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Plot Summary:
Summer 1910. Several tourists have vanished while relaxing on the beautiful beaches of the Channel Coast. Infamous inspectors Machin and Malfoy soon gather that the epicenter of these mysterious disappearances must be Slack Bay, a unique site where the Slack river and the sea join only at high tide.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: art house, period piece, cult classic, crying, avant garde
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Beach Fever (1987)
Plot Summary:
A young Japanese entrepreneur is set on a quest by his wealthy father to find the world's best opening line in order to "get the girl". But when they stumble upon a sure-fire love potion, mayhem ensues.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, teen sex comedy, independent film
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For Better And For Worse (2023)
Plot Summary:
Jean has been the conservative mayor of a small town for several years. He intends to run for another term. Edith, his wife, is the paragon of the traditional devoted housewife and mother. So it comes as quite a shock when she tells her husband of forty years that deep down, she has always been... A MAN! Totally blindsided, Jean didn't see this coming. For a politician campaigning on family values, this is too much! But Edith, still the loving wife, make a deal with him: she will postpone her transition and stay a woman until after the elections. But as we know, campaigns are all about digging up dirt to keep the rumor mill turning.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 428
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Venus on Fire (1984)
Plot Summary:
Two American executives for a cosmetics company travel to the Greek islands in search for a model for their new line of suntan lotion, "Venus". They run into more than they bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: erotic
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The Invisible Woman (2009)
Plot Summary:
Once assuming people ignored her because they weren't interested, Lili begins to suspect that she might be literally invisible.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Sotto il ristorante cinese (1987)
Plot Summary:
A young man captures the fancy of an inventor's daughter when he passes through a basement door into another dimension.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Jungle Freaks (1969)
Plot Summary:
Born a fully grown black man in a village in the Brazilian jungle, Macunaíma later magically transforms into a white man before making an adventure-filled trip to the city of São Paulo. Once there, he becomes something of a dandy, falling in love with Ci, a revolutionary who dies in an accidental bombing. After robbing a ruthless industrialist, Macunaima returns to his village where he finds his newly acquired knowledge and possessions of little use.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, black comedy, weird
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Libido: The Urge to Love (1971)
Plot Summary:
A young woman falls down a staircase, and suddenly becomes... a nymphomaniac.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sensual, erotic, sex comedy
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Vincent (2014)
Plot Summary:
Vincent has an extraordinary ability: his strength and reflexes increase tenfold when in contact with water. To make full use of this gift, he settles in a region with many lakes and rivers, and that is isolated enough to allow him to live a peaceful life. Then one day, during an aquatic escapade, he encounters Lucie.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 831
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: captivating, atmospheric, humorous, emotional, touching, serious
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The Wild Boys (2017)
Plot Summary:
At the beginning of the 20th century, on the island of La Réunion, five adolescents of good families enamoured with the occult, commit a savage crime. A Dutch Captain takes them in charge for a repressive cruise on a haunted, dilapidated sailboat. Exhausted by the Captain’s methods, the five boys prepare to mutiny. Their port of call is a supernatural island with luxuriant vegetation and bewitching powers that holds a disturbing secret.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, erotic, psychological thriller, funny, dark, experimental, underground film, art house, dark drama, queer horror
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Ready, Willing and Able (1971)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy middle-aged man tries to seduce younger women at an oceanfront resort.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags:
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Ghost Writer (1989)
Plot Summary:
A writer moves into a Malibu beach house, and comes up against the ghost of an actress who supposedly had committed suicide there 30 years previously, but had been murdered by her boyfriend. The ghost asks the writer's help in proving her boyfriend the killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 308
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags:
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Mandibles (2020)
Plot Summary:
Two simple-minded friends discover a giant fly in the trunk of a car and decide to domesticate it to earn money with it.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, surreal, dark comedy, weird
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The Baby Formula (2008)
Plot Summary:
Two adventurous women in love are desperate to have their own biological child. They take a chance on an experimental scientific process and make sperm from their own stem cells. Pregnant with humor and unexpected twists, their journey ultimately confirms that all life is a gift and all families are crazy.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: humorous, experimental, mockumentary, emotional, captivating, touching, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Jean-Philippe (2006)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Music
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, offbeat
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Funky Forest: The First Contact (2005)
Plot Summary:
An outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Guitar Brother, his randy older sibling, and the pair's portly Caucasian brother.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, humorous, stylized, semi serious, sketch comedy, cult classic, mind blowing, psychological, mind bending
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Chatterbox! (1977)
Plot Summary:
A young woman who works in a beauty parlor discovers that her vagina can talk, which causes her no end of trouble.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 785
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, surreal, grindhouse, slapstick comedy, entertaining, absurd, crying, slapstick, weeping, feel good
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It's Easier for a Camel... (2003)
Plot Summary:
As a little girl, Federica fantasized about having beautiful long hair that would grow back as soon as she cut it, about never-ending cones of cotton candy and about countless adventures that took her to the far side of the world. Now a charming thirty-something-single woman, Federica's fantasies have evolved, adding lovers, stardom, and motherhood to her waking dreams, where Federica continues to press for her everyday life to be as real as the fantasies that invade her. Unfortunately, Federica's daydreams can only provide a meager distraction from the reality she faces. Her career as a successful playwright is heading south, her boyfriend is pressuring her to start a family, a former lover wishes to rekindle an old affair, her sister is barely talking to her, her brother is self-centered and her loving father is terminally ill. And as if to make matters worse, Federica is rich, too rich, and the guilt that consumes her because of it is pushing her over the edge.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 896
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious, neurotic, crying
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School Spirit (1985)
Plot Summary:
The only thing keeping Billy Batson from the girl of his dreams is one little condom -- or rather the lack of one. Lucky Billy finds one at an all-night roadhouse -- but speeding back to his girl, he is killed in a head-on collision with a truck. Now invisible, Billy must find his sweetheart and rekindle her fire -- but when he comes back to school as a ghost, his first stop is the girl's locker room, and he's beginning to "see" all the possibilities!.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy, dark comedy, cult classic, independent film, crying, psychotronic, teen sex comedy, urban fantasy, teen comedy
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The Rendez-Vous of D?j?-Vu (2013)
Plot Summary:
Hector meets Truquette on Bastille Day and becomes obsessed with seducing her. The plan is to get her to the seaside pronto. Pator is not complaining, especially if her friend Charlotte comes along for the ride. So off they go, down the country roads of a broke and broken France. Times are hard ! Suddenly the government cancels a month of summer. Everyone back to work! A wad of cash and two gun shots later, the group splits in two like France itself. But careering away from work in no way daunts the remaining trio, dead set on relocating the Bastille Girl and reveling in an endless summer.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, offbeat, road movie
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Trophy Wife (2010)
Plot Summary:
A housewife takes over her husband's umbrella business after his illness.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, unusual plot structure, visually appealing, semi serious, clever, witty, stylized, political, period piece
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The Spooks (2016)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: psychotronic, light, humorous, captivating, crying, freeze frame, spooky, urban fantasy
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Accidental Incest (2014)
Plot Summary:
Directed by Richard Griffin.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, black comedy, psychotronic, independent film, amateur film, urban fantasy
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The Apple War (1971)
Plot Summary:
A German businessman wants to buy land in southern Sweden for a gigantic amusement park, his new project called "Deutschneyland" (a wordplay of Deutschland and Disneyland). Some of the locals dislike the idea, including the magically talented Lindberg family, and work to frustrate the development plans.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: satirical, sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, biting, psychotronic, slapstick comedy, slapstick, low brow humor
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Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar (2021)
Plot Summary:
The story of best friends Barb and Star, who leave their small midwestern town for the first time to go on vacation in Vista Del Mar, Florida, where they soon find themselves tangled up in adventure, love, and a villain’s evil plot to kill everyone in town.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, parody, surreal, anamorphic, cult classic
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The Brand New Testament (2015)
Plot Summary:
God lives in Brussels. On earth though, God is a coward, with pathetical morals and being odious with his family. His daughter, Ea, is bored at home and can't stand being locked up in a small apartment in ordinary Brussels, until the day she decides to revolt against her dad.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: philosophical, surreal, dark comedy, meditative, sentimental, talky, cynical, stylized, funny, touching
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Bedazzled (2000)
Plot Summary:
Elliot Richardson, suicidal techno geek, is given seven wishes to turn his life around when he meets up with a very seductive Satan. The catch: his soul. Some of his wishes include a 7 foot basketball star, a rock star, and a hamburger. But, as could be expected, the Devil must put her own little twist on each his fantasies.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 111000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, hilarious, sexy, humorous, clever, psychotronic, erotic, parody
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City of Women (1980)
Plot Summary:
A businessman finds himself trapped at a hotel and threatened by women en masse.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: surreal, satirical, art house, cerebral, atmospheric, mind bending, psychedelic, cult classic, clever, offbeat
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Switch (1991)
Plot Summary:
Steve Brooks, a sexist womanizer, is killed by a group of his angry former lovers. In heaven, he makes a bargain with God for redemption and agrees to return to Earth. Once there, he must have a sincere relationship with a female and make her fall in love with him. If not, Steve's soul will become the property of the devil. But the devil hedges his bet, and Steve is reincarnated as a woman named Amanda Brooks.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, sexy, satirical, semi serious, funny, inspirational, sex comedy, parody, anamorphic, feel good
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Toto the Hero (1991)
Plot Summary:
Thomas and Alfred were born around the same time; a fire in the nursery had nurses scrambling to save the newborns. Because he felt that he deserved Alfred's good fortune at being born into a wealthy family, Thomas conceives the idea that he and Alfred were switched at birth, and he can't help seeing that his unhappiness should be Alfred's, from the loss of his sister to his inability to have a relationship with the woman Evelyne. So, as his life is ending, he formulates a plan of revenge against his bitter enemy, his lifetime adversary, the man who stole his existence.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Belgium, France, Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: touching, inspirational, epic, sad, cult classic, sentimental, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, crying
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Beetlejuice (1988)
Plot Summary:
Thanks to an untimely demise via drowning, a young couple end up as poltergeists in their New England farmhouse, where they fail to meet the challenge of scaring away the insufferable new owners, who want to make drastic changes. In desperation, the undead newlyweds turn to an expert frightmeister, but he's got a diabolical agenda of his own.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 331000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: gothic, black comedy, surreal, witty, dark comedy, funny, scary, offbeat, humorous, horror comedy