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Plot Summary:
The last drop for Jan's resolution is the voluntary death of his father-in-law, whose strength and patience ran dry. Grandma made decisions about Grandpa's life, old age as well as the funeral. Jan is sure that he and his wife Olga are on the same route. He recalls his past life when he used to have his own will and dreams and he wants to live again with dignity and freedom. He longs to control his own life again. And his solution is escape from the present life. In this movie we watch, in parallel ,the fates of Jan's married daughters Olinka and Alenka and his sons-in-law Erik and Pepík.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 793
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, unusual plot structure, humorous, social, crying, freeze frame, dark comedy
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Ene bene (2000)
Plot Summary:
Alice Nellis's small-scale debut tragicomedy spotlights small-town elections. The protagonist, a university student name Jana (Theodora Remundová) who is trying to solve a troubled relationship with a married man, takes her mother's place on the election commission. In the meantime the mother (Iva Janzurová) is going through her own small domestic crisis with her husband (Leos SucharÃpa). Thanks to excellent acting performances and restrained direction, the film convincingly outlines interpersonal relations and their light social overtones.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 104 min
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Oldies but Goldies (2012)
Plot Summary:
A bitter-sweet comedy about two people who wish to live life to the full despite their age. Ota is a retired high-school teacher and at this point in life has various foibles that complicate life for his son and daughter-in-law. Moreover, he has a complicated and risky eye operation ahead. That is why Ota decides that this is the time to look up Jana, the retired actress who had influenced the course of his life many years ago. However, his reunion with Jana - who lives in a retirement home - works out differently to his expectations. Although disappointed at first, it is actually this zestful lady who sets Ota in the right direction again. Thanks to Jana, Ota finds the courage to set out on an exciting road-movie trip of the kind he would never have had the courage for in his youth. Their meeting and the excursion, full of unexpected turns and new impressions, give their lives a new dimension.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: road movie, light, feel good, unusual plot structure, humorous, contemplative, social
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Every Million Comes Handy (2016)
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Vibrant lady Irena Ditrichová owns a large prosperous firm with subsidiaries abroad. After being involved in a serious car crash, she decides to sell the firm and use the proceeds for helping people in need. When her son Jaroslav finds out that she's started handing round her possessions which he was supposed to inherit, under the pressure of his very materialistic wife he starts trying to have his own mother declared legally incapacitated. But grandson Lukás comes to Granny's help and engages a lawyer, her friend of long standing. During the court hearing the lawyer develops an essential reflection: is it possible to declare that a parent is suffering of dementia only because she handles her possessions freely even despite the disapproval of her children?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, captivating, suspenseful
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The Great Thaw (2008)
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IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 108 min
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Provincial Actors (1979)
Plot Summary:
The film is set in a small town near Warsaw, to which a young and coming director comes to produce a classic play (Wyspianski "Wyzwolenie") with a modern vein. Everyone in the production gets his usual stereotypical role, but the aging idol of the ensemble senses opportunity to give the performance of his life. For young director everything is already set. The leading man, however, is not giving up and is trying to restore the role according to his view. His wife listens to his fears, complaints and frustrations, while resigning herself to a fading career in a puppet theatre.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 361
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: crying, freeze frame
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Lost in Munich (2015)
Plot Summary:
Sir "P" a 90 year old gray parrot, formerly living with Edouard Daladier, the French prime minister responsible for signing the Munich Treaty, comes to Prague to give his "account" of the past events. But can he do it, being just a bird? In a series of weird events sir is kidnapped by a Czech journalist undergoing his midlife crisis. The guy has him publicly say some really controversial statements, causing a diplomatic scandal. At the end of the day it is the French who decide to assassinate their own national hero....And that's only the half of the story.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 631
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: non-linear, sincere, humorous, tense, light, touching, captivating, crying, mockumentary, freeze frame
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Photographer (2015)
Plot Summary:
The story is freely inspired by the life and work of Jan Saudek, who is probably the most well-known Czech photographer internationally and has indisputably been involved in the development of international photography. He has exhibited and sold his work in the largest galleries and art houses, he has earned international recognition and awards, he enjoys great popularity and interest - he is a true phenomenon.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, realistic, crying
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Terrorist (2019)
Plot Summary:
An elderly woman decides to act on her own with a rifle as she gets fed up with injustice.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 460
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tragicomedy, psychotronic, allegory, black comedy, dark comedy
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Nowhere in Moravia (2014)
Plot Summary:
When not serving regulars at a pub in the middle of a sleepy northern Moravian village, thirtysomething Maruna spends time with hesitant Jura and naïve outsider Olin – or fighting with her imperious mother. Lightened with a touch of black humor, this laconic village drama is the directorial debut of the artistic director of Prague’s Dejvice Theater who gave the members of his ensemble a one-of-a-kind acting opportunity in film.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, unusual plot structure, humorous, dark comedy
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Stuck with a Perfect Woman (2016)
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Eliska's husband has left her for a younger woman. She is childless, in her early forties, yet still attractive. Till then she had taken care of her successful husband, but now she has to start anew without his financial support. Eliska starts teaching at a local village school. Since she can't find a lodging, she moves to a former morgue. The small house is already occupied by a quirky and grumpy graveyard keeper named Bozicek. Their house sharing leads to a series of comical conflicts, but they eventually fall in love and Eliska proves to her ex-husband that she is able to stand on her own.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 428
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: romantic, humorous, captivating, entertaining, crying
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Under the Tree (2017)
Plot Summary:
When Baldwin and Inga's next door neighbours complain that a tree in their backyard casts a shadow over their sundeck, what starts off as a typical spat between neighbours in the suburbs unexpectedly and violently spirals out of control.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Iceland, Poland, Denmark, Germany, France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, humorous, dark comedy, black comedy, crying, surprise ending, tragic, weird
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Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back) (2018)
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William has failed to kill himself so many times that he outsources his suicide to aging assassin Leslie. But with the contract signed and death assured within a week (or his money back), William suddenly discovers reasons to live... However Leslie is under pressure from his boss to make sure the contract is completed.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, ironic, light, feel good, absurd, cynical, black comedy, action comedy
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Pearls of the Deep (1965)
Plot Summary:
A manifesto of sorts for the Czech New Wave, this five-part anthology shows off the breadth of expression and the versatility of the movement’s directors. Based on stories by the legendary writer Bohumil Hrabal, the shorts range from the surreally chilling to the caustically observant to the casually romantic, but all have a cutting, wily view of the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 776
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: anthology, avant garde, tragicomedy, fairy tale
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Home Care (2015)
Plot Summary:
Dedicated home care nurse Vlasta attends her whimsical patients in Czech wine country and lives for her husband Lada and her daughter, but one day things change and Vlasta is forced to reach outside of her comfort zone. Drama and gentle humor intertwine as Vlasta realizes, for the first time in her life, that she might need some care, too.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 492
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, humorous, captivating, disturbing, talky, crying
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Rising High (2020)
Plot Summary:
Charting the rise and fall of three corrupt real estate agents who accumulate absurd wealth in no time but fall into a vortex of fraud, greed and drugs.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, humorous, serious, captivating, intellectual, crying, detective, freeze frame
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Mug (2018)
Plot Summary:
Jacek loves heavy metal and his dog. He converts the country lanes outside his door into a racing track and bombs down them in his little car. When he and his girlfriend Dagmara take to the dancefloor, everyone runs for cover. He enjoys his existance as a cool misfit in an otherwise stuffy environment, and keeps his muscles toned working on a building site close to the Polish-German border where the world’s largest statue of Jesus is being constructed. But then his life is thrown badly off course by a terrible accident at work that completely disfigures him. Eagerly followed by the Polish media, Jacek becomes the first person in the country to receive a face transplant. He may be celebrated as a national hero and martyr, but he no longer recognises himself in the mirror. Meanwhile, the statue of Jesus grows taller and taller. Whilst events around Jacek come thick and fast, the film never loses sight of the bigger picture and instead brings things even more into focus.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tragicomedy, uplifting, ironic, compassionate, social, crying, weird
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Women in Temptation (2010)
Plot Summary:
When a marriage counselor is abandoned by her husband for a younger woman, she sets out for new companionship.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 797
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: humorous, psychological, light, contemplative, sex comedy, crying
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Senior Trip (1981)
Plot Summary:
A group of graduating students from a midwestern high school comes to New York City on a trip to celebrate the impending end of school. The students include: Roger Ellis, an ambitious teen aiming for success in big business; David, an aspiring rock star; Judy Matheson, a stagestruck coed actress wannabe; Denise, a free-spirited girl hoping to obtain a degree of sophistication; Fred, a lotharo looking for any Big City woman to be with; and Jon Lipton, a would-be artist hoping to make it big. Mickey Rooney also appears briefly as himself during the backstage scene at the play "Sugar Babies.".
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: freeze frame, teen comedy
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The Marriage Escape (2020)
Plot Summary:
Jan is married to Gedda. Gedda loves him só much, it stifles Jan. When he has to move to a nursing home because of early onset dementia, their lives take a special turn.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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The Cake General (2018)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1984, Hans Pettersson (Hasse P.) decides to create the largest sandwich cake ever made in order to put his home town, Köping, on the map.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, humorous, captivating, crying, exciting
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Panic Attack (2017)
Plot Summary:
Tragedy meets comedy in seven stories about how our entire world can collapse at any given moment.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tragicomedy, neurotic, non-linear, dark comedy, light, feel good, humorous, black comedy, crying
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The Teacher (2016)
Plot Summary:
The principal of an elementary school calls a special parents meeting after it’s alleged that the seemingly empathetic and kindly-looking teacher Mrs. Drazděchová uses her students to manipulate their parents.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: touching, melancholic, tense, captivating, dark comedy, allegory, non-linear
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Sickos (2014)
Plot Summary:
Three teenagers appear to have a lot of fun on the children's oncology department on the fourth floor of a large hospital. Nick (14) and Iwan (15) both lost a leg as a result of bone cancer. For their friend Olivier (16) an amputation may be the next phase. The fourth of the bunch, Pepijn (15), is so ill and weak that he often stays in his room. Friendship and a deep desire to live keeps the guys mentally balanced. And of course their interest in sexy girls makes them act like any ordinary teenager. They make jokes about their illness. They call each other "sickos". The sickos cannot walk, but with their wheelchairs they do risky stunts and organise joyrides in the corridors of the hospital. Their friendship changes when Gina (16) arrives. The boys try to seduce her, but Gina is not interested at first, until she realises that her stay in the hospital will be a lot less depressive when she has friends. Sickos is a humorous drama that deals with adolescence and chemotherapy.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, unusual plot structure
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Dodgeball (2015)
Plot Summary:
An adaptation of a best-selling novel by Michal Viewegh is a comedy about friendship, fateful loves, beauty and ugliness, alcohol, and the search for human happiness. The plot revolves around three friends - Jeff, Skippy and Tom - whose ups and downs and relationship breakups keep bringing them back to a shared bachelor apartment. Their counterparts in the story are two women - the class beauty Eva, who becomes the object of desire of all three guys in turn, and the ugly Hujerova, whose ironic attitude to herself and life in general gives her the ability to survive in a world that prizes beauty and to find her own path to happiness. - Czech film center.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: non-linear, humorous, psychological, light, sexy, unusual plot structure, contemplative
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Barefoot (2017)
Plot Summary:
Story of a small boy is forced to move out of Prague during World War 2 to a small village of Slavonice where he meets the rest of his family. He needs to make new friends and get used to a new life which is immensely different from what this city boy was used to.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 882
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Denmark
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, suspense, suspenseful, light, humorous, melancholic, tragicomedy, crying
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The Scopone Game (1972)
Plot Summary:
An aging American millionairess journeys to Rome each year with her chauffeur George to play the card game scopone with destitute Peppino and his wife Antonia.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: tragicomedy, crying, dark comedy
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Kolya (1996)
Plot Summary:
The Czech Republic Director Jan Sverák tells in this Oscar winning film the story of the disillusioned Prague man named Cellisten Louka, who after a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant must suddenly take responsibility for her son. However it’s not long before the communication barrier is broken between the two new family members.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Czech Republic, UK, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: emotional, sentimental, sincere, touching, realistic, uplifting, feel good, spiritual, poignant, art house
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Quality Time (2013)
Plot Summary:
You can’t choose your family – which is why Conrad limits his visits with his parents to an absolute minimum. When venomous, irritable Carl injures himself seriously in a fall, his reluctant son Conrad and the butt-of-all-jokes Jonas has no choice but to move back into his old childhood room. Three generations under one roof: a chance for reconciliation – or a total disaster?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, feel good, sentimental, realistic, semi serious, crying
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What We Did on Our Holiday (2014)
Plot Summary:
Doug and Abi and their three children travel to the Scottish Highlands for Doug's father Gordie's birthday party. It's soon clear that when it comes to keeping a secret under wraps from the rest of the family, their children are their biggest liability.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, realistic, semi serious, humorous, tense, absurd, scenic, existential, heartfelt
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Force Majeure (2014)
Plot Summary:
While holidaying in the French Alps, a Swedish family deals with acts of cowardliness as an avalanche breaks out.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 65000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, France, Norway, Denmark, Italy
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, art house, dark comedy, neurotic, inspirational, humorous, emotional, art film, sincere, captivating