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Plot Summary:
On his death bed in the 1820s, King Ferdinando I of Naples tries to escape the ghosts of his bloody kingship by remembering his younger days, when he was allowed to go hunting and have fun, and inventing love games. Then he was obliged to marry Mary Caroline of Austria, daughter of Empress Mary Theresa, in a political marriage: unexpectedly, they became happy lovers, until court power games divided them, and a different historical season arrived.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sexy, humorous, epic, realistic, semi serious, hot
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Veinteañera, Divorciada y Fantástica (2020)
Plot Summary:
Regina, our young protagonist, always dreamed of getting married. And she did it - but the dream lasted much less than she thought and now she has to face life in a very funny way as a divorcee.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: witty, funny, romantic, sexy, entertaining, realistic, intense, semi serious, weird
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Happy Family (2010)
Plot Summary:
A blocked screenwriter, Ezio (Fabio De Luigi), is trying to finish a story about two off-kilter families thrown together when their teenage children announce they’re getting married. So Ezio writes himself into the story with a romantic part—a development his characters welcome, as they’ve got some ideas of their own for bigger and better roles.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surreal, semi serious, humorous, realistic, non-linear
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Royal Palace (2005)
Plot Summary:
Eugenia is the queen of an imaginary European country. When her husband dies, quite unexpectedly, the country is left without a king. According to the law, the new king needs to be married so that leaves out the eldest son. Her youngest son, Prince Arnaud is married to the lovely Armelle and they have two young children. They become the future rulers of the kingdom.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic, funny, offbeat
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The Libertine (2000)
Plot Summary:
French philosopher Denis Diderot produces the first encyclopedia while indulging in 18th-century decadence.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, captivating, sex comedy, clever, realistic, period piece, beautiful, campy
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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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The Twist (1976)
Plot Summary:
Bored aristocratic Parisian couples begin affairs with each other which only brings trouble.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 343
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, psychological, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, biting, sexual
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Made for Each Other (2009)
Plot Summary:
The best part of any marriage is consummating it. However after 3 months of a sexless marriage Dan, in a moment of weakness, finds himself in the throws of casual sex with another woman. Dan decides the only way to morally rectify this is of course to get his wife to cheat on him and thus he sets out to find the right man to put the hurt on his old lady.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 975
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, sexy, sex comedy, realistic, cynical, slapstick, sexploitation film
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I Do & I Don't (2007)
Plot Summary:
A screwball comedy about a young couple that must endure premarital counseling and the horrific married couple they are assigned to.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, offbeat, realistic, not serious, independent film
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The 3 L'il Pigs (2007)
Plot Summary:
As their mother lies in a coma, two brothers discuss the advantages and disadvantages of adultery, under the nose of their virtuous elder, who tries in vain to discourage them.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, light, captivating, sex comedy, feel good, realistic, semi serious
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Special Delivery (2002)
Plot Summary:
An unexpected phone call from a certain Kirsch sets off a crisis between Catherine and Raphaël that will affect all those around them, be they close friends or casual acquaintances.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Carlota Joaquina, Princess of Brazil (1995)
Plot Summary:
A hot blooded Spanish princess plots to conquer her enemies and become queen.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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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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The Night Before the Exams Today (2007)
Plot Summary:
Reunites the same cast, reprising their characters from the 2006 original film, but transplants them from the 1980s to the Italy of 2006. This leap allows the filmmaker to compare and contrast youth culture across generations, from the era of the call box to the era of cell phones, text messages and onli.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, realistic, humorous, semi serious, sexy
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Marquise (1997)
Plot Summary:
Marquise is a drama about the rise and fall of a beauteous actress. As cheerfully portrayed by Sophie Marceau, the eponymous heroine is an engagingly ribald, but perhaps rather too modern, character. She rises from an impoverished background to become a favourite of the Sun King, Louis XIV, and the mistress of the celebrated Racine, who wrote roles especially for her; but her fate, in the end, is a tragic one.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sexy, costume drama, historical drama, serious, captivating, realistic, sexual, period drama, baroque
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The Seduction of Mimi (1972)
Plot Summary:
Mimi is a Sicilian dockworker who loses his job when he votes against the Mafia candidate in what he thinks is a secret ballot. He leaves his wife behind and goes to Turin, where he meets and moves in with Fiore, a street vendor and Communist organizer. They have a child, he works non-union jobs, and again he comes to the Mafia's attention. This time they're impressed, promoting him to a supervisor's job back in Sicily. He must keep Fiore and the child a secret, which is fine with Fiore, as long as he never makes love to his wife. He doesn't, and when she becomes pregnant, he knows he's a cuckold. His personal revenge and the Mafia's tentacles then intertwine in tragicomic ways.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: black comedy, political, cult classic, sexy, clever, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious, sitcom
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Alfredo, Alfredo (1972)
Plot Summary:
Alfredo, a timid young Italian, lusts after and woos the beautiful Maria Rosa. But when he manages to marry her, he discovers life is not nearly so blissful as he expected.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, entertaining, captivating, sexy, realistic, semi serious, feel good, hot
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Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You (1970)
Plot Summary:
An American playwright living in Rome consults a quack psychiatrist to combat his fears of balding and save his failing marriage.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 661
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sex comedy, campy
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Pardon Mon Affaire, Too! (1977)
Plot Summary:
The film is the immediate continuation of Un éléphant ça trompe énormément, released the previous year. Having fortuitously discovered a photograph in which Marthe embraces someone unknown, clothed with a chequed jacket, Étienne Dorsay becomes jealous, and imagines various stratagems to identify the lover. In the meantime, Étienne and his friends acquire a weekend house for a very low price. As in the previous work, the film is largely narrated by the character Étienne, whose tone shifts with the reality of the images. The film contains a certain number of allusions to the films of Blake Edwards (the Pink Panther series).
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty, sex comedy, sexual, sexy, hot
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The Big Bad Wolf (2013)
Plot Summary:
Once upon a time in 2012, three brothers lived happily. One day their mom fell into a coma. So Henri, Philippe, and Louis suddenly started wondering about the meaning of their lives and were swamped by a wave of existential doubts. An entirely new situation for this bourgeois trio in their forties, one which opened a door to the novel and indeed the forbidden... and to the big bad wolf!.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 905
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, feel good, sex comedy
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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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The Decameron (1971)
Plot Summary:
An adaptation of nine stories from Bocaccio's "Decameron": A young Sicilian is swindled twice, but ends up rich; a man poses as a deaf-mute in a convent of curious nuns; a woman must hide her lover when her husband comes home early; a scoundrel fools a priest on his deathbed; three brothers take revenge on their sister's lover; a young girl sleeps on the roof to meet her boyfriend at night; a group of painters wait for inspiration; a crafty priest attempts to seduce his friend's wife; and two friends make a pact to find out what happens after death. Pasolini is up to his old tricks satirizing the Church, and throwing in liberal doses of life and love.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: anthology, sexy, erotic, humorous, realistic, semi serious, art house, psychedelic, disturbing, controversial
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Festival in Cannes (2001)
Plot Summary:
Cannes, 1999. Alice, an actress, wants to direct an indie picture. Kaz, a talkative (and maybe bogus) deal maker, promises $3 million if she'll use Millie, an aging French star. But, Rick, a big producer, needs Millie for a small part in a fall movie or he loses his star, Tom Hanks. Is Kaz for real? Can Rick sweet-talk Alice and sabotage Kaz to keep Millie from taking that deal? Millie consults with Victor, her ex, about which picture to make, Rick needs money, an ingenue named Blue is discovered, Kaz hits on Victor's new love, and Rick's factotum connects with Blue. Knives go in various backs. Wheels spin. Which deals - and pairings - will be consummated?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 638
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, witty, talky, independent film, clever, realistic
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The Last Married Couple in America (1980)
Plot Summary:
Jeff and Mari Thompson have been married for fifteen years. Although their marriage is not perfect, they are seemingly happy in their married and family life. But all their married friends seem to be getting divorced or separated. These newly single friends try to convince both Jeff and Mari - together and individually - that divorce is the way to go. Even if they do decide to remarry, it will be an inevitability that that marriage too will end in divorce. And divorce can even re-energize the love in an otherwise stale marriage. In light of these assertions by their friends, Jeff and Mari do evaluate their marriage. Their friends also place each of them in potentially compromising positions, despite the fact that they still are married. Will Jeff and Mari's marriage be able to withstand all this outside pressure?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 722
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual
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A Spot of Bother (2009)
Plot Summary:
Retired Englishman George Hall's hypochondria worsens and takes its toll on his family.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 576
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic, witty, clever
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Love, Wedding, Marriage (2011)
Plot Summary:
A happy newlywed marriage counselor's views on wedded bliss get thrown for a loop when she finds out her parents are getting divorced.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, realistic, sexy, teen, independent film, feel good
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The Chops (2003)
Plot Summary:
A father arrives at his son's house one evening. They begin talking about women, love, relationships and things turn awkward fast.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 473
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sexy, humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty, sex comedy, clever, offbeat, cynical, biting
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Beaumarchais the Scoundrel (1996)
Plot Summary:
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his activities during the American War of Independence and his authorship of the Figaro trilogy of plays.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, History, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, stylized
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Mayerling (1968)
Plot Summary:
Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria (Omar Sharif) clashes with his father, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria (James Mason), over implementing progressive policies for their country. Ava Gardner plays his mother Empress Elisabeth. Rudolf soon feels he is a man born at the wrong time in a country that does not realize the need for social reform. The Prince of Wales (James Robertson Justice), later to become Britain's King Edward VII, provides comic relief. Rudolf finds refuge from a loveless marriage with Princess Stéphanie (Andréa Parisy) by taking a mistress, Baroness Maria Vetsera (Catherine Deneuve). Their untimely demise at Mayerling, the imperial family's hunting lodge, is cloaked in mystery, but the film's ending suggests the two lovers made a suicide pact when they decided they could not live in a world without love or prospects for peace.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy, independent film, costume drama, period drama