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Plot Summary:
Fifteen year old Pauline and her older cousin, model-shaped Marion, go to the emtying Atlantic coast for an autumn holiday . Marion ignores the approaches of a surfer and falls for Henri, a hedonist who is only interested in a sexual adventure and drops her soon. Pauline's little romance with a young man (Sylvain) is also spoiled by Henri.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, witty, anthology, sex comedy, sensitive, clever, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic
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The Collector (1967)
Plot Summary:
A bombastic, womanizing art dealer and his painter friend go to a seventeenth-century villa on the Riviera for a relaxing summer getaway. But their idyll is disturbed by the presence of the bohemian Haydée, accused of being a “collector” of men.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: art house, psychological, sexy, talky, sad, artsy, anthology, aesthetic, clever, humorous
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The Aviator's Wife (1981)
Plot Summary:
A student is devastated when he finds that his girlfriend is cheating on him. In order to find out why she did it, he decides to spy on her and her airline pilot lover. Then he sees the pilot with a blonde woman and he begins to follow them….
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: anthology, clever, touching, humorous, realistic, witty, contemplative, talky, semi serious, eighties
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A Summer's Tale (1996)
Plot Summary:
A shy maths graduate takes a holiday in Dinard before starting his first job. He hopes his sort-of girlfriend will join him, but soon strikes up a friendship with another girl working in town. She in turn introduces him to a further young lady who fancies him. Thus the quiet young lad finds he is having to do some tricky juggling in territory new to him.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: art house, artsy, anthology, cute, sincere, sexy, clever, humorous, realistic, talky
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27 Missing Kisses (2000)
Plot Summary:
A young woman's passion has a remarkable effect on a Russian village in this comedy-drama with fantasy elements. Sybill (Nino Kuchanidze) is a teenager who is sent to a small town in the country to spend the summer with her aunt. Despite her tender age, Sybill is ripe and sexually aware, and while the initial object of her attention is Alexander (Eugenji Sidichin), a widower in his early 40s, she instead pairs up with Mickey (Shalva Iashvili), Alexander's teenage son. Mickey quickly becomes infatuated with Sybill and is more than happy to indulge her fondness for outdoor lovemaking. Between Sybill's carefree, youthful sensuality and the appearance of Emmanuelle at the local movie house, suddenly love and lust are in bloom all over town.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Georgia, UK, France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, semi serious, witty, romantic comedy, sexy, offbeat
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California Dreaming (1979)
Plot Summary:
Young T.T. comes from Chicago to spend the summer in California. He slowly becomes "California-ized," while learning about love and life in the Golden State.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 852
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, sentimental, sincere, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sex comedy
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Blame It on Rio (1984)
Plot Summary:
Matthew Hollis is man on holiday in Rio with his best friend. Both men have teenage daughters with them. When Matthew falls for his best friend's amorous daughter named Jennifer, they embark on a secret, if slightly one-sided relationship. Jennifer's father is furious when he finds out about the 'older man' in his daughter's life, and sets out to hunt him down with the aid of Matthew!.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: light, suspense, sweet, melancholic, humorous, semi serious, sex comedy, funny, sexy, entertaining
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Summer Lovers (1982)
Plot Summary:
Michael Pappas and his girlfriend, Cathy, are enjoying the white sand beaches of a Greek island as well as the freewheeling nature of the locals. When Michael meets Lina, who is in Greece from Paris doing archaeological work, he is enamored with the beautiful foreigner. Cathy, unhappy about Lina getting close to Michael, confronts the woman -- only to be unexpectedly wooed by her charms as well.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy, romantic, realistic, sexual, spiritual, eros, sensual, independent film, semi serious
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Confusion of Genders (2000)
Plot Summary:
Bisexual attorney Alain is bedding his female boss, his murderer client, the client's hairdresser girlfriend, and a precocious boy who knows what he wants and tries to convince Alain that he can 'have it all'.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sexy, humorous, witty, erotic, sex comedy, clever, realistic, talky, semi serious, sexual
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Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1987)
Plot Summary:
Two young girls meet, Reinette from the countryside and Mirabelle from Paris, and decide to take a flat together in Paris where they attend University. Four successive stories about their daily lives illustrate the very different views, characters and relation to the world of these two friends.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: artsy, art house, independent film, clever, feel good, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious
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A Tale of Springtime (1990)
Plot Summary:
Simple conversations engender complicated human interactions. The first in Eric Rohmer's Four Seasons series, Conte de printemps (A Tale In Springtime) is the story of an introverted young girl (Florence Darel) just reaching adulthood who takes a liking to an older woman she meets at a party (Anne Teyssedre) and determines to match her off with her father (Hugues Quester), despite the latter's already having a lover of his own. There is a certain absurdity to this, apparent to both adults, who though both reluctantly attracted to each other resent Darel's attempts at matchmaking. Nevertheless, both of them are intelligent enough to understand that there is no 'proper' way to meet, and are alive to the possibilities that life brings them. Darel, for her part, is a persistent catalyst. As with all Rohmer films, the stage is set, in an age of increasing impermanence and uncertainty in human relationships, for a series of minimalist reflections on love and life.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: clever, talky, witty, art house, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, crying, light
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Full Moon in Paris (1984)
Plot Summary:
"He who has two women loses his soul, he who has two houses loses his mind." So it goes with Louise played by Pascale Ogier who is dissatisfied with her mundane life in a bleak Parisian new-town. She rents a pied-à-terre in the city so she can experience independence.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: anthology, clever, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious, eighties
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Claire's Knee (1970)
Plot Summary:
On the eve of his wedding, on holiday on the Lake Annecy shore, a career diplomat visits an old acquaintance, perhaps a former girlfriend. Through her he meets an intense teenager, Laura, and then lusts after her sister, Claire. Whilst Laura attempts to flirt with him, his fantasy becomes focused on wanting to caress Claire's knee.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sentimental, thought provoking, spiritual, existential, sensitive, talky, relaxing, sexy, clever, humorous
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Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1987)
Plot Summary:
Middle-class Parisian suburbs: Blanche and Lea, office worker and student, meet and become friends. Lea is going out with Fabien, but is thinking of leaving him. Blanche falls for Lea's handsome and witty friend Alexandre, but is tongue-tied whenever she meets him. Lea goes on holiday and Blanche, still smitten with the dashing Alexandre, begins to get to get know Fabien. A classic Rohmer moral tale.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, aesthetic, clever, feel good, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious, crying, eighties
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Rendezvous in Paris (1995)
Plot Summary:
Three stories of love and coincidence around the theme of dates in Paris.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: clever, talky, touching, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, crying, romantic, sexy
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The Hairdresser's Husband (1990)
Plot Summary:
The film begins in a flashback from the titular character, Antoine. We are introduced to his fixation with female hairdressers which began at a young age. The film uses flashbacks throughout and there are frequent parallels drawn with the past. We are unsure what Antoine has done with his life, however we know he has fulfilled his childhood ambition, to marry a haidresser.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sexual, sex comedy, epic, anthology, sensual, erotic drama, sentimental, touching
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Summer (1986)
Plot Summary:
A lonely Parisian woman comes to terms with her isolation and anxieties during a long summer vacation.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: realistic, talky, anthology, cute, aesthetic, psychological, sincere, clever, touching, humorous
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Cousins in Love (1980)
Plot Summary:
Teenage Julien (Thierry Tevini) loves his teenage cousin Julia (Anja Shute) among flowers in summer of '39 France.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, sexual, sensual, romantic, controversial, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sincere
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Cookies (1975)
Plot Summary:
Henri Serin, a sales rep in umbrellas who lives in Saumur, is bored with his life. Married to an unloving, uptight wife, who, unlike him, has no interest in sex, he is also rejected by his children. Thus, he spends most of his time travelling from town to town, flirting with women and meeting all kinds of people in the hotels, restaurants, shops and places he visits. He also dabbles in painting, particularly portraits. After his car breaks down as he is driving through Brittany, he meets a rough, foul-mouthed painter who offers him to stay at his house, near Pont-Aven. There, Henri falls in love with Angela, the painters model and fling, and soon they run off together.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: erotic, anthology, sex comedy, touching, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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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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In a Wild Moment (1977)
Plot Summary:
Pierre, 44, contentedly divorced, takes his teen daughter to the Côte d'Azur along with his friend Jacques and Jacques' own teen daughter, Françoise. On the topless beaches of Saint-Tropez, Jacques and Pierre discuss marriage and being parents. Then, in a wild moment at a nighttime party, Françoise starts playing with Pierre, and one thing leads to another: they become lovers. After a couple of trysts, Pierre wants out, but Françoise declares her love for him and wants to tell her father about it. She does, but leaves out Pierre's name, so Jacques enlists Pierre's help in identifying who seduced his daughter. What will Pierre do?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 634
