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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Thomas Wintersperger, a man who has to learn to deal with his grief, sees his loss as an opportunity to reorganize his life.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, reflective, realistic, atmospheric
Plot:
family drama, bereavement, grief, cathartic, resilience, memorial service, small town, intimate, starting over, harbor, friendship, provincial life ...
Place:
east germany
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In a small Gernan Village 3 old people die. Their Kids decide to keep acting as if their were alive, so they can get their retirement benefit.
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy, dark, absurd, satirical ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
father son relationship, greed, moral ambiguity, social commentary, satire, cover up, macabre, unemployment, provincial life, secrets, deadpan, family conflict ...
Place:
germany
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
"Little Paris" is the nickname given to Luna's hometown in provincial Baden Württemberg. Its name comes from a replica of the Eiffel Tower on a factory roof on an industrial estate next to the A9 autobahn. Luna knows she has to leave ...
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, melancholic, independent film
Plot:
dance, small town, coming of age, self discovery, dream, escape, female protagonist, dancing, dance contest, identity, aspiration, struggle ...
Place:
berlin germany, germany
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
During the height of the tourist season, the rivalry between the manager of a slightly fancy restaurant and the proprietor of a nearby fast-food stand becomes quite heated, and shots are fired. I n this comedy, the restaurant is run with an iron ...
Style:
culinary, romantic comedy, lighthearted, satirical, period piece ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
children, satire, business competition, forbidden love, family feud, farce, social satire, provincial life, star crossed lovers, female rivalry, absurdism, working class ...
Time:
70s
Place:
belgium
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Israel
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The story of a little town, Givat Zurim, and its lowest-ranked soccer team. The lot for the quarterfinal of the national championship set Beitar Givat Zurim to host no less than Maccabi Tel Aviv, one of the best teams around. Those ten days until ...
Style:
inspirational, uplifting, feel good, lighthearted
Plot:
soccer, small town, underdog, community, football, provincial life, fan, coach, intimate, identity, nostalgia, celebration ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
israel
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Comedy about teachers and students at a high school in a small provincial town. Mihailo tries to win the heart of a girl his brother is also chasing.
Style:
romantic comedy, lighthearted, sentimental, period piece, teen comedy
Plot:
high school, teen romance, first love, coming of age, love triangle, small town, provincial life, romantic rivalry, nostalgia, light comedy, friendship, youth culture ...
Time:
90s, 60s
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
An anxious teacher (played, as is the lead role in all his films, by the director) sits in a beer garden on the hill of the Andechs monastery. While flies drown in his mug of beer, he confronts a life of failure: the wife he ignored, the child he ...
Style:
existential, poignant, psychological, art house, melancholic ...
Plot:
alienation, loneliness, bittersweet, midlife crisis, nostalgia, autobiography, provincial life, infidelity, satire, stupidity, beer, drunk ...
Time:
70s
Place:
southern germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
This is the story of a teenager at the turn of the century in the conservative higher classes of Chile and the initiation rites in his society.
Style:
ironic, satirical, dark comedy, melancholic, period drama
Plot:
coming of age, adolescence, class conflict, rite of passage, youth, identity, aristocracy, social satire, awkwardness, provincial life, small town, history of chile ...
Time:
turn of the century
Place:
chile
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Norman is quite happy selling newspapers outside Westminster station but his Grandfather (the Prime Minister) wants to get him "a more responsible job". A few favours are called in and Norman becomes the newest reporter at the seaside town ...
Style:
humorous, slapstick, lighthearted, period piece, family comedy ...
Plot:
newspaper, reporter, corruption, satire, journalism, beauty pageant, fish out of water, farce, small town, chaos, political satire, seaside town ...
Time:
60s, year 1966
Place:
london
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The election campaign in a small provincial town is in full swing. Candidates for ministry position pop up elsewhere, promising "milk and honey" to the voters. Two inseparable policemen, Boki and Pajko, are in charge of peace and order. ...
Style:
satirical, absurd, allegory, dark comedy, slapstick ...
Plot:
election campaign, political satire, provincial life, corruption, social commentary, friendship, culture clash, surrealism, farce, alien, media manipulation, moral ambiguity ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Elvio Battistini works as a ticket taker in the local cinema of the small town where he lives. He has a prosthesis in one leg, the result of an accident, but he tells anyone who will listen it is a war injury. Giuseppe Mondardini, is also an older ...
Style:
melancholic, contemplative, period piece
Plot:
friendship, companionship, aging, nostalgia, loneliness, memory, character study, bittersweet, mature, small town, slice of life, loss ...
Time:
80s
Place:
italy
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A police commissioner in a little town in the Italian Venetian province investigates a prostitution ring run by two pensioners; during his investigations he also learns that a former manicurist shacks up with ten students, the prefect's ...
Style:
crime drama, controversial, period piece, poliziottesco
Plot:
prostitution, corruption, sexploitation, moral ambiguity, investigation, police procedural, small town, scandal, taboo, female sexuality, bureaucracy, satire ...
Time:
60s, 70s
Place:
italy
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Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
This fast-paced mystery is in part based on a novel by Yves Ellena and is at least equally based on the 1943 classic Le Corbeau, which in 1951 was produced in English by Otto Preminger as The Thirteenth Letter. In this movie, someone is using a ...
Style:
tense, suspense, atmospheric, psychological, sinister ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
secrets, gossip, radio, anonymity, identity, whodunit, suspicion, scandal, small town, paranoia, provincial life, investigation ...
Time:
1950s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Dimboola follows the interaction of various characters at a country wedding reception.
Style:
black comedy, tension, independent film
Plot:
wedding, reception, marriage, celebration, small town, tradition, dancing, provincial life, community, family drama, drinking, satire ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
australia
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Serbia
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
Adventures of an iconoclastic fashion influencer as she steps into role as the wife of a Priest in a small Balkan village.
Style:
comedy drama
Plot:
self discovery, social media, female empowerment, small town life, character study, religion, marriage, fish out of water, culture shock, gossip, provincial life, conformity ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Argentina
TV show
Story:
A Rioja family becomes entangled with President Menem's inner circle during Argentina's turbulent 1990s, amid economic reforms and social upheaval, leading to unexpected consequences.
Style:
historical drama, family saga, tense, reflective, political drama
Plot:
corruption, social commentary, crisis, provincial life, political intrigue, scandal, political satire, biopic, rise and fall, moral ambiguity, inequality, class struggle ...
Time:
90s
Place:
argentina
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
realistic, light hearted
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
female protagonist, small town, female bonding, coming of age, youth, friendship, provincial life, first love, love and romance, slice of life, longing, teenage rebellion ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
bavaria, usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Romania
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Mircea, a 30-year-old man from a small Transylvanian town fails the judicial admission exam in Bucharest. He has no choice but to return home and live with his parents. He is forced to get a job in a waste collector company owned by a rich local ...
Style:
realistic, melancholic, dark comedy, tension, psychological
Plot:
small town, character study, parent child relationship, provincial life, coming of age, living with parents, getting home, class conflict, political corruption, identity crisis, social realism, awkwardness ...
Place:
transylvania
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Greece
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The night club "the River" situated in the small Greek city Livadeia is looking for a music group to perform there for a few nights. Many different musicians come from all over Greece and many funny incidents take place among them.
Style:
humorous, funny, feel good, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot:
musician, nightclub, ambition, satire, rivalry, songwriter, music band, ambitious, humour, rivals, desire for fame, small town ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
greece
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Mia and Mirjam are two 14-year-olds who live in a very dreary little town. Though not especially grown-up, they're both trying. Mirjam gets a head start by forming a relationship with an older man who says he loves her. Mia has a dad who drinks ...
Style:
psychological, touching, tense, melancholic
Plot:
small town, underage girl, coming of age, teenager, relationships, friendship, adolescence, best friend, swedish, female friendship, love and romance, love ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Germany, Hungary, Romania
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A moving coming of age story in a time of extreme change: on August 23, 1944 in a small city in Romanian Transylvania, the 16 year old Felix Goldschmidt awaits his classmates for their traditional Exitus Party (school graduation). However, this very ...
Style:
historical drama, dramatic, period piece, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Plot:
coming of age, world war two, friendship, loss of innocence, adolescence, first love, social change, bittersweet, identity crisis, small town, social commentary, provincial life ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
transylvania, romania
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Mirko Talhammer is beyond himself when two strange guys show up in his noble insurance office and remind him where he really comes from: from a scrapyard in the provinces, where careers are not what counts, other things are more important: scrapping ...
Plot:
junkyard, brothers, father son relationship, heist, working class, train robbery, inheritance, family business, small town, brotherhood, blue collar, legacy ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
One worker in a bankrupt factory finds an unusual solution to save his co-workers from unemployment. If it doesn't work the factory will be privatized and sold to a French company planning to convert the plant into a snail cannery. Only 300 of ...
Style:
entertaining, satirical, captivating, humorous, feel good ...
Plot:
working class, satire, labor union, unemployment, social commentary, factory worker, labor leader, factory owner, coworker, co worker co worker relationship, workplace, employer employee relationship ...
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A woman returns with her teenage son, to the beautiful, seaside town where she was born, after 18 years of absence. There she will meet the first love that marked her, but she will also be confronted with her family, the mistakes of the past and the ...
Style:
emotional, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, melancholic ...
Plot:
motherhood, female protagonist, grief, loss, getting home, family drama, problem, secret, relationships, investigation, puzzle, undercover ...
Place:
greece
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young truck driver from a small, nameless Russian town sets off on a spiritual journey that has no actual purpose and no verifiable destination, encountering lonely women and small time crooks along the way.
Style:
road movie, existential, contemplative, melancholic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
truck driver, loneliness, character study, soul searching, spiritual journey, intimate, minimalism, slice of life, bittersweet, provincial life, small town, isolation ...
Place:
soviet union, ussr
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A few rich and glamorous people are flying to Nice, but instead of South France they land in the heart of the Sibir.
Style:
light, feel good, witty, romantic, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
unlikely couple, fish out of water, escapades, transformation, opposites attract, lifestyle, love and romance, couple relations, male female relationship, fall in love, disorder, battle of the sexes ...
Place:
siberia
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Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: Russia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The boy caught a goldfish and without begging for anything, lets go. In gratitude, the goldfish decided to give the boy a new imported bicycle, which the boy had long dreamed of. And so the boy comes home with a new bike. Parents are surprised, ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, thought provoking, fairy tale ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
desire, goldfish, wish fulfillment, child protagonist, miraculous event, wish come true, avarice, problem, boy, magical creature, magic, making a wish ...
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Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The rich peasant Solopii Cherevyk goes to the Sorochyntsi fair to sell wheat. His quarrelsome wife Khivria and daughters Paraska, Horpyna and Motria go with him. At the fair, Paraska meets a guy named Hrytsko and falls in love with him. But her ...
Style:
light, entertaining, feel good, humorous, light hearted ...
Plot:
matchmaking, gypsy, folklore, mysticism, dishonesty, mother daughter relationship, storytelling, rivalry, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, escapades, music ...
Time:
19th century
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Hungary
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Hungarian remake of the Bulgarian series about a disconnect family living together in order to get an inheritance.
Style:
funny, feel good, satirical, humorous, light ...
Plot:
inheritance, village life, satire, family relations, family drama, family conflict, family life, family secret, villager, secret, countryside, lifestyle ...
Place:
hungary
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
The series tells about two Voronezh families of different incomes. Both families learn that in the maternity hospital their children were mixed up (it turned out only after 16 years). Adults decide to restore historical justice: now Vanya is forced ...
Style:
humorous, sincere, captivating, touching, comedy drama ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
children, family relations, disorder, adaptation, mistaken identity, parents and children, addiction, rivalry, couples, couple relations, eccentric family, matchmaking ...
Place:
moscow russia, ukraine
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