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Plot Summary:
Mimi has her hands full. Her son Felix is hyperactive, her ex-husband Johnny is a mess, her father is a chronic gambler. Then Felix signs her up for a Swiss casting show, because Mimi wanted to be a musician originally. So Mimi decides to head for Switzerland, since it could pay all their debts. But then the whole family wants to come.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, serious, captivating
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The Idol (2015)
Plot Summary:
Mohammed Assaf, an aspiring musician living in Gaza, sets a seemingly impossible goal: to compete on the program "Arab Idol.".
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK, Qatar, Netherlands, Egypt, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, inspirational, sincere, social
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Sosy Problems (2012)
Plot Summary:
The problems of 4 rich beautiful girls.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, serious, captivating, realistic, documentary filmmaking
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The Wicked Uncle (2011)
Plot Summary:
In a small Swiss village, a school sports coach is accused of molestation by the mother of one of his pupils. The citizens are outraged…that the mother could make such a claim – for the coach she accuses is a local hero, a former world champion who has become the town’s closest thing to a sporting legend.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, satirical, disturbing, intellectual, independent film
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The Unpolished (2007)
Plot Summary:
Stevie, a precocious 14-year-old girl must cope with the instabilities of her immoderate parents. When they decide to move to a small provincial town in Germany, Stevie attempts to slip into a normal life. Whilst her parents playfully escape their responsibilities, Stevie tries to make a good impression in town, spreading stories of grandeur and claiming to be the daughter of a diplomat. She makes progress. Yet the good weather doesn’t last and before long, she discovers that her parents have once more resorted to illegal means, as a way of supporting their leisurely lifestyle. As friends and hangers-on of her parents fill their new home, the chaos continually mounts. It is in this atmosphere of physical and emotional destruction, that Stevie must now start to define herself and perhaps even break free.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 414
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, realistic
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Naked Normandy (2018)
Plot Summary:
At the Mêle sur Sarthe, a small Norman village, farmers are affected by a crisis. Georges Balbuzard, the mayor of the city, is not one to let them down and decides to try everything to save his village.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, funny, atmospheric, humorous, captivating, tragicomedy, melancholic
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Awkward Thanksgiving (2014)
Plot Summary:
Thanksgiving is a time when families get together to eat good food and share in the spirit of thankfulness. That's of course, a best case scenario. Some families are so tangled in a web of drama from financial issues, relationships, and so on that lead to big blow outs or worse, long awkward silences. This is the story of one of those families.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, serious, captivating, crying, independent film
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One More Time (2015)
Plot Summary:
Beautiful aspiring rock star Jude is stuck in a rut - relegated to recording commercial jingles and lost in a series of one night stands. When she is evicted from her Brooklyn apartment, she is forced to move into the Hamptons home of her wealthy - and selfish - father Paul Lombard, an over-the-hill, Sinatra-esque crooner angling for a musical comeback.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: captivating, light, sincere, humorous, grindhouse, independent film
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Orchestra Class (2017)
Plot Summary:
A violinist looks to inspire his students at a challenging music school.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 831
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sincere, thought provoking, captivating, entertaining
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Somebody's Life (2014)
Plot Summary:
A decade after the disappearance of his best friend and musical partner, Guille receives the offer from a label to finally release an album that never saw the light of day. His friend Pablo tries to help him overcome loss and grief, and release the album.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Argentina
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating
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Intimate Strangers (2018)
Plot Summary:
A group of people meet for the first time in a long time and play a game that reveals each other's secrets.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, disturbing
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The New King of Comedy (2019)
Plot Summary:
A young woman strives to pursue the actors' dream despite being an extra and stand-in.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, sincere, thought provoking, captivating
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Radiator (2014)
Plot Summary:
A moving, blackly comic drama about the strains in coping with ageing parents.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, humorous, captivating, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy, independent film
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Days of the Bagnold Summer (2019)
Plot Summary:
Sue works in a library. Daniel eats crisps and listens to Metallica. This was the summer Daniel was due to spend with his father and his father's new wife in Florida. But when they cancel his trip at the last minute, Sue and Daniel suddenly face the prospect of six long weeks together.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, touching, feel good, humorous, captivating, talky
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The Interpreter (2018)
Plot Summary:
80-year-old Ali Ungar comes across a book by a former SS officer describing his wartime activities in Slovakia. He realises his parents were executed by him. He sets out to take revenge but finds instead his 70-year-old son, Georg, a retired teacher. Georg, who had avoided his father all his life, decides to find out more about him and offers Ali to be his interpreter.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 571
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic, Austria
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: road movie, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, melancholic, contemplative
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A Jar Full of Life (2018)
Plot Summary:
Marleen (Jella Haase) is 20, but can't choose, what to do with her life. Her older brother (Matthias Schweighöfer) traveled the world for years but never has been to the Antarctic. He is at home for a few days, but the ticket for the next ship is already bought. He loves adventures and just before he dies in a car crash, Marleen has to promise him, to start enjoying life and adventures. While her family mourns over his death, Marleen decides to fulfill her brothers last will and takes his trip to the Antarctic with no money in her pocket - and soon with a little goat at her side.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 581
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: road movie, light, sentimental, sincere, humorous, captivating
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Berlin Calling (2008)
Plot Summary:
A man tours clubs around the globe with his manager and girlfriend. On the eve of their largest album release he is admitted to a psychiatric clinic after overdosing at a gig.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Germany
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: serious, rough, humorous, realistic, dark comedy, sincere, psychedelic, spiritual, underground film, deep
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Carnival (1982)
Plot Summary:
A young Russian girl is in love with show business and wants to leave her small town for Moscow and make it big in the big city. She encounters her long missing, remarried father and gets a boy friend who uses her and then leaves her.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 151 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, touching
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As Green As It Gets (2018)
Plot Summary:
Georg "Schorsch" Kempter is a gardener in a small Bavarian town, working day-in, day-out in his nursery, which is facing bankruptcy. He doesn't like to talk much. He never has. His marriage has long lost all its magic and on top of that, he has trouble to connect with his daughter. Only when he is flying in his own rickety biplane, Schorsch feels truly free. When the owner of the local golf course tries to cheat Schorsch for his money, claiming the shade of green of the grass Schorsch has planted on the golf course is not right, insolvency seems unavoidable. So just when his airplane is about to be impounded, Schorsch grabs the control stick and flies away in an attempt to save his plane and himself. He embarks onto a journey into the unknown, to places he has never seen before, full of odd and special encounters - and with every take-off and every landing, this tough man's heart slowly warms up to what you might call an idea of happiness.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: road movie, sincere, humorous, captivating
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How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents (2016)
Plot Summary:
More and more parents take competitive behavior towards the teachers of their children: deny votes and programs, vaneggiano of likes, dislikes, and conspiracies. So, instead of helping in the training of their children, they become insurmountable obstacles to their growth. Presumptuously they think: "We know better than anyone else our children and we know what they are worth and how and what you have to teach.".
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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All That I Love (2009)
Plot Summary:
Follows four friends in their quest to form a punk band. As workers protests sweep across the country, Janek and Staszek, the sons of a navy man, the rebellious Kazik, and the affluent Diabel gel as a band, but their disparate lives are touched by social turmoil and outside perceptions.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sincere, uplifting, touching, serious, captivating, realistic, contemplative
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God, You're Such a Prick (2020)
Plot Summary:
16-year old Steffi just graduated from high school and is very much looking forward to her class trip to Paris where she has promised her boyfriend Fabian the romantic night that she has kept him waiting for so long. Her lifelong plan to join the police forces is already set up, her adult life is right around the corner. At a routine health check-up, just before the trip to Paris, Steffi and her parents are faced with a shattering diagnosis.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 570
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: road movie, sincere, touching, serious, captivating, realistic
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The Space Between (2021)
Plot Summary:
Micky Adams, an eccentric has-been rock musician, loses his grip on reality as his record label looks to drop him and his new "unique" albums. In hopes of breaking out of the mailroom, young Charlie Porter is tasked with traveling to the musician's bizarre home and forcing Micky out of his contract. Micky realizes Charlie could be the key to an artistic breakthrough and the pair's unlikely friendship grows. The odd but powerful bond helps both gain perspective on the music industry, life, love... and the space between.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 887
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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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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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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I'd Like to Be Alone Now (2019)
Plot Summary:
After losing his wife and three kids, all Kyle wants is to mourn in peace. Unfortunately, his family insists on helping him.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, semi serious
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Work Hard, Play Hard (2003)
Plot Summary:
Philippe Seigner starts his career in business consulting at the posh Paris seat of McGregor. His first serious task is delicate: An audit at a factory, which is about to be taken over. As he soon realizes, this will mean sacking about 80 employees. However, his girl friend reproaches him collaborating with ruthless capitalism, as if any of the downsizing could be mitigated by him bowing out.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 600
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sincere, captivating, humorous, contemplative, gloomy
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Like Father (2018)
Plot Summary:
When a workaholic young executive, is left at the altar, she ends up on her Caribbean honeymoon cruise with the last person she ever expected: her estranged and equally workaholic father. The two depart as strangers, but over the course of a few hilarious adventures, a couple of umbrella-clad cocktails and a whole lot of soul-searching, they return with a renewed appreciation for family and life.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, sweet, touching, humorous, captivating, entertaining, psychological, funny, happy
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Go for Zucker (2004)
Plot Summary:
Germany director Dani Levy filmed this comedy about Jewish life in today’s Germany along side the familiar east-west conflict. With it great success this film is a joyful comedy of humor and knowledge.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: realistic, witty, humorous, semi serious
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Soft Fruit (1999)
Plot Summary:
For the first time in 15 years, all four siblings in a family show up to care for their dying mother, who is only given a couple of weeks to live. One comes from America with her two children. A divorced sister also comes with her child and sneaks off regularly to meet a mystery man who may be her ex-husband. The third & youngest daughter is an unmarried nurse aware of her ticking biological clock. The only son chases after his grumpy father who seems to not care a whit about his wife's circumstances. The four are also faced my their mother's dreams to accomplish a few things before she dies - to visit a beach she had visited in the past, to see her youngest married, and to visit Paris. She also wants to be embalmed and be honored with a 21 gun salute. Thus the whole group has to set off in the quest to fulfill their mother's wishes.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 566
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, independent film, black comedy, sentimental, touching, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, dark comedy, erotic
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Fisherman's Friends: One and All (2022)
Plot Summary:
Following the unexpected success of the band’s debut album “No Hopers, Jokers and Rogues”, we re-join them almost a year later, struggling with the pressures, pitfalls and temptations of their newfound fame, second album syndrome, and performing on the pyramid stage at Glastonbury.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, entertaining, funny, sincere, captivating