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Plot Summary:
Rachel loves her life, her students, her friends, her ex, her guitar lessons. When she falls in love with Ali, she grows close to his 4-year-old daughter, Leila. She tucks her in, looks after her, and loves her like a mother... which she isn’t. Not yet. Rachel is 40. The desire for a family of her own is growing stronger, and the clock is ticking. Is it too late?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
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Maria into Life (2022)
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Maria is a cleaning lady, who is reserved, shy and clumsy. When she is assigned to the School of Fine Arts, she meets Hubert, the school's whimsical guardian. There she discovers a fascinating place where freedom, creativity and daring reign.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
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The Groundhogs (1993)
Plot Summary:
A story of a family with numerous members drowned in their sentimental problems.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 416
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
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The Aquatic Effect (2016)
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Samir, a lanky crane operator in Montreuil, falls madly for Agathe. As master swimmer at the pool Thorez he decides to take swimming lessons with her. But the lie does not last three lessons - Agathe hate liars. Chosen to represent the Seine-Saint-Denis, Agathe flies to Iceland for the 10th Congress of the International Masters Swimming. Samir has no choice but to fly in turn also.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Iceland
Duration: 83 min
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Thirst Street (2017)
Plot Summary:
Gina, an American flight attendant, falls in with a Parisian bartender on a layover only to find herself tangled in a web of deception, delusion and unrequited amour fou.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 591
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, visually stunning, psychosexual thriller
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Waiting for Bojangles (2021)
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In front of their little boy, Camille and Georges dance on their favorite song "Mr Bojangles". With them, there is only place for fun and fantasy. The one who shows the way is the mother, an unpredictable wisp. She leads them into a whirlwind of poetry so that the party continues again and again, no matter what happens. Mad love has never lived up to its name so well.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 124 min
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Romaine (1997)
Plot Summary:
First Adventure: Romaine goes on vacation by herself. Second Adventure: Romaine dones internships. Third Adventure: Romaine loses her memory ... Three stories of a girl without friends, without hope, without desire.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min
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Off the Map (2016)
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Career woman finds out that her boyfriend is living a secret double life. She finds a bag of money and decides to make a run for it. She is accompanied by a little girl who is also on a run from her criminal step-father. Together they're trying to make it to her grandmothers house.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 533
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Half Sister, Full Love (2015)
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Pierrick is still dealing with the recent disappearance of his brother. Then why not accept the invitation of Tessa, his best friend, at her family home in order to spend a week alone to meditate on his life?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 482
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, ambiguous ending
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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
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My Golden Days (2015)
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Paul is preparing to leave Tajikistan, while thinking back on his adolescent years. His childhood, his mother's madness, the parties, the trip to the USSR where he lost his virginity, the friend who betrayed him and the love of his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: captivating, sentimental, sincere, suspense, erotic, sexy, stylized, sensual
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When Margaux Meets Margaux (2018)
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20-year-old Margaux makes the acquaintance of 45-year-old Margaux: they have a lot in common – so much so that it turns out they are one and the same person, at two different ages and stages of their life….
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
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On a Magical Night (2019)
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After 20 years of marriage, Maria decides to leave her husband. She moves into room 212 at the hotel across the street, with a bird’s-eye view of her apartment, her husband and the life she shared with him. While she wonders if she made the right decision, many of the people in her life offer their opinions on the matter. They intend to let her know, whether she likes it or not, on what proves to be a life-changing evening.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, sentimental, thought provoking, captivating, erotic
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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
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Erotic Stories (1980)
Plot Summary:
A set of nine stories whose central theme is eroticism. The different directors of the film deal from philosophical aspects to others that are almost pornographic, but always with a common denominator: sensuality. Segments: 1- Small Planet, 2 - The Tilita, 3 - The Vile Metal, 4 - Broken Times, 5 - Koñensonaten, 6 - Peppermint, 7 - Frac, 8 - Everyday Life, 9 - Love is a Wonderful Thing.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Don't Forget You're Going to Die (1995)
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Benoit has planned out his life. Unfortunately he has forgotten the military duty. After he is called to duty he tries everything to get around. He goes to a psychiatrist who gives him medicine against depression. As this doesn't work out he tries suicide. The story gets even worse as he is told by a military doctor that he is HIV positive. Benoit tumbles down into the drug scene. Then he goes to Italy and meets Claudia. Things seem to improve, but only for a short time.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 577
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, gloomy
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Baby Bump(s) (2017)
Plot Summary:
An attention-craving mother nearing 50, unemployed and living with her pregnant daughter and son-in-law, suddenly finds herself with child, too.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, humorous, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining
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The Summer of All My Parents (2016)
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After attempting to set a mailbox on fire, Pimpette, 14, and her elder sister, Joséphine, 18, spend their summer holidays shuttling between their secretly pregnant mom and bachelor father. But when Joséphine gets involved with the wrong crowd, little Pimpette turns out to be more responsible than the grown-ups who spend their time educating her.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Grand Central (2013)
