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Plot Summary:
Alilo arrives in Paris, met by his hip cousin Mok. Alilo is to pick up a suitcase of dresses to smuggle back to Algiers for resale. He's lost the dressmaker's address and his boss is gone for five days, so he stays in the Moskova neighborhood of the 18th arrondissement with Mok. Mok makes rap music of Jean de La Fontaine's fables, invents fabrications of his own, is in debt to his bookie, and in love with a punk rocker. Alilo's old-country sweetness, in contrast with Mok's big-city neuroses, gets the attention of Fatoumata, a lovely African neighbor. Once Alilo gets the dresses, he must return to Algiers, but it seems he's only started to live: is there any way he can stay?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Algeria, Belgium, Luxembourg
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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The Journey to Paris (1999)
Plot Summary:
Shy and still living with his mother, a highway cashier one day decides to finally live his craziest dream: to visit Paris.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy
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100% Arabic (1997)
Plot Summary:
The movie takes place in a poverty-stricken, rent-controlled neighborhood on the outskirts of Paris. Algerian immigrants, many of whom are in France illegally, the place has earned the nickname of "100%Arabica". It's a rough neighborhood - crime is rampant, gangs of juvenile delinquents roam the streets, and the police are afraid to patrol the area. When the out-of-touch mayor decides that he wants to restore order to the area, he offers a subsidy to Slimane, the imam of the local mosque. If Slimane can get people off the streets, the mayor will continue the payments. Soon the byways of 100%Arabica are almost peaceful - but not because of something Slimane has done. The reason is that a new Rai Band, Rap Oriental, has taken the neighborhood by storm.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: France, Belgium, Switzerland
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, emotional, realistic, semi serious
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Santa Claus! (2014)
Plot Summary:
One night, a burglar in a Santa Claus costume is surprised by Victor, a young boy who believes he is the real Santa Claus. Victor then follows him, and they embark on an unexpected adventure that will change their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 821
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, melancholic
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The Swissmakers (1978)
Plot Summary:
This romantic drama follows two policemen whose job is to investigate the lives of foreigners who have applied for Swiss citizenship. Among the applicants they must screen are a French psychiatrist and his wife, and a ballet dancer. The married couple are quickly accepted, but the dancer's life offers some objections. However, since the younger policeman has fallen in love with her, there is a chance that she, too, will win Swiss citizenship.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Celestial Clockwork (1995)
Plot Summary:
Ana bolts from her wedding altar and flies from Venezuela to Paris to realize her dream of becoming a great opera star.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 389
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium, Spain, Venezuela, Portugal
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: visual, visually stunning, feel good, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious
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Boys on the Beach (1999)
Plot Summary:
Four guys from a Paris housing project fabricate a documentary about drug dealers working in the City of Lights. When a television network falls hook, line, and sinker for the prank video, the foursome are given a free three-week vacation in the upscale resort community of Biarritz. As they interact with both locals and fellow tourists, they learn about love, friendship, racism, and the differences between the rich and the poor.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 917
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, cynical, not serious
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Trevor Noah: African American (2013)
Plot Summary:
Internationally acclaimed comedian Trevor Noah challenges the status quo through his unique perspective, breaking down cultural flaws on all sides and finding our mutual connections with laughter. Born a mixed-race child in South Africa under Apartheid, 'Trevor Noah: African American' is Noah¿s search for identity in a world obsessed with labels.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, captivating, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, not serious, independent film
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Russian Disco (2012)
Plot Summary:
Russendisko is the story of Wladimir, Andrej and Mischa. Three young Russian friends, who move from Moscow to Berlin in a lucky wave of emigration right after the fall of the Berlin wall. They take their chance looking for a better life and find themselves involved in the tales of everyday lunacy on the streets of Berlin and its spirit of the early nineties. Russendisko is a modern fairy tale, a story of friendship, of love, of dreams and the search for happiness and its fulfillment. The film is based on the mega selling novel by Wladimir Kaminer.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, feel good, light, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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Idiot in Paris (1967)
Plot Summary:
Goubi, the simpleton of his village in the French Department Allier, has but one wish: to see Paris. One day, the truckers Grafouillère deposit a drunk Goubi in the biggest market of Paris (the "Halles"). The poor man is completely lost, but the meat merchant Dessertine takes him under his wings when he hears that Goubi was likewise 'raised by the State'.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 371
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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2 Autumns, 3 Winters (2013)
Plot Summary:
At 33, Arman has decided to change his life. He starts by running. It’s a good start. Amélie carries on with her life. She runs, as well. The first encounter is a shock. The second is a stab in the heart.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 788
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: realistic, stylized, semi serious, touching, humorous, talky, exciting, captivating, sentimental, offbeat
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I Hate My Best Friends' Kids (2007)
Plot Summary:
A month of vacation with friends: difficult to bear the kids of his friends, especially when the methods of education differ and that some prove to be unbearable.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, sentimental, touching, realistic, semi 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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Hello, Goodbye (2008)
Plot Summary:
French film icons Gérard Depardieu and Fanny Ardant star in this romantic comedy about a Parisian couple in their fifties who share a comfortable life, a beautiful home, a posh country club and a midlife crisis. Following a dream vacation to Israel where Alain (Depardieu) explores his Jewish roots, Gisèle (Ardant) insists they change their life and move to Tel Aviv. While Gisèle, a Jewish convert, finds her new life inspiring; Alain fights to embrace Hebrew, Jewish tradition and a new circumcision. Will Alain and Gisèle learn whether Shalom represents Hello or Goodbye?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Israel, Italy
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, offbeat, realistic
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The Jungle (2006)
Plot Summary:
Vincent and Mathias are two friends, in their thirties, who live off Vincent’s father. One day, during a meal where the wine and talk both flow a little too freely, Vincent’s father offers the two friends a bet. If they can survive seven days and seven nights in Paris with just seven Euros in their pocket, he will pay off all of their debts. If not, they will have to learn to fend for themselves. Confident of their abilities to survive in the jungle that is Paris, Vincent and Mathias willingly accept the offer, but soon regret doing so.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Comedy
Country: Luxembourg, France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating
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Gad Elmaleh: American Dream (2018)
Plot Summary:
In his first English-language special, comedian Gad Elmaleh gleefully digs into America's food obsessions, dating culture, slang, and more.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, ironic, satirical, semi serious
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Pardon Mon Affaire, Too! (1977)
Plot Summary:
The film is the immediate continuation of Un éléphant ça trompe énormément, released the previous year. Having fortuitously discovered a photograph in which Marthe embraces someone unknown, clothed with a chequed jacket, Étienne Dorsay becomes jealous, and imagines various stratagems to identify the lover. In the meantime, Étienne and his friends acquire a weekend house for a very low price. As in the previous work, the film is largely narrated by the character Étienne, whose tone shifts with the reality of the images. The film contains a certain number of allusions to the films of Blake Edwards (the Pink Panther series).
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty, sex comedy, sexual, sexy, hot
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Paris or Perish (2013)
Plot Summary:
Maya is living the ultimate fashionistas dream: she is working as a stylist for one of the French trend setters, in the capital of haute-couture: Paris. One of the IT girls of fashion, shes following her dreams until one night, when her life takes a sudden turn: shes being deported back to Morocco, after being stopped for over speeding, because her Visa expired some time ago. So in no more than 24 hours, shes deported back to her family and original country. The strong cultural shock and the judgmental differences are pushing the woman to obtain back her place in the city of dreams and her dreams, no matter the costs. But that doesn't mean she will have to return alone, as she finds other things also among her way back to the city.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, inspirational, feel good, sweet, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, biting
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Housewarming (2005)
Plot Summary:
Chantal, an advocate involved in defending homeless illegal immigrant, decides to refurbish her flat. Following her convictions she calls Columbian workers led by an unforeseeable architect. In the mean time a former client decides he is in love with her, her son and daughter are becoming nearly homeless since the flat's walls are demolished, the architect has new plans every day, an irregular workers fall in love with Chantal too and dance with her daughter, Martin (the son) still continue to roller blade around... Could the works go forward in this mess?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 778
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, feel good, captivating, realistic
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Thirty-Five Something (2005)
Plot Summary:
Three women in their late thirties, one with marital problems, one trying to be perfect, and a spinster, discuss their relationship to men.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Chouchou (2003)
Plot Summary:
Choukri, alias Chouchou, a transvestite Maghrebi with clear eyes, comes illegally to Paris to find his nephew. Hired as an assistant by a psychotherapist, known for his good mood, he also work as a waiter in a transvestite cabaret of Clichy where he meets Stanislas.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, cult film
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Lou! (2014)
Plot Summary:
Lou, a creative and dreamy 12-year-old girl, lives alone with her mother in an orange building with tons of little balconies that give access to the roof. Mina has been her best friend since kindergarten, and Lou has been in love with Tristan, one of her neighbors, since elementary school. Her mother has relinquished her own personal happiness of late so as to devote herself to her daughter, but their little bubble bursts when Mom meets a man and Lou at last dares speak to Tristan.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 630
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating, touching, realistic
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Neuilly Yo Mama! (2009)
Plot Summary:
Samy moves from the underdeveloped crime-ridden French suburb to the riches of Neuilly.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, sentimental, melancholic, light, sincere, captivating, biting
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Postmark Paradise (2000)
Plot Summary:
The Dirty Shame is the only bar in the small town of Paradise, Michigan. A burnt out, chain-smoking fortyish bar maid is the only waitress at The Dirty Shame. A group of local red necks conspiring to bring a mail order bride to their Midwest town for their ne'er-do-well leader set the story in motion.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, independent film, realistic
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A Good Doctor (2019)
Plot Summary:
On Christmas eve, Serge is the only on-call emergency doctor available. Struck by a crippling back-ache, he gets help from a pizza delivery boy who will need to step in the doctor's shoes.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, feel good, entertaining
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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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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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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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Bacon on the Side (2010)
Plot Summary:
Djalil Boudaoud and Justine Lacroix are a surgeon and a television reporter who enter a romantic relationship despite the objections of their families to the cultural gap.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 557
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, sentimental, touching, realistic
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Protect and Serve (2010)
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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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