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Plot Summary:
Comedy about a small town doctor.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Comedy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 94 min
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What a Beautiful Surprise (2015)
Plot Summary:
What a lovely surprise tells the story of Guido (Claudio Bisio), romantic dreamer and a professor of literature in high school, whose life falls apart when buy the HIS girlfriend, with whom he lives for years, it leaves for another man. Paul (Frank Matano) - Its a former student listless become a physical education teacher - And His best friend and Fara everything to help him to exit from the crisis.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas (1985)
Plot Summary:
A humorous and revealing tale of a group of eight women from varying walks of life, who have volunteered for a rugged survival course at a tough mountain school in the English lakes.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Beautiful Mother (1999)
Plot Summary:
At the altar where he is marrying Séverine, the groom, Antoine, gets his first glimpse of her mother, Léa, and suffers what the French call a coup de foudre which we know as love at first sight.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: erotic, sex comedy
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In the Pool (2005)
Plot Summary:
3 people suffering from psychiatric problems, and a doctor stranger than any of them.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: dark comedy
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Master of Love (1972)
Plot Summary:
The film’s premise had to do with a wise and experienced maestro in the arts of love (Rossano) imparting his knowledge and techniques to a younger man before he dies ... Rossano’s character’s final great act of love was to “expire in the arms of the outrageously beautiful Lady Death”. The film is considered an erotic comedy, the majority of the cast spending a considerable amount of time without the benefit of clothing, in a variety of unusual circumstances. By the way, the “student” is played by Ben Ecklund, Britt’s younger brother, and even Lidia Brazzi was in the cast of this film, so really - how much fun could Rossano have really had, making it?.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, erotic, decamerotic
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Honeybun (1988)
Plot Summary:
A nun escapes the convent to discover the real world outside. Her parents however believe that she's kidnapped.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 374
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: detective
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Pierino the Pest to the Rescue (1982)
Plot Summary:
Pierino unleashes his restlessness with various mischief in school.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Warum hab ich bloss zwei mal ja gesagt (1969)
Plot Summary:
The Italian Vittorio Coppa works as a sleeper car commuter and commutes regularly between Munich and Rome. Because he believes that true love exists only in connection with marriage, he is secretly married twice.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany, Italy
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Daughter of the Sun (1962)
Plot Summary:
Herschell Gordon Lewis and David Friedman collaborated on this nudie classic that features the stunning Rusty Allen as a teacher who must defend herself against the school board after they find her naked in a nudist colony's magazine. Allen argues that the sun is a source of happiness and morality. The institute's lawyer decides to investigate for himself, and soon everyone is swimming, playing volleyball, and more, all sans clothes.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, sexploitation film, cult film
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Back in Business (2017)
Plot Summary:
In a small town lost in the middle of nowhere, Edmond Zweck's funeral business is on the wing. The company now has only two employees: Georges, Zweck's right-hand man, and Eddy, a young man still a novice in the trade. One fine morning, however, a dead man pointed his nose. Hope is born again. Georges and Eddy are responsible for leading the deceased to his last abode. But in search of the cemetery that can not be found, the funeral convoy goes astray and the journey turns into a fiasco.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 495
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium, Poland
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Knock (2017)
Plot Summary:
Doctor Knock is a former thug who has become a doctor and arrives in the small village of Saint-Maurice to make his fortune according to a particular method. It will make the villagers believe that they are not as healthy as they might think. It is thus that he will find in each one an imaginary symptom, or not, and thus will be able to exercise his profession lucratively. Under his seductive looks and after gaining the confidence of the village, Knock is on the verge of achieving his ends. But his past catches up with him and an old acquaintance disrupts the doctor's plans.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: funny, sincere, sentimental, captivating, uplifting, motivational
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Don Camillo: Monsignor (1961)
Plot Summary:
Don Camillo is now a bishop, Peppone is now a senator, but their rivalry is as fierce as when they were just a village priest, and a village administrator. Don Camillo learns that Peppone is about to promote the building of a communal house on the place of an old, derelict church, and that spurns the old flame. They descend from Rome onto quiet Brescello, and they will agitate their faithful hosts, christians against communists, using all devious ways. Even Christ makes a cameo appearance, when things are going a trifle too far.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags:
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Barking at the Stars (1998)
Plot Summary:
Comedy about teachers and students at a high school in a small provincial town. Mihailo tries to win the heart of a girl his brother is also chasing.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: teen comedy
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Bendu Apparao R.M.P (2009)
Plot Summary:
Bendu Apparao RMP is a 2009 Telugu comedy film starring Allari Naresh, Kamna Jethmalani and Meghana Raj. The film was directed by E V V Satyanarayana and produced by D. Ramanaidu Director: E V V Satyanarayana Screenplay: E V V Satyanarayana Musical director: Koti Editor: Gautham Raju Story: Giri Dialogue: Veligonda Srinivas Cinematographer: V Jayaram.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Comedy
Country: India
Duration:
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Adam in Sweden (1966)
Plot Summary:
