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Plot Summary:
Some Say No is a new Italian comedy with a very serious subject: the way the country's society is corroded by favoritism that pushes inferior people to the top in virtually every field. In Florence, three thirty-somethings band together to wage their own war on the system. Each of them is a person of talent who has been pushed out by "favorites" or raccomandati, people who have muscled in on the promotions they ought to have gotten by pulling strings.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 449
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Don't Stop Me Now (2019)
Plot Summary:
Paola, a modern woman used to the hardships of modern life, takes her chance to make things right for herself.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: funny, witty, intense, semi serious
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The Statue (1971)
Plot Summary:
Bolt, a British linguist, develops a universal language, so he's a sudden sensation and receives a Nobel prize. An ambitious diplomat, capitalizing on Bolt's celebrity, arranges for the U.S. to commission a statue for a London square to honor Bolt's achievement. Bolt's Italian wife, a renowned artist, sculpts an 18-foot nude of Bolt. In a pique, because he's neglected her for years to do his work, she gives the statue a spectacular phallus, telling Bolt that he wasn't its model. Thinking he's a cuckold, Bolt goes on a jealous search for a man matching the statue. The diplomat, too, wants changes in the statue to protect his conservative image. Can art and love reconcile?.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 303
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film
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7 and 8 (2007)
Plot Summary:
6th January 1975, in an infant nursery in Palermo (Italy), for a mysterious reason, a male nurse exchanges the labels of baby number 7 and 8. Thirty-one years later Tommaso (7) and Daniele (8) meet each other by accident.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Different from Whom (2009)
Plot Summary:
Political strategists in a northern Italian city push gay-rights campaigner Piero into the mayoral race, pairing him with uptight conservative toughie Adele (Claudia Gerini). Piero and his partner, Remo, are the stable ones, while buttoned-up divorcee Adele nurses her bitterness.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Put Grandma in the Freezer (2018)
Plot Summary:
Simone, a clumsy financier, falls in love with Claudia, who’s living on her grandma’s retirement checks. When the old lady dies Claudia hides the body in a freezer, and sets up a fraud with the help of some friends to avoid bankruptcy.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, absurd, witty, cynical, idiotic
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Genitori vs Influencer (2021)
Plot Summary:
A father and a daughter with the dream of becoming an influencer clash until they meet the famous webstar and idol of the girl.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 490
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: smart
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My Friends: How It All Began (2011)
Plot Summary:
Jacopo, Duccio, Cecco, Manfredo and Filippo are five friends who live in Florence of the fifteenth century, during a plague epidemic.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 501
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags:
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Men Vs Women (2010)
Plot Summary:
A confrontation starts between a young man Diego and his beautiful neighbor Chiara.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy
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The Unlikely Prince (2013)
Plot Summary:
A princess has to pretend to be in love with a rude and ignorant boy to obtein success among her citizens.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, entertaining
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Them who? (2015)
Plot Summary:
David's life is changed forever after his meeting with Marcello, a clever con man.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: funny, light, enigmatic, feel good, humorous, captivating, smart, whimsical
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Wondrous Boccaccio (2015)
Plot Summary:
It's 1348. The plague has brutally hit Florence. A group of then young people, seven women and three men, rebel against the feeling of death that is about to swallow them. They flee the city and find refuge in an abandoned villa in the Tuscan hills. Here, between moral doubts and the tasks needed to survive, they kill time by telling each other stories until they will decide to return. The stories are varied - tragic, bizarre, funny or erotic - but common and central to all of them is the female presence.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 974
Genere: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: semi serious, rough, psychological, touching, bleak, suspenseful, realistic, anthology, sexual, sexy
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Weddings and Other Disasters (2010)
Plot Summary:
Romantically disillusioned woman finds herself organising her sister's wedding. Cue romantic mismatching and shenanigans.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 622
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, semi serious, light, captivating, sentimental, realistic
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Chocolate Kisses (2011)
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Sotto una buona stella (2014)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy broker, Federico Picchioni, within two days forfeits his partner and work, finishing well to living with two children and granddaughter (abandoned by her father). He is, at this point, in the face of many difficulties of adjustment but finds comfort in the help of his neighbor.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic
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Amore, bugie e calcetto (2008)
Plot Summary:
Seven friends have a passion: every week they play futsal. Each of them forget the everyday's trouble playing futsal.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 881
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Something New (2016)
Plot Summary:
Lucia and Maria are two best friends, who have known each other from the beginning of their life, but have very different tastes and behaviors. Lucia is done with men, Maria, on the contrary, cannot be without one. One night, the perfect man shows up in Maria's bed: handsome, sensible, mature and passionate.The next morning brings up misunderstandings and lies which make the two friends split up and take a break for themselves. Maybe that young man met by chance is really the one every woman is looking for, because with his simple theories he manages to paint the perfect picture of the two women's lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 679
