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Plot Summary:
A pair of bumbling French cops team up to take on the underworld.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 704
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: feel good, realistic, humorous, not serious, exciting
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The Santa Claus Gang (2010)
Plot Summary:
On christmas eve, three friends dressed as Santa Clauses, are arrested for attempted robbery and taken to police station, suspected to be group of thieves known as "The Santa Claus Gang". While trying to prove their innocence, the three explain the reasons for which they found themselves in such strange situation.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, captivating, entertaining, light, exciting, realistic, not serious
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Wok the Kasbah (2011)
Plot Summary:
A funny comedy about the war suddenly started between two restaurant owners families.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, exciting, not serious
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The Dope (2003)
Plot Summary:
Alphonse Brown, who firmly believes he is the bastard son of James Brown, meets up with his best friend Scotch after Brown gets out of jail. On their way to Paris to begin careers as recording artists, the pair stumbles across a potent type of marijuana that was engineered by the Nazis. Their decision to begin selling the stuff leads to a variety of people chasing after them.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, light, feel good, offbeat
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Jay and Silent Bob Get Irish: The Swearing o' The Green! (2013)
Plot Summary:
You may see one show, but you haven't senn them all! Following on from the amazingly successful JAY AND SILENT BOB TEA BAGGING IN THE UK, Fast-talking, foul mouthed Jay and his "hetero life partner' Silent Bob return with their second instalment of their highly peaised, extremely dynamic live comedy show, Jay & Silent Bob Get Old Mach II.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 449
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, not serious, realistic, witty, talky
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On the Other Side of the Tracks (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two mismatched cops team up to investigate the murder of a business mogul's wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, exciting, semi serious, realistic, detective, hilarious, biting, suspense
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Bullit & Ripper (2012)
Plot Summary:
French filmmaker Eric Lartigau directs the anarchic buddy comedy Bullit and Riper, originally released as Mais qui a tue Pamela Rose? French comedic television stars Kad Merad and Olivier Barroux are both the protagonists and the screenwriters. As a parody of Hollywood cop films, the story is set somewhere in the American Midwest as fabricated by the French. After losing his regular partner, FBI agent Richard Bullit (Merad) gets assigned to the book-learned cop Riper (Barroux) to investigate the death of a stripper. American movie stereotypes abound, such as shock jock Phil Canon (Gérard Darmon) and sheriff Steve Marley (Jean-Paul Rouve).
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, realistic, not serious, exciting
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But who killed Pamela Rose? (2003)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, not serious, light, feel good, realistic, suspenseful, detective, spoof
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Turf (2013)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of four French friends: the Greek (an osteopath), Fifi (who lives with his mother), Fortuné (a West Indian) and Freddy (a gambler). They meet up regularly at a Parisian bookmakers’, their favourite haunt. Tired of frittering away the little spare cash they have, they agree to give up gambling. But no sooner have they taken this pledge than Fate intervenes, in the guise of the turf king, Monsieur Paul. The latter persuades the four friends to buy a champion racehorse, not knowing that it is in fact an old nag….
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 525
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating
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Special Correspondents (2009)
Plot Summary:
R2I, a famous news radio station, sends its best reporting duo to Iraq: Frank, journalist, and Poussin, sound engineer. Very quickly, millions of listeners follow their highly documented stories, reflecting the hot intensity of the fighting and the difficult survival of the population.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 812
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: not serious, humorous, realistic, sentimental, feel good, captivating, melancholic
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Would I Lie to You? 3 (2012)
Plot Summary:
Eddie, Dov, Yvan et les autres… Nos chaleureux amis ont migré du Sentier moribond à la banlieue florissante d’Aubervilliers… Là où les vieux entrepreneurs juifs ont laissé le terrain à de jeunes grossistes chinois courageux et dynamiques… La petite bande est toujours aussi soudée, solidaire que lors des épisodes précédents, et la vie suit son cours, au gré des petits évènements familiaux et des affaires. Dov semble toujours frivole, Eddie entreprenant, Yvan transi, Karine désinvolte, Sandra résolue, Chochana naïve, Serge irresponsable et mythomane. Quant à Patrick, il est amoureux et l’heureuse élue est loin d’être facile d’accès. Tout irait pour le mieux jusqu’à ce qu’un vent mauvais apporte son lot d’adversité compromettant sérieusement la cohésion du groupe. Succomberont-ils sous l’orage à la zizanie, ou bien, une fois de plus, à force d’entraide, de ruses et d’habileté, triompheront-ils de la crise avec panache ?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic
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August 15th (2001)
Plot Summary:
Three men are abandonned by their wives for a few days in the summer holidays. They are alone with five kids to feed and a house to maintain. And they will learn what they did wrong with their wives.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 964
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Adventures of Serial Buddies (2011)
Plot Summary:
Gregory is a devout Catholic who wants to kill evil people in order to grant them safe passage to heaven, Gary is an assembly worker at a trophy shop who wants to kill potential trophy winners, Graham is Gary's intern who will do anything to become a trophy maker and Vinny Van Go drives a road emergency van just to make friends. A coincidental encounter forces these four dim witted rejects to join forces and embark upon an idiotic and altogether hilarious road trip adventure - encountering the likes of skinheads, fraternity jocks, sorority babes, missing children, bikers, porn-stars, clowns, and Kathie Lee Gifford! If the boys aren't careful they might just become human, in what is "the very first serial killer buddy movie of all time.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 861
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, feel good, captivating, light, offbeat, realistic
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The Tuche Family (2011)
Plot Summary:
Everyone in the village of Bouzolles knows the Tuche family, who live by the philosophy "Man is not made to work." Despite their lack of money, they strive to be happy... that is, until their hand-to-mouth existence is turned on its head. After winning the lottery, the Tuches get rich beyond their wildest dreams and move to Monaco. And while attempting to fit in in their swanky new homeland, they struggle to stay true to the same principles by which they've always lived.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: not serious, humorous, feel good, entertaining, realistic
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Wedding Fever in Campobello (2009)
Plot Summary:
When Jan decides to marry his girl-friend Sara, he is not aware of his opponent: her father, who is an Italian.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, sentimental, realistic, feel good, captivating, semi serious
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Would I Lie to You? 2 (2001)
Plot Summary:
Dans le quartier du Sentier, Eddie Vuibert, Dov et Yvan sont confrontés aux procédés pour le moins expéditifs de leur nouveau client, Eurodiscount, une chaîne européenne d'hypermarchés. Karine, lasse des turpitudes de son volage époux, Dov, le chasse du foyer. La bande de copains se disloque.Dov et Patrick partent tenter leur chance sous le soleil de Californie, tandis qu'Eddie et Yvan font les marchés. Entre temps, Serge, devenu livreur, noue une idylle avec Chochana Boutboul, une jeune fille de bonne famille à qui il fait croire qu'il est très fortuné.C'est alors qu'Eddie découvre que sa faillite dépasse le simple échec commercial et qu'il a été victime d'une scandaleuse escroquerie. Dès lors, il décide de se venger et conçoit un plan qui va réunir et mobiliser tous ses amis.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, light, feel good, cult film
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Recep Ivedik 2 (2009)
Plot Summary:
When his grandmother takes ill, foolish brute Recep tries to satisfy her wishes by getting a job and attempting to find a suitable wife.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, light, feel good, disgusting, slapstick
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Incontrôlable (2006)
Plot Summary:
Georges, one morning, became uncontrollable despite himself. Something that has the donkey's voice in Shrek, can control his body.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 735
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, light, feel good, offbeat
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Sharp as Marbles (2008)
Plot Summary:
Albert isn't the brightest bulb on the block. But that's okay, he's got his best friends, George and Ernie to help him out. Only problem, they're just as dumb as he is.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 812
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, light, captivating, entertaining, feel good, witty, independent film
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Trailer Park Boys: Live at the North Pole (2014)
Plot Summary:
