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Plot Summary:
Three longtime friends set off on a boat trip with their romantic partners, but inclement weather, jealousy and confessions, will put to test their friendships.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 766
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, psychological, realistic, talky
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Our Women (2015)
Plot Summary:
Max, Paul and Simon have been friends for 35 years. They take great pleasure in their one vacation a year together without their partners and meet-up regularly to spend evenings drinking or playing cards. Each has a successful career and they all appear to have perfect lives until the night Simon announces to his friends that he has just strangled his wife, Estelle after a blazing row. Max and Paul are horrified by Simon's confession, but worse is to come when Simon asks them to lie and provide him with an alibi for the time Estelle was killed. Both men are torn between lying or turning over their best friend to the police.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 559
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, cynical, semi serious, captivating, realistic, talky
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Wedding Unplanned (2017)
Plot Summary:
When she discovers a wedding planer's business card, Alexia instantly says, "YES" to Mathias unaware that it belongs to his mistress. The groom is now trapped between his bride, and his lover who in charge of his unwanted marriage.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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If You Don't, I Will (2014)
Plot Summary:
A couple goes on a hike in the woods, and the woman refuses to return.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 515
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Turf (2013)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of four French friends: the Greek (an osteopath), Fifi (who lives with his mother), Fortuné (a West Indian) and Freddy (a gambler). They meet up regularly at a Parisian bookmakers’, their favourite haunt. Tired of frittering away the little spare cash they have, they agree to give up gambling. But no sooner have they taken this pledge than Fate intervenes, in the guise of the turf king, Monsieur Paul. The latter persuades the four friends to buy a champion racehorse, not knowing that it is in fact an old nag….
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 525
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating
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The Jungle (2006)
Plot Summary:
Vincent and Mathias are two friends, in their thirties, who live off Vincent’s father. One day, during a meal where the wine and talk both flow a little too freely, Vincent’s father offers the two friends a bet. If they can survive seven days and seven nights in Paris with just seven Euros in their pocket, he will pay off all of their debts. If not, they will have to learn to fend for themselves. Confident of their abilities to survive in the jungle that is Paris, Vincent and Mathias willingly accept the offer, but soon regret doing so.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Comedy
Country: Luxembourg, France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating
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The Easy Way Out (2014)
Plot Summary:
Patrick, a travel agent in his early 30s, lives with Arthur, an immigration lawyer; but for a long time, Patrick has been sleeping on an air mattress on the floor of their bedroom. His younger brother, Tony, plans to marry his high school sweetheart but is having an affair that is far more satisfying than his relationship with his fiancee. Their older brother, Ryan, is divorced, living at home and working at his parents’ hopelessly unprofitable men’s clothing store. And McCauley soon makes achingly clear that the parents’ marriage is far from happy.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Mutual Friends (2008)
Plot Summary:
Martin's comfortable world is upturned by his friend's mid-life crises, beginning with his best friend's suicide, and the secret affair he had with Martin's wife.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sentimental, realistic
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Tomorrow's Another Day (2000)
Plot Summary:
Such an inconsequential event - the unfortunate purchase of a package of cling film - reveals the character and behavior of a small group of individuals caught up in the chaos of today's society. Though it creates arguments and inner questioning, this event - and its various consequences - also creates bonds.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 535
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, clever, offbeat
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One Stays, the Other Leaves (2005)
Plot Summary:
A story about two couples, longtime friends in which both husbands engage in long-term affairs and, as the title says, ultimately one remains with his wife and one makes a new life with another woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 649
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Frenchmen 2 (2007)
Plot Summary:
Alex, Antoine, Jeff and Manu. Four friends, four years later. Their relationships, friendship, shared secrets, feelings of guilt and their desire to change and improve.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 822
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: witty, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Do Not Disturb (2012)
Plot Summary:
In this lively French remake of Humpday, best buds reunite and revive their friendship on a questionable dare. Can two straight guys really make a gay sex film, together?.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 765
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, sexy, sex comedy, sexual
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Conversations with My Gardener (2007)
Plot Summary:
A successful artist, weary of Parisian life and on the verge of divorce, returns to the country to live in his childhood house. He needs someone to make a real vegetable garden again out of the wilderness it has become. The gardener happens to be a former schoolfriend. A warm, fruitful conversation starts between the two men.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, talky, captivating, sincere, realistic, semi serious, beautiful
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Wonderful Times (1991)
Plot Summary:
Michel Berthier, cadre supérieur d'une entreprise de matelasserie, vient d'être licencié. Comme il n'ose pas avouer la vérité à Juliette, sa compagne, il s'endette pour maintenir le niveau de la famille qu'il couvre de cadeaux. Mais il ne peut bientôt plus mentir et il décide alors de quitter la maison. Après avoir perdu son argent, sa voiture et ses chaussures, il rencontre Toubib, Mimosa et Crayon, trois «Sans Domicile Fixe» qui font leur toilette dans les lavabos de la gare de l'Est. Ils le prennent sous leur aile et l'entraînent à aller cambrioler son ancienne entreprise afin de se munir de duvets et de lits.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, sexy, cult film
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Actresses (2007)
Plot Summary:
Comédienne hantée par son rôle de Nathalia Petrovna, l'héroïne de la pièce de Tourguéniev Un Mois à la campagne qu'elle répète difficilement, Marcelline tente de noyer ses angoisses dans une piscine sur un air de Glenn Miller. Mais rien n'y fait. Rien n'empêche le temps de courir et de lui imposer ses quarante ans et toujours pas d'enfant.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 771
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, psychological, captivating, touching, realistic, talky, semi serious
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The Three-Way Wedding (2010)
Plot Summary:
A play writer entertains the actors of his next play, including his ex-wife and her new lover. Everyone is finding his new place.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, sincere, offbeat, humorous, witty, contemplative
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Dysfunctional Friends (2012)
Plot Summary:
A group of college friends are reunited after the death of their very successful friend. The will dictates that each person will receive a large sum of money if they can all successfully stay in his mansion for a week. If one person leaves, everyone forfeits the money.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 924
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: humorous, talky, captivating, light, realistic, semi serious
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I Love You Too (2010)
Plot Summary:
Written by comedian Peter Helliar, I LOVE YOU TOO stars Brendan Cowell as Jim, a 30-something emotionally stunted man whose inability to declare his love to his girlfriend, Alice, threatens to cost him the best thing he ever had but leads him to befriend a talented dwarf who helps him find the words to get her back.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating, touching, offbeat, realistic, talky, weird
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Bachelor Days Are Over (2011)
Plot Summary:
Arnaud nicknamed "Cui Cui" no longer knows which way to look. He is about to marry Anna but he is not sure he really loves her. To make matters worse, he falls in love during the stag party he has with his friends. And Léa, a nightclub singer, is obviously the woman of his dreams. What to do? Cancel the wedding and create a scandal but be able to live with a woman he loves truly and loves him in return? Or be a good boy and not disappoint the company but say farewell to happiness. For four days, Arnaud goes to and fro aimlessly between Anna and Léa, between his eccentric sister and his self-centered mother, between hope and depression.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, contemplative, light, feel good, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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Radiostars (2012)
Plot Summary:
Ben, who dreamed of himself as a comic in New York, is back in Paris, his professional and emotional life in complete disarray. He encounters Alex, the star host of the Breakfast Club, a popular morning radio show. With Cyril, a forty-something who'd prefer not to be, and Arnold, the charismatic leader of the gang, they call the shots on Blast FM. In next to no time Ben is hired to write for them. He's barely joined the team when a tidal wave hits the station: Breakfast Club listenership is in free fall. They set out on a bus to travel to every corner of France to meet and win over their public once again. For these arrogant Parisians, a real journey of initiation arises from this radio-phonic road trip, shaking up all their certainties.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, talky, weird
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The Man Cave (2014)
Plot Summary:
Quotas for women, parking spaces for women, online shopping, small talk and gossip. Software developer Erol, porta-potty rep Lars, and commercial pilot Helmut are licking the wounds of their masculinity – a female-free zone is what’s needed! In the boiler room of their recently built housing complex, the three stressed husbands create a secret refuge where they can watch football, eat fast-food, drink beer and curse the opposite sex undisturbed. When Aykut, the complex’s facility manager, discovers their last bastion of masculinity, he threatens to close it down. One thing is for sure, the men are not going to give up their little slice of paradise without a fight. Based on the stage play bearing the same name, director Franziska Meyer Price allows men to return to rebellious ladhood.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, light, feel good, captivating, realistic
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The Gilded Cage (2013)
Plot Summary:
In the beautiful area of Paris, Maria and José Ribeiro lived for almost thirty years on the ground floor of a Haussmann building, in their dear little lodge.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, semi serious, realistic, intercultural, masterpiece
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All Together (2011)
Plot Summary:
Five old friends decide to move in together as an alternate to living in a retirement home; joining them is an ethnology student whose thesis is on the aging population.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, sentimental, realistic
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Hello Lonesome (2010)
Plot Summary:
Lonely since his wife left him and alienated from his daughter, a cantankerous voice-over artist strikes up an unlikely friendship with his regular deliveryman. Many suburbs away, an elderly widow loses her license to drive and turns to her wry younger neighbor for nostalgic cuddles and comfort. Meanwhile, a young urban sports fanatic meets a girl online and unexpectedly falls in love, though the trials the couple endure prove even more unexpected. Adam Reid's enchanting, compassionate debut weaves together the worlds of six lonely individuals as they negotiate the age-old process of giving and receiving love. It isn't easy, and it never happens the way they expect it, but for these isolated souls, there's an oddball magic in the way they make connections they never imagined.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: realistic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, psychological, independent film, touching
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The Dandelions (2012)
Plot Summary:
A young girl is frustrated by her over-protective mom. At school, she meets another fearless little girl that is going to have a big influence on her.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, humorous, realistic
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The Big Ask (2013)
Plot Summary:
The Big Ask is a dark comedy about three couples who head to the desert to help their friend heal after the death of his mother. They would do anything for him - except for the one thing he wants.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 679
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, psychological, captivating, realistic, independent film
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2 Francs, 40 Pesetas (2014)
Plot Summary:
Madrid, 1974. Six years have passed since Martin and his family have returned to Spain from Switzerland. A visit to their adopted country will bring complications.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating, sentimental, realistic
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Runaway Horse (2007)
Plot Summary:
Helmut and Sabine Halm have always managed vacations of lazy privacy at their favorite retreat on Germany′s Lake Constance. So when the energetic, handsome Klaus Buch turns up with his beautiful girlfriend Helene, Helmut is quite ready to dismiss this dimly familiar acquaintance. But Klaus is overjoyed to recognize his old schoolmate Helmut, eager to recall every incident of their shared time, and to display every detail of this successful lifestyle as a fit sportsman and author. The precious days of privacy give way to an unwanted and awkward intimacy, as the Buchs and the Halms hike, dine and sail together. Their joint activities aggravate myriad psychological tensions among the four characters, which are all the more intensely ironic for their peaceful veneer and which must eventually erupt.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 461
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, captivating, light, sexy, realistic, semi serious
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Either Way (2011)
Plot Summary:
Icelandic drama about two remote road-workers.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 631
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iceland
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, atmospheric, contemplative, captivating, psychological, offbeat, realistic, talky, semi serious
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Frenchmen 3 (2013)
Plot Summary:
Alex, Antoine and Manu meet Jean, a loner who ignores the pleasures of friendship. Little by little, they learn to know each other, to appreciate each other. Jean is moved by the complicity and affection that fuels the relationship with his new friends.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 465
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty, light, feel good
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Stockholm Boogie (2005)
Plot Summary:
We are following the two cousins and best friends, Jerka and Hoffa, during a typical night out in Stockholm. It's summertime and anything can happen.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, semi serious, light, touching
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