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sexy, light, semi serious, romantic, emotional, funny, feel good, humorous, sweet, entertaining
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Mom or Dad? (2017)
Plot Summary:
A divorced couple fights for the custody of their three children: neither of them wants it. Mom wants to leave them to dad, and vice versa.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: funny, sincere, feel good, humorous, serious, realistic, light, captivating
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Escort in love (2011)
Plot Summary:
35 year old Alice has a husband and a son. Her life seems a beautiful dream, but it soon turns out to be a nightmare. Her husband dies in a car accident and her lawyer tells her that she is on her uppers. The only way she finds to earn money in short time is to do the oldest job in history.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: feel good, semi serious, humorous, realistic, light, captivating, entertaining, happy
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Mr. Happiness (2017)
Plot Summary:
Martino's sister, Caterina, can't work anymore for health reasons and he replaces her as cleaner for dr. Guglielmo Gioia, a mental coach. While the doctor leaves, Martino pretends to be his assistant.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 589
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, humorous, sweet, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, funny
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Lessons in Chocolate (2007)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 948
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, entertaining
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Welcome Back Mr. President (2019)
Plot Summary:
Peppino, a provincial librarian who became the accidental President of Italy, is now a father and has returned to a peaceful, happy life as a woodsman. That is, until his wife Janis decides to return to politics. Peppino is forced to abandon his home in the mountains and return to Rome to win back his love and help her defeat a speculative plot intended to damage Italy. Together, they must fight against social media attacks of the opposition and get the country back on its feet.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 796
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Welcome Mr. President (2013)
Plot Summary:
In a small mountain village lives a man with a challenging name, Giuseppe Garibaldi (one of Italy's "fathers of the fatherland"), but everybody call him with the nickname Peppino. Love fishing, the company of friends, the library where he works as a precarious employee. He is an optimistic person even if his child accuse him of being a wannabe. One day, due to a mess of politicians, an amazing thing happens: Peppino is mistakenly elected President of the Italian Republic. Pulled out from his quiet life, is to play a role for which he knows he is obviously inappropriate, but his common sense and his instinctive gestures are incredibly effective, except for the etiquette, for which he is in trouble. The inflexible and fascinating Deputy Secretary General of the Presidency of the Republic, Janis Clementi, is anxious to no avail in an attempt to regulate the unpredictable actions of the President.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, entertaining, satirical, funny, realistic
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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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Welcome to the North (2012)
Plot Summary:
Now in the Far North (i.e. Milan!), Alberto has accepted to manage a program for efficiency improvement in the Italian Post. He devotes all his time and all his energy to this noble task and neglects his wife Silvia, which of course annoys her beyond limits. Things do not fare much better in Castellabate where it is rather Maria, Matta's wife, who gets on his nerves by always blaming him for his lack of ambition. One day, due to a misunderstanding, Mattia is transferred to... Milan! And on whose doorstep does he land? Alberto's of course!.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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Kidz (2020)
Plot Summary:
Sara and Nicola are expecting their second son. Through the late Mattia Torre's sharp look, all the joys and sorrows of being a parent in the modern day Italy are unraveled in an absolutely brilliant and witty way.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, light, sweet, captivating, realistic, semi serious, humorous, smart
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A Boss in the Living Room (2014)
Plot Summary:
Cristina lives a peaceful life until her older brother Ciro, who has to attend a trial, asks to spend house arrests at Cristina’s home.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, light, feel good, realistic
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Three Perfect Daughters (2020)
Plot Summary:
Three families go into crisis when their daughters get engaged. Three desperate fathers see their worst nightmare come true: they are convinced that their young daughters have all chosen a wrong boyfriend. Sure to act for their own good, they will join forces to get rid of the three suitors as soon as possible, putting a strain on the patience of their wives so much that they risk wrecking their own marriages. In the end, the good will win, but who will?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: funny, light, thought provoking, touching, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, realistic, witty
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The Legendary Giulia and Other Miracles (2015)
Plot Summary:
Diego, Fausto and Claudio are three down-on-their luck men. When they meet by chance looking at a property in the country none of them are able to afford, the three men decide to combine forces and risk everything to start a Bed and Breakfast. They invest everything they have, physically and mentally, into the project, but the financial pressures mount and are made even more stressful with the local mafia demanding regular payments and threatening to suffocate their venture! It seems that only a miracle will bring them back on track. Indeed, the miracle they need arrives in the most unlikely of forms. But is it enough?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Like a Cat on a Highway (2017)
Plot Summary:
The story of an encounter between a bourgeois man and a poor woman, because their teenage children fall in love.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, humorous, funny, light, thought provoking, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Just Married (2009)
Plot Summary:
Nicola, a policeman in Puglia, is a reformed ladies' man with his heart set on marrying the daughter of the Indian ambassador.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 471
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious