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Plot Summary:
Two actresses fall prey to the supernatural manipulations of a nightclub magician.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 617
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 125 min
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The King of Paris (1995)
Plot Summary:
Victor Derval is returning home after a performance when he is hailed by Lisa, a young Hungarian woman. Her motives are mysterious; is she simply a star-struck peasant girl, or an ambitious, manipulative aspiring star?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: avant garde
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The Skin of Sorrow (2010)
Plot Summary:
In 19th-century France, a man (Thomas Coumans) magically has his wishes come true but at a price that shortens his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 633
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, philosophical, enigmatic, captivating, sad, visually appealing, mystical, psychotronic, awful
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Duelle (1976)
Plot Summary:
The Daughter of the Moon battles the Daughter of the Sun over a magical diamond that will allow the winner to remain on Earth, specifically in modern day Paris.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: surreal, experimental, stylized, art house, mystic, allegory
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Bittersweet (1995)
Plot Summary:
Finnish movie.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Someone to Love (1987)
Plot Summary:
During a party at movie director Danny's home, a group of friends and actors people are reunited to converse about love and relationship. Orson Welles is the "judge" of these conversations.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: independent film, eighties
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Theatre (1978)
Plot Summary:
Human attempts to understand why when acting they are all going through the heart, but in real life are playing a role.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 322
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags:
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Yannick (2023)
Plot Summary:
In the middle of a performance of the play "Le Cocu", a very bad boulevard, Yannick gets up and interrupts the show to take the evening back in hand.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: independent film, dark comedy, metafiction
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The Wicket Gate (1974)
Plot Summary:
Wiktor Zawadzki is a playwright who flies to Gdansk to have a look at the rehearsals of his new avantgarde play. Although the play asks serious existential questions, the stage director and the actors have no artistic idea for it. Unable to find a room in a hotel, he ends up in a private house inhabited by an old woman and her young attractive daughter Krystyna. Wiktor becomes briefly involved in their lives - he has a love affair with the daughter and discovers the truth about the mother's difficult mental condition.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tension, suspense
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Mama Turns 100 (1979)
Plot Summary:
Ana and her husband Antonio arrive in the manor in the countryside of Spain where she worked as a nanny many years ago, for the centennial birthday of the matriarch.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, biting, allegory, tragicomedy, suspense, weird
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L'Amour Fou (1969)
Plot Summary:
L'Amour Fou follows the dissolution of the marriage between Claire, an actress (played by Bulle Ogier), and Sebastien, her director (Jean-Pierre Kalfon).
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 762
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 252 min
Plot tags: experimental, avant garde
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Serious as Pleasure (1975)
Plot Summary:
"In Serieux comme le plaisir, two men and a woman live quite happily together in a romantic liaison. The woman is probably wealthy anyway, so the trio doesn't worry much about money. One day they decide to take a trip in their beat-up car, managing the whole affair in their own special, insouciant manner. They are followed by a suspicious policeman who thinks there's something fishy about this group...".
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: road movie, art house, cult film
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Out 1 (1971)
Plot Summary:
While two dueling theater groups rehearse plays by Aeschylus, two solitary individuals wander the Parisian streets hustling the populace for cash and unravel a conspiracy.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 776 min
Plot tags: avant garde, art house, inspirational, sexy, experimental, contemplative, semi documentary
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Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)
Plot Summary:
A mysteriously linked pair of young women find their daily lives pre-empted by a strange boudoir melodrama that plays itself out in a hallucinatory parallel reality.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 193 min
Plot tags: surreal, experimental, mind bending, psychedelic, mindfuck, disturbing, art house, cult classic, psychological, atmospheric
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The Story of Marie and Julien (2003)
Plot Summary:
Julien lives alone with his cat. He dreams of Marie, and a few minutes later, he sees her on the street and makes a date. He asks her to move in with him, and she does. Her boyfriend is dead, the rest of her past a mystery. Although they quickly seem to fall in love, she sometimes pulls away suddenly from Julien, is distant, and spends the night in a hotel. She also dreads something imminent and warns Julien that if he missteps, he will lose her and all memory of her. Julien responds by digging into her past: what explains her remodeling an upstairs garret room, her nightly dreams, her fears? What can Julien, now desperately in love, do when he learns why? Can either rescue the other?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, emotional, erotic, sexy, slasher, serious, realistic, contemplative
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My Worst Nightmare (2011)
Plot Summary:
Agathe runs an art gallery. Her husband François is a publisher. Together they have one son, and in every way seem to be the picture of normality — but emotions are stewing under the surface. All it takes is the arrival of a complete stranger for things to start unravelling. Patrick is brash, uncouth and totally unselfconscious.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, funny, entertaining, cynical, sentimental, realistic, semi serious
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Wuthering Heights (1985)
Plot Summary:
Rivette's unique take on Bronte's famous novel "Wuthering Heights".
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Drama, Romance, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, realistic, gloomy
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Slogan (1969)
Plot Summary:
Commercial director Serge Faberge (Serge Gainsbourg) is having an affair with Evelyne (Jane Birkin), the 18 year old fiancee of friend Hugh (James Mitchell). His own pregnant wife Francoise (Andréa Parisy) usually does not mind his dalliances, until he actually walks out on her and their newborn baby to move in with Evelyne. The shoe is on the other foot when dashing stuntman Dado (Gilles Millinaire) catches Evelyne's eye in Venice.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 471
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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The Great Role (2004)
Plot Summary:
When a famous American film director, Rudolph Grichenberg, comes to Paris to cast a Yiddish version of 'The Merchant of Venice,' Maurice Kurtz and his friends try out for the role of Shylock. Thinking he has finally been cast in an important film role after years of obscurity, Maurice rushes home to tell his beloved wife, Perla. Later, Maurice discovers the part has gone to a famous American star, but he must play the role of his life to be sure Perla, who has become very ill with cancer, doesn't find out.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: crying
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The Gang of Four (1989)
Plot Summary:
Four inseparable high-school seniors gain from each other the courage to face the harsh realities of their rapidly approaching adulthood.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: stylized, psychological, serious, realistic, witty, suspense
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These Foolish Things (2006)
Plot Summary:
As war looms on the horizon, a hopeful ingenue (Zoe Tapper) finds herself caught between the warring affections of a playwright (David Leon) and a director (Andrew Lincoln) in 1930s London. Director Julia Taylor-Stanley's heartwarming ensemble piece features zesty performances by Anjelica Huston as an eccentric investor, Mark Umbers as a vain matinee idol, and Terence Stamp as a tart butler. And don't miss the immortal Lauren Bacall in a small role.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 568
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, captivating, emotional, serious, realistic, crying
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Non-Fiction (2018)
Plot Summary:
Alain and Léonard, a writer and a publisher, are overwhelmed by the new practices of the publishing world. Deaf to the desires of their wives, they struggle to find their place in a society whose code they can no longer crack.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, captivating, melancholic, existential
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Va Savoir (Who Knows?) (2001)
Plot Summary:
Quick-witted, well-read cultured types revolve around each other in a delightful potpourri of theatre, romanticism and theft.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 154 min
Plot tags: disturbing, lyrical, feel good, humorous, realistic, talky, meditative, non-linear, clever, contemplative
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Twice Upon a Yesterday (1998)
Plot Summary:
Victor Bukowski is an out-of-work actor with problems. He's got a lousy agent, he has a habit of falling out with directors and he's still in love with his ex-girlfriend. However, Victor is about to embark on an unexpected emotional journey which will make him confront his future and his past mistakes.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Spain, France, UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: romantic, romantic comedy, funny, touching, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, independent film, fairy tale, psychological
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La Belle Époque (2019)
Plot Summary:
Victor, a disillusioned sexagenarian, sees his life turned upside down on the day when Antoine, a brilliant entrepreneur, offers him a new kind of attraction: mixing theatrical artifices and historical reconstruction, this company offers his clients a chance to dive back into the era of their choice. Victor then chose to relive the most memorable week of his life: the one where, 40 years earlier, he met the great love.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: romantic, humorous, contemplative, psychological, touching, sweet, unusual plot structure, intellectual, independent film, cute
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Bewitched (2005)
Plot Summary:
Thinking he can overshadow an unknown actress in the part, an egocentric actor unknowingly gets a witch cast in an upcoming television remake of the classic show "Bewitched".
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 75000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, humorous, witty, entertaining, satirical, romantic comedy, light, uplifting, teen
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A Good Marriage (1982)
Plot Summary:
Sabine vows to give up married lovers, and is determined to find a good husband. Her best friend Clarisse introduces her to her cousin Edmond, a busy lawyer from Paris. Sabine pursues Edmond, with the encouragement of Clarisse, but Edmond does not seem very interested.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, captivating, realistic, contemplative, talky, semi serious, eighties
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Day for Night (1973)
Plot Summary:
A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: humorous, sexy, tense, atmospheric, romantic, intense, sentimental, feel good, semi serious, realistic
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Life of Riley (2014)
Plot Summary:
In the midst of rehearsals for a new play, amateur dramatics proponents Colin and Kathryn receive the shattering news that their friend George is fatally ill and only has a few months to live.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, talky, semi serious, romantic, captivating, entertaining, sexy, clever, crying
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Secret Things (2002)
Plot Summary:
Two young women find themselves struggling to survive in Paris, street-wise Nathalie, a stripper, and naïve Sandrine, a barmaid. Together, they discover that sex can be used to their advantage, and pleasure.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sexual, stylized, sensual, lyrical, psychological, controversial, art house, sex comedy
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The Taste of Others (2000)
Plot Summary:
Agnès Jaoui co-writes and directs this romantic comedy of manners set in France's rustic Provence. Unpolished and ultra-pragmatic industrialist Jean-Jacques Castella (co-scripter Jean-Pierre Bacri) reluctantly attends Racine's tragedy "Berenice" in order to see his niece play a bit part. He is taken with the play's strangely familiar-looking leading lady Clara Devaux (Anne Alvaro). During the course of the show, Castella soon remembers that he once hired and then promptly fired the actress as an English language tutor. He immediately goes out and signs up for language lessons. Thinking that he is nothing but an ill-tempered philistine with bad taste, Clara rejects him until Castella charms her off her feet.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: biting, meditative, sincere, touching, art house, clever, witty, talky, powerful, humorous