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Plot Summary:
A comedy about funny adventures of the group of French people during the summer vacation.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: humorous, contemplative, not serious, funny, offbeat, realistic, slapstick, silent, freeze frame, dark comedy
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Steak (2007)
Plot Summary:
A French comedy with comedians Eric & Ramzy made by Quentin Dupieux a.k.a. Mr. Oizo.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, realistic, surreal, not serious, offbeat, slapstick comedy, slapstick, freeze frame, dark comedy
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The Discord (1978)
Plot Summary:
Guillaume has made it: A machine that can clean dirty air by simply sucking all dirt into air balloons and then shipping them far far away so his explanation. Some Japanese business guys, after dinner with a lot of alcohol, order 5,000 pieces. His only problem: His production capacity is way to small so he gets to produce the machines in his private house. His wife Bernadette is far from being happy about it. Her private life goes down the line so she decides to leave Guillaume and to finally have revenge she candidates for major against her husband.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, slapstick, humorous, realistic, not serious, slapstick comedy, fun
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Dikkenek (2006)
Plot Summary:
Jean-Claude is a loud-mouthed, know-it-all and full time boor who is best friends with Stef, a self-styled lady killer who would do better with the fairer sex if he could work up the ambition to wake up in the morning. Stef has decided that he may need some help in finding the woman of his dreams, and embracing loyalty rather than logic he turns to Jean-Claude for advice.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, offbeat, hot
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The Players (2012)
Plot Summary:
Eight short films explore the subject of male infidelity. Serial cheaters, Fred and Greg, spend a night on the town doing what they do best, and with absolutely no regrets. The duo play various characters in assorted extracurricular situations, ranging from sexist to the darker sides of carnal desires.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: sexual, humorous, semi serious, realistic, sex comedy, erotic, light, art house, black comedy, anthology
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Sextape (2018)
Plot Summary:
-In the absence of her sister Rim, what was Yasmina doing in a parking with Salim and Majid, their cronies? If Rim knows nothing, it is because Yasmina done everything for it that she does not find out. What therefore? The unmentionable - the worst - The shame XXL, the all immortalized by Salim in a video potentially very volatile.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, humorous, light, sincere, sexy, entertaining, contemplative
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Boys on the Beach (1999)
Plot Summary:
Four guys from a Paris housing project fabricate a documentary about drug dealers working in the City of Lights. When a television network falls hook, line, and sinker for the prank video, the foursome are given a free three-week vacation in the upscale resort community of Biarritz. As they interact with both locals and fellow tourists, they learn about love, friendship, racism, and the differences between the rich and the poor.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 917
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, cynical, not serious
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A Pain in the Ass (2008)
Plot Summary:
An unlikely friendship develops between a hitman and a suicidal guy who have both checked into the same hotel for different reasons.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, light, realistic, cynical, semi serious, buddy comedy, modern day adaptation, remake of french film
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American Beach House (2015)
Plot Summary:
What happens when six lucky strangers, three handsome young guys and three beautiful sexy young women, from all over the world, win a random contest-- an all expenses paid trip to an amazing beach house in glamorous Malibu, California, thanks to a big Internet company--only to discover they have to share it with each other.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, humorous, not serious, realistic, sincere, tense, captivating, erotic, sex comedy, slapstick
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The 11 Commandments (2004)
Plot Summary:
After an evening of drinking, six men find themselves in front of The God of the Joke. Distressed to find that people aren't laughing anymore, He gives the six friends a mission: to save the world with the Eleven Commandments of the Joke. The men enthusiastically take on their task. They undertake various tests aimed at pushing the limits of stupidity.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, funny, offbeat, slapstick, fast
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Camping 2 (2010)
Plot Summary:
Jean-Pierre Savelli is a forty-something employee of an insurance company in Clermont-Ferrand who finds himself facing a mid-life crisis. When his fiancée Valérie decides to put their relationship on hold, he changes his holiday plans and heads for the Flots Bleus camping site near Arcachon. Jean-Pierre had been hoping for peace and calm. Instead he meets Patrick Chirac and his entourage of inveterate holidaymakers.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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A Dirty Shame (2004)
Plot Summary:
Sylvia Stickles runs a convenience store with her husband and mother-in-law. One day, Sylvia is hit on the head and transforms from an uptight prude to a sex-crazed lunatic. As she goes on a rampage through town, Sylvia attracts the attention of Ray Ray, a sexual healer and tow truck driver in search of the world's greatest orgasm. Their sexual revolution, however, causes a class war in their tiny Baltimore community.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, sexy, black comedy, stylized, controversial, cult classic, light, dark comedy, satirical, disturbing
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Skylab (2011)
Plot Summary:
It is 1979 and Albertine, 10, and all her family members have gathered in Brittany to celebrate the birthday of her grandmother. Everyone thinks that the Skylab space station from NASA will fall on their heads this summer. The meeting turns into a crazy weekend full of revelations, love and song.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious
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Paris Follies (2014)
Plot Summary:
Long married 50-somethings Brigitte and Xavier are prize cattle breeders in regional France. Life is good, but the departure of their children from home has thrown Brigitte’s world into flux, as she finds herself locked into routine. She keeps hoping for something else, something more. A party held by students on the adjoining property accelerates this latent crisis and Brigitte impulsively sets off for Paris under the guise of a doctor’s appointment. The city immediately invigorates her, and when she meets a charming Danish gentleman, she impulsively allows herself to be flattered by his attentions….
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic drama
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Trophy Wife (2010)
Plot Summary:
A housewife takes over her husband's umbrella business after his illness.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, unusual plot structure, visually appealing, semi serious, clever, witty, stylized, political, period piece
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What? (1972)
Plot Summary:
A young American woman traveling through Italy finds herself in a strange Mediterranean villa where nothing seems right.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: black comedy, erotic, art house, sexy, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, dark comedy, weird, grotesque
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French Dolls (2014)
Plot Summary:
Louise, Sam, Lili. Three women who don't know each other but whom will be forced to meet, get together, and compare themselves to each other by the wild will of evolution.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, captivating
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August 15th (2001)
Plot Summary:
Three men are abandonned by their wives for a few days in the summer holidays. They are alone with five kids to feed and a house to maintain. And they will learn what they did wrong with their wives.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 964
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Camping (2006)
Plot Summary:
Plastic surgeon Michel Saint-Josse is on his way to Spain where he hopes to spend a stress-free holiday in a luxury hotel with his teenage daughter Vanessa. When his car breaks down near a camping, Michel accepts the offer of help from an extrovert gigolo camper named Patrick Chirac. Whilst their car is being repaired, Michel and Vanessa agree to stay in Patrick’s well proportioned tent, not knowing that, thanks to a series of mishaps, it will be their home for several days.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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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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Do Not Disturb (2014)
Plot Summary:
Michel, who's crazy about jazz, has just found a rare album that he dreams of quietly listening to in his living room. But the world seems to have conspired against him: his wife chooses this moment to divulge an ill-timed revelation, his adult son makes a surprise visit, one of his friends knocks on the door, while his mother keeps calling him on his smartphone. Not to mention that today the residents in his apartment building are holding their annual House Party. Manipulative and a liar, Michel is ready to do anything to have a moment of peace and quiet. Is it still possible, in this day and age, to just have one hour of peace?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic
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Private Resort (1985)
Plot Summary:
Jack and his buddy Ben check in at a posh Florida resort, planning to spend every hour in hot pursuit of gorgeous babes. But their plans hit a major detour when they try to bed the wife of a conniving jewel thief. They'll have to outsmart him, a nasty security guard and an obnoxious jock if they're ever going to get a moment alone with the girls of their dreams!.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: not serious, sex comedy, teen sex comedy, humorous, sexy, funny, entertaining, light, erotic, happy
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Daddy Cool (2008)
Plot Summary:
The story about the age gap between a scientist father, Philipe Le Tallec, and his newly discovered teen aged daughter, Eglantine.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 629
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic
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Die, Mommie, Die! (2003)
Plot Summary:
You slipped into my life as easily as vermouth into a glass of gin, purrs reclusive singing star Angela Arden. Arden is not only haunted by a secret, she's treated like dirt by her louse of a husband, her snoopy maid, and her petulant daughter. Only her mentally defective son and a well-endowed gigolo treat her with love and affection. Is it any wonder she takes drastic action to improve her life?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, melancholic, satirical, light, parody, funny, captivating, spoof, slasher
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The Reunion 2: The Funeral (2014)
Plot Summary:
Thomas is finally getting married, and Andreas has arranged a bachelor party of the century... he thinks. But a shocking death during Thomas' bachelor party sends the three friends off on an unforgettable trip to a funeral; they probably won't be forgiven for. Speed-Dating, infidelity and near death experiences put their relationship on a serious test. The question is whether the three friends will survive the trip and the funeral - and will they make it home in time for Thomas' wedding.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, light, feel good
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Changing Sides (2008)
Plot Summary:
Ariane and Hugo decide to exchange the lives they lead to escape from their routine, which after ten years of marriage, gives them the feeling of being hamsters in a wheel. She suddenly finds herself at the head of a construction equipment rental company and he tries to take the role of a house calling jewelry salesman...But is life really better when you live it on the other side of the bed?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, feel good, emotional, witty, realistic, semi serious, slapstick
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A House of Your Dreams (2006)
Plot Summary:
On a mission to loosen up, a miser's sets about buying a house in the country for his family.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Bachelor Days Are Over (2011)
Plot Summary:
Arnaud nicknamed "Cui Cui" no longer knows which way to look. He is about to marry Anna but he is not sure he really loves her. To make matters worse, he falls in love during the stag party he has with his friends. And Léa, a nightclub singer, is obviously the woman of his dreams. What to do? Cancel the wedding and create a scandal but be able to live with a woman he loves truly and loves him in return? Or be a good boy and not disappoint the company but say farewell to happiness. For four days, Arnaud goes to and fro aimlessly between Anna and Léa, between his eccentric sister and his self-centered mother, between hope and depression.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, contemplative, light, feel good, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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Hotel Splendide (2000)
Plot Summary:
The film tells the story of the Blanche family who run a dark and dismal health resort on a remote island which is only accessible by ferry. The spa program consists of feeding the guests seaweed and eel-based meals, then administering liberal colonic irrigation. The spa is run by the family matriarch Dame Blanche until her death. Things continue on with her children running the resort until Kath, the resort's former sous chef and love interest of one of the sons, comes back to the island unannounced. Stranded between monthly ferries, she is a catalyst for a series of events that turns life as it is known at Hotel Splendide on its ear.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, offbeat, captivating, entertaining, culinary, surreal, independent film, realistic, black comedy
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You Don't Choose Your Family (2011)
Plot Summary:
César Borgnoli, an unsuccessful car salesman from Italy, lives well beyond his means. In order to get out of his financial disaster, he agrees to a deal: he pretends to be the husband of his sister's girlfriend Kim so she can legally adopt a little girl from Thailand. Caesar believes this to be a great idea and is looking forward to his trip to Thailand. After all, he is going to be able to mix business with pleasure--so he thinks. He didn't expect the local police, the Chinese Triads and the director of the orphanage to chip in, who want to make sure that little Mai is going to end up in a nice family.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: not serious, humorous, captivating, entertaining, exciting, sex comedy, realistic, sitcom
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Vegas Vacation (1997)
Plot Summary:
The Griswold family hits the road again for a typically ill-fated vacation, this time to the glitzy mecca of slots and showgirls—Las Vegas.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 52000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, entertaining, light, slapstick, not serious, feel good, dark comedy, scenic, offbeat