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Plot Summary:
Wojnar is a wealthy man who is marrying off his beautiful daughter Kasia, in a small town in present day Poland. Wojnar had to bribe the groom with a fancy car, since Kasia was pregnant by another man. At the end of the ceremony, the car is delivered by a gangster, who immediately demands the promised money and the deed to land from Kasia's grandfather. Unfortunately grandpa is unwilling to let go of the land. Meanwhile each of the workers at the reception demand to be paid, so Wojnar, who is very reluctant to part with his money, tries to haggle and bribe his way out of all the situations.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy, realistic
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Pardon (2005)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true event, Pardon tells the tragicomic story of three friends who end up in prison when they are mistaken as members of a terrorist organization. Ibrahim's fear of uniforms makes him runaway whenever he sees one. Because of this, police mistakes him with a terrorist and takes him and his friend Muzo into custody. Fooled by the police during the interrogation they name another friend, Aydin, in hope of saving themselves. As they all end up in prison, they remember the families and lovers they left behind.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, cynical, dark comedy, comedy drama, realistic, semi serious, biting, black comedy
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Carmina and Amen (2014)
Plot Summary:
After her husband dies, Carmina keeps it a secret until a check that he had been expecting comes in.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, melancholic, exciting
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The All Together (2007)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 906
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, semi serious, realistic, not serious, surprise ending, independent film, black comedy, neo screwball comedy
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Mystics (2003)
Plot Summary:
A black comedy about two old-time conmen who pretend to be able to communicate with the dead.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Comedy
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy
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A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop (2009)
Plot Summary:
Wang is a gloomy, cunning and avaricious noodle shop owner in a desert town in China. His neglected, sharp-tongued wife is involved in a secret affair with Li, one of Wang’s employees. A timid man, Li reluctantly keeps the gun his lover has bought to kill her husband. But Wang is watching their every move. He bribes patrol officer Zhang to murder the illicit couple. It seems like a perfect plan: the affair will come to a cruel, bloody but satisfying end… or so he thinks. The equally wicked Zhang has an agenda of his own. As the plot twists, more blood will flow, and ever greater violence will erupt….
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, semi serious, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, dark comedy, exciting, stylized, detective, remake of american film
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Seducing Doctor Lewis (2003)
Plot Summary:
A much-needed boost, in the form of a new factory, is promised to the residents of the tiny fishing village St. Marie-La-Mauderne, provided they can lure a doctor to take up full-time residency on the island. Inspired, the villagers devise a scheme to make Dr. Christopher Lewis a local.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, witty, semi serious, entertaining, realistic, sentimental, funny, light, romantic
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Just Buried (2007)
Plot Summary:
A young man inherits a nearly bankrupt funeral home from his estranged father. He falls in love with the alluring young mortician, only to find out she's offing people to keep the place in business!.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, dark comedy, black comedy, suspense, dark, offbeat, realistic, whimsical
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Twin Town (1997)
Plot Summary:
Jeremy and Julian Lewis, the "Lewis Twins", are two unruly brothers who terrorise the city of Swansea from the caravan park where they live with their family. When their father, Fatty, is injured while working on a roof for local kingpin Bryn Cartwright, they try in vain to claim compensation. Thus begins a campaign of terror, which local policemen Terry and Grayo are ill-equipped to prevent, involved as they are in a drugs deal with Cartwright.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, black comedy, independent film, tense, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, funny, road movie
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Testosteron (2007)
Plot Summary:
The wedding of Kornel, a young, well known TV scientist, to the famous singer, Alicja, is to be the social event of the year. In the suburban reception hall, the final preperations are being made. The waiter, Tytus, who is somewhat touchy having just found out he is to become a father, lays out the cutlery on the tables.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, entertaining, melancholic, light, feel good, captivating
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May in the Summer (2013)
Plot Summary:
A bride-to-be is forced to reevaluate her life when she reunites with her family in Jordan and finds herself confronted with the aftermath of her parents’ divorce.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 883
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Jordan, Qatar, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: captivating, humorous, realistic, emotional, semi serious, independent film
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Another Happy Day (2011)
Plot Summary:
A wedding at her parents' Annapolis estate hurls high-strung Lynn into the center of touchy family dynamics.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, witty, semi serious, sentimental, social, neurotic, teen, touching, realistic
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The Matsugane Potshot Affair (2006)
Plot Summary:
When a gold ingot and a severed human head are discovered in a small provincial town, the rush to solve the curious case wavers between tragic and darkly humorous.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, offbeat, realistic
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Drop Dead Gorgeous (2010)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring model, Cynthia, becomes the focus of a documentary when she is chosen as the face for the world's biggest fashion designer, Claudio. Cynthia accidentally overdoses and with deadlines looming they decide to use her corpse to continue filming.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 408
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, realistic, black comedy, mockumentary, dark comedy
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The Valet (2006)
Plot Summary:
Caught by tabloid paparazzi with his mistress Elena, a famous and beautiful fashion model, billionaire Pierre Levasseur tries to avoid a divorce by inventing a preposterous lie. He uses the presence of a passerby in the photo to claim to his wife that it's not him Elena is seeing but the other man, one François Pignon. Pignon is a modest little man who works as a parking valet. To make the story convincing, Elena has to move in with Pignon.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy, Belgium
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, witty, sweet, stylized, sentimental, funny, entertaining, tricky
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Colombian Love (2004)
Plot Summary:
Tali and Ori are a young Israeli couple. After attending their best friends' wedding, which ended in disaster, they have a big fight, which leads to Ori proposing. But there is trouble in paradise when Ori's conservative father meets Tali, and all hell breaks loose.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 430
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, sentimental, feel good, realistic, semi serious
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Granny's Funeral (2012)
Plot Summary:
A provincial chemist in the throes of a mid-life crisis must choose between burying his dearly departed grandmother and cremating her in this quirky comedy of manners starring Valerie Lemercier, Denis Podalydes, and Isabelle Candelier.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 938
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film, humorous
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The End (1978)
Plot Summary:
Wendell Lawson has only six months to live. Not wanting to endure his last few months of life waiting for the end, he decides to take matters into his own hands and enlists the help of a delusional mental patient to help him commit suicide.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, funny, black comedy, humorous, slapstick, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, independent film, slapstick comedy
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Dark Horse (2011)
Plot Summary:
Abe is a man who is in his thirties and who lives with his parents. He works regretfully for his father while pursuing his hobby of collecting toys. Aware that his family doesn't think highly of him, he tries to spark a relationship with Miranda, who recently moved back home after a failed literary/academic career. Miranda agrees to marry Abe out of desperation, but things go awry.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, dark comedy, semi serious, bleak, disturbing, controversial, black comedy, clever, offbeat, realistic
Similar in 77%
Three and Out (2008)
Plot Summary:
A London tube driver considers pursuing a third fatal accident to collect a huge payout.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, clever, semi serious, offbeat, cynical, biting, black comedy, dark comedy
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All Is Bright (2013)
Plot Summary:
Two French Canadian ne’er-do-wells travel to New York City with a scheme to a get rich quick selling Christmas trees.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, feel good, captivating, dark, black comedy, dark comedy, realistic, independent film, buddy comedy
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June in January (2014)
Plot Summary:
A newly engaged bride dreamed of her wedding day with her late mother for her entire life, and is looking forward to planning every perfect detail to honor her mom's memory. But her special day is nearly ruined by her intimidating future mother-in-law and her fiancé's sudden work transfer, which pushes her perfect outdoor June wedding ceremony up to a January date -- just three weeks away!.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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The Man Cave (2014)
Plot Summary:
Quotas for women, parking spaces for women, online shopping, small talk and gossip. Software developer Erol, porta-potty rep Lars, and commercial pilot Helmut are licking the wounds of their masculinity – a female-free zone is what’s needed! In the boiler room of their recently built housing complex, the three stressed husbands create a secret refuge where they can watch football, eat fast-food, drink beer and curse the opposite sex undisturbed. When Aykut, the complex’s facility manager, discovers their last bastion of masculinity, he threatens to close it down. One thing is for sure, the men are not going to give up their little slice of paradise without a fight. Based on the stage play bearing the same name, director Franziska Meyer Price allows men to return to rebellious ladhood.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, light, feel good, captivating, realistic
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Grown Ups (2008)
Plot Summary:
Every year, Albert buys his daughter an initiatory journey to a European country. For her 17th birthday he chooses a trip to Sweden to look for a Viking's treasure. When they arrive in the rented house, it is occupied by Anika and Christine, forcing them into an unusual cohabitation.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 649
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Sweden
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, art house
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2 B Perfectly Honest (2004)
Plot Summary:
Business partners Frank and Josh go bankrupt after their dot-com start-up collapses before it goes online. Frank, a bachelor and broke, reluctantly moves back home to live with his parents while Josh, a hippie computer wiz who's married and has a son, is forced to consider the unthinkable - getting a real job.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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2 Francs, 40 Pesetas (2014)
Plot Summary:
Madrid, 1974. Six years have passed since Martin and his family have returned to Spain from Switzerland. A visit to their adopted country will bring complications.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating, sentimental, realistic
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Preggoland (2014)
Plot Summary:
A 35-year-old woman fakes being pregnant to fit in with her friends.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 826
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating, offbeat, realistic
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Money for Nothing (1993)
Plot Summary:
When unemployed dockworker Joey Coyle finds $1.2 million that fell off of an armored car, he decides to do the logical thing: take the money and run. After all, he says, finders keepers. He turns to his ex-girlfriend Monica, who works in an investment firm, for advice, before turning to the mob for help laundering the money. While Joey makes plans to leave the country, however, a detective is following his ever-warmer trail in order to recover the cash.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: light, intense, humorous, realistic, captivating, factual, detective, anamorphic, hilarious, clever
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Seeking Temporary Wife (2003)
Plot Summary:
Frederik is a happy man; he has a girlfriend he loves, a business running smoothely and he is going to be a father. But his happiness proves false. At a party, his girlfriend declares that she will leave him for her true love. Frederik is distraught. But his biological clock has started ticking, and his desire for a child is overwhelming. At an adoption agency he meets Milla, a woman who has also been treated unfairly by love. Could Milla be the answer to Frederik's dream?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, captivating, touching, feel good, realistic, semi serious
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Malamaal Weekly (2006)
Plot Summary:
Lilaram sells lottery tickets and one customer has hit the jackpot but dies of shock upon finding out that he has won. Now, Lilaram wants all the money, and so does everyone around him.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, feel good, captivating, entertaining, realistic
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Daddy Cool: Join the Fun (2009)
Plot Summary:
So, what can happen at a funeral? Even, if it's the funeral of Daddy Cool Douglas Lazarus? It's in Goa, tears, sad speeches, melancholia... right? Wrong! When... The coffin makers deliver the wrong body, all hell breaks loose in this witty comedy starring Sunil Shetty and many of B-Town's rich and famous as they try and find the body of their beloved.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 414
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, entertaining, captivating, realistic