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Plot Summary:
1809, France. Captain Neuville is called to the front, leaving his future bride heartbroken. Her sister decides to write letters on his behalf to cheer her up.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, stylized, humorous, entertaining, funny, crying
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At Home with the Rozes (2003)
Plot Summary:
Two ex-convicts, MG and Gilbert find refuge in a charming middle-class house whose couple is about to celebrate its 20-year old marriage. Our duo has no other solution than to take this entire brood in hostage. But, contrary to all expectations, they are warmly greeted by the occupants who don't think twice before helping them, they are even ready to put their guests off, even to kill them if necessary.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, hilarious, realistic, dark comedy
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Compulsive Liar (2019)
Plot Summary:
Simon Aubert runs his entire life on lies. An executive at an aviation company, he lies about everything… Simon’s self-serving lies are so abundant that the universe (governed by a handful of Buddhist monks, it seems) decides to right a wrong by teaching him a lesson and making all of the lies reality on the eve of his company’s crucial meeting with a Russian businessman that Simon absolutely needs to impress in order to prevent the closure of the small-town plant where his twin brother Phil works.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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The New Adventures of Aladdin (2015)
Plot Summary:
A pair of losers working at department store plan to rob the place after it closes. When a bunch of kids show up begging for a story, the men launch into an improvised version of Aladdin.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: exciting, romantic, feel good, entertaining, sweet
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The Players (2012)
Plot Summary:
Eight short films explore the subject of male infidelity. Serial cheaters, Fred and Greg, spend a night on the town doing what they do best, and with absolutely no regrets. The duo play various characters in assorted extracurricular situations, ranging from sexist to the darker sides of carnal desires.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: sexual, humorous, semi serious, realistic, sex comedy, erotic, light, art house, black comedy, anthology
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The Best Movie (2008)
Plot Summary:
Vadik Volnov (Garik Kharlamov) dies on his own wedding of cannabis overdose and has to prove to God that he is worthy to enter Heaven. During his conversation with God's secretary, Vadik recalls numerous memorable moments of his earthly existence, such as getting drunk on cognac on his 8th birthday, service in the Soviet Army in Afghanistan, bandit showdowns in crime-ridden 1990s Russia, and, finally, meeting the love of his life.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: feel good, not serious, humorous, entertaining, exciting, captivating, funny, spoof, light, parody
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Cyrano, My Love (2018)
Plot Summary:
December 1897, Paris. Edmond Rostand is not yet thirty but already two children and a lot of anxieties. He has not written anything for two years. In desperation, he offers the great Constant Coquelin a new play, a heroic comedy, in verse, for the holidays. Only concern: it is not written yet. Ignoring the whims of actresses, the demands of his Corsican producers, the jealousy of his wife, the stories of his best friend's heart and the lack of enthusiasm of all those around him, Edmond starts writing this piece which nobody believes. For now, he has only the title: "Cyrano de Bergerac".
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, humorous, captivating, disturbing, inspirational, adaptation directed by original author
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Molière (2007)
Plot Summary:
Molière, a down-and-out actor-cum-playwright up to his ears in debt. When the wealthy Jourdain offers to cover that debt (so that Molière's theatrical talents might help Jourdain win the heart of a certain widowed marquise), hilarity ensues.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Biography, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: witty, humorous, stylized, semi serious, period piece, inspirational, sexy, epic, historical drama, realistic
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Dumas (2010)
Plot Summary:
Alexandre Dumas, at the height of his career, takes Auguste Maquet, his chief literary collaborator or 'ghost writer' ten years his junior, to meet a young unknown admirer, Charlotte Desrives. The two men are at the summit of their artistic collaboration for they have just published "The Count of Monte Christo", "Queen Margot" and "The Three Musketeers". If it's Maquet who writes the majority of the texts, both the honours and fame go to Dumas.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 684
Genere: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, captivating, factual, humorous, tense, serious, realistic, gloomy, weird
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All Aboard! (2021)
Plot Summary:
Finally, the holidays are here! Vlad and his friends are so excited! Jérôme, Vlad’s father, is in charge. André, the grandfather of Jeanne and Basile, is also here to help. Six kids, two adults, an eight-hour train trip. Nothing could go wrong. But Jérôme and André miss the train… and watch it leave the station with the kids on board. It’s the beginning of a crazy race for the unlikely duo. While the unsupervised children go wild and have the time of their life, André and Jérôme go through various delays and adventures….
