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Plot Summary:
Somewhat based on Desmond Morris's fascinating book of pop anthropology, this partially animated satirical docudrama produced by Playboy Magazine publisher Hugh Hefner, traces the evolution of human kind and offers insight into the reasons why we behave the way we do. Though often dealing with sexuality, nothing in the film is terribly offensive or graphic. A prime example of mainstream experimental film-making from the early 70's featuring a young and breathtakingly lovely Victoria Principal.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Generation Y (2016)
Plot Summary:
Meet Micheal, Mark, Dan, and Kierek. They're stoners, slackers, and the typical college students. When these four semi adults are not going to class, they're getting in to sticky situations. Micheal wants to be a writer. He's always in a constant battle with his mother about his career choice. Mark is a playboy and can't decide between two girls, Stacy or Becky. Dan is being harassed by a man who is obsessed by a self-help guru. Kierek wants to be cool, and he'll do anything for it, even if that means doing something he doesn't normally do. They're all trying to live their lives. One bong hit at time.
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Genere: Documentary, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, black comedy, cult film
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Legion of Doom (2018)
Plot Summary:
A loose mix of friends freeload through film school and beyond.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min
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I Dream Too Much (2015)
Plot Summary:
Dora Welles is an imaginative college grad ready to experience all the excitement of life. Instead she finds herself in snowy upstate New York caring for her reclusive great aunt (who has lived a much more exciting life than anyone realizes).
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 330
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
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Passport To Pleasure: Delicato (1970)
Plot Summary:
Globe trot to the most exotic and erotic hot spots in the world in this trippy, mod era voyeuristic voyage! In Denmark, eavesdrop on sexual freedom in action! See a bizarre lesbian queen and her love slave! Spy on a threesome of uninhibited hippies! Travel to the French Riviera where fun in the sun leads to boudoir decadence! Finally, the odyssey of lust brings you to Spain where a young woman witnesses a savage bullfight, inspiring her to take the next step to fulfill her own wild fantasies!.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 59 min
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Freud Leaving Home (1991)
Plot Summary:
In this story, the 60th birthday of Cohen-family matriarch Rosha is the occasion for a gathering of her children from the diverse places around the world. The central character in this drama, however, is Angelique, whose interest in psychoanalysis has earned her the nickname of "Freud." Her older brother is gay and lives in Florida with his lover. Her older sister has married into an Orthodox family, and lives in Jerusalem. They have all gathered in Sweden for their grandmother's birthday. Meanwhile, Rosha's daughter, the mother of these diverse children, has taken ill and is in the hospital. She has been diagnosed with a very advanced, inoperable brain tumor. Freud, who never left home, is perhaps as upset by this news as anyone, and she startles everyone by going out and beginning an affair with a biker. However, she is deeply involved in the new situation: she insists that their mother be brought home from the hospital rather than being allowed to suffer and die there.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 103 min
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Knuckle Sandwich (2004)
Plot Summary:
After leaving his small Georgia town behind to start a new life in Los Angeles, aspiring businessman Carter quickly becomes a success. But when he loses his girlfriend and his job in the same morning, he decides to return to his old town with hopes of finding some clarity. With the help of his offbeat parents, his beer-guzzling buddies and an old flame, Carter discovers what is really important in life. Douglas Callan, Morgan Fairchild, John O'Hurley star.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
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The Girls' Room (2000)
Plot Summary:
Two college roommates -- prim and proper Grace (Cat Taber) and wild and woolly Casey (Soleil Moon Frye) -- find themselves in a tense rivalry when Casey's conduct almost destroys Grace's engagement to preppie heartthrob Charlie (Wil Wheaton). Not too high-minded to seek revenge, Grace cozies up to Casey's pal Joey (Gary Wolf), setting off a cycle of envy and mistrust that may destroy both women's lives in director Irene Turner's well-paced indie.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Divine Access (2015)
Plot Summary:
Jack Harriman becomes a spiritual celebrity after debunking Reverend Guy Roy on a public-access TV show. While on the road speaking his brand of truth, forces natural and supernatural lead him to question whether he has a deeper calling.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 376
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
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Hail, Hero! (1969)
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Hail, Hero! stars Michael Douglas in his screen debut as long-haired college student Carl Dixon. Reversing the usual procedure in late-1960s films, Dixon decides to quit school and enlist in the Army, even though he's already run afoul of the law as a Vietnam protestor. It is our hero's intention to use love, rather than bullets, to combat the Viet Cong. Needless to say, his idealism is no match for the harsher realities of war, but this doesn't stop him from endlessly spouting the sort of agit-prop rhetoric so beloved of filmmakers of the era. In addition to Michael Douglas, co-star Peter Strauss likewise makes his first film appearance in Hail, Hero! Dated in the extreme, the film is saved by the musical score by Gordon Lightfoot.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Venus Talking (2001)
Plot Summary:
Novellist Venus lives with her family out of Berlin and moves temporarily to the city where she is starting to write a new book. Her fans can watch her via a webcam. Away from husband and children she begins an affair with Fabrizio.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min
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Four Friends (1981)
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Also known as Moritorium and Georgia's Friends, Four Friends follows the titular quartet from high school to young adulthood. The film is set during the tumultuous 1960s, an era when everyone's values were turned inside out, shaken around, and reassembled. The central character is first-generation American Craig Wasson, who confounds his Yugoslavian father (Miklos Simon) by pursuing his own let-it-all-hang-out lifestyle. Wasson's best friends are athlete Jim Metzler and chubby Michael Huddleston; all pursue the affections of bewitching Jodi Thelan. Though they are obviously deeply in love with one another, Wasson and Thelan continue to foolishly avoid a long-term commitment as the sixties unfold around them. Four Friends calls for a fresher approach than the one offered by director Arthur Penn, whose handling of the material is much too pat and old-fashioned.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: esoteric, sincere, serious, emotional, realistic, non-linear, independent film, intellectual, eighties, cult film
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Lust and Revenge (1996)
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This caustic Australian comedy is meant to burn those commercial interests who sponsor artists for tax breaks. It also a sexually unresponsive wife's revenge against her cheating husband. Heiress Georgina Oliphant, the daughter of pharmaceutical magnate George Oliphant is on a mission to find a sculptor suitable of her father's sponsorship. Normally, George doesn't give a hoot about art, but tax time approaches and he needs a big deduction. Since large bronze statues are 100% deductible, that's what he wants. Georgina comes through with the lesbian sculptor Lily Carmichael who suggests a detailed male nude, sans fig leaf. For her model, lily chooses unemployed hunk Karl-Heinz Applebaum who at first doesn't realize he is to model totally nude. Fortunately, coquettish Georgina is around to convince him to shed those clothes.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film
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Thar She Blows! (1968)
Plot Summary:
A crazed sea captain goes on a bloody rampage after his vessel is commissioned by a sleazy film producer and a trio of vixens.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, psychotronic, independent film, grindhouse, cult film
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Monkey King (2016)
Plot Summary:
Wolfi is in his mid-40s and wants to revisit the good old days with his three best buddies in the Provence, where life is good. Little does he realize that his old chums are in the middle of growing up for real, bringing their wives and kids and all their everyday family problems too.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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The Seniors (1978)
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Four college seniors open a bogus sex clinic, which unexpectedly mushrooms into a multi-million dollar business. Featuring a young Dennis Quaid in one of his earliest roles and Alan Reed (the original voice of Fred Flintstone) in his final film appearance.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sexy, grindhouse, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sex comedy, hot
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Oh, Bloody Life (1984)
Plot Summary:
The Hungarian Oh, Bloody Life reflects on the heavy emotional toll taken by the repressive Stalin regime. Dorotya Udvaros plays a young actress from a high-born family. The government bias against persons of wealth threatens to destroy her career before it begins. As a final blow, she is threatened with deportation. The exasperation inherent in the film's title is only the tip of the iceberg.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 465
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 108 min
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The Most Beautiful Age (1969)
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An artist's studio is descended upon by a group of retired men and a young mother who agree to model in the nude for money. Comedy ensues as the students and the local bureaucracy react to the models, all in need of extra money. Several running gags border on slapstick as the officials and the students don't know what to do with the nude models.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 80 min
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The Road to Wellville (1994)
Plot Summary:
An unhappy young couple visit the infamous Kellogg spa in Battle Creek, Michigan while a young hustler tries get into the breakfast-cereal business and compete against John Kellogg's corn flakes.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: humorous, talky, witty, surreal, hilarious, clever, offbeat, feel good, captivating, satirical
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Frat Star (2017)
Plot Summary:
"Frat Star" explores the alluring, superficial, manipulative, and dark world of Ivy League fraternity culture. An insecure, poor, and broken-hearted Nick enters freshman year with no interest in fraternities. This all changes when his old money roommate Billy convinces him to pledge.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 752
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, psychological
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The Harrad Experiment (1973)
Plot Summary:
At fictional Harrad College students learn about sexuality and experiment with each other. Based on the 1962 book of the same name by Robert Rimmer, this movie deals with the concept of free love during the height of the sexual revolution which took place in the United States.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 885
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, erotic, sincere, serious, realistic, controversial, sexual, sexy, student film
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Blue Summer (1973)
Plot Summary:
A couple of dudes pack a van full of beer and go on a road trip in search of sexual adventures. They get that and more.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 460
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: erotic, road movie, sexy, sex comedy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, hot
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This Is the Year (2020)
Plot Summary:
A nebbish high school senior and his best friends embarks on a road trip to attend the greatest music festival of the year in a last-ditch effort to win over the girl of his dreams.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 615
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Palo Alto, CA (2007)
Plot Summary:
On their last night of Thanksgiving break, four old friends, now all college freshmen, realize their small town has more meaning than they ever imagined.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 911
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, teen sex comedy, captivating, light, emotional, realistic, semi serious
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After School (1988)
Plot Summary:
A student-teacher relationship goes way beyond the classroom, including pre-historic times.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 214
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, sexy, teen sex comedy, hot, teen comedy
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Greetings (1968)
Plot Summary:
An offbeat, episodic film about three friends, Paul, a shy love-seeker, Lloyd, a vibrant conspiracy nut, and Jon, an aspiring filmmaker and peeping tom. The film satirizes free-love, the Kennedy assassination, Vietnam, and amateur film-making.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: funny, light, cult classic, independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Short Skin (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ever since he was a child, the seventeen-yearold Edoardo has suffered from a malformation of the foreskin that stops him from masturbating and makes him insecure and ill at ease with girls. Shut up in his sexless microcosm, Edoardo reacts with irritation to the pressures of the outside world, which do nothing but exacerbate his insecurity.Forced against his will to emerge from the shadows in which he has hidden for years, Edoardo will initially try to solve his problem by clumsy stratagems before finding, at last, the courage to face his own fears.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 722
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, captivating, psychological, touching, semi serious, sexual, sex comedy, sexy
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Calvin Marshall (2009)
Plot Summary:
A college student is determined to become a Major League Baseball star, but finds his true calling instead.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 739
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, sentimental, freeze frame, realistic, independent film
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Fandango (1985)
Plot Summary:
Five college buddies from the University of Texas circa 1971 embark on a final road trip odyssey across the Mexican border before facing up to uncertain futures, in Vietnam and otherwise.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: road movie, sentimental, touching, humorous, emotional, light, inspirational, melancholic, talky, semi serious
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Generation (2021)
Plot Summary:
A group of high school students whose exploration of modern sexuality (devices and all) tests deeply entrenched beliefs about life, love and the nature of family in their conservative community.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, sex comedy, humorous, queer cinema, teen comedy
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Nanban (2012)
Plot Summary:
The plot of the film illustrates the embankment of two friends on a quest for a lost buddy, who was once an optimistic and successful student. On their journey, they recount their college life and special moments that the three shared up until their lost friend secretly parted ways after convocation. During their quest, the two encounter a rival classmate who once made a long forgotten bet with them, a funeral that goes impossibly out of control, and a wedding they must crash.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 188 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, light, sincere, captivating, realistic, semi serious