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: anthology, sex comedy, sexy, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, hot
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Hot Bubblegum (1981)
Plot Summary:
Momo and Yudale take turns mounting Bentzi's foreign buxom cousin, but Yudale and her get stuck together. Momo raises the bar even further by proving the rumors of an accepting older buxom piano tutor, Fritzi. Bentzi looks for love.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, West Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, teen sex comedy, humorous, not serious, feel good, sex comedy, sexual, sexy, sentimental, semi serious
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Lemon Popsicle (1978)
Plot Summary:
Bentzi, Momo, and Yuda'leh are three teenage boys growing up in 1950's Israel, which is not much different from 1950's America if you believe what you see in the film. Of course they are obsessed with one thing - sex. Bentzi is interested in the beautiful Nili, but she prefers his friend Momo.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, West Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, erotic, sexy, touching, cult classic, crying, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Baby Love (1983)
Plot Summary:
Those Lemon Popsicle boys are at it again!..Naughtier than ever in.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, West Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, slapstick comedy, teen comedy
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A Good Marriage (1982)
Plot Summary:
Sabine vows to give up married lovers, and is determined to find a good husband. Her best friend Clarisse introduces her to her cousin Edmond, a busy lawyer from Paris. Sabine pursues Edmond, with the encouragement of Clarisse, but Edmond does not seem very interested.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, captivating, realistic, contemplative, talky, semi serious, eighties
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Autumn Tale (1998)
Plot Summary:
Magali (Béatrice Romand), forty-something, is a winemaker and a widow: she loves her work but feels lonely. Her friends Rosine (Alexia Portal) and Isabelle (Marie Rivière) both want secretly to find a husband for Magali.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: melancholic, meditative, witty, art house, touching, semi serious, realistic, talky, anthology, clever
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The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque (1993)
Plot Summary:
The socialist mayor of a small village in France dreams of building an arts center but he runs up against some opposition.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: satirical, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, biting, suspense
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Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978)
Plot Summary:
Solange is depressed: she's stopped smiling, she eats little, she says less. She has fainting fits. Her husband Raoul seeks to save her by enlisting Stephane, a stranger, to be her lover. Although he listens to Mozart and has every Pocket Book arranged in alphabetical order, Stephane fails to cheer Solange. She knits. She does housework. Everyone, including their neighbor a vegetable vendor, agrees that she needs a child, yet she fails to get pregnant by either lover. The three take a job running a kids' summer camp where they meet Christian, the precocious 13-year-old son of the local factory manager. It is Christian who restores Solange to laughter.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy, erotic, sexual, romantic, manga, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Rachel Papers (1989)
Plot Summary:
Charles is in control of his life; he is about to finish 6th from college and start at Oxford. He is 19 and wants an 'older' woman before he turns 20. Enter the beautiful Rachel, and Charles puts his 'master-of-seduction' routines into top gear. Things however get complicated, Charles has a string of ex's and a weird brother-in-law. Rachel has a boyfriend named Deforest and Charles' father has a mistress.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sex comedy, romantic drama, independent film, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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The Last American Virgin (1982)
Plot Summary:
The friendship of a group of young friends struggling with teen sex, drugs, and work is jeopardized by a romantic interest which may turn pals into bitter rivals.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sexual, sexy, touching, melancholic, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sex comedy, erotic
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The First Time (2012)
Plot Summary:
Dave, a high school senior, spends most of his time pining away over a girl he can’t have. Aubrey, a junior with artistic aspirations, has a hot boyfriend who doesn’t quite understand her or seem to care. Although they go to different schools, Dave and Aubrey find themselves at the same party. When both head outside to get some air, they meet. A casual conversation sparks an instant connection, and, over the course of a weekend, things turn magical, romantic, complicated, and funny as Aubrey and Dave discover what it's like to fall in love for the first time.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 73000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: romantic, sexy, sincere, touching, realistic, light, feel good, sweet, teen, witty