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Plot Summary:
Young advertising executive Vatanen suddenly quits his job and his whole life in Helsinki, and decides to spend a while in the Finnish wilderness. A wounded hare hit by a car becomes his travel companion. Together they find reclusion in the Finnish Lapland, soon to be disturbed by a noisy group of foreign tourists and their pretentious Finnish hosts. When the hare gets ill and needs to see a vet, Vatanen must return to the city and finally face the choice between his new and former life.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic
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The Man Who Couldn't Say No (1975)
Plot Summary:
Young priest returns from America to work in an old Helsinki neighbourhood with idyllic wooden houses. The shy but handsome bachelor is assigned the duty of marriage counseling but is soon overwhelmed by the ladies' romantic interest directed at himself. Trying to please everybody, he also creates confusion by taking both sides in the issue of whether to preserve the neighbourhood or to go along with the modernisation plans offered by property developers.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 367
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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Olympian Holiday (1976)
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After a mixup at the check-in, Aimo Niemi boards a charter plane bound for the sunny island of Rhodes, Greece, instead of the Innsbruck Winter Olympics he's packed for. It's the early days of package tourism, and he is too shy and clueless to really sort out any of his problems — a suitcase filled with women's clothes, a flirtatious female roommate, and no money to buy food since he was prepared for full room & board in Austria.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 414
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 113 min
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Night or Day (1962)
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IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 91 min
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Rautatie (1973)
Plot Summary:
Matti and Liisa are two farmers who become curious to see the first railroads in Lapinlahti, Finland.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Lampaansyöjät (1972)
Plot Summary:
Valtteri and Sepe, two ordinary white-collar guys from southern Finland drive up north to implement a plan they've been hatching for months. Because they simply love the taste of lamb, baked "robber-style" in a hole dug under a campfire, they forge their car's number plates and other important documents just to be able to poach sheep grazing on the roadside without getting caught. Lots of man talk around the campfire, aided by lots of booze. The summer may be wet, but the vodka is definitely dry.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Summer of Giacomo (2011)
Plot Summary:
A summer day in Italy. The camera follows the deaf-mute Giacomo and a childhood girlfriend Stefi closely – in the woods, by the river – without wanting to disrupt the mystery of their relationship, between restrained sensuality and childhood games.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France, Belgium
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: sincere, atmospheric, serious, offbeat, realistic, semi documentary
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The Howling Miller (1982)
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The main character is a miller, who sometimes acts strangely but is otherwise a goodhearted hardworking honest man. He sometimes keeps the villagers up all night by howling. Finally the villagers decide that the miller has to be committed into a mental hospital, where the hero does not have to spend too much time until he escapes. The miller takes to the woods near his home but there he is constantly harassed by the chief of the police with his posse.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Out of Nature (2014)
Plot Summary:
Out of Nature is a journey inside Martins head. A family father in his 30s living in a small town of Norway. He feels alienated in his own life and longs to get away. Away from his job, away from his family, into the woods, up to the mountains. While spending a weekend alone on a hiking trip, he is forced to confront the way he lives his life. Out of Nature is an original, funny and tender film about how to take part in your own life as a husband, father and son.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: contemplative, semi serious, psychological, existential, humorous, captivating, educational, realistic, stylized
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Devil's Island (1996)
Plot Summary:
The story of families living in barracks, left by the US Army in Reykjavik at the conclusion of World War II.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iceland, Germany, Norway, Denmark
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, realistic
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Backwood Philosopher (2009)
Plot Summary:
Self-taught philosopher Konsta Pylkkänen guides a group of researchers through Finland's Kainuu wilderness in the hopes of having a "sinistä ajatusta", idea out of the blue. While firing upon a hybrid of the hazel grouse and the western capercaillie, kinds of birds, he indeed makes a scientific discovery.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 547
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: thinking
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North (2009)
Plot Summary:
Following a nervous breakdown, ski athlete Jomar has isolated himself in a lonely existence as the guard of a ski park. When he learns that he might be the father of a child way up north, he sets on a strange and poetic journey through Norway on a snowmobile, with 5 liters of alcohol as sole provisions. On this trip through amazing arctic landscapes, Jomar seems to do everything in his power to avoid reaching his destination. He meets other tender and confused souls, who will all contribute to push Jomar further along his reluctant journey towards the brighter side of life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: road movie, atmospheric, humorous, psychological, captivating, dark, dark comedy, realistic, cynical, gloomy
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America (2010)
Plot Summary:
Lisa, a beautiful young Russian woman, is married to Victor, a Portuguese. Fernanda, the Spanish ex-wife of Victor, taking advantage of the coming wave of illegal immigrants in Portugal, wants to do business with false passports. Since then, and to Lisa's desperation, her home becomes a halfway house for immigrants of various nationalities and different races, all in search of a better future. Among them is Andrei, a young Ukrainian orthopedist who is wanted by the Russian mafia. Andrei falls in love with Lisa, who sees in him the opportunity to get out of that life. But things are not simple.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia, Brazil, Spain, Portugal
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: captivating, serious, tragicomedy, realistic
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Village of the Stone Roller (1995)
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Pekka (Martti Suosalo) saapuu pitkästä aikaa kotiseudulleen pieneen Jerusalemin kylään juhlistamaan kylän viimeisiä häitä. Hänen oma avioliittonsa näyttää ajautuneen umpikujaan. Kylän väki kokoontuu valmistelemaan tätä viimeistä tapahtumaa, ja yhteen kesäiseen vuorokauteen tuntuu tiivistyvän koko ihmiselon katkeransuloinen kirjo iloineen ja suruineen. Maaseudun kuvaus on nostalgista ja herkkää, ja tarinan dialogi osuvaa. Markku Pölönen on käsikirjoittanut ja ohjannut tämän Heikki Turusen kirjaan perustuvan elokuvan joutsenlauluksi elämänmuodolle joka loppui 70-luvun maaltamuuton myötä.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 981
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, emotional, realistic, semi serious
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Bye Bye Blondie (2012)
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Bye Bye Blondie tells the tale of Gloria and Frances, who first met when they were both patients in the same psychiatric hospital back in the 1980s, and decided to run away together. At the time their love affair was defined by youthful intensity. Later, when Francis disappeared without a trace, Gloria mourned the loss with a heavy heart. Over 20 years later, Francis (Emmanuelle Béart) and Gloria (Béatrice Dalle) have both turned 40. They've taken very different paths in life, with nomadic Gloria spending most of her time in a dive bar, and Frances enjoying success as a popular Parisian TV personality. The wife of a closeted and successful novelist, Francis is locked in a mutually-beneficial marriage of convenience when she once again crosses paths with Gloria, and finds her comfortable world turned upside down.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 731
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, humorous, gloomy, queer cinema
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Road North (2012)
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A sly riff on the Prodigal Son story, Mika Kaurismaki's latest — about a joyless workaholic concert pianist who ends up on a wild ride with his long-lost rapscallion father — is a funny and cogent analysis of machismo, abandonment issues and the value of reconnecting with one's roots. (TIFF).
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, road movie, captivating, buddy comedy, semi serious
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Gloriously Wasted (2012)
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Juha Berg is a 30-year-old hopeless drunk in the Kallio neighborhood of Helsinki. Juha doesn't have the first intention of changing his way of life - just the opposite. He really enjoys sundry sexual relationships, adrenalin-inducing violence and, of course, alcohol for which he gets money even if by collecting bottles. But the hilarity in a drunken haze soon gets a run for its money as the passionate Juha falls in love with his AA group leader. The relationship with Tiina progresses quickly to dating and Juha has to make pivotal decisions. Juha has to begin balancing between maintaining a functional intimate relationship and his old lifestyle. Juha's best friend Kristian does his best to sabotage the relationship, and Juha's shaky decision to stay sober is further hindered by Mikael, an expert on German erotica. But how far can you go before there is only one solution left?.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Such Good Friends (1971)
Plot Summary:
Otto Preminger directs this comedy-drama based upon the novel by Lois Gould and adapted by Elaine May (under the pseudonym Esther Dale). Julie Messinger (Dyan Cannon) is an intense woman who hides her wild emotions and desires under her conventional facade. Her husband Richard (Laurence Luckinbill) checks into the hospital for a simple mole removal that goes seriously wrong. The stellar cast includes James Coco, Jennifer O'Neill, Ken Howard, Louise Lasser, Nina Foch, Sam Levine, Doris Roberts and Burgess Meredith.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 672
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, biting, suspense, cult film
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92 in the Shade (1975)
Plot Summary:
A young drifter returns to his home in Key West, Florida and attempts to open a fishing charter business, provoking a dangerous feud with a rival fishing sea captain.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 575
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Art of Crying (2006)
Plot Summary:
Life is not easy for 11-year-old Allan living in South Jutland during the early 1970s. His mentally unstable father frequently threatens suicide and his mother has long since given up. It's up to Allan to keep the family together. When a rival family threatens his father's livelihood, Allan starts committing atrocious acts.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, black comedy, cult classic, crying, cult film
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To Find a Man (1972)
Plot Summary:
