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Plot Summary:
La naïve et complexée Leah signe par erreur un pacte avec le diable Abargadon. Mais elle est sur les listes du Paradis, aussi l'Archange Gabriel intervientil pour causer la perte du démon. Mais Leah commence à trouver Abargadon séduisant et pas si mauvais que ça. Elle décide de sauver son âme.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 858
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
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The Invisible Woman (2009)
Plot Summary:
Once assuming people ignored her because they weren't interested, Lili begins to suspect that she might be literally invisible.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Sotto il ristorante cinese (1987)
Plot Summary:
A young man captures the fancy of an inventor's daughter when he passes through a basement door into another dimension.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Abgeschminkt! (1993)
Plot Summary:
An original satire about women of the 90s in search of the men of their dreams. Franzy believes she's through with men, but desperately needs new amorous story lines for the comic strip she writes for a newspaper. So she observes her friend Maischa struggling to satisfy her need for love -- and someone who knows how to install her new shelf. Since joiner Klaus demands too much attention, she sets her eyes on the good-looking footballer Rene.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 596
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 55 min
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I Love Greece (2022)
Plot Summary:
Jean and Marina go to Athens for their summer vacation. There they are reunited with Marina's family, while preparing to spend a romantic getaway, Marina's family decides to accompany them. But nothing will go according to the plan.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
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If I Were a Rich Man (2002)
Plot Summary:
Between Alice, a hospital nurse and Aldo, a shampoo sales representative, things have turned sour of late. Alice blames her husband for lacking ambition and contemplates divorce.One day Aldo wins the ten million euro lotto prize. But, unwilling to share the bonanza, he keeps mum about it, all the more as he finds out Alice has an affair with Gérard, Aldo's former friend and ... new boss. However, Aldo, leading a double life, starts spending his money.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
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Libido: The Urge to Love (1971)
Plot Summary:
A young woman falls down a staircase, and suddenly becomes... a nymphomaniac.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sensual, erotic, sex comedy
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Fatty Drives the Bus (1999)
Plot Summary:
Oh no! It appears as if Satan isn't going to fill his soul quota this month! So of course, he turns himself into a tour guide and takes a bus-load of unsuspecting tourists on a ride down the highway to hell.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Not Everybody's Lucky Enough to Have Communist Parents (1993)
Plot Summary:
Irène, a strong french believer of communist utopia, is the happiest one when the Red Army Chorus announce they are coming to the Parisian stage.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 322
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Der Boandlkramer und die ewige Liebe (2021)
Plot Summary:
Death (in Bavarian: Boandlkramer) is supposed to get little Maxl, but he falls in love with Maxl's mother. Confused by the previously unknown feelings, he confides in the devil. The incarnate persuades him to start a business where the Boandlkramer gets the chance to compete for Gefi as a mortal. Encouraged by the advice of the recently deceased womanizer Max Gumberger, the Boandl stumbles through earthly life in search of eternal love.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 628
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min
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Les hommes préfèrent les grosses (1981)
Plot Summary:
Lydie, a physically unattractive young woman, is brutally dumped by her fiancé when she had just acquired the lease of an apartment to live with him.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 535
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 86 min
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Myth of Love (2021)
Plot Summary:
A divorced, retired painting teacher from Shanghai falls in love with a woman who is also divorced. The involvement of his ex-wife and a student of his makes the whole thing complicated.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 112 min
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Snakes and Ladders (1996)
Plot Summary:
A wry story of female friendship: Jean and Kate, two "nearing-thirty" street performers, find the ups and downs of life and love amid the pubs and music scene of modern day Dublin.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Ireland, Germany, UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Dog Years (2021)
Plot Summary:
Stella is a clumsy, cynical, imaginative and tormented teenage girl. After a life-changing car accident involving a dog, she convinces herself she must count her age in dog years: one year of her life counts for seven, and now that she’s turning sixteen, she is a centennial. For this reason, Stella thinks she has not much time left to live and pens a bucket list of all the things she would like to achieve before she dies.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 353
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
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L'Art (délicat) de la séduction (2001)
Plot Summary:
The film follows Etienne, a 40-year-old car designer, who takes time off from work to study sexual mastery from a Zen master and several prostitutes, in the hopes of having the sexual skill to impress Laure. Laure, a blonde who was introduced to him by his friend Jacques, told Etienne on January 1 that she will not have sex with him until May 27 that year at precisely 9 PM.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 428
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
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Electrical Girl (2001)
Plot Summary:
Centers around a horny young woman who has electrical genitals. When young Jan gets sexually aroused, she emits bolts of electricity from various orifices. Any unfortunate males in the vicinity of her nude form invariably end up singed and smoky, and that’s if they’re lucky. It also seems that Jan sees visions of lottery balls as she climaxes. In order to have a premonition of all six lottery balls, Jan sets out to find a lover who can really rock her world.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, hot
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French Fried Vacation (1978)
Plot Summary:
Holidaymakers arriving in a Club Med camp on the Ivory Coast are determined to forget their everyday problems and emotional disappointments. Games, competitions, outings, bathing and sunburn accompany a continual succession of casual affairs.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic, cult classic, clever, feel good, cult film
