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Plot Summary:
Four stories, based on four fables of Lafontaine, shows a woman trying to get her husband a wretch who wants to commit suicide, a jealous man who becomes associated with his rival, and a couple who was locked in an apartment.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: anthology, fable
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L-O-V-E. (2009)
Plot Summary:
Four love stories by four talented Taiwanese first-time directors – well-known lyrist, Vincent Fang Wenshan; TV host, Huang Zijiao; online novelist, Jiu BaDao; and commercial director, Chen Yixian.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Nailcruncher (1988)
Plot Summary:
Adapation of the fanciful comic novel by Albert Cohen.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags:
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In Between (1994)
Plot Summary:
Three directors deliver three stories about the love of in the modern world.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: anthology
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The Witches (1967)
Plot Summary:
Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society. A superstar actress travels to a mountain resort, only to evoke jealousy from women and lust from men. A woman offers to take an injured man to the hospital. A widowed father and his son seek for a new wife/mother. A man seeks revenge for a woman's honor. A bored housewife tries to explain to her husband that he's not as romantic as he used to be.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: anthology, erotic, gothic, spiritual, gothic horror, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sex comedy
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The Dolls (1965)
Plot Summary:
This semi-amusing sex (romance) comedy has four separate stories.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 366
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: anthology, italian comedy
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Inside Out II (1992)
Plot Summary:
Playboy does to softcore sex films what HBO's Tales from the Crypt did for horror. Contains the stories: "Mis-apprehended"; "I've Got A Crush On You"; "The Freak"; "There's This Travelling Salesman, See"; "Double Vision"; "Busty Gusty and her Twin 50's"; "Some Guys Have All The Luck"; "The Hitchhiker"; and "The Right Number".
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anthology, mockumentary
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Moscow, I Love You (2010)
Plot Summary:
18 directors, 18 novels, 18 short stories about Moscow.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, contemplative
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Trampas de amor (1969)
Plot Summary:
Love, infidelity and desire are the protagonists of three stories full of entanglements and romance.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: anthology, surprise ending
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Chaos (1984)
Plot Summary:
Five stories center around a werewolf, a feudal landlord, peasants, a ghost, and a mother and her sons.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 187 min
Plot tags: anthology, intellectual, neorealism, atmospheric, humorous, semi serious
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Tales of Paris (1962)
Plot Summary:
The omnibus made of four separate romantic playlets, each with its own cast, director, and scenarist. "The Tale of Ella," directed by Jacques Poitrenaud, stars Dany Saval as an ambitious nightclub performer who very nearly messes up her chances for success by bullying a mild-looking but important producer. "The Tale of Antonia," directed by Michel Boisrond, finds housewife Dany Robin exacting a sweet revenge on her cheating husband. "The Tale of Francoise," directed by Claude Barma, concerns the efforts of Francoise Arnoul to test the fidelity of her best friend's lover. And "The Tale of Sophie," directed by Marc Allegret, features Catherine Deneuve as a goody-two-shoes who fabricates a torrid romance in order to be accepted by her sexually knowledgeable schoolmates.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Movie box-ing (2004)
Plot Summary:
2004 film.
