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Plot Summary:
Gustav and Lena Svensson are facing their 30-year wedding anniversary , but Lena can't stand Gustav anymore and therefore wants to divorce him. The only thing Gustav does is to watch sport - any sport at any time - and doesn't give Lena any attention at all. Gustav however, thinks that everything is great and doesn't think they can give up just a week before their anniversary . Lena gives Gustav one absolute last chance and they go off on a love weekend where Gustav will have to prove that Lena is more important than football and TV. But at the hotel football legend Tommy Franzén shows up and messes everything up for Gustav!.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 748
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 84 min
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When Will You Get Married? (2015)
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Dinda is a successful Hotel Manager in Jakarta, but her parents think that she's a failure because she's still single in her 30s. An unacceptable thing for her parents who keeps their traditional culture by heart, where women should have babies in their early 20s. Dinda finally give in by her parents' pressure. She devise a plan to hire an actor, Satrio, to pretend to become her boyfriend for a week. She brings along Satrio to Jogjakarta for her parents' wedding anniversary party. But what it seems as a harmless plan turns into chaos. All Dinda's plan didn't work out as she hope to be. Satrio turns out to be an idealistic and eccentric actor who never follow Dinda's scenario and always has his own act to charm Dinda's parents. Dinda is trying juggling everything in order,but little does she knows that her parents also has their own scenario for Dinda. Hilarity ensues.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 115 min
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Remember Me? (1997)
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A domestic farce exposes the eccentricities of a "typical" middle class, suburban family who find their lives thrown into a crisis with the unexpected arrival of one of the wife's old flames.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: surreal, independent film
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Numbskull Emptybrook (1973)
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Uuno goes with his wife to spend summer holiday to their villa in country, studies playing of the violin in a correspondence course and constructs an own violin with do-it-yourself-method, but quits his career when he perceives that takes his free time too much and comes back to live the life "in the shadow of a fridge". In the start scene of film a priest (Ere Kokkonen as voice) says in the Uuno's weddings that his complete name is Uuno Eero Turhapuro, whereas it's in the all later Uuno-films Uuno Daavid Goljat Turhapuro.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: black and white
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Lily in Love (1984)
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Insulted when his screenwriter wife writes a leading role for a younger man, aging Broadway idol Fitz Wynn disguises himself as a handsome young Italian.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 252
Genere: Comedy
Country: Hungary, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, neo screwball comedy
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And the Wife Shall Revere Her Husband (1965)
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When a man decides to marry the woman he's been living with, she stops being the silent patient person she was and claims to be the boss in the house. Her behaviour changes so much after the marriage that the husband gets so irritated as to ask for a divorce even a few hours later.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 105 min
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Camerieri (1995)
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Four waiters and a cook working at a seaside restaurant hate each other but still keep working together for lack of better opportunities. One day the old owner sells the restaurant to a wealthy industrialist, who must decide whether to keep it or turn it into a furniture showroom. During a last luncheon for the new owner the waiters will have to prove their worth to save their jobs.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Comedy
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Duration: 101 min
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The Old Maid (1972)
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Muriel is a shy woman who bluffs and blusters around in order to hide her shyness and to protect her loneliness, even though she longs wistfully for a companion of some sort. She has been lonely so long that now she is an old maid and has never been wooed. In this gentle French film, Muriel gets a glimpse of romance when Gabriel walks into the seaside hotel she is vacationing in. His car has broken down, and he has to stay there for a few days while it is repaired. Hers is the only dinner table with room at it, and Gabriel cannot prevent himself from charming women. She is stiff with him at first, but soon they develop a friendship.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 504
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 85 min
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Wolfgang cannot make up his mind whether to choose a pretty young thing without money or a rich widow. Egon his friend advises him to choose the young girl and leads rich and ugly widow Olga to the altar himself. Now he lives in the lap of luxury, but his jealous wife never lets him out of her sight. Wolfgang takes the hen-pecked husband to the "Ball of the Piggies", where Egon promptly succumbs to the charms of an ever so sweet and sexy Piggy, those of his wife. While Olga ransacks the hotel in search of Egon the next morning, the real beneficiaries are Wolfgang and Eva who chalk up the nocturnal happenings to experience.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 82 min
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The Farmer Has a Wife (1986)
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The farmer now has found a wife.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 115 min
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For Better and Worse (2015)
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A couple on the brink of divorce attempts to hide their crisis at a grand wedding, but it turns out they are not the only ones with false appearances.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 761
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 86 min
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Round Numbers (1992)
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A housewife who despises society's obsession with health and looks suspects her husband of cheating on her with a hot model in a local health spa. She decides to infiltrate the spa, find the woman and get her revenge. But is it that simple?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
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Veinteañera, Divorciada y Fantástica (2020)
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Regina, our young protagonist, always dreamed of getting married. And she did it - but the dream lasted much less than she thought and now she has to face life in a very funny way as a divorcee.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min
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21 Ways to Ruin a Marriage (2013)
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The film follows Sanna, who sets out to document the countless ways there are to ruin a marriage for her doctoral thesis.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, melancholic, sentimental, captivating, sexual, sexy
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Yrrol: An Enormously Well Thought Out Movie (1994)
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Yrrol: An Enormously Well Thought Out Movie. Sketch comedy.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, black comedy, sketch comedy, dark comedy, fun
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 246
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Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
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No Thank You (2014)
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Heli Valkonen is desperately in love with her husband. But Matti is just not in the mood. He is only interested in playing computer games, dressed in worn out fleece pants. For him, a shoulder massage is the highest form of intimacy. When subtle hints, nice words and fetching clothes won't help, Heli resorts in direct, and increasingly direct action - in vain.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 590
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 97 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
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Country: Japan
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Cassette Love (1981)
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A comedy directed by Rolf Lyssy.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 28
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A marriage therapist attempts to fix her own marriage by focusing on how to change her husband.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 924
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IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 242
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IMDB Votes: 134
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IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 829
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Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
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François and Charlotte directed together a gourmet hotel and restaurant on the edge of the sea, but their marital relationship is not fixed beauty: obsessive hard, Francis wants his first star in the Michelin Guide while Charlotte, at the dawn of the quarantine, dreams of a first child. This already complicated situation will literally explode the day where Charlotte's first husband, Alex, disembarked in their lives while everyone believed him dead in the terrible tsunami of 2004.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 543
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Country: France, Belgium
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Game of Four (2007)
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When a man & woman discover their spouses are having an affair with each other, they secretly plot to break them up and win them back.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 766
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Country: France
Duration: 88 min
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Catherine and Yann, happily married for many years, should have spent the year travelling abroad. But since he sold his business, Yann has been too busy with his bonsai trees and keeps postponing the big trip. Things go from bad to worse when their 27-year-old broke daughter and her boyfriend lose their apartment and come knocking on the door to stay. With Yann’s mid-life crisis spinning out of control, their couch surfing daughter and partner getting increasingly invasive and their stay becoming indefinite, Catherine will try everything to kick them out of the parental home and get her life back on track!.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 359
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IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
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IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 304
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Loverboy (1989)
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Randy Bodek works as a pizza delivery boy at Senor Pizza to make a few extra bucks. Some customers are special, though: When the order is for a pizza with extra anchovies, it means the female customers are looking for some loving. "Loverboy's" reputation soon makes him very popular, but when Mom Bodek suddenly feels like some extra anchovies, things are looking grim for young Randy.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
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IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 719
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After Venky, Varun also gets married thinking he can keep the wife in control but both of them gets frustrated with the marital life which generates fun.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
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Country: India
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