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Plot Summary:
Based on the 1989 best-selling memoir of the same name by Peter Mayle about his first year in Provence, and the local events and customs.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 360 min
Plot tags: thought provoking
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Perfect Strangers (2001)
Plot Summary:
A darkly comic tale of a young man who comes face to face with his huge family - a variety of eccentrics, all of whom are hiding secrets from their pasts. At a family reunion Raymond is presented with a copy of the family tree and is absolutely amazed by the complexity of his family ties.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 238 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, witty, crying, period drama
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Countrymen (2021)
Plot Summary:
Four men with dubious plans move to a farm in the countryside. More or less against their will, they end up as the founders of Norway's first halal dairy farm.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Under the Vines (2021)
Plot Summary:
Rebecca Gibney and Charles Edwards star as two city slickers who inherit a failing vineyard in rural New Zealand.. the only problems are that neither of them has ever done a hard days' work- and they despise one another.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags:
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The Madame Blanc Mysteries (2021)
Plot Summary:
Jean White is an antiques dealer who runs a successful business with her husband, Rory. But when he suddenly dies and leaves her nearly penniless, Jean relocates to their one remaining asset - a cottage in French antiques hub Saint Victoire - and begins investigating Rory's mysterious death.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA, Malta, Ireland
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective
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Dercy (2012)
Plot Summary:
The life story of Brazilian actress Dercy Gonçalves, told from her childhood days in the countryside of Rio de Janeiro all the way to her stardom.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags:
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The Dominici Case (2003)
Plot Summary:
During the night of August 4-5, 1952, three Englishmen, Jack Drummond, his wife Anne and their daughter Elizabeth were murdered near their car near the farm of the Dominici family, in the commune of Lurs in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. Denounced by two of his sons, the patriarch Gaston Dominici was judged and condemned without any real evidence.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags:
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Home (2019)
Plot Summary:
What happens when you return from a family holiday to France and open the boot to find a Syrian refugee where your luggage was supposed to be? That’s the situation facing new couple Peter and Katy when they get back to Dorking from their first family holiday with Katy’s young son John, who has spent the journey from Calais winding up his would-be stepdad. Their unexpected passenger is a bloke called Sami who hopes to claim asylum in Britain.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 27 min
Plot tags: emotional, sitcom
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All Creatures Great & Small (2020)
Plot Summary:
The heartwarming and humorous adventures of a young country vet in the Yorkshire Dales in the 1930s. A remake of the 1978 series.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: sentimental, funny, light, humorous, sweet, sincere, captivating, entertaining, atmospheric, satirical
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The Darling Buds of May (1991)
Plot Summary:
An idyllic picture of 1950's rural England as seen through the lives of the Larkins, a farm family living in Kent. The show revolves around Pa Larkin, a man of a kind and mischievous nature with a penchant for getting into scrapes and talking his way out of them with equal equanimity; and his daughters, as they deal with growing up and discovering the joys and sorrows of young love.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, period drama
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The Green Green Grass (2005)
Plot Summary:
Green Green Grass is a new comedy series and is a spin-off from Only Fools And Horses. It features the characters of Boycie and Marlene and introduces their son, Tyler, now 15 years old. Since we last met them, Boycie's second-hand car empire has gone from strength to strength, yet, despite his success, Boycie is becoming tired of life in Peckham and is secretly (at least, secretly from Marlene) craving a more tranquil existence in the English countryside. His decision to finally make the move is prompted by a chance conversation with Denzil who has some rather disturbing news. Within two weeks Boycie, Marlene and Tyler have left London - forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, witty, not serious, realistic
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Home to Roost (1985)
Plot Summary:
Home to Roost is a British television sitcom produced by Yorkshire Television in the 1980s. Written by Eric Chappell, it starred John Thaw as Henry Willows and Reece Dinsdale as his 18-year-old son Matthew. The premise is that Henry Willows is forty-something, who has been divorced from his wife for seven years and is perfectly happy living alone in London. That is, until his youngest child, Matthew arrives to live with him, after being thrown out by his mother. The plots generally revolved around Henry's annoyance at having his solitude disturbed, and the age gap clash. Henry employed two cleaners throughout the show's life; first Enid Thompson, and, in the third season, Fiona Fennell.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 304
