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Plot Summary:
Hugues is an actor but does not want to play anymore. He took refuge with Serge, his companion, in the house where he grew up. Micheline, a director, insists that he go back on stage. Serge gives him an ultimatum: it’s him or the room.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining
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Everyday Is Like Sunday (2013)
Plot Summary:
Everyday Is Like Sunday is a comedy/drama aiming the lens at post-collegiate characters stuck between their imminently-ending youth and impending adulthood. The film follows Mark, Jason, and Flora, as they realistically attempt to pull themselves out of economic and emotional doldrums.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, mumblecore
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Pornopung (2013)
Plot Summary:
The story of Karl, Christian and Leo will forever change the way you view the relationship between men and women. In a world were women have the power and all the advantages, they've learned that there is only room for one kind of man - the kind that shaves his balls. In a competition to beat Casanova, they fall victim to their own most charming and destructive in a game all men and women are doomed to lose. Pornopung is a dark and entertaining journey through the forefront of modern seduction and sexuality. It will make the most ardent feminist admit that they've won the war of the sexes.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, erotic, intellectual, sensual, crying
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Staying Vertical (2016)
Plot Summary:
Screenwriter Leo is searching for the wolf in the south of France. During a scouting excursion he is seduced by Marie, a free-spirited and dynamic shepherdess. Nine months later she gives birth to their child. Suffering from post-natal depression and with no faith in Leo, who comes and goes without warning, Marie abandons both of them. Leo finds himself alone, with a baby to care for.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: road movie, light, captivating, entertaining, erotic, art house, sexual, deep, allegory, sexy
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Dear Mother (2020)
Plot Summary:
One day, Jean-Louis discovers that his heart has stopped. He is not dead, can walk and talk, but his heart is no longer beating. With the help of his wife and a friend, he tries to understand the origin of this mystery.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: light, enigmatic, captivating, entertaining, complex
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Frankenstein's Monster's Monster, Frankenstein (2019)
Plot Summary:
When actor David Harbour finds lost footage of his father's disastrous televised stage play of a literary classic, he uncovers shocking family secrets.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 32 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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The Wicked Uncle (2011)
Plot Summary:
In a small Swiss village, a school sports coach is accused of molestation by the mother of one of his pupils. The citizens are outraged…that the mother could make such a claim – for the coach she accuses is a local hero, a former world champion who has become the town’s closest thing to a sporting legend.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, satirical, disturbing, intellectual, independent film
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The Illusions (2009)
Plot Summary:
A popular young writer decides to write a novel on an island that was once a Mecca to the Hippie movement of the 1960s. As he tries to recapture a world that no longer exists, the writer meets an enigmatic young woman who agrees to help him in his research. But as he falls in love with this strange girl, he finds her increasingly remote and mysterious, until she finally seems to disappear for good.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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April in Love (2006)
Plot Summary:
Avril is a novice in a convent of "Baptistine" sisters, a monastic order which was officially dissolved by the end of the nineteenth century but that is kept alive by Mère Marie Joseph, the sadistic superior. While Avril is on retreat, locked in for a fortnight in a chapel prior to taking her vows, Soeur Bernadette, a sympathetic sister, discloses a secret to her: she has a twin brother.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 743
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, disturbing, queer cinema
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Taste of Life (2017)
Plot Summary:
What does life taste of? For joyful Nikki the answer is clear: of pleasure. Delightfully she enjoys this at every possible occasion, as she drives through the country looking for people and their stories for her video-blog.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, erotic, eros, hot
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The Bare Necessity (2019)
Plot Summary:
Pierre Perdrix has been enjoying an enchanted though restless existence since the enigmatic Juliette Webb burst into his life. a stranger who landed in his family's unique world like a meteorite, and who by her presence alone will force this tight-knit microcosm to redefie their boundaries and finally begin to fully live their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, captivating, disturbing
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Naked Normandy (2018)
Plot Summary:
At the Mêle sur Sarthe, a small Norman village, farmers are affected by a crisis. Georges Balbuzard, the mayor of the city, is not one to let them down and decides to try everything to save his village.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, funny, atmospheric, humorous, captivating, tragicomedy, melancholic
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Barefoot to the Neck (2009)
Plot Summary:
An oddball comedy in which a nudist colony in eastern Germany is put at risk when a conservative Bavarian textile manufacturer purchases it, unaware of the true 'nature' of the resort. In an attempt to fool the new owner, the regulars dress normally. However, it doesn't take long for their old ways to creep back in as it becomes more difficult to keep up the act as well as keep on their clothes!.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Textiles (2004)
Plot Summary:
Sophie and Olivier are a young married couple who work in Paris as bakers. Out of the blue, they decide to buy a summer house on the seaside, but without actually seing it. When Sophie, along with her two kids, arrives first on the premices, she discovers that they have bought a house located in the midst of a nudist camp.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 684
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, sexy, sex comedy
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Family Life (2017)
Plot Summary:
While house-sitting for a distant cousin, a lonely man fabricates the existence of a vindictive ex-wife withholding his daughter, in order to gain the sympathy of the single mother he has just met.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, buddy comedy, art house
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What Happened to Mr. Cha? (2021)
Plot Summary:
With the peak of his career long behind him, an actor clings to his past glory — until a sudden wake-up call forces him to face who he's become.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating
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Legacy (2015)
Plot Summary:
What do you do when the party of the year kicks you to the curb? Simple... create your own! When Sean and his friends are refused entry to the night of their year, they embark on a mission to stage a monster event, whilst at the same time taking down the opposition.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 414
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Oh, Bloody Life (1984)
Plot Summary:
The Hungarian Oh, Bloody Life reflects on the heavy emotional toll taken by the repressive Stalin regime. Dorotya Udvaros plays a young actress from a high-born family. The government bias against persons of wealth threatens to destroy her career before it begins. As a final blow, she is threatened with deportation. The exasperation inherent in the film's title is only the tip of the iceberg.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 465
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags:
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Act Naturally (2011)
Plot Summary:
When two estranged stepsisters inherit their father's nudist colony, getting back to nature has never been so completely unnatural.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, psychological, captivating, sentimental, sincere, touching, realistic, contemplative, semi serious, independent film
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A Clever Crook (2018)
Plot Summary:
Commissioner Beffrois waits for retirement with mixed enthusiasm when a theft of paintings catches his attention.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 324
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Maslin Beach (1997)
Plot Summary:
Set on a famous nudist beach, Maslin Beach is a film about crazy people involved in crazy misunderstandings and romantic squabbles, a naked and hilarious search for the meaning of life. And it's also a gentle story about love. Simon attempts to summon the courage to face the truth about his relationship with Marcie over the course of one afternoon, leading to a bittersweet jolt to his life. With other relationships on the beach interfering with his objective to propose, a myriad of characters attempt to make sense of life, love and it all.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 364
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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20 Cigarettes (2007)
Plot Summary:
Andrey is a young and successful executive at a creative advertising agency in Moscow. That day he smokes a whole pack of cigarettes. Each cigarette is the beginning of a storm of circumstances and conflicts around him increasingly fiercer. His professional and personal lives are in danger. He needs to act and make the right decisions.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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All About Actresses (2009)
Plot Summary:
While shooting a documentary about all kinds of actresses, the director falls for one of them.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, light, captivating, realistic, sexual, sexy, fake documentary
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Tre tocchi (2014)
Plot Summary:
Several actors are members of a amateur soccer team. They followed in their preparations for a particular audition and in their personal life. With about 6 actors this delivers a broad picture of Italian life in which the question what it means to be a man is posed in the challenging circumstances of familily life, sex relationships, sport, cross gender roles and mafia.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, captivating
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Reality Show (2015)
Plot Summary:
The Warwick family are unknowingly being filmed for a new reality show. Problem is, they're boring. So the producer must add conflict and drama to their lives. Their lives begin to unravel with shocking consequences.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 227
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: captivating, satirical, erotic
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Patrick (2019)
Plot Summary:
Patrick is the handyman on his father's naturist campsite. The remaining time he dedicates to his hobby, designing and creating wooden furniture. When Patrick loses his campsite hammer, his quest to retrieve it takes him to the farthest corners of the camping grounds.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, black comedy, dark comedy, comedy drama
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Love Is Blind (2019)
Plot Summary:
A funny and irresistible story of a young girl who literally cannot see or hear her mother, even though she is living with her under the same roof. With the help of an eccentric psychiatrist, and a local, accidental hero, our heroine has to grow up, but falls in love and eventually takes hold of her future - despite not being able to see what's right in front of her.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 869
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Nude Tuesday (2022)
Plot Summary:
When middle-aged suburban couple, Laura and Bruno are gifted a remote couples’ retreat for their anniversary, they decide to give their failing marriage one last shot before calling it quits. Arriving in an idyllic sanctuary nestled in the mountains, Laura and Bruno uncomfortably enter a world of laughter workshops, tantric dance, sexual liberation and emotional animals, helmed by the charismatic guru Bjorg Rassmussen. When new temptations start to take hold, the couple are pushed to the brink forcing them to look within to find what they really want. But will they bare all to get it?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 720
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: New Zealand, Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Bonobo (2014)
Plot Summary:
Judith, an uptight divorcee, is appalled when her daughter Lily quits law school to move into a commune of hippie-misfits who live according to the behavioural principles of the bonobo monkey, a species famous for its 'make love not war' philosophy.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 546
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, psychological, light, realistic, sexual
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The Naked: A Psychological Film (2002)
Plot Summary:
A firsthand experience about bureaucracy's stark-naked truth, inside the microcosmic reality of an office where a lot of unexpected things may happen long before the coffee break.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: funny, light, captivating, realistic
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Adopt a Daddy (2019)
Plot Summary:
Damien is a pawn in a primary school, and leads a quiet life. To rescue one of his young students, Bahzad, and his mother from imminent expulsion from the land, Damien reconnects with his parents' militant past and convinces his sister Mélanie, who has become a formidable business lawyer, her best friend Rudy and a bunch of unlikely pals to accompany him in his new fight. Together, they will break the law by solidarity. And very quickly to be completely exceeded.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, entertaining, funny, sincere, humorous, captivating