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Plot Summary:
Compulsive spenders Albert and Bruno are in debt up to their necks. While seeking help from community workers to get their lives back on track, they run into a group of young green activists. Lured by the free beer and snacks rather than by the ideals of eco-activists, Albert and Bruno find themselves joining the movement without much conviction.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 727
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 120 min
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Budapest (2018)
Plot Summary:
Two best friends stuck in boring jobs become bachelor party planners in Budapest.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, absurd, not serious, happy, sex comedy
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The Juliette Year (1995)
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Camille Prader, back from a physicians' meeting, is waiting for his suitcase on the Airport conveyor belt. Clémentine, his girlfriend of the day, has come to fetch him. With a radiant smile, she tells Fabrice that she left everything to live with him. When Camille picks a case he realizes ha has taken the wrong one. The label shows it belongs to a musician called Juliette Graveur. Hegrasps the occasion to run away from Clémentine by claiming Juliette is his mistress.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 227
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
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Loue-moi ! (2017)
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Lea gave up her law studies and she opened an agency with friend Bertille where anybody can "rent " her :she's not an escort girl ,let alone a luxury hooker;she plays the part her clients want them to: for a man who claims he's got a daughter ,she will become the beloved girl he's never had ;for a guy,Arnaud , whose parents are ashamed he is gay ,she will be the would be girlfriend ...but Arnaud's brother is none other than Raphael, Léa's former high school flame.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 89 min
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Those Happy Days (2006)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1992, a manager Vincent has to run a children's holiday camp for three weeks and to face the unexpected concerning the place, his colleagues, various problems linked to children about the rooms, trips, their belongings.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
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People (2004)
Plot Summary:
John-John is the best party promoter in Ibiza. He's responsible for the wildest parties ever. A party fixed by John-John is bound to be a success, and everyone will queue to get on the guest list. The former party prince among the jet setters in Paris, Charles de Poulignac, is therefore in no doubt about where he should go in order to revenge his former clients. He flies to Ibiza, where he hopes to make an alliance with John-John, and put an end to life as persona non grata in Paris, and again take his place as the party prince of Paris. Written by HardHouseClubber.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 657
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 84 min
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I Follow in My Father's Footsteps (1999)
Plot Summary:
Sauveur (Savior) needs someone to save him, and so he begins to look for his father, a fast- talking ladies' man. The son becomes attached to his misanthropic father, and soon a crippled woman photographer and a gigolo with a killer smile also enter the scene, and the situation becomes more and more impossible.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 435
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: detective
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Rumba Therapy (2022)
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Tony is a macho middle-aged school bus driver in the provinces with no friends or relations. A sudden heart attack throws him into a tailspin. Tony's convinced he's going to die. When his cardiologist warns him : We all need others. Alone, we're nothing. Tony decides to reconnect with the daughter he abandoned twenty years earlier, when she was just a baby. Still a coward, he's unable to screw up the courage to actually confront her directly. So he decides to sign up for a dance class she's teaching in Paris. Incognito, of course. To get to know her gradually… in a desperate attempt to give some meaning to his empty life. In the process, he has more than a few dance steps to learn!.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 665
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 102 min
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The Jews (2016)
Plot Summary:
A French-Jewish actor seeks counseling and discusses a number of stereotypes concerning Jewish people. Told in the form of short stories that accompany each stereotype.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: anthology, black comedy
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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
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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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Our Futures (2015)
Plot Summary:
Yann who is trying, albeit unsuccessfully, to cope with his life generally and especially bereavement decides to look up Thomas, his best friend from high school. Thomas is thee same crazy character as he ever was and between them they cook up a plan to rearrange Yann's birthday party from their high school days and get all their old friends to come along. This means locating their friends and a journey to visit and convince some of them to join in their plan. How their friends have changed, their lives and the revelations provide plenty of humour. But why is his friend Thomas just the same as he ever was ?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 609
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: road movie, light, humorous, captivating, surprise ending
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Confidence Reigns (2004)
Plot Summary:
Christel and Christoph have no education, no morals - they are working as servants in wealthy homes in order to clean out their hosts. Having decided to combine their talents and efforts, they are starting to work in the the house of Therions - wealthy bourgeoisie of Mulhouse.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 415
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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The Butcher’s Daughter (2020)
Plot Summary:
Charly is the editor in chief of a fashion magazine. When her father dies, she inherits the family business: a butchery. Not exactly her passion in life... She’s about to sell it when Mar- tial, who worked for her father, wants to take it over, but she is having second thoughts. These two opposite characters will have to get used to one another.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 396
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 91 min
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The Boom (1963)
Plot Summary:
Sweet-sour comedy on Italy's 1950's rage to get rich as fast as possible! The businessman wants to satisfy his wife's craving for luxury and a "respectable life" so he becomes heavily indebted. In desperation he agrees to sell a precious part of his body for a large sum of money. But just before the crucial operation he panics.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: italian 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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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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The Wannabes (2022)
Plot Summary:
Daniel and Stéphane, two salesmen working in the same store but who cannot stand each other, decide despite everything to team up to participate in television games so they can pay their debts.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, game show, buddy comedy
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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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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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In the Game (2018)
Plot Summary:
Roland is reached by the illness of'Alzheimer's and his family is the small-care with him, except his grandson JB which n'has that'a single goal to play the final of basketball in Paris. But the parents of JB blocked this weekend, asking him to monitor his grand-father. Therefore nothing will happen as expected because JB will lead Roland with him in his trip.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 540
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, light, captivating, entertaining
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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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The Grad Job (2014)
Plot Summary:
Teenagers, in their last year of High School, steel the subjects of the Baccalaureate from the education exam division in order to succeed at the exam.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, feel good, entertaining, realistic
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The Rendez-Vous of D?j?-Vu (2013)
Plot Summary:
Hector meets Truquette on Bastille Day and becomes obsessed with seducing her. The plan is to get her to the seaside pronto. Pator is not complaining, especially if her friend Charlotte comes along for the ride. So off they go, down the country roads of a broke and broken France. Times are hard ! Suddenly the government cancels a month of summer. Everyone back to work! A wad of cash and two gun shots later, the group splits in two like France itself. But careering away from work in no way daunts the remaining trio, dead set on relocating the Bastille Girl and reveling in an endless summer.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, offbeat, road movie
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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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Trophy Wife (2010)
Plot Summary:
A housewife takes over her husband's umbrella business after his illness.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, unusual plot structure, visually appealing, semi serious, clever, witty, stylized, political, period piece
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The Three Brothers (1995)
Plot Summary:
Three half-brothers are reunited at their mother's funeral. After being told of their inheritance they quickly spend the money, only to find out that they will not receive it after all. The men grow closer while deciding how to proceed.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, not serious, entertaining, light, cult classic, realistic, cult film
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Our Happy Holiday (2018)
Plot Summary:
Marion and Ben, thirty years old, meet on Tinder. That's about all they have in common; but the opposites attract each other, and they decide in the early morning of their meeting to go on vacation together despite the advice of their entourage. They will finally leave - to Bulgaria, halfway to their dream destinations: Beirut for Marion, Biarritz for Ben. Without a precise plan and, as they will soon discover, with very different conceptions of what a dream holiday should be.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: scenic, light, feel good, sweet, funny, romantic, humorous, captivating
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Never Say... Never! (2005)
Plot Summary:
Paris, 1830. Valentin loses himself in alcohol, gambling and women. He does not believe in life and especially not in love. His uncle Van Buck believes only in the virtues of money and trade. Everything separates them until the day when Van Buck, to improve his public image, wants to make Valentin marry the young and impoverished Baroness Cécile. Valentin, who has absolutely no desire to get married, bets that he can easily seduce her in 24 hours and thus prove that she, like all the others, is not worth loving... But Cécile, who believes in true love, will prove much more difficult to woo than envisaged and Valentin will have to use all possible stratagems to try and win his bet. The game of cat and mouse starts... But who is the cat?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 648
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, entertaining, satirical, realistic
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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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The Specials (2019)
Plot Summary:
For twenty years, Bruno and Malik have lived in a different world—the world of autistic children and teens. In charge of two separate nonprofit organizations (The Hatch & The Shelter), they train young people from underprivileged areas to be caregivers for extreme cases that have been refused by all other institutions. It’s an exceptional partnership, outside of traditional settings, for some quite extraordinary characters.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: sincere, social, sentimental, touching, disturbing, inspirational, poignant, profound