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Plot Summary:
Asfur is an Israeli television series, which is broadcast on the channel HOT3. Its title, which literally means "bird" in Arabic, is the main protagonist's "good luck bird" – his late grandfather believed that its arrival symbolized a positive turn of events. Hot had already started working on two additional seasons even before the television pilot was aired. Season two began airing on October 17, 2011. Savyon and Amir sold the format to John Wells in October 2011. The adaptation, named "Hard Up", will air on FOX.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 903
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 32 min
Plot tags: captivating, humorous, semi serious, tense, light, rough, realistic, suspenseful, witty, talky
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Joe + Belle (2011)
Plot Summary:
An accidental murder brings two girls together in a series of wild crimes and romance over the course of an evening.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, captivating, tense, exciting, rough, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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The Storks Will Return (2007)
Plot Summary:
A story of two friends and petty thieves trying to make a living, but failing in every possible way.
IMDB Rating: 9.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Serbia
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, psychedelic, deep, interesting
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Dangerous Women (1991)
Plot Summary:
Dangerous Women is a syndicated nighttime American soap opera about a group of women who served time in prison together. It was created and written by Reg Watson and produced by Reg Grundy Productions.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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The Velvet Collection (2017)
Plot Summary:
It is the year 1967. After five happy years of marriage in New York with Alberto and their young son, Anna Ribera returns to Spain to take her project Velvet to the next level. She and Alberto had been managing all things Velvet from across the ocean and, together with their best friends and partners, had made a name for Velvet as the number one address in the world of fashion and innovation. Now they decide to take the next step and turn their reputation into a franchise, first at home, then abroad. The first step is opening shop in the other great Spanish city, Barcelona, on its world famous promenade, the Passeig de Gracia. There, the second Velvet Fashion Store is about to open its gates, managed by Ana's good friend Clara who had made it up the career ladder from seamstress to directorial assistant in the Madrid Velvet years.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, humorous, captivating, disturbing, telenovela
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Our song (2004)
Plot Summary:
HaShir Shelanu is an Israeli daily comical musical drama that had finished its 4th season airing on the yes-5 Israeli Movie Channel and repeating on Channel 2. The last episode aired in April 2007.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Musical, Mystery, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, postmodern, telenovela
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The Champion (2006)
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IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, telenovela
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Miss Behave (2010)
Plot Summary:
For the past few years the Archer children have come to expect very little from their parents. Growing up with mega-successful parents, William (a famous author) and Elizabeth aka The Queen (Hollywood's publicist to the stars) the siblings both have bitter attitudes and something to hide. Sixteen year old Tori has two sets of friends, therefore two sets of problems, two sets of mistakes, and most importantly, circles of lies. She has a heart of gold, and knows right from wrong, but succumbs to peer pressure and consistently makes poor choices that cause irrepressible situations and problems. Older brother Billy has his own set of issues. Expelled from college during his sophomore year, Billy is struggling to find his sexual identity, while attempting to make amends with his ever absent parents and keep his little sister afloat.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, humorous, melancholic, contemplative
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Maneater (2009)
Plot Summary:
Beautiful, fashionable and fun, Clarissa Alpert is a shallow socialite whose speed dial is a veritable Rolodex of Hollywood power players. Staring her 32nd birthday directly in the eyes, though she will admit only to being 28, the spoiled daddy's girl is in a panic because she is still single. Clarissa, though, always gets what she wants even if he's Aaron Mason, the hottest new producer in town. With the help of her family and friends, Clarissa sets into motion an elaborate plan to lasso the dashing filmmaker who will, she hopes, be the man to put a ring on her finger.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 581
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, cute, touching, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Gabriela (2012)
Plot Summary:
Naïve and provocative Gabriela is a raggedy migrant worker who arrives in town to mesmerize all with her playful and simple, yet raw sensuality. Set in 1925, the story unravels in Ilhéus, a quiet northeastern coastal city thriving with cocoa crops and aspirations for progress, even though the traditional ways still rule.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: touching, humorous, captivating, semi serious, novela, soap opera, sentimental, realistic, telenovela
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The Arbitrator (2007)
Plot Summary:
The series tells the story of Nadav Feldman , a young social worker , who discovers that he is adopted and finds himself in the depths of his biological father's family, Baruch Asulin, a leader of an organized crime syndicate in Israel known as "Ha-Borer"(The Arbitrator), due to his activities as an arbitrator in disputes in the underworld. The series focuses on the combination of dramatic stretches , the conflict between the norms of society including crime, especially norms and codes of conduct of the underworld. Among other highlights of the series, in a satirical way, the contrast between certain behaviors of some of the heroes of the series (as a demonstration of piety) and other behaviors (such as the blatant disregard for human life).
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 642
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, talky
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Pushovers (2011)
Plot Summary:
Six men unfairly dismissed from their jobs, decide to take revenge and form an inexperienced band to rob the trucks of their old transport company. But what they ignore is that the new owner is one of the most dangerous mobsters of all South America.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Chile
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, humorous, captivating, suspense, telenovela
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Life on a Stick (2005)
Plot Summary:
Life on a Stick is an American sitcom that aired on Fox from March 24 to April 27, 2005. Thirteen episodes of the show were completed, but Fox only showed the first five before pulling the show due to poor ratings.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 466
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, funny, romantic, feel good, entertaining, sitcom, realistic, semi serious
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Sun's Daughters (2015)
Plot Summary:
A teacher and a mother of three teenage daughters , gunes agrees to move from her home city Izmir to Istanbul to be with mysterious wealthy man who has fallen for her. Gunesin kizlari follows the never ending drama of Güneş and her daughters they face the events of their newly transformed lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, sincere, touching, captivating, suspense
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Gavin & Stacey (2007)
Plot Summary:
Gavin is an ordinary boy from Billericay, Essex. Stacey is an ordinary girl from Barry Island, South Wales. They’ve spoken on the phone every day at work for months but they’ve never actually met… until now.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 29 min
Plot tags: sitcom, sentimental, feel good, semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, captivating, dark comedy, clever
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Honest (2008)
Plot Summary:
Honest is a British comedy-drama series that aired on ITV in 2008. The series is a remake of the New Zealand series Outrageous Fortune, written by James Griffin and Rachel Lang, that first aired in 2005. The programme stars Amanda Redman as Lindsay Carter, a mother of four who decides that her criminal family is going to change its ways after her husband is sent to prison. Honest also stars Danny Webb, Sean Pertwee and Camille Coduri.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, semi serious, captivating
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Mad Dogs (2015)
Plot Summary:
When a group of underachieving 40-something friends gather in Belize to celebrate the early retirement of an old friend, a series of wild, comedic events unfold, exposing dark secrets and a web of lies, deception and murder.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, exciting, light, humorous, dark comedy, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Togetherness (2015)
Plot Summary:
Four adults nearing 40, living under the same roof, struggle to keep their relationships and their individual dreams alive.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, sitcom, humorous, offbeat, light, sincere, captivating, erotic, clever, sensual
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Married (2014)
Plot Summary:
Married is a half hour comedy about being miserably in love. Russ and Lina Bowman can barely remember what life was like before kids, debt, and suburbia rained on their romance -- but every once in a while, in between the arguments about their declining sex life and who's driving carpool, they are reminded what drew them together in the first place -- they're best friends. The show also features Russ and Lina's friend AJ, who is recently divorced and pretending he's over his wife, and their other friend Jess, who is married to a much older man who can't keep up with her.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, offbeat, dark comedy, hilarious, realistic, not serious, sitcom
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Father Is Strange (2017)
Plot Summary:
Mi Yeong, Hye Yeong, Ra Yeong, and Joon Yeong are the kids of Yeong Sil and Han Soo. They seem like the average Seoul family, with the typical Seoul problems, but that all changes when Jung Hui, an actor, and former K-Pop idol, ends up in their doorstep claiming that Han Soo is his biological father. The family goes through thick and thin, one marriage after the other, trying to figure out why their father happens to be strange.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 705
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 66 min
Plot tags: feel good, romantic, captivating, entertaining, funny, light, dorama, humorous
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Cinderella and the Four Knights (2016)
Plot Summary:
