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Ballad of the Masterthief Ole Hoiland (Norwegian: Balladen om mestertyven Ole Høiland) is a 1970 Norwegian drama film directed by Knut Andersen, and starring a broad cast of notable Norwegian actors, headed by Per Jansen as Ole Høiland. Ole Høiland was an actual Norwegian Robin Hood-figure in the early 19th century. He steals from the rich and gives to the poor, enjoying numerous affairs with attractive women along the way. The story culminates in the ambitious burglary of Norges Bank, Norway's central bank.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: cult film
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The anarchist Ottar is being locked up in a mental institution after a serious of tantrums that involves rage against the machine.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 83 min
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Amour (1970)
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This three-part movie begins with a young woman married to an older, cold-hearted man in the year 1200. Two rivals have a swordfight over the affections of the woman. Part two takes place in 1910 and finds an amorously unfaithful wife taking on her many lovers while her unsuspecting husband lurks nearby. The final part finds a count and countess engaging in extramarital affairs in France during the 1840s.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark, France
Duration: 94 min
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IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
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You Got Me (2007)
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 82
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Country: Philippines
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Feeling Sexy is a story about Vicki, a passionate and vivacious artist with a voracious appetite for life and love. When she meets and marries medical student Greg, she feels she has found true happiness, but two kids and hours, weeks, years of house chores later soon shatter the dream. Vicki wants freedom, release and self-expression, and despite her love for Greg, falls into a lusty affair with art student Hugo. But dishonesty and deceit are not for Vicki. She fatally confesses all to Greg and home life becomes hellish, with Vicki left crushed and demoralized and Greg suspicious and mistrusting. A radical solution is called for and Vicki discovers that the answer may lie within her own creativity and imagination. Vicki is 'married with children' and caught in the universal dilemma - how do you keep the passion alive?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: sexy
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A Woman with Red Hair (1979)
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Kozo and his colleague rape their boss's daughter and have sex with an unnamed woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Wide Open (1974)
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A philandering cab driver decides to help his girlfriend's attractive sister, who is in trouble with drug dealers.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 98 min
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Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1969)
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This is the story of a bookstore thief named Birdy, who is led through various adventures in Tokyo's Shinjuku district by salesgirl Umeko.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 817
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min
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German sex comedy.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 88 min
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The Telegraphist (1993)
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Set against the beautiful backdrop of northern Norway, this film tells the story of a telegraphist in a very small community at the turn of the century.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 667
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Country: Denmark, Norway
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IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 82 min
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When Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong (1971)
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Prehistoric cave-stud Ari wins lovely virgin Listra in a pig-catching contest, but their attempts at "Ding-Dong" keep getting interrupted by idiot battles between his tribe, The Cave Dwellers, and their neighbors, The Lake Dwellers. Annoyed that hubby would rather make war than Ding-Dong, Listra organizes the women of both tribes to go on strike and "abstain Ding-Dong" until the men stop fighting. It all happens back in the days when men carried clubs and women played ding-dong, an Italian stone-age sex comedy based on the Greek classic "Lysistrata" and filled with shapely cavewomen sporting '70s hairstyles, a gay caveman with the hots for the hero, a title tune that will follow you forever and, of course, plenty of old-fashioned Ding-Dong!.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: prehistoric, cult film
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Kanarifuglen (1973)
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Together with colleagues Jan goes to a seminar on the Canary Islands. Already on the first day we starts an erotic relation to a stewardess, and during a swim with his boss his life changes dramatically.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 86 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Comedy
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min
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The Adventures of Eliza Fraser (1976)
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An old captain & his young wife share a lot of adventures after they're shipwrecked and captured by Aborigines on an island near Australia.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 208
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Country: Australia
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Office Love-In, White Collar Style (1968)
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Sexy Marsha Jordan works as a secretary at a dating service (Date-A-Mate) and gets it on with her boss, his wife and his brother in law.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic
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A Butterfly in the Night (1976)
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 95 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 816
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
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A lowly bank clerk, literally allergic to money and revolted by its nefarious influence on humanity, launches a campaign of harassment against a wealthy butcher, stealing small, insignificant items— but never money—from the man. The victim uses the thefts to make large and fraudulent insurance claims, refusing to finger the thief for fear his own financial improprieties might be exposed.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
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IMDB Votes: 61
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 118
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Country: Italy
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 168
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Country: Italy
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A crazed sea captain goes on a bloody rampage after his vessel is commissioned by a sleazy film producer and a trio of vixens.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
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IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 39
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 183
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IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 554
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IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 301
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IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
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Country: Italy
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