Bubbles and the other boys get a letter from a TPB fan club president in Minneapolis, Minnesota to do a live show at the State Theatre for Christmas. Ricky goes along with it to make nice with Santa Jesus God after a rough-up the previous year, while Julian brings along Randy to sell 60/40 raffle tickets and make some money. Mr. Lahey sneaks along to spoil the boys' fun. A Netflix original production.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, captivating, entertaining, light, feel good, offbeat, realistic, mockumentary
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Halal State Security (2011)
Plot Summary:
Someone is killing Parisians of Arab ethnicity. When an Algerian diplomat is murdered by the same assailant, two Algerian detectives are sent to help the French with the investigation and they have their own ways of doing things.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 897
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, light, feel good, captivating, realistic, not serious
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Killer Bud (2001)
Plot Summary:
After losing another job, two idiots embark on an adventure of mythic proportion: to acquire "Feed Bags," the discontinued entire-meal-in-a-bag, to impress their two equally dim-witted dates. When the only convenience store in town that carries the discontinued food item is found closed, Waylon and Buzz break in and can't break out.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 492
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, feel good, light, entertaining, spooky, independent film, realistic, cult film
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Superchondriac (2014)
Plot Summary:
Romain Faubert is a 39 year old, single, medical photographer... and a raging hypochondriac. His doctor and only friend Dr. Dimitri Zvenka thinks he knows the cure for Romain: dating! But with the arrival of freedom fighter Anton Miroslav, everyone might get more then they bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, funny, sincere, entertaining, feel good, realistic, light
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Vive la France (2013)
Plot Summary:
Muzafar and Feruz are two easy going shepherds from Taboulistan, a tiny country in Asia that is unknown to the rest of the world. To alert the world to his country’s existence, the son of Taboulistan’s president decides to instigate a program of publicity terrorism. To that end, he recruits our two naive shepherds, their mission: to destroy the Eiffel Tower! But the France that Muzafar and Feruz discovers is far from what they had expected.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: not serious, humorous, funny, light, entertaining, road movie, hilarious, realistic
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Depression and Friends (2012)
Plot Summary:
When Frank is diagnosed with depression, his friends try to cheer him up but soon enough they all discover they are as depressed as him.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, realistic, semi serious
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The Belgian Job (2012)
Plot Summary:
Willy Vander Brook, a world with Franco-Belgian roots, travels to Paris for an interview. He is welcomed by his childhood friend Serge, an ex pub operator, and his roommate Frank, a fierce supporter of the Walloon independence. When Willy discovers that his candidacy is not accepted because he is Belgian, he and his compatriots decide to take revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, realistic, semi serious
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The Hustle (2008)
Plot Summary:
Disenchanted pest worker and single dad Freddie Manning unintentionally steals and then loses mob money and now he really is in trouble. So when a run-down Baptist church mistakes him and his best friend Junior for replacement ministers, he grabs at the opportunity that might save his life.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, light, feel good, entertaining, black comedy, independent film
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Where's the Party Yaar? (2003)
Plot Summary:
The film is based on Sunil Thakkar's own experiences running and throwing parties for the Music Masala radio station, and having to discriminate between "Fresh off the Boat" Indians and the more fashionable, hip, Americanized Indians. Ironically enough, Thakkar's character in the film is exactly the type of person he barred from parties in those days.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, sexy, realistic, witty, hot
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Three Men and a Cradle (1985)
Plot Summary:
Three young men (Jacques, Pierre and Michel) share an apartment in Paris, and have many girlfriends and parties. Once, during a party, a friend of Jacques' tells him he has a quite compromising package to deliver, and asks him if he can leave it discreetly at their place. Jacques agrees and, as he works as a steward, flies away for a one month trip in Japan, telling Pierre and Michel about the package. Then, one of Jacques' former girlfriends drops a baby before their door, making Pierre and Michel believing it is the package they are waiting for. Their lives are then completely changed.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic, cult film
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You Don't Choose Your Family (2011)
Plot Summary:
César Borgnoli, an unsuccessful car salesman from Italy, lives well beyond his means. In order to get out of his financial disaster, he agrees to a deal: he pretends to be the husband of his sister's girlfriend Kim so she can legally adopt a little girl from Thailand. Caesar believes this to be a great idea and is looking forward to his trip to Thailand. After all, he is going to be able to mix business with pleasure--so he thinks. He didn't expect the local police, the Chinese Triads and the director of the orphanage to chip in, who want to make sure that little Mai is going to end up in a nice family.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: not serious, humorous, captivating, entertaining, exciting, sex comedy, realistic, sitcom
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A Boss in the Living Room (2014)
Plot Summary:
Cristina lives a peaceful life until her older brother Ciro, who has to attend a trial, asks to spend house arrests at Cristina’s home.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, light, feel good, realistic