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Plot Summary:
It is 1979 and Albertine, 10, and all her family members have gathered in Brittany to celebrate the birthday of her grandmother. Everyone thinks that the Skylab space station from NASA will fall on their heads this summer. The meeting turns into a crazy weekend full of revelations, love and song.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious
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Ten Minutes from Naturists (2012)
Plot Summary:
Family caretakers Brussels advantage of the absence of his patrons to exchange a beautiful property against a holiday villa in Sunset Island ... They just did not know a small detail: Island Sunset is 100% nude! Meanwhile, the Levantains arrive in Brussels to promote a directive that could undress throughout Europe.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? (1999)
Plot Summary:
It's 1976, and Vinny is a confused teenager who can't decide whether he is a disco king or a proto punk rocker.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: melancholic, feel good, humorous, witty, semi serious, independent film
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Sous le figuier (2012)
Plot Summary:
Nathalie, Christophe and Joëlle are in the midst of an existential crisis. Brought together by Selma, 95 and seriously ill, they will spend a memorable summer on the banks of the Moselle. How ironic that the one whom they had intended to help to die should help them to live.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, emotional, realistic, contemplative, semi serious
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May Fools (1990)
Plot Summary:
An eccentric family is re-united during the 1968 general strike in France, after the death of the grandmother.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, talky, black comedy, period piece, dark comedy
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Camping 2 (2010)
Plot Summary:
Jean-Pierre Savelli is a forty-something employee of an insurance company in Clermont-Ferrand who finds himself facing a mid-life crisis. When his fiancée Valérie decides to put their relationship on hold, he changes his holiday plans and heads for the Flots Bleus camping site near Arcachon. Jean-Pierre had been hoping for peace and calm. Instead he meets Patrick Chirac and his entourage of inveterate holidaymakers.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Teen Spirit (2007)
Plot Summary:
A 30 ans, Bruno, rock-star has been, vit toujours aux crochets de sa petite amie. Les temps sont durs... surtout quand une ex ressurgit de nulle part pour lui apprendre qu'il est le père de Nancy, 13 ans, dont il n'a jamais soupçonné l'existence.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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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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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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Camping (2006)
Plot Summary:
Plastic surgeon Michel Saint-Josse is on his way to Spain where he hopes to spend a stress-free holiday in a luxury hotel with his teenage daughter Vanessa. When his car breaks down near a camping, Michel accepts the offer of help from an extrovert gigolo camper named Patrick Chirac. Whilst their car is being repaired, Michel and Vanessa agree to stay in Patrick’s well proportioned tent, not knowing that, thanks to a series of mishaps, it will be their home for several days.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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My Best Holidays (2012)
Plot Summary:
Over this long hot summer, Claude and Isabelle get their marriage back on track, while Bibou and Simon, spend a memorable summer discovering the world of grown-ups.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: feel good, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Lost Embrace (2004)
Plot Summary:
In Buenos Aires, the twenty and something year old Jewish-Argentinean Ariel Makaroff has left the University of Architecture and spends his time wandering through the downtown gallery where his mother has a lingerie shop and his brother runs an importation business, trying to get his Polish passport and move to Europe. Ariel has never understood why his father left him when he was a baby to fight in the Yom Kippur War in 1973. When his father returns to Buenos Aires, Ariel discovers the reason why his father left his family.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Argentina, France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic, talky, clever, contemplative
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Together Is Too Much (2010)
Plot Summary:
Imagine, if you will, a somewhat contented married woman finding out her husband's infidelity during the celebration of a birthday party. That is what happens to Marie-France, when her husband, Henri, pulls out panties from his pocket to be used as a handkerchief. Marie-France becomes furious, storming out of the house. His son, Sebastian and his wife, Clementine, a struggling couple, decide to take Marie-France to their tiny apartment, something they feel it is a temporary arrangement. Little did they know what they were getting into.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 419
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic
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Me, Myself and Mum (2013)
Plot Summary:
How to become a man when your mother and your closed circle have decided otherwise? This is the challenge Guillaume took up. The film recounts Guillaume's tragicomic battle from the young age of eight, as he adopts the role of a girl then of a homosexual... until, aged 30, he meets the woman who, after his mother, will become the other woman in his life. Beyond this story of a heterosexual coming-out, the film tells the tale of an actor who never stopped loving women, maybe even a little too much.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sentimental, realistic, touching, humorous, semi serious, existential, sexual, sexy, tragic, queer cinema
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Father and Sons (2003)
Plot Summary:
Léo, un vieux père de famille ancien représentant de commerce, est prêt à tout pour retrouver l'affection de ses trois fils, David, Max et Simon. Il va même jusqu'à invoquer une maladie et une intervention chirurgicale pour les convaincre de l'accompagner dans un voyage au Canada, où il tentera de refaire l'unité du clan familial. Le quatuor de Français y fera la rencontre d'une guérisseuse et de sa fille.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 751
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, sincere, captivating, entertaining, emotional, realistic
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With a Little Help from Myself (2008)
Plot Summary:
Besieged matriarch Sonia tries to make certain her daughter's nuptials come off flawlessly even as events spiral out of control is in this dark comedy helmed by François Dupeyron. With Sonia's wayward eldest son under arrest on drug charges, she then discovers that her no-account hubby has gambled away the money set aside for the reception. Will Sonia and her family triumph or crumble in the face of adversity?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, cynical, semi serious, gloomy, biting, suspense
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Half-Sister (2013)
Plot Summary:
When Nénette discovers the identity of her father in a letter, she quickly goes off in search of him. But instead of finding her father, she is met by her half-brother, Paul. Paul, a bitter man who gave up his dream to take over his father’s pharmacy business, is less than thrilled at the arrival of his ‘embarrassing’ half-sister. After refusing to take her in, he soon gets a taste of his own medicine. Under the influence of a potent drug, for one day Paul is generous, happy and sensitive. The next morning, however, once the drug has worn off, his nasty side comes back.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, light, feel good, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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An Italian Name (2015)
Plot Summary:
Paolo and his wife are waiting a baby and deciding his name, but it seems that Paolo's family and friends don't really like the chosen name.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, witty, contemplative, talky, semi serious, feel good, funny, light, entertaining
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Madea's Big Happy Family The Play (2010)
Plot Summary:
Shirley has important news for her family, but she has five grown children with different lifestyles and finds it difficult to get them and the kids all together. So in steps Madea, the Matriarch General, to put the family's life in perspective with a hilarious twist on financial difficulties, drugs and, most important, family secrets. The next generation has a lot to learn. In her own way, Madea expresses how deliverance won't change you to be someone else, but will allow you to be who you really are.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, sentimental
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Queen of Hearts (1989)
Plot Summary:
Eddie Luca is the youngest son in a family of Italian immigrants who has moved to London. Beginning from nowhere, they open a cafe in an Italian neighbourhood. One day their father loses the cafe, the home and his wedding ring by gambling.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 541
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Caruso, Zero for Conduct (2001)
Plot Summary:
A movie directed by F.Nuti.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Daddy Cool (2008)
Plot Summary:
The story about the age gap between a scientist father, Philipe Le Tallec, and his newly discovered teen aged daughter, Eglantine.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 629
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic
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No Pain, No Gain (2001)
Plot Summary:
David is a teenager who feels he doesn't belong to a life where his family, friends and the girl he loves seem not to understand him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, humorous, emotional, realistic, semi serious
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Copacabana (2010)
Plot Summary:
Babou's daughter refuses to invite her mother to her wedding, prompting Babou to begin life anew.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, sincere, feel good, captivating, sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious
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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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Mumu (2010)
Plot Summary:
The story a rescue, the rescue of a bad brat's life in the post-WWII period. In 1947, Roger reaches 11 years old. He's a kid badly loved, mischievous and specializes in silly things to do. He is sent to a small boarding school in a small village. Mumu reigns over here. She's not the bitchest school teacher of the area. Roger has already been expelled from several schools and this is his last chance to avoid the reformatory his father has been promising him for a long time. But this is will change with the vigilance of Mumu, who, despite her strict aspects, proves herself to have a big heart.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, sincere, captivating, crying
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A Spot of Bother (2009)
Plot Summary:
Retired Englishman George Hall's hypochondria worsens and takes its toll on his family.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 576
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic, witty, clever
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Pirate TV (2012)
Plot Summary:
Jean-Lou, Yasmina, Victor, Clara, Adonis and the others will create their own TV channel. They especially want to make the revolution.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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Max (2012)
Plot Summary:
Max is 6 years old. She lives with her dad Toni, a small time crook with a golden heart. For Xmas, Max offers him Rose, a call-girl found on the street whom she’s very fond of. Despite the complicated situation, Toni’s gonna have a hard time refusing her daughter’s «gift» and must coexist with Rose.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Dandelions (2012)
Plot Summary:
A young girl is frustrated by her over-protective mom. At school, she meets another fearless little girl that is going to have a big influence on her.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, humorous, realistic
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My Father Is a Cleaning Lady (2011)
Plot Summary:
Polo is 16 and has all the worries of a teenager his age. Between a bedridden mother and a sister who dreams of being a Miss, the only one he can look up to is his father. Unfortunately, he works as a maid.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 325
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, humorous, captivating, psychological, light, entertaining, touching, realistic, semi serious