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Plot Summary:
After discussions with Schwartz, a producer from the West, screenwriter Stefan comes back to Poland. Everybody reminds him of his previous success: “The Flame”. The tired protagonist goes back to his wife, actress Ewa, who is eagerly awaiting him. Ewa goes to an audition which doesn’t turn out too well. On the next day, Stefan and his collaborators are wondering what to write a scenario about. Meanwhile, Stefan has a tooth ache. He decides to visit a dentist but is scared away by the price he has to pay for the treatment. Stefan still can’t find an idea for a scenario, and Ewa is not being cast. They decide to sell the car, but a man who takes their car out for a test drive doesn’t return. Stefan is changing ideas for the scenario constantly, he can’t make up his mind… at home, a pipe goes off… the wine he keeps in gallons blows up… the milicia (People’s Republic of Poland’s police) comes and general chaos ensues, as they are drowning in water and wine… which gives Stefan an idea….
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 81 min
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The Mimic (2020)
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Based on a true story, ‘the Narrator’ is befriended by his young new neighbor, after he joins the local newspaper team. Obsessed with the idea that ‘the Kid’ may be a sociopath, ‘the Narrator’ goes to extreme lengths to uncover the truth about him. After unsettling rendezvous, the truth he finds is anything but what he expected.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
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Komedia malzenska (1994)
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Małżeństwo Marii i Wiktora przechodzi kryzys. Kobieta postanawia pokazać mężowi jak trudna jest praca w domu, dlatego wyjeżdża do innego miasta. Jak poradzi sobie Wiktor z ziećmi i wszystkimi obowiązkami? Jak Maria da sobie radę w wielkim mieście ?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min
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Kayrat Champion (2009