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Genre "Tragi-comedy" Movies
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| 1. About Schmidt (year: 2002) |
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Jack Nicholson plays retiring insurance actuary Warren Schmidt in Alexander Payne's About Schmidt. Schmidt has settled into a dormant life. He has an ...
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| 2. Animal Farm (year: 1999) |
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George Orwell's political fable about corruption and betrayal in post-revolutionary Russia gets a new look in this version that employs a cast of real ...
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| 3. Breakfast of Champions (year: 1999) |
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In a small American town called Midland City, Dwayne Hoover (Bruce Willis) — a loyal father, a successful car dealer, and a respected member ...
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| 4. Factotum (year: 2005) |
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Norwegian director Bent Hamer follows up his quirky and critically acclaimed Kitchen Stories with a heartbreakingly humorous look at the life of depre ...
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| 5. Luna Papa (year: 1999) |
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Tajik filmmaker Bakhtiar Khudojnazarov directs this magical realist tragicomedy about a teenaged Tatar girl who mysteriously finds herself pregnant. T ...
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| 6. Man on the Moon (year: 1999) |
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Comedian Andy Kaufman gave performances that were bizarre and difficult to categorize, in which he might do or say almost anything: show cartoons, imp ...
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| 7. Margot at the Wedding (year: 2007) |
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Margot at the Wedding, writer/director Noah Baumbach's follow-up to his Oscar-nominated The Squid and the Whale, stars Nicole Kidman as Margot, a woma ...
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| 8. Melinda and Melinda (year: 2004) |
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While Woody Allen has long fused comedy and drama in his films, he embraces the two styles in a new and unusual way in this feature. Sy (Wallace Shawn ...
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| 9. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (year: 1990) |
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Much as he would later do with Shakespeare in Love (1998), writer Tom Stoppard delivered a tale of Shakespearean origin from a skewed and unexpected p ...
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| 10. Stranger Than Fiction (year: 2006) |
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A socially isolated IRS agent whose every move is documented by a disembodied female voice discovers that his life is the subject of a book currently ...
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| 11. Terms of Endearment (year: 1983) |
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Terms of Endearment covers three decades in the lives of widow Aurora Greenaway (Shirley MacLaine) and her daughter Emma (Debra Winger). Fiercely prot ...
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| 12. The Station Agent (year: 2003) |
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Actor and playwright Tom McCarthy makes his feature film debut as a writer/director with the quirky comedy drama The Station Agent. In New Jersey, Fin ...
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