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Plot Summary:
Prince Jan is spying on beautiful tour guide Elena from his helicopter while touring Greece. He escapes from his entourage and joins the girl's group, posing as a humble visitor. The two fall in love, but Prince Jan, knowing that he has duties and responsibilities to his country, leaves her, never revealing his true identity.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Greece, Sweden
Duration: 88 min
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The Bait (1964)
Plot Summary:
Α crook turns a cabaret girl into a fine lady to use her as bait for his victims.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 96 min
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Throbs at the Desk (1963)
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Lisa is a student, pretending the sick not to go to school. Her parents are worried about her health and call the doctor to examine her. He realizes her lies but he covers her. Soon, they fall in love and eventually get married. However, after the honeymoon she begins to yearn school and her classmates and she returns to it without saying anything to her husband. Soon, her husband begins to suspect her because of her frequent absences from home and her secret meetings with the professor seem to confirm his suspicions.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 114 min
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Joy and Tears (1970)
Plot Summary:
A carefree young man, Alekos, son of shipowner Venier, meets a poor girl, Christina, who makes the clown in a small circus. Christina does not tell Aleko the truth about her work, and when an unexpected episode forces her to return to the circus, Alekos begins to seek her everywhere and quickly finds her. She proposes to marry her and take her to London to meet her father. But Alekos is already engaged with a rich girl.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 369
Genere: Romance, Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 102 min
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Marriage... Greek Style (1964)
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Mina is dreaming of becoming a painter and Petros works in a company. They meet and fall in love during the carnival, but later lose contact. They meet again without recognizing each other and eventually get married. However they have no idea how hard marriage is.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Romance, Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy
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Cinderella (1981)
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The Prince, Don Ramiro (who has changed places with his valet, Dandini), meets Cenerentola and they are instantly attracted to each other. When the Philosopher, Alidoro, later takes Cenerentola (dressed in magnificent clothing) to the palace, Dandini (still posing as the prince) tries to talk of love to her, but Cenerentola rejects him, saying that she is in love with his 'valet'. Ramiro, who has overheard this comment, is overjoyed, and immediately proposes to her, but Cenerentola says that he must first seek her out and then, if he still felt the same way, she would marry him. She gives him one of a matching pairs of bracelets, telling him to look for its companion on her right arm (she then leaves the palace). Ramiro ends the masquerade, and he and Dandini resume their true identities. The Prince then sets out on his quest - little realising that destiny, in the form of a violent thunderstorm, is about to take a hand in the affair.
IMDB Rating: 9.1
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Music
Country: Italy
Duration: 152 min
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The Wise Guy (1962)
Plot Summary:
Alekos (Dinos Iliopoulos) is in love with Voula (Maria Voulgari) whose brother threatens to kill him if he doesn't marry her soon. Alekos' father (Pantelis Zervos) on the other hand insists that Alekos' sister (Zoe Laskari) has to get married before him. His sister Annoula (Zoe Laskari) is in love with Antonis (Stephanos Stratigos) and pressures him to ask for her hand in marriage from her family. Antonis meets Alekos by accident at a cafe in Panorama - they don't know each other - and advises him to use the infalible method of "escaping through an engagement" to calm down Voula's brother. This is after all what he intends to do himself... And God help them.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: romantic
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My friend Lefterakis (1963)
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Theodoros in order to be able to go out with his occasional lovers, he "invented" a non-existent friend from Patras, Lefterakis, and use him as an alibi in wife Fofo. When one day arrives at home, quite suddenly, the non-existent friend Lefterakis Tsampardis, Theo will welcome him with surprise and terror.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 90 min
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Mermaids for Love (1968)
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Petros, a race car driver and son of a construction mogul, hears about an island with promising business opportunities. He tells his father, they have to buy land there but Flora, a night club owner also learns about it and arrives at the island before him. Their competition disturbs the peaceful lives of the island's residents. Marina, the daughter of the local restaurant owner falls in love with Petros while Flora charms the men of the island and especially Nicolas, causing his fiance's jealousy. She on the other hand falls for Iasonas, the son of the island's Lady who worries about the outcome of these events.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 823
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 90 min
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Our Love (1968)
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An usherette in a theatre, where a distinguished and popular actor performs, gets her big break when the leading actress has an accident. The director decides to take advantage of the heretofore unexploited talent of the girl and asks her to replace the leading actress. This unexpected opportunity transforms her from a humble usherette into a shining star. Later on, she wins the heart of the leading actor with whom she was secretly in love. However, her sudden rise to theatrical-musical stardom creates complications in their love affair, as her companion sinks into disappointment and drowns himself in drink, abandoning his career. Nevertheless, the usherette/leading actress doesn't give up; She looks for him, finds him and supports him, psychologically and morally, until he makes a comeback to the stage and their love nest.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 95 min
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My Daughter, the Socialist (1966)
Plot Summary:
Liza falls in love with one of her father's employees. Her socialistic ideas about employment drive her to collide with her father and the sociopolitical status of the time.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 94 min
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Let's Make Love 2 (1989)
Plot Summary:
Lepa Brena goes to one of the islands of the Adriatic, on a working holiday, but due to the holidays and planning the next tour, false news that the notorious island Lepa Brena requested a special guest for the tour. The news will completely disrupt the thrill and to potential tour guests, tourists and members of the Sweet Sin and the whole island.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 657
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 95 min
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Viva Rena (1967)
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Rena and her brother Stratakis trying to establish themselves as singers in Athens without fail successfully, unlike their cousin, Pepita NTU peaks that has become famous singer in Italy. A efolplistis, Lambros Fokas, who had met the Pepita few years ago, pays as much as to sing at a party that is preparing. The Pepita refuses the invitation, and then the agent of the owner proposes Rena after the looks amazing.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 361
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: Greece
Duration: 82 min
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The Blue Beads from Greece (1967)
Plot Summary:
A feud develops between a taverna with bouzoukia and a club next door that plays modern music.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 726
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: Greece
Duration: 94 min
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Lysistrata (1972)
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Based on Aristophanes's play, Athenian women band together to encourage their men to stop fighting the Spartans by withholding sex from them when they return from the front.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: Greece
Duration: 100 min
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The King of Gaffes (1962)
Plot Summary:
A very clever detective is on a mission to find a shipowner's daughter, having as a sole research element a mole on the girl's buttock.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: detective
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Risotto (2000)
Plot Summary:
Two mothers/wives devise a solution to the downsides of marriage.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 95 min
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Something Hot (1964)
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During an International Trade Fair at Thessaloniki, a mature woman, Rena (Martha Karagianni), goes there with her sister to convince her childhood friend Dinos (Dinos Iliopoulos) to have a "white wedding" so that she can inherit a large estate. Dinos though, does not accept because even though he is actually a womanizer he acts as a shy and modest man around people. Everyone there will meet a group of musicians and one of them will fall in love with the daughter of the strict manager of the company Dinos works for who is accompanied by Dinos. At some point, everyone goes to Athens where things get more complicated untill everyone finds his perfect match. In the end Rena gets her inheritance and all together they perform a musical play in a grand theater.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 652
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 110 min
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Love Me Not? (1989)
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Spying a lissome young woman standing topless on a nearby balcony, Giorgos (Andreas Barcoulis) climbs up onto a nearby rooftop to get a better look. At a critical moment in his climb, his family and friends call out to him and he falls, suffering a terrible blow to the head. Ineed, at the hospital, the family is told that he is brain dead, and that if they like, his heart can be given to someone else as a transplant. Giorgos' grieving wife (Betty Livanou) agrees to this arrangement. The film now follows the recipient of the dead man's heart (Giorgos Constas), as he wanders all over Greece, driven by his newly lusty heart into the arms of many beautiful women. Eventually he is led to the one woman his new heart truly loved, Giorgios' wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 102 min
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The Pirates of Penzance (1980)
Plot Summary:
This Pirates of Penzance is primarily a historical document, part of the Broadway Theater Archive television series. It presents, with some inevitable, tiny technical shortcomings, a live 1980 performance in Central Park, not the 1983 movie of the same name that also starred Linda Ronstadt and Kevin Kline. Those who remember that film, which had the benefit of retakes and editing, a lavish production budget, and the spaciousness of a Hollywood studio, may find this video less polished. On its own terms, it is nonetheless thoroughly enjoyable.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 446
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
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Wicked (2024)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of how Elphaba becomes the Wicked Witch of the West, and it involves love, loss, hatred, envy and an unwillingness to accept anything that is different.
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Genere: Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: fairy tale
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A Little Night Music (1977)
Plot Summary:
"Fredrik Egerman is very happy in his marriage to a seventeen-year-old virgin, Anne. Only she's been a virgin for the whole eleven months of the marriage, and being a bit restless, Fredrik goes to see an old flame, the famous actress Desiree Armfeldt. Desiree is getting tired of her life, and is thinkin of settling down, and sets her sights on Fredrik, despite his marriage, and her own married lover Count Carl-Magnus. She gets her mother to invite the Egermans to her country estate for the weekend. But when Carl-Magnus and his wife Charlotte appear, too, things begin to get farcical (Send in the Clowns), and the night must smile for the third time before all the lovers are united." Written by Kathy Li.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 899
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: West Germany, Austria, USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, fun
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At Long Last Love (1975)
Plot Summary:
Four socialites unexpectedly clash: heiress Brooke Carter runs into gambler Johnny Spanish at the race track while playboy Michael O. Pritchard nearly runs into stage star Kitty O'Kelly with his car. Backstage at Kitty's show, it turns out she and Brooke are old friends who attended public school together. The foursome do the town, accompanied by Brooke's companion Elizabeth, who throws herself at Michael's butler and chauffeur Rodney James.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: cult classic, feel good, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, art deco, neo screwball comedy
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Hello, Dolly! (1969)
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Matchmaker, Dolly Levi takes a trip to Yonkers, New York to see the "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire," Horace Vandergelder. While there, she convinces him, his two stock clerks and his niece and her beau to go to New York City.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: period piece, feel good, retro, hilarious, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, funny
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Hairspray Live! (2016)
Plot Summary:
A teenage girl living in Baltimore in the early 1960s dreams of appearing on a popular TV dance show.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Summer Holiday (1963)
Plot Summary:
1960s musical showcasing Cliff Richard. Four bus mechanics working for London Transport strike up a deal with the company: they do up a one of the company's legendary red double decker buses and take it to southern Europe as a mobile hotel. If it succeeds, they will be put in charge of a whole fleet. While on the road in France they pick up three young British ladies whose car breaks down and offer to take them to their next singing job in Athens. They also pick up a stowaway, who hides the fact that she's a famous American pop star on the run, chased by the media and her parents.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: road movie, independent film, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, entertaining, slang
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Beach Party (1963)
Plot Summary:
Anthropology Professor Robert Orwell Sutwell and his secretary Marianne are studying the sex habits of teenagers. The surfing teens led by Frankie and Dee Dee don't have much sex but they sing, battle the motorcycle rats and mice led by Eric Von Zipper and dance to Dick Dale and the Del Tones.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult classic, psychotronic, independent film, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slang, teen sex comedy
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Love's Labour's Lost (2000)
Plot Summary:
An update of the classic Shakespeare story, director Kenneth Branagh shot this movie like a classic 30s musical. Love's Labour's Lost tells the story of four best friends who swear off love. The King of Navarre and his three companions swear a very public oath to study together and to renounce women for three years. Their honour is immediately put to the test by the arrival of the Princess of France and her three lovely companions. It's love at first sight for all concerned followed by the men's highly entertaining but hopeless efforts to disguise their feelings.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Romance, Comedy, Musical
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, semi serious, humorous, witty, sex comedy, anamorphic, offbeat, independent film, slapstick comedy
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Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018)
Plot Summary:
Five years after meeting her three fathers, Sophie Sheridan prepares to open her mother’s hotel. In 1979, young Donna Sheridan meets the men who each could be Sophie’s biological father.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 105000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Japan, China, Croatia
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: feel good, sincere, sentimental, scenic, captivating, light, inspirational, romantic, retro, entertaining
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Mamma Mia! (2008)
Plot Summary:
Set on an idyllic Greek island, the plot serves as a background for a wealth of ABBA hit songs. Donna, an independent, single mother who owns a small hotel on the island is about to let go of Sophie, the spirited young daughter she's raised alone. But Sophie has secretly invited three of her mother's ex-lovers in the hopes of finding her father.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 267000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Germany
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, light, sentimental, stylized, not serious, teen, happy, funny, inspirational
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My Life in Ruins (2009)
Plot Summary:
A Greek tour guide named Georgia attempts to recapture her kefi (Greek for mojo) by guiding a ragtag group of tourists around Greece and showing them the beauty of her native land. Along the way, she manages to open their eyes to the wonders of an exotic foreign land while beginning to see the world through a new set of eyes in the process.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: romantic, funny, light, humorous, sweet, entertaining, romantic comedy, inspirational, sentimental, teen