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Plot Summary:
What is the common point between a cow that falls from the sky, a single hardware merchant and manic, a young Indian lost, and a nice Normande who loves the manic gifts? A simple question: everything that happens to us falls-t-it really the chance?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 367
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Near Death Experience (2014)
Plot Summary:
Follows a man wandering in the wilderness.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, atmospheric, stylized, offbeat
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We Need Your Vote (2018)
Plot Summary:
Arnaud, a 25-year-old man, enters the campaign team of a candidate for the French presidential election as assistant to the Director of communication. While discovering the techniques, intricacies and rivalries of the electoral campaign, he will feel fascination for this world, as well as for its attractive director, Agnès.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 542
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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The Brigade (2017)
Plot Summary:
Bénédicte Meursault, a female firefighter, has just been transferred to a small fire brigade in the South of France. She is welcomed by Philippe, 45, the wise captain of the brigade. Soon after being introduced to the men, the young woman jumps into action. Unfortunately, while rescuing the victims of a terrible car crash, she does not find one of the injured who was ejected thirty meters away. Now the man is in hospital in a coma and he may die because of her. Completely upset, Bénédicte decides to resign but Philippe dissuades her from doing it.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 480
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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The Vets (2019)
Plot Summary:
In the heart of Morvan, Nico, the last vet in the area, struggles to save his patients, his clinic, and his family. When Michel, his partner and mentor, announces his retirement, Nico knows that the hard part is yet to come. "Don't worry, I've found the next generation" Except that ... The next generation is Alexandra, a 24-hour graduate, brilliant, misanthropic, and not at all willing to return to bury herself in the village of her childhood. Will Nico manage to make her stay?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 581
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, light, touching, humorous
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News from Planet Mars (2016)
Plot Summary:
Philippe Mars wants to please everyone. He wants to be a good father, a friendly ex-husband, a helpful colleague and an understanding brother. Unfortunately, his little world goes out of its planned orbit. His son becomes a hardcore vegetarian, his daughter a compulsive swot, whilst his sister exhibits giant paintings of their naked parents. At the office he must face the rampages of his mentally unstable colleague Jerôme who one night turns up at his door with a young woman in tow who has just been released from a clinic.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: surreal, unusual plot structure, captivating, happy, exciting
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Villa Caprice (2020)
Plot Summary:
Famous lawyer, Luc Germon adds Gilles Fontaine, one of the most powerful bosses in France, to his clients. He is suspected of having acquired a magnificent property, Villa Caprice, under questionable conditions.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 314
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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Normal (2023)
Plot Summary:
14-year-old Lucie is a resourceful teenager who takes care of her loving yet unreliable father, William, who has multiple sclerosis. Whilst William hangs out in his wardrobe and devises pranks and jokes to make his daughter smile, Lucie tries her best at school while juggling a job in a sandwich shop and all the chores at home. Her vividly imaginative mind and the novel she is writing are her only distractions. But when a social worker is appointed to visit them, Lucie and William elaborate a complex plan to make social services believe they live a perfectly normal life.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Back to Mom's (2016)
Plot Summary:
At 40, Stephanie loses her job and is forced to move back in with her mother. She is welcomed with open arms to the joys of overheated apartment, Francis Cabrel playing on loop, Scrabble games and precious motherly advice on how to behave at the table and live her life.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: captivating, happy, telenovela
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Venice Calling (2019)
Plot Summary:
Emile is fifteen. He lives in Montargis, between a sweet-crazy father and a mother who has always dyed his hair blond, because, it seems, he is more beautiful like that. When the girl who pleases him more than anything invites him to Venice for the holidays, he is overjoyed. Only problem, his parents decide to accompany him - This is the story of a teenager born into an unclassifiable family, the story of a first love, miraculous and fragile. This is the story of an initiatory and incredible journey where life often takes unawares, but where Venice, it will be at the rendezvous.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, road movie
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The Student and Mister Henri (2015)
Plot Summary:
Because of his wavering health, Monsieur Henri can no longer live alone in his Paris appartment. Particularly grumpy, he ends up nonetheless accepting his son Paul's suggestion that he let one of his rooms out to a young female student. Far from falling for her charms, Henri uses her to orchestrate utter family chaos.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sentimental, captivating, humorous, melancholic, suspenseful, exciting
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Lost in Paris (2016)
Plot Summary:
Fiona visits Paris for the first time to assist her myopic Aunt Martha. Catastrophes ensue, mainly involving Dom, a homeless man who has yet to have an emotion or thought he was afraid of expressing.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: non-linear, slapstick comedy, slapstick, whimsical
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Just to Be Sure (2017)
Plot Summary:
Erwan, a strapping Breton who clears mines for a living, is shaken when he discovers that his father is not his father. Despite his affection for the man who raised him, he quietly sets out to find his biological father, and succeeds in locating Joseph, an endearing old codger he takes a liking to. Just when things look settled, another unexpected “bomb” hits Erwan in the form of Anna, an elusive nymph.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, humorous, captivating, disturbing
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Back to Burgundy (2017)
Plot Summary:
Jean left his hometown ten years ago. When his father falls ill, he comes back and reunites with his sister Juliette and his brother Jérémie. As seasons go by around their vineyard, they'll have to trust each other again.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, thought provoking, humorous, feel good
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How to Be a Good Wife (2020)
Plot Summary:
Paulette Van Der Beck and her husband have been running the housekeeping school of Bitche in Alsace for many years. Their mission is to train teenage girls to become the perfect housewives at a time when women were expected to be subservient to their husband. After the sudden death of her husband, Paulette discovers that the school is on the verge of bankruptcy and has to take her responsibilities. But while preparations are underway for the best housekeeping competition TV show, she and her lively students start questioning their beliefs as the nation-wide protests of May 1968 transform society around them. Reunited with her first love, André, and with the help of her eccentric stepsister Gilberte and strict nun Marie-Therese, Paulette joins forces with the schoolgirls to overcome their suppressed status and become liberated women.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, satirical, disturbing
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Saint Amour (2016)
Plot Summary:
Every year, Bruno makes a tour of all the wine stands, without setting foot outside the Show’s premises and without ever finishing his wine trail. This year, his father suggests they finish it together, but a real wine trail, across the French countryside. Accompanied by Mike, a young, quirky taxi driver, they set off in the direction of France’s major wine regions. Together, they are going to discover not only the wine trails, but also the road that leads back to Love.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: road movie
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The Price of Fame (2014)
Plot Summary:
A criminal duo learns of Charlie Chaplin's death and decides to steal his coffin to hold for a ransom.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 904
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Switzerland, France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: realistic, feel good, humorous, entertaining, light, sincere, captivating, offbeat, serious
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Father and Sons (2018)
Plot Summary:
Joseph and his two sons, Joachim and Ivan, form a close-knit family but fail to see that each one is losing control of his life. Joachim is supposed to be studying psychiatry but spends most of his time daydreaming about his ex-girlfriend, Ivan cannot fit in at school despite being very smart, and Joseph has secretly quit his job as a doctor and is trying to become a writer. While there is plenty of affection at home, all three are also, clumsily, searching for love.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 498
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining
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Crying Ladies (2003)
Plot Summary:
Three working-class Manila women — Stella, Ailing and Choleng — are hired as paid mourners at a traditional Chinese funeral.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: crying
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The Tasting (2022)
Plot Summary:
Hortense has a big heart and no one to share it with except her cat, her embittered mom, and a group of homeless people for whom she prepares a gourmet dinner at the local church every week. While buying a nice bottle of wine, Hortense meets Jacques, a fifty-something, grumpy local cellarman. Eager to see him again, she attends a chaotic wine tasting in Jacques’ shop - meeting his best friend who clumsily tries to seduce her, and his new apprentice who turns out to have a rare gift for tasting as well as an unfiltered honesty. As Hortense and Jacques grow closer and closer, their past begins to catch up to them.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 813
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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The Carriers Are Waiting (1999)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Switzerland
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: black comedy, humorous, realistic, surreal, semi serious, dark comedy
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The Very Private Life of Mister Sim (2015)
Plot Summary:
François Sim considers himself worthless and he may have good reasons for that. Hasn't he lost his job as well as his wife Caroline? Isn't he unable to relate to Lucy, his teenage daughter? Didn't he, when he was eighteen miss out on passion whereas the sexy, gorgeous Luigia opened her arms to him?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 802
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, light, feel good, unusual plot structure, humorous, captivating, contemplative, road movie
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My Father's Stories (2020)
Plot Summary:
Lyon, 1960s. Emile is twelve years old. His father is a hero. He says he is a judo champ, a parachutist, a soccer player and even a personal advisor to General de Gaulle. Now he wants to save French Algeria! Fascinated and proud, Emile willingly follows his father in missions of utmost danger: tailing, spying, delivering top-secret letters. Emile carries out his orders in all seriousness. He even recruits Luca, a new classmate, into his secret combat. But what if the father’s exploits were all phony, and far too dangerous for children?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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The Good Life (1996)
Plot Summary:
This humorous movie charts the life of a 14-year-old (Tristan) as he deals with some major issues in his life. At the beginning of the movie, he has already decided to dedicate his life to writing and losing his virginity (while his parents are away on holiday). Things don't quite go to plan when, at the crucial moment, the phone rings to tell him his parents have been killed in a car crash. From then, he is on his own and in control of his destiny, or at least he thinks so.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 788
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, sexual, non-linear, crying, sexy
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Photo de famille (2018)
Plot Summary:
Gabrielle is a "statue" for tourists, much to the chagrin of her teenage son. Elsa is in angry at the world and desperate to become pregnant. Mao is a chronically depressed video game designer who drowns his melancholy in alcohol and psychoanalysis. They are brother and sisters but do not hang out. Ever. Their parents Pierre and Claudine, separated for a long time, have really done nothing to strengthen the bonds of the family - yet, at their grandfather's funeral, they are going to have to meet, and together answer the question: "What to do with grandma?".
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 861
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Marseille (2016)
Plot Summary:
Faced with the insistence of his brother Joseph, whom he has not seen for 25 years, Paolo resolves to give up his calm and harmonious life in Canada, to return to Marseilles at the bedside of his rugged father. He left, therefore, with his son under his arm, determined not to linger in that city which he had fled years before, after a tragedy. He does not imagine that the affection of his newfound family, his love affair with a young woman and the joyful and simple solidarity of the Marseillais will reconcile him with this city he would never have wanted to leave...Marseillle.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 481
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Memories (2014)
Plot Summary:
Romain is 23 years old. He would like to be a writer, but for now, it is night porter in a hotel. His father is 62 years old. He retires and pretends to fuck. His roommate is 24 years old. He thinks only one thing: to seduce a girl, any and all means. Her grandmother is 85 years old. She finds herself in a retirement home and wondered what she does with all these old. One day his father arrived in disaster. His grandmother was gone. She escaped somehow. Romain goes looking for him somewhere in his memories.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 996
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, sentimental, semi serious, sincere, captivating, touching, feel good, realistic
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No Filter (2019)
Plot Summary:
Beatrice celebrates with her family the release of her book: she tells about the accident of her husband Frederic. He became blind and without filter - always so funny and seductive, he is totally unpredictable. But this book, hymn-to-life, will turn into a joyful fist because if Beatrice changed the names, each of his friends seeks to find his character. The book awakens secret jealousies, while the group of friends and family pitch.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, humorous, captivating
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Granny's Funeral (2012)
Plot Summary:
A provincial chemist in the throes of a mid-life crisis must choose between burying his dearly departed grandmother and cremating her in this quirky comedy of manners starring Valerie Lemercier, Denis Podalydes, and Isabelle Candelier.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 938
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film, humorous
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Louise hires a contract killer (2008)
Plot Summary:
In this radical and endearing black comedy, a group of retrenched female factory workers decide to pool their compensation money… and hire a hit man to liquidate their boss.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, humorous, black comedy, captivating, light, entertaining, political, offbeat, realistic, not serious
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Calendar Girl (1993)
Plot Summary:
Like many adolescent boys, Roy Darpinian had the hots for movie divas, and one in particular was his wet dream as half of America's in the 1950s: Marilyn Monroe. The difference is, one summer holiday he actually decided to enlist his spineless buddies, Scott Foreman and Ned Bleuer, to actually drive all the way to Hollywood and make as many desperate attempts as it takes to meet her or get arrested trying, and no setback or embarrassment (even publicly bare-ass) can stop or distract him. Against all odds, he finally even got a chance to help her.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: teen sex comedy, road movie, independent film, sentimental, clever, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, crying