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Plot Summary:
A couple decide to open a home for refuges in the remote cold mountains of Norway.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Import-eksport (2005)
Plot Summary:
Jan loves Jasmin, but she has been promised to a Pakistani nephew. Under the cover of writing a thesis on immigrant stores, Jan gets a job in the store of Jasmin's father where he tries to work on the father's attitude towards mixed marriages.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 385
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: inspirational, disturbing, multicultural, sensual, erotic
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And the Wife Shall Revere Her Husband (1965)
Plot Summary:
When a man decides to marry the woman he's been living with, she stops being the silent patient person she was and claims to be the boss in the house. Her behaviour changes so much after the marriage that the husband gets so irritated as to ask for a divorce even a few hours later.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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5 Lies (2007)
Plot Summary:
The supermarket clown Ulrik is dreaming of becoming a stand-up comedian, the handicapped Amnesty girl Kristin is in love with Alexander, but does not dare to tell him, and Maya is to be deported from the country because she is a "consumed" mail order bride.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Floating Life (1996)
Plot Summary:
An aging Hong Kong couple move to Australia with their two youngest sons. They stay with a daughter who has already begun a successful career. Meanwhile their eldest daughter lives in Germany and their eldest son remains in Hong Kong. The film explores the different ways the family members cope with isolation and alienation.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 305
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Yen Family (1988)
Plot Summary:
Comedy about a family and their obsession for making money.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: independent film, black comedy
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Wives - Ten Years After (1985)
Plot Summary:
Ten years have passed since our three heroines' first outing in 1975. Now the women meet at yet another class reunion. Not surprisingly, they are still unwilling to call it a night after the party is over. Husbands and children must celebrate Christmas as best they can, while the women spend quality time drinking and taking stock of their lives.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Scrapper (2023)
Plot Summary:
Georgie is a dreamy 12-year-old girl who lives happily alone in her London flat, filling it with magic. But when her estranged father turns up out of nowhere, Georgie is forced to confront reality.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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Blue Ridge (2014)
Plot Summary:
Paranoid and unpredictable, J.T. lives a solitary life of used tires and decaying trailers. Despite his situation, J.T. wins the love of Sara, an innocent young girl left alone in the world after losing the last of her family.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, suspense, suspenseful, semi serious
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The Summer of Ben Tyler (1996)
Plot Summary:
Set early during World War II, the film has a lot to say about love, honor, relationships, commitment and power. Keeping their promise to their dying black housekeeper, a white family takes in her teenage mentally-slow son. The movie details the joys and conflicts the family faces as a result of their decision.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Friedliche Zeiten (2008)
Plot Summary:
Summer 1968. It has been seven years since the Striesow family fled the GDR to a quiet suburb in West Germany. But Irene, the mother, does not support her situation as a housewife. Especially since Dieter, her husband, is absent more and more. Their three children watch the couple tear each other apart, wondering if the divorce might end up being good.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min
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Eastfrisian for Beginners (2016)
Plot Summary:
A heart warming comedy about a grumpy old man, who is confronted with a group of migrant workers and has to challenge his prejudices.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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The Other Side of Hope (2017)
Plot Summary:
A restaurateur befriends a Syrian refugee who has recently arrived in Finland.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland, Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, serious, captivating, realistic, comedy drama, political, social, absurd, art house, intercultural
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Day Off (2001)
Plot Summary:
Day Off (French: Mercredi, folle journée !) is a 2001 French drama film directed by Pascal Thomas.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, light, humorous, captivating, suspense, melancholic, sensitive
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North (2009)
Plot Summary:
Following a nervous breakdown, ski athlete Jomar has isolated himself in a lonely existence as the guard of a ski park. When he learns that he might be the father of a child way up north, he sets on a strange and poetic journey through Norway on a snowmobile, with 5 liters of alcohol as sole provisions. On this trip through amazing arctic landscapes, Jomar seems to do everything in his power to avoid reaching his destination. He meets other tender and confused souls, who will all contribute to push Jomar further along his reluctant journey towards the brighter side of life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: road movie, atmospheric, humorous, psychological, captivating, dark, dark comedy, realistic, cynical, gloomy
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My Dad Marianne (2020)
Plot Summary:
Hanna's world turns upside down when her dad, the priest, reveals that he wants to be a woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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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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The Swamp (2001)
Plot Summary:
Chekhov in contemporary Argentina. Mecha and Gregorio are at their rundown country place near La Ciénaga with their teen children. It's hot. The adults drink constantly; Mecha cuts herself, engendering a trip to the hospital and a visit from her son José. A cousin, Tali, brings her children. The kids are on their own, sunbathing by the filthy pool, dancing in town, running in the hills with shotguns, driving cars without licenses. One of the teen girls loves Isabel, a family servant constantly accused of stealing. Mother and son, son and sisters, teen and Isabel are in each other's beds and bathrooms with a creepy intimacy. With no adults paying attention, who's at risk?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Spain, Japan
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: touching, captivating, neorealism, sincere, suspense, inspirational, social, experimental, art house, slow cinema
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Happiness for Sale (2013)
Plot Summary:
Mi-na takes over a small stationery store from her father when he suddenly falls down. She wants to sell the store because it seems only troublesome to her. But it is not as easy as she thought. The store's regular costomers force her not to sell it. The objections of the little children is hard to resist.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing
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Felicità (2020)
Plot Summary:
Tommy, 11 years old, is on the road again with her eccentric parents. This time, her freshly out-of-jail father has promised her: she won't miss the first school-day of the term! That was before her dad stole a sports car, her mother disappeared and an astronaut popped by.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Serial (Bad) Weddings 2 (2019)
Plot Summary:
Claude and Marie Verneuil face a new crisis. The four spouses of their daughters, David, Rachid, Chao and Charles decided to leave France for various reasons. Here they are imagining their lives elsewhere.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: feel good, entertaining, light, humorous, sincere, captivating, romantic comedy
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Welcome to Germany (2016)
Plot Summary:
The Hartmann family is turned upside down when mother Angelika decides to take in the refugee Diallo, against her husband's will. Amidst the typical chaos of our time, hope remains that the family finds its stability, confidence and peace again - just like the whole country.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: humorous, psychological, light, feel good, fun
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Farming (2018)
Plot Summary:
Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Instead, he becomes the feared leader of a white skinhead gang.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspense, independent film, complex
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Camping 3 (2016)
Plot Summary:
Like every summer, our friends, the Pics, Jacky and Laurette, Gatineau, recently divorced from Sopie, and Patrick Chirac, ever true to form, get together at the Blue Waves camping grounds. This year, Patrick has decided to try car sharing. Believing that he'll travel through France alone with Vanessa, he finds himself accompanied by three young Dijon inhabitants: smooth-talking Robert, good-looking Benji and loudmouth José. Of course, after car sharing Patrick is forced to try out bed sharing.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min
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Teenosaurus Rex (2017)
Plot Summary:
She was sweet, she was cute. But just before her 14th birthday, Daddy’s little princess mutates into a petulant pubescent nightmare. Journalist Hannes Wenger decides to take a time-out from work to guide his daughter Carla through this difficult phase in her life and, above all, to keep her away from alcohol, boys and other temptations. This is easier said than done, however, and when his wife Sara goes back to work, Hannes proves himself entirely inept at raising a teenager. Whether it’s Carla’s birthday party, her mobile phone contract or her first time, Hannes makes one awkward blunder after another. The fact that other teens have embarrassing fathers provides only faint consolation; Hannes’ best friend is a war reporter named Holger who prefers to be shot at in war zones rather than stay at home and be driven crazy by his own teenage nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 495
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Catfish in Black Bean Sauce (1999)
Plot Summary:
An African American couple (Winfield and Alice) adopt two orphans from a Vietnamese refugee camp. After twenty-two years, the children are reunited with their birth mother, bringing deeply submerged resentments and misconceptions to the surface and forcing the characters to reexamine their identity and relationships in both comical and poignant situations.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 515
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, emotional, black comedy, sentimental, serious, realistic, crying, funny, romantic
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Dad for Rent (2014)
Plot Summary:
A unemployed father, due to his laziness, is supported by his wife. Their daughter decides to put their lazy dad up for rent on a secondhand site.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Up and Down (2004)
Plot Summary:
Milan and Goran are two criminals who smuggle illegal immigrants. One night after they complete a smuggle, they discover that one of the immigrants has left a baby behind. Milan and Goran decide to sell the baby to Lubos and Eman, who are responsible for running an illegal baby adoption center. Lubos and Eman make attempts to sell the baby to Miluska and Frantisek, a barren couple.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, clever, touching, humorous, realistic, contemplative, semi serious, cult classic, crying
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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
Plot Summary:
Matt and Christina Drayton are a couple whose attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: emotional, sentimental, touching, intense, compassionate, sincere, semi serious, black and white, clever, realistic
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West Is West (2010)
Plot Summary:
Comedy sequel to "East is East". Manchester, North of England, 1975. The now much diminished, but still claustrophobic and dysfunctional, Khan family continues to struggle for survival. Sajid, the youngest Khan, the runt of the litter, is deep in pubescent crisis under heavy assault both from his father's tyrannical insistence on Pakistani tradition, and from the fierce bullies in the schoolyard. So, in a last, desperate attempt to 'sort him out', his father decides to pack him off to Mrs Khan No 1 and family in the Punjab, the wife and daughters he had abandoned 35 years earlier. It is not long before Ella Khan (Mrs Khan No2) with a small entourage from Salford, England, swiftly follows to sort out the mess, past and present.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, witty, sentimental, semi serious, realistic
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The Professor (2018)
Plot Summary:
Richard, a world-weary college professor is given a life-changing diagnosis and decides to throw all pretense and conventions to the wind and live his life as boldly and freely as possible with a biting sense of humor, a reckless streak, and a touch of madness.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, touching, captivating, independent film, surreal, cult classic, cute, comedy drama, inspirational, feel good