Eun Ha-Won is a college student. She is a bright girl who wants to be a veterinarian, but at home she is lonely. She is isolated from her family members. Eun Ha-Won lives with father, step-mother and step-sister after her mother died in a car accident. One day, she helps a mysterious old man. The old man suggests to her to live in a mansion and pursue her dream of becoming a veterinarian. Since than, she moves into the mansion and lives with three cousins Kang Ji-Woon, Kang Hyun-Min, Kang Seo-Woo and their bodyguard Lee Yoon-Sung.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: feel good, romantic, touching, sincere, captivating, dorama, novela, romantic comedy
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Monarch of the Glen (2000)
Plot Summary:
Archie MacDonald, a young restaurateur is called back to his childhood home of Glenbogle where he is told he is the new Laird of Glenbogle.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: sentimental, realistic, witty, semi serious, satirical, humorous, gloomy
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Sensitive Skin (2005)
Plot Summary:
Bittersweet comedy about a 61-year-old former model trying to cope with life in London.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 29 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, sincere, clever, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Fish Without a Bicycle (2003)
Plot Summary:
Comedy - Julianna (Jenna Mattison) is a struggling actress in a dead end relationship with Danny (Brad Rowe), a fireman who no longer lights her fire. When she decides to leave him and go "find herself" she ends up falling in love with an egotistical director, Michael (Bryan Callen), who can barely fit her in between Pilates classes.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, emotional, clever, realistic, witty, talky, semi serious, sexual
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Making Mr. Right (2008)
Plot Summary:
Eddie, a poor street conman, has his 'guess in which briefcase' trick ruined by Manhattan lifestyle magazine deputy editor Hallie Galloway. Due to a bet with her boss, she must transform Eddie into a dashingly eligible bachelor for a charity auction. In order to pay back his generous benefactor, restaurateur Angelo, Eddie accepts. He not only proves a quick learner and born charmer, the gentleman in him awakes and so does love in their harts. But their true pasts catch up.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 563
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, humorous, sexy, feel good, captivating, light, sexual
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Worst Friends (2014)
Plot Summary:
WORST FRIENDS is the story of two childhood friends who are forced to re-think their friendship as adults. When Jake (Richard Tanne) is injured in a car accident, the only person willing to take care of him is his childhood friend Sam (Noah Barrow). With the aid of a tough-as-nails physical therapist (Cody Horn), Sam helps Jake recuperate, but when Sam's high school crush (Kristen Connolly) enters the picture, old habits and bitter rivalries resurface, threatening to tear their friendship apart.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, emotional, captivating, touching, independent film
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Colombian Love (2004)
Plot Summary:
Tali and Ori are a young Israeli couple. After attending their best friends' wedding, which ended in disaster, they have a big fight, which leads to Ori proposing. But there is trouble in paradise when Ori's conservative father meets Tali, and all hell breaks loose.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 430
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, sentimental, feel good, realistic, semi serious
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Coupling (2003)
Plot Summary:
Coupling is a 2003 American remake of the British television sitcom of the same title, which aired on NBC.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sexy, realistic, witty, sitcom, biting, sexual, suspense
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Single Ladies (2011)
Plot Summary:
Single Ladies is an American comedy-drama television series on VH1 that debuted on May 30, 2011, as a two-hour television film. Created by Stacy A. Littlejohn and produced by Queen Latifah's Flavor Unit Entertainment, the series chronicles the lives of three friends — Val, Keisha and April — and their relationships.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, sexy, romantic comedy, realistic, semi serious
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The Riches (2007)
Plot Summary:
A family of crooks assume the identity of an upper-middle-class suburban clan in the Deep South.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, captivating, disturbing, clever, offbeat, serious, realistic, suspenseful, black comedy
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Leap Year (2011)
Plot Summary:
After being laid-off from their corporate day jobs, Aaron, Bryn, Derek, Olivia and Jack compete to get their businesses off the ground when a mystery benefactor promises to invest $500,000 in one of their startups.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, inspirational, realistic, semi serious