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Plot Summary:
There is one thing that Nicole, who is soon turning fifty, would have loved to be spared, is to learn that the symptoms that have been ruining her life for some time are not those of a latent menopause, but those of a real pregnancy! What a drag….
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 567
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: crying
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Eaten by Lions (2018)
Plot Summary:
Omar and Pete are half brothers. When their parents are eaten by lions they embark on a journey to find Omar's real father. What follows is a funny, heart-warming journey of self-discovery for both boys...in Blackpool. The Choudray family represents a truly contemporary example of modern multicultural Britain - but what will the brothers make of their eccentric newfound family? Will they be going to Mecca or Mecca bingo? In contrast to the old fashioned stereotypes about Blackpool, the comedy is sharp, current and non-stop.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, captivating
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Hook, Line And Sinker (1969)
Plot Summary:
Told he is terminally ill, an insurance executive (Jerry Lewis) goes on a credit-card spending spree--and then learns his medical diagnosis was a mistake. This 1969 comedy, directed by George Marshall, also stars Anne Francis, Peter Lawford and Kathleen Freeman.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 895
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Modern Love (1990)
Plot Summary:
Modern relationships are examined in this comedy drama.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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So There (1997)
Plot Summary:
A trucker, an accountant, a former plumber hospitalised after a suicide attempt... Presided over by the accountant, the three families decide to buy a truck, a trucker's dream. The father, practical joker, and larger-than-life lover, keeps a watchful eye. The children are his accomplices. One is his heroine. His daughter is his other heroine. A puzzle of life's desires in which all veers into the imaginary, into dreams of far-off lands.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy
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Easy Down There! (1971)
Plot Summary:
A priest gets a little hot under the collar when the wife he thought was dead unexpectedly returns.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 286
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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France Boutique (2003)
Plot Summary:
Francois Cluzet and Karin Viard are the couple behind a French shopping channel whose business and marriage are both drifting towards the rocks, with Nathalie Baye as a smiling Rottweiller out to steal their business by conning them into offering a duff product, the 'Fear Eliminator,' and picking up the network for pennies in the ensuing financial fallout.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, captivating, semi serious
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Back in Business (2017)
Plot Summary:
In a small town lost in the middle of nowhere, Edmond Zweck's funeral business is on the wing. The company now has only two employees: Georges, Zweck's right-hand man, and Eddy, a young man still a novice in the trade. One fine morning, however, a dead man pointed his nose. Hope is born again. Georges and Eddy are responsible for leading the deceased to his last abode. But in search of the cemetery that can not be found, the funeral convoy goes astray and the journey turns into a fiasco.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 495
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium, Poland
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Knock (2017)
Plot Summary:
Doctor Knock is a former thug who has become a doctor and arrives in the small village of Saint-Maurice to make his fortune according to a particular method. It will make the villagers believe that they are not as healthy as they might think. It is thus that he will find in each one an imaginary symptom, or not, and thus will be able to exercise his profession lucratively. Under his seductive looks and after gaining the confidence of the village, Knock is on the verge of achieving his ends. But his past catches up with him and an old acquaintance disrupts the doctor's plans.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: funny, sincere, sentimental, captivating, uplifting, motivational
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King Guillaume (2009)
Plot Summary:
Magali plays in a brass band. Guillaume drives a small tourist train. Both spin a perfect love, they share modest dreams and their baby is about to come. But an unexpected news upsets their routine: a man appears and announces that he is Guillaume's estranged father and also reveals that Guillaume is his legitimate heir of a kingdom offshore of France and England. Guillaume and Magali start to dream of a life as monarchs, surrounded by faithful subjects in their castle, enjoying their wealth. But reality is often different to what you can imagine.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Selfie (2019)
Plot Summary:
In a world where digital technology has invaded our lives, some of us end up cracking. Addict or technophobe, with family or at school, at work or in love, SELFIE tells the comic and wild destinies of Homo Numericus on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 768
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags:
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Mean Spirit (2003)
Plot Summary:
Vincent Poirel dirige une multinationale du BTP. Il a tout obtenu dans la vie sauf un enfant. Sa société est retenue pour construire un stade olympique. Le projet original apporté par son architecte est en fait celui de Simon Variot, imaginé durant ses études.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: absurd, feel good, entertaining
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15 Ways to Kill Your Neighbour (2022)
Plot Summary:
"Drinking, dancing and... killing me. It's the new life my neighbour Jose has decided to live. What better way to escape boredom than coming to kill me every thursday? His wife, Lucie, prefers to go to a shrink. To each their own therapy.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 492
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Argentina, Belgium, Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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How to Shake Off a Bride (2016)
Plot Summary:
Eva, the owner of a pastry shop hopes to re-unite with her ex-husband Honza, with whom she has a son Tobias. Honza surprises Eva with the request for a wedding cake. He is planning to marry Linda, his new girlfriend. Eva and Tobias don't like the idea and the new couple breaks up for a while. But finally their wedding plans come true.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, semi serious, crying, freeze frame, neo screwball comedy
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I'm All Yours (2015)
Plot Summary:
Charming thirty-year-old Hanna Belkacem has inherited the gene from her parents: she is unable to say no. And as she is the Director of Human resources of a big firm such infirmity is not without its problems, particularly when she has to fire someone. The only solution she has found to be forgiven is to... get laid with the men she lays off! One day, not wanting to upset someone as she is wont to, she finds herself in a very embarrassing situation: she is mistaken for a former school-friend of a hospital doctor mourning his mother. She of course goes to bed with him. As a result, Dr. Paul Martin falls in love with her while mistaking her once again... for a prostitute this time!.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 677
