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Plot Summary:
The lovely and talented Anna Foglietta (Perfect Strangers, The American) plays Simona; a single mother in her early ‘40s who is wholly devoted to her son, Filippo. To get over her insecurities as a parent and make her son happy on his eighth birthday, she decides to throw him a birthday party in their small flat and invite over his school friends and their parents. For Simona, this birthday is about to pose quite the surprising dilemma between allowing her son to embrace his true self and a mother’s fierce desire to protect her child from their potentially cruel surroundings. This is the last conundrum she was expecting to have to face on a day that is already rife with anxiety. Director Laura Chiossone turns their tiny flat into a melting pot and whilst the children play in the living room, the adults in the kitchen talk about parenthood, love, and different world views.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
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IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 660
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 91 min
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IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 363
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Lifelong friends Kate, Evie and Charlie are in a rut. Kate spends her days at a middling job and her nights alone or on failed dates. Evie is married with the in-laws from hell, wandering from one charitable cause to the next. Charlie has the girl of her dreams but just can’t seem to pull her business (or her act) together. On the eve of Kate’s 30th birthday, she agrees to let Evie and Charlie throw her a party. But what’s supposed to be a simple celebration becomes a wild who’s who of past and present, and things quickly spiral out of control.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
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IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
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Plot Summary:
A group of four siblings compete for the heritage of their father.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 409
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 594
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IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 949
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 441
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Country: Italy
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 366
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IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
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Plot Summary:
Randy and Jason Sklar standup special recorded in Madison, Wisconsin.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Comedy
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Comedy
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 825
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IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 563
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 56000
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IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 718
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IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 367
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 881
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A movie based on the italian sitcom "I Soliti Idioti".
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 57
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50+ YouTube Poop videos have been edited together to create a ‘very loose’ storyline in this visual mixtape. This ‘movie’ functions as both a compilation ‘best of’ as well as portraying the experience of flipping channels through YouTube’s funniest & filthiest ‘poops’.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 27
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Plot Summary:
A businessman in Italy, who doesn't pay any taxes, and a financier always on the hunt for tax evaders come into contact because their sons share an apartment in Paris.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 339
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 431
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 413
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IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
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IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
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IMDB Votes: 192
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
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