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Plot Summary:
Francis, now 17, is still in love with Moondoggy. She can persuade her parents to allow them a journey to Rome, together with two of her and two of his friends. However they have to take an adult with them, so they choose Peter's eccentric aunt. In Rome they get the beautiful guide Daniela, who's fascinating the guys and making especially Gidget jealous. She starts looking elsewhere herself.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 764
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: slang, psychotronic
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Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding! (1967)
Plot Summary:
In this comedy, an aspiring singer finds herself single and pregnant. The story begins when she is rushed to the hospital to give birth. She is joined by three men; all of them want to marry her. The story of her pregnancy and her rise to stardom are told in flashback.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 567
Genere: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Donovan's Reef (1963)
Plot Summary:
'Guns' Donovan prefers carousing with his pals Doc Dedham and 'Boats' Gilhooley, until Dedham's high-society daughter Amelia shows up in their South Seas paradise.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: light, entertaining, scenic, humorous, feel good, retro, picaresque, realistic, semi serious, funny
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No One Will Notice You're Naked (1971)
Plot Summary:
Rosario Trapanese is determined to show he is not the typical old-fashion Sicilian. When his firm sends him to Denmark, a more sexual liberated nation than Italy, he immediately adopts the Danish "free-sexual-taboo" way of life. He meets and married Karen and succeeded to come back in Italy. Once here, he discovers Karen did a porn movie and his determination on being open minded is over. The typical Sicilian jealousy drives him crazy. Anyway, after a while, Rosario understands that what his wife did before to meet him it has not to be an issue for him. Karen confesses Rosario she signed a contract for a second movie and she could refuse only by paying a fine. The couple doesn't have enough money so they need to find a solution. And what a solution!.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Those Lips, Those Eyes (1980)
Plot Summary:
A small-town star helps a young apprentice land the girl of his dreams.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 322
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963)
Plot Summary:
Stories about three very different women and the men they attract. Adelina sells black-market cigarettes in Naples, is married to the unemployed Carmine, and faces a jail sentence. She can avoid it as long as she's pregnant. Several years and seven children later, Carmine is exhausted, so jail looks inescapable as does her contempt for Carmine. In Milan, Anna drives a Rolls, is bored, and picks up a writer. She talks dreamily of running off with him until he dents her car; that gets her emotional attention. Mara, a Roman call girl, turns the head of a naive seminarian, prompting a run-in with his granny and a vow of abstinence. Mara's fizzy lover from Bologna grows impatient.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: anthology, neorealism, sexy, manga, art house, black and white, aesthetic, sex comedy, humorous, realistic
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Sixpack Annie (1975)
Plot Summary:
A buxom, beer-guzzling and naive country gal travels from her small town to Miami to find a 'sugar daddy' to save the family restaurant.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, grindhouse, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, surprise ending, slang, slapstick, teen comedy
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Roman Holiday (1987)
Plot Summary:
TV movie remake of the 1953 original. A bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Carry on Cleo (1964)
Plot Summary:
Two Britons are captured and enslaved by invading Romans and taken to Rome. Hengist Pod creates useless inventions, while Horsa is a brave and cunning fighter. One of their first encounters in Rome leaves Hengist being mistaken for a fighter, and gets drafted into the Royal Guard to protect Cleopatra. Cleo doesn't want him around and plots for his sudden demise.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, humorous, witty, not serious, double entendre, sex comedy, independent film, campy, cult film
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If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969)
Plot Summary:
A group of travelers from the United States race through seven countries in 18 days.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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A New Kind of Love (1963)
Plot Summary:
The fashion industry and Paris provide the setting for a comedy surrounding the mistaken impression that Samantha Blake (Joanne Woodward) is a high-priced call girl, who is to be interviewed by Steve Sherman (Paul Newman), a journalist looking for insights on the profession.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: retro, freeze frame, romantic comedy
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Come September (1961)
Plot Summary:
Robert Talbot, an American millionaire, arrives early for his annual vacation at his luxurious Italian villa. His long-time girlfriend Lisa has given up waiting for him and has decided to marry another man. Meanwhile, his sneaky business associate Maurice secretly misappropriates the villa as a hotel while Talbot is away. The current guests of the "hotel" are a group of young American girls.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: retro, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic comedy
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Sex and the Single Girl (1964)
Plot Summary:
A womanizing reporter for a sleazy tabloid magazine impersonates his hen-pecked neighbor in order to get an expose on renowned psychologist Helen Gurley Brown.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, retro, romantic comedy, cute, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Not with My Wife, You Don't! (1966)
Plot Summary:
During the Korean War, Italian nurse Virna Lisi falls in love with two American fliers, Tony Curtis and George C. Scott. Lisi marries Curtis after he convinces her that Scott has been killed in a plane crash. She soon discovers Scott is alive, but remains happily married to Curtis until Scott re-enters their lives 14 years later. Written by Jeanne Armintrout.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 951
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: retro, humorous, realistic, semi serious, buddy comedy, slapstick comedy, romantic comedy, campy
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Beach Ball (1965)
Plot Summary:
Edd Byrnes tries to get an ethnic-music-studies grant to buy instruments for his rock and roll group.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, sentimental, touching, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slang
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The Malibu Bikini Shop (1986)
Plot Summary:
After inheriting a failing bikini shop, two recent grads decide to make a go of it. One, in the hopes of building it into a successful business, the other, in the hopes of getting to look at lots of women in (and out) of swimsuits. As they try more and more outrageous ways of drumming up business, their antics begin attracting some unwanted attention. Written by Jean-Marc Rocher.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: teen sex comedy, touching, humorous, not serious, realistic, sex comedy, entertaining, cult classic, independent film, sexual
