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Plot Summary:
A businessman is leaving for his family vacation in the South Pacific when he finds out that a rival has emptied his bank account. To save face he and his family lock themselves in the house, pretending to have gone on their trip, but it is not so easy to hide from the outside world.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 377
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, Spain, UK
Duration: 94 min
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Libera (1993)
Plot Summary:
This high-energy three part comedy has a strong undercurrent of melancholy, as it shows three different women coping with difficult situations which are usually sexual in origin, even if the moment of romance is long past. In the first tale, Aurora has gotten used to a cozy, wealthy life, but begins to see her world destroyed when her husband is caught in bed with his secretary. Later, he flees the country to avoid getting arrested for something else he has done. Carmela is just welcoming her wayward son back to their slum home after he has spent a stint in "reform" school. Not only has he just confessed to her that he's gay, but he has become a heroin addict.Finally, Libera works at a newsstand outside of Naples as the sole breadwinner for her family. She is tired of her husband lounging in their house when he is not out tomcatting around with prostitutes, and decides to do something about it. So she secretly has him filmed in bed, and is marketing the tapes at her newsstand.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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Throw Out the Anchor (1974)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about an unemployed widower who heads to Florida with his children for a vacation on a houseboat. When he gets there there is no houseboat.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Better Living (1998)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about families, the elements that bind them together, and about hope in the face of hardship.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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I Won the New Year's Lottery (1989)
Plot Summary:
Ciottoli is a journalist with absolutely no prospective for his career, with a lot of debts and a mobster that want him died. Unexpectedly he win the national lottery (almost Eur 2.5 Mln) and try to remain unanimous hiding the winner ticker into his typewriter. Ironically his director order to him to write an article on the mysterious winner. When he is back home he discovers all his furniture has been confiscate and will go on a public auction. He will try desperately to buy back the worthless typewriter while all his previous problems still follows him, especially the mobster.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 723
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, slapstick comedy
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The Boob Tube (1975)
Plot Summary:
In 'Live Action', young psychiatrist Henry Carstairs moves into an apartment building filled with lonely, sex starved women. This soap is interrupted several times by sexy ads.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: independent film, spoof, sketch comedy, parody
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The Odd Job (1978)
Plot Summary:
Arthur Harris is a happily married man who returns from his job to discover that his wife, Fiona, is leaving him. Devastated he gets really drunk and tries to commit suicide. After a few setbacks and while he is trying to electrocute himself with a lamp, the door bell rings. An odd man in a leather coat asks if there are any odd jobs that he can perform. Arthur hires the man to kill him. The next day his wife returns, but the man he hired is still trying to kill him.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, spoof, parody
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Children of Hannibal (1998)
Plot Summary:
Domenico, a bank robber, and Tommaso, the hostage, escape to the south of Italy meeting a gay policeman.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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The Gorilla (1982)
Plot Summary:
Ruby has been trained in martial arts by her father and now has a job safeguarding a wide range of people and their valuables. A clumsy artist named Adelmo falls for Ruby at first sight but remains clueless about her profession. Things are complicated by Adelmo's French neighbor and sometime model having a crush on him, and Ruby's father trying to hook up his daughter with various body builders while putting the moves on the French girl.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Camerieri (1995)
Plot Summary:
Four waiters and a cook working at a seaside restaurant hate each other but still keep working together for lack of better opportunities. One day the old owner sells the restaurant to a wealthy industrialist, who must decide whether to keep it or turn it into a furniture showroom. During a last luncheon for the new owner the waiters will have to prove their worth to save their jobs.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min
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The Barber of Rio (1996)
Plot Summary:
Matteo is a Roman barber. In Roma his activity is driving him almost to ruin, he is full of debts. He decides to escape from this depressing reality by accepting his sister Angelina's invitation to Brazil.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 429
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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A Severed Head (1971)
Plot Summary:
Antonia, the pampered wife of Martin Lynch-Gibbon, an upper class wine merchant, tells her husband that she is in love with their best friend, the psychiatrist Palmer Anderson. Palmer and Antonia want to deal with the situation in a civilized way, by remaining friends with Martin. Meanwhile Martin tries to keep his mistress, Georgie Hands, a secret, but Palmer's sister, Honor Klein, who taught Georgie at Oxford, tells Palmer and Antonia about her. Furthermore, Honor introduces Georgie to Martin's womanizing brother, Alexander. This is just the beginning of the various liaisons.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, black comedy
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The National Shotgun (1978)
Plot Summary:
A catalan manufacturer of intercoms travels to Madrid, accompanied by his mistress, to attend a hunt that he has organized. Its main purpose is to mix with people of high society to improve their business. All seems well until the owner of the farm shows full authority over James, who is the real organizer of the meeting. The celebration is diverse characters who live next to absurd situations.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: parody
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Football Crazy (1974)
Plot Summary:
A small-time soccer referee gets the chance of a lifetime when he gets to referee a major-league game. He becomes a celebrity because and suddenly finds himself having to choose between his future as a referee and the temptations that come his way--especially the women--now.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags:
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National Adultery (1982)
Plot Summary:
A man falls in love with his friend's wife and plots the different ways to get rid of his current wife and also his friend so he can have his new found love all to himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags:
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Confessions from a Holiday Camp (1977)
Plot Summary:
Timmy Lea and his brother-in-law Sidney Noggett are working as entertainment officers at Funfrall, a typical British holiday camp. The staff are lazy and inefficient, preferring to laze by the pool rather than organise activities for the holiday campers. A new owner, Mr. Whitemonk, an ex-prison officer, takes over the camp and is determined to install discipline into the staff. He is on the verge of dismissing Timmy and Sidney; however, Sidney's suggestion of organising a beauty contest changes his mind.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, double entendre
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College Girl on Vacation (1980)
Plot Summary:
Massimo Castaldi (Montagnani) is a social climber married to Violante (Marisa Mell) who comes from a rich family. His relationship with his mistress Laura (Cinzia De Ponti) is jeopardised when the family moves to their summer house on the Pugliese coast. Nevertheless, Massimo seems to find a solution. His raunchy daughter Sonia (Sabrina Siani) failed in Italian and he plans to present Laura as a nun who will give Sonia private lessons for her compensation exam. On the other hand, there are two dim-witted criminals, Terenzio (Alvaro Vitali) and Fulgenzio (Gianni Ciardo), who are planning to abduct a Castaldi family member for good ransom money.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Her mit den kleinen Schweinchen (1984)
Plot Summary:
Wolfgang cannot make up his mind whether to choose a pretty young thing without money or a rich widow. Egon his friend advises him to choose the young girl and leads rich and ugly widow Olga to the altar himself. Now he lives in the lap of luxury, but his jealous wife never lets him out of her sight. Wolfgang takes the hen-pecked husband to the "Ball of the Piggies", where Egon promptly succumbs to the charms of an ever so sweet and sexy Piggy, those of his wife. While Olga ransacks the hotel in search of Egon the next morning, the real beneficiaries are Wolfgang and Eva who chalk up the nocturnal happenings to experience.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 82 min
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On the Game (1974)
Plot Summary:
Comic look at the history of prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Bedside Head (1972)
Plot Summary:
The young headmaster of a boy's boarding school has decided that due to the virility of his young charges, they are a sort of national treasure. He believes that his school should become co-educational as soon as possible. In order to raise funds for the changeover, the boys stay behind during their summer vacation and temporarily convert the school into a love hotel.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Comedy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy, hot
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Happy Family (2010)
Plot Summary:
A blocked screenwriter, Ezio (Fabio De Luigi), is trying to finish a story about two off-kilter families thrown together when their teenage children announce they’re getting married. So Ezio writes himself into the story with a romantic part—a development his characters welcome, as they’ve got some ideas of their own for bigger and better roles.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surreal, semi serious, humorous, realistic, non-linear
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My Big Gay Italian Wedding (2018)
Plot Summary:
A father, who calls himself "open" and tolerant and fights against any form of discrimination, reveals himself as not so liberal when his son announces the engagement to his partner. Overwhelmed by the news, he regresses into the most fierce opponent of same sex marriage, and tries to undermine his son's happiness with a series of embarrassing situations.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, feel good, captivating, gay cinema, queer cinema
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Cool, Calm and Collected (1976)
Plot Summary:
Two men, fortyish, worn out by their wives, abandon everything to go and live in the back of beyond. There they meet a truculent priest, a boozer, Émile who recalls them to life's simple pleasures. Calm is what they want. But soon their example inspires thousands of disorientated males, fleeing the feminist 1970s. Soon, too, there arrives a squadron of nymphomaniac Amazons.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, road movie, sexy, black comedy, dark comedy, weird, bizarre
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Daddy's Girl (2015)
Plot Summary:
Italian remake of the Mexican 2013 hit, "We the nobles".
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 931
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, ironic, semi serious, family comedy
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House Broken (2010)
Plot Summary:
In order to enjoy his retirement, a father takes drastic measures to get his twentysomething, slacker sons to move out and fend for themselves.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, realistic, not serious, independent film
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El periscopio (1979)
Plot Summary:
Gemser plays one of a pair of sexy bisexual nurses living in an apartment building one floor up from a middle-aged couple and their son Albert, who is only too happy to have the randy rug-munchers in the apartment above: whilst gorgeous Gemser is getting it on with her equally luscious lover, Albert is busy putting his new science project—a periscope—to good use by spying on the lingerie-wearing lovelies. Meanwhile, Albert’s mother is being even naughtier than her precious boy, sneaking off for some extra-marital sex while her hair-obsessed husband is at the salon, having his follicles tended to.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexploitation film
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Cassette Love (1981)
Plot Summary:
A comedy directed by Rolf Lyssy.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Comedy
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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You Can't Kiss the Bride (2019)
Plot Summary:
A young fashion blogger and an aspiring songwriter seem to have not that much in common, but when Cupid’s arrow hits them, every difference fades away and overnight they decide to get married. Even their fathers do not have anything in common: Gaetano is a strict mayor from Southern Italy, while Diego is a rich entrepreneur from the North. Between the two forthcoming in-laws, instead, is hate at first sight. They seem to agree on one single common goal: prevent this marriage at any cost! After fighting by any means in a struggle that will also involve their two bizarre families, will they manage to say no to the wedding?.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 339
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Soap Opera (2014)
Plot Summary:
When the kooky tenants of an apartment block experience a sudden and shocking situation, they let their private lives, past secrets and crazy passions intervene as the confessions and absurd twists come thick and fast. Previous lovers, wild accusations, a possible murder and more boil to the surface days before New Year’s Eve, but can they even make it until then?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 825
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Kika (1993)
Plot Summary:
Kika, a young cosmetologist, is called to the mansion of Nicolas, an American writer to make-up the corpse of his stepson, Ramon. Ramon, who is not dead, is revived by Kika's attentions and she then moves in with him. They might live happily ever after but first they have to cope with Kika's affair with Nicolas, the suspicious death of Ramon's mother and the intrusive gaze of tabloid-TV star and Ramon's ex-psychologist Andrea Scarface.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, dark comedy, art house, disturbing, manga, happy, offbeat, humorous, realistic
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Max mon amour (1986)
Plot Summary:
A French wife takes a zoo chimp named Max to be her lover.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: disturbing, clever, humorous, realistic, erotic, controversial, sex comedy, offbeat, surreal, witty