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Plot Summary:
The relationship between a successful businessman and a prostitute is exploited by a cynical novelist.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: erotic, satirical, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, semi serious, biting, suspense
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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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Woman Times Seven (1967)
Plot Summary:
Seven mini-stories of adultery: "Funeral Possession," a wayward widow at her husband's funeral; "Amateur Night," angry wife becomes streetwalker out of revenge; "Two Against One," seemingly prudish girl turns out otherwise; "Super Simone," wife vainly attempts to divert her over-engrossed writer husband; "At the Opera," a battle over a supposedly exclusive dress; "Suicides," a death pact; "Snow," would-be suitor is actually a private detective hired by jealous husband.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, anthology, absurd, sentimental, retro, realistic, sexual, sexy, hot
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The Lady Banker (1980)
Plot Summary:
The scene is the restless Paris of the interwar years where an attractive and ambitious woman successfully makes her way in a world previously reserved for men: that of high finance. Originating from a humble background, she quickly becomes popular with small savers by offering them outstanding interest rates. Extremely popular, she makes no secret of her taste for the good things in life and her homosexual affairs. They will cost her dearly.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 811
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: emotional
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Slogan (1969)
Plot Summary:
Commercial director Serge Faberge (Serge Gainsbourg) is having an affair with Evelyne (Jane Birkin), the 18 year old fiancee of friend Hugh (James Mitchell). His own pregnant wife Francoise (Andréa Parisy) usually does not mind his dalliances, until he actually walks out on her and their newborn baby to move in with Evelyne. The shoe is on the other foot when dashing stuntman Dado (Gilles Millinaire) catches Evelyne's eye in Venice.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 471
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Six in Paris (1965)
Plot Summary:
Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet), and Montparnasse et Levallois (Godard) are stories of love, flirtation and prostitution; Place d'Etoile (Rhomer) concerns a haberdasher and his umbrella; and La Muette (Chabrol), a bourgeois family and earplugs.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: anthology, realistic, semi serious
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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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Loving (1970)
Plot Summary:
Brooks Wilson is in crisis. He is torn between his wife Selma and two daughters and his mistress Grace, and also between his career as a successful illustrator and his feeling that he might still produce something worthwhile.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 703
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, disgusting, cult film
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The Libertine (1968)
Plot Summary:
A sexy widow discovers her late husband had a secret apartment where he cheated on her. Now she decides to used the same apartment to explore her own sexuality.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 822
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, serious, realistic, sexual, cult film, italian comedy
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The Terrace (1980)
Plot Summary:
Drama about the difficulties of a group of people trying to change their lives. A group of people gathers in a terrace in Rome . Some are friends, some know each other and others just meet for the first time. All are intellectual and belong to the middle class.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: captivating, satirical, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, contemplative, talky, cynical, non-linear
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Plaza Suite (1971)
Plot Summary:
Film version of the Neil Simon play has three separate acts set in the same hotel suite in New York's Plaza Hotel with Walter Matthau in a triple role. In the first, Karen Nash tries to get her inattentive husband Sam's attention to spruce up their failing marriage. In the second, brash film producer Jesse Kiplinger tries to get his former one-time flame Muriel to see him for what he stands for. In the third, Roy Hubley and his wife Norma try and try to get their uncertain-of-herself daughter out of the bathroom before her approaching wedding.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, witty, anthology, realistic, semi serious, sketch comedy, funny, light, surprise ending
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The Romantic Englishwoman (1975)
Plot Summary:
What is real and what is fiction? Faced with writer's block with his novel, Lewis Fielding turns to a film script about a woman finding herself after his wife Elizabeth returns from Baden Baden. She didn't quite find herself there but had a brief encounter in a lift with a German who says he is a poet. Now the German is in England, gets himself invited to tea where he claims he admires Fielding's books. Which one does he like the best? "Tom Jones." Amused at being confused with the other Fielding, the novelist works the German into the plot.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, light, thought provoking, humorous, captivating, clever, serious, realistic, contemplative, talky
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Va Savoir (Who Knows?) (2001)
Plot Summary:
Quick-witted, well-read cultured types revolve around each other in a delightful potpourri of theatre, romanticism and theft.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 154 min
Plot tags: disturbing, lyrical, feel good, humorous, realistic, talky, meditative, non-linear, clever, contemplative
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Chloe in the Afternoon (1972)
Plot Summary:
The last of Rohmer's Six Moral Tales. Frederic leads a bourgeois life; he is a partner in a small Paris office and is happily married to Helene, a teacher expecting her second child. In the afternoons, Frederic daydreams about other women, but has no intention of taking any action. One day, Chloe, who had been a mistress of an old friend, begins dropping by his office. They meet as friends, irregularly in the afternoons, till eventually Chloe decides to seduce Frederic, causing him a moral dilemma.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: clever, anthology, art house, psychological, serious, realistic, contemplative, talky, stylized, sexual
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Happily Ever After (2004)
Plot Summary:
Is love compatible with coupledom? And what of freedom and fidelity? These are some of the questions facing two married men.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: witty, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, sex comedy, cult classic, sexy, clever, realistic, talky
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My Night at Maud's (1969)
Plot Summary:
The rigid principles of a devout Catholic man are challenged during a one-night stay with Maud, a divorced woman with an outsize personality.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: philosophical, cerebral, witty, talky, sexual, existential, black and white, christian film, saga, anthology
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The Daytrippers (1996)
Plot Summary:
Eliza D'Amico thinks her marriage to Louis is going great, until she finds a mysterious love note to her husband. Concerned, she goes to her mother for advice. Eliza, her parents, her sister Jo and Jo's boyfriend all pile into a station wagon, to go to the city to confront Louis with the letter. On the way, the five explore their relations with each other, and meet many interesting people.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, hilarious, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, road movie, offbeat, cynical
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The Man Who Loved Women (1977)
Plot Summary:
At Bertrand Morane's burial there are many of the women that the 40-year-old engineer loved. In flashback Bertrand's life and love affairs are told by himself while writing an autobiographical novel.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: erotic, controversial, anthology, art house, sex comedy, sexual, sexy, clever, touching, humorous
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Heartburn (1986)
Plot Summary:
Rachel is a food writer at a New York magazine who meets Washington columnist Mark at a wedding and ends up falling in love with him despite her reservations about marriage. They buy a house, have a daughter, and Rachel thinks they are living happily ever after until she discovers that Mark is having an affair while she is waddling around with a second pregnancy.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: melancholic, lyrical, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, talky, emotional, sex comedy, cult classic
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Sexual Life (2004)
Plot Summary:
Disparate individuals rationalize their infidelities.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sexy, humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, realistic, sexual, hot
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Metroland (1997)
Plot Summary:
After ten years absence Toni, Chris's best friend, suddenly reappears in London to bring chaos and doubt into Chris's calm, tranquil, slightly boring, predictable life. Chris starts to remember his carefree youth as a photographer in Paris when he lived with and enjoyed a torrid affair with Annick. It was also in Paris that he first met and fell in love with Marion. The temptations and pressure exerted on Chris by Toni to return to their former carefree life of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll soon starts to have an impact on Chris's marriage. He starts to question his values, his lifestyle choices and his relationship with Marion and even suspects her of starting an affair with Toni whom she dislikes! Eventually circumstances come to a head and Chris is forced to decide whether to follow Toni back to the hedonistic, irresponsible life of his youth or face the harsh realities of the present and stay with Marion.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, France, UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: cult classic, sexual, comedy drama, sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, crying, weeping
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Cousin Bette (1998)
Plot Summary:
Cousin Bette is a poor and lonely seamstress, who, after the death of her prominent and wealthy sister, tries to ingratiate herself into lives of her brother-in-law, Baron Hulot, and her niece, Hortense Hulot. Failing to do so, she instead finds solace and company in a handsome young sculptor she saves from starvation. But the aspiring artist soon finds love in the arms of another woman, Hortense, leaving Bette a bitter spinster. Bette plots to take revenge on the family who turned her away and stole her only love. With the help of famed courtesan Jenny Cadine she slowly destroys the lives of those who have scorned her. Written by [email protected].
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, talky, realistic, semi serious, witty, stylized, black comedy, erotic, gothic
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Tomorrow's Another Day (2000)
Plot Summary:
Such an inconsequential event - the unfortunate purchase of a package of cling film - reveals the character and behavior of a small group of individuals caught up in the chaos of today's society. Though it creates arguments and inner questioning, this event - and its various consequences - also creates bonds.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 535
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, clever, offbeat
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One Stays, the Other Leaves (2005)
Plot Summary:
A story about two couples, longtime friends in which both husbands engage in long-term affairs and, as the title says, ultimately one remains with his wife and one makes a new life with another woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 649
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Blume in Love (1973)
Plot Summary:
Lawyer Stephen Blume, specialized in divorces, lives a paradoxical situation when, having his own marriage break up, is still in love with his ex-wife. Gedorge Segal plays a divorce lawyer who is divorced himself after his wife (Susan Anspach) catches him cheating on her. She, in turn, moves on and falls into an easy-going relationship with an even more easy-going musician (Kris Kristofferson in one of his first film roles). But Blume chooses this moment to fall back in love with his ex-wife (Marsha Mason) and begins to woo her anew.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: funny, romantic comedy, sentimental, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, stylized, semi serious
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Easy (2003)
Plot Summary:
Quirky Jamie Harris (Marguerite Moreau) has a big problem: She's a magnet for less-than-kind men as she hops beds. But things start to look up when she becomes the object of affection of two seemingly normal guys, Mick (Brian O'Byrne) and John (Naveen Andrews). Unfortunately, there's the immense problem of her self-imposed 90-day moratorium on sex. Emily Deschanel co-stars as Jamie's sister, Laura.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, witty, erotic, clever, realistic, talky, semi serious, sexual
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Change of Plans (2009)
Plot Summary:
So called friends at a dinner party end up acting like a dysfunctional family.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, biting, suspense
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Intimate Affairs (2001)
Plot Summary:
When a scholar, is haunted by an overwhelming desire to understand the mystery of sex, he decides to conduct an investigation. With two beautiful assistants joining the case, the stakes are raised.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, talky, psychological, witty, semi serious, sexy, erotic, clever, realistic
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Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970)
Plot Summary:
Tina Balser is a bored New York housewife-mother married to Jonathan, a pompous, social-climbing lawyer who ridicules her in front of their children, criticizing everything she does or wears. She begins an affair with George Prager, a dashing, successful and blatantly sadistic writer. Finally after George has tormented Tina in much the same manner Jonathan has, and has been unfaithful to boot, she goes back to her husband and begins group therapy.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: romantic, sexy, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, biting, sex comedy, suspense
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I Really Hate My Job (2007)
Plot Summary:
'Every day is another day closer to the day I'll never have to do this again.' Five women, one restaurant, one night, one birthday, one breakdown. Then the phone rings. A famous actor is coming for dinner. I Really Hate My Job is the story of an evening in a café in London's Soho.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, talky, independent film, clever, offbeat, witty
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The Decline of the American Empire (1986)
Plot Summary:
Four very different Montreal university teachers gather at a rambling country house to prepare a dinner. Remy (married), Claude (a homosexual), Pierre (involved with a girlfriend) and Alain (a bachelor) discuss sex, the female body and their affairs with them. Meanwhile, their four female guests, Louise (Remy's wife of 15 years), Dominique (a spinster), Diane (a divorcée) and Danielle (Pierre's girlfriend) are spending the time at a downtown health gym. They also discuss sex, the female body and, naturally, men. Later in the evening, they finally meet at the country house and have dinner. A ninth guest, named Mario, who used to know Diane, drops in on the group for some talk and has a surprise of his own.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: talky, intellectual, humorous, sincere, realistic, semi serious, art house, sex comedy, independent film, cult classic