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Plot Summary:
Nino Culotta is an Italian immigrant, newly arrived in Australia. Much of the story is taken up with Nino's attempts to understand the aspirational values and social rituals of everyday urban Australians of the 1950's and 60's, and assimilate.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Me Myself I (1999)
Plot Summary:
Pamela Drury is unhappy, and alone. On her birthday she stumbles across a photo of Robert Dickson, and wonders what would've happened had she said yes to his proposal. A freak accident causes Pamela to live out the life she could've had, but is the grass on the other side always greener?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Australia
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, independent film, sentimental, offbeat, feel good, semi serious, funny, light, romantic
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The Flip Side (2018)
Plot Summary:
Centred around Ronnie, a struggling restaurateur who is mired in debt and the fallout from her previous short-lived romance with British actor Henry. Ronnie’s now living with laidback, loyal Jeff, but her world is turned upside down when Henry returns to Australia with his French lover Sophie in tow.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Siam Sunset (1999)
Plot Summary:
A British design executive, who seemingly has everything going for him has his life totally changed when a refrigerator falls from an aircraft and lands on his wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: epic, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, black comedy, slapstick comedy, slapstick, dark comedy
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You Do You (2023)
Plot Summary:
Merve chose the bohemian life, but it didn't choose her back. Faced with eviction, she starts a new job and stumbles into a spicy setup with her boss.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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In July (2000)
Plot Summary:
Can Daniel follow the sun from Hamburg to the Bosporus by Friday to meet his love?.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, road movie, semi serious, captivating, scenic, sincere, romantic, feel good, tragicomedy
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Enter Laughing (1967)
Plot Summary:
David Kolowitz, a nice young man living with his parents in New York City in 1938, works at a machine repair shop. His parents want David to study to become a pharmacist. But what he really wants is to be an actor like his idol, Ronald Colman. One day, at his friend Marvin's suggestion, David tries out for a part in a play, and gets it, despite his obvious lack of acting experience (not to mention ability). True, it's a rather small part in a low-rent production. Leading the troupe is a washed-up, alcoholic actor who hires David at the urging of his actress-daughter, who finds David "cute." To play his part, David must come up with his own costume - a tuxedo - and pay the house five dollars a week, ostensibly for tuition. But it is David's first acting job, one which calls for him to "enter laughing." And if it doesn't work out - well, there's always pharmacy school.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 705
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: semi autobiographical
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A Fine Pair (1968)
Plot Summary:
A detective gets involved with the beautiful daughter of an old friend. The daughter turns out to be a jewel thief, who in turn gets the detective involved in a caper in Austria.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 522
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: retro, detective
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Dear Claudia (1999)
Plot Summary:
A romantic comedy about a lonely postman, a desperate hitchhiker, a gifted sculptor, an infatuated pilot, a blind a sailor, a street kid, a mistress, a miner, a butcher, two thieves and a dead man. Walter and Claudia crashed into the story by plane. The others arrived in a bag of mail!.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: entertaining, light, romantic, captivating, manga, independent film
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Green Ice (1981)
Plot Summary:
He wanted adventure...She craved revenge...Emeralds held the answer.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 980
Genere: Adventure, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: independent film, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, vintage, cult film
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Laissons Lucie faire ! (2000)
Plot Summary:
Lucie makes her living selling bathing costumes on the beach at Marseilles. Her boyfriend Lucien wants to become a policeman, but is rejected and, instead, is recruited as a secret agent. The couple’s ten-year long relationship looks as if it might be over when Lucie starts to fantasize about another man and Lucien embarks on an impromptu affair with an American woman. Then Lucie discovers a book about the psychology of love and decides to put what she reads into practice.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 252
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: crying, sexual, sexy
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Dags (1998)
Plot Summary:
"Dag" is an Australian term for filthy wool on the hindquarters of a sheep. It also is a slang term for an uncouth person. Therefore this film is a look at several uncouth individuals. The men are all beer drinkers and dopers who wear Hawaiian shirts, long socks, and sandals. The women are all in tank tops and hot pants and constantly after sex, but never enjoy it. One of the men gets a wild idea to get in the Guiness Book of Records by having one of his mates rob his video store every night. During one of these robberies, the robber "kidnaps" a customer and begins a romance. Meanwhile all of the other "dags" are sleeping with one another behind each other's backs.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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Hugo Pool (1997)
Plot Summary:
Hugo Pool is a quirky tale of a Los Angeles pool cleaner who falls in love with a young man dying of Lou Gerhig's Disease.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: melancholic, semi serious, humorous, realistic, talky, independent film, clever, offbeat, witty, crying
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In Family I Trust (2019)
Plot Summary:
Bea is a successful architect who lives in Barcelona (Catalonia, northeast to Spain) with her boyfriend and boss, Víctor, a CEO of an important company. During a night celebration of an important contract signed to make a skyscraper designed by Bea, in the bar appears the famous TV reporter and anchorwoman Rebecca Ramos, Victor's personal erotic fantasy. Not measuring the consequences of her actions due to the alcohol she drank, Bea makes a meeting between Víctor and Rebecca. When to the next day she wakes up, Víctor proposes to wed Bea and she accepts, but after she arrives to the job, Bea learns about a videotape where Víctor and Rebecca make the love in a car that it's in all TV channels. In front of all CEOs during a full meeting, Bea slaps Víctor and destroys her design, being fired from the job. Looking for a break, she travels her natal coastal town, Santa Clara, just to discover that her rest isn't so easy as it seems: her eccentric, free-spirited and eternal smiling mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, humorous, captivating, neurotic, crying
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Back Roads (1981)
Plot Summary:
A prostitute and a drifter find themselves bound together as they make their way through the rural South, doing what they have to do to survive.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, talky, hispanic, campy
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XXL (1997)
Plot Summary:
Alain Berrebi directs with his sister Lorène, a company of ready-to-wear in the Path. Their business is booming to the point to consider acquiring a nearby shop. Fortunately, it belongs to David Stern, the father of his fiancée Arlette.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Last Cab to Darwin (2015)
Plot Summary:
Rex is a loner, and when he's told he doesn't have long to live, he embarks on an epic drive through the Australian outback from Broken Hill to Darwin to die on his own terms; but his journey reveals to him that before you can end your life, you have to live it, and to live it, you've got to share it.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: road movie, light, captivating, melancholic, tense, touching, exciting
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The Maidens' Conspiracy (2006)
Plot Summary:
Tirante the knight is as committed to fighting the Turks in Constantinople as he is to relieving Carmesina, the heiress to the Byzantine Empire, of her virginity.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Romance
Country: Italy, Spain, UK
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: epic, exciting, captivating, romantic, sexy
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Rough Cut (1980)
Plot Summary:
A romantic comedy with action and suspense. Two sophisticated jewel thieves join forces to steal $30 million in uncut jewels. Despite a continuous exchange of quips they eventually become romantically involved.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, detective
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Paperback Hero (1999)
Plot Summary:
Jack Willis is a handsome roadtrain driver with a secret - he has just become a top-selling romance novelist. However, being a 'man's man' in the Australian outlook, to avoid embarrassment, he needs a name, a woman's name - and he chooses that of his best friend, Ruby Vale. He must do some fancy footwork to continue the charade when the glamorous city publisher, Ziggy, arrives in dusty outback Lucktown to sign 'Ruby Vale' to a major book deal. Ruby agrees to help Jack though it's for her own gain as well - the publisher will pay for her coming wedding (with Hamish, Jack's buddy). Accompanied by Jack, Ruby goes to Sydney to meet the media, appear on TV and cocktail parties, etc. Gradually, Jack realizes that he has fallen in love with Ruby, while Ruby is also touched by Jack's novel. However, Hamish arrives in Sydney a few days later and asks both of them to stop all these foolish things.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: romantic, romantic comedy, happy, independent film, sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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He Died with a Felafel in His Hand (2001)
Plot Summary:
A search for love, meaning and bathroom solitude. Danny goes through a series of shared housing experiences in a succession of cities on the east coast of Australia. Together these vignettes form a narrative that is surprisingly reflective.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Australia, Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, witty, cynical, semi serious, funny, art house, black comedy, realistic, contemplative
