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Plot Summary:
Sir John Mills, Peter Davison and Serena Scott Thomas star in this warm, funny and romantic story of a woman forced to make a new life for herself in a Cornish seaside town. Based on Mary Wesley’s bestselling novel, «Harnessing Peacocks» is adapted by the multi-award-winning Andrew Davies.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
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She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas (1985)
Plot Summary:
A humorous and revealing tale of a group of eight women from varying walks of life, who have volunteered for a rugged survival course at a tough mountain school in the English lakes.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Bellas de noche (1975)
Plot Summary:
The Boxer Germán Bronco Torres loses his license, and works as bouncer at the cabaret El Pirulí, where he falls for the fichera Carmen, and befriends of the pimp Margarito Fuensanta El Vaselinas, who lost a bet and has to pay to a gangsters. For 500 pesos for El Vaselinas, Bronco prepares a trap in the cabaret to the taxi driver Raul, to seduce his girlfriend, not knowing that the victim is his own sister Lupita.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: erotic, sex comedy
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All the Fine Promises (2003)
Plot Summary:
After the death of her mother Marianne, a young cellist discovers that her father had a mistress.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min
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The Bachelor (1997)
Plot Summary:
The story of a thirties bank employee whose wife becomes a luxury prostitute. The same would happen with the next woman who knows. Xouan a promoter says he belongs to a particular class of people and asks him to work together.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: disgusting
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Red Diaries (2001)
Plot Summary:
The first episode deals about the story of a mistress who is engaged in an extra-curricular activity with her lover's driver. The second story deals about an illicit relationship of a balik-bayan with a seminarian. The third and the most controversial is about the martyr wife of an abusive police officer who allowed his colleagues to molest his wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 156 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Impossibly Yours (2006)
Plot Summary:
Mit seiner pedantischen und verklemmten Art trieb Leonhard (Tobias Moretti) einst seine Gattin Marlene (Barbara Auer) geradewegs in die Arme seines besten Freundes Jan (Ulrich Thomsen). Nur mit Mühe gelang es dem Trio danach, die gemeinsame Freundschaft aufrecht zu erhalten. Inzwischen ist die Situation wieder einigermaßen stabil. Da heiratet Leonhard eine sehr viel jüngere Studentin. Und auch Anja (Jessica Schwarz) wird es in der Obhut Leonhards bald zu kalt und eng. Starke Darsteller in einer dramatischen Beziehungsgeschichte. Torsten C. Fischer inszenierte nach dem gleichnamigen Roman von Dieter Wellershoff.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags:
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Muka obraznosti (1990)
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IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 120 min
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Honeybunnies (2017)
Plot Summary:
Maarit Lalli film a woman who knew how to say yes, and the man who could not say no. Ricky Kalin (Antti Luusuaniemi) is a real estate agent who loves women. Annika Lahti (Pihla Viitala) is a private, not so very good one at that. Annika specializes in the detection of complex relationships, to put it nicely. Ricky is a great salesman, who has two calendars - Work calendar and the calendar for women. An assignment Annika collides with the real estate agent Stand. The apartment does not display unnecessary procrastination: Annika just wants to have sex without feelings. Ricky, this is just fine. Relationship with works by mutual cooperation and assistance agreement - until it becomes famous for the sixth time. "There is hardly anything we love to look at, either.".
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: humorous
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The Groundhogs (1993)
Plot Summary:
A story of a family with numerous members drowned in their sentimental problems.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 416
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Love Me Not? (1989)
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Spying a lissome young woman standing topless on a nearby balcony, Giorgos (Andreas Barcoulis) climbs up onto a nearby rooftop to get a better look. At a critical moment in his climb, his family and friends call out to him and he falls, suffering a terrible blow to the head. Ineed, at the hospital, the family is told that he is brain dead, and that if they like, his heart can be given to someone else as a transplant. Giorgos' grieving wife (Betty Livanou) agrees to this arrangement. The film now follows the recipient of the dead man's heart (Giorgos Constas), as he wanders all over Greece, driven by his newly lusty heart into the arms of many beautiful women. Eventually he is led to the one woman his new heart truly loved, Giorgios' wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 102 min
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On the Game (1974)
Plot Summary:
Comic look at the history of prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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The Truth About Spring (1965)
Plot Summary:
Tommy Tyler, a lazy Caribbean sailor, and his tom-boy daughter, Spring, are out to search for a buried treasure. Tommy brings aboard William Ashton, a young lawyer, to help with the search. Ashton turns out to be handy when they encounter dangerous rivals. Tommy also tries to play match maker between Ashton and Spring – a difficult task indeed.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 707
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min
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...As the Naked Wind from the Sea (1968)
Plot Summary:
Once, to every young man comes a summer like this.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, West Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sex 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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Monique (1970)
Plot Summary:
Monique is a vivacious French au pair girl who not only looks after the children, but also sexually satisfies the parents.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy, sensual
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Where the Heart Is (1998)
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From the director of Marius et Jeannette, this story of two working-class families is a fable with an optimist streak. A young black man, Francois, is wrongly accused of rape by a racist policeman. The story is told in voiceover by his childhood friend, neighbor, and the mother of his future child, Clementine, who is white. The city is Marseilles as in the previous film, symbolic with its churches, prisons and ruins. Except in this film, director Robert Guediguian also ventures outside, taking the story to Sarajevo; two different cities, one devastated by war, the other by a bad economy and unemployment. A la Place du coeur won a Special Jury Prize at the 1998 San Sebastian Film Festival and was also shown at the 1998 Toronto Film Festival and the 1998 Montreal Film Festival.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 382
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags:
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Little Tony (1998)
Plot Summary:
Brand, an unemployed illiterate in his fourties, lives with his wife Keet in some desolate corner of the Dutch countryside. Keet, being tired of having to read the subtitles on television out loud so Brand can understand what's going on, one day decides he should learn to read for himself. She hires Lena, an attractive woman in her thirties, to do the teaching. Lena and Brand develop a passionate relationship, and Keet decides to let it happen because she wants her husband to be happy. She even goes so far as to claim she never actually was married to Brand: it all was just a game, she's just his sister. Lena then moves in, and soon takes over. But after a while she gets pregnant and bears a son, Kleine Teun ("Little Teun"). Then Keet, who can't have children herself, finally caves in and decides Lena has to be eliminated.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, artsy, serious, realistic, sexual, crying, black comedy, dark comedy, sexy
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Ninguém Ama Ninguém Por Mais de Dois Anos (2015)
Plot Summary:
"No one loves anyone for more than two years" is an adaptation of Nelson Rodrigues' work about five couples that live in Brazil in the early 60's, who are seen by the society as conventional people, but whose intimate lives turn out to be morally questionable.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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As Long as One Is Intoxicated (1974)
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: erotic, period piece
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Attention (1985)
Plot Summary:
This is a story of love and lust shaded with overtones of incest and lesbianism. Livia is a woman trying to regain the affections of her husband Alberto, whose journalism career takes him away for months at a time - on purpose. What she does not know is that he has an undeniable attraction for their daughter Monica. Livia's own sexual eccentricities lead her to hire young women to have sex with Alberto while she listens in hiding. When Monica wants to get into the act too, the real truth about her parentage is revealed.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Venus Talking (2001)
Plot Summary:
Novellist Venus lives with her family out of Berlin and moves temporarily to the city where she is starting to write a new book. Her fans can watch her via a webcam. Away from husband and children she begins an affair with Fabrizio.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Erotic Stories (1980)
Plot Summary:
A set of nine stories whose central theme is eroticism. The different directors of the film deal from philosophical aspects to others that are almost pornographic, but always with a common denominator: sensuality. Segments: 1- Small Planet, 2 - The Tilita, 3 - The Vile Metal, 4 - Broken Times, 5 - Koñensonaten, 6 - Peppermint, 7 - Frac, 8 - Everyday Life, 9 - Love is a Wonderful Thing.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: anthology
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The Body of the Stick (1979)
Plot Summary:
Ulderico Quario hires as servant a very beautiful young woman Teresa. Ulderico decides to proceed like a new Pygmalion and he sets about teaching her the art of seductions. But Teresa together with Cecchina start using these newfound skills to persuade Ulderico to marry her in order to claim his inheritance.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy
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Sons & Lovers (2003)
Plot Summary:
Filmmaker Stephen Whittaker adapts author D.H. Lawrence's simmering tale of sex, love, and family. In the years leading up to World War I, the problems faced by many families were uncannily similar to the issues that mankind would still be struggling with nearly a century later. Human relationships remain as fragile as ever, and the only constant in life seems to be a humbling sense of uncertainty. Sarah Lancashire stars in a drama detailing the anguish of first love, and the awkward confusion of first sex.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 192 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sincere, romantic, period drama
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A Thousand Kisses (2006)
Plot Summary:
Rising, rather autobiographical novelist Giph has a hot girlfriend, doctor and model Samarinde. His crude, domineering and progressive mother Ria's suffering an incurable decease in which she suffers from paraplegia. Her inevitably ensuing death is brought forward with euthanasia. Giph is struggling to handle the situation with his mother. Shortly after his mother has passed he away, he decides to join his fun loving friends on La Palma for a holiday. There Samarinde tells her boyfriend she's expecting his baby.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, erotic, contemplative
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Forbidden Legend of Sex and Chopsticks (2008)
Plot Summary:
Based on the classic Chinese novel "Jin Ping Mei," written during the Ming Dynasty. The novel itself is the first full length Chinese fictional work to depict sexuality in explicit manner. The movie (as well as novel) takes place during 1111-1127 and centers around Ximen Quing, a corrupt social climber and lustful merchant who is wealthy enough to marry a consort of wives and concubines.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 748
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Japan
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, erotic, light, humorous, sincere, feel good, sexy, contemplative
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Gabriela (1983)
Plot Summary:
In 1925, Gabriela becomes cook, mistress, and then wife of Nacib, a bar owner in a small Brazilian coastal town runs by the local colonels. Nacib becomes tired of Gabriela's uneducated ways, and annuls the marriage when he finds her in bed with his friend Tonico. The political ways of the town modernize slightly and Gabriela returns as Nacib's mistress.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, sexy, pornochanchada, humorous, semi serious
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Tieta of Agreste (1996)
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Just when her family starts believing that she is dead, and that they can expect a rich heritage, Tieta returns from São Paulo to her native village in Bahia, which she had been forced to leave long ago because of some involvement with a goat herd. Believed to be fabulously rich - and nobody knows how - she brings to the great disappointment of her family a young step-daughter and heir. With the arrival of Tieta turmoil enters into the life of her family and their fellow villagers. Most particularly into the life of her nephew - promised to the Church - and the young aspiring mayor.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil, UK, France
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: sexy, manga, humorous, serious, realistic, semi serious
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Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2011)
Plot Summary:
Chronicles the romantic enchantment of a 90 year old reporter with a girl 70 years younger than himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, Spain, Denmark, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, erotic, sensual, offbeat, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Mad Love (1985)
Plot Summary:
After a successful bank robbery, Micky hopes to take back his girlfriend Mary who has been taken from him. On the way to Paris he meets Leon, a neurotic dreamer whom he considers an idiot. Leon can hardly understand what Micky is up to but he follows him everywhere and soon falls in love with Mary.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: erotic, art house, romantic comedy, rough, serious, realistic, disturbing, stylized, sexual, experimental