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Plot Summary:
La storia di Stefano (Maurizio Nichetti) sembra molto "normale" ma cosa sarebbe successo nella sua vita se... Le molte vite possibili di Stefano si intrecciano in modi imprevedibili.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sexy, thought provoking, intellectual, enigmatic, unusual plot structure, suspense, melancholic, surreal, harsh, dark fantasy
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Wives (1975)
Plot Summary:
The first of Anja Breiens Wives trilogy.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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Hurry Up, or I'll Be 30 (1973)
Plot Summary:
Comedy directed by Joseph Jacoby.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
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Thanos and Despina (1967)
Plot Summary:
Katina, an impoverished Greek woman, tries to arrange the marrage of her shepherd son, Thanos, to Despina, the daughter of a wealthy landowner. But when Despina's father, Vlahopoulos refuses to give his blessings and wants Despina to marry a more wealthy gentleman, named Yankos. The wealthy and spoiled Yankos plots to break up the romantic union between Thanos and Despina any way posible while the young lovers plot to run away in a futile attempt to being a new life for themselves.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 354
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Greece, France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: absurd
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Flower in the Pocket (2007)
Plot Summary:
Two boys, Li Ahh and Li Ohm, grow up motherless. Their father, Sui, is a workaholic who shuts himself out of the world. The boys' quest to reach out to their father leads them to adopt a puppy. But when the animal is sent away for being a nuisance, the boys are devastated. For the first time, Sui realizes that all his children ask is simply to love and be loved.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Malaysia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Shed Skin Papa (2016)
Plot Summary:
As a director faces a series of setbacks in life including debt and divorce, his elderly father suddenly regains his youth.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min
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Anche se volesse lavorare, che faccio? (1972)
Plot Summary:
Italian comedy.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min
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Eastern Business (2016)
Plot Summary:
Two Moldavian friends begin a journey full of adventures and suspense trying various business ideas in order to earn enough money to achieve their dreams.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 868
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania, Lithuania, Moldova
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: absurd
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Alberta (2016)
Plot Summary:
Freek is a 49-year-old advertising executive and media figure. He appears to have it all: he has won many awards in his field, has a great wife Iris and a ten year old adopted son Werner. Iris is 39 and a strong partner, professionally and personally. She's beautiful, smart and a workaholic. Freek is known in the advertising world as a charmer and womanizer. He meets a dazzling young woman, the 24-year-old Alberta, whom he falls for. She persuades him to go to the place she shares a name with; Alberta, in the Canadian Rockies. The plan is to escape life in the Netherlands and paint expressionistic landscapes of the Canadian scenery together. Boredom strikes sooner than anticipated and Alberta goes in search of adventure elsewhere, leaving Freek hopeless and alone. Can he handle life on his own?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, Canada
Duration: 96 min
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4L (2019)
Plot Summary:
To find Joseba, a dying friend, and see him reunite with his daughter Ely, two old friends, Jean Pierre and Tocho, embark with her on a road trip through the Sahara desert, from Spain to Mali.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min
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The Lifeguard (1979)
Plot Summary:
Marie, the charming daughter of Italian immigrants, has a dream : to become rich. In Roubaix, where she lives, she meets and marries small-time crooner Marcel Potier. Together they leave for the South of France where they live happily but poorly. Now, Marie hasn't forgotten her hopes of wealth and with this aim still in mind she pushes Marcel into becoming the swimming instructor of Achille Zopoulos, an oil tycoon.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
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Four Letter Words (2000)
Plot Summary:
A study of the post-adolescent male psyche, Four Letter Words gives an often humorous but raw unadulterated look at the views, attitudes, and language of young men in suburban America. The film focuses on a dwindling summer night's party, at which the characters gather for the first time since high school graduation. As the night's activities take their toll, the immaturity level rises, the profanity flies and of course the drunken brawl breaks out. It will be a night to remember although some would wish to forget.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
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Someone to Love (1987)
Plot Summary:
During a party at movie director Danny's home, a group of friends and actors people are reunited to converse about love and relationship. Orson Welles is the "judge" of these conversations.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: independent film, eighties
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Tales of Paris (1962)
Plot Summary:
The omnibus made of four separate romantic playlets, each with its own cast, director, and scenarist. "The Tale of Ella," directed by Jacques Poitrenaud, stars Dany Saval as an ambitious nightclub performer who very nearly messes up her chances for success by bullying a mild-looking but important producer. "The Tale of Antonia," directed by Michel Boisrond, finds housewife Dany Robin exacting a sweet revenge on her cheating husband. "The Tale of Francoise," directed by Claude Barma, concerns the efforts of Francoise Arnoul to test the fidelity of her best friend's lover. And "The Tale of Sophie," directed by Marc Allegret, features Catherine Deneuve as a goody-two-shoes who fabricates a torrid romance in order to be accepted by her sexually knowledgeable schoolmates.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Italian Postcards (1987)
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Lidia (Christiana Borghi) passes herself off as a stage actress to interview international star Silvana (Genevieve Page) for her writer boyfriend (David Brandon). Her first obstacle is the boarding house owner and former stage star Pola Mareschi, who is very protective of her tenant's privacy. Lidia is robbed by a motorcycle gang in the middle of the living room and is caught up in a performance put on by the residents. Lidia soon finds herself wanting to stay with the quirky actors as she becomes a performer in their offbeat antics.
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Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: experimental, avant garde
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Wives - Ten Years After (1985)
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Ten years have passed since our three heroines' first outing in 1975. Now the women meet at yet another class reunion. Not surprisingly, they are still unwilling to call it a night after the party is over. Husbands and children must celebrate Christmas as best they can, while the women spend quality time drinking and taking stock of their lives.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 88 min
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Babyfever (1994)
Plot Summary:
Gena is an average woman who is torn between her current boyfriend's desire to marry her and start a family, and the unexpected arrival of an old boyfriend wanting to pick up where they left off. To further complicate matters, she might be pregnant herself. In the mist of this unsettled personal life, Gena leaves her two men to attend a baby shower party for a girl friend and talks with the various female attendees all of whom are facing their own ticking biological clocks.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: independent film, erotic, psychological, light, sexy, thought provoking, clever, touching, unusual plot structure, melancholic
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Ratataplan (1979)
Plot Summary:
Misadventures of Colombo, an engineer in Milano. He is the only winner of an admission test for a job, and just for this reason he isn't hired. So he becomes a barman, and he discovers a special formula that turns simple water into the "Immortality drink". He is robbed of the magic water copyright. So he tries to set up a theatrical company, but the first show is a fiasco. Since finding a normal job seems a mission impossible, he tries to set the sentimental side of his life. He targets the most beautiful girl of his building, and for her he builds a robot able to dance like Tony Manero (John Travolta's character in Saturday Night Fever (1977)). The robot gets drunk (!). It is another fiasco. So he targets an ugly girl and finally with her succeeds to live his surreal world for ever.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy, silent, silent film
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I Made a Splash (1980)
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Three girls share a flat in Milano in the '80s. Luisa is a beginner actress dreaming about a career in the show business, Angela is university student and Carlina a part-time teacher. One day Maurizio go to visit them. Maurizio is fallen asleep in front of television when he was six years old and woke up just since few days after twenty! He doesn't speak at all and obviously he is very strange. The life of the three girls will change turning into a surreal experience.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
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A Brighter Tomorrow (2023)
Plot Summary:
A film director unhappy with the movie he's shooting about a Hungarian circus stranded in Rome during the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising faces divorce from his producer wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 95 min
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Il ritorno di Cagliostro (2003)
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In the Sicily of the late 1940s, two brother sculptors, tired of selling madonnas to the local churches, finally realize their dream, and set up a Sicilian production company, thanks to the help of a local bishop. They start producing one box-office failure Z-movie after the other, all with terribly bad local non-pros as actors. Covered in debts, they finally have their great chance, when a local nobleman obsessed by magic decides to invest all his wealth in the making of a movie about Cagliostro, just one year after Orson Welles' Black Magic (1949). They hire a famous American actor (Robert Englund) and start shooting "The Return of Cagliostro".
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 387
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: avant garde, grotesque, fake documentary
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The Class Of Miss MacMichael (1978)
Plot Summary:
A dedicated teacher (Glenda Jackson) tries to reach out to juvenile delinquent students at a London alternative school.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, dark comedy
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The Teacher from Vigevano (1963)
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Primary school teacher Mr. Mombelli, nevertheless satisfied with his life, is driven by his wife to resign and starting a new activity. He invest all his goodwill setting up a footwear little factory. But after some time, unexpectedly, a financial review by fiscal authorities drive the firm to ruin. Ada, his wife, starts to be unfaithful and this is another strong hit to his life. But it isn't still enough, a tragedy is waiting Mombelli behind the corner.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 517
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, black comedy, dark comedy
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Everybody in Jail (1984)
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The incorruptible judge Annibale Salvemini, starts investigating over a classic Italian business/politics/corruption affair. He start to operate, as usual, very strongly. He orders numberless arrests. But the reaction of counterparts won't take long. In fact his strong energetic manners, drive him unintentionally on the opposite situation. Who is the real guilty the judge or the corrupted Italian society?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 304
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min
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Great Minds (2017)
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Teacher in the most prestigious highschool in the country, François enjoys the life he’s always known, in the intellectual and bourgeois society of Paris. Trapped in a situation where he’s forced to accept a job in a school of a tough underprivileged suburb, he finds himself confronted to his own limits and to the upheaval of his values and certainties.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, touching, social
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Mathias Kneissl (1971)
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Inspired by the real life events of Mathias Kneißl, a marginal man, son of poor farmers from Bavaria, in the late XIX Century. Mathias stole from the riches to give to the poor, becoming a hero for the rural people, and a popular social rebel. He was chased by the police until his unfortunate sentence.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 94 min
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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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Here Come the Teachers (2018)
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The Manzoni High School in Milan is the worst in Italy. When the percentage of those promoted falls to 12%, it's time for the last resort: to entrust the classes to the worst of the available teachers.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 729
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, light, sincere, humorous, captivating
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A Girl, Three Guys, and a Gun (2000)
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Three smalltown friends looking to leave their troubles behind come up with a robbery scheme to fund their trip to the big city. But as their plan goes awry and the authorities become involved, they are left with no other alternative but to take hostage a pair of traveling young lovebirds, with no shortage of problems of their own.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, semi serious, independent film, cult film
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Bianca (1983)
Plot Summary:
Michele is a mathematics professor who just started a new job in a school with some peculiar teaching methods. After a woman in his neighborhood is murdered, Michele meets beautiful colleague Bianca, and a relationship begins between the two. Where is this relationship heading, and will Michele be able to help the police catch the murderer?.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: cult classic, psychological, sentimental, bleak, humorous, realistic, semi serious, surreal, black comedy, dark comedy
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Sweet Dreams (1981)
Plot Summary:
Michele Apicella is a young film and theater director, who lives his troubles as an artist. In Italy reach the Eighties, and Michele, who was contestant in the Sixties, now finds himself in a new era full of crisis of values and ignorance. So Michele, with his works, meants to represent the typical outcast and left indifferent intellectual outcast who establishes a breach between him and the world of ordinary people.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: semi autobiographical