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Plot Summary:
A modern take on William Shakespeare's King Lear.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: modern day adaptation
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Sid Is Dead (2023)
Plot Summary:
The story of a socially invisible high school senior who, after slipping up and getting the school's biggest bully suspended, realizes he may only have two weeks left to experience everything he's ever missed out on.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 450
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: teen comedy
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Pan Tau (2020)
Plot Summary:
Pan Tau is a kind gentleman who wears an elegant suit and is always there when families need him. Although it radiates from a completely different time and not a word is spoken, but everything is there and responds to problems in its own way. There can be magic appearing seemingly randomly among families across all social strata in any way possible by tapping the bowler hat on his head for magical perspective shifts. By doing this, it seems to be ignoring all the laws of physics.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration:
Plot tags: modern day adaptation, urban fantasy
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Mrs. Munck (1995)
Plot Summary:
A wronged woman takes revenge on her wheelchair bound father-in-law.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Middle Age Crazy (1980)
Plot Summary:
A married man is turning forty and that's when the midlife crisis hits.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Matinee (1993)
Plot Summary:
A showman introduces a small coastal town to a unique movie experience and capitalises on the Cuban Missile crisis hysteria with a kitschy horror extravaganza combining film effects, stage props and actors in rubber suits in this salute to the B-movie.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: cult classic, retro, slasher, dark comedy, meta, anamorphic, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, scary
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The Photographer (2000)
Plot Summary:
A year after becoming the toast of New York City's art scene, photographer Max Martin has lost his ability to take a decent picture. On the night before his make-or-break gallery opening, surrounded by the trappings of success but devoid of inspiration, Max embarks on a bizarre trek through the city in search of ten mysterious photographs that could save his career. Shot in brilliant color and dramatic black and white, first-time director Jeremy Stein's industrial New York City is a wonderland, roamed by witches and magical creatures, where survival hinges on the completion of a simple quest. Accompanied by an unlikely crew of strangers he meets along the way, Max trips through a modern-day Oz and rediscovers the easily forgotten value of seeing magic reflected in everyday life.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 355
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, offbeat
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Act Naturally (2011)
Plot Summary:
When two estranged stepsisters inherit their father's nudist colony, getting back to nature has never been so completely unnatural.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, psychological, captivating, sentimental, sincere, touching, realistic, contemplative, semi serious, independent film
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Just Love! (2013)
Plot Summary:
Silvia’s father grants her permission to meet Dorante, the man she’s promised to in marriage, by pretending to be her servant Lisette, who in turn will play the role of her mistress.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, modern day adaptation
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Hot Air (2018)
Plot Summary:
A right-wing talk show host's life takes a sudden turn when his 16-year-old niece comes crashing into his life.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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ExTerminators (2009)
Plot Summary:
Alex is a lonely accountant whose one act of rage results in her being sentenced to court-ordered therapy. There she meets Stella, the owner of a small extermination business who uses her car as a weapon, and Nikki, a dental technician with the face of an angel and the mind of a sociopath. Together these women form their own "silent revolution", wreaking havoc on the abusive men in their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, dark comedy, offbeat, realistic, independent film, detective, black comedy
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Hooking Up (2009)
Plot Summary:
After "hooking up" with a series of guys at a house party, April is the talk of her high school.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sexy, humorous, realistic, not serious, touching, melancholic, sex comedy, independent film, hot
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Henry Fool (1997)
Plot Summary:
An egocentric bum transforms the lives of a shy New Jersey garbageman and his sister.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: independent film, philosophical, cult classic, dark comedy, offbeat, humorous, talky, stylized, allegory, black comedy
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Staying Together (1989)
Plot Summary:
After their father abruptly sells the beloved family-owned restaurant that has employed them for years, the charismatic McDermott boys - hot-tempered Brian (Quill), lovelorn Kit (Mulroney) and jokester Duncan (Astin) - find themselves at odds with their parents and each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 933
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, touching, humorous, emotional, realistic, semi serious
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Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
Plot Summary:
An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife, while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated by another woman.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 60000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: philosophical, humorous, witty, talky, meditative, thought provoking, realistic, semi serious, ironic, dark comedy
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The Cake Eaters (2007)
Plot Summary:
The death of the Kimbrough family matriarch affects the three male survivors of the clan. Widower Easy (Bruce Dern) tries to reconnect with his old flame, Marg (Elizabeth Ashley). Eldest son and struggling musician Guy (Jayce Bartok) moves back to town, feeling guilty that he missed the funeral. His brother, Beagle (Aaron Stanford), who was his mother's caretaker, falls for Marg's granddaughter, Georgia (Kristen Stewart), a chronically ill girl who fears her time is growing short.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: emotional, sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, romantic, gloomy
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The Last Producer (2000)
Plot Summary:
An old-time mogul struggles to reenter the club where power and money make the rules.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 356
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film
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Stay Cool (2009)
Plot Summary:
The film centers on a successful author who is forced to confront an unrequited high school crush when he returns home to deliver a commencement address to graduating seniors. Shasta O'Neil, a sexy high school senior flirts with the visiting author and invites him to the prom.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: feel good, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, independent film
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Heartburn (1986)
Plot Summary:
Rachel is a food writer at a New York magazine who meets Washington columnist Mark at a wedding and ends up falling in love with him despite her reservations about marriage. They buy a house, have a daughter, and Rachel thinks they are living happily ever after until she discovers that Mark is having an affair while she is waddling around with a second pregnancy.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: melancholic, lyrical, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, talky, emotional, sex comedy, cult classic
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Dish Dogs (2000)
Plot Summary:
Two friends travel from town to town taking jobs as dishwashers until they both find love and must choose separate paths.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 730
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, sex comedy, realistic, talky, independent film, hot
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Crossing the Bridge (1992)
Plot Summary:
A film about three high school friends who find their happy-go-lucky existence tarnished forever the instant they get embroiled in a drug-running scheme that goes awry. When things start getting messy, they rue the day they agreed to the venture; instead of smuggling weed from Canada to Detroit, which they'd expected, the threesome's forced to traffic a huge stash of heroin.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 931
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Fathers & Sons (2010)
Plot Summary:
Fathers & Sons is a comedic exploration of a group of men and their relationships with their fathers. A middle-aged Jewish man meets his father for the first time at the funeral of his mother. A south-Asian accountant introduces his white fiance to his father - a gay, Bollywood choreographer. A recently bankrupted Wall-Street broker has come home to borrow money from his music teacher father, and four brothers gather at the paternal home to pay their last respects and to collect their inheritance.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, 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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Crooklyn (1994)
Plot Summary:
From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living in '70s Brooklyn.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: humorous, sentimental, touching, light, melancholic, talky, stylized, hood, semi serious, sad
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White as Snow (2019)
Plot Summary:
Claire is a beautiful young woman who works at her late father’s hotel, that is now managed by her evil stepmother Maud. Claire unwittingly sparks uncontrollable jealousy in Maud, whose young lover has fallen in love with Claire. Maud decides to get rid of Claire who finds shelter in a farm where she’s allowed to break free from her strict upbringing through encounters with seven “princes.”.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, captivating, parody, humorous, scenic, surprise ending, modern day adaptation
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Crazy People (1990)
Plot Summary:
A bitter ad executive who has reached his breaking point, finds himself in a mental institution where his career actually begins to thrive with the help of the hospital's patients.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, satirical, black comedy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, psychological, romantic
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Hick (2011)
Plot Summary:
A pistol-packing teen meets an unstable rebel and a cocaine-snorting drifter as she hitchhikes her way out West.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, independent film, captivating, semi serious, road movie, sweet, sad, dramatic, black comedy
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Crimes of the Heart (1986)
Plot Summary:
Three sisters with quite different personalities and lives reunite when the youngest of them, Babe, has just shot her husband. The oldest sister, Lenny, takes care of their grandfather and is turning into an old maid, while Meg, who tries to make it in Hollywood as a singer/actress, has had a wild life filled with many men. Their reunion causes much joy, but also many tensions.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, talky, humorous, dark comedy, emotional, melancholic, black comedy, sentimental, realistic, semi serious
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Henry Poole Is Here (2008)
Plot Summary:
Henry Poole abandons his fiancée and family business to spend what he believes are his remaining days alone. The discovery of a 'miracle' by a nosy neighbor ruptures his solitude and restores his faith in life.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, intense, feel good, humorous, semi serious, philosophical, spiritual, existential, hilarious
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A Simple Twist of Fate (1994)
Plot Summary:
When Michael McCann is thrown over by the woman he loves, he becomes something of a misanthrope and a miser, spending all of his spare money on collectible gold coins. Living in the same town is an affluent family with two sons: John and Tanny. Tanny's a wild boy, whom John cannot control, and one night he breaks into McCann's house, and steals the gold and disappears, which nearly confirms McCann's distrust of mankind. But then, a mysterious young woman dies in the snow outside McCann's house, and her small daughter makes her way to McCann's house and into McCann's life and heart. He names her Matilda, and raises her, finding companionship and a new joy in life with his adopted daughter. But the secret of Matilda's birth may tear them apart.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, family comedy, feel good, realistic, semi serious, surprise ending, light, inspirational, sexy
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
Plot Summary:
Follows a group of high school students growing up in southern California, based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe. Stacy Hamilton and Mark Ratner are looking for a love interest, and are helped along by their older classmates, Linda Barrett and Mike Damone, respectively. The center of the film is held by Jeff Spicoli, a perpetually stoned surfer dude who faces off with the resolute Mr. Hand, who is convinced that everyone is on dope.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 114000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: teen sex comedy, feel good, humorous, funny, sexy, sex comedy, teen, cult classic, light, hilarious