Plot Summary:
A young unemployed man finds work at a nuclear power plant and begins an illicit affair with the fiancée of one of his senior workmates.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Austria
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, tense, sincere, serious, emotional, sexy, clever, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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Gabriela (1983)
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In 1925, Gabriela becomes cook, mistress, and then wife of Nacib, a bar owner in a small Brazilian coastal town runs by the local colonels. Nacib becomes tired of Gabriela's uneducated ways, and annuls the marriage when he finds her in bed with his friend Tonico. The political ways of the town modernize slightly and Gabriela returns as Nacib's mistress.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, sexy, pornochanchada, humorous, semi serious
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An Easy Girl (2019)
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Naïma has just turned 16. This summer, she will have to decide what she wants from life if she doesn’t want to miss out. Then her cousin Sofia arrives, with an amazing body and a dangerously seductive lifestyle. Naïma desires only to follow her own path, so long as it leads upwards… Despite the warnings of her best friend Dodo, she and Sofia will live through unforgettable encounters during a long summer that will mark them forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, melancholic, realistic, scenic, controversial, cute, visually appealing, meditative
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Intimate Parts (2013)
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Contemporary Moscow, home to several people who apparently lead a totally carefree life. They have all acquired status in society, and at first sight seem to have everything they desire. But each of them is lacking something, and each has their own intimate secret.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 768
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, sexy, captivating, ironic, sex comedy, explicit, crying, erotic
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Camille Rewinds (2012)
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Camille was only sixteen and still in high school when she fell in love with Eric, another student. They later married and a child and were happy for a while. But now twenty-five years have passed and Eric leaves her for a younger woman. Bitter and desperate Camille drinks so much liquor at a New Year Eve's party that she falls into an ethylic coma and she finds herself... propelled into her own past! Camille is sixteen again when she wakes up this morning, her parents are not dead anymore and she must go to school, where she will meet her schoolmates and, of course, Eric. Is she going to fall for him again and... be miserable twenty-five years later? Or will she avoid him with the result never having her beloved daughter? Who ever said that time traveling was fun?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, feel good
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Non-Fiction (2018)
Plot Summary:
Alain and Léonard, a writer and a publisher, are overwhelmed by the new practices of the publishing world. Deaf to the desires of their wives, they struggle to find their place in a society whose code they can no longer crack.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, captivating, melancholic, existential
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Carnage (2002)
Plot Summary:
After a bull is killed in a bullfight, its body parts are transported across Spain, France, Italy and Belgium. The bull's parts fall into the wide variety of people, including: an Italian actress selling the bones in a supermarket promotion, a Spanish woman who dines on its steaks, a little girl in France who imagines a world where animals are much larger than humans, and a taxidermist whose wife is simultaneously giving birth to quintuplets.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 739
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Spain, Switzerland
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, touching, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, crying, black comedy, dark comedy
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Anaïs in Love (2021)
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Anaïs is thirty and broke. She has a lover, but she’s not sure she loves him anymore. She meets Daniel, who immediately falls for her. But Daniel lives with Émilie – whom Anaïs also falls for. This is the story of a restless young woman. And the story of a profound desire.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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In Bed with Victoria (2016)
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Victoria Spick, a criminal lawyer who is single, turns up at a wedding and meets three men there: David, the father of her daughters; Vincent, a friend of hers; and Sam, a former drug dealer who she bailed out. The next day, Vincent is accused of attempted murder by his partner.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious, art house, period drama
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Born in 68 (2008)
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Paris, 1968. Catherine, Yves and Hervé are twenty years old. They're students and they love each other. The May student uprisings radically change their lives. Overtaken by communal utopia, they leave the city with a few friends to set up house in an abandoned farm in the Lot region. A desire for freedom and the search for individual fulfillment lead them to make choices that cause more harm than good.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 655
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 173 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, captivating
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Photo de famille (2018)
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Gabrielle is a "statue" for tourists, much to the chagrin of her teenage son. Elsa is in angry at the world and desperate to become pregnant. Mao is a chronically depressed video game designer who drowns his melancholy in alcohol and psychoanalysis. They are brother and sisters but do not hang out. Ever. Their parents Pierre and Claudine, separated for a long time, have really done nothing to strengthen the bonds of the family - yet, at their grandfather's funeral, they are going to have to meet, and together answer the question: "What to do with grandma?".
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 861
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
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You and the Night (2013)
Plot Summary:
Around midnight, a young couple and their transvestite maid prepare for an orgy. Their guests will be The Slut, The Star, The Stud and The Teen.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: erotic, humorous, semi serious, realistic, sex comedy, sexual, sexy, queer cinema, weird
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Sexual Chronicles of a French Family (2012)
Plot Summary:
Three generations of a French family open up about their sexual experiences and desires after young Romain is caught masturbating in his biology class.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, erotic, sexual, talky, sexy, humorous, captivating, entertaining, romantic, scenic