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Plot Summary:
In a small Czech town, mother dependent Robert, his attractive girlfriend Simona, histrionic Tomas and extremely reserved History freak Funes, all dissatisfied with their lives, are members of the same string Quartet. As they rehearse for their next concert, they will get into a circle of eccentric situations and misunderstandings.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 89 min
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Happy Go Lucky (2003)
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Happy Go Lucky is a Hong Kong Comedy-Drama starring Kent Cheng.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration:
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Marisa in the Woods (2017)
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Marisa feels that she is the supporting actress of her own life. She has no job, no projects, no prospects for the future. She looks away from her own life's downfall to become the rescuer of her best friend Mina, who is immersed in a desperate crisis after the break-up of her relationship with Salvador. When she tries to get help from other friends, she only finds more lives adrift. Then, some unexpected news breaks the difficult balance of her life, and Marisa can only find comfort in the city nightlife. She is ready to disappear, silent and quietly, like fading into black.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: road movie, touching, captivating, mumblecore, independent film
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Wonderful and Loved by All (2007)
Plot Summary:
Isabella Eklöf is an unemployed actress in her early thirties. Her friends all enjoy stable relationships, children and successful careers. In order to jump-start her life she decides to lie a bit on her next job application with unexpected consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 843
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, Austria, Denmark
Duration: 106 min
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In the Middle of the Night (1984)
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: cult classic, cult film
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A Bread Factory, Part One (2018)
Plot Summary:
After 40 years of running their community arts space The Bread Factory, Dorothea and Greta are suddenly fighting for survival when a pair of celebrity performance artists from China come to Checkford and build an enormous complex down the street, catapulting big changes in their small town.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 458
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, feel good, entertaining
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Les petites couleurs (2002)
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Zoufalci (2009)
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Thirtysomethings Linda, Radim, Tonda, Otakar, Dagmara and Silvie have been friends since they met as teenagers. All of them arrived in the big city, Prague, from their small home town. The euphoric dreams each had for themselves have not materialized and they are all starting to feel trapped in different ways. They all seem to know one thing: what they don't want in life. At a party back in their home town they reminisce over one of their early dreams: to buy a farm, live together and, most importantly, have fun with their lives. In the weeks that follow, each of them is faced with a crisis that brings this old dream into sharper, more sober focus. Can they make it a working reality? Do they really want to?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 100 min
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Cook & Banks (2015)
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Cocky natural Jack Cook and nervous savant Oliver Banks write and record a demo that sends them down the road to becoming the most successful duo of the 1980s. With help and hindrance from their producer, their manager, Cook's girlfriend, Banks' sister, and a rival band's lead singer - Cook and Banks try everything to stay on the same page and stay together.
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Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
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Dolls (2007)
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Iska, Karolína, and Vendula are eighteen-year-old girls who have just graduated from high school. Not wanting to let go of their carefree student lives or their friendship, they plan to hitchhike to Holland, where they've arranged to work on a farm for three months. But Vojta, Iska's little brother and her father's right hand man, joins the trio against their will. He becomes a witness as well as a catalyst for the breakup of their friendship - for the girls recognize that time cannot be stopped. Dolls is a story about searching for love and finding oneself in the volatile time of late adolescence.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 448
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, crying
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Theatre (1978)
Plot Summary:
Human attempts to understand why when acting they are all going through the heart, but in real life are playing a role.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 322
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 136 min
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Yannick (2023)
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In the middle of a performance of the play "Le Cocu", a very bad boulevard, Yannick gets up and interrupts the show to take the evening back in hand.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: independent film, dark comedy, metafiction
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Nowhere in Moravia (2014)
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When not serving regulars at a pub in the middle of a sleepy northern Moravian village, thirtysomething Maruna spends time with hesitant Jura and naïve outsider Olin – or fighting with her imperious mother. Lightened with a touch of black humor, this laconic village drama is the directorial debut of the artistic director of Prague’s Dejvice Theater who gave the members of his ensemble a one-of-a-kind acting opportunity in film.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, unusual plot structure, humorous, dark comedy
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Four Suns (2012)
Plot Summary:
Fogi is enjoying his never ending puberty. But simultaneously Fogi is also trying to live up to his family duties and bring up Véna, his son from the first marriage. He did not get married again but lives with Jana, a post office employee. Together they have little Anicka and they all live in a flat in a small town. At first, Jana is trying to tolerate Fogi's moods, but her patience is running out. Fogi loses his job. On top of that he starts to see himself in his adolescent son and realizes with horror that Véna repeats his own mistakes. The first fights, bans and mutual misunderstandings are approaching.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 330
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: realistic, sincere, semi serious, sentimental, touching, offbeat, contemplative, crying
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The Violin Player (1994)
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This European drama, set in Paris, follows a brilliant musician as he suddenly forsakes his career, to live and love amongst the common populace. Armand is the violinist who yearns to experience that life and to share his music with everyone, not just the wealthy and the elite. He leaves the glittering world of classical music without a backward glance and takes up residence in the Paris metro where he is surrounded by beggars and tramps. There he meets and becomes friends with Lydia, a metro employee.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 94 min
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Life Is Life (2015)
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Pedantic policeman Frantisek (Ondrej Vetchý) wants to bring up his three daughters with a firm hand. He would like to see the girls coupled with capable and successful men, but instead they have the talent to find the opposite. Moreover, one of them is constantly trying to get pregnant, second one is only dating exotic fools and the third one is expecting a baby without knowing who is the father. Frantisek and his wife (Simona Stasová) always spend their vacation at the local lake, although the wife is dreaming of the seaside. One day she meets a bohemian writer with slightly suicidal tendencies (Miroslav Táborský) and an attractive colleague with Spanish roots (Kristína Peláková) walks into Frantisek's office and things get moving.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: parody, humorous, psychological, funny, light, feel good, unusual plot structure, captivating, entertaining, contemplative
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All Nighter (2017)
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When a globe-trotting, workaholic father trying to visit his daughter on a last minute layover in Los Angeles discovers that she’s disappeared, he forces her awkward, nervous ex-boyfriend, still nursing a broken heart, to help him find her over the course of one increasingly crazy night.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, sentimental, light, captivating, disturbing, entertaining, buddy comedy, horror comedy
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Novel for Men (2010)
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A tragicomic story of three siblings whose lives changed dramatically after losing their parents during the Communist regime. The oldest, Cyril (Miroslav Donutil), grew up to be a corrupt judge who lives for luxury and takes whatever he wants without remorse. His younger sister, the idealistic Aneta (Vanda Hybnerová), is an investigative journalist writing about political scandals. Thanks to her work, for which she sacrifices everything, her personal life falls apart. The middle sibling, Bruno (Miroslav Vladyka), has held on to a childish view of the world as he has avoided real life. Each one is totally different, yet they all try to stick together. That is, until they learn that Bruno is terminally ill and has very little time left. Cyril decides to redeem himself by organizing a week-long luxury trip to the High Tatras. As a gift to Bruno, he also brings along a young stripper named Tali (Tatiana Pauhofová).
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Trust Me (2010)
Plot Summary:
A comical fresco on human misdemeanors and betrayals... A film about our right to not be perfect.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 834
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, atmospheric, captivating, offbeat, realistic
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Everyone's Life (2017)
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Before being judges, attorneys, or jury members, they are first of all men and women at a crossroads in their lives, with their dreams and their secrets, their hopes and their limitations, all beneath the same sun, each with their own dark side. In a lovely provincial town, during a jazz festival, life will juggle with their destinies.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, captivating, touching, melancholic, exciting, queer cinema
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The Waiters (2006)
Plot Summary:
Taylor Starks and his co-workers, all aspiring actors, toil in a Los Angeles restaurant while "waiting" for their big break.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating
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Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed (2013)
Plot Summary:
The unforgettable friendship between three people: an English teacher who travels to Almería when he hears that John Lennon is making a film there, a 16-year-old boy who has run away from home and a young girl who also seems to be running away from something.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: road movie, sincere, touching, serious, spiritual, realistic, gloomy
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Detector (2000)
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Daniel Jul is a 28 year old psychiatrist, still living with his mom. He and his friend Ronny have one thing in common, they like searching for metallic objects in the ground. One day they find a jewel with the name "Janne" imprinted. This is the beginning of something big for Daniel. His life will never be the same. He's about to discover a lot of hidden secrets, about himself and others.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, cult classic, realistic, cult film
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Limbo (2020)
Plot Summary:
An offbeat observation of refugees waiting to be granted asylum on a fictional remote Scottish island. It focuses on Omar, a young Syrian musician who is burdened by the weight of his grandfather’s oud, which he has carried all the way from his homeland.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: comedy drama, sad
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Bleak Moments (1971)
Plot Summary:
Moments from the uncompromisingly bleak existence of a secretary, her retarded sister, aloof and uneasy teacher boyfriend, bizzare neighbour and irritating workmate.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult classic, sentimental, sincere, clever, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, talky
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Looking for Hortense (2012)
Plot Summary:
A wife pressures her husband to solicit work papers from his civil servant father.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 924
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious
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Photo de famille (2018)
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Gabrielle is a "statue" for tourists, much to the chagrin of her teenage son. Elsa is in angry at the world and desperate to become pregnant. Mao is a chronically depressed video game designer who drowns his melancholy in alcohol and psychoanalysis. They are brother and sisters but do not hang out. Ever. Their parents Pierre and Claudine, separated for a long time, have really done nothing to strengthen the bonds of the family - yet, at their grandfather's funeral, they are going to have to meet, and together answer the question: "What to do with grandma?".
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 861
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
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All Together Now (2013)
Plot Summary:
Youth, in all its messy, drunken glory, is the connective thread at an all night noise-rock concert in the woods, where a motley assortment of music lovers prove that it isn’t always darkest before the dawn.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, touching, realistic, independent film
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Me and Orson Welles (2008)
Plot Summary:
New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar becomes attracted to a career-driven production assistant.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: talky, emotional, sentimental, touching, realistic, stylized, compassionate, cult classic, serious, sincere
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Bread of Happiness (2012)
Plot Summary:
A couple decide to relocate from Tokyo to the northern island of Hokkaido where they settle and establish a bakery and café called Mani. One cooks. The other bakes. Everyone walks out happy.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 756
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, touching, captivating, realistic, semi serious, culinary, independent film
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Quartet (2012)
Plot Summary:
The directorial debut of Dustin Hoffman, Quartet is a high-drama comedy about temperamental divas and old grudges, passion and pride, romance and Rigoletto. At a home for retired musicians, the annual concert to celebrate Verdi's birthday is disrupted by the arrival of Jean, an eternal diva and former wife of one of the residents. Expect poignancy and plenty of laughs.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, sincere, humorous, feel good, funny, sexy, realistic, semi serious, light