A boarding-school girl (Pamela Sue Martin) comes home pregnant and asks the boy (Darren O'Connor) next door for help getting an abortion.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, sincere, touching, humorous, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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Popular Music (2004)
Plot Summary:
Two boys grow up together in town of Pajala at 60's united by rock-n-roll music.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, Finland, Denmark
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, sentimental, atmospheric, realistic, semi serious, funny, road movie, sexy, clever
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All Stars 2: Old Stars (2011)
Plot Summary:
In All Stars 2 Old Stars, the unexpected wedding of one of the boys means they treat themselves to an ‘old-fashioned training camp’ in the form of a long weekend in Barcelona. The match between Barcelona and Real Madrid is meant to be the high point of the trip. But of course not everything goes according to plan for the Swift Boys.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, sentimental, sincere, feel good, semi serious
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Conversations with My Gardener (2007)
Plot Summary:
A successful artist, weary of Parisian life and on the verge of divorce, returns to the country to live in his childhood house. He needs someone to make a real vegetable garden again out of the wilderness it has become. The gardener happens to be a former schoolfriend. A warm, fruitful conversation starts between the two men.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, talky, captivating, sincere, realistic, semi serious, beautiful
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Kotch (1971)
Plot Summary:
Joseph Kotcher, retired salesman, walks out on his son and daughter-in-law after their attempts to put him in a retirement home. He tracks down their babysitter, sacked because she is pregnant, and rents a small house nearby. He finds a new purpose in life. Jack Lemmon's first film as director stars his old friend Walter Matthau.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Grump (2014)
Plot Summary:
A stubbornly traditional eighty-year-old farmer — whose social attitudes verge on the prehistoric — raises hell when he is forced to move in with his sadsack, city-dwelling son and domineering daughter-in-law, in this hilarious social satire based on the wildly popular novel by Finnish author Tuomas Kyrö.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland, Iceland
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: captivating, emotional, sentimental, humorous, touching, serious, realistic
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Runaway Horse (2007)
Plot Summary:
Helmut and Sabine Halm have always managed vacations of lazy privacy at their favorite retreat on Germany′s Lake Constance. So when the energetic, handsome Klaus Buch turns up with his beautiful girlfriend Helene, Helmut is quite ready to dismiss this dimly familiar acquaintance. But Klaus is overjoyed to recognize his old schoolmate Helmut, eager to recall every incident of their shared time, and to display every detail of this successful lifestyle as a fit sportsman and author. The precious days of privacy give way to an unwanted and awkward intimacy, as the Buchs and the Halms hike, dine and sail together. Their joint activities aggravate myriad psychological tensions among the four characters, which are all the more intensely ironic for their peaceful veneer and which must eventually erupt.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 461
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, captivating, light, sexy, realistic, semi serious
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Scent of a Woman (1974)
Plot Summary:
An army cadet accompanies an irascible, blind captain on a week-long trip from Turin to Naples. The captain, Fausto, who wants no pity, brooks no disagreement, and charges into every situation, nicknames the youth Ciccio, and spends the next few days ordering him about and generally behaving badly in public. In Rome, Fausto summons a priest to ask for his blessing; in Naples, where Fausto joins a blind lieutenant for drinking and revelry, the two soldiers talk quietly and seriously about "going through with it." Also in Naples is Sara, in love with Fausto, but treated cruelly by him. What do the blind soldiers plan? Can Sara soften Fausto's hardened heart?.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, philosophical, black comedy, sentimental, uplifting, touching, serious, realistic, dark comedy, italian comedy
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Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
Plot Summary:
In the 1970s, a foundling lad, Patrick "Kitten" Braden, comes of age by leaving his Irish town for London, in part to look for his mother and in part because his trans-gender nature is beyond the town's understanding.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: surreal, touching, sentimental, compassionate, sincere, serious, stylized, emotional, dark comedy, indie film
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Zero Kelvin (1995)
Plot Summary:
Larsen, an aspiring poet in '20s Oslo, leaves his girlfriend to spend a year as a trapper in East Greenland. There he is teamed with a seemingly rough old sailor/trapper, Randbæk, and a scientist, Holm. Trapped in a tiny hut together as the Arctic winter sets in, a complex and intense love/hate relationship develops between Randbæk and Larsen, who are more similar than either would like to admit. A powerful psychological and physical drama set against stunningly bleak Arctic scenery.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: psychological, philosophical, atmospheric, neurotic, tense, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, erotic
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The Four Seasons (1981)
Plot Summary:
Three middle-aged wealthy couples take vacations together in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Along the way we are treated to mid-life, marital, parental and other crises.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, clever, semi serious, funny, light