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Plot Summary:
Marc Châtaigne, an intern at the Ministry of Standards, is sent to French Guiana to implement European construction standards at Guyaneige: the first Amazonian ski slope, intended to boost tourism in French Guiana. There, he meets Tarzan, an attractive intern at the National Forestry Office, with whom he’ll get lost on a journey through the jungle that will take him far, far away….
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, absurd, not serious, idiotic
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Wood Job! (2014)
Plot Summary:
A bittersweet coming-of-age film based on a novel dealing with forestry. Yuki Hirano wants to live an easy life, like working a part-time job after his high school graduation. But, after his high school graduation, Yuki hears from his homeroom teacher that he has been hired for a job. When Yuki gets home, his mother is packing his stuff. Yuki's mother and his homeroom teacher decided that Yuki will work as a forestry trainee after his graduation. Yuki will have to go Kamusari Village. Since then, Yuki begins to work as a forestry trainee and becomes assimilated with the beauty of nature and the warm-hearted people in the village.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, contemplative
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Marie and the Misfits (2016)
Plot Summary:
"Marie is dangerous", Antoine warns. It hasn't stopped Siméon from dropping everything, or, more precisely, letting go the little that he had, to secretly follow her. Oscar, his roommate, a musician with sleepwalking tendencies, and Antoine, a novelist lacking inspiration, quickly follow in his footsteps. Here they all are at the end of the Earth, which is to say, on an island. It's quite possible that these four are linked by something beyond their comprehension. Perhaps simply a taste for adventure. Or the desire to add some fantasy and a touch of the romantic to their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Dear Mother (2020)
Plot Summary:
One day, Jean-Louis discovers that his heart has stopped. He is not dead, can walk and talk, but his heart is no longer beating. With the help of his wife and a friend, he tries to understand the origin of this mystery.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: light, enigmatic, captivating, entertaining, complex
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Daughter of the Jungle (1982)
Plot Summary:
Two college students decide to take a vacation to the Amazon. While in a small village getting supplies, they provoke the anger of a local scoundrel, whose ruffians beat them up. After renting a boat and sailing down the river in search of some good scenery, the two kids become lost and are forced to jump in the water to avoid a cascade. Now totally lost, they enter a small village, where the natives eye them mysteriously. It is here that they meet a bizarre jungle female, who happens to be the last survivor of a helicopter crash that occurred years ago. She soon develops a bond with the two adventurers.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sexy
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The Jungle (2012)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about funny adventures of the married couple on the remote island.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, feel good, entertaining
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Terrible Jungle (2020)
Plot Summary:
French Guyana, not so long ago. Eliott, a young and naive anthropology researcher, goes on an expedition to study the Otopis, a mysterious tribe from the Amazon rainforest. It is also an opportunity for him to get away from the grip of his possessive mother, Chantal de Bellabre, an ethnologist hated by the profession for her biased and cold-hearted practices. Arriving in the forest Elliot realizes the Otopis are not the “good savages” he had imagined. Alcoholic, violent, crooked: they will turn his expedition into real hell in the jungle. Fortunately, Chantal, consumed by remorse and worried about her son, decides to abandon her own expedition and goes looking for him in the jungle, with the help of the not so helpful Lieutenant-Commander Raspailles and his men.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 788
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, absurd, idiotic
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All Good (2012)
Plot Summary:
While delivering a deceased man's body for burial, a naive village courier encounters a host of eccentrics and implicates himself in dark crimes.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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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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The Mad Adventures of 'Rabbi' Jacob (1973)
Plot Summary:
In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by Slimane, an Arab rebel leader. The two dress up as rabbis as they try to elude not only assasins from Slimane's country, but also the police, who think Pivert is a murderer. Pivert ends up posing as Rabbi Jacob, a beloved figure who's returned to France for his first visit after 30 years in the United States. Adding to the confusion are Pivert's dentist-wife, who thinks her husband is leaving her for another woman, their daughter, who's about to get married, and a Parisian neighborhood filled with people eager to celebrate the return of Rabbi Jacob.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, slapstick, funny, anthology, slapstick comedy
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The Goat (1981)
Plot Summary:
When the boss' unlucky daughter is missing in South America, Campana is sent to watch the boss' most unlucky employee who is sent as a private detective in hopes he can duplicate the daughter's mistakes.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Mexico
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, sweet, buddy comedy, perverse, feel good, realistic, semi serious, detective, slapstick comedy
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Safari (2009)
Plot Summary:
Richard Dacier owns a tour agency specialized on organizing safaris for European tourists eager to confront the African wild life. Actually, he took the job after his father and never went into the savanna by himself. As he owes big money to some mobster, he is compelled to convey a fake tourist, with a suspicious suitcase, toward Mozambic. To avoid suspicion from the authorities, he is supposed to tour a group of tourists as usual. The only problem - he is completely unexperienced as a guide!.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, light, captivating
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Ashens and the Quest for the Gamechild (2013)
Plot Summary:
Ashens is going on a quest to find the legendary, and elusive electronic tat known as the Game Child.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, not serious, feel good, light, captivating
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Gaston Lagaffe (2018)
Plot Summary:
Gaston is a new guy at the Peticoin start-up. With his delusional inventions, he will change the lives of his colleagues. Cat, seagull, cow, and gaffophone will be at the center of the mishaps of this genius laidback handyman who wants only to do good, but has the gift of annoying Prunelle, his boss. Can those Gaston's gaffes galore prevent the buy-out of the Peticoin by Mr. de Mesmaeker?.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, captivating
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Offline: Are You Ready for the Next Level? (2016)
Plot Summary:
Champion gamer Jan has to fight for his digital identity, winning back his real life as well.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 855
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, scenic
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Taxi to Treasure Rock (2019)
Plot Summary:
Two desperate men turn in an uncomfortable business partners to find a secret gold looking for change their bad star.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 699
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, road movie
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Volunteers (1985)
Plot Summary:
Lawrence is a rich kid with a bad accent and a large debt. After his father refuses to help him out, Lawrence escapes his angry debtors by jumping on a Peace Corp flight to Southeast Asia, where he is assigned to build a bridge for the local villagers with American-As-Apple-Pie WSU Grad Tom Tuttle and the beautiful and down-to earth Beth Wexler.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, cult classic, feel good, realistic, semi serious, parody, hilarious, funny, light, romantic
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Robin Hood: The True Story (2015)
Plot Summary:
Robin des Bois, with his friend Tuck, are bad guy: they only steal poor, women and old people. They dream to get they own brothel in town, like the Pussycat. They decide to rob Nottingham's tax office, but they meet the Sherwood gang - who steal to rich to feed the poors - with the same idea in mind: Robbing the Nottingham sherif. The true story of Robin des Bois can finally begins!.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 510
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, parody, light, exciting, captivating, realistic, fun
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The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980)
Plot Summary:
Misery is brought to a small group of Sho in the Kalahari desert in the form of a cola bottle. In his quest to throw the evil object over the edge of the earth, Xixo encounters Western "civilization," a haphazard doctor and a tyranical despot.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: South Africa, Botswana
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, feel good, intellectual, cult classic, slapstick, independent film, mockumentary, spectacular
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Ass Backwards (2013)
Plot Summary:
Two best friends (Kate and Chloe) embark on a cross country trip back to their hometown to attempt to win a pageant that eluded them as children.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, underground film, independent film
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Have Fun, Vasya! (2017)
Plot Summary:
Mitya accidentally proposed to his girlfriend. The problem is that Mitya is already married to Vasya, who refuses to grant him a divorce. Can Mitya and his friends convince Vasya to change her mind?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, entertaining, feel good, captivating
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The Life Coach (2009)
Plot Summary:
Max Chêne is a life coach who helps to motivate everybody from professional athletes to government ministers to business executives. After his gambling debts get out of control and his wife throws him out, he is approached to take on a unique client.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 465
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, entertaining, funny, light, feel good, captivating, clever, realistic
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Welcome Aboard (2011)
Plot Summary:
Isabelle, HR of a large cruise company, made the mistake of choosing her boss as a lover. Before embarking on the maiden voyage of the new flagship of the fleet, though, he decided to disembark from their relationship! Some women take their revenge by poison, firearm, or slander. Isabelle chooses Remy a flamboyant, unemployed ne'er-do-well who flunked out in life on land, but after all is said and done, might have better luck at sea... She recruits him as leader of her plot and on this Palace of the Seas, Remy will first prove to be the worst nightmare of the CEO and Richard, the Cruise Director...then, little by little, he will change his life and that of all those who cross his path.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, feel good, light, sex comedy, realistic
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Tommy Boy (1995)
Plot Summary:
Party animal Tommy Callahan is a few cans short of a six-pack. But when the family business starts tanking, it's up to Tommy and number-cruncher Richard Hayden to save the day.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 95000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, slapstick, road movie, absurd, hilarious, light, clever, cult classic, feel good
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Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995)
Plot Summary:
Summoned from an ashram in Tibet, Ace finds himself on a perilous journey into the jungles of Africa to find Shikaka, the missing sacred animal of the friendly Wachati tribe. He must accomplish this before the wedding of the Wachati's Princess to the prince of the warrior Wachootoos. If Ace fails, the result will be a vicious tribal war.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 230000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, parody, humorous, slapstick, hilarious, spoof, not serious, talky, detective, slapstick comedy
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Strange Wilderness (2008)
Plot Summary:
With the ratings dropping for a wilderness-themed TV show, two animal fans go to the Andes in search of Bigfoot.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, hilarious, feel good, not serious, realistic, parody, thought provoking, clever, suspense
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Would I Lie to You: The Beginning (2019)
Plot Summary:
In 1980s Paris - Patrick, Dov, Yvan and Serge are young men seeking success in love and business... with varying success.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Back to School (2019)
Plot Summary:
Two adults go to their middle school reunion in order to show off their success to old bullies teenage crushes.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Amazon (2013)
Plot Summary:
Amazonia is an adventure in 3D inside the largest rainforest on the planet: the Amazon rainforest. Chestnut is a Capuchin monkey domesticated who survives a plane crash and finds himself alone in the dense forest. The monkey needs to learn to live in freedom, in a new world where animals of all kinds: Jaguars, alligators, snakes, tapirs, hawks. Gradually, Brown learns to live in the forest, making new friends, especially the monkey Gaia, their fellow species.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: France, Brazil
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, sentimental, serious, captivating, uplifting
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Garcia & Garcia (2021)
Plot Summary:
Two men with the same name endure the funny consequences of getting mixed up during a business trip.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 717
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004)
Plot Summary:
Sometimes, it takes a strange night to put everything else into focus. And that's exactly what happens to Harold and his roommate, Kumar, when they set out to get the best stoner fix money can buy: White Castle hamburgers. Both guys are at a crossroads, about to make major decisions that will affect the course of their lives. Yet they arrive at wisdom by accident as they drive around New Jersey in search of fast food.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 204000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, Canada, Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, hilarious, sex comedy, teen, feel good, entertaining, absurd, buddy comedy, cult classic