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Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 86 min
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Why Is Mother in My Bed? (1994)
Plot Summary:
Young boy Antoine is trying to prevent his parents divorce.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Le Mentor (2012)
Plot Summary:
A ruined old man turned homeless overhears the conversation of a young couple. He decides to intervene and become their mentor.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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Our Futures (2015)
Plot Summary:
Yann who is trying, albeit unsuccessfully, to cope with his life generally and especially bereavement decides to look up Thomas, his best friend from high school. Thomas is thee same crazy character as he ever was and between them they cook up a plan to rearrange Yann's birthday party from their high school days and get all their old friends to come along. This means locating their friends and a journey to visit and convince some of them to join in their plan. How their friends have changed, their lives and the revelations provide plenty of humour. But why is his friend Thomas just the same as he ever was ?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 609
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: road movie, light, humorous, captivating, surprise ending
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Gourmet Club (2004)
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"Gourmet Club" follows a doctor who belongs to a small but exclusive gourmet club, in which the five upper-class members take turns providing the main course, wagering as to who can identify a mystery exotic ingredient. Things get interesting when the doctor's gambling problem catches up with him. Desperate, he comes up with the idea to use a truly shocking mystery ingredient to fool his colleagues, but he gets more than he bargained for when the mystery meal has a surprising and powerful effect on the members.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 553
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 65 min
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P.R.O.F.S. (1985)
Plot Summary:
A clique of four young teachers at a high school looks critically at their colleagues. To avoid falling in the same routine, they bring new ideas into the school lessons and play little games and pranks in their spare time -- sometimes get even more childish than their pupils. When they get opposition from the other teachers, they play tricks to get rid of them.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 946
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Bad Seeds (2018)
Plot Summary:
Wael, a former street child, makes a living from small scams with his adoptive mother and partner-in-crime Monique. When this unconventional duo swindles the wrong guy, Victor, an old acquaintance of Monique now in charge of a support organization for troubled teens, they have no choice but to become his interim secretary and educator in order to redeem themselves.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspense, rough, suspenseful, psychological, humorous, satirical, motivational, feel good
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A Head for Business (2000)
Plot Summary:
Dutillard is an amateur film maker working as a computer programmer for a small French investment bank. When the bank finds that it has been forced to fork over $104 million to fund Dutillard's film, Chekov's "Three Sisters", and that it has no legal recourse against him, the bank must find a way to make the film profitable. They float around a few ideas including a nude gang bang with the prettier sister, but the horrified Dutilliard comes up with a plan, buy the rights to a blockbuster and package the TV rights with those for the Three Sisters. Before they know it the bankers find them self flying to London and New York to raise money and buy a major film studio.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Antidote (2005)
Plot Summary:
JAM (Christian Clavier), a French "master of the universe" is on the brink of a major takeover when he starts suffering from anxiety attacks. His doctor (Lhermite) thinks it is to do with childhood experiences and suggests he searches back in his mind to something that could be the trigger and will prove to be the antidote.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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My Wife's Husband (1963)
Plot Summary:
After thirteen years in Germany, Fernand is coming back to his wife and his restaurant. But since his disparition, his wife as made her life with a norman chef, sympathetic but a specialist of butter's cooking when Fernand cook only with oil!.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 923
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags:
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Fast Food (1989)
Plot Summary:
Auggie wants to make it big and has tried pretty much everything in order to do so. His next idea: turn his cousin's garage into a burger joint. To make it appealing, they develop a very very very special sauce. But beware, the king of fast food, Wrangler Bob, is out to get them.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 787
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, humorous, realistic, not serious
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Tanguy (2001)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: humorous, cynical, semi serious, feel good, offbeat, realistic, cult film
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Consuming Passions (1988)
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Adapted from a play written by two Monty Python vets, this toothy satire launches with a tragic accident at Chumley's chocolate factory when hapless manager Ian Littleton (Tyler Butterworth) accidentally knocks several employees into a huge chocolate vat. The tragic mishap at the chocolate factory results in candy lovers getting an unexpected 'extra' in their sweets.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 581
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, cynical, semi serious, biting, black comedy, horror comedy
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40 Years Young (2022)
Plot Summary:
After turning 40, César is invited to a culinary contest in Cancún, but a bitter discovery threatens to destroy his family as well as his chances to win the competition.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 654
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, satirical, semi serious
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Two Many Chefs (2022)
Plot Summary:
Mikel, a young cook, meets with his father Juan, who had been missing for 30 years. While trying to keep his restaurant afloat, Mikel has to take care of crazed Juan, a former cook who suffers from a mental condition that prevents him from recognizing neither the aforementioned time gap nor his son Mikel.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 659
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Like Chef, Like God (2004)
Plot Summary:
Thodorakis, the film's hero, has a happy go-lucky attitude about life and women, but this all changes when he is forced by his uncle to train as a chef. He soon becomes a top chef and is so impressive that he enters a 'secret society' for chefs, who battle it out to see which one is the best. To his detriment he becomes so obsessive that the women in his life find him obnoxious and nothing seems likely to save him until the news of his patron's death slaps him in the face like a cold fish. In the end, the shock reminds him to keep his life in perspective.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: culinary
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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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All Aboard! (2021)
Plot Summary:
Finally, the holidays are here! Vlad and his friends are so excited! Jérôme, Vlad’s father, is in charge. André, the grandfather of Jeanne and Basile, is also here to help. Six kids, two adults, an eight-hour train trip. Nothing could go wrong. But Jérôme and André miss the train… and watch it leave the station with the kids on board. It’s the beginning of a crazy race for the unlikely duo. While the unsupervised children go wild and have the time of their life, André and Jérôme go through various delays and adventures….
