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Plot Summary:
Life goes quietly in a traditional neighborhood of Madrid. Two beautiful girls, Susana and Casta, trade workers in the area, accepting mature attentions of a pharmacist, Don Hilarion. This affection dislike the young Julian, who is in love with Susan. Third movie version of the famous zarzuela by Tomas Breton. With musical arrangements by Gregorio Garcia Segura, the film tries to update the original story to fit the Madrid of the 60's.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
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Dollybirds (1997)
Plot Summary:
The movie is set in the actual "Ki Mit Tud?" talent contest in 1962. In reality the contest in dance music category was won by an army brass band. "Omega" which later became one of the most successful Hungarian rock bands came out in the second place.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Hungary
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: cult classic, parody, independent film, cult film
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A Fine Romance (1991)
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In an otherwise bland comedy about unfaithful spouses. Individually and together, Mastroianni and Andrews (an unlikely team) are magic. He plays a slightly clownish Italian and she, an uptight Brit. They come together when their spouses run off together. The ending helps redeem this slight film, watchable only because of the great stars.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 359
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Maid's Secret (2007)
Plot Summary:
Two young women pursue the same man with opposite strategies - one learns subservience, the other domination.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 78 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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Mack the Knife (1989)
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In the 19th century London, a young girl falls for a famous womanizing criminal and they decide to get married. Her family strongly disapproves so her father "the king of thieves" gets the gangster arrested.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 401
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Musical, Romance
Country: Netherlands, Hungary
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: independent film
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A Star of the Screen (1974)
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A young actress before playing in the movie legendary partisan, looking for everyone who knew her character. And suddenly learns that the fearless guerrilla is alive and works as the Director of resort hotel where the film crew stopped. Then follow the exciting meeting of the rising movie star with the heroine of the glorious past and the truth of life….
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 91 min
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Apollo Goes on Holiday (1968)
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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Take Care of Zuzu (1972)
Plot Summary:
When a college professor falls for one of his students, his fiancée decides to expose the student's shameful secret to all.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 498
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Egypt
Duration: 132 min
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Sextette (1977)
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Marlo Manners is enjoying her honeymoon with Sir Michael Barrington, husband number 6. As luck would have it, an international conference is taking place in the same hotel and the Russian delegate (one of Marlo's former husbands) is threatening to derail the negotiations unless he can have one more fling with his ex. Adding to the complications is a tape Marlo has made detailing all of her affairs and scandals, which her manager is desperately trying (and failing) to destroy.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, spoof, offbeat, humorous, realistic, not serious, queer cinema, bizarre, campy
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Come Blow Your Horn (1963)
Plot Summary:
The story of a young man's decision to leave the home of his parents for the bachelor pad of his older brother who leads a swinging '60s lifestyle.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: retro, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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All's Well That Ends Well (1981)
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Helena loves Bertram, but he's of noble birth, while she's just a doctor's daughter. But Bertram is at the court of the King of France, who is ill, and Helena has a remedy that might cure him and win her the right to marry Bertram. But does Bertram want to marry her?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 141 min
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The Pirates of Penzance (1983)
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In spite of being apprenticed to a Pirate King as a child, Frederic has led a very sheltered life. So when he arrives in Penzance with his boisterous shipmates, there are a few surprises in store for him! It all ends happily, but not before he's dodged the Old Bill, fallen in love and made some rather inconvenient discoveries.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, semi serious, light, romantic, atmospheric, sexy, clever, unusual plot structure, sweet
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Truffaldino from Bergamo (1977)
Plot Summary:
A funny musical comedy based on the famous theater play "Servant of Two Masters" by Carlo Goldoni.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 594
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, feel good, entertaining, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Ah, Vaudeville, Vaudeville... (1980)
Plot Summary:
A romantic love story set in a good old XIX century in the best traditions of Russian vaudevilles.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 67 min
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Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962)
Plot Summary:
The daughter of a circus owner fights to save her father from a takeover spearheaded by the man she loves.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: retro, feel good, humorous, stylized, semi serious, crying, romantic comedy
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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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My Heart Goes Boom! (2020)
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Spain, 1970s. While a cruel dictatorship rules an eternally grey country through fear, violence, repression and censorship, María, a young dancer, dreams of bringing bright colours into her life and the lives of others, as she makes her way towards personal freedom and pursues her crazy dream of becoming a TV star; a very funny journey in which she will be comforted by the pop songs of the incomparable Italian singer and dancer Raffaella Carrà.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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The Opposite of Love (2011)
Plot Summary:
An on-again/off-again couple lays out their ideas on how their relationship should work.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 875
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty
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A Night at Karlstein (1974)
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Na hrad Karlštejn nesmí žádná žena! Přesto se zamilované Daniele Kolářové a neméně zamilované Janě Brejchové podaří přes přísný královský zákaz strávit na hradě jednu noc v přestrojení.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 597
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, campy
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It Happened at the World's Fair (1963)
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Mike and Danny fly a cropduster, but because of Danny's gambling debts, a local sheriff takes custody of it. Trying to earn money, they hitch-hike to the World's Fair in Seattle. While Danny tries to earn money playing poker, Mike takes care of a small girl, Sue-Lin, whose father has disappeared. Being a ladies' man, he also finds the time to court a young nurse, Diane.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: retro, cult classic, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic, cult film
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Follow That Dream (1962)
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When the Kwimper family car runs out of gas on a new Florida highway and an officous state supervisor tries to run them off, Pop Kwimper digs in his heels and decides to do a little homesteading. He and his son Toby and their "adopted" children - Holly, Ariadne and the twins - start their own little community along a strip of the roadside.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, cult classic, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, cult film
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Frankie and Johnny (1966)
Plot Summary:
Elvis plays Johnny, a riverboat entertainer with a big gambling problem. Donna Douglas plays Johnny's girl, Frankie. A fortune teller tells Johnny how he can change his luck. Enter a new lady luck played by Nancy Kovack and the cat fight begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, road movie, sexy, clever, bad ending
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The Dog in the Manger (1996)
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Diana, the Countess of Belflor, is an intelligent, impulsive woman in love with her secretary, Teodoro. He is engaged to Marcela, one of the countess's ladies in waiting. When the countess finds out about the engagement, driven by jealousy, she does everything possible to separate the lovers. Film adaptation of the play by Lope de Vega that respects the text in verse.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain, Portugal
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: touching, manga, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, biting, suspense
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Be Wanton and Tread No Shame (1985)
Plot Summary:
Pablo and Fernando, owners of a children's book publishing company about to go bankrupt, have managed through unorthodox means to contract the country's best-selling author, Adela Mora. The evening of the official signing, Paco asks his friend to let him use his house for a love tryst while Fernando wines and dines Adela. At the same time, Paco's wife, Carmen, will be taking her lover to Rosa's house. From here on the rout begins, as Paco tries to get rid of Silvia, his secretary, and Carmen, her husband. Fernando thinks Rosa is cheating on him with Oscar, who thinks Fernando is gay and having an affair with his partner, while the soldier thinks his girlfriend is a professional.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 416
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sexy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, neo screwball comedy
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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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Beach Blanket Bingo (1965)
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In the fourth of the highly successful Frankie and Annette beach party movies, a motorcycle gang led by Eric Von Zipper kidnaps singing star Sugar Kane managed by Bullets, who hires sky-diving surfers Steve and Bonnie from Big Drop for a publicity stunt. With the usual gang of kids and a mermaid named Lorelei.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, stylized, psychotronic, funny, independent film, exciting, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Boy Friend (1971)
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The assistant stage manager of a small-time theatrical company is forced to understudy for the leading lady at a matinée performance at which an illustrious Hollywood director is in the audience scouting for actors to be in his latest "all-talking, all-dancing, all-singing" extravaganza.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: romantic comedy, feel good, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, spoof, parody
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Do Not Disturb (1965)
Plot Summary:
"Doris Day continues her reign as America's sweetheart" (Motion Picture Herald) in this "bright, colorful comedy of marital misunderstanding" (The Film Daily). Co-starring Rod Taylor (The Glass Bottom Boat) and featuring whip-smart dialogue, a hilarious plot, sumptuous locales and costumes and the song "Au Revoir Is Goodbye With a Smile," Do Not Disturb is a delightful romp from start to finish! What's a devoted wife to do when her husband spends more time "working" with his sexy secretary than helping her with their new home? For Janet Taylor (Day), an American who has relocated to England with her executive husband Mike (Taylor), there's only one solution - make him jealous by inventing an admirer. But as soon as Janet creates her make-believe Romeo, a real suitor arrives, whisks Janet off to Paris, wines and dines her...and comes face-to-face with an insanely irate Mike!.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: retro, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Dog in the Manger (1978)
Plot Summary:
A musical comedy based on classical play by Félix Lope de Vega.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 967
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, feel good, suspense
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Km. 0 - Kilometer Zero (2000)
Plot Summary:
Located in Madrid's Plaza del Sol, Km. 0 is the point from which all distances in Spain are measured from the capital. In Km. 0, it is also the meeting point for a gallery of characters. Bored, affluent housewife Marga meets up with gigolo Miguel, who co-habitates with gay Benjamin. Sergio, a soon-to-be-married office clerk who can't wait to lose his virginity, makes the acquaintance of prostitute Tatiana, while gay dancer Bruno meets Maximo. Meanwhile, wannabe director Pedro arranges to meet up with Silvia, an actress who wants to work in musicals directed by Gerardo, and bartender Mario is caught between Amor, who wants to marry him, and her little sister Roma, who is truly in love with him.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, sexy, realistic, sexual, crying, sex comedy, queer cinema