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Plot Summary:
An adaptation of Petronius' satire about the decadent life in ancient Rome. "If you like the Fellini version, you should definitely see this one, too. It's every bit as good and in some ways better.".
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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I Don't Know Whether to Slit My Wrists or Leave Them Long (2013)
Plot Summary:
Julia, Lucas, Aaron, Nora and Lola live in a building in the chaotic Mexico City, . Everything changes when Felix moves to the unoccupied apartment next to them. Félix comes to know their neighbors and this changes the dynamics of the lives of the characters.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, stylized, feel good, queer cinema
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As You Want Me (1996)
Plot Summary:
Pasquale is a policeman in Roma. During a roundup he meets Desideria. He/she is a transsexual, living together with other two trans , Gaia and Gioia. But overall Desideria is an old friend of Pasquale, they already been attending the same schools. Desideria immediately fall in love for Pasquale. But the policeman has a fiancé, Nellina, even if too far so they meet rarely. That's why Pasquale could change idea about Desideria.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 329
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Marble Ass (1995)
Plot Summary:
A transvestite couple from 1990s Belgrade beholds their profession as a pacifistic mission, curbing the urges of rapists, gamblers and horny young men during turbulent periods in war-torn country.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Grenzverkehr (2005)
Plot Summary:
When three teenage boys from Bavaria try to lose their innocence in the neighboring Czech Republic, they get themselves and a young pregnant Ukrainian immigrant into trouble with local pimps.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 332
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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La cosa buffa (1972)
Plot Summary:
A young provincial elementary school teacher, falls in love with a Venetian girl, daughter of a rich industrialist.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: italian comedy
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Pierino medico della SAUB (1981)
Plot Summary:
Alvaro Gasperoni, alias Peter returned to Rome with their families from Addis Ababa, where he received his bachelor's degree in medicine. Helped by his father through a recommendation from the P2 Lodge, he manages to get in a hospital in Rome as assistant to the primary. Here begins the struggle with other colleagues to buy up the post of deputy prime. As any good doctor is measured by the number of patients who, the whole family and all his friends are hospitalized; He, in this way, comes from the league winner. The fatal destiny wants its affair is discovered by an inspector of the Ministry of Health, and Peter will be dismissed from the hospital. This will not deter the protagonist by the medical profession; who continue to indulge in a private clinic run "family".
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Italian Sex (1974)
Plot Summary:
A sexy graduate student is giving her thesis presentation, which creates quite a stir since it reveals that she has just posed as a prostitute for several months to do sociological research for her thesis. She relates various stories of her experiences to her salivating thesis committee and a large audience of curious on-lookers.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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All Eyes Off Me (2021)
Plot Summary:
A party in Tel Aviv, Israel. Danny is looking for Max to share that she is pregnant with his child; but Max has just started a new relationship with Avishag whose rough sexual fantasy he is trying to make come true.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 407
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Nacktschnecken (2004)
Plot Summary:
Three loser-type ex-students who earn too little money and don´t get laid as much as they want, try to change that by producing a home made porn movie starring themselves. They loan money from a pimp and begin casting the girls. When filming starts they find out that sex in front of the camera is hard work. Also you should know how to work a video camera. Frustration, relationship problems and cabin fever culminate in a dope induced garden orgy. But is it a film?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, erotic
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The Peephole of Love (1982)
Plot Summary:
Innocent girl starts working as a secretary in an office. Soon she finds out a hole in the wall through which she can see the action in the next apartment, where a prostitute meets her bizarre clients.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic
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My Emptiness and I (2022)
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Raphi, from France, fantasises about romances with princes, and about starting a traditional family. But in reality, things aren’t like that. She works in a call centre in Barcelona, struggles with at times embarrassing dates, and is diagnosed by her therapist as having gender dysphoria. During this confusing, yet valuable period, we follow this trans woman as she makes her transition, as well as in her everyday life. She talks candidly with colleagues, queer friends, and the men she meets through apps. In spite of all the advice she receives, it turns out that it is mostly time and experience that will help her embrace her place in this world.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Burning Love (1983)
Plot Summary:
A young painter takes up French lessons with an elder lady to ensure he’ll get a grant for a French arts institute. That way he meets Anna, a beautiful married woman nursing the lady’s old father, and falls in love with her.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 96 min
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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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Monkey King (2016)
Plot Summary:
Wolfi is in his mid-40s and wants to revisit the good old days with his three best buddies in the Provence, where life is good. Little does he realize that his old chums are in the middle of growing up for real, bringing their wives and kids and all their everyday family problems too.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 98 min
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Rimini (2022)
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Richie Bravo, once upon a time a successful pop star, chases after his faded fame in wintry Rimini. Trapped between permanent intoxication and concerts for busloads of tourists, his world starts to collapse when his adult daughter breaks into his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, France, Austria
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, comedy drama, black comedy, dark comedy
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My Dad Marianne (2020)
Plot Summary:
Hanna's world turns upside down when her dad, the priest, reveals that he wants to be a woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Saturday Night at the Baths (1975)
Plot Summary:
The Continental Baths, a favorite hangout of New York homosexuals, provides the background of this socially conscious comedy drama that tries to examine the relationships between gay and heterosexual people. The story centers around a macho, heterosexual piano player who gets a job at the notorious nightclub and must therefore reconsider his attitudes. His girl friend helps him too. In the end, he winds up becoming sure of his sexuality when he tries to sleep with a gay man.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Madame Olga's Pupils (1981)
Plot Summary:
Madame Olga is the owner of a luxurious brothel in London, England. One of the brothel's new clients, a young man, falls in love with her. He wishes to have more than sexual relationships with the woman.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: sexploitation film
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The Scopone Game (1972)
Plot Summary:
An aging American millionairess journeys to Rome each year with her chauffeur George to play the card game scopone with destitute Peppino and his wife Antonia.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: tragicomedy, crying, dark comedy
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Fanny Hill (1995)
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Young beautiful girl Fanny Hill, who lives in the English provinces, decides to go to the capital for work. In London, she takes a job from Miss Brown. Poor virgin Fanny did not realize at first that Miss Brown is the owner of one of the most exclusive brothels in the city.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, hot, period drama
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Nana, the True Key of Pleasure (1983)
Plot Summary:
In Zola's Paris, an ingenue arrives at a tony bordello: she's Nana, guileless, but quickly learning to use her erotic innocence to get what she wants. She's an actress for a soft-core filmmaker and soon is the most popular courtesan in Paris, parlaying this into a house, bought for her by a wealthy banker. She tosses him and takes up with her neighbor, a count of impeccable rectitude, and with the count's impressionable son. The count is soon fetching sticks like a dog and mortgaging his lands to satisfy her whims.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 693
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sexy, serious, realistic, stylized, sexual, entertaining, silent, erotic, period drama, silent film
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Os Sete Gatinhos (1980)
Plot Summary:
Noronha is a low middle-class civil servant who lives with his frustrated wife Gorda and their three elder daughters. The youngest one, virginal Silene, is unexpectedly sent back home. Noronha discovers she has been expelled from boarding school for having killed a female cat and her seven newborns in a hysterical fit. Many dark family secrets will emerge from that episode leading to tragic events.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 518
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic
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China and Sex (1994)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy man falls for a woman who does not accept his courtship which forces him to enters a dangerous and erotic dream world.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, captivating, suspense, sexploitation film
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Hell Without Limits (1978)
Plot Summary:
Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and the dreams of whores collide in a Mexican town. Rich, elderly Don Alejo is poised to sell the town for a profit, needing only to buy a whorehouse to own all the buildings and close the deal. It's owned by a man and his daughter: Manuelita is gay, aging, afraid; he cross-dresses and entertains as a flamenco dancer; he wants to sell and leave. His daughter wants to stay. The return of Pancho complicates things: he's a hothead Alejo tries to control and he scared Manuelita the year before. Things come to a head as Pancho breaks Alejo's hold on him, then flirts and dances with Manuelita and finds himself at risk of being called a "maricón.".
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: art house, offbeat, serious, emotional, realistic, homoerotic, queer cinema, campy
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The World According to Garp (1982)
Plot Summary:
Based on the John Irving novel, this film chronicles the life of T S Garp, and his mother, Jenny. Whilst Garp sees himself as a "serious" writer, Jenny writes a feminist manifesto at an opportune time, and finds herself as a magnet for all manner of distressed women.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, offbeat, cult classic, clever, touching, humorous, black comedy, sad, period piece, picaresque
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Fellini Satyricon (1969)
Plot Summary:
A series of disjointed mythical tales set in first century Rome.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychedelic, art house, sexual, cult classic, erotic, philosophical, absurd, disturbing, controversial
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The Big Feast (1973)
Plot Summary:
A group of men hire some prostitutes and go to a villa in the countryside. There, they engage in group sex and resolve to eat themselves to death.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: erotic, disturbing, art house, surreal, humorous, controversial, atmospheric, black comedy, dark comedy, sexual
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Scent of a Woman (1974)
Plot Summary:
An army cadet accompanies an irascible, blind captain on a week-long trip from Turin to Naples. The captain, Fausto, who wants no pity, brooks no disagreement, and charges into every situation, nicknames the youth Ciccio, and spends the next few days ordering him about and generally behaving badly in public. In Rome, Fausto summons a priest to ask for his blessing; in Naples, where Fausto joins a blind lieutenant for drinking and revelry, the two soldiers talk quietly and seriously about "going through with it." Also in Naples is Sara, in love with Fausto, but treated cruelly by him. What do the blind soldiers plan? Can Sara soften Fausto's hardened heart?.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, philosophical, black comedy, sentimental, uplifting, touching, serious, realistic, dark comedy, italian comedy
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The Man-Eater (1999)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of a Sicilian woman that tries to have avidly as many sexual adventures as possible. She uses different identities and personalities, but she can't stop collecting adventures. One day she meets Valerio, a young student who falls in love with her.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 732
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, controversial, independent film, gay cinema, hot, sexploitation film
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Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
Plot Summary:
In the 1970s, a foundling lad, Patrick "Kitten" Braden, comes of age by leaving his Irish town for London, in part to look for his mother and in part because his trans-gender nature is beyond the town's understanding.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: surreal, touching, sentimental, compassionate, sincere, serious, stylized, emotional, dark comedy, indie film