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Plot Summary:
Felicity Bannister is a young woman living in the shadow of her overpowering mother. Her oppression is her worst enemy until the day she is attacked by an intruder who breaks into her bedroom and forces Felicity into action. The tables are suddenly turned and Felicity transforms from the helpless victim into a ruthless renegade in search of trouble, driven by the anarchic thrill of malevolence.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 230
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Before You Go (2002)
Plot Summary:
The funny, heart-warming and moving new film, from director Lewis Gilbert. When Violet Heaney's three daughters return home for her funeral, each sister finds her own way of coping with her loss. For Teresa, the eldest, it's herbal tea, obsessive cleaning and hectoring her long-suffering husband, Frank. Catherine, the youngest, resorts to retail therapy, industrial quantities of marijuana and manic phone calls to her elusive boyfriend in Barcelona. Middle daughter Mary seeks consolation in professional detachment and the arms of her lover, Mike. Like Mary, Mike's a doctor. Unlike Mary, he's married... The sisters soon discover that their early memories have grown fuzzy over time and the past becomes fuzzier still as they attempt to cope with their mother's parting.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 478
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Thanos and Despina (1967)
Plot Summary:
Katina, an impoverished Greek woman, tries to arrange the marrage of her shepherd son, Thanos, to Despina, the daughter of a wealthy landowner. But when Despina's father, Vlahopoulos refuses to give his blessings and wants Despina to marry a more wealthy gentleman, named Yankos. The wealthy and spoiled Yankos plots to break up the romantic union between Thanos and Despina any way posible while the young lovers plot to run away in a futile attempt to being a new life for themselves.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 354
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Greece, France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: absurd
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A Wind from Wyoming (1994)
Plot Summary:
Manon, is obsessed with famous writer Chester Celine, who hails from Wyoming. Manon learns Chester is coming to town and becomes a slinky, svelte temptress.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: black comedy, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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I don't owe a 100 times (1990)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about a young girl who gets pregnant on a traditional Argentinean family.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 622
Genere: Comedy
Country: Argentina
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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All Night Gaming (2016)
Plot Summary:
A teenage slacker has only one night to finish a major English assignment, his grades depends on it. He is forced to finish the work over night at a local Internet cafe where he encounters gamers, nocturnal goth-ghouls and drunken Clubbers.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags:
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Floating Life (1996)
Plot Summary:
An aging Hong Kong couple move to Australia with their two youngest sons. They stay with a daughter who has already begun a successful career. Meanwhile their eldest daughter lives in Germany and their eldest son remains in Hong Kong. The film explores the different ways the family members cope with isolation and alienation.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 305
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Class Trip (2012)
Plot Summary:
Sometimes you can live your whole life in a few days... A high school graduation trip in which love, friendship, desire, illusion, innocence and the forbidden are all part of the adventure. Charm and disillusionment shine through teenage friendships as the characters try to understand what is happening to them and what they should do with their future.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Dimboola (1979)
Plot Summary:
Dimboola follows the interaction of various characters at a country wedding reception.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Em 4 Jay (2006)
Plot Summary:
In a big city downtown we meet Emma and Jay, two young 20 something lovers buying drugs and then watch as they waste the rest of the day away.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: art house
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Love Song for Rapper (2003)
Plot Summary:
Love Song For Rapper.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy
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Kral Ubu (1996)
Plot Summary:
A cruel picture of the ways in which human beings acquire power and then cling to it. The story of Father Ubu, an idiot who climbs over the bodies of the dead to his royal post, is presented with a touch of the grotesque where naive comic elements meet black humor. Using a human touch, the film- makers were able to transform the original into a film aimed at a contemporary audience while remaining faithful to the vision of Father Ubu and Mother Ubu venturing everything in their efforts to seize power and mammon.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, allegory, dark comedy, urban fantasy, campy
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The Ceremony (1971)
Plot Summary:
Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional family to trace the rise and fall of militaristic Japan across several decades.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: spiritual, avant garde, cult film
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Property Is No Longer a Theft (1973)
Plot Summary:
A lowly bank clerk, literally allergic to money and revolted by its nefarious influence on humanity, launches a campaign of harassment against a wealthy butcher, stealing small, insignificant items— but never money—from the man. The victim uses the thefts to make large and fraudulent insurance claims, refusing to finger the thief for fear his own financial improprieties might be exposed.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags:
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The Misguided (2018)
Plot Summary:
After planning to leave the city with his girlfriend, a young man must first betray her in order to save his brother from a deadly situation.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 558
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, captivating, dark, independent film
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And in the Morning They Woke Up (2003)
Plot Summary:
And in The Morning They Woke Up.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, captivating
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Emerald City (1988)
Plot Summary:
A comedy of life's temptations - lust, greed and power. The city in question is Sydney and the colour green signifies greed and envy in David Williamsons amusing satire on its film and publishing industries. The story centers around the Rogers family, loosely modelled on Williamson's own.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 672
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Spanish Woman (2001)
Plot Summary:
Lola, a hot-blooded Spaniard, is deserted by her husband for a cool and calculating Aussie blonde. Lola is pregnant again but she and their daughter Lucia are left to starve while Ricardo spends all their savings on a sleek new set of wheels for his mistress. When he dies unexpectedly the family fortune, one flash car, remains with the mistress. Despite all his betrayals, Lucia sides with her father. Desperate and destitute in a country she doesn't like or understand, Lola's quest for revenge begins. Caught in the tempests of begrudging love, revenge, sibling rivalry, jealousy and passion, fourteen year old Lucia must find the strength to survive on her own terms. Aided to break free of her mother by her eccentric Aunt Manolo she struggles to find her own identity and her own quest for justice puts her on a collision course with her mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 475
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sexy, captivating, light, realistic, witty, sexual, black comedy, dark comedy
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The Carriers Are Waiting (1999)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Switzerland
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: black comedy, humorous, realistic, surreal, semi serious, dark comedy
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Timon of Athens (1981)
Plot Summary:
Timon loves to give parties and objects to friends, but when he cannot pay his creditors, his "friends" refuse to help him, and he becomes a misanthropic hermit.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags:
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The Last Days of Emma Blank (2009)
Plot Summary:
A woman living in a large country home drives her servants to mutiny with her outrageous demands as she waits for death to come for her.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, cynical, semi serious, slasher, offbeat
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Wetlands (2013)
Plot Summary:
Helen is a nonconformist teenage girl who maintains a conflictual relationship with her parents. Hanging out most of her time with her friend Corinna, with whom she breaks one social taboo after another, she uses sex as a way to rebel and break the conventional bourgeois ethic. After an intimate shaving accident, Helen ends up in the hospital where it doesn’t take long before she makes waves. But there she finds Robin, a male nurse who will sweep her off her feet.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: touching, sexy, erotic, controversial, intense, humorous, cynical, semi serious, surreal, art house
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Lost in Yonkers (1993)
Plot Summary:
In the summer of 1942 two young boys are sent to stay with their stern grandmother Kurnitz and their childlike aunt Bella in Yonkers, New York.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, psychological, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, funny, light, sexy
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The Coca-Cola Kid (1985)
Plot Summary:
An eccentric marketing guru visits a Coca-Cola subsidiary in Australia to try and increase market penetration. He finds zero penetration in a valley owned by an old man who makes his own soft drinks, and visits the valley to see why. After "the Kid's" persistence is tested he's given a tour of the man's plant, and they begin talking of a joint venture. Things get more complicated when the Coca-Cola man begins falling in love with his temporary secretary, who seems to have connections to the valley.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: aesthetic, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film, erotic, light
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Mental (2012)
Plot Summary:
A charismatic, crazy hothead transforms a family's life when she becomes the nanny of five girls.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: humorous, black comedy, light, captivating, entertaining, funny, anamorphic, hilarious, touching, offbeat
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Soft Fruit (1999)
Plot Summary:
For the first time in 15 years, all four siblings in a family show up to care for their dying mother, who is only given a couple of weeks to live. One comes from America with her two children. A divorced sister also comes with her child and sneaks off regularly to meet a mystery man who may be her ex-husband. The third & youngest daughter is an unmarried nurse aware of her ticking biological clock. The only son chases after his grumpy father who seems to not care a whit about his wife's circumstances. The four are also faced my their mother's dreams to accomplish a few things before she dies - to visit a beach she had visited in the past, to see her youngest married, and to visit Paris. She also wants to be embalmed and be honored with a 21 gun salute. Thus the whole group has to set off in the quest to fulfill their mother's wishes.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 566
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, independent film, black comedy, sentimental, touching, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, dark comedy, erotic
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Blessed (2009)
Plot Summary:
Seven lost children wander the night streets while their mothers await their return home.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 777
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sincere, atmospheric, touching, captivating, serious, emotional, realistic
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Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger (2008)
Plot Summary:
This film is a smart, rueful and dead-on portrait of life's unending quest to fit in; and the girl who solves it by completely breaking out - introduces a feisty outsider hero unlike any other seen on screen. Esther Blueburger's quest begins when she escapes from her Bat Mitzvah party and is befriended by Sunni.., the effortlessly cool girl who is everything Esther thinks she wants to be. With the help of Sunni, Esther goes away from her ordinary life and leaves behind her malfunctioning Jewish family to hang out with Sunni's far breezier and super-hip single mom Mary and attend Sunni's forbidden public school as a Swedish exchange student.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sentimental, clever, realistic, offbeat, independent film, crying
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Real Women Have Curves (2002)
Plot Summary:
Freshly graduated from high school, Ana receives a full scholarship to Columbia University. Her very traditional, old-world parents feel that now is the time for Ana to help provide for the family, not the time for college.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, captivating, sentimental, clever, feel good, uplifting, intense, social, cult classic, humorous
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The Castle (1997)
Plot Summary:
A Melbourne family is very happy living near the Melbourne airport. However, they are forced to leave their beloved home (by the Government and airport authorities) to make way for more runways. 'The Castle' is the story of how they fight to remain in their home.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, feel good, compassionate, melancholic, talky, realistic, not serious, funny, cult classic
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East Is East (1999)
Plot Summary:
In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways. But his children, with an English mother and having been born and brought up in Britain, increasingly see themselves as British and start to reject their father's rules on dress, food, religion, and living in general.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: hilarious, humorous, witty, realistic, sentimental, touching, feel good, semi serious, independent film, funny