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Plot Summary:
After two troubled but powerful men rape a young hitchhiker who happens to be a vet, she drugs them and remove their testicles.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: mind bending, psychedelic, surreal, dark comedy
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Three in the Attic (1968)
Plot Summary:
In the swinging sixties three girls discover they have the same boyfriend who has been playing around with them all while vowing fidelity to each. To teach him a lesson he won't forget, the trio contrive to lock him up and continually favour him with their attentions in turn.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 526
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, sexy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sex comedy, black comedy
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Porca vacca (1982)
Plot Summary:
When a stage artist is send to Fight he met a lovely girl.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: entertaining, low brow humor
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A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1972)
Plot Summary:
A couple uses extremely black comedy to survive taking care of a daughter who is nearly completely brain dead. They take turns doing the daughter's voice and stare into the eyes of death and emotional trauma with a humour that hides their pain.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 576
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: mind bending, psychedelic, surreal, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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Brak (2002)
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IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: parody, dark comedy
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A Hoof Here, a Hoof There (1989)
Plot Summary:
Two friends have sex just for fun. One day they make a blood test, just for fun, and they discover that one of them has AIDS, not knowing who.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags:
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Wrong Side Up (2005)
Plot Summary:
A man who deals with parcels at an airport cargo company finds that he likes planes more than people.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: weird
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La petite allumeuse (1987)
Plot Summary:
Fifteen-year-old Camille is a vulnerable and a strong-willed seductress- she chooses, she takes, she leaves; she can go very far in her desire for freedom. She is the daughter of disunited parents, Armand, a professor and Colette, an intellectual bourgeois. She manages to seduce Jean-Louis, a professor of letters of thirty-seven years, friend and colleague of her father. She makes him commit a lot of extravagance - he even dyed blond. Later she had a passion for Samuel, a former student of Jean-Louis, lout and trafficker. She is not easy, men learn at their expense, either sentimentally, as with the teacher, or that the first sexual experience come to ignite the relationship with Samuel.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Body/Antibody (2007)
Plot Summary:
Kip Polyard is an obsessive-compulsive shut-in whose antiseptic world is invaded by Celine, the beautiful seductress who moves in next door to Kip's rent-controlled Manhattan apartment. Kip and Celine begin a tentative love affair that turns passionate and then deadly, as Celine's secrets turn Kip's perfectly organized life upside-down.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, neo noir, independent film
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It's Better to Be Healthy and Wealthy than Poor and Sick (1992)
Plot Summary:
A satiric tragi-comedy about two women and their lover Robert who is an emigrant that keeps coming back. This film shows chaotic post-communist Europe after the fall of totalitarianism. Two opposite characters, women, meet during the Velvet Revolution in November 1989. Intellectual dissident Nona and a Communist secret police boss’ mistress Ester. They meet at an anti-regime demonstration and become friends. They don’t want anything to do with politics, both want to get married and have kids, but also get rich. Crazy plans and risky attempts to realize their shared dreams land them in many sticky situations in the post-revolution chaos. Too much money gets in the way of the power of friendship.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags:
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Fruit of Paradise (1970)
Plot Summary:
The story is an allegory of Adam and Eve, in a modern (made in the '60s) Health Retreat. The action involves our hero wandering the grounds where she becomes obsessed with a mysterious man in red, who may or may not be a killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia, Belgium
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: erotic, surreal, avant garde, art house, psychedelic, experimental, allegory, black comedy, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Sweet Bird of Aquarius (1970)
Plot Summary:
A TV cameraman is having marital problems with his beautiful blonde wife. He comes up with the idea of going to a nudist colony as a way to help with their marital and sexual problems.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Escape from the 'Liberty' Cinema (1990)
Plot Summary:
The film is set just before Poland's communist regime came to an end, and the central character is a provincial censor (Janusz Gajos), a tired, sloppy, lonely man, whose wife has long since left him. For him, censorship is both an art and a game, but he does not enjoy it. During a screening of a sentimental Polish melodrama called "Daybreak" at the Liberty cinema across the road from the censor's office, the actors start to rebel and refuse to speak their lines. There is anarchy and when the censor is unable to control the situation, senior party officials are called in. Eventually a film critic notes that the situation reminds of "The Purple Rose of Cairo" by Woody Allen and brings a reel of the film to demonstrate. The officials watch the film with amusement until another mix-up occurs: the second projector is turned on accidentally and superimposes "Daybreak" over "Purple Rose".
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: surreal, mind bending, psychedelic, intellectual
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The Peephole of Love (1982)
Plot Summary:
Innocent girl starts working as a secretary in an office. Soon she finds out a hole in the wall through which she can see the action in the next apartment, where a prostitute meets her bizarre clients.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic
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The Boys of Cellblock Q (1992)
Plot Summary:
The Boys of Cellblock Q is set within the bowels of the Sunnyvale Labor Farm. Without the presence of women, the prisoners indulge in regular trysts with one another, make full use out of the jail's supply of priests, turn the eyes several policemen, and help a young convict learn the ins and outs of the prison community.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: independent film
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We Need Your Vote (2018)
Plot Summary:
Arnaud, a 25-year-old man, enters the campaign team of a candidate for the French presidential election as assistant to the Director of communication. While discovering the techniques, intricacies and rivalries of the electoral campaign, he will feel fascination for this world, as well as for its attractive director, Agnès.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 542
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Better than nothing (2014)
Plot Summary:
The 17-year-old Tom filled out a questionnaire for the Employment Agency at a vocational guidance office in his school. He falls in love with the trainee, which distributed the questionnaires. In the evaluation he gets out a job as an apprentice at a funeral home as a funeral professional.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Family Life (2017)
Plot Summary:
While house-sitting for a distant cousin, a lonely man fabricates the existence of a vindictive ex-wife withholding his daughter, in order to gain the sympathy of the single mother he has just met.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, buddy comedy, art house
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Pretty Far from Okay (2017)
Plot Summary:
Isi doesn't get the world anymore. Just a short while ago, life was wild, fun, and without obligations, but suddenly everyone around her seems to be grown-up and successful. With her diploma in one hand and a drink in the other, she is stuck between the careless days of college and real life. When her best friend Lotte gets a respectable job and becomes pregnant, Isi realizes that she needs to find a way to start living a life on her own.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Legacy (2015)
Plot Summary:
What do you do when the party of the year kicks you to the curb? Simple... create your own! When Sean and his friends are refused entry to the night of their year, they embark on a mission to stage a monster event, whilst at the same time taking down the opposition.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 414
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Novel for Men (2010)
Plot Summary:
A tragicomic story of three siblings whose lives changed dramatically after losing their parents during the Communist regime. The oldest, Cyril (Miroslav Donutil), grew up to be a corrupt judge who lives for luxury and takes whatever he wants without remorse. His younger sister, the idealistic Aneta (Vanda Hybnerová), is an investigative journalist writing about political scandals. Thanks to her work, for which she sacrifices everything, her personal life falls apart. The middle sibling, Bruno (Miroslav Vladyka), has held on to a childish view of the world as he has avoided real life. Each one is totally different, yet they all try to stick together. That is, until they learn that Bruno is terminally ill and has very little time left. Cyril decides to redeem himself by organizing a week-long luxury trip to the High Tatras. As a gift to Bruno, he also brings along a young stripper named Tali (Tatiana Pauhofová).
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Gravehopping (2005)
Plot Summary:
Pero is a professional funeral speaker in a small Slovenian town. His unique gift is to make every funeral that extra bit special. Pero just can't help turning his eulogies into witty personal confessions that bring the grieving crowd to tears for all the wrong reasons.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 936
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Croatia, Slovenia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: bleak, humorous, semi serious, offbeat, realistic, slapstick
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The Most Beautiful Age (1969)
Plot Summary:
An artist's studio is descended upon by a group of retired men and a young mother who agree to model in the nude for money. Comedy ensues as the students and the local bureaucracy react to the models, all in need of extra money. Several running gags border on slapstick as the officials and the students don't know what to do with the nude models.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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A Report on the Party and the Guests (1966)
Plot Summary:
In Jan Němec’s surreal fable, a picnic is rudely transformed into a lesson in political hierarchy when a handful of mysterious authority figures show up. This allegory about oppression and conformity was banned in its home country but became an international success after it premiered at the New York Film Festival.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, cult classic, mind bending, psychedelic, spiritual, surreal, crying, allegory, weird
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Fanny Hill (1995)
Plot Summary:
Young beautiful girl Fanny Hill, who lives in the English provinces, decides to go to the capital for work. In London, she takes a job from Miss Brown. Poor virgin Fanny did not realize at first that Miss Brown is the owner of one of the most exclusive brothels in the city.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, hot, period drama
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Cosy Dens (1999)
Plot Summary:
Two families, Sebkovi and Krausovi, are celebrating christmas, but not everyone is in a good mood. Teenage kids think their fathers are totaly stupid, fathers are sure their children are nothing more than rebels, hating anything they say. Written by Antonín.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: cult classic, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, tragicomedy, inspirational, cult film
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Elevator Movie (2004)
Plot Summary:
Jim is a shy, withdrawn loner, pervert, and virgin. Lana is a friendly and outgoing born again Christian who has renounced her promiscuous drug filled past. They have never met until they step into an elevator together one day. The elevator gets stuck between floors, and they start to get to know each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, minimal cast, mind bending, psychedelic, surreal, cult classic, dark comedy
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A Zed & Two Noughts (1985)
Plot Summary:
Oliver Deuce, a successful doctor, is shattered when his wife is killed in a freak car accident involving a car being driven by Alba Bewick colliding with a very large rare bird. His twin brother Oswald is researching how carcasses decay at the local zoo. Alba survives the accident although she loses one leg, and her sinister physician eventually removes the other 'because it looked so sad all alone'. Oswald and Oliver become involved in a menage a trois with Alba, and uncover very dubious trafficking in zoo property. But ultimately their only goal is to try and understand their mortal condition.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Netherlands
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: surreal, disturbing, dark comedy, mind bending, erotic, black comedy, clever, witty, talky, controversial
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Digging for Fire (2015)
Plot Summary:
Tim and Lee are married with a young child. The chance to stay at a fancy home in the Hollywood Hills is complicated by Tim's discovery of a bone and a rusty old gun in the yard. Tim is excited by the idea of a mystery, but Lee doesn't want him to dig any further, preferring that he focus on the family taxes, which he promised to do weeks ago. This disagreement sends them on separate and unexpected adventures over the course of a weekend, as Tim and his friends seek clues to the mystery while Lee searches for answers to the bigger questions of marriage and parenthood.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, realistic, sincere, serious, talky, independent film, cult classic, light hearted
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The Acid House (1998)
Plot Summary:
THE ACID HOUSE is a surreal triptych adapted by "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh from his acclaimed collection of short stories. Combining a vicious sense of humor with hard-talking drama, the film reaches into the hearts and minds of the chemical generation, casting a dark and unholy light into the hidden corners of the human psyche. Directed by Paul McGuigan, the film dramatises three stories from the book: 1- The Granton Star Cause, 2- A Soft Touch & 3- The Acid House.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychedelic, mind bending, dark comedy, disturbing, humorous, absurd, independent film, clever, controversial
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Conspirators of Pleasure (1996)
Plot Summary:
Six outwardly average individuals have elaborate fetishes they indulge with surreptitious care. A mousy letter carrier makes dough balls she grotesquely ingests before bed. A shop clerk fixates on a TV news reader while he builds a machine to massage and masturbate him. One of his customers makes an elaborate chicken costume for a voodoo-like scene with a doll resembling his plump neighbor. She, in turn, has a doll that resembles him, which she whips and dominates in an abandoned church. The TV news reader has her own fantasy involving carp. Her husband, who is indifferent to her, steals materials to fashion elaborate artifacts that he rubs, scrapes and rolls across his body.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Switzerland, UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: surreal, experimental, sexy, dark comedy, psychedelic, psychotronic, sex comedy, erotic, mind bending, gothic