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Plot Summary:
Stan, screeplay writer, had his time of glory in Hollywood. Today, alcoholic with a certain envy for suicide, his only link to life is his daughter, Charlotte.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 802
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: crying, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Dolls (2007)
Plot Summary:
Iska, Karolína, and Vendula are eighteen-year-old girls who have just graduated from high school. Not wanting to let go of their carefree student lives or their friendship, they plan to hitchhike to Holland, where they've arranged to work on a farm for three months. But Vojta, Iska's little brother and her father's right hand man, joins the trio against their will. He becomes a witness as well as a catalyst for the breakup of their friendship - for the girls recognize that time cannot be stopped. Dolls is a story about searching for love and finding oneself in the volatile time of late adolescence.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 448
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, crying
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God's Thunder (1965)
Plot Summary:
Brassac (Jean Gabin) is a drunken veterinarian who can't resist bringing home stray animals and humans. Lilli Palmer plays his long-suffering wife Marie. When he brings home the prostitute Simone (Michele Mercier), Brassac is not sure he is acting out of concern or lust. He beats up the pimp who comes looking for Simone, and Brassac is happy when she later falls in love with his neighbor, and they make Brassac a "grandfather.".
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 369
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Zig Zag Story (1983)
Plot Summary:
The lives of three Parisians - a color-blind painter, a radio show host and a perverted photographer - intertwine and go hilariously out of control.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, fast
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Slogan (1969)
Plot Summary:
Commercial director Serge Faberge (Serge Gainsbourg) is having an affair with Evelyne (Jane Birkin), the 18 year old fiancee of friend Hugh (James Mitchell). His own pregnant wife Francoise (Andréa Parisy) usually does not mind his dalliances, until he actually walks out on her and their newborn baby to move in with Evelyne. The shoe is on the other foot when dashing stuntman Dado (Gilles Millinaire) catches Evelyne's eye in Venice.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 471
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Barnie's Minor Annoyances (2001)
Plot Summary:
Barnie lives in Calais but works in London. Everyday, he takes the Eurostar to go to his office. Although he is married to Lucie, Barnie has two lovers in London: Margot, a young and fresh advertising executive, and Mark, a hot 35 years old auctioneer. Everything could work out fine like that, until Margot, Mark and Lucie separately offer Barnie the same birthday present: a return ticket to Venice on the Orient-Express, and on the same dates. What will Barnie do? Who will he choose to go with? After thinking that going with Lucie could actually save his marriage, problems are not over: Margot and Mark both show up at Barnie and Lucie's house, pretending to be a couple, and asking Barnie for some explanations. Which he obviously can't give.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 579
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Season's Beatings (1999)
Plot Summary:
Christmas, family, and infidelity. Yvette's husband has died, and her grown daughters join her at the grave: Sonia, wealthy, bourgeois, and generous; Louba, living with their dad Stanislas, singing at a Russian restaurant, penniless, the mistress for the past 12 years of a man who will never leave his wife; Milla, the youngest, acerbic, lonesome. Christmas was when they learned their parents were divorcing 25 years ago. Over the next few days, yuletide depression, Louba's pregnancy, Sonia's crumbling marriage, Stanislas's overtures to Yvette, and Milla's attraction to the man who's her father's rent-free lodger lead each one to re-examine self, family, and hopes. Is renewal possible?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sentimental, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, entertaining, masterpiece
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Scorchers (1991)
Plot Summary:
Bayou La Teche, Louisiana sizzles as the Cajun town celebrates the wedding of Splendid and Dolan. The trouble comes on the wedding night when Splendid is determined to maintain her innocence. On the other side of town Splendids' cousin has her own problems. Her man has been sleeping with Thais, the town hooker. She heads to the Tiger Cafe with gun in hand to get back her man.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 664
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: independent film, erotic, sexy, clever, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious, sexual
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The Reader (1988)
Plot Summary:
A multi-faceted film based on Raymond Jean's novel "La Lectrice". Constance (Miou-Miou) reads the novel aloud in bed to her lover. Inspired by the story of Marie, a woman who advertises her services as a reader of literature, Constance decides to do the same. Here the film takes on a kaleidoscopic effect as the lives of Constance and Marie become merged, making it hard to distinguish what is real and what is fantasy. This structure is further complicated when the lives of Constance's clients become tangled with the stories she reads. The film is interspersed with readings from well known literary sources as diverse as, amongst others, Baudelaire, Duras, Tolstoy, Lewis Carroll and de Sade's "120 days...".
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sexy, sexual, erotic, clever, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious, masterpiece
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Stepfather (1981)
Plot Summary:
Rémi is a man trapped in a deteriorating marriage. When his wife is unexpectedly killed in a car accident, Rémi is left with his stepdaughter, Marion, who chooses to stay with him rather than live with her birth father. After the initial shock passes, Rémi is caught off-guard when Marion begins expressing her attraction to him. Initially repulsed, Marion's mature beauty wears him down as he finally caves to her seductions.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, psychological, sensual, serious, talky, controversial, anthology, stylized, sexual
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The Hotel New Hampshire (1984)
Plot Summary:
The film talks about a family that weathers all sorts of disasters and keeps going in spite of it all. It is noted for its wonderful assortment of oddball characters.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: black comedy, offbeat, humorous, dark comedy, realistic, semi serious, independent film, erotic, psychological, road movie
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An Impudent Girl (1985)
Plot Summary:
Charlotte is being raised without a mother. She is only 13 but ready to be an adult. She meets an older boy and begins a relationship while teaching a young friend about life and learning the ropes herself.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, humorous, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, cult film
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Girls Can't Swim (2000)
Plot Summary:
Gwen is a teenager living in a small coastal town. Lise is her best friend, a city girl who comes every year with her family to spend the summer. This year things are different though; at first Lise might not come at all, and when she does it is obvious that Gwen grew up faster than she did.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 624
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sincere, realistic, captivating, disturbing, sentimental, touching, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Cookies (1975)
Plot Summary:
Henri Serin, a sales rep in umbrellas who lives in Saumur, is bored with his life. Married to an unloving, uptight wife, who, unlike him, has no interest in sex, he is also rejected by his children. Thus, he spends most of his time travelling from town to town, flirting with women and meeting all kinds of people in the hotels, restaurants, shops and places he visits. He also dabbles in painting, particularly portraits. After his car breaks down as he is driving through Brittany, he meets a rough, foul-mouthed painter who offers him to stay at his house, near Pont-Aven. There, Henri falls in love with Angela, the painters model and fling, and soon they run off together.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: erotic, anthology, sex comedy, touching, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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A Night with Sabrina Love (2000)
Plot Summary:
In Curuguazu, located in the Argentinian countryside, seventeen year-old Daniel Montero has been raised by his grandmother for three years since the death of his parents in a car accident. Daniel has a boring life, working in a poultry processing plant and meeting his friends in the square to make small talk. He saves some money from his salary and buys an old television, where he watches late night porn shows of Sabrina Love.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 932
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Italy, France, Argentina, Netherlands
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, humorous, sentimental, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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The Secret Life of Girls (1999)
Plot Summary:
15-year-old Natalie, confused to begin with, finds out about her father's affair with one of his students. Refusing to simply stand by and watch her family disintegrate, Natalie takes it upon herself to expose the problem, and in doing so calls into question the family's penchant for denial.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 447
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, contemplative, semi serious
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A Change of Seasons (1980)
Plot Summary:
Marriage takes a sour turn when a middle-aged husband falls for a young and sexy woman. Things get even more complicated when his wife starts a hot affair with a young lover of her own.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sexy, touching, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, sexual, hot
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I Couldn't Care Less (2000)
Plot Summary:
This European take on twenty-something woe introduces viewers to Jorge (Alejandro Cano), a self-help author suffering from writer's block who thinks he may be gay. Living with Jorge is Marta (Maria Jurado), a bisexual who wants to have a baby. Included in their circle are Eva (Melanie Olivares), Jorge's ex, and Alberto (Alvaro Gallegos), a gay man Jorge meets at a New Age healing session presided over by Ines (Begona Hernando). A number of encounters ensue, Marta moves in with the piggish Mario (Fernando Cayo), and Jorge decides to write a book based on his own experiences.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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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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Lost Islands (2008)
Plot Summary:
A family with five kids in the 80s get into a crisis when twin brothers fall in love with the same girl.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 664
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, emotional, sentimental, realistic, stylized
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Our Precious Children (2003)
Plot Summary:
30 ans, l'âge des responsabilités... Martin s'apprête à partir en vacances avec sa femme Ariane et sa fille Cerise, 4 mois... C'est alors qu'il croise Constance, son ex, son amour de jeunesse, elle-même flanquée de deux marmots. C'est décidé : on passera quelques jours ensemble, au soleil, dans la maison familiale. Comme au bon vieux temps.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 434
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, realistic, semi serious, sexy, sexual
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Boys Briefs 2 (2002)
Plot Summary:
The long-awaited sequel to Boys Briefs, the successful compilation of six outstanding short films about gay first love. Hosted by DANNY ROBERTS, star of MTV's THE REAL WORLD NEW ORLEANS. Films included are: Doors Cut Down (2000); Chicken (2001); Back Room (2000); Breakfast? (Frühstück?) (2002); Touch (2001); and Take-Out (2001).
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, sexy, funny, sexual, gay cinema
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The Beautiful Person (2008)
Plot Summary:
In the wake of her mother's tragic death, French teenager Junie (Léa Seydoux) transfers to a different high school. Though Junie lives mostly inside her own head, her beauty and stoicism win her the attention of the entire male student population. Junie begins dating the gentle Otto Cleves (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet), but finds herself intensely drawn to her youthful Italian language teacher, Nemours (Louis Garrel). When Nemours begins to reciprocate, serious complications ensue.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sexual, psychological, touching, serious, emotional, melancholic, captivating, disturbing, sexy, art house
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Cougars Inc. (2011)
Plot Summary:
When Sam learns his mother cannot afford to send him to another school after he is kicked out, he and his friends start their own escort service for mature women to pay for his tuition.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, semi serious, captivating, realistic, independent film, sexy, sexual, hot
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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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Dirty Girl (2010)
Plot Summary:
It's 1987 and Danielle, the high school 'Dirty Girl', is running away. With her is chubby, gay Clarke, a bag of flour called Joan and a Walkman full of glorious '80s tunes.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: road movie, touching, teen, independent film, melancholic, sweet, humorous, realistic, semi serious, feel good
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Seven Days of Grace (2006)
Plot Summary:
Four women - a blonde, a hippie, a lesbian and a barmaid - are looking for love, money and success. When one inherits an Italian restaurant from her father, they see this as a chance to fulfil their dreams. Then the restaurant is in danger of closing down - and the girls pull out all the stops to save it.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, light, feel good, offbeat, independent film
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Spanking the Monkey (1994)
Plot Summary:
Bright young student Raymond Aibelli is forced to sidetrack an important medical internship because his mother, Susan, is recovering from a broken leg. When he isn't tasked with the most mundane aspects of Susan's recuperation, Raymond finds distraction in a neighborhood girl, Toni Peck. But, as Susan begins relying on her son for both physical and emotional needs, Raymond starts developing disturbing and unwanted new yearnings.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, dark comedy, sexy, disturbing, controversial, psychological, romantic, cult classic, teen
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Short Skin (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ever since he was a child, the seventeen-yearold Edoardo has suffered from a malformation of the foreskin that stops him from masturbating and makes him insecure and ill at ease with girls. Shut up in his sexless microcosm, Edoardo reacts with irritation to the pressures of the outside world, which do nothing but exacerbate his insecurity.Forced against his will to emerge from the shadows in which he has hidden for years, Edoardo will initially try to solve his problem by clumsy stratagems before finding, at last, the courage to face his own fears.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 722
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, captivating, psychological, touching, semi serious, sexual, sex comedy, sexy
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A Summer in La Goulette (1996)
Plot Summary:
Summer, 1967. La Goulette, the touristic beach of Tunisi, is the site where three nice seventeen-year-old girls live: Gigi, sicilian and catholic; Meriem, Tunisian and Arab; Tina, French and Jewish. They would like to have their first sexual experience during that summer, challenging their families. Their fathers, Youssef, Jojo and Giuseppe, are old friends and their friendship will be in crisis because of the girls, while Hadj, an old rich Arab, would like to marry Meriem.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 840
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Tunisia, France, Belgium
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sexual, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexy
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Smart Ass (2014)
Plot Summary:
Kelly, Dan and Louis are students at a prestigious business school, destined to become tomorrow's elite. The industrious trio are determined to start putting their education into practise from the off in an attempt to make as much money as they can from their fellow students. Working on the theory that relationships between the sexes can be regulated by market principles, they begin to inflate the popularity of certain individuals artificially, by hiring beautiful and sexy off-campus women as their dates for exclusive and riotous college parties. However their perfect business model soon spirals out of control as their moneymaking scheme takes off in a big way across campus.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, sexy, semi serious, touching, art house, realistic, erotic, fake documentary