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Plot Summary:
An American art dealer (Miguel Sandoval), who specializes in southwestern topaz, arrives by train in Liverpool. Similarly, a very proper British art dealer (Alex Cox), who specializes in African art, arrives in the same hotel. The two meet in the hotel's abandoned restaurant and decide to set off in finding an evening meal, which becomes problematic immediately when the Brit reveals he is vegetarian. While following their pursuit of a mutually acceptable meal, the main point of the film is their discourse en route to their various attempts at an eatery.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 539
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Japan, USA, Netherlands
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, surreal, semi serious, odd
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Generic Thriller (2009)
Plot Summary:
The writer can do anything he wants, right? Or maybe not...as Steven, a handsome young theater history professor discovers when he sets out to write a stage thriller - a plain, old generic thriller - only to discover that his characters prefer a character study - and want it to be a movie, not a play. At least Steven can create the man of his dreams, right? But that character - Vertigo - named after Steven's sixth grade teacher Mr. Vertigo (Steven always dates men named Vertigo) - isn't really cooperating. Will Steven ever finish his play? Will Vertigo behave (or rather, misbehave) as Steven wishes? And what about the friends on whom Steven is basing his other characters - will they still be his friends when it's all over?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, surreal, sexy, offbeat, sexual, meta
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Don Peyote (2014)
Plot Summary:
An ordinary guy delves deep into counterculture, conspiracy theories and the like as he tries to discern the structure of society.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 956
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, surreal, semi serious, captivating, psychological, dark comedy, offbeat, realistic, independent film
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Mimino (1977)
Plot Summary:
Georgian bush pilot Valentin (Valiko) Mizandari a.k.a. Mimino works at small local airlines, flying helicopters between small villages. But he dreams of piloting large international airlines aircrafts, so he goes to Moscow for refresher courses. There in a hotel he meets truck driver Robik who is given a place in that hotel by mistake, and they have a lot of adventures in Moscow. Always amicable and open to people, Mimino does not feel at home in the big city. Nevertheless, he becomes a pilot of a supersonic jet liner, the Tupolev Tu-144, flying all over the world. But feeling homesick, he finally comes back to his native town of Telavi in Georgia, to his family and friends.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: feel good, smart, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Always Greener (2001)
Plot Summary:
Every city-dweller daydreams about dropping out of the rat-race and moving to the country. Every country-dweller wonders what it might be like to try their luck in the 'Big Smoke'. Always Greener is the story of two families who actually dare to give it a go.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 324
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, humorous, realistic
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Cold Dog Soup (1990)
Plot Summary:
Randy Quaid as the taxi driver drives Zen parables (Is time money - Is time the root of all evil?) into his passenger/protegee in a high-speed, idiosyncratic tour of their city's ethnic coteries. All the boy wants is to dispose of his date's dead dog Jasper and get back to the babe who's so hot she mutters darkly about being a Pressure Cooker: his conventional efforts are continually thwarted. Quaid is respected by the peculiar groups he interests in the dog's corpse and effects, and our one-gloved heroine is much keener on him than on her rather lackluster date.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 519
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, black comedy
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Leo the Last (1970)
Plot Summary:
Prince Leo, last in the line of rulers of a long-deposed monarchy on continental Europe and jaded with the frenetic search for kicks with the European jet-set, returns to his father's London town house for rest.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 649
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: surreal, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, biting, suspense
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Bark! (2002)
Plot Summary:
A veterinarian is called to examine a woman who thinks she is a dog.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 748
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, suspenseful, offbeat, independent film, exciting
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Bustin' Loose (1981)
Plot Summary:
After ex-con Joe Braxton violates his probation he is given a second chance, all he has to do is drive a group of special kids across the country. What could possibly go wrong?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, black comedy, hood, road movie, offbeat, realistic, witty, semi serious, sentimental, funny
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Stella Street (2004)
Plot Summary:
Michael Caine, Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson and Roger Moore all live on a quiet street in Surbiton and Mick Jagger and Keith Richards run their corner shop - who knew?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 493
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, clever, realistic, parody, mockumentary, offbeat, biting, suspense
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Estomago: A Gastronomic Story (2007)
Plot Summary:
In a dog-eat-dog world, Raimundo Nonato has found an alternative way to move ahead: he cooks. No matter what social strata this deceptively innocent young man inhabits, he hones his skills and sharpens his knives—and then he falls in love. Jorge's nimble comic fable provides a smartly constructed gastronomic allegory for ambition and survival.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil, Italy
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, semi serious, captivating, dark comedy, culinary, realistic
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Hello Carter (2013)
Plot Summary:
Down-on-his-luck Carter has recently become homeless, single and unemployed. Desperate to win back his ex-girlfriend, he goes off on an adventure throughout London to find her, picking up some odd helpers along the way.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 407
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Tortilla Heaven (2007)
Plot Summary:
Isidor's Tortilla Heaven is the best restaurant in New Mexico maybe even the world. But though his tortillas are scrumptious, his enchiladas divine, Isidor has never made a dime. Why? He lives in Falfurrias, population 73. One Sunday, while all the town, including his wife and son, are piously praying mass, a miracle occurs. Upon one of his famous, hand-made tortillas appears the face of Jesus Christ.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 457
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, independent film, touching, offbeat, realistic, semi serious
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Trainwreck: My Life as an Idiot (2007)
Plot Summary:
A dramatic comedy about a self-induced attention-deficit disordered, learning disabled, Tourette's syndrome suffering, balance impaired, ex-alcoholic young man from the Upper East Side of Manhattan and the gold-digging girl who inspires him to try to get it together.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tragicomedy, humorous, semi serious, realistic, funny, independent film, offbeat
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The Ape (2005)
Plot Summary:
A young writer, nearing a mental breakdown caused by his family and boss, moves into an apartment occupied by a walking, talking, foul-mouthed ape in a Hawaiian shirt and Converse High Tops.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, captivating, tense, offbeat, cynical, biting, exciting, suspense
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The Man Who Came to Dinner (2000)
Plot Summary:
Broadcast of a live performance of the Roundabout Theater Company's 2000 New York revival of the classic Kaufman-Hart comedy, about a famous (and famously acid-tongued) theater critic who is forced to stay in a Midwestern couple's home and the havoc that ensues.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 176 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, offbeat
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Frownland (2007)
Plot Summary:
A rotten egg lobbed with spazmo aim at the spotless surface of the silver screen, FROWNLAND centers on social misfit and self-labeled "troll from under the bridge" Keith Sontag (Dore Mann). When he's not trying to sell coupons door-to-door, Keith struggles with evicting his roommate from their seedy apartment, helping a friend who's suicidal and just getting by as an outsider in the cruel city.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 758
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, humorous, semi serious, clever, realistic, witty, stylized, inspirational, controversial, offbeat
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The Passion (2010)
Plot Summary:
To avoid being sued, a film director reluctantly agrees to set up and direct the Good Friday celebrations in a small Tuscan town.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 686
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating, realistic
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Night Bus (2014)
Plot Summary:
The passengers on the Night Bus have many different stories -- some are lovers, some have dark secrets, some are looking for a fight, others are just trying to get through the night.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 384
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, contemplative, talky
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Homeland (2013)
Plot Summary:
Farid, a young 26-year-old Frenchman, must travel to Algeria to save his father's house. While discovering this country in which he had never before set foot, he succumbs to the charms of a host of astonishing characters whose humour and simplicity affect him deeply. Amongst these is his cousin, a bright and lively young man who has the dream of one day going to France.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 680
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Morocco, Belgium
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, road movie
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Doors of Glory (2001)
Plot Summary:
A young man joins a team of experimented door-to-door salesmen, who teach him how to sell an expensive encyclopedia to modest homes that have no use for it.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 835
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, clever, offbeat, talky
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Here and There (2009)
Plot Summary:
Here and There (Serbian: Tamo i ovde) is a Serbian film which was premiered at the Belgrade Film Festival FEST 2009. Here and There follows two interconnected stories on two different continents. Robert (Thornton), a depressed New Yorker, tries to make quick cash and ends up in Serbia, where instead of money he finds his soul. At the same time, a young Serbian immigrant, Branko (Trifunović), struggles in an unforgiving New York, desperately trying to bring his girlfriend from Serbia to the United States. Mirijana Karanović plays Branko's mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Serbia, USA, Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sentimental, clever, humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat, cynical
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LOL (2006)
Plot Summary:
The relationships of three men are examined through their use of technology.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 910
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, sincere, humorous, talky, clever, touching, offbeat, realistic, witty, semi serious
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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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Mind the Gap (2004)
Plot Summary:
Five seemingly unrelated people decide to take huge risks in their personal lives in an effort to find happiness.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 997
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: humorous, talky, semi serious, captivating, sincere, sentimental, clever, touching, offbeat, realistic
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Human Nature (2001)
Plot Summary:
A philosophical burlesque, Human Nature follows the ups and downs of an obsessive scientist, a female naturalist, and the man they discover, born and raised in the wild. As scientist Nathan trains the wild man, Puff, in the ways of the world - starting with table manners - Nathan's lover Lila fights to preserve the man's simian past, which represents a freedom enviable to most.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: surreal, humorous, philosophical, witty, semi serious, psychological, black comedy, dark comedy, clever, talky
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Seven Days of Grace (2006)
Plot Summary:
Four women - a blonde, a hippie, a lesbian and a barmaid - are looking for love, money and success. When one inherits an Italian restaurant from her father, they see this as a chance to fulfil their dreams. Then the restaurant is in danger of closing down - and the girls pull out all the stops to save it.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, light, feel good, offbeat, independent film
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I Really Hate My Job (2007)
Plot Summary:
'Every day is another day closer to the day I'll never have to do this again.' Five women, one restaurant, one night, one birthday, one breakdown. Then the phone rings. A famous actor is coming for dinner. I Really Hate My Job is the story of an evening in a café in London's Soho.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, talky, independent film, clever, offbeat, witty
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Watching TV with the Red Chinese (2012)
Plot Summary:
In New York City in 1980, Dexter Mitchell plays half-willing big brother to his neighbors, a trio of exchange students from the People's Republic of China.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat, non-linear, independent film
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American Chai (2001)
Plot Summary:
The film deals with an Indian American student who wanted to pursue his love of music over the more 'typical' academic endeavors of Indian Americans (e.g., medicine, engineering, law, and business).
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic
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Bagdad Cafe (1987)
Plot Summary:
A surreal comedy depicting a diverse cast of characters and the changes they undergo as the German tourist Jasmin interacts with each of them at a remote truck stop in the middle of the Mojave desert.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, surreal, emotional, meditative, humorous, semi serious, realistic, road movie, cult classic, independent film