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Plot Summary:
Episodic drama from Taiwan. Was nominated for nine awards at the Golden Horse Film Festival.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: anthology, road movie, allegory, black comedy
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Loco Fever (2001)
Plot Summary:
When the Chilean officials lift the ban on harvesting the shellfish "el loco" (which purportedly is an aphrodisiac) in the seaside village of Puerto Gala greed and lust take hold. Greed is embodied by Carlos Maldonato, "El Canuto," who attempts to buy all of the shellfish for a Japanese company, and by a traveling band of prostitutes that accompany the influx of fishermen. El Canuto also wrangles to get into good stead with an old flame, Sonia, who is now the proprietor of "La Pincoya," a local restaurant. But "el loco" proves more effective, and more damaging, than anyone could have guessed.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 398
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Chile, Mexico, Spain
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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The Silence of Rak (1997)
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags:
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Hives (2012)
Plot Summary:
Thursday morning, Jerusalem. Nira goes to work. Ahmad in London does the same, Ralf in Cologne and a priest in Prague too. Matija, Croat, goes to work as well. Ok, he doesn't, but he acts as if he does. Ahmad is taking his routine red bus journey. Out-of-breath young man comes in and interrupts it. Schoolteacher Nira is also interrupted - her pupil jumps out and performs a love rap song he wrote for her. The priest in Prague doesn't feel like singing today, he is in the mood for (over)sleeping instead. Someone falls asleep, someone else - Ralf - falls in love. All five mentioned above are listening to the top-news about the disappearance of bees. And trying their best, each one of them in his or her own 'hive': Zagreb, Jerusalem, London, Cologne, Prague.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Croatia, Czech Republic, UK, Israel, Germany
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: anthology, intercultural
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L-O-V-E. (2009)
Plot Summary:
Four love stories by four talented Taiwanese first-time directors – well-known lyrist, Vincent Fang Wenshan; TV host, Huang Zijiao; online novelist, Jiu BaDao; and commercial director, Chen Yixian.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: anthology
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The Family Jewels (2003)
Plot Summary:
Martin is the ambitious one in the family. He is poised to start on his doctorate, when he is diagnosed with testicular cancer and all his future plans begin to unravel. The removal of one testicle reduces the most immediate threat, but the cancer has already spread and Martin's doctor argues for an operation that would save him, but could also castrate him.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 627
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy
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Beautiful Weather (1996)
Plot Summary:
Daniel, a teenager from Stockholm, spends the summer in Malmö with his mother and her new husband. Daniel gets a job at McDonald's and falls in love with a girl.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 212
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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The Personals (1998)
Plot Summary:
The Personals is a movie for anyone who hasn't yet found what they're looking for or who remembers how tough it can be to find it. Rene Liu plays an eye doctor who's become disaffected with her present life and is craving something more – namely love and marriage. She's attractive, has a good job, and a decent apartment. Up until now she has done everything she's supposed to do, but it just hasn't worked for her. She's still alone. Now, she decides to take the extreme measure of advertising for a husband in the personals. The search leads her down the slippery slope of the modern dating scene whose universal quirkiness transcends the boundaries of all industrialized societies.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 642
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Moscow, I Love You (2010)
Plot Summary:
18 directors, 18 novels, 18 short stories about Moscow.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, contemplative
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Leaving (2011)
Plot Summary:
A bitter sweet comedy that follows a highly appointed Chancellor who set to step down from his position after years of service to his country. With just two last days left to enjoy his palatial villa before he is finally evicted, his situation gradually goes from bad to worse.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: allegory
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Dorothea's Revenge (1974)
Plot Summary:
Dorothea, a 16-year-old bourgeois girl from Hamburg, plays with her friends of both sexes, imitating the production of adult movies. In the end, pretending to make sex-scenes is not satisfying enough, and with a street professional, Dorothea is initiated in hard sex.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: controversial, sexy, spoof, parody, weird, hot
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Sunday Lovers (1980)
Plot Summary:
A sex comedy anthology containing four stories, each from a different country (England, France, USA and Italy). "An Englishman's Home" "The French Method" "Armando's Notebook" "Skippy".
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 418
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, UK, USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: anthology, sex comedy, sexy, hot
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Idlers of the Fertile Valley (1978)
Plot Summary:
In this black comedy, the men in a lovely mansion slowly give in to a kind of terminal sloth after they are freed from the need to actually work. The father takes to his bed after his hernia acts up and never leaves it. Of his three sons, only one wants to do much about leaving, and he does in fact cross the front threshold of the house with his lover, who is also the maid. However, before he has gotten very far, he is very tired, and goes to sleep where he stands. One of the sons outdoes them all by sleeping literally all the time. He is not in a coma -- he is just very, very lazy and tired. Some critics have viewed this film as a sharply delineated social satire.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 854
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: allegory, black comedy, cult film
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Larks on a String (1969)
Plot Summary:
Set in the late 1940s, the film concerns the treatment of suspect "bourgeois elements", a professor, a saxophonist, and a milkman, who are put to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, gloomy, intellectual, black comedy, banned
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Dear Ex (2018)
Plot Summary:
When Sanlian's ex-husband passes away, she discovers he has altered his insurance policy, cutting out their son in favor of a stranger named Jay.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: captivating, thought provoking, touching, humorous, social, independent film, visual, crying, queer cinema
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Man Is Not a Bird (1965)
Plot Summary:
A Serbian engineer falls for a younger woman, but he is inept at courtship.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: black and white, sex comedy, clever, humorous, realistic, experimental, cynical, semi serious, crying
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303 (2018)
Plot Summary:
On the way from Berlin to Portugal in her rusty '303' camper van, young biology student Jule picks up hitchhiker Jan. While having intense conversations about everything and the world, they try not to fall in love.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: road movie, light, sincere, melancholic, philosophical, noir, mumblecore, art house, aesthetic, independent film
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Guantanamera (1995)
Plot Summary:
It is a satire about life in Cuba. The members of a funeral procession and some truckdrivers who have to take the same route begin to talk about god and the world ending up in discovering that life for both groups has many similarities as well as a lot of differences depending on the point of view.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Cuba, Spain, Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: road movie, manga, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, black comedy, hispanic, dark comedy, erotic, sexy
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Etiquette for Mistresses (2015)
Plot Summary:
A story and friendship of five wealthy and successful women Georgia, Chloe, Stella, Charley, and the newest in the group Ina. The four older women take Ina under their wing as they teach her the "rules" in their "secret" world. Most importantly, they teach Ina on how to go about their secrets.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, light, feel good, humorous, entertaining, crying, black comedy, learning
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You Are the Apple of My Eye (2011)
Plot Summary:
Adolescence is like a heavy rain. Even though you catch a cold from it, you still look forward to experiencing it once again. Ko-Teng has several close friends who had a crush on Shen Chia-Yi. Those friends of Ko's thus moved in unison from Ching Chengs junior high school straight into the senior high school division in pursuit of her. Naughty in nature, Ko was ordered by their homeroom teacher to sit in front of honor student Shen for her to keep close tabs on him. The two hadn't hit it off at first but Ko gradually fell for Shen, who was always pressuring him to study hard. On the other hand, Shen became impressed by the contrasting values Ko represented. Ko started pursuing Shen but Shen remained hesitant.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: heartbreaking, sentimental, touching, humorous, captivating, romantic, thought provoking, dramatic, romantic comedy, warmhearted
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Love & Anarchy (1973)
Plot Summary:
Set in Fascist Italy before the outbreak of World War II, the story centers on Giannini's character, an anarchist who stays in a brothel while preparing to kill Benito Mussolini. Giannini's character, while preparing to assassinate Mussolini, falls in love with one of the whores working in the brothel.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: political, uplifting, social, black comedy, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Shiba (1993)
Plot Summary:
A multi-lingual tour guide who owns multiple passports one day drives his wife and daughter to a desolate seashore town and checks in a secluded, spacious, ruins-like hotel. From that moment on, he throws himself into gambling, tossing the dice with local residents all day. Sometimes he wins big, but sometimes he loses all. Feeling neglected and uncomfortable, his wife and daughter soon leave him and return home. He stays and wanders in this fishing village and gradually immerses himself in the surroundings—a place rife with immoral vagabonds, outlaws and weirdoes.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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One-Way to Tomorrow (2020)
Plot Summary:
Two strangers meet on a journey from Ankara to Izmir. Although having a rough start, their relationship takes a different path when they realize they have to confront themselves and would like to clean the slate as they get to know each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: road movie, sincere, romantic, humorous, captivating, independent film
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Storytelling (2001)
Plot Summary:
College and high school serve as the backdrop for two stories about dysfunction and personal turmoil.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: black comedy, bleak, dark comedy, controversial, disturbing, humorous, witty, rough, sexy, clever
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A Night of Love (1988)
Plot Summary:
In a small European country, the king is scheduled to visit a small, quiet and "safe" village. It turns out that while the village may indeed be small, it's neither as quiet nor as safe as it's expected to be.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 430
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: political, sex comedy, grindhouse, independent film, sexy, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Games of Love and Chance (2003)
Plot Summary:
The life of a band of teenager in a suburb near Paris. But instead of showing what would be the "urban legend" of this kind of poor suburb (violence, rapes...), Abdelatif Kechiche shows us what's the daily life of those guys: not much to do, not much dreams. Still, some of them have fun rehearsing for a play. Among those "players", Lydia, long time friend of Krimo... And Krimo, a bit shy, finds himself in love with this joyful girl.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: slang, touching, semi serious, sincere, humorous, realistic, anthology, crying, multicultural
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Hello, Goodbye and Everything in Between (2022)
Plot Summary:
Clare and Aidan, who after making a pact that they would break up before college, find themselves retracing the steps of their relationship on their last evening as a couple. The epic date leads them to familiar landmarks, unexpected places, and causes them to question whether high school love is meant to last.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: romantic, psychological, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Art School Confidential (2006)
Plot Summary:
Starting from childhood attempts at illustration, the protagonist pursues his true obsession to art school. But as he learns how the art world really works, he finds that he must adapt his vision to the reality that confronts him.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, humorous, cynical, semi serious, independent film, clever, funny, perverse, comedy drama, twisted
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Last Night (1998)
Plot Summary:
Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day. While widower Patrick Wheeler braces for his fate, he meets Sandra, the wife of a businessman who is intent on committing suicide. Meanwhile, Patrick's friend Craig decides to have as much sex as he can while there is still time.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, surreal, sincere, semi serious, apocalyptic, humorous, philosophical, bad ending, emotional, heartbreaking
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Children of the Revolution (1996)
Plot Summary:
A man (Richard Roxburgh) the Australian government blames for 1990s political woes blames his mother (Judy Davis), a communist Stalin seduced in 1951.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, clever, humorous, black comedy, offbeat, realistic, witty, semi serious, biting, crying
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Bulworth (1998)
Plot Summary:
A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecting the rhythms and speech of hip-hop music and culture.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: political, humorous, witty, funny, thought provoking, controversial, clever, biting, dark comedy, spiritual