Rikard Adamsson, a young man dreaming of becoming a writer, lives a wild and dissolute bohemian life. A ferocious fighter with a heart of gold and a great taste for women. In the military service he gets in trouble, runs away, returns and is sentenced to prison. Inside he finishes his first novel. However, no publisher is interested.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags:
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The Lustful Vicar (1970)
Plot Summary:
During a witch trial in the seventeenth century a woman is accused of being a witch and burned at the stake. The witch curse the village priest who pushed through the accusations and promises that her offspring will avenge her. During the Caroline the priest's son take over as vicar of the congregation, and the daughter of the witch bewitches him so that he suffers constant erection. This is off course very embarrassing for the vicar. The local women has to step in and try to set things right.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Zika's Dynasty (1985)
Plot Summary:
Misa is already a teenager but with little interest in girls and much for his violin. Two granddads, Zika and Milan, are worried for their grandson who may 'deviate' like Steven from "Dynasty", the show they like to watch. That's why they decide to introduce him better to their attractive housekeeper.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: cult classic, cult film
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The Mantle of Love (1978)
Plot Summary:
De Mantel der Liefde is a bizarre, over the top and at times hilarious settling of scores with the Catholic Church, commercial movie culture and 1970's petit bourgeois Dutch culture in general.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Comedy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: biblical
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The Queens (1966)
Plot Summary:
Four unrelated short comedies by four different directors. "Queen Sabina"chronicles the sexual misadventures of a teenage girl on the road home. "Queen Armenia" centers on a self-serving opportunistic gypsy babysitter who uses her employer's kids for her own gain. The third episode, "Queen Elena" centers on a husband who learns a lesson about the perils of infidelity after he succumbs to the wiles of the seductive wife next door. The last vignette, "Queen Marta" centers on a wealthy woman who, when drunk, uses her butler as an outlet for her lust.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 366
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: anthology, sex comedy, italian comedy
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Hot Nights of the Decameron (1972)
Plot Summary:
Italian nunsploitation movie from 1972.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, decamerotic
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Desirable Teacher 2 (1982)
Plot Summary:
Pierino has again flunked the exams. Therefore, his desperate parents send him to boarding school.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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P.R.O.F.S. (1985)
Plot Summary:
A clique of four young teachers at a high school looks critically at their colleagues. To avoid falling in the same routine, they bring new ideas into the school lessons and play little games and pranks in their spare time -- sometimes get even more childish than their pupils. When they get opposition from the other teachers, they play tricks to get rid of them.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 946
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: cult film
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The Rascals (1980)
Plot Summary:
Late spring 1942: France is under German occupation. But this doesn't much concern the boarders of a school lost in the French country. Bernard, a rather frivolous teenager, is in love for the first time; he's fond of Marie-Helene, an older and more mature girl. To approach her is not so easy.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Desirable Teacher (1981)
Plot Summary:
In a school where the meeting seems more complete sampling of teachers and professors stupid airhead, there is the class of Peter, repeating in life, which is the "grandfather" to the far more young companions concerning jokes and vulgarity. Even outside the school walls, in the family or in the streets of the village where he lives, Peter is not far behind and his antics continue to freewheel.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 507
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy
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Vive les femmes! (1984)
Plot Summary:
The love affairs of Bob, a womanizer and seducer and Mammouth, the unhappy loner.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Bedside Dentist (1971)
Plot Summary:
Thomas, a naive young dental student, faces a rather difficult challenge. His millionaire aunt, a bit of a sex nut, will give both him and his dental school millions if he can prove that he is sexually able and skillful. His schoolmates hear rumors of this trial, but understand the challenge to be for him to keep his celibacy.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Comedy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sexy, teen sex comedy, hot
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Be Sick... It's Free (1968)
Plot Summary:
The eventful ascent of a doctor in the corrupted Italian healthcare system.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: italian comedy
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Pierino torna a scuola (1990)
Plot Summary:
Had come of age and unemployed, Peter decides to go back to school to take the elementary school. However, his academic performance continues to be poor so much so that his grandmother to play for the votes of a report card to the football pools coupon. The grandmother with the votes of Peter will win, using the amount paid to renew their tavern, without giving any money to his nephew, who will retaliate by closing all his family in the bathrooms of the new restaurant. Eventually Peter was rejected despite the efforts of his teachers, but Peter does not seem to be over: receives, in fact, a visit to Camazzo, her neighbor and Head of the third class of the Navy, which gives him an envelope containing the fateful "call to Arms".
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Young, Beautiful and Screwed Up (2003)
Plot Summary:
A young boy from the south of France falls madly in love with a posh Parisian girl and follows her for crazy adventures to the big city.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Germany, UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Familieweekend (2016)
Plot Summary:
A widower invites his children for a family weekend with the announcement that he has news. He is getting married with a 30 years younger woman. The children start the competition for heritage. What is more important: money or family?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 683
Genere: Comedy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical