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Plot Summary:
David Samaras, "el Griego", is the general producer of the popular talk show "Hoy se arregla el mundo", where supposedly ordinary people resolve relationship, couple, friendship, work, parent and child conflicts. The most enduring bond in his life is Benito, his 9-year-old son, the fruit of a casual relationship. The story changes completely when he learns that Benito is not his son. The search for the real dad will lead them to a crossroads much bigger than the one they set out to face.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing
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At eye level (2016)
Plot Summary:
11-year-old Michi lives in a children's home, every day fighting to win the respect of the other kids, till the day he finds his real dad, Tom - who happens to be a dwarf, even shorter than Michi is, the opposite of his idea of manliness and strength. When the kids find out, Michi's life becomes hell and he flees. With nowhere to go, he moves in with Tom, who is new to this fatherhood thing, while Michi tried to hide his embarrassment and shame from his fellow school kids. This forces Tom, who had coped well till now, to confront his handicap head on. As time passes, they discover they have more in common than other sons and fathers, until their relationship is again suddenly put to the hard test.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 201
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, feel good, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, educational
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All Hail (2022)
Plot Summary:
A famous TV weatherman, Miguel Flores, becomes public enemy number one when he fails to predict a terrible hailstorm. He is forced out of the big city, Buenos Aires, fleeing the capital for his birthplace of Córdoba. The result will be a voyage of rediscovery that is as absurd as it is human.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Strawberry Bubblegums (2016)
Plot Summary:
After Lucy (17) finds out that she was conceived during a porn shoot she sets out to find her father and meets Udo, a has-been former porn star. Together this unlikely couple go on a journey during which both find more than they bargained for….
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing
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The Continent (2014)
Plot Summary:
A road movie that follows three young men yearning after their ideals.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: road movie, psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Young Bodies Heal Quickly (2014)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers are fleeing arrest for the "accidental" killing of a young girl. Their destination is their estranged father's desolate compound on the sea shore.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, independent film
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To Dust (2018)
Plot Summary:
Shmuel, a Hasidic cantor in Upstate New York and distraught at the untimely death of his wife, struggles to find religious solace, while secretly obsessing over how her body will decay. As a clandestine partnership develops with Albert, a local community college biology professor, the two embark on a darkly comic and increasingly literal undertaking into the underworld.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, dark comedy
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Changeland (2019)
Plot Summary:
Follow two estranged best friends on an epic, life-changing adventure in Thailand as they're reminded that there's no problem that friendship and a few rounds in a Muay Thai boxing ring can't fix.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, semi serious, clever, offbeat
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Billionaire Boy (2016)
Plot Summary:
The story of Len, who made a billion dollars from inventing a new toilet roll, and his 12-year-old son Joe who appears to have everything he could want but what he really needs is a friend.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 711
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, satirical, disturbing
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Bootleg Dad (2019)
Plot Summary:
Ian discovers that André, a former soap opera star and current alcoholic is his real father. Ian decides to go work at his ruined mascot business where he finds a place populated by extravagant people and discovers the meaning of fatherhood.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, entertaining
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She's In Portland (2020)
Plot Summary:
Two college friends, now in their thirties, admire each others' lives and feel trapped in their own. Wes, tied to a demanding career and responsibilities to family, extends a work trip to drag his dispirited artist friend Luke to find Luke's "one that got away.".
