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Plot Summary:
Asso, THE best poker-player in town, was killed in his wedding night, because he won too much against a bad loser. In the 'final' game in heaven the clerk on duty also lost, so Asso can come back to this world as a ghost to search for a good man for his wife (widow). Who is good enough for the wife of Asso ?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, humorous, semi serious
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Heart Condition (1990)
Plot Summary:
A bigoted policeman is given the heart of a slain black defense lawyer,who returns as a ghost to ask the cop to help take down the men who murdered him.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, independent film, action comedy, detective, semi serious, buddy comedy, funny, light, romantic, sexy
Similar in 76%
Don't Play with Tigers (1982)
Plot Summary:
A stories of three really unlucky characters are discovered during the trial.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 573
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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I'm Photogenic (1980)
Plot Summary:
Antonio Barozzi moves from Lago Maggiore to Rome to become an actor. He does not realize his agent and acting coach are only manipulating him to further their own careers.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 519
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Saturday, Sunday and Friday (1979)
Plot Summary:
SABATO (first episode): A company receives the visit of a very very important person. This person works for a biggest Japanese society, and this encounter is decisive for the small Italian company. DOMENICA (second episode): After a hard day of job, a man returns in it's house for sleep. But a series of facts hinder this, and the poor man does not succeed to sleep. VENERDI (third episode): A famous and rich creator of sexy ballets have various problems with a dancer. She want to leave the theater and marry a Mafia man.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 374
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Ghosts Can't Do It (1989)
Plot Summary:
Elderly Scott kills himself after a heart attack wrecks his body, but then comes back as a ghost and convinces his loving young hot wife Kate to pick and kill a young man in order for Scott to possess his body and be with her again.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, exciting, tense, captivating, independent film, offbeat, gloomy, sexual, crying
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Sugar, Honey and Pepper (1980)
Plot Summary:
Three episodes. First Valerio is mistaken for a notorious criminal. Very beautiful journalists succeed to bring him to her house for an exclusive interview. She tries to seduce him. Second. Guiseppe, an unlucky and ugly man, gets a job as a maid. His mistress falls in love for him. Third. Plinio is a taxi driver who loves his cab above all. But at one point he is involved with the kidnapping of a woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 462
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, erotic, sexy
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Poker In Bed (1974)
Plot Summary:
A poker player on a losing streak meets a beautiful young woman. He's attracted to her, but she appears to be perfectly content with her boyfriend, a somewhat wussy writer. The gambler gets the idea that if he can get this woman into bed, it will change his luck at the gambling tables.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy, vintage
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Evil Thoughts (1976)
Plot Summary:
Mario Marani is a well-respected lawyer in late 70s Milano. He and his wonderful wife Francesca have an intense high social life. But Mario has a problem. He is obsessed by bad thoughts (cattivi pensieri); he is always concerned about his wife, thinking continuously to be betrayed by her. It is a nightmare, every time Mario sees Francesca talking to one of their friends immediately starts to see her and him in an hot affair. Jealousy and suspects increase and increase, till their life cross with a young man hidden inside their flat.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sex comedy
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Happy Family (2010)
Plot Summary:
A blocked screenwriter, Ezio (Fabio De Luigi), is trying to finish a story about two off-kilter families thrown together when their teenage children announce they’re getting married. So Ezio writes himself into the story with a romantic part—a development his characters welcome, as they’ve got some ideas of their own for bigger and better roles.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surreal, semi serious, humorous, realistic, non-linear
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Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1976)
Plot Summary:
In a small city of Brazil, Flor (a very good looking woman) marries Vadinho, a very handsome and erotic man. Once married she finds he is a good-for-nothing. She works teaching cooking to her neighbours but he takes all her money to gamble. One day he dies. Flor misses the goods of the marriage so she marries again with a very correct gentleman - the owner of the drugstore (Teodoro). Now she's very happy with her man, but misses the erotic moments with her previous husband. Then the ghost of Vadhino comes to earth to chase her.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, manga, humorous, semi serious, sexual
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Lover Boy (1975)
Plot Summary:
A young man gets a pleasant surprise when a comely "relative" agrees to teach him the rudiments of sex.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 368
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sex comedy
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Jinxed! (1982)
Plot Summary:
Harold, a professional gambler, and his girlfriend Bonita, a lounge singer, follow Willie, a young blackjack dealer, around the western U.S. Harold has a jinx on Willie and can't lose with him. Bonita and Willie meet and fall for each other and plot to do away with Harold and collect on his life insurance.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, cynical, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy, cult film
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The Taming of the Scoundrel (1980)
Plot Summary:
A rich farmer is well known for being very unkind. He's misanthropic, misogynous and cantankerous. Until he meets by chance a gorgeous girl.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: romantic, humorous, semi serious, funny, witty, cynical, erotic, realistic, masterpiece
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Weddings and Other Disasters (2010)
Plot Summary:
Romantically disillusioned woman finds herself organising her sister's wedding. Cue romantic mismatching and shenanigans.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 622
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, semi serious, light, captivating, sentimental, realistic
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Special Delivery (2002)
Plot Summary:
An unexpected phone call from a certain Kirsch sets off a crisis between Catherine and Raphaël that will affect all those around them, be they close friends or casual acquaintances.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Susan's Plan (1998)
Plot Summary:
Susan's Plan (also released as Dying to Get Rich on video) is a 1998 black comedy film directed by John Landis and starring Nastassja Kinski, Dan Aykroyd, Billy Zane, Rob Schneider, Lara Flynn Boyle and Michael Biehn. The plot revolves around Susan's (played by Kinski) plan to kill her former husband (with the help of a group of misfits) and collect his life insurance.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, independent film, black comedy, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious
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Kaleidoscope (1966)
Plot Summary:
Romantic comedy which has Barney Lincoln and Angel McGinnis as a pair of amorous adventurers in the gambling places of London and the Riviera. Barney Lincoln is a rambling gambling man who scores sensational wins at poker and chemin de fer because he has succeeded in marking the original plates for the backs of all the playing cards manufactured in a plant in Geneva and used in all the gambling joints in Europe. In his gambling depredation, Barney is spotted by Angel McGinnis, the daughter of a Scotland Yard Inspector 'Manny' McGinnis on the lookout for a man to do a job. The inspector enlists Barney's help in playing poker with a shady London character whom Scotland Yard wants to force to financial ruin.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 862
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, feel good, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious
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The Little Devil (1988)
Plot Summary:
Father Maurice, a priest living in a residential college for priests in Rome, is called out one day to "exorcise" the devil from someone. The devil turns out to be in the form of a fun-loving man called Giuditta. What Father Maurice doesn't know is that this type of devil will turn his life around.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: offbeat, feel good, humorous, witty, semi serious
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Clay Pigeons (1998)
Plot Summary:
Clay is a young man in a small town who witnesses his friend, Earl kill himself because of the ongoing affair that Clay was having with the man's wife, Amanda. Feeling guilty, Clay now resists the widow when she presses him to continue with their sexual affairs. Clay inadvertently befriends a serial killer named Lester Long, who murders the widow in an attempt to "help" his "fishing buddy.".
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, clever, humorous, suspenseful, erotic, neo noir, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film
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Love is in the Air (2012)
Plot Summary:
Couple Andrea and Giulia, an outwardly successful couple, are having problems in the bedroom. When Giulia invites Max, an old friend from high school, to stay in the family home with their teenage son, some new attitudes begin to form.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 985
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, feel good, melancholic, sentimental, captivating, suspenseful, sexy, sexual
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Giovannona Long-Thigh (1973)
Plot Summary:
Legendary director Sergio Martino takes the helm for this sexploitation classic concerning the scandal that erupts when the panicked head of a high-profile cheese production company hires a beautiful prostitute to seduce an unsuspecting Cabinet member. Edwige Fenech and Pippo Franco star in a bawdy comedy classic that's as sexy as it is hilarious.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 575
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy, erotic, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexploitation film, hot, decamerotic
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Love & Slaps (2010)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about generational conflict between two parents who do not want to grow old and a seventeen year old daughter who wants to become an adult. During a weekend with some friends in their country house in Tuscany, Marcello and Marina, relieved that the love affair of their teenage daughter Rose with another boy, Luke, is over, prepare to meet their daughter's new boyfriend. The problem is that the two adults, who still feel pretty young, do not know what to expect, and what they are about to discover will leave them speechless.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 589
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, feel good, realistic, talky, not serious
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Over My Dead Body (1995)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 404
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, semi serious, spoof, slapstick comedy, parody
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One Hell of a Guy (1998)
Plot Summary:
When the Devil's favourite demon, Nick (Rob Lowe), is sent to corrupt the soul of Cassie Springer (Alexandra Powers), the last thing he expected was to fall in love. But Cassie's purity was enough to save the town of Fairfield from the Devil's clutches and it might be enough to make this handsome devil... a real life Romeo. Now, the battle between good and evil gets personal.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, semi serious
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Kiss Me Goodbye (1982)
Plot Summary:
Not until three years after the death of her husband Jolly, Kay dares to move back into their former home, persuaded by her new fiancée Rupert. But soon her worst expectations come true, when not only her old memories haunt her, but also Jolly's ghost, who doesn't approve of her new mate. Invisible to anyone but Kay, he tries to prevent the wedding. Written by Tom Zoerner.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sad, sex comedy, touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Help! My In-Laws Are Vampires! (2021)
Plot Summary:
A young couple blossoms without her getting to know his family until she becomes pregnant. He then paints such an unflattering portrait of his relatives that prompts her to reply: "you talk as if they were monsters!" Little does she know.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, ironic, satirical, semi serious
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It All Came True (1998)
Plot Summary:
A bachelor afraid of marriage angers his long-time girlfriend by buying a splendid townhouse just for himself, only to find it haunted by the ghosts of a famous theatrical couple, who teach him about love and commitment. The film was later re-released under the title "It All Came True". It was to be Peter Yates' last film made for cinema, although in most markets it went directly to TV or home entertainment.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: feel good, semi serious, humorous, talky, spiritual, clever, independent film
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The Last Married Couple in America (1980)
Plot Summary:
Jeff and Mari Thompson have been married for fifteen years. Although their marriage is not perfect, they are seemingly happy in their married and family life. But all their married friends seem to be getting divorced or separated. These newly single friends try to convince both Jeff and Mari - together and individually - that divorce is the way to go. Even if they do decide to remarry, it will be an inevitability that that marriage too will end in divorce. And divorce can even re-energize the love in an otherwise stale marriage. In light of these assertions by their friends, Jeff and Mari do evaluate their marriage. Their friends also place each of them in potentially compromising positions, despite the fact that they still are married. Will Jeff and Mari's marriage be able to withstand all this outside pressure?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 722
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual
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The Whole Nine Yards (2000)
Plot Summary:
A mobster named Jimmy the Tulip agrees to cooperate with an FBI investigation in order to stay out of prison; he's relocated by the authorities to a life of suburban anonymity as part of a witness protection program. It's not long before a couple of his new neighbors figure out his true identity and come knocking to see if he'd be up for one more hit, suburban style.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 128000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, entertaining, black comedy, light, suspense, dark comedy, semi serious, hilarious, feel good
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Wannabe Widowed (2013)
Plot Summary:
A ne'er-do-well who's married to a millionnaire realizes his financial trouble might be solved if his wife was dead - and sets out a plot to achieve just that. A remake of Dino Risi's "il vedovo".
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 929
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious