Best movies like Augustin, King of Kung-Fu
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Plot Summary:
The solitary and largely self-contained Augustin (Jean-Chretien Sibertin Blanc), on obscure young actor of bit-parts and advertisements, has but one ambition - to play the lead role in a Kung Fu epic. But hours of Kung Fu practice alone in his room are not enough. Augustin knows he must pack up and start a new life in China... or at least that part of China within bicycling distance: Chinatown in south-east Paris. There he meets Ling (Maggie Cheung), a young Chinese woman who practices ocupuncture, and little by little, Ling's needles awaken emotions in Augustin that his virginal body had never dreamed of. Where will this lead him? To Kung Fu stardom, maybe not, but to another destiny, a quirky but logical continuation of the same dream.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 89 min
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Kung Fu apprentices at the Oolong Courtyard school are suspicious when two outsiders try to join the prestigious academy despite their strange behavior.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Comedy
Country: China
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy, slapstick
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The Gift (2008)
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A man who has recently lost his wife and forced to retire contemplates suicide. His friends take him on a trip to a senior resort, and invite his former sweetheart.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Comedy
Country: Chile
Duration: 108 min
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Kidnapping Granny K (2007)
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Mrs. KWON has spent lifetime building a small home-made soup business into an empire with her bare hands. Now a retiring millionaire, she’s distributed most of her wealth among her children and is enjoying her life as an independent, tech-savvy granny. A band of less-than-professional criminals kidnaps her in a hope to make an easy fortune but their naïve plan goes all wrong, when the family of their difficult hostage is reluctant to pay the modest ransom of 50,000 dollars. Infuriated by this, Mrs. KWON takes the matter into her own hands and leads the pack in making the biggest kidnap case in history. Will she and her kidnappers be able to get their hands on the 50 million dollar ransom?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min
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Angelo, Fredo et Romeo (1996)
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This Canadian French language parody was universally panned by critics. The resulting controversy concerned questions of indiscriminate government funding of such obviously terrible material. Written by Francois Camirand and Pierre Plante, who also made his directorial debut with the film. The story centers on dopey, dull-witted Fredo who has inherited his late uncle's shipping company. Con artist Angelo is his racquetball partner. Angelo has doggedly been trying to convince Fredo that he is a famous film producer so Fredo will invest in his latest film. This sets Fredo to dreaming about films and these daydreams comprise the basis of the parody sketches that attempt to make fun of such genres as martial arts films, gangsters flicks, sexy Italian romances, and one scene where the filmmakers combine The Piano with Crocodile Dundee.
IMDB Rating: 1.7
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min
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Charlots Go to Spain (1972)
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Four friends from Paris are living misadventures of all sorts in Spain when their group of travelers is forced to split due to a travel scam.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 406
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy, slapstick
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La Bomba (1999)
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 330
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 89 min
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 84 min
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Vive nous! (2000)
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When Valérie's husband Yves confesses he's in love with another woman, she happens into a judo club and begins lessons. She likes it, she's a natural, and she's attracted to Bruno, the quiet instructor. He likes her as well, but sees social class as a barrier, and Yves never seems to be too far away. Valérie's two close friends have their own stories: Annette is continuously looking for a husband, with little luck. Clara cares more about wealth and power, and takes up with the country's finance minister, an older man who flips for her. Meanwhile, Yves's lover doesn't seem in a hurry to leave her husband, so Valérie looks good to him from time to time. Will Bruno ever make a move?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 96 min
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The Nobodies (2015)
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One morning, Lily and Ben wake up side by side in bodies that are not theirs. And Magalie, a little girl in the body of a tall, bearded, awaits them in the guest room. This is the beginning of an incredible adventure, sometimes initiatory, where the bodies and identities will be reversed at the option of a simple hug.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 689
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
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A ruined old man turned homeless overhears the conversation of a young couple. He decides to intervene and become their mentor.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 83 min
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Aislados (2005)
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
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BDE (2023)
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The story of four lifelong friends who met in the 2000s when they were presidents of the BDE of the Nantes Institute of Business. At the time, they were the "Bioman": the kings of partying, excess and "transmutation". 20 years later, they have mellowed out and lead well-ordered lives. Except... Once a year, when they get together for the WEB: the Bioman Weekend. There, they "transmute" hard as they like to say. In short: they drink and sing in a pathetic way.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 466
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 106 min
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
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Taste of Life (1988)
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 106 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Comedy
Country: Philippines
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody
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The Apprentices (1995)
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Black comedy about two best friends, one a budding playwright and the other a motorbike freak, who spend their time annoying their girlfriends and getting into various scrapes. Things turn nasty, however, when the pair are caught burgling the offices of a karate magazine, the consequences of which sends the playwright into a spiraling bout of depression.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
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Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, biting, suspense
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An actor who enjoyed success in his youth finds his career and life in a downward spiral as he gets older.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 560
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 403
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Plot Summary:
We follow how four ordinary little girls learn about life, love and all that sort of things.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: cult film
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To celebrate Yves’ 50th birthday, his friends plan to take him to the sunny paradise of Paros in Greece. But due to a cancelled flight, the holiday will take place in a far less glamorous and much rainier destination: Yves’ family home in Brittany. During the vacation, their bonds are challenged by Antoine’s constant complaining, Yves’ pride, Baptiste’s superstition and Laurent’s jealousy of Jean-Mich’s perfect life and family. On top of that, Antoine’s supposedly harmless joke – offering Yves a DNA ancestry test – has unforeseen consequences….
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 451
Genere: Comedy
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Salut cousin ! (1996)
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Alilo arrives in Paris, met by his hip cousin Mok. Alilo is to pick up a suitcase of dresses to smuggle back to Algiers for resale. He's lost the dressmaker's address and his boss is gone for five days, so he stays in the Moskova neighborhood of the 18th arrondissement with Mok. Mok makes rap music of Jean de La Fontaine's fables, invents fabrications of his own, is in debt to his bookie, and in love with a punk rocker. Alilo's old-country sweetness, in contrast with Mok's big-city neuroses, gets the attention of Fatoumata, a lovely African neighbor. Once Alilo gets the dresses, he must return to Algiers, but it seems he's only started to live: is there any way he can stay?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Algeria, Belgium, Luxembourg
Duration: 98 min
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Joon-soo (Jang Geun -Seok) is a rebellious high school kid who often get in fights. One day, his parents give him an ultimatum and leaving him alone in the house, Joon-soo decides to have a party at his parent's home. He then goes shopping for groceries and comes upon an unexpected surprise. A little toddler sits in a shopping basket wearing the name tag "Han Woo-ram" (Mason Moon) and points to Joon-soo as his father.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: South Korea
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Plot tags: humorous, romantic, touching, emotional, not serious
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After the Club Med and skiing, what happened to the Bronzés 27 years later? Early response: the same, and worse.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, sexy, sexual
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Boys on the Beach (1999)
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Four guys from a Paris housing project fabricate a documentary about drug dealers working in the City of Lights. When a television network falls hook, line, and sinker for the prank video, the foursome are given a free three-week vacation in the upscale resort community of Biarritz. As they interact with both locals and fellow tourists, they learn about love, friendship, racism, and the differences between the rich and the poor.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 917
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
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Benoit is the new kid at a junior high school. He's bullied by a gang of arrogant boys who make things difficult for him. Determined not to be pushed around, Benoit organizes a big party and invites the whole class. But on the night of the party, only three students turn up.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, captivating
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Catherine refuses to believe that her business partner, the unlikeable François, has a best friend, so she challenges him to set up an introduction. Scrambling to find someone willing to pose as his best pal, François enlists the services of a charming taxi driver to play the part.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
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Willy Vander Brook, a world with Franco-Belgian roots, travels to Paris for an interview. He is welcomed by his childhood friend Serge, an ex pub operator, and his roommate Frank, a fierce supporter of the Walloon independence. When Willy discovers that his candidacy is not accepted because he is Belgian, he and his compatriots decide to take revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
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Irma Vep (1996)
Plot Summary:
A Chinese movie actress, in France to star in a remake of "Les Vampires", finds petty intrigues and clashing egos on the set.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
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