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Plot Summary:
The Toth family resides in Northern Hungary. The couple has a daughter and a son, the latter a member of the armed forces. When his weary major is ordered to take a vacation, the son talks him into a visit to his family home. Comedy ensues when the Toths go overboard trying to make things pleasant for the visiting major in hopes of an easier life for their son the soldier.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: cult classic, black comedy, dark comedy, cult film
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Cha-Cha-Cha (1982)
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Gruber is a normal 16-year-old growing up in Budapest in 1962, but he has a problem -- how does he get to know the opposite sex? At the Sunday afternoon dance classes the young "ladies and gentlemen" hold each other while dancing, and that makes the lessons worth something. Otherwise, the pianist's attention wanders and the orchestra does not exactly play with a single-minded dedication. In fact, everybody seems to have other things on their minds, except for the enthusiastic dance instructor and his ever-smiling assistant.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 81 min
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It's all in a day's work for high-flying literary agent Alexander; manuscripts to read, deals to be done, celebrity clients to be taken out to lunch, but first there is an author to deal with whose latest book the agent thinks is, frankly, not up to scratch. However he hadn't counted on the author's resourcefulness.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, black comedy
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If I Had a Gun (1971)
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 90 min
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Les Patates (1969)
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IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
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Cold Days (1966)
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Andras Kovacs' film, considered one of the most important Hungarian films of the 1960's, centers around four men who await trial for their involvement in the massacre of several thousand Jewish and Serbian people of Novi Sad in 1942. Each denies any responsibility, claiming that they were only following orders. The film is sigificant for its willingness to address the subject of Hungary's role in WWII, which was taboo at the time of the its release.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 502
Genere: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: epic, cult film, cult movie cast
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Plot Summary:
Did they really come from Hitler?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy, sexploitation film, cult film
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While There's War There's Hope (1974)
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Pietro Chiocca shifts from hydraulic pumps to heavy war weapons selling. He starts traveling all around the third world looking for clients, and contract by contract his economic situation shoot up, raising also his social status. But is never enough for his family, their needs increase more than the available earnings. For Pietro to sell weapons is becoming every day more stressful, every day more filthy. It has become normal for him to sell stuff to crazy corrupted bloodthirsty African dictators. He has also to fight competition with a French rival. His dirty activity explodes on national press; he becomes a monster for the public opinion. Pietro's family is hypocritically upset with him too! May be it was better the old bathroom equipment sector. Can he come back on his steps?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 570
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy, italian comedy
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Hungarians (1978)
Plot Summary:
A group of landless Hungarian peasants accept work as migrant-laborers on a farm in northern Germany where the wages are good, and the wives and family are allowed to accompany them. Though it is in the midst of World War II, they are relatively well-off. However, they glimpse the treatment accorded to POWs and others who are not so gently treated, and at the conclusion of the year's harvest, they choose to return to Hungary and are quickly swept up in the tides of war. This film is part of a series of films by award-winning, well-respected director Zoltan Fabri who devoted much time and effort chronicling the struggle against fascism.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 353
Genere: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 107 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 517
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
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100 Years of Adolf Hitler (1989)
Plot Summary:
The last hours in the lives of Hitler and his associates.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 453
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 60 min
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Evening Bells (1986)
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Trials and tribulations of a Croatian Communist intellectual in the turbulent years before, during and after WW2.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 120 min
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Requiem (1982)
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 103 min
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A Very Moral Night (1977)
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary
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MacArthur's Children (1984)
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In this drama at the end of World War II, the inhabitants of a small Japanese fishing village must come to terms with their nation's defeat and the sudden occupation of General MacArthur and his troops.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 202
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Country: Japan
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Cefalonia (2005)
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 134
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Country: Italy
Duration: 210 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 184
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
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Country: France
Duration: 107 min
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
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Montenegro (1981)
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: Sweden, UK
Duration: 96 min
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The Pornographers (1966)
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Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society, and he uses the money to support his landlady, Haru, and her family. From time to time, Haru shares her bed with Subu, though she believes her dead husband, reincarnated as a carp, disapproves. Director Shohei Imamura has always delighted in the kinky exploits of lowlifes, and in this 1966 classic, he finds subversive humor in the bizarre dynamics of Haru, her Oedipal son, and her daughter, the true object of her pornographer-boyfriend’s obsession. Imamura’s comic treatment of such taboos as voyeurism and incest sparked controversy when the film was released, but The Pornographers has outlasted its critics, and now seems frankly ahead of its time.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
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The World According to Garp (1982)
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Based on the John Irving novel, this film chronicles the life of T S Garp, and his mother, Jenny. Whilst Garp sees himself as a "serious" writer, Jenny writes a feminist manifesto at an opportune time, and finds herself as a magnet for all manner of distressed women.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 29000
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The Witness (1969)
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IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
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Country: Hungary
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 183
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
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Duration: 100 min
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A film poem inspired by the Peruvian poet César Vallejo. A story about our need for love, our confusion, greatness and smallness and, most of all, our vulnerability. It is a story with many characters, among them a father and his mistress, his youngest son and his girlfriend. It is a film about big lies, abandonment and the eternal longing for companionship and confirmation.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 20000
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
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World's Greatest Dad (2009)
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In the wake of a freak accident, Lance suffers the worst tragedy and the greatest opportunity of his life. He is suddenly faced with the possibility of fame, fortune and popularity, if he can only live with the knowledge of how he got there.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
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