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Plot Summary:
A group of ex-university students reunite to perform a Shakespeare play in a quaint English village.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film
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We Need to Talk About Kieran (2011)
Plot Summary:
Turning down an offer from Harvard, bumbling genius Kieran Edwards opts to follow his true love Juliet to The University of Nottingham. Within days of arriving, he finds her in bed with a muscular sportsman. Heartbroken and vulnerable, Kieran finds himself as the unlikely student of a pick up guru. Using an array of unorthodox techniques, Kieran immerses himself in a new area of study with geeky enthusiasm. To the surprise of his teacher and his contemporaries, Kieran becomes a phenomenon on the Nottingham dating scene. As his success levels soar out of control, Kieran's studies and morals begin to suffer. Can the friendship of an unusual course tutor tempt him out of the late night bars and back into the library?.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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Abgeschminkt! (1993)
Plot Summary:
An original satire about women of the 90s in search of the men of their dreams. Franzy believes she's through with men, but desperately needs new amorous story lines for the comic strip she writes for a newspaper. So she observes her friend Maischa struggling to satisfy her need for love -- and someone who knows how to install her new shelf. Since joiner Klaus demands too much attention, she sets her eyes on the good-looking footballer Rene.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 596
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags:
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Train for Hollywood (1987)
Plot Summary:
A young woman is bitten by the acting bug after seeing Marilyn Monroe in "Some Like It Hot". She patterns herself after MM and after finishing high school goes for screen tests to the Film Academy. Rejected because of her crooked teeth she takes a job of selling beer on a train and starts writing to Billy Wilder, trying to be casted in his next movie. At the trains station she meets a would-be cinematographer who is color blind. They become friends sharing their dreams of going to Hollywood. One day she finds a goldfish trapped in a beer bottle: she sets her free and makes three wishes, not for herself but for her friends. To her surprise all of them come true. As a reward she gets a long awaited call from Billy Wilder. Written by Polish Cinema Database.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Ready, Steady, Charlie! (2003)
Plot Summary:
In a Swiss church, Antonio Carrera is getting married to the pretty daughter of an Italian Mafioso, when army police officers march in and take him to the 15 week compulsory Swiss military training.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, sexy
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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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Out of the City (2000)
Plot Summary:
A computer programmer and his son are going out of the city for vacation.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 491
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Sonja and the Bull (2012)
Plot Summary:
Sonja, a city girl from Zagreb, a vegetarian and a hardcore animal-rights activist, strongly opposes bullfighting in Dalmatinska zagora (Dalmatian Hinterland). People find this irritating and they conclude that no matter how passionately Sonja loves animals, she would never dare to stand in front of a bull. Bets are raised and Sonja faces a challenge in the form of Ante, known far and wide for his powers of persuasion.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Croatia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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Hard Shell, Soft Shell (2021)
Plot Summary:
Az works for an oyster farmer in Sète. He knows oysters by heart, he opens them by the hundreds. In one of them, Az decides to hide a ring, to ask his girlfriend Jess to marry him. She doesn't say yes. Fortunately, his band of friends are ready to do anything to help him get his head out of the water.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 316
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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Tulipany (2004)
Plot Summary:
The story of male friendship, vitality and the joy of living, even after turning 60 years old. When one of the three friends is taken to hospital, the others are there for him.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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All's Well That Ends Well (1981)
Plot Summary:
Helena loves Bertram, but he's of noble birth, while she's just a doctor's daughter. But Bertram is at the court of the King of France, who is ill, and Helena has a remedy that might cure him and win her the right to marry Bertram. But does Bertram want to marry her?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags:
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Dany the Ravager (1972)
Plot Summary:
Candide adventurous, seductive Dany goes astray despite herself in dark and comical adventures of a sexual nature via moult meetings hitchhiking. A butterfly hunter, a couple libertine fan of the whip, a sex maniac hearse driver, a dangerous madman that confuses women and sheep, a gangster duo, a transvestite singer, none resist the beauty and innocence Dany the wheel model.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, sex comedy
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P.R.O.F.S. (1985)
Plot Summary:
A clique of four young teachers at a high school looks critically at their colleagues. To avoid falling in the same routine, they bring new ideas into the school lessons and play little games and pranks in their spare time -- sometimes get even more childish than their pupils. When they get opposition from the other teachers, they play tricks to get rid of them.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 946
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Somebody I Used to Know (2023)
Plot Summary:
On a trip to her hometown, workaholic Ally reminisces with her first love Sean, and starts to question everything about the person she's become. Things only get more confusing when she meets Sean's fiancé, Cassidy, who reminds her of the person she used to be.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: romantic comedy, interesting
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Where the Grass Is Greener (2008)
Plot Summary:
A romantic comedy about an unemployed young woman from East Germany who ends up taking a summer job in the Swiss Alps and has to contend with stubborn cows, an amorous dairyman and illegal workers from the Balkans after a German passport.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Lover (1992)
Plot Summary:
Marie lives with Antoine, but while he is away she meets Paul, a filmmaker visiting from Canada.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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Women Talking Dirty (1999)
Plot Summary:
A lively, outspoken single mother develops an unlikely friendship with a shy cartoonist.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 815
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sentimental, clever, touching, humorous, realistic, contemplative, talky, semi serious, independent film
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The Misadventures of Margaret (1998)
Plot Summary:
A timid, insecure popular author with an overly-attentive professor husband decide to write an erotic novel. With encouragement from her sister and a bi-sexual friend, she goes to France with the intent of doing research at an inn where a diary she had been using documented erotic encounters. Instead she finds the inn is now a cloister for singing nuns. However, a young, divorced sound engineer is also there taping the nuns. While attracted, she mostly succumbs only to new fantasies until he follows her home to New York.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 652
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, UK, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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The Seductor (1995)
Plot Summary:
The life of Cosme, a boy of fifteen, is altered with the arrival of a new neighbor, Merche, a married woman, much older than him. Cosme falls for her and intends to conquer the woman.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sexy, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, teen sex comedy, teen comedy
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You Can't Hurry Love (1988)
Plot Summary:
A comedy of a guy who moonlights as a low-budget director of commercials, and is looking for someone to love. So, he pays a dating service and is videotaped on several occasions. The film shows the many women who seduce our hero, until he finally finds his true love.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 576
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, parody
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Men on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (2022)
Plot Summary:
Seven men, all city-dwellers aged between 17 and 70, with nothing in common apart from the fact that they are all on the verge of a nervous breakdown, meet up at a lonely sta- tion for an unusual course in the wild that is supposed to get them back on their feet. Each step in this boot camp, designed by an eccentric and feisty female coach, aims to reveal them to themselves. The task seems to be a tough one, especially as nothing goes as planned between these men.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Comedy
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Life is Wonderful (2018)
Plot Summary:
Life Is Wonderful is a feel-good movie about love and longing. Best friends Mees and Boelie are spending a beautiful spring day in Amsterdam's Vondelpark. It seems like just a normal day, until they meet the young and attractive Panda. While the heat rises in the park, it's nowhere to be found between the long-married couple Etta and Ernst-Jan. Ernst-Jan suspects Etta of cheating and has his own ideas of how to catch her in the act. We also meet Rosa and Kees, old lovers whose paths cross after decades of not seeing each other. On this spring day in Amsterdam, their love starts blooming again.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, black and white
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Love Match (2014)
Plot Summary:
A sexy comedy about a professor and his female student.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, humorous, captivating, entertaining, sexy, sex comedy
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Bimboland (1998)
Plot Summary:
A shy French anthropologist who happens to be secretly in love with her college superior, chooses "bimbos" as the subject of her thesis. She becomes one of them in order to do that, and the professor she loves falls for her new identity.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, sentimental, offbeat, humorous, realistic, not serious
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Hard Off (1999)
Plot Summary:
Claude, an auctioneer in his 50s, forms with Marie a couple united for fifteen years and still in love. However, in the intimacy, and in spite of a desire always alive, Claude has problems of erection. While Marie agrees with a smile of these failures, Claude becomes angry and decides to consult a specialist. There followed various medical examinations which Marie mocks gently. To reassure himself, he decides to seduce other women. While on a business trip to Geneva, he gets the Viagra pill, but his attempt at seduction fails. On his return to Paris, Marie, more seductive than ever, strives to make him forget his age and his weaknesses.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic, sex comedy, sexual, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexy
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Among Giants (1998)
Plot Summary:
A manager hires Ray, off the books, to paint all the power towers in a 15-mile stretch of high-tension wires outside Sheffield. Ray's crew of men are friends, especially Ray with Steve, a young Romeo. Into the mix comes Gerry, an Australian with a spirit of adventure and mountain climbing skills. She wants a job, and against the others' advice, who don't want a woman on the job, Ray hires her. Then she and Ray fall in love. He asks her to marry him, gives her a ring. Steve's jealous; Ray's ex-wife complains that he spends on Gerry, not his own kids, and she predicts that Gerry won't stay around. Plus, there's pressure to finish the job fast. Economics, romance, and wanderlust spark the end.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 969
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: melancholic, intense, sincere, emotional, social, bleak, humorous, realistic, semi serious, erotic
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The Butterfly Effect (1995)
Plot Summary:
Luis, a Spanish student,goes to London to get a course in Economics. He lives at a house the neighbour of her aunt, but when she broke up with her husband, Luis goes to live with her.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 433
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain, France, UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: manga, sexy, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, biting, sexual
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Naked in New York (1993)
Plot Summary:
Naked in New York begins in the car of grown up Jake, he is talking to us about his girlfriend, Joanne, (watch for the facial expressions) and to whom you can turn to for help while facing life ('your parents, nyaa, I don't think so'). From there it flashes back to his memories of his parents, college, house across from a squirrel infested peanut factory, best friend, writing career and Joanne.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: clever, talky, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film, sexy, touching, enigmatic
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The Match (1999)
Plot Summary:
The Match is a romantic comedy set against the story of a grudge football match between two pubs. The prize for the winner of the centenary match is the the closure of their opponent's bar. The Match was mainly filmed around Straiton in Ayrshire.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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My Teacher's Wife (1999)
Plot Summary:
Todd Boomer is a college student aspiring to get into University. His chances are looking poor when his maths teacher, fails him in every maths test. Help arrives in the guise of the gorgeous Vicki, a mathematical genius who decides to tutor Todd. As the relationship develops,Todd finds himself in an affair with Vicki unknowing of her marriage to his math teacher.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sexual, sex comedy, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, sexy
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Venus Beauty (1999)
Plot Summary:
Madam Nadine manages with pride the "Vénus Beauté" Salon which offers relaxation, massage and make-up services. The owner and her three beauticians: Samantha, Marianne and Angèle are pros. Contrary to her friend Marianne, who still dreams of the big day, Angèle no longer believes in love. Marie, the youngest of the three employees, discovers love in the hands of a sixty year-old former pilot, who risks everything.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sexy, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, cult film