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: inspirational, crying, non-linear
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Dear Mother (2020)
Plot Summary:
One day, Jean-Louis discovers that his heart has stopped. He is not dead, can walk and talk, but his heart is no longer beating. With the help of his wife and a friend, he tries to understand the origin of this mystery.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: light, enigmatic, captivating, entertaining, complex
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Enormous (2019)
Plot Summary:
It takes him suddenly at 40 years: Frédéric wants a baby, Claire never wanted one and they agreed on that. He commits the unforgivable and makes a child behind her back. Claire turns into a whale and Frédéric becomes a doting father.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Narco (2004)
Plot Summary:
Gustave Klopp suffers from narcolepsy, he can fall asleep everwhere at anytime whithout warning. Living a simple life with his wife Pam and his best friend Lenny Bar, Gus decides to undergo therapy sessions and finds out that he can make incredible comics from his dreams.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, tense, offbeat
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Life Is a Long Quiet River (1988)
Plot Summary:
Two babies are switched at birth. When the mistake is discovered 12 years later, it leads to complications in the lives of both families. One family is affluent, with dutiful and (apparently) contented children. The other family is poor, with rambunctious (even delinquent) children, often hungry, but with lots of laughter in the house.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, cult classic, humorous, captivating, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, cult film
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The Priest's Wife (1970)
Plot Summary:
After discovering her boyfriend for the past four years is married, a distraught and depressed young woman turns to a Catholic priest for counseling -- and finds mutual attraction. Now the inseparable couple are thwarted by his holy vow of celibacy, and must rely on the Vatican for a solution to their dilemma.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 699
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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On a Magical Night (2019)
Plot Summary:
After 20 years of marriage, Maria decides to leave her husband. She moves into room 212 at the hotel across the street, with a bird’s-eye view of her apartment, her husband and the life she shared with him. While she wonders if she made the right decision, many of the people in her life offer their opinions on the matter. They intend to let her know, whether she likes it or not, on what proves to be a life-changing evening.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, sentimental, thought provoking, captivating, erotic
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Josephine, Pregnant & Fabulous (2016)
Plot Summary:
At last, Josephine has found her perfect non-smoker-cat-loving-amazing-cook-perfect-man-soulmate. They’ve been in love for two years and everything is peachy. Until she realizes she’s… pregnant. Time for Josephine to transform her life, mature into a responsible adult, not become like her mother, get a job, hold on to her man, refrain from falling out with her friends, and tell her sister, who's been crashing at her place, that she's got to move out. A bunch of overwhelming challenges that Josephine will have to face in her own, special way.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 778
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, light, romantic, realistic
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15 from Rome (1963)
Plot Summary:
The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: anthology, crying, detective, freeze frame, dark comedy, italian comedy
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Three Times Nothing (2022)
Plot Summary:
Twig, Cap and Rusty live however they can in the Bois de Vincennes, east of Paris. This may completely change the day they learn they are the national lottery winner – though it is less than expected! Yet, they still need to collect the money and share it in equal parts. The hardest part of all will be to resume a “normal” life, filled with surprises and contradictions.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Notre dame (2019)
Plot Summary:
Maud is an architect and a mother. Due to a misunderstanding, she wins the competition to refurbish the parvis of Notre-Dame. Torn between these responsibilities and love issues, she will go through an emotional storm.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 669
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: romantic comedy
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Family is Family (2018)
Plot Summary:
Valentin D is a hot designer architect who claims to be an orphan because he is too ashamed to admit he is the son of working-class scrap metal merchants from the north of France.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, entertaining
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Dismissal (2017)
Plot Summary:
A successful Spanish executive from a telecommunications company working in Argentina is about to face the most important week of his life, but all his plans will be sabotaged by an eccentric character who will make his week a living hell….
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, unusual plot structure, contemplative, crying, freeze frame, dark comedy
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2 Autumns, 3 Winters (2013)
Plot Summary:
At 33, Arman has decided to change his life. He starts by running. It’s a good start. Amélie carries on with her life. She runs, as well. The first encounter is a shock. The second is a stab in the heart.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 788
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: realistic, stylized, semi serious, touching, humorous, talky, exciting, captivating, sentimental, offbeat
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Paris Follies (2014)
Plot Summary:
Long married 50-somethings Brigitte and Xavier are prize cattle breeders in regional France. Life is good, but the departure of their children from home has thrown Brigitte’s world into flux, as she finds herself locked into routine. She keeps hoping for something else, something more. A party held by students on the adjoining property accelerates this latent crisis and Brigitte impulsively sets off for Paris under the guise of a doctor’s appointment. The city immediately invigorates her, and when she meets a charming Danish gentleman, she impulsively allows herself to be flattered by his attentions….
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic drama
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The Big Bad Wolf (2013)
Plot Summary:
Once upon a time in 2012, three brothers lived happily. One day their mom fell into a coma. So Henri, Philippe, and Louis suddenly started wondering about the meaning of their lives and were swamped by a wave of existential doubts. An entirely new situation for this bourgeois trio in their forties, one which opened a door to the novel and indeed the forbidden... and to the big bad wolf!.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 905
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, feel good, sex comedy
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Doula (2022)
Plot Summary:
After the sudden death of their midwife, an L.A. couple hires her hippie son to be their live-in doula.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, satirical, semi serious