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Permanent Vacation (1980)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
In downtown Manhattan, a twenty-something boy whose Father is not around and whose Mother is institutionalized, is a big Charlie Parker fan. He almost subconsciously searches for more meaning in his life and meets a few characters along the way.
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, semi serious, gloomy, humorous, offbeat, enigmatic, melancholic, harsh, meditative ...
Plot:
drifter, misfit, jazz, social misfits, urban, redemption, saxophone, mental illness, self discovery, couple relations, adolescence vs adulthood, city life, hopes, youth, introspection, parents and children, coming of age, society, couples, family relations, insomnia, daydreamer, lifestyle, saxophonist, slacker ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, new jersey
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Rootless Hungarian émigré Willie, his pal Eddie, and visiting sixteen-year-old cousin Eva always manage to make the least of any situation, whether aimlessly traversing the drab interiors and environs of New York City, Cleveland, or an anonymous ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 107 min.
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Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
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Duration: 129 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 90 min.
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A bitter ad executive who has reached his breaking point, finds himself in a mental institution where his career actually begins to thrive with the help of the hospital's patients.
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Duration: 89 min.
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While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.
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Time:
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Place:
new york, usa
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41%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
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Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
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39%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 101 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A sparkling comedic chronicle of a middle-class young man’s romantic misadventures among New York City’s debutante society. Stillman’s deft, literate dialogue and hilariously highbrow observations earned this debut film an Academy Award ...
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Based on the life of Frank Pesce (Danny Aiello), an actor who won $6 million in the first New York State Lottery in 1976, this comedy focuses on the tight-knit Italian-American neighborhood in Brooklyn where Pesce grew up. It's also the story ...
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Duration: 90 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In the summer of 1942 two young boys are sent to stay with their stern grandmother Kurnitz and their childlike aunt Bella in Yonkers, New York.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Serbia, USA, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Here and There (Serbian: Tamo i ovde) is a Serbian film which was premiered at the Belgrade Film Festival FEST 2009. Here and There follows two interconnected stories on two different continents. Robert (Thornton), a depressed New Yorker, tries to ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, clever, offbeat ...
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Two African-Americans and two Puerto-Ricans (though one pretends to be Italian) go out on the town on a Friday night. They will be forced to get to know each other, and even worst, learn to like each other as friends
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Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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new york, usa, india
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Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
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A dramatic comedy about a self-induced attention-deficit disordered, learning disabled, Tourette's syndrome suffering, balance impaired, ex-alcoholic young man from the Upper East Side of Manhattan and the gold-digging girl who inspires him to ...
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Country: USA
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Story:
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