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Movies: Best "unexpected happiness" Movies


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Autumn in New York(2000)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 43min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 302 votes)

Autumn in New York follows the sexual exploits of Will Keane - New York restaurateur, infamous verging-on-50 playboy, master of the no-commitment seduction - until he runs into an unexpected dead end when he meets Charlotte Fielding. Charlotte is half Will's age and twice his match, a 21 year-old free spirit yearning to get out and taste the excitement of adult life.

Black Cat, White Cat(1998)

3.9/5 (with 310 votes)

Matko is a small time hustler, living by the Danube with his 17-year-old son Zare. After a failed business deal he owes money to the much more successful gangster Dadan. Dadan has a sister, Afrodita, that he desperately wants to see get married so they strike a deal: Zare is to marry her.

Jab We Met(2007)

3.7/5 (with 108 votes)

A depressed wealthy businessman and a spunky and care-free young woman embark on an unexpected journey that changes their lives.

Stroszek(1977)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 47min | Drama, Comedy
3.7/5 (with 99 votes)

Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck and they join his neighbor, Scheitz, an elderly eccentric, when he leaves Germany to live in Wisconsin.

Caramel(2007)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 36min | Drama, Comedy, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 99 votes)

In a beauty salon in Beirut the lives of five women cross paths. The beauty salon is a colorful and sensual microcosm where they share and entrust their hopes, fears and expectations.

Odette Toulemonde(2007)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 40min | Comedy, Drama
2.8/5 (with 53 votes)

Objectively, Odette Toulemonde has nothing to be happy about, but is. Balthazar Balsan has everything to be happy about, but isn’t. Odette, awkwardly forty, with a delightful hairdresser son and a daughter bogged down in adolescence, spends her days behind the cosmetic’s counter in a department store and her nights sewing feathers on costumes for Parisian variety shows. She dreams of thanking Balthazar Balsan, her favorite author, to whom – she believes – she owes her optimism. The rich and charming Parisian writer then turns up in her life in an unexpected way.

Outsourced(2007)

3.2/5 (with 64 votes)

After his entire department is outsourced, an American novelty products salesman heads to India to train his replacement.

Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?(1970)

1h 24min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 29 votes)

Herr Raab is a technical draftsman. His wife pushes him to seek a promotion, which may be a long shot after he gives a dull and tipsy toast at an office dinner. But why would Herr Raab run amok?

Dear Heart(1964)

1h 54min | Comedy, Kids & Family
3.7/5 (with 5 votes)

A lonely Ohio spinster hopes to find romance when she travels to New York City for a postmasters' convention.

Empties(2007)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 43min | Comedy
3.6/5 (with 27 votes)

Czech literature teacher Josef Tkaloun, who is past retirement age, realises one day that he no longer understands his pupils, and so he quits… dramatically. What he does not predict is that in doing this he will lose his sense of place in society.

Naked(2002)

1h 40min | Comedy, Drama
2.5/5 (with 15 votes)

Nackt is the story of three couples, one of which just broke up, one that seems to be about to and one perfectly okay. They are all friends and from time to time they gather to talk about everything.One time they gather for dinner at the second couple's "mansion" - the husband became rich with his business. We see each couple as they prepare themselves for the party and learn a lot about their relationships.At the dinner they get to talking about recognizing each other's peer with closed eyes and decide to try it (thus the title "Nackt"=naked in German).

Hi, Are You Alone?(1995)

1h 32min | Comedy
2.6/5 (with 11 votes)

Nina is a 20 years old girl from Valladolid who lives with her divorced father, an autoritarian and conservative man. Trini is of the same age and has lost her mother. For both Valladolid and their families have nothing to offer and therefore they go on a risky voyage to the Costa del Sol at the south of Spain.

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The Legend of Paul and Paula(1973)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 45min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 11 votes)

Paul and Paula have had bad experiences with love: Paul is financially well off but has lost all affection for his wife, and Paula leads a troublesome life raising two children on her own. They meet and discover a strong passion for each other. Life seems like a dream when they're together - but their short flights from the burdens of reality are once and again interrupted by Paul's ties to family and career.

Field Day(2023)

3.8/5 (with 3 votes)

Jen has moved back to her deceased husband’s home town with her daughter to start anew. She unexpectedly finds friendship and romance when she joins the school parent teacher organization.

Happiness Costs Nothing(2003)

1h 35min | Drama
1.8/5 (with 3 votes)

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Jesus, Mary and Joey(2006)

2.5/5 (with 3 votes)

Twenty-something and aimless, Joey Vitello still lives at home with his colorful Italian-American family when he is reunited with a childhood schoolmate, Mary O'Callahan. Once mocked as 'Scary Mary' this ugly duckling has blossomed into an irresistible beauty. She's returned to the old neighborhood after an intense bout with cancer. When Joey learns her cure was the result of a miracle, friendship turns to romance as she educates him on the crossroads to the Almighty. Joey challenges his family's faith with his new found revelations and chaos ensues as they all search for a miracle of their own.

Directed by James Quattrochi

Times and Winds(2006)

1h 51min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 21 votes)

In a small, poor village leaning over high rocky mountains, the villagers are simple and diligent people who struggle to cope with a harsh nature. They earn their living off the earth and a few animals they feed. Fathers always prefer one of their sons. Mothers command their daughters ruthlessly. Ömer, the son of the imam, wishes hopelessly for the death of his father. When he understands that wishful thinking does not have any concrete results, he begins to search for childish ways to kill his father. Yakup is in love with his teacher, and one day after seeing his father spying on the teacher he dreams too, like Ömer, of killing his father. Yıldız studies and tries to manage the household chores imposed by her mother. She learns with irritation about the secrets of the relationship between men and women.

Cleaning Up(2017)

15min | Drama
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A laconic nurse gets sentenced to community service where she has to clean the filthy house of a wildly impulsive recluse.

Wir sagen Du! Schatz.(2007)

1h 38min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
3.3/5 (with 4 votes)

Oliver doesn’t have a family so he steals one.

Directed by Marc Alexander Meyer - With Samuel Finzi

Masked(2019)

An average working man who is alone in a world of deception finds himself in a marriage of convenience.