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Plot Summary:
A young provincial elementary school teacher, falls in love with a Venetian girl, daughter of a rich industrialist.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: italian comedy
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May Wine (1990)
Plot Summary:
A middle-aged woman and her daughter unknowingly become romantically involved with the same man while vacationing in France.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Satyricon (1969)
Plot Summary:
An adaptation of Petronius' satire about the decadent life in ancient Rome. "If you like the Fellini version, you should definitely see this one, too. It's every bit as good and in some ways better.".
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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The Hottest Summer (2023)
Plot Summary:
Each year Lucia volunteers at a Summer Camp in Sicily. This summer however, will be the hottest on record, not just because of the crazy weather, but also because of Nicola, the new soon-to-be-priest deacon who, besides being extremely handsome, hides a tormented and idealistic soul. His arrival sows panic in this seaside community, upsetting Lucia's plans forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 396
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema
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The Young Bride (1976)
Plot Summary:
A shop assistant in a record shop falls in love with a young writer, who loves classical music but can not find a publisher who publishes his first novel.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Girlfriends and Girlfriends (2022)
Plot Summary:
They are in their thirties but live just as they did in their twenties. They are in love with love but, in their search, they tear each other apart, wandering from ex-girlfriend to ex-girlfriend, from relationship to relationship.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Julia Has Two Lovers (1990)
Plot Summary:
Julia gets a call to a wrong number, but stays on the phone with the man on the other end for the entire day.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 385
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Come Have Coffee with Us (1970)
Plot Summary:
Paronzini at the age of 50, decides to get married and he looks at the Tettamanzi's three sisters.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 557
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, dark comedy, sexy, hot
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Why Not! (1977)
Plot Summary:
A threesome becomes a foursome in this sensitive drama. The tale begins with the relationship between a recently divorced man and woman (from different marriages) and the bisexual they get involved with. At first all three are happy in their new arrangement, but then the divorced fellow suddenly leaves and those remaining in the relationship become quite tense. Fortunately the fellow returns with another, more conventional fellow. Eventually the three persuade him to join them.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 301
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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The Lifeguard (1979)
Plot Summary:
Marie, the charming daughter of Italian immigrants, has a dream : to become rich. In Roubaix, where she lives, she meets and marries small-time crooner Marcel Potier. Together they leave for the South of France where they live happily but poorly. Now, Marie hasn't forgotten her hopes of wealth and with this aim still in mind she pushes Marcel into becoming the swimming instructor of Achille Zopoulos, an oil tycoon.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Loving and Laughing (1971)
Plot Summary:
Quebec sex farce about a straitlaced young man who spends time in a commune, while a hippie takes his place as a French tutor for a rich family's daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film
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Dragonflies (2022)
Plot Summary:
Álex and Cata, two young women who live on the outskirts of the city, a desolate place full of empty stores and ramshackle bars where dreams end up fading, have been preparing their escape all their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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Italy is Rotten (1976)
Plot Summary:
Two Sicilian's, Peppe Truzzoliti and Antonio Mancuso, decide, after a misadventure with some mafia drug dealers, to leave the cold and racist Turin to return to their native land. Along for the ride with them is Domenica, a beautiful girl from Veneto, who had arrived in Turin in search of work, but due to a number of setbacks, had been forced into prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
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True and Tender is the North (2008)
Plot Summary:
Adaptation of a 1987 novel by Agustina Bessa Luis, a multi-generation exploration of a wealthy family with a mysterious past and a house on the island of Madeira.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Portugal
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags:
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Crazy Navy (1982)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful young woman shows up at a naval base full of lonely and horny sailors.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Roman Holiday (1987)
Plot Summary:
TV movie remake of the 1953 original. A bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Dorothea's Revenge (1974)
Plot Summary:
Dorothea, a 16-year-old bourgeois girl from Hamburg, plays with her friends of both sexes, imitating the production of adult movies. In the end, pretending to make sex-scenes is not satisfying enough, and with a street professional, Dorothea is initiated in hard sex.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: controversial, sexy, spoof, parody, weird, hot
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Ibiza Blue (2023)
Plot Summary:
August 2020. The lives of three young professionals intersect in the post-pandemic lock-down Ibiza where they will try to overcome their personal tragedies, rediscover themselves and move on.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Italian Sex (1974)
Plot Summary:
A sexy graduate student is giving her thesis presentation, which creates quite a stir since it reveals that she has just posed as a prostitute for several months to do sociological research for her thesis. She relates various stories of her experiences to her salivating thesis committee and a large audience of curious on-lookers.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Love in 4 Easy Lessons (1976)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sexy, anthology, erotic, sex comedy
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Where the Grass Is Greener (2008)
Plot Summary:
A romantic comedy about an unemployed young woman from East Germany who ends up taking a summer job in the Swiss Alps and has to contend with stubborn cows, an amorous dairyman and illegal workers from the Balkans after a German passport.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Finding Sofia (2016)
Plot Summary:
A conflicted animation filmmaker travels to Argentina chasing after a girl he met online, only to end up living with her and her intimidating boyfriend on an isolated island on the outskirts of Buenos Aires.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 303
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Argentina
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags:
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A Tale of Love and Desire (2021)
Plot Summary:
Ahmed, 18, is French of Algerian origin. He grew up in the Parisian suburbs. On the benches of the university, he meets Farah, a young Tunisian full of energy recently arrived from Tunis. While discovering a body of sensual and erotic Arabic literature that he never knew existed, Ahmed falls deeply in love with this girl, and although literally overwhelmed by desire, he will try to resist it.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Tunisia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Everything Will Be Fine (1998)
Plot Summary:
Nabou, an Afro-German slacker, desperatly wants to win back her club kid ex-girlfriend Katja. Nabou becomes a housekeeper for Katja's neighbor, Kim, who is a workaholic that is striving to become a partner in an advertising agency. A refreshing romantic comedy with the ingredients of a classic lesbian feature: whimsical sexiness, mistaken identity, and general madness and mayhem.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Lover (1992)
Plot Summary:
Marie lives with Antoine, but while he is away she meets Paul, a filmmaker visiting from Canada.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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Lieve Jongens (1980)
Plot Summary:
Lieve Jongens (“Sweet Boys”) explores the sexual fantasies of a middle-aged writer and the handsome young men who dominate his life. Wolf, a successful writer of romantic novels, is plagued by self doubt and writer's block. Though pleasant looking and well-preserved, he fears age will rob him of the youthful companionship he so desperately craves. With the help of his equally randy and manipulative young sex partner, Wolf plots to seduce the gentle Muskrat from the arms of a much older lover.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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My Emptiness and I (2022)
Plot Summary:
Raphi, from France, fantasises about romances with princes, and about starting a traditional family. But in reality, things aren’t like that. She works in a call centre in Barcelona, struggles with at times embarrassing dates, and is diagnosed by her therapist as having gender dysphoria. During this confusing, yet valuable period, we follow this trans woman as she makes her transition, as well as in her everyday life. She talks candidly with colleagues, queer friends, and the men she meets through apps. In spite of all the advice she receives, it turns out that it is mostly time and experience that will help her embrace her place in this world.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Property Is No Longer a Theft (1973)
Plot Summary:
A lowly bank clerk, literally allergic to money and revolted by its nefarious influence on humanity, launches a campaign of harassment against a wealthy butcher, stealing small, insignificant items— but never money—from the man. The victim uses the thefts to make large and fraudulent insurance claims, refusing to finger the thief for fear his own financial improprieties might be exposed.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags:
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Lust and Revenge (1996)
Plot Summary:
This caustic Australian comedy is meant to burn those commercial interests who sponsor artists for tax breaks. It also a sexually unresponsive wife's revenge against her cheating husband. Heiress Georgina Oliphant, the daughter of pharmaceutical magnate George Oliphant is on a mission to find a sculptor suitable of her father's sponsorship. Normally, George doesn't give a hoot about art, but tax time approaches and he needs a big deduction. Since large bronze statues are 100% deductible, that's what he wants. Georgina comes through with the lesbian sculptor Lily Carmichael who suggests a detailed male nude, sans fig leaf. For her model, lily chooses unemployed hunk Karl-Heinz Applebaum who at first doesn't realize he is to model totally nude. Fortunately, coquettish Georgina is around to convince him to shed those clothes.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film
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Saint-Narcisse (2020)
Plot Summary:
Dominic’s fetish is… himself. Nothing turns him on more than his own reflection. That’s why discovering that he has a twin brother, raised in a remote monastery by a depraved priest, causes him major consternation. Fate brings the two young men back together again, and their fraternal relationship is torn between sex, revenge and redemption.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 934
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: touching, light, feel good, humorous, entertaining, romantic comedy, queer cinema
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Sorry Angel (2018)
Plot Summary:
A university student and an older, HIV-positive writer strike up a romance in 1993.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, captivating, sincere, touching, emotional, queer cinema, gay cinema