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 633
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: road movie, psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, romantic
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Go Back to China (2019)
Plot Summary:
When party girl Sasha Li blows through most of her trust fund, she is cut off by her father and forced to go back to China and work for the family toy business.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: China, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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When Jeff Tried to Save the World (2018)
Plot Summary:
When Jeff discovers that the bowling alley he manages is being sold, he must do everything he can to save the place he's come to call home.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 637
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing
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I'll Go Where You Go (2019)
Plot Summary:
Vali and Mina are two sisters who are polar opposites, pushed apart by life’s hardships and trials. One is a singer, a dreamer and emotional. The other is a therapist, distant and rational. Their loving father has finally found the perfect opportunity to bring them together, if only for a weekend, in order to hopefully patch things up between them: Vali has an audition in Paris and it’s mina who has to accompany her despite her contempt for her sister’s passion.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing
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The Last Will Be the Last (2015)
Plot Summary:
Luciana is a factory worker married to the love of her life. She is living the simple and quiet life she’s always desired: she works and she is deeply in love with her husband Stefano, even if he doesn’t always have a job and they both need to struggle to keep on going. They are happy and always on each other’s side, but shortly after she finds out she’s pregnant, she gets fired and her world starts falling apart. After having tried to have a baby for years, the joy of impending motherhood lasts only a few months. Begging for help but with no one ready to listen to her, completely desperate and shattered, Luciana decides to kidnap the managing director of her former company, asking for the justice she deserves.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 940
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing
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Villa Bella (2015)
Plot Summary:
Three women from different walks of life, all struggling with various personal issues, come together as caretakers at an elderly home.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Dany (2018)
Plot Summary:
Dany, the king of petty thefts, did not wait until the end of his prison sentence to reunite with his 13-year-old son Sullivan. The only thing he now needs is a job and an apartment to regain custody of his son.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 735
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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People Who Are Well (2014)
Plot Summary:
Umberto Maria Durloni is a successful lawyer and a socialite who likes parties and a lavish life. He's got it all, except any ethical qualms.Only a step away from the top, his perfect world crumbles, showing him the brutal do downside to his life; in a tragicomic downward spiral of deceptions and setbacks, he understands he must fight back to regain his place in society, with some changes.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 709
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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The Beerhouse (2009)
Plot Summary:
Noynoy wants to liberate Ningning (Jewel) but gets himself entangled to the underground.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Accidental Family (2017)
Plot Summary:
Loïc Le Tallec never really took care of his son. When the latter disappears in a road accident, Loïc is devastated. He has only one idea in mind: to find the one who lives now with the heart of his son. He falls on Hugo, a young man that this brand new heart makes totally unreasonable and uncontrollable. Their meeting promises to be explosive.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Breakable You (2017)
Plot Summary:
A divorced playwright and his therapist ex deal with new relationships and their daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 459
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Ears (2016)
Plot Summary:
A man wakes up one morning with an annoying ringing sound in his ears. A note on the fridge says: "Your friend Luigi has died. P.S. I took the car". The problem is that he does not even remember who this guy Luigi is. This is just the beginning of a tragicomic day during which he will be plunged into the folly of the world. One of those days that changes your life forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 533
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, enigmatic, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Four Cousins and a Christmas (2021)
Plot Summary:
Four cousins are excited to celebrate Christmas with each other until their estranged grandfather summons them home for their beloved grandmother’s memorial.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing
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A Father's Legacy (2020)
Plot Summary:
On the run and bleeding a young man ends up at a pond house where he meets an old man (Tobin Bell) and holds him hostage in his own home. As the days pass and the secrets about their past are revealed, they learn that they might not have been looking for each other...but they may have been brought together for a reason.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The Summer House (2018)
Plot Summary:
A large and beautiful property on the French Riviera. A place that seems out of time and sheltered from the rest of the world. Anna goes there with her daughter for a few days of vacation. Amidst her family, friends and the house staff, Anna has to handle her fresh break-up with her partner and the writing of her next film.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 614
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing
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Loveling (2018)
Plot Summary:
On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, Irene has only a few days to overcome her anxiety and renew her strength before sending her eldest son out into the world.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil, Uruguay, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, feel good
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Showing Roots (2016)
Plot Summary:
Set in the year 1977, two women look to integrate their small town, inspired by the miniseries "Roots" as it hits the airwaves.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Brighton 4th (2021)
Plot Summary:
Follows Georgian ex-wrestler’s journey to Brooklyn, New York. His aim is to get his son out of a gambling debt. He meets people who help him and people who ignore him.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 882
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Georgia, Russia, Bulgaria, USA, Monaco
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The Second Wedding Night (2005)
Plot Summary:
When his destituite widowed sister-in-law—whom he had never stopped harbouring feelings for—and her ne'er-do-well son come to live with him after World War II, a mentally-ill farmer who spends all his time destroying unexploded ordnance scattered across the countryside finds a new purpose in his lonely life.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 655
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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See You in Valhalla (2015)
Plot Summary:
After the bizarre death of her brother, Johana Burwood must return home after four years, to face her strange siblings, her out of touch father and her very touchy past.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, captivating, disturbing
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Taipei Exchanges (2010)
Plot Summary:
Doris simply wanted to open a refined, stylish coffee shop in a bohemian Taipei neighborhood, but when she's stuck with a load of useless gifts from the opening celebration, her younger sister Josie turns the café into a burgeoning bartering business. There, even a soulful song (by Japanese singer Atari Kosuke in a cameo) is a tradable commodity. One day, a traveler brings in 35 soaps from around the world with a story for each of them, awakening Doris' imagination about the outside world that she has never seen.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 680
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious