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Plot Summary:
Martin (deceased) is stuck in a dead-end job, welcoming the newly departed into the afterlife. All he dreams of is going 'Up There'. But his plans are thrown into disarray when he has to team up with the relentlessly chirpy Rash and together they lose a new arrival. The mismatched pair give chase and end up in a remote seaside town populated by cocky teenagers, sinister old women and the enigmatic Liz, who has 'suicide written all over her'. Can they stop bickering long enough to find the lost soul? Will Rash be reunited with his brother Chunky? And can Martin get back in time to finally get 'Up There'? UP THERE is a killer comedy about life, death and irritating friends.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 506
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, semi serious, captivating, dark comedy, offbeat, freeze frame
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Nothing (2003)
Plot Summary:
The film tells the story of two good friends who live together, Andrew (Andrew Miller), an agoraphobic travel agent who works from his home, and Dave (David Hewlett), a loser who works in an office where he is treated with contempt. Just when it seems things can't get any worse for the two, the entire world outside of their house disappears and is replaced with an endless white void.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, surreal, dark comedy, mind twisting, mind bending, mindfuck, psychological, psychological thriller, retro
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Dead Like Me: Life After Death (2009)
Plot Summary:
When George and her colleagues get a new boss whose focus is on moving souls quickly and enjoying life without consequences, the team begins to break the strict reaper rules. While her friends fall victim to their desires for money, success, and fame, George breaks another rule by revealing her true identity to her living family.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: stylized, humorous, semi serious, black comedy, captivating, apocalyptic, dark comedy, offbeat, erotic, light
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Sweet Rain: Accuracy of Death (2008)
Plot Summary:
Chiba appears seven days before a person dies an unexpected death. His job is to observe the person for seven days then decide either to ‘execute’ or ‘pass over’. Today, again, in the rain, he waits. His subject, her death due in seven days, is Kazue Fujiki. She works for a manufacturing company in the complaints department. Exhausted after her day, she emerges from her office. It’s time for the Reaper to go to work.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, stylized, offbeat
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Hank and Mike (2008)
Plot Summary:
Two blue-collar Easter Bunnies get fired and try their hand at an assortment of odd jobs, failing at each. Fighting depression, debt and eventually each other, their lives start to unravel until they realize that without their job they are nothing.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, not serious, captivating, erotic, dark comedy, independent film, offbeat, realistic, sexual
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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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Our Women (2015)
Plot Summary:
Max, Paul and Simon have been friends for 35 years. They take great pleasure in their one vacation a year together without their partners and meet-up regularly to spend evenings drinking or playing cards. Each has a successful career and they all appear to have perfect lives until the night Simon announces to his friends that he has just strangled his wife, Estelle after a blazing row. Max and Paul are horrified by Simon's confession, but worse is to come when Simon asks them to lie and provide him with an alibi for the time Estelle was killed. Both men are torn between lying or turning over their best friend to the police.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 559
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, cynical, semi serious, captivating, realistic, talky
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Turf (2013)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of four French friends: the Greek (an osteopath), Fifi (who lives with his mother), Fortuné (a West Indian) and Freddy (a gambler). They meet up regularly at a Parisian bookmakers’, their favourite haunt. Tired of frittering away the little spare cash they have, they agree to give up gambling. But no sooner have they taken this pledge than Fate intervenes, in the guise of the turf king, Monsieur Paul. The latter persuades the four friends to buy a champion racehorse, not knowing that it is in fact an old nag….
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 525
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating
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Shut Up and Shoot Me (2005)
Plot Summary:
Colin Frampton is an Englishman who never stops worrying, not even on holiday in Prague. When Colin's wife is accidentally squashed by a statue, he decides that he can't face life without her. So Colin bribes Pavel to help him die. An unlikely friendship develops as Pavel's plans for Colin's death spin out of control, attracting the violent interest of local gangster Karel Karlovic.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, Czech Republic
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, dark comedy, offbeat
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The Storage (2011)
Plot Summary:
Antero Rousku is a storeman in a paint store. His job requires raw muscle power, mixing paints and carrying house repair materials around to earn his daily bread. But the basic salary is not enough for Rousku. He also sells a lot of stuff on the side from the storeroom directly to Jylhäkorpi, a frequent visitor, bypassing company bookkeeping. Rousku's colleague in the cellar storeroom is Raninen whose life consists of work, quarreling with his wife, and lottery. Raninen wants to win the main prize but he wants to have the right numbers in exactly the order in which they appear from the lottery machine. Raninen is not the sharpest pencil in the pencil box. Rousku's freedom is threatened by his relationship to the saleswoman Karita. Rousku wants to keep a distance to the woman except in bed. Karita has decided otherwise.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sexy, sincere, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, witty
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Written By (2009)
Plot Summary:
A lawyer who is killed in a car accident finds himself resurrected as a character in his daughter's novel.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 409
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sincere, captivating, offbeat
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Skeletons (2010)
Plot Summary:
In writer-director Nick Whitfield's black indie comedy, a pair of "exorcists" (Ed Gaughan and Andrew Buckley) with the power to rid people of their secrets agree to help a woman (Paprika Steen) whose daughter (Tuppence Middleton) is mute -- and whose husband is missing. Jason Isaacs co-stars as the mysterious Colonel, who seems to be calling the shots from the sidelines of the duo's shadowy enterprise.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, surreal, contemplative, dark comedy, captivating, sentimental, offbeat, witty, not serious, independent film
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Netherbeast Incorporated (2007)
Plot Summary:
An offbeat comedy with a quirky twist on the vampire tale set in modern day corporate America.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, semi serious, captivating, funny, suspense, horror comedy, offbeat, dark comedy
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A Matter of Heart (2009)
Plot Summary:
Garage owner Angelo and big-time film producer Alberto find themselves occupying neighbouring beds in a Rome hospital after suffering heart attacks. Alberto is a gregarious joker - and chain smoker - who has a strong effect on the impressionable Angelo. However, as one of the men's condition deteriorates, the other becomes more deeply involved in his personal life.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 875
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat
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Last Day of Summer (2009)
Plot Summary:
This unpredictable story follows an agitated fast-food employee, Joe, who's reached his breaking point from being harassed and tormented by his boss.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 936
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, sentimental, sincere, realistic, contemplative, semi serious, independent film
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Walter (2015)
Plot Summary:
A ticket-taker at the local cinema believes he is the son of God. He has agreed to decide the eternal fate of everyone he comes in to contact with.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, surreal, semi serious, offbeat, independent film
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Moola (2007)
Plot Summary:
Just as the business which Steve helped create, American Lightsticks, is on the brink of collapse, a huge 'deal' suddenly materializes, and he and his partners are sure that their lives have changed forever. A true-to-life comedy inspired by actual events.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, contemplative
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Pretty Bird (2008)
Plot Summary:
A comic tale of three would-be entrepreneurs who set out to invent a rocket belt. The clash of their mismatched personalities soon dissolves the business into a morass of recriminations and retaliations, kidnapping, and murder in this parable of American dreams and delusions.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, sentimental, feel good, light, captivating, melancholic, independent film, exciting
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Clockwatchers (1997)
Plot Summary:
The relationship between four female temps all working for the same credit company is threatened with the arrival of a new hire, who lands a permanent position one of the women was vying for.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, melancholic, satirical, dark comedy, semi serious, cult classic, independent film, clever, humorous, offbeat
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One Too Many Mornings (2010)
Plot Summary:
Fischer can't remember the last time he woke up without a hangover. He lives in a church: a real one. Where people baptize, marry, pray and die. It's an ideal situation for a young guy with no aspirations: if he locks up the church, he can sleep in the back. Free of charge. 6:00am. Tuesday morning. Fischer's old friend from high school shows up unannounced. Even though they haven't seen each other in years, Peter just drove 10 hours straight because his girlfriend of five years just cheated on him. He's looking for a place to hide. To think. To drink. What better place than Fischer's church? After leaving 50 unanswered voice-mails, Rudy shows up four days later. That's Peter's girlfriend. She didn't cheat on him. She did something much worse.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, mumblecore, captivating, psychological, light, uplifting, clever, offbeat, realistic
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Demoted (2011)
Plot Summary:
What go around comes around for a pair of prank-playing tire salesmen (Astin and Vartan) who find themselves placed in secretarial jobs by their put-upon boss (Cross).
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, captivating
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The Green Butchers (2003)
Plot Summary:
The Green Butchers (Danish: De grønne slagtere) is a black comedy featuring two butchers, Svend "Sweat" and Bjarne, who start their own shop to get away from their arrogant boss. Cannibalism is soon introduced to the plot, and further complications arise due to the reappearance of Bjarne's mentally retarded twin brother Eigil.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, absurd, humorous, black comedy, semi serious, funny, surreal, disturbing, offbeat, realistic
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Radiostars (2012)
Plot Summary:
Ben, who dreamed of himself as a comic in New York, is back in Paris, his professional and emotional life in complete disarray. He encounters Alex, the star host of the Breakfast Club, a popular morning radio show. With Cyril, a forty-something who'd prefer not to be, and Arnold, the charismatic leader of the gang, they call the shots on Blast FM. In next to no time Ben is hired to write for them. He's barely joined the team when a tidal wave hits the station: Breakfast Club listenership is in free fall. They set out on a bus to travel to every corner of France to meet and win over their public once again. For these arrogant Parisians, a real journey of initiation arises from this radio-phonic road trip, shaking up all their certainties.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, talky, weird
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Bhoothnath Returns (2014)
Plot Summary:
Boothnath vows to redeem himself when spirits tease him, and searches for a child to terrify. He befriends Akhrot, a slum kid, and helps him take on the country's most powerful politician.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: India
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, humorous, sitcom, semi serious, spooky
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The Big Ask (2013)
Plot Summary:
The Big Ask is a dark comedy about three couples who head to the desert to help their friend heal after the death of his mother. They would do anything for him - except for the one thing he wants.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 679
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, psychological, captivating, realistic, independent film
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Either Way (2011)
Plot Summary:
Icelandic drama about two remote road-workers.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 631
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iceland
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, atmospheric, contemplative, captivating, psychological, offbeat, realistic, talky, semi serious
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Amar Akbar & Tony (2015)
Plot Summary:
Amar, Akbar & Tony follows the lives and loves of three childhood friends through twists and turns as the characters face sudden and unforeseen changes to their idealistic and trouble-free young lives. With hilarious and sometimes tragic consequences, the brotherly bond shared by the trio is forced to come to terms with some unexpected challenges. Interracial marriage, near fatal accidents and stints in prison will test old friendships and family values. A coming of age comedy drama showing the absurdities of life can also be the most amusing.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty
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Bunny and the Bull (2009)
Plot Summary:
A young shut-in takes an imaginary road trip inside his apartment, based on mementos and memories of a European trek from years before.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: surreal, mind bending, touching, humorous, captivating, semi serious, inspirational, psychedelic, art house, visual
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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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The Chef of South Polar (2009)
Plot Summary:
When eight men are assigned to live 14,000 kilometers from home in inhumanly cold conditions, food becomes their new existence.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, sentimental, realistic
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Downhill (2014)
Plot Summary:
Four old school friends reunite to attempt the epic coast to coast walk, across the United Kingdom. As their journey unfolds, this comically incompatible foursome walk full tilt into their mid-life crises.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, road movie, fake documentary