unknown girl from the cemetery.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy, Switzerland, Armenia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, islamic, sentimental, road movie, sincere
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Late Bloomers (2006)
Plot Summary:
Centers around four older ladies from the Emmental region. When four older women decide to turn the local corner shop into a chic lingerie store, the whole community is thrown into disarray.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, touching, not serious, offbeat
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Seducing Doctor Lewis (2003)
Plot Summary:
A much-needed boost, in the form of a new factory, is promised to the residents of the tiny fishing village St. Marie-La-Mauderne, provided they can lure a doctor to take up full-time residency on the island. Inspired, the villagers devise a scheme to make Dr. Christopher Lewis a local.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, witty, semi serious, entertaining, realistic, sentimental, funny, light, romantic
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Beware of a Holy Whore (1971)
Plot Summary:
Tensions between members of a film crew build while they wait for the arrival of the director and star to arrive on location.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: West Germany, Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: art house, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, semi serious, neurotic, avant garde, campy
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The Booze Cruise (2003)
Plot Summary:
A group of men from Kent; Clive (Martin Clunes), Rob (Neil Pearson), Dave (Mark Benton), Maurice (Brian Murphy) and Daniel (Ben Whishaw) - go on a booze cruise to France, with mixed success and many mishaps along the way. Events involving their wives and families back home also form a large part of the plot.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 482
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: captivating, ironic, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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A Girl, Three Guys, and a Gun (2000)
Plot Summary:
Three smalltown friends looking to leave their troubles behind come up with a robbery scheme to fund their trip to the big city. But as their plan goes awry and the authorities become involved, they are left with no other alternative but to take hostage a pair of traveling young lovebirds, with no shortage of problems of their own.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, semi serious, independent film, cult film
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Placido (1961)
Plot Summary:
In a small spanish town, a group of old ladies decide to celebrate Christmas Eve with a "Sit a poor man at your table" dinner: each wealthy household of the town will have a homeless person dining with them that night. The celebrations also include a parade, and in it we find Plácido, the humble owner of a three-wheeler, whose family is forced to live in a public lavatory because of the lack of money to pay the rent, and who has to pay the second bill of his vehicle before midnight or else he will lose it.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: social, sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, biting, suspense
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Give Me Liberty (2019)
Plot Summary:
When a riot breaks out in Milwaukee, America's most segregated city, medical transport driver Vic is torn between his promise to get a group of elderly Russians to a funeral and his desire to help Tracy, a young black woman with ALS.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, light, sincere, humorous, captivating, funny
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One for the Road (2014)
Plot Summary:
Three octogenarians set out on a trip in order to fulfill the dying wish of a lifelong friend, in spite of the disapproval of their families and the limitations of their advanced age. Along the way, they find themselves embroiled in a series of comedic misadventures and meet a cast of colorful characters. Their journey fundamentally alters each characters' sense of self and their place in the world. There is, indeed, life after 80.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 343
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, satirical, road movie
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Five Aces (1999)
Plot Summary:
Chris Martin has a problem: his impending marriage. Like any other man about to enter into the holy vows of matrimony, Chris has begun to second guess himself. Is married life what he really wants? While his bride-to-be takes care of the wedding plans, Chris returns to the neighborhood of his youth to consider his married future and to spend one last week of bachelorhood with his four high school buddies: Ray, Ash, Todd and Sean. Together, the reunited "Five Aces" enjoy a funny bittersweet week reminiscing about a time when they had all the answers... only nothing turned out the way they planned. As the week's events unfold, the Five Aces begin to realize exactly what life and friends mean to each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 682
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, contemplative, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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C.O.G. (2013)
Plot Summary:
A cocky young man travels to Oregon to work on an apple farm. Out of his element, he finds his lifestyle and notions being picked apart by everyone who crosses his path.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, indie film, realistic, independent film, queer cinema, gay cinema
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Panchathantiram (2002)
Plot Summary:
Ram is a playboy pilot. His marriage to Mythili disintegrates after a series of misunderstandings. To cheer him up, his buddies arrange for a steamy evening with a prostitute Maggie, but things go wrong and the men are stuck with a dead body and a load of diamonds. The corpse disappears, and Ram's efforts to cover up the event are thwarted by a pesky father-in-law of one of the friends who thinks Maggie was Ram's wife.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, disturbing, feel good
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Clouds of May (1999)
Plot Summary:
This is a movie within a movie, about a director, Muzaffer, who goes back to his hometown to make a film using a cast of local people (based on the director Ceylan's first feature, Kasaba). While Muzaffer is around, his mother complains about simple health problems, his father is in a legal fight against the government for his land, his cousin leaves his job to help Muzaffer who promises to find him work in Istanbul, and his little cousin Ali tries to carry an egg in his pocket for forty days so that he'll get the watch of his dreams. In the meantime, they form the cast for Muzaffer's movie as well.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: contemplative, slow cinema, aesthetic, atmospheric, realistic, semi serious
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Believe Me (2014)
Plot Summary:
Desperate, broke, and out of ideas, four college seniors start a fake charity to embezzle money for tuition.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, tense, captivating, interesting, vintage
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With Honors (1994)
Plot Summary:
Convinced he'll graduate with honors because of his thesis paper, a stuffy Harvard student finds his paper being held hostage by a homeless man, who might be the guy to school the young man in life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, inspirational, road movie, humorous, semi serious, realistic, light, sincere