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 363
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Natural Born Pranksters (2016)
Plot Summary:
The world’s three most notorious, ballsy, and outrageous pranksters come together for the first time to unleash the most epic pranks in an outrageous feature-film event. Jam-packed with cameos from some of YouTube’s biggest stars, watch as Roman Atwood, Dennis Roady, and Vitaly Zdorovetskiy take fearlessness and unbelievable social experiments to the next level.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, independent film, indie film
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Neuilly Yo Mama II (2018)
Plot Summary:
In 2008, Sami Benboudaoud discovered the hell of Neuilly-sur-Seine. Ten years later, now that everything is for the best for Sami who brilliantly completes his studies of political science, nothing will go for his cousin Charles of Chazelle.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 486
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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OSS 117: From Africa with Love (2021)
Plot Summary:
The third entry in secret agent OSS 117's parodic spy adventures.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: entertaining, funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, satirical, spoof, psychotronic, parody
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Marry Me, Maribel (2002)
Plot Summary:
Maribel (Natalia Dicenta) is a prostitute working in Madrid in the late fifties. One night he meets Marcelino (Carlos Hipolito), shy and quiet man who falls for her. For Maribel is in principle a client more, but gradually begins to feel attracted to the shy provincial, owner of a chocolate factory in Soria. Pili (Nathalie Seseña), Rufi (Mireia Ros) and Nini (Malena Alterio), the companions of Maribel, truculent by nature suspicious of this relationship and begin to suspect that the provincial could be a murderer. When Maribel Marcelino asks her to marry him, they intervene and away from Marcelino and his "strange family". Adapted from the play "Maribel and the Strange Family" by Miguel Mihura.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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The Life Coach (2009)
Plot Summary:
Max Chêne is a life coach who helps to motivate everybody from professional athletes to government ministers to business executives. After his gambling debts get out of control and his wife throws him out, he is approached to take on a unique client.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 465
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, entertaining, funny, light, feel good, captivating, clever, realistic
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Night Shift (2018)
Plot Summary:
Max loses his job at the plant and to feed his family, is forced to accept an unexpected offer former classmate to work as a stripper. Hiding the new profession from his wife, Ani, Max gets into a lot of amazing and ridiculous situations and end up losing the trust of the woman he loved. In an effort to return peace and harmony to the family, he appealed for help to colleagues from the strip club, that all leads to fun chaos.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, humorous, funny, sincere, light
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Brother Nature (2016)
Plot Summary:
Roger, a straight-laced politician has big plans to propose to his dream girl at her family's lake house. But everything goes awry when he meets his potential brother-in-law Todd: a full-time camp counselor with a heart of gold and a wild sense of fun, pining to be Roger's best friend, and ultimately catapulting him into a series of unfortunate events. As Roger tries to take a stand amidst outrageous fishing excursions, propulsive water jetpacks and American history-themed musicals, he realizes that being a part of a new family may be more difficult than he'd thought.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Never Say... Never! (2005)
Plot Summary:
Paris, 1830. Valentin loses himself in alcohol, gambling and women. He does not believe in life and especially not in love. His uncle Van Buck believes only in the virtues of money and trade. Everything separates them until the day when Van Buck, to improve his public image, wants to make Valentin marry the young and impoverished Baroness Cécile. Valentin, who has absolutely no desire to get married, bets that he can easily seduce her in 24 hours and thus prove that she, like all the others, is not worth loving... But Cécile, who believes in true love, will prove much more difficult to woo than envisaged and Valentin will have to use all possible stratagems to try and win his bet. The game of cat and mouse starts... But who is the cat?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 648
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, entertaining, satirical, realistic
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With Open Arms (2017)
Plot Summary:
Jean-Étienne Fougerole is an intellectual bohemian who released his new novel "In Open Arms" and calling the wealthiest people to welcome home the families in need. While he promotes his book during a televised debate, his opponent criticized him for not applying what he himself advocates. While stuck, Jean-Étienne Fougerole accepts the challenge, for fear of being discredited. The same evening, a family of Roma rings the door of his Marnes-la-Coquette villa and the writer feels obliged to house them.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: political, funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, happy, intellectual
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The Fool (2019)
Plot Summary:
Pontagnac, a married man, tries to seduce Victoire, the wife of his good friend. Little does he know, Victoire has plans of her own to punish her cheating husband. The would-be fling ignites a dizzying spell of complications as characters arrange trysts, attempt to expose each other’s deceits, and are ultimately forced to come clean.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 510
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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The Worst Week of My Life (2011)
Plot Summary:
Seven days before his wedding, a man must contend with a series of never-ending disasters.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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The Story of My Life (2004)
Plot Summary:
Raphael is a ghostwriter who takes a job writing for famous footy player Kevin. To his delight and his girlfriend, Murials horror, Kevins current girlfriend is an old (easily rekindled) flame of Raphaels. A freak accident leaves a close friend dead and Raphael is forced to reconsider his priorities.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sentimental, funny, captivating, entertaining, light, romantic, feel good, realistic
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The Best Day of My Life (2004)
Plot Summary:
Not too excited Arthur asks marriage Lola. What should have been a quiet ceremony evolves in something bigger, expensive and overwhelming as family is involved. The organization of the best day of their lives threatens to destroy them.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 286
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, entertaining, funny, light, romantic, feel good, captivating
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Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
Plot Summary:
Embarrassed by his large nose, a romantic poet/soldier romances his cousin by proxy.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, witty, costume drama, atmospheric, entertaining, sentimental, captivating, realistic, romantic
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Up for Love (2016)
Plot Summary:
Diane is a well-known lawyer, divorced for three years. She loses her mobile telephone and receives a call from the person who finds it. That person is Alexandre, a charming man and the perfect gentleman. They make a connection over the phone and agree to meet up the following day. But when Alexandre arrives, there's a surprise in store when Diane discovers he is only 4' 6" tall. From that moment on, Diane tries to overcome the prejudices of society and her own fears to experience the best time of her life.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: inspirational, funny, romantic, uplifting, realistic, witty, feel good, captivating, happy
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Bachelor Days Are Over (2011)
Plot Summary:
Arnaud nicknamed "Cui Cui" no longer knows which way to look. He is about to marry Anna but he is not sure he really loves her. To make matters worse, he falls in love during the stag party he has with his friends. And Léa, a nightclub singer, is obviously the woman of his dreams. What to do? Cancel the wedding and create a scandal but be able to live with a woman he loves truly and loves him in return? Or be a good boy and not disappoint the company but say farewell to happiness. For four days, Arnaud goes to and fro aimlessly between Anna and Léa, between his eccentric sister and his self-centered mother, between hope and depression.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, contemplative, light, feel good, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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Vicky (2015)
Plot Summary:
A 30-year-old woman discovers her true self when she becomes a bar singer.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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A Perfect Plan (2012)
Plot Summary:
Successful woman in love tries to break her family curse of every first marriage ending in divorce, by dashing to the alter with a random stranger before marrying her boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, romantic, funny, humorous, semi serious, sweet, exciting, realistic, crying
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Let's Tie the Knot, Honey! (2022)
Plot Summary:
Guille decides it's time to take the next step and proposes to his girlfriend Bea, but things get complicated and nothing goes as planned.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Comedy
Country: Peru
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: funny, romantic, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, romantic comedy
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Love of My Loves (2014)
Plot Summary:
Two couples get to know what we all dream about: love at first sight. The problem is they meet it with different people to the ones they are engaged with, and they are just at seven days to get married. Up to that moment, they have to reconsider what’s love and what’s a habit, and to face them going against an idea with an expiration date: marriage. "Love of my loves" is based upon the successful mexican theatrical play "Un dos tres por mí y por todos mis amores", and explores compromise, doubts and commitment mixing drama and comedy.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 977
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Serial (Bad) Weddings (2014)
Plot Summary:
A catholic French couple sees their life upside down when their four daughters get married to men of different religion and origins.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: light, funny, entertaining, humorous, romantic, feel good, hilarious, semi serious, realistic, romantic comedy