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, realistic, not serious
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Porterhouse Blue (1987)
Plot Summary:
In late-'80s Britain, Porterhouse College Cambridge is an anachronism, its students uniformly male and (in the vast number of cases) privately educated. When the incumbent Master dies (from a stroke brought on by overeating) the government revenges itself on Porterhouse by appointing as his successor an old graduate, the politician Sir Godber Evans. One of the tiny minority of state-school students the college has had forced on it over the years, Evans returns to his alma mater determined to drag this bastion of privilege into the twentieth century. The elderly academic staff cease their bickering and close ranks against him, but the new Master finds his most implacable and unscrupulous opponent in Skullion, the college porter.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 502
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, biting, suspense
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Money (2010)
Plot Summary:
An adaptation of the bestseller of the 1980s by Martin Amis.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, cynical, semi serious, psychological thriller, emotional, realistic
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Back to Burgundy (2017)
Plot Summary:
Jean left his hometown ten years ago. When his father falls ill, he comes back and reunites with his sister Juliette and his brother Jérémie. As seasons go by around their vineyard, they'll have to trust each other again.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, thought provoking, humorous, feel good
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Jean de Florette (1986)
Plot Summary:
In a rural French village, an old man and his only remaining relative cast their covetous eyes on an adjoining vacant property. They need its spring water for growing their flowers, and are dismayed to hear that the man who has inherited it is moving in. They block up the spring and watch as their new neighbour tries to keep his crops watered from wells far afield through the hot summer. Though they see his desperate efforts are breaking his health and his wife and daughter's hearts, they think only of getting the water.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Switzerland, France, Italy
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, emotional, independent film, realistic, sincere, thought provoking, feel good, depressing, educational, family saga
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Heartbeat (1992)
Plot Summary:
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: crime drama, detective, sentimental, sincere, serious, captivating, realistic, period drama
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The Shrink Next Door (2021)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by the true story of Marty and the therapist who turned his life around...then took it over. When he first meets Dr. Ike, Marty just wants to get better at boundaries. Over 30 years, he'll learn all about them—and what happens when they get crossed.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 341 min
Plot tags: psychological, funny, thought provoking, serious, realistic, dark comedy
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Delicious (2016)
Plot Summary:
Gina is a Cornish chef who is suddenly forced to evaluate her closest relationships. A comedic drama series about food, love and infidelity in Cornwall.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, comedy drama
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Sakura (2002)
Plot Summary:
Sakura is a Japanese serialized morning television drama that aired on NHK from April 1 to September 28 of 2002. The series totalled 156 episodes. It chronicles the life of Matsushita Sakura, a Sansei Japanese-American living in Hawaii. She moves to a small town in Japan to be an assistant language teacher for Japanese middle-school students. The show, lasting only 15 minutes long, is on every morning except Sunday, every week. Sakura first comes to Japan living with her grandparents; later, she moves because she has to teach English to the Japanese students. There she learns many valuable lessons and makes new friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, asadora
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Mapp & Lucia (2014)
Plot Summary:
1930s comedy drama based on EF Benson's novels, about the rivalry between two women in a quaint village.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 787
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty, historical drama, period piece
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Hotel Babylon (2006)
Plot Summary:
Hotel Babylon is a British television drama series based on the book of the same name by Imogen Edwards-Jones, that aired from 19 January 2006 to 14 August 2009, produced by independent production company Carnival Films for BBC One. The show followed the lives of workers at a glamorous five-star hotel. In 2009, actress Alexandra Moen mentioned in an interview that the show was cancelled after its fourth series, leaving the series 4 finale cliffhanger unresolved.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: sentimental, witty, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexy, entertaining, stylized
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The Buddha of Suburbia (1993)
Plot Summary:
The Buddha of Suburbia is a 1993 British four-part television serial, directed by Roger Michell. Based on the novel of the same name by Hanif Kureishi, the programme starred Naveen Andrews as the main character, Karim Amir. The programme's music was written and performed by David Bowie. Karim Amir is a mixed-race 17-year-old who lives in a South London suburb during the 1970s. With an English mother and a Pakistani father, Karim is uncertain of his cultural identity. As his father becomes a kind of spiritual guru to the surrounding middle-class neighbours, Karim begins to explore his cultural roots with hopes that he will achieve sexual and racial self-realisation.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 222 min
Plot tags: erotic, controversial, sentimental, sincere, serious, realistic, witty, talky, semi serious
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Kingdom (2007)
Plot Summary:
Kingdom is a British television series produced by Parallel Film and Television Productions for the ITV network. It was created by Simon Wheeler and stars Stephen Fry as Peter Kingdom, a Norfolk solicitor who is coping with family, colleagues, and the strange locals who come to him for legal assistance. The series also starred Hermione Norris, Celia Imrie, Karl Davies, Phyllida Law and Tony Slattery. The first series of six one-hour episodes was aired in 2007 and averaged six million viewers per week. Despite a mid-series ratings dip, the executive chairman of ITV praised the programme and ordered a second series, which was filmed in 2007 and broadcast in January and February 2008. Filming on the third series ran from July to September 2008 for broadcast from 7 June 2009. Stephen Fry announced on his blog in October 2009 that ITV was cancelling the series, which was later confirmed by the channel, which said that given tighter budgets, more expensive productions were being cut.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, realistic, semi serious, witty, talky, cynical
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All Creatures Great and Small (1975)
Plot Summary:
James Herriot is a vet in Yorkshire, England, during the 1940's. He is assigned to the practice of Siegfried Farnon, who (together with his mischievous brother Tristan) already have a successful business. James undergoes a variety of adventures during his work, which are just as often caused by the characters of the county (including the Farnon brothers) as the animals in his care.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 896
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, uplifting, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, talky
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Super Pumped (2022)
Plot Summary:
Each season of this anthology series explores a story that rocked the business world to its core and changed culture. The first season tells the story of Uber, one of Silicon Valley’s most successful and most destructive unicorns.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, anthology
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Traffik (1989)
Plot Summary:
Traffik is a 1989 British television serial about the illegal drugs trade. Its three stories are interwoven, with arcs told from the perspectives of Afghan and Pakistani growers and manufacturers, German dealers, and British users. It was nominated for six BAFTA Awards, winning three. It also won an International Emmy Award for best drama. The 2000 crime drama film Traffic, directed by Steven Soderbergh, was based on this television serial. In turn, the 2004 American television miniseries Traffic was based on both versions.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 315 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, thought provoking, disturbing, rough, bleak, political, realistic, suspenseful
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White Teeth (2002)
Plot Summary:
An adaptation of Zadie Smith's bestseller concerning the lives of two families from as far back as the 1800s and India to late 1990s Willesden.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 770
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 240 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, multicultural
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Bottle Shock (2008)
Plot Summary:
Paris-based wine expert Steven Spurrier heads to California in search of cheap wine that he can use for a blind taste test in the French capital. Stumbling upon the Napa Valley, the stuck-up Englishman is shocked to discover a winery turning out top-notch chardonnay. Determined to make a name for himself, he sets about getting the booze back to Paris.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, factual, humorous, semi serious, culinary, hilarious, offbeat, realistic, independent film
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A Good Year (2006)
Plot Summary:
Failed London banker Max Skinner inherits his uncle's vineyard in Provence, where he spent many childhood holidays. Upon his arrival, he meets a woman from California who tells Max she is his long-lost cousin and that the property is hers.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 100000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: feel good, romantic, sentimental, inspirational, romantic comedy, sexy, light, sweet, period piece, touching
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Le Chef (2012)
Plot Summary:
A veteran chef faces off against his restaurant group's new CEO, who wants to the establishment to lose a star from its rating in order to bring in a younger chef who specializes in molecular gastronomy.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: light, sentimental, funny, touching, sweet, feel good, humorous, culinary, social, happy