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Plot Summary:
A Sicilian woman is dishonored by her lover, then goes to London with a pistol intending to murder him.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: road movie, sexy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, surprise ending, crying, freeze frame, dark comedy, sexual
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Unconditional Love (2002)
Plot Summary:
After her husband leaves her, a woman travels to London for the funeral of the pop star, Victor Fox, she's adored all her life. There, she meets the lover of the dead pop star, and convinces him to come back to Chicago with her to figure out who killed the singer. Written by Anonymous.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic, crying, independent film, queer cinema
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Us 2 (2014)
Plot Summary:
A love story of the 21st century. Hoping for change, Ema (Jana Plodková) runs away from her family and leaves her husband. She hides at the apartment of her hairdresser, a gay guy Tony (Ondrej Nosálek), even though she barely knows him. At the beginning they are merely two strangers, connected by their mutual effort of escaping from their families. They get closer and help each other to overcome the internal, as well as external, obstacles of their lives. Their liberating friendship almost becomes a love affair, despite the fact it cannot be fulfilled. This liberation creates an intense bond between them: a new escape, a new quest. This is a love story of two people and their attempts to escape the trap of their own desires of belonging to somebody.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema, psychological, humorous, captivating, suspense, crying, gay cinema
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Agent 38-24-36 (1964)
Plot Summary:
In this Eduardo Molinaro Spy-Spoof, Anthony Perkins plays a Russian spy sent out to steal sensitive information from NATO about military mobilization. Without much intelligence of his own, the distrusted agent of Soviet intelligence needs all the help he can get from his "talented" partner Penelope Lightfeather (Bardot) as they scatter around the French countryside for secret rendez-vous' while trying to avoid being caught by counter intelligence agents and distrustful communist operatives.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: spy comedy, exciting, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, parody, surprise ending
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The Lady Vanishes (1979)
Plot Summary:
Remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1938 classic. On the eve of the Second World War, a train carrying an assortment of passengers, pulls out of a small town in Bavaria. When one of the passengers, a kindly old lady, mysteriously disappears the other passengers are led into confrontation with the Nazis and a desperate race for freedom.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, captivating, touching, spy comedy, independent film, humorous, psychological thriller, crying
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Please, Not Now! (1961)
Plot Summary:
Sophie, a flighty young model, learns that her boyfriend is planning to leave her for another woman. Sophie resolves to either win him back or assassinate her rival. A handsome doctor (who happens to be falling for Sophie himself) assists her with the former plan so that she won't have to resort to the latter.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 513
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971)
Plot Summary:
A young woman is accused of murdering her debauched neighbor after dreaming it. Was she set up, or did she really do it?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Spain, UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, psychosexual thriller, surprise ending, erotic, psychedelic, suspense, experimental, mondo, sensual
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Under the Tree (2017)
Plot Summary:
When Baldwin and Inga's next door neighbours complain that a tree in their backyard casts a shadow over their sundeck, what starts off as a typical spat between neighbours in the suburbs unexpectedly and violently spirals out of control.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Iceland, Poland, Denmark, Germany, France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, humorous, dark comedy, black comedy, crying, surprise ending, tragic, weird
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Deep End (1970)
Plot Summary:
15-year-old Mike takes a job at the local swimming baths, where he becomes obsessed with an attractive young woman, Susan, who works there as an attendant. Although Susan has a fiancé, Mike does his best to sabotage the relationship, to the extent of stalking both her and her fiancé.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: offbeat, controversial, artsy, psychosexual thriller, serious, emotional, realistic, disturbing, gloomy, sexual
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Accident (1967)
Plot Summary:
Stephen is a professor at Oxford University who is caught in a rut and feels trapped by his life in both academia and marriage. One of his students, William, is engaged to the beautiful Anna, and Stephen becomes enamored of the younger woman. These three people become linked together by a horrible car crash, with flashbacks providing details into the lives of each person and their connection to the others in this brooding English drama.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: slasher, deep, psychological, tense, thought provoking, clever, serious, realistic, contemplative, independent film
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A Girl in Australia (1971)
Plot Summary:
The film is about an old fashioned Italian with moral values of the 1930/40's ,who has to find a wife in the modern, woman's liberated society of Australia of the 1960/70's.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, Australia
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, epic, crying
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Don't Blame Karma on What Happens to You for Being an Asshole (2016)
Plot Summary:
The lives of a Madrid-based feather-fashion designer and her whole family's completely tumbles after the appearance of a musician long-lost high school crush who is involved with her model sister.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: romantic, humorous, captivating, semi serious, crying, sex comedy, slapstick comedy, freeze frame, feel good
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Tell No One (2012)
Plot Summary:
Mattia is about to move to Madrid by his boyfriend Eduard. When the day before leaving for Spain, Eduard announces his arrival in Rome to know the "laws", Mattia must choose whether to finally come clean with his companion, or confess to being a formidable liar.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, sexy, realistic, sexual, non-linear, crying, gay cinema, queer cinema
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Women in Temptation (2010)
Plot Summary:
When a marriage counselor is abandoned by her husband for a younger woman, she sets out for new companionship.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 797
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: humorous, psychological, light, contemplative, sex comedy, crying
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Coming In (2014)
Plot Summary:
Notoriously hip Berlin based hairdresser Tom Herzner falls in love with beauty parlor owner Heidi, turning both of their worlds upside down. So far so good. Only one problem: Tom is gay.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 761
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema, homoerotic, light, humorous, crying, gay cinema
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A Fine Madness (1966)
Plot Summary:
A womanizing poet falls into the hands of a psychiatrist with a straying wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: retro, psychological, humorous, realistic, cynical, semi serious, biting, crying, suspense
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Divorce Italian Style (1961)
Plot Summary:
A married Sicilian baron falls in love with his cousin and vows to wed her, but with divorce illegal he must concoct a crime of passion to do away with his wife.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: black comedy, humorous, witty, light, atmospheric, talky, captivating, feel good, semi serious, dark comedy
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Mindhorn (2016)
Plot Summary:
A washed up actor who played Mindhorn, a secret agent with a bionic eye, returns to the Isle of Man, the area where his most famous role was set, to help catch a killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: parody, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, dark comedy, serious, surprise ending, crying, psychotronic
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A Different Story (1978)
Plot Summary:
A gay man and a lesbian enter into a marriage of convenience in order to prevent his deportation, and then gradually fall in love with one another.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 473
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema, crying, independent film, freeze frame, gay cinema
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The Sweet Body of Deborah (1968)
Plot Summary:
A young newlywed couple from America returns to Geneva to visit Marcel's home town. Once there he is informed of his former lover's suicide and in turn is subjected to threats that accuse him of being responsible for her death and further, threaten his new fiancée's life. George Hilton plays a peculiar neighbor with voyeuristic tendencies who has an obsession with Deborah.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 916
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological thriller, neo noir, psycho sexual, crying, independent film, freeze frame
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The Scopone Game (1972)
Plot Summary:
An aging American millionairess journeys to Rome each year with her chauffeur George to play the card game scopone with destitute Peppino and his wife Antonia.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: tragicomedy, crying, dark comedy
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Let's Get Those English Girls (1976)
Plot Summary:
When their little cheat fails, Alain and Jean Pierre fail their final high-school exams in English. Their parents deny them the planned vacation to the Cote D'azur and send them instead to Ramscale in England, to improve their English. However many other parents had the same idea, so they meet more of their own than English folks and end up more at beach parties than in class. Only with the girls they seem to have no luck, although they desperately try.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 580
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy, teen sex comedy, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, freeze frame, period piece
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The Impossible Years (1968)
Plot Summary:
Trouble in suburbia: psychiatrist's teenage daughter gets arrested for demonstrating on a college campus--holding a sign with a "dirty word" written on.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 763
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: clever, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, crying, freeze frame, family comedy
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There's a Girl in My Soup (1970)
Plot Summary:
TV personality Robert Danvers, an exceedingly vain rotter, seduces young women daily, never staying long with one. He meets his match in Marion, an American, 19, who's available but refuses any romantic illusions.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, retro, humorous, realistic, semi serious, crying, freeze frame, erotic, funny, light
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Under the Riccione Sun (2020)
Plot Summary:
While vacationing on the crowded beaches of Riccione, a group of teenagers becomes fast friends as they grapple with relationship issues and romance.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, entertaining, funny, romantic, crying, buddy comedy, teen comedy
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Sitcom (1998)
Plot Summary:
The adventures of an upper-class suburban family abruptly confronted with the younger brother's discovery of his homosexuality, the elder sister's suicide attempt and sado-masochist tendencies, and the intrusion of a very free-spirited maid and her husband... And it all started with the arrival in the family of an innocent looking rat.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, offbeat, sexual, erotic, atmospheric, sexy, experimental, controversial, deep, crying
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Queens (2005)
Plot Summary:
In Spain, a couple of days before a collective gay wedding, the lives of five mothers, whose sons will get married, are entwined: Judge Helena is in charge of the ceremony; the entrepreneur in hotel business Magda is hosting the guests in her hotel and is responsible for the banquet, while facing a strike leaded by her lover and chef; the nymphomaniac Nuria is facing problems due to her disease; the wealthy Reyes is having a crush for the father of her son's mate and her gardener; and the Argentinean cooker Ofelia is facing financial problems and difficulties in with her son's mate. Along three days, they have complicated relationships with their sons and mates, ex-husbands, lovers and employees.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain, Netherlands, Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, sexy, offbeat, sexual, non-linear, crying
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The Divorce (2003)
Plot Summary:
While visiting her sister in Paris, a young woman finds romance and learns her brother-in-law is a philanderer.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: sexy, talky, light, realistic, witty, semi serious, art house, anamorphic, clever, humorous
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Jealousy, Italian Style (1970)
Plot Summary:
A three-way love affair in the Rome of the early seventies. Construction worker Oreste and young fiancee Adelaide meet Nello, cook in a pizzeria. This love triangle often go to communist rallies, and enjoy the filthy beach of Ostia. Will the hostile environment leave a way to jealousy?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: tragicomedy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, biting, non-linear, crying, detective
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Dona Herlinda and Her Son (1985)
Plot Summary:
In this sly Mexican sex comedy, a manipulative mama deftly manages the life of her homosexual son so that he can have his cake and eat it too. A woman of means, she does this by allowing her son, a doctor, to tryst in her home with his lover. Putting her son's happiness above all else, she then arranges a marriage of convenience to a woman. When the marriage is consummated, the young male lover gets terribly jealous and this creates problems until the irrepressible Doña Herlinda again gets involved.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 567
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, biting, sexual, crying, sex comedy
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Out Of My League (2020)
Plot Summary:
Marta may be an orphan, and she may be affected by a lethal illness, yet she is the most positive person one can meet. She wants a boy to fall for her. Not any boy - the most handsome of them all. One day, she may have found her match.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: romantic, humorous, captivating, entertaining, crying