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Buying the Cow (2002)
Plot Summary:
A commitment-averse man frantically hits the dating scene after his girlfriend starts pressuring him to pop the question.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: feel good, sexy, humorous, semi serious, realistic, talky, sex comedy, independent film, hot
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Love Possibly (2018)
Plot Summary:
A fly-on-the-wall documentary film crew follow Alex, a hopelessly romantic, rom-com obsessed virgin on a quest to find love. Alex quickly finds himself out of his depth when Lana, a Moldovan mail-order bride he met online makes the bold decision of moving to London to marry him.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, mockumentary
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The Naked Wanderer (2019)
Plot Summary:
A heartbroken young man decides to walk 4000km up the coast of Western Australia naked, for charity, with the secret goal of making his ex-girlfriend jealous.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 809
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, disturbing
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Age of Consent (1969)
Plot Summary:
An elderly artist thinks he has become too stale and is past his prime. His friend (and agent) persuades him to go to an offshore island to try once more. On the island he re-discovers his muse in the form of a young girl.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: erotic, art house, sentimental, serious, captivating, realistic, sexual, independent film, sexy
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Western (1997)
Plot Summary:
Catalonian Paco is a traveling rep for a shoe manufacturer. When he stops to pick up Russian emigree hitchhiker Nino, Paco soon finds himself on the side of the road with everything stolen out from under him. Local gift shop owner Marinette gives the Spaniard a lift. Their mutual attraction manifests itself quickly, and Paco, who was fired over the stolen-car episode, hangs around. When he happens to spot Nino in the same town, he beats up the scrawny Russian, who lands in the hospital. Oddly enough, this marks the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Paco and Nino soon take the trip down the road together.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, road movie, independent film
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Strange Planet (1999)
Plot Summary:
Alice, Judy and Sally are three Australian roommates who are unlucky in love. Over the course of a year, they endure numerous personal ups and downs. Meanwhile, Ewan, Joel and Neil are friends and coworkers with similar problems, and gradually their lives intersect with the trio of women to varying degrees. Will any of these young people finally find a satisfying relationship?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 983
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sentimental, clever, touching, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, semi serious, crying, independent film
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Ladies in Black (2018)
Plot Summary:
Adapted from the bestselling novel by Madeleine St John, Ladies in Black is an alluring and tender-hearted comedy drama about the lives of a group of department store employees in 1959 Sydney.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: stylized, atmospheric, captivating, light, inspirational, romantic, sweet, period drama
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Love Wrecked (2005)
Plot Summary:
On a Caribbean cruise, Jenny (Bynes) is marooned on a beach with her rock and roll idol. Deliriously in love with the idea of time alone with him, she manages to hide the fact that they're a stone's throw away from their resort.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, feel good, romantic, entertaining, romantic comedy, teen, semi serious, teen comedy
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Danny Deckchair (2003)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story, the tale of a cement truck driver named Danny, whose long awaited vacation is cancelled thanks to his scheming girlfriend, Trudy. Danny escapes his grim life in suburban Australia and blasts into the skies in a chair tied with helium balloons. A mighty thunderstorm blows him clean off the map, and spits him out far away over the lush green town of Clarence. In this new town, he rockets into the world of Glenda, the town's only parking cop. While the media back home becomes obsessed with the story of his disappearance, Danny gets to reinvent himself in this new town, and in his great adventure, he discovers a true soul mate in Glenda. Fate catches up with him eventually, as Danny's true identity is revealed and Trudy--now a tabloid celebrity--comes to the idyllic town to claim Danny and drag him back to Sydney. Danny, however, is a changed man; he's discovered what it means to be happy and has found a new self-worth.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, sweet, feel good, humorous, romantic, realistic, semi serious, fairy tale, light
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Love in the First Degree (2004)
Plot Summary:
An actor takes a temporary job working as a secretary at a law firm, and is attracted to a female attorney. She is reluctant to start a relationship out of fear of her fellow attorneys believing that she is dating below her position.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, independent film