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 363
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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The Midas Touch (2013)
Plot Summary:
A debt collector takes over the management of a group of starlets after their talent agent defaults on a loan, but soon finds he's in over his head.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Taco Shop (2018)
Plot Summary:
A taco shop's business is jeopardized when a gourmet taco truck parks across the street.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 210
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Contra (2020)
Plot Summary:
With his uncouth manner, Professor Pohl doesn’t enjoy the best reputation at the university where he works. To make matters worse, he makes a racist remark when student Naima arrives late for his lecture. Unfortunately for him, a video of his verbal outburst spreads like wildfire on the Internet, and the university’s president, Lambrecht, is called to deal with the incident. But Pohl is not dismissed. Instead, he is put to the task of helping Naima prepare for an important debating competition. The lecturer and the student could not be more different, yet they are thrown together to work as a team.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, ironic, satirical, semi serious, social
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Tanguy Is Back (2019)
Plot Summary:
16 years later, Tanguy, now 44, returns to his parents' house with his daughter Zhu under his arm because Meï Lin left him. Disappointed to see their "little one" in this state, Paul and Edith do everything to give him a taste for life, without realizing that by doing so, they braid the rope to hang themselves. Because Tanguy is starting to feel good with his parents.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 669
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, weird
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Wedding in Paris (2011)
Plot Summary:
A businessman in Italy, who doesn't pay any taxes, and a financier always on the hunt for tax evaders come into contact because their sons share an apartment in Paris.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 339
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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French Cuisine (2015)
Plot Summary:
François and Charlotte directed together a gourmet hotel and restaurant on the edge of the sea, but their marital relationship is not fixed beauty: obsessive hard, Francis wants his first star in the Michelin Guide while Charlotte, at the dawn of the quarantine, dreams of a first child. This already complicated situation will literally explode the day where Charlotte's first husband, Alex, disembarked in their lives while everyone believed him dead in the terrible tsunami of 2004.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 543
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Three Men and a Cradle (1985)
Plot Summary:
Three young men (Jacques, Pierre and Michel) share an apartment in Paris, and have many girlfriends and parties. Once, during a party, a friend of Jacques' tells him he has a quite compromising package to deliver, and asks him if he can leave it discreetly at their place. Jacques agrees and, as he works as a steward, flies away for a one month trip in Japan, telling Pierre and Michel about the package. Then, one of Jacques' former girlfriends drops a baby before their door, making Pierre and Michel believing it is the package they are waiting for. Their lives are then completely changed.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic, cult film
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The Kitchen: World Chef Battle (2017)
Plot Summary:
Victor Barinov at the personal request of the Russian President will go to Sochi at the world championship for professional chefs and to prove that he and his team are the best in the world! The hard struggle for the title of winner of Operations will help "dark horse" - his own son Ivan, which he suddenly found out on the eve of the championship.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, sincere, captivating, light, feel good, humorous, entertaining
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Le Grand Chef 2: Kimchi Battle (2010)
Plot Summary:
"Le Grand Chef 2" begins with the Korean president visiting the Japanese Prime Minister and becoming involved in a heated debate over the origins of kimchi. The Japanese Prime Minister makes the bold claim that kimchi is an original Japanese dish which sets off the Korean president. Upon the Korean's president return home he sets upon a globalization plan for kimchi, which includes a nationwide "Kimchi Contest". Then, a lady named Jang-eun (Kim Jung-Eun) and her step-brother Sung-Chan (Jin Goo) compete in the Kimchi dish contest, with both siblings using their mother's kimchi recipe.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 261
Genere: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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The Slammin' Salmon (2009)
Plot Summary:
The brutal former heavyweight boxing champion Cleon "Slammin'" Salmon (Duncan), now owner of a Miami restaurant, institutes a competition to see which waiter can earn the most money in one night: the winner stands to gain $10,000, while the loser will endure a beating at the hands of the champ.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, talky, feel good, not serious, witty, cult classic, hilarious, clever
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Umami (2022)
Plot Summary:
Following a near-death experience France's leading chef throws himself into a quest seeking the flavor that has confounded his life since he was defeated by a Japanese chef's bowl of noodles as a young man.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 472
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Waiting... (2005)
Plot Summary:
Employees at a Bennigan's-like restaurant (called, creatively enough, Shenanigan's), kill time before their real lives get started. But while they wait, they'll have to deal with picky customers who want their steak cooked to order and enthusiastic managers who want to build the perfect wait staff. Luckily, these employees have effective revenge tactics.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 104000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, not serious, realistic, parody, cult classic, hilarious, sex comedy, crying
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Our School's E.T. (2008)
Plot Summary:
Sung geun, a physical education teacher, is at risk of losing his job when the school decides it needs an English teacher instead of a PE teacher. Therefore, he starts to devise a plan to change his job as an English teacher.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious