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Plot Summary:
A group of Staten Island radicals lead by ex-philosophy student Marie and her boozy filmmaker boyfriend Nick attempt to kidnap the CEO of the Leo Corporation but instead accidentally capture Daniel, a nutty small time accountant. With Daniel in custody at their commune, several of the radicals attempt to 'revolutionize the bedroom', an endeavor further complicated by a surprise visit from Marie's tough boy ex-lover Junior.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 6
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: experimental
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A Tank on My Bed (1975)
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We are at the beginning of the Tribulation and Kostas Papademas wants to give rights and is dedicated to the family and the convenience store. Indeed, it avoids to marry Helen, because of the situation, he must first betrothed his sister, who is related to a right. Without kalokatalavei, however, and because of the resistance operations of the small brother, is the monitoring target and the ESS agents are in the wake of.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 97 min
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Sobra talaga... Over (1994)
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Genere: Comedy
Country: Philippines
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Philippine Science (2007)
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Amidst the chaos of Martial Law in this Third World country in the 1980s, six teenagers in the top high school for the sciences discover themselves as they go through the joys and pains of adolescence. They were the top two hundred students from all over the Philippines who passed the examination for the Philippine Science High School, which was created for the purpose of giving an education highly enriched in the Sciences to exceptionally gifted Filipino children. Selected from the best and brightest from all over the country, they endure college-level courses in biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics from their sophomore year onwards. Those who can make it are hailed as the future science and technology leaders of the New Republic, those who don't are deemed unfortunate victims of natural selection. They all learn however that they are neither isolated from the real world, nor are they exempted from living real lives.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: tagalog, independent film
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Three in the Attic (1968)
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In the swinging sixties three girls discover they have the same boyfriend who has been playing around with them all while vowing fidelity to each. To teach him a lesson he won't forget, the trio contrive to lock him up and continually favour him with their attentions in turn.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 526
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, sexy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sex comedy, black comedy
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Whooping Cough (1987)
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The story of 10-year-old boy and his family against the backdrop of the bloody events of 1956, in Budapest. Children do not yet understand what is going on, but they're happy because the schools are closed. But gradually, to adults and children comes the understanding that something terrible is happening. Disappearing relatives, friends, and even killed some. Tips sent an army to put down the counterrevolutionary rebellion.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 484
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 91 min
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Raise Your Kids on Seltzer (2015)
Plot Summary:
A husband-and-wife pair of retired cult deprogrammers experience marital strife when their past catches up with them.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
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Maayavi (2005)
Plot Summary:
A famous actress, after being kidnapped by a fan of her's, starts liking him.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 628
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 156 min
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Lions Love (1969)
Plot Summary:
Three actors in Hollywood live and love together. A director comes from New York to make a movie about actors and Hollywood.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: art house, tragicomedy, independent film, experimental, cinema verite
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Here Is Harold (2014)
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For over 40 years, Harold has been running a successful business, Lunde Furniture, together with his wife, Marny. This comes to an end when IKEA decides to open a new superstore right next door to Harolds small furniture shop. Harold and Marny lose both their shop and their home to the bank, and to make matter worse, Marny is starting to lose her memory. In mounting anger and desperation, Harold wants revenge. He arms himself with a pistol, gets into his old Saab, and sets off for lmhult, Sweden, to kidnap his nemesis, the founder of IKEA, Ingvar Kamprad.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 997
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 87 min
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Stinking Heaven (2015)
Plot Summary:
A black as tar comedy charting the dissolution of a commune for sober living in '90s suburban New Jersey.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: grindhouse
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Laughing to the Bank (2011)
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A down-on-his-luck actor is frustrated with Hollywood and makes a plan to write, direct, and distribute his own project. When the money goes missing, it proves to just be the beginning of an adventure to get it back.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sitcom, dark comedy, black comedy
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Dialogues of the Exiled (1975)
Plot Summary:
Chilean exiles in Paris discuss the problems facing them. They kidnap and attempt to re-educate a touring singer from their fatherland.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy
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A Hollywood Christmas (2022)
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Jessica, a young, up-and-coming filmmaker in Hollywood has made a name for herself directing Christmas movies. But when handsome network executive Christopher shows up threatening to halt production on her latest movie, Jessica’s assistant, Reena, points out the irony: Jessica isn’t just trying to save her Christmas movie, she’s actually living in one. Jessica must now juggle all the classic tropes—her actors falling in and out of love, a wayward elf dog, and her own stirring romantic feelings for her perceived nemesis—in order to get her movie and her life to their happy endings.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
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Office Love-In, White Collar Style (1968)
Plot Summary:
Sexy Marsha Jordan works as a secretary at a dating service (Date-A-Mate) and gets it on with her boss, his wife and his brother in law.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: sexy, surprise ending, independent film, hot
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Nobody's Baby (2001)
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Two not so bright small time crooks end up with a baby girl by "accident" and find a change in their lives. Billy (Ulrich) becomes the guy to take care of the child and look after it. Buford (Oldman) wants to get rid of it, but the others they knit with are for doing the best they can. They conspire to rob a pawn shop to get the necessary money, only to end up heroes for stopping a heist already in play.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, offbeat, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy, not serious
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Saintly Sinners (1962)
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Directed by Jean Yarbrough Ex-con Joseph Braden (Ron Hagerthy) has his car temporarily stolen by a pair of bank robbers who hide their loot in the vehicle's spare tire. After the car is repossessed, it's sold to the kindly Rev. Daniel Sheridan (Don Beddoe), who immediately sets out on a fishing trip. Not knowing that his new automobile was recently used in a heist, Father Dan gets the surprise of his life when he's suddenly stopped by a police officer.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slang
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I Love You, Daddy (2017)
Plot Summary:
When a successful television writer's daughter becomes the interest of an aging filmmaker with an appalling past, he becomes worried about how to handle the situation.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: controversial, captivating, entertaining, visual, underground film, black and white
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La chinoise (1967)
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A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: political, philosophical, artsy, art house, cult classic, thought provoking, clever, humorous, realistic, talky
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Sex & the Other Man (1995)
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When Bill catches his girlfriend and her boss in bed, an unusual cure for impotence is found.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 554
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sex comedy, raunchy, sexy, independent film, hot
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Guarding Tess (1994)
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Doug is a Secret Service Agent who has just completed his stint in charge protecting Tess Carlisle, widow of a former U.S. President, and close personal friend of the President. He finds that she has requested that he not be rotated but instead return to be her permanent detail. Doug is crushed. He wants off her detail. She is very difficult to guard and makes her detail crazy with her whims and demands. Doug returns with no idea of how to continue dealing with her.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: entertaining, humorous, light, semi serious, realistic, suspense, emotional, political, satirical, sentimental
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Bonobo (2014)
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Judith, an uptight divorcee, is appalled when her daughter Lily quits law school to move into a commune of hippie-misfits who live according to the behavioural principles of the bonobo monkey, a species famous for its 'make love not war' philosophy.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 546
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, psychological, light, realistic, sexual
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The Trotsky (2009)
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Leon Bronstein is not your average Montreal West high school student. For one thing, none of his peers can claim to be the reincarnation of early 20th century Soviet iconoclast and Red Army hero, Leon Trotsky. When his father sends Leon to public school as punishment for starting a hunger strike at Papa's clothing factory, Leon quickly lends new meaning to the term 'student union', determined as he is to live out his pre-ordained destiny to the fullest and change the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: realistic, witty, humorous, not serious, political, teen, offbeat, cynical, independent film, whimsical
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Last Day of Summer (2009)
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This unpredictable story follows an agitated fast-food employee, Joe, who's reached his breaking point from being harassed and tormented by his boss.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 936
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, sentimental, sincere, realistic, contemplative, semi serious, independent film
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Manny & Lo (1996)
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A pregnant teen and her younger sister run away from foster homes and kidnap a woman whom they believe can help with the pregnancy.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, road movie, feel good, cult classic, independent film, clever, touching, realistic, semi serious, black comedy
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Lily & Kat (2015)
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Set in New York City, the film follows a naive fashion school graduate named Lily who finds her world turned upside down when her reckless best friend Kat announces she’s moving away to London in a matter of days. At a Lower East Side art opening the next night, they meet the enigmatic rising artist Henri, who Lily quickly takes a liking for. With less than seven days left and a new attractor between them, Lily and Kat will find their “unbreakable” friendship put to the test.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 656
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, light, feel good, independent film
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Paradise (2013)
Plot Summary:
After surviving a plane crash a young conservative woman suffers a crisis of faith.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, cynical, captivating, psychological, teen, semi serious
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The Prince of Pennsylvania (1988)
Plot Summary:
There's nothing wrong with the Marshetta family that a little felony can't cure. Rupert doesn't want to follow in his father's blue-collar footsteps, so he and his quirky friend kidnap his father for ransom, only nobody wants him back.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: retro, independent film, touching, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Eating (1990)
Plot Summary:
At a spacious house in Los Angeles, Helene is turning 40-years old and her friends whom include French filmmaker Martine, house guest Sophie, and Lydia throw her a party. But also there is Kate a friend turning 30, and Sadie a Hollywood film agent turning 50. So, all of Helene's, Kate's, and Sadie's friends arrive for the party where Martine films the events with her movie camera and the shocking secrets revealed by Helene's mother Whitney, and her younger sister Nancy whom confide in their interviews about their obsession with food, and their roles in life.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: independent film, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, contemplative, talky, semi serious
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Jake Squared (2013)
Plot Summary:
A filmmaker sets out to make a new project in order to figure out how he's screwed up every relationship he's ever had.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 631
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, contemplative, semi serious, light, captivating, offbeat, mind bending, realistic, independent film
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Brooklyn Lobster (2005)
Plot Summary:
Giorgio's Lobster Farm has been a tradition in Brooklyn for over 65 years. Manned by an eccentric crew and serving the best seafood in the state.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, emotional, atmospheric, captivating, sentimental, sincere, touching, realistic, semi serious, semi autobiographical