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Beach Party (1963)
Plot Summary:
Anthropology Professor Robert Orwell Sutwell and his secretary Marianne are studying the sex habits of teenagers. The surfing teens led by Frankie and Dee Dee don't have much sex but they sing, battle the motorcycle rats and mice led by Eric Von Zipper and dance to Dick Dale and the Del Tones.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult classic, psychotronic, independent film, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slang, teen sex comedy
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For Those Who Think Young (1964)
Plot Summary:
Surfing college students hang out at a club watching comedian Uncle Woody and drinking Pepsis. Rich playboy "Ding" Pruitt falls for Sandy Palmer. His grandfather tries to have the club closed but is exposed as an ex-bootlegger.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 560
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic
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Beach Blanket Bingo (1965)
Plot Summary:
In the fourth of the highly successful Frankie and Annette beach party movies, a motorcycle gang led by Eric Von Zipper kidnaps singing star Sugar Kane managed by Bullets, who hires sky-diving surfers Steve and Bonnie from Big Drop for a publicity stunt. With the usual gang of kids and a mermaid named Lorelei.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, stylized, psychotronic, funny, independent film, exciting, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Bikini Beach (1964)
Plot Summary:
A millionaire sets out to prove his theory that his pet chimpanzee is as intelligent as the teenagers who hang out on the local beach, where he is intending to build a retirement home.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, slapstick, independent film, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious
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Romulus and the Sabines (1961)
Plot Summary:
An Italian adventure film starring Roger Moore as Romulus in the early days of Rome. His city of thieves is populated entirely by men, and so Romulus is convinced to find some ladies. After finding some in Sabinia, he proceeds to take them to his city and engage them to his men. The Sabines declare war and battle ensues.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy, France, Yugoslavia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Cabin Boy (1994)
Plot Summary:
A foul-mouthed finishing school graduate mistakenly winds up on an ill-fated fishing boat, and faces the wrath of a crew that considers him bad luck.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, melancholic, absurd, talky, not serious, cult classic, spoof, slapstick, nautical
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Virgin Territory (2007)
Plot Summary:
The film is set in Tuscany during the Black Death. As in the Decameron, ten young Florentines take refuge from the plague. But instead of telling stories, they have lusty adventures, bawdy exchanges, romance and swordplay. There are randy nuns, Saracen pirates, and a sexy cow.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy, UK, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sexy, humorous, semi serious, psychological, captivating, sex comedy, perverse, costume drama, realistic, period drama
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Tell Me About Love (2008)
Plot Summary:
Sasha is a boy in his twenties, deeply loving the beautiful Benedetta, who doesn't seem to recognize his existence. Nicole is a French woman in her forties, living in Rome with her husband. They casually meet and start a friendship which becomes a sentimental education foe the boy.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 704
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, light, captivating, sincere, touching, realistic, semi serious
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A Little Romance (1979)
Plot Summary:
A young American girl and a young French boy meet in Paris and fall in love, with the assistance of an old man and his stories.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: teen, sentimental, offbeat, avant garde, grindhouse, touching, feel good, humorous, captivating, realistic
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Casanova (2005)
Plot Summary:
With a reputation for seducing members of the opposite sex, regardless of their marital status, a notorious womanizer discovers a beauty who seems impervious to his charms. However, as he continues to pursue the indifferent lady, he finds himself falling in love.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: romantic, period piece, light, costume drama, factual, cute, historical drama, feel good, psychological, emotional
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Love Wrecked (2005)
Plot Summary:
On a Caribbean cruise, Jenny (Bynes) is marooned on a beach with her rock and roll idol. Deliriously in love with the idea of time alone with him, she manages to hide the fact that they're a stone's throw away from their resort.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, feel good, romantic, entertaining, romantic comedy, teen, semi serious, teen comedy
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Dish Dogs (2000)
Plot Summary:
Two friends travel from town to town taking jobs as dishwashers until they both find love and must choose separate paths.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 730
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, sex comedy, realistic, talky, independent film, hot
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Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961)
Plot Summary:
Francis is desperate: her parents want to force her to come with them on vacation to Hawaii - just during the two weeks when her beloved "Moondoggy" is home from College. When he suggests her to go for it, she's even more in panic - doesn't he care to be with her? So she sets out for Hawaii in the worst mood. On the plane she meets the sociable Abby, who gives her the advice to forget about Jeff - and regrets it shortly after, when Francis follows the advice and steals her boyfriend Eddie, a famous dancer. But then Jeff discovers he's missing Francis.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: black and white, humorous, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic
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The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003)
Plot Summary:
Lizzie McGuire has graduated from middle school and takes a trip to Rome, Italy.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: teen, feel good, romantic, sweet, entertaining, humorous, romantic comedy, light, sex comedy, realistic
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Letters to Juliet (2010)
Plot Summary:
An American girl on vacation in Italy finds an unanswered "letter to Juliet" -- one of thousands of missives left at the fictional lover's Verona courtyard, which are typically answered by a the "secretaries of Juliet" -- and she goes on a quest to find the lovers referenced in the letter.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 106000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, scenic, feel good, romantic comedy, teen, cute, sweet, semi serious, heartbreaking