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Lo (2009)
Plot Summary:
Love presents many challenges to couples...but none so daunting as the one Justin faces with his girlfriend April.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, surreal, twist ending, suspenseful, talky, psychological, suspense, dark, slasher, minimal cast
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Encino Woman (1996)
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After thawing, a young prehistoric woman, Lucy, gets herself taken care of by David, a young intern at a marketing firm. Working on a campaign ad for a cosmetics company, David becomes Mr. Bigshot when his protégé is chosen to be the model/spokeswoman for her animal personality.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: teen, ridiculous
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Night of Henna (2005)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful Pakistani woman has to make a choice between her true love or an arranged marriage by her family.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: informative
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Our Women (2015)
Plot Summary:
Max, Paul and Simon have been friends for 35 years. They take great pleasure in their one vacation a year together without their partners and meet-up regularly to spend evenings drinking or playing cards. Each has a successful career and they all appear to have perfect lives until the night Simon announces to his friends that he has just strangled his wife, Estelle after a blazing row. Max and Paul are horrified by Simon's confession, but worse is to come when Simon asks them to lie and provide him with an alibi for the time Estelle was killed. Both men are torn between lying or turning over their best friend to the police.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 559
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, cynical, semi serious, captivating, realistic, talky
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Witch Way Love (1997)
Plot Summary:
Michael Firch is very skilled in computers and he goes to Paris to meet very important persons to discuss a contract. Michael was born on a special astral date. On arriving in Paris, he meets Morgane and her son. Morgane is a witch, she is beautiful, she is good and she needs Michael to save her son from evil powers. Molok is a sorcerer and he opposes Morgana's plan.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, sincere, sweet, offbeat, stylized
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Santa Claus Is a Stinker (1982)
Plot Summary:
Félix, disguised as Father Christmas, hands out leaflets advertising a sexy Christmas party. His place is taken by an African Santa Claus and he returns to his caravan only to find his girlfriend Josette about to leave him. When he comes after her, she takes refuge at "SOS Distress", run by two neurotics, Thérèse and Pierre.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, funny, cult classic, black comedy, humorous, witty, anthology, clever, offbeat, realistic
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A Mermaid in Paris (2020)
Plot Summary:
A man rescues a mermaid in Paris and slowly falls in love with her.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 984
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sweet, unusual plot structure, light, captivating, disturbing, crying
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Two of a Kind (1983)
Plot Summary:
God throws his hands up at the foolishness of humanity and orders the race destroyed. A trio of bleeding-heart angels strike a deal with him: if they can find just two good souls, the Lord will allow Earth to survive. Unfortunately, the angels have staked the future of the species on a thieving bank teller and an inventor/con-artist.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: offbeat, feel good, humorous, semi serious, romantic, sexy, unusual plot structure, sweet, suspense, entertaining
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After You (2003)
Plot Summary:
Antoine is a maitre d' in a Paris brasserie, Chez Jean, and is so full of being of service to others that he can't say 'no'. Late for dinner with his girlfriend, Christine, he takes a shortcut home through the park but finds a stranger, Louis, in the act of committing suicide by hanging. Louis is distraught by the loss of his girlfriend, Blanche, and is so grateful that he attaches himself to Antoine. Antoine arranges a job for Louis - as a sommelier at Chez Jean and sets about trying to repair Louis' life.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: romantic, compassionate, light, humorous, clever, realistic, witty, semi serious, inspirational, road movie
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La Belle Époque (2019)
Plot Summary:
Victor, a disillusioned sexagenarian, sees his life turned upside down on the day when Antoine, a brilliant entrepreneur, offers him a new kind of attraction: mixing theatrical artifices and historical reconstruction, this company offers his clients a chance to dive back into the era of their choice. Victor then chose to relive the most memorable week of his life: the one where, 40 years earlier, he met the great love.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: romantic, humorous, contemplative, psychological, touching, sweet, unusual plot structure, intellectual, independent film, cute
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The Girl on the Bridge (1999)
Plot Summary:
It's night on a Paris bridge. A girl leans over Seine River with tears in her eyes and a violent yearning to drown her sorrows. Out of nowhere someone takes an interest in her. He is Gabor, a knife thrower who needs a human target for his show. The girl, Adele, has never been lucky and nowhere else to go. So she follows him. They travel along the northern bank of the Mediterranean to perform.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: black and white, psychological, touching, humorous, sentimental, stylized, heartbreaking, serious, anthology, postmodern
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Stop Calling Me Baby! (1977)
Plot Summary:
A man hires a P.I. to find a sexy woman he fell in love with. The woman lives with her underage teen sister who dreams about having sex for the first time, but wants a real man. That's when the P.I. shows up and stirs up the household.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
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French Twist (1995)
Plot Summary:
After learning of her husband's infidelities, a housewife invites an itinerant lesbian to move in with them. None of their lives will ever be the same again.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, humorous, sex comedy, surprise ending, realistic, semi serious, funny, light, romantic
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Angel-A (2005)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful and mysterious woman helps an inept scam artist get his game together...but is their meeting purely coincidence?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: reflective, philosophical, black and white, melancholic, emotional, semi serious, offbeat, sincere, atmospheric, depressing