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Plot Summary:
One bride, five grooms, a lot of explaining. Comedy by Jaime Humberto Hermosillo.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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In Bed with Santa (1999)
Plot Summary:
In Bed with Santa (Swedish: Tomten är far till alla barnen) is a 1999 Swedish comedy film directed by Kjell Sundvall. A German remake was made under the tiltle Meine schöne Bescherung.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: funny, hilarious, dark comedy, sentimental, touching, offbeat, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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Hot Under the Collar (1992)
Plot Summary:
Jerry tries to seduce his girlfriend Monica via hypnosis, but it accidentally makes her want to enter a convent and take a vow of chastity instead. Jerry tries to get her out by disguising himself to a priest and later as a nun. Alas, his rescue attempt crosses paths with a mobster who looks for his hidden stolen diamonds in the convent. Things get even more complicated when the pope himself decides to pay a surprise visit.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, cynical, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Grief (1993)
Plot Summary:
A campy chronicle of the lusts and loves of the men and women who work on a low-rent TV show called, "The Love Judge.".
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, soap opera, biting
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Post Coitum (2004)
Plot Summary:
This adult comedy looks at the complex, intermingled sexual relationships between a bunch of diverse characters - a barmaid, a part-time prostitute, a hippy, a rocker, a medical student and a confused virgin!.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sexy, semi serious, humorous, realistic, offbeat, sexual, experimental, slapstick comedy, hot
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Sleepless in Madrid (1998)
Plot Summary:
Eva, Alba y Juan are the protagonist of the story. Eva gives birth to Marina, Alba has just been left by her boyfriend. And Juan is happily married. Their paths intersect one night and their lifes will change forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: touching, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Basic Training (1985)
Plot Summary:
Melinda comes to Washington DC to visit her friend Debbie, and to find a job in government, where she hopes to do her part to make it better. She gets a lower echelon administrative position at the Pentagon, and finds things pretty slack. Her boss seems to be more interested in getting into her pants than trying to find lost data on the Russians. Melinda resists his advances and begins working her way up in the Pentagon, finding subtle ways of getting her policies implemented by manipulating the slovenly males that populate the Pentagon, including finding a way to defuse the mounting conflict with the Russians.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sex comedy, feel good, light, independent film, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Compassionate Sex (2000)
Plot Summary:
Dolores is a mature and kind woman whose husband abandons her because he can't stand her uncanny generosity. Desperate to get her husband back, she devotes her life to works of charity, which is to go to bed with the other men of the town. Dolores, now "Lolita", becomes so famous that all men seek out her help now. It is through her compassionate sex that she brings back the colour and the happiness to a town that was immersed in sadness. Written by HoMordomo.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, feel good, inspirational, spiritual, serious, realistic, sexual, allegory
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Maybe... Maybe Not (1994)
Plot Summary:
Der Bewegte Mann is a German comedy about a heterosexual man, Axel, who is thrown out of his girlfriends home for cheating and ends up moving in with a gay man. Axel learns the advantages of living with gay men even though they are attracted to him and when his girlfriend wants him back he must make a tough decision.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, sexual, homoerotic, realistic, semi serious, tense, funny, light, road movie, rough
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Butch Camp (1996)
Plot Summary:
Butch Camp is a 1996 comedy film. Filmed and set in Chicago, Illinois, it tells the story of a mild-mannered gay man who, tired of being pushed around by straights, enrolls in "Butch Camp," a program designed to turn wimpy gay men into assertive, confident gay men.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, homoerotic, queer cinema, weird, campy
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A Bizarre Love Triangle (2002)
Plot Summary:
Eun-hee is an extravagant and selfish woman who lives a life of luxury. She constantly swears, acts extremely careless, and is unashamedly tactless. Yet she somehow manages to be loved by both her husband, Doo-chan, and Keum-sook, a childhood female friend. However, what Doo-chan doesn't know is that Eun-hee and Keum-sook are secretly involved in a love affair. As Keum-sook continues to grow jealous with the two women. All three then enter the twists of love, betrayal, and revenge as they will all go to the extreme to get what they want.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, futuristic, realistic, sexual, entertaining, sexy
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Woman in Love (2011)
Plot Summary:
An actor's career takes a "Tootsie"-like turn when he lets himself be cast as a woman in a movie.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, touching, semi serious, realistic
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Eating Out: Drama Camp (2011)
Plot Summary:
With raging boy hormones and the laugh quotient turned on full, Chris Salvatore and Daniel Skelton return, along with Rebekah Kochan and cult icon Mink Stole in the fourth installment of Q. Allan Brocka's hilarious and over-the-top sexual antic-laden Eating Out series!.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, not serious, humorous, semi serious, realistic, sexy, erotic, funny, touching, independent film
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Love is in the Air (2012)
Plot Summary:
Couple Andrea and Giulia, an outwardly successful couple, are having problems in the bedroom. When Giulia invites Max, an old friend from high school, to stay in the family home with their teenage son, some new attitudes begin to form.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 985
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, feel good, melancholic, sentimental, captivating, suspenseful, sexy, sexual
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All About My Bush (2007)
Plot Summary:
Allt om min buske är en sexkomedi i trädgårdsmiljö om oväntade kärleksförbindelser och avgrundsdjup svartsjuka. Det vackra och välbärgade paret Nils och Karin flyttar in med sin dotter Barbro i det exklusiva villaområdet. I huset intill med den botaniska trädgården bor systrarna Isabel och Lily. Systrarna sköter trädgården och livnär sig på att arrangera guidade turer genom den artrika floran. Mötet med systrarna blir omvälvande för Nils och Karin när deras ordnade tillvaro och noggrant formgivna livsstil ställs på ända. Någon vandaliserar plötsligt den prunkande trädgården och oanade naturkrafter frigörs när jakten på kärlek och trädgårdssabotörer tar sin början.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 752
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, sexy, sexual
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Off Key (2001)
Plot Summary:
A trio of opera singers are reunited by a wedding ten years after their stormy breakup.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain, Italy, UK
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty
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What a Drag (1996)
Plot Summary:
A closeted gay man's attempt to "act straight" for the sake of his job has unexpected consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy, clever, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, hot, campy
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Kiss Me, Guido (1997)
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When he discovers his girlfriend having sex with his brother, Frankie (Scotti) decides to head to Manhattan, leaving his Bronx pizza shop forever for the fame and fortune of show business. But before stardom, he needs a place to stay. Looking in the personals, he notices GWM. And thinking it "Guy with Money," he heads to the Village and the apartment of gay actor Warren (Barrile), who's in desperate need of this month's rent.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, talky, offbeat, feel good, realistic, witty, semi serious, funny, light
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Soft Hearts (1998)
Plot Summary:
When Annie sets her sights on her co-worker Ron she gets a few drinks in him at an office party and then has her way with him in car. A few weeks later she's expecting and is ready to set up housekeeping. Only problem? Ron's boyfriend Nick doesn't like the idea.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Comedy
Country: Philippines
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: tagalog, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, queer cinema
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Alex and Leo (2010)
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Leo, an advertising executive in his mid-30s, falls in love with Alex who's just gotten out of a long-term relationship. While Alex doesn't quite know how to react to Leo's advances, Leo's facing trouble with Alex's oddball clique.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous, sexy, sexual, independent film, queer cinema
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Splendor (1999)
Plot Summary:
Veronica is a white-bread beauty searching for a good man in Los Angeles. While slam dancing at a Halloween rave, she meets Abel, a sensitive poet. Then she meets Zed, a supersexy tattooed drummer with incredible biceps. Who will she choose? Does she go for true love or cheap sex? She can't decide so she chooses both. But after managing to nurture a picture-perfect threesome, along comes Ernest, a rich movie director with deep baby blues that sweep Veronica off her feet. What's a girl to do now?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, sex comedy, witty, aesthetic, independent film, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual
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The Sex Monster (1999)
Plot Summary:
A neurotic L.A. building contractor (Mike Binder in his best Woody Allen imitation) pushes his wife (Mariel Hemingway) into entering into a three way sexual relationship. Unfortunately for him, his wife gets more out of it than he does and becomes a tigress seducing every female she meets including the contractor's secretary.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, sexy, sex comedy, independent film, biting, sexual, suspense
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Under the Gaydar (2009)
Plot Summary:
Parents hire a girl to turn their son straight, but the son is just pretending to be gay in order to pick up women.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, sexy, feel good, sexual
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29th and Gay (2005)
Plot Summary:
Following a year in the life of James Sanchez, it's a story about a guy rapidly approaching thirty, who doesn't have a six-pack, full head of hair or a boyfriend. While his best friend Roxy, an actress-turned-activist, struggles with showing him there's life beyond the glitz of the disco ball, his other friend, Brandon, one of those gay boys comfortable in his own gay skin, works on getting James to at least talk to a boy. Feeling out of place in the world of circuit boys, caught between his Hispanic-American heritage and being gay, we watch James find his place in the world, realizing that life is in the journey, not the destination.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 322
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, sexy, feel good, independent film, sexual
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A second Chance (2001)
Plot Summary:
Julia and Moises fell in love and got married when they were young, idealistic, and passionate; now in their 30s, their marriage has cooled and their lives have sunken into the mediocrity they had sought to avoid. This realization inspires a quest to regain the lost dreams of their youth, which is complicated when a handsome student begins to pursue Julia. She begins an affair with the fiery young activist that may just put the excitement back into her marriage. This is a funny and insightful exploration of the intricacies of relationships, love, and idealism, and Jesus Ochoa as Moises turns in a stellar performance.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sexy, clever, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious, sexual
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Relax... It's Just Sex (1998)
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A mixed group of individuals - lesbian, gays, and heterosexuals who all frequent a local bar struggle to accept each others lifestyles. However when the two gays are attacked and fight back and ultimately rape one of their attackers, the group becomes strongly divided on their actions.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: touching, melancholic, sincere, sexy, humorous, independent film, sex comedy, realistic, talky, semi serious
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Boyfriends (1996)
Plot Summary:
Paul, Matt, and Will (in their 30s) have been friends for years. They converge at the seaside for the weekend, each with a boyfriend in tow. Paul is with Ben, his companion of five years: their relationship is on the rocks after months of Paul's moodiness since his brother Mark died. Matt brings Owen, whom he's dated for three months and wants to live with; to everyone else, they seem singularly.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 429
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious, sexual, sexy, queer cinema
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Leading Ladies (2010)
Plot Summary:
A zany comedy about two sisters, their gay best friend, and their overzealous stage mom.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, semi serious, light, captivating, touching, offbeat, realistic, independent film, queer cinema
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I Kissed a Girl (2015)
Plot Summary:
Jérémie, 34, wakes up in an apartment he doesn't know, next to a woman he doesn't know. She is Adna, a stunning Swedish woman who is as funny as she is sweet. Is this the beginning of a fairy tale? Not quite, since Jérémie is about to get married—to Antoine.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating, realistic
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Falling for Mala (2015)
Plot Summary:
Maria Laura "Mala" is an actress with little luck, but she is successful working for other women, seducing their boyfriends to know if they are faithful or not. But everything changes when her dream to perform in her acting career depends on a job to be performed with Santiago who breaks the pattern and shakes her professional convictions.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious, captivating, light
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Homework (1991)
Plot Summary:
Virginia is taking a class at film school, and has decided on her solo project for the class. She will secretly film herself and her ex-husband Marcelo with a candid camera while they make love.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 817
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sensual, erotic drama, steamy, sex comedy, clever, humorous, realistic, semi serious