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Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: anthology
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The Devil and the Ten Commandments (1962)
Plot Summary:
The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more of the Ten Commandments will be broken: Jérome Chambard is warned that he will lose his job if he continues to swear; Françoise Beaufort enamored of a stripper calls on her only to find her married to a janitor who doesn't know what kind of dancing his wife performs; Denis, a Jesuit novice, leaves the order to avenge his sister's suicide, which was provoked by Garigny, who seduced her into prostitution and drug addiction; Philip buys a necklace for Micheline though he is bored with her; a young man find out that his real mother is not Madeleine, but actress Clarisse Ardant; Didier Marin, cashier of a bank, was fired by his boss; the Devil appears as a serpent for Jérome Chambard and the bishop are eating.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 951
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, contemplative, semi serious, sketch comedy
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The Couples (1970)
Plot Summary:
Three episodes. The refrigerator. A married couple of two poor emigrant workers spend almost all their money to buy a refrigerator (a must in the '70s). The purchase is too expensive for their familiar balance sheet. To earn some money they decide to go for prostitution. The wife is not so unhappy to the perspective. The room. To celebrate ten years of marriage a couple decides to spend a quick holiday in top luxury hotels in Sardegna. But the fashion luxury VIP world is too hard to enter; they soon will end in prison. The Lion. Two adulterous, Antonio and Giulia, are blocked by a lion, staying on the exit in the place they met. They both have to come back home, but couldn't move because of the lion presence. The critic situation soon drive them to their limit peak, showing their real essence.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: anthology, italian comedy
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Sunday Lovers (1980)
Plot Summary:
A sex comedy anthology containing four stories, each from a different country (England, France, USA and Italy). "An Englishman's Home" "The French Method" "Armando's Notebook" "Skippy".
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 418
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, UK, USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: anthology, sex comedy, sexy, hot
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Inside Out (1991)
Plot Summary:
Playboy does to softcore sex films what HBO's Tales from the Crypt did for horror. Contains the stories: "Brush Strokes"; "Shrink Rap"; "Doubletalk"; "The Leda"; "My Secret Moments"; "Life Is For The Taking"; "The Diaries"; "Love The One You're With"; and "My Better Half".
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 211
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: anthology, cult film
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A Few Days with Me (1988)
Plot Summary:
Martial (Daniel Auteuil) is discharged from a mental insitution where he spent a few years due to a serious nervous breakdown. During his hospitalization, he ceases to speak with everyone, including his wife Régine (Thérèse Liotard), whom he had encouraged to find a new partner soon after entering the clinic. Upon his return he finds his mother (Danielle Darrieux), a busy business woman who owns a supermarket chain. She's convinced that his son, whom by now hardly talks to anyone after his experience, will be able to find himself again if tasked with some responbibilities. Soon enough, he's sent to Limoges on a business trip to check on one of their stores in the hope to reinvigorate its failing business. Once he arrives, Martial is faced with responsibilities he had never imagined, including dealing with the store's personnel.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: anthology, atmospheric, humorous, realistic, contemplative, semi serious, feel good
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The Seagull (2018)
Plot Summary:
At a picturesque lakeside estate, a love triangle unfolds between the legendary diva Irina, her lover Boris, and the ingénue Nina.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, melancholic, sweet, period drama
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Tel Aviv Stories (1992)
Plot Summary:
Three stories about three women: one is trying to find the right guy; one is trying to get a divorce from her runaway husband so she takes hostages; one turns Tel Aviv upside down in order to save a kitten trapped in a storm drain.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Bed & Board (1970)
Plot Summary:
Parisian everyman Antoine Doinel has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon, and the newlyweds have set up a cozy domestic life of selling flowers and giving violin lessons while Antoine fitfully works on his long-gestating novel. As Christine becomes pregnant with the couple's first child, Antoine finds himself enraptured with a young Japanese beauty. The complications change the course of their relationship forever.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, feel good, realistic, anthology, art house, postmodern, offbeat, semi serious
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Six in Paris (1965)
Plot Summary:
Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet), and Montparnasse et Levallois (Godard) are stories of love, flirtation and prostitution; Place d'Etoile (Rhomer) concerns a haberdasher and his umbrella; and La Muette (Chabrol), a bourgeois family and earplugs.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: anthology, realistic, semi serious
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The Tiger and the Pussycat (1967)
Plot Summary:
Comedy-drama about a middle-aged Italian businessman Vittorio Gassman who is married to Eleanor Parker and is innocently introduced one day to a schoolgirl with pigtails named Carolina. Years later, that young schoolgirl has become a vivacious young woman (Ann-Margret), and she pursues him, luring him into an on-again-off-again romantic tryst where she pulls the strings and holds all the cards.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 463
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sentimental, serious, realistic
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Through My Window: Across the Sea (2023)
Plot Summary:
After a year of long-distance, Raquel and Ares reunite on a steamy beach trip. Faced with fresh flirtations and insecurities, will their love prevail?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: teen comedy
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The Decameron (1971)
Plot Summary:
An adaptation of nine stories from Bocaccio's "Decameron": A young Sicilian is swindled twice, but ends up rich; a man poses as a deaf-mute in a convent of curious nuns; a woman must hide her lover when her husband comes home early; a scoundrel fools a priest on his deathbed; three brothers take revenge on their sister's lover; a young girl sleeps on the roof to meet her boyfriend at night; a group of painters wait for inspiration; a crafty priest attempts to seduce his friend's wife; and two friends make a pact to find out what happens after death. Pasolini is up to his old tricks satirizing the Church, and throwing in liberal doses of life and love.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: anthology, sexy, erotic, humorous, realistic, semi serious, art house, psychedelic, disturbing, controversial
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Plaza Suite (1971)
Plot Summary:
Film version of the Neil Simon play has three separate acts set in the same hotel suite in New York's Plaza Hotel with Walter Matthau in a triple role. In the first, Karen Nash tries to get her inattentive husband Sam's attention to spruce up their failing marriage. In the second, brash film producer Jesse Kiplinger tries to get his former one-time flame Muriel to see him for what he stands for. In the third, Roy Hubley and his wife Norma try and try to get their uncertain-of-herself daughter out of the bathroom before her approaching wedding.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, witty, anthology, realistic, semi serious, sketch comedy, funny, light, surprise ending
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The Hairdresser's Husband (1990)
Plot Summary:
The film begins in a flashback from the titular character, Antoine. We are introduced to his fixation with female hairdressers which began at a young age. The film uses flashbacks throughout and there are frequent parallels drawn with the past. We are unsure what Antoine has done with his life, however we know he has fulfilled his childhood ambition, to marry a haidresser.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sexual, sex comedy, epic, anthology, sensual, erotic drama, sentimental, touching
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L.G.B.T. Love Stories (2016)
Plot Summary:
An anthology feature film that will honestly explore the ups and downs and intricacies of love and romance within the L.G.B.T. community, a drama that will make you laugh, and a comedy that will bring tears to your eyes. It's a film that will prove no matter what community you belong to; life and love are always confusing.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country:
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychological, sexy, sincere, thought provoking, unusual plot structure, humorous, contemplative, independent film
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The Ages of Love (2011)
Plot Summary:
Roberto is a young and ambitious lawyer who is going to marry Sara. His whole life is perfectly planned out. During a expropriation which he is in charge of, he meets Micol, a gorgeous and provocative young woman from a small village in Tuscany. This is when things start to get complicated... Fabio, a famous anchorman, has been the perfect husband for twenty five years. At a party one night, he meets Eliana, a femme fatale full of surprises. This one-night stand proves to be more than what he bargained for when she refuses to leave... Adrian is an American art history professor who moved to Rome after his divorce. He is friends with Augusto, the building's concierge, whose ebullient daughter Viola is about to disrupt his peaceful existence and relight his fire.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sexy, touching, humorous, semi serious, social, realistic, contemplative, sexual, anthology
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The Housekeeper (2002)
Plot Summary:
After his wife leaves him for another man, Jacques hires a housekeeper, Laura, to keep his Paris apartment in order. As he starts increasing her hours and spending more time with her on her days off, Jacques is torn between the pleasure of Laura's company, and the headache that such an intrusion brings to his new domain of singlehood.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sentimental, harsh, semi serious, touching, realistic, talky, sensitive, humorous, sexual, road movie
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Manual of Love (2005)
Plot Summary:
Four intertwined episodes on the joys and sorrows of love.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, sexy, saga, realistic, anthology
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I Do (2004)
Plot Summary:
Denise Richards plays Lauren, a divorced wedding-planner who falls for the groom-to-be (Dean Cain).
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic, feel good, relaxing