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Plot Summary:
Finnish porn movie producer Pertsa returns from America to his home country to continue his profession with hopelessly small budgets and incompetent casts and crews. A self-ironic satire about director Donner's scandalous fame in late 1960s Finland, notorious for a graphic long shot of his penis pointing northeast.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: parody, sex comedy, cult film
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Deeper! (2020)
Plot Summary:
A rather unlucky young theater director finds himself without work and means of subsistence. To somehow make ends meet, on the advice of a friend, he decides to become a director of pornographic films, using creativity and psychological aspects in his work.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, not serious, sex comedy, feel good, absurd, weird
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Viva Erotica (1996)
Plot Summary:
Sing's last two films were flops, but he is given the helm on a Category III sex film and has to cope with a leading lady who won't do nude scenes, Triad backers, and a crumbling relationship with his girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 928
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sexy, hot
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Girl of Finland (1967)
Plot Summary:
A theater group is training for the play Lapualaisooppera. We see these young people hanging out and talking about what goes on around them.Also sexual matters are involved there and this girl, Tenu, becomes pregnant to Hessu. (IMDb).
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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The Castle of Cloads (1970)
Plot Summary:
Teenager Erik returns from Paris to Finland in a rowboat and is accosted by a gang of youths in the countryside. He walks to Helsinki, returns to his parents' home and his old high school filled with angry radical teens who, typically for the era, consider the teacher-imposed discipline as another form of capitalist imperialism. Almost reluctantly Erik drifts together with Annika, a girl from a wealthy family, and starts experimenting with sex and marijuana. In the same nonchalant manner Erik gets involved in demonstrations and school politics which escalate into a violent school strike leading to police intervention and heavy sanctions.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Sitting on a Branch, Enjoying Myself (1989)
Plot Summary:
Pepe and Prengel, returning from war, meet Ester and both fall in love with the girl and live together in a deserted house. Fanatic communist, Zelmira, wants to turn their world upside-down.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia, West Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Klown Forever (2015)
Plot Summary:
Frank and Casper's friendship is put to a test, when Casper decides to leave Denmark to pursue a solo career in Los Angeles. Determined to win his best friend back Frank chooses to follow Casper insuring an eventful trip.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy
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Rare, Medium, Well Done (1985)
Plot Summary:
Anssi Mänttäri’s low-budget movies with their intimate content have become classics. In this black comedy that takes place in Helsinki in summer the main character (played by Mänttäri himself) jumps from one bar and bed to the next. Especially vulgar black humour.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags:
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Bar Esperanza (1983)
Plot Summary:
Group of eccentric people gather at a popular bar in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, doomed to be closed to give way to the construction of a big building. Intellectuals, artists, night-people in general join forces to try to avoid its demolition. Among its costumers, we find Ana, an actress, her husband Zeca, an intellectual type in crisis about his work for TV, artists, newspapermen, a female researcher, and a couple who's always quarrelling, only to be reconciled moments later.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags:
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Passion Holiday (1963)
Plot Summary:
Four women take a boat trip to an island and run into a group of gangsters.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Die dressierte Frau (1972)
Plot Summary:
An episodic battle of the sexes inspired by the best-selling book of the same name.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, erotic, psychotronic
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Up Yours (1979)
Plot Summary:
Tenants share wild times in a Hollywood apartment building.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, parody, erotic, sketch comedy
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Adventures in Pornoland (2008)
Plot Summary:
Largely improvised with only two people privy to the "secret" - that a fictional movie was being made using the players, crew, and settings of the adult movie industry as its background. Canadian television director Ethan dreams of making it big in Hollywood. It's hard finding work, so he takes a job in the porn business to make money. Much to his fiancée's chagrin, Ethan ends up enjoying the industry more than he'd expected.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Shakespeare In... And Out (1999)
Plot Summary:
In the 1980s, a filmmaker begins a project to record the life of an average kid. In Perry, Ohio, he picks Rich Longfellow, a shy lad, and begins filming. Soon after, he dies in Mozambique. Sixteen years later, his son continues the project, finding Rich, now 23, in L.A., with dreams of being a Shakespearean actor, getting experience in porn films. We meet Betsy, Rich's sensible girlfriend, Lee, the impatient producer, and Carmichael, a director with artistic pretensions who inspires Rich. Problems with Besty and tension on the set bring Rich to a crisis; when his boyhood friend starts a Shakespeare company that tours nursing homes in the San Fernando Valley, Rich sees a way out.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, spoof, black comedy, mockumentary, parody, fake documentary, cult film
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Sixtynine (1969)
Plot Summary:
Tuula's husband Jukka takes care of all domestic chores. Tuula seems to have no idea that her husband spends his evenings working as a major league ice hockey referee. She also finds out about his extra-marital affair with a female rally driver. In revenge, Tuula starts seeing her gynecologist Timo Paasi, a married man with six children.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, cult film
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Bed Bugs (2017)
Plot Summary:
Burned out and lonely Rocky is almost 50 years old and has seen better times as a womanizer. One day, Thorben shows up at his door claiming to be his son. He is trying to get advice on how to be successful with women.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, semi serious
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Lust and Revenge (1996)
Plot Summary:
This caustic Australian comedy is meant to burn those commercial interests who sponsor artists for tax breaks. It also a sexually unresponsive wife's revenge against her cheating husband. Heiress Georgina Oliphant, the daughter of pharmaceutical magnate George Oliphant is on a mission to find a sculptor suitable of her father's sponsorship. Normally, George doesn't give a hoot about art, but tax time approaches and he needs a big deduction. Since large bronze statues are 100% deductible, that's what he wants. Georgina comes through with the lesbian sculptor Lily Carmichael who suggests a detailed male nude, sans fig leaf. For her model, lily chooses unemployed hunk Karl-Heinz Applebaum who at first doesn't realize he is to model totally nude. Fortunately, coquettish Georgina is around to convince him to shed those clothes.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film
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Thar She Blows! (1968)
Plot Summary:
A crazed sea captain goes on a bloody rampage after his vessel is commissioned by a sleazy film producer and a trio of vixens.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, psychotronic, independent film, grindhouse, cult film
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Ripa Hits the Skids (1993)
Plot Summary:
A film by Christian Linblad.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 340
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Ciao Ciao (2017)
Plot Summary:
A free and wild young woman has to come back from the big city to her village in the mountains.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, China
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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Black and White (1968)
Plot Summary:
Juha is a sales manager of a refrigerator company. His perfect-looking family and glittering array of modern kitchen appliances have just been featured in a magazine article, but in reality Juha is a womanising chauvinist more at home on the road than with his family.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 293
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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All About Actresses (2009)
Plot Summary:
While shooting a documentary about all kinds of actresses, the director falls for one of them.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, light, captivating, realistic, sexual, sexy, fake documentary
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Godard's Passion (1982)
Plot Summary:
While shooting a film, the director becomes interested in the unfolding struggle of a young factory worker that has been laid off by a boss who did not like her union activities.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, realistic, contemplative
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The Devil Wears Nada (2009)
Plot Summary:
Rebecca works as an assistant to the highly demanding Julia Crimson and is about to be promoted if she can take care of the last week and find a capable replacement.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, captivating, disturbing, sex comedy
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Intimate Parts (2013)
Plot Summary:
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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Rated R (2008)
Plot Summary:
Madrid, Spain, 1975. Sandra, Lina and Eva are three beautiful women who work as actresses in erotic movies. After meeting during a shoot, they become friends and begin to share experiences, concerns and successes in an era of increasing openness, although true freedom is still far away and demands a price hard to pay.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 382
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: erotic, humorous, sexy, serious, realistic, sexual
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The Early Years: Erik Nietzsche Part 1 (2007)
Plot Summary:
Erik Nietzsche is an intelligent but in many ways inexperienced shy young man who is convinced that he wants to be a film director. In the late 1970s, Erik is accepted by the Danish National Film School where he enters a world of angry and unhelpful tutors, weird fellow students and unwritten rules. In this both exhilarating and angst-provoking period for him, Erik feels increasingly like a foreigner in the film industry. Frequently, he is merely an observer of the absurdities that surround him. He encounters trade union disputes, falls in love and experiences self-assured empowered women who refuse to make a commitment. The film is a drama full of comedy - a sharp portrait of a conceited but entertaining world of film which we suspect our dogged young director will eventually conquer with his vision.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 735
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark, Italy, Sweden, Austria, France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, captivating, satirical, disturbing
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Torremolinos 73 (2003)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1973 Spain, a struggling encyclopedia salesman and his wife take advantage of an offer to make adult films. The act turns him into an aspring legit filmmaker and her into an international sex symbol.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Denmark
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, erotic, atmospheric, funny, semi serious, clever, sexual, realistic, crying, sex comedy
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Half of the World (2009)
Plot Summary:
The story is about a young man suffering mental retardation and sexual awakening, poet is charismatic and has the ability to pay attention to those little insignificant details of everyday life. His new status as a lover will bring popularity and with it problems will expose prejudice and false morality of a blinded people to wash their sins charged with the death of the less guilty.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, captivating
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Sorrel Flower (1967)
Plot Summary:
Catherine is left unmarried and pregnant when her mobster sweetheart is killed in this gangster comedy. With the help of another unmarried mother-to-be, Catherine goes looking for the stash of cash buried by her lover before his death. Soon other thugs and her suspicious neighbors are following their every move in an attempt to recover the lost loot.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Greetings (1968)
Plot Summary:
An offbeat, episodic film about three friends, Paul, a shy love-seeker, Lloyd, a vibrant conspiracy nut, and Jon, an aspiring filmmaker and peeping tom. The film satirizes free-love, the Kennedy assassination, Vietnam, and amateur film-making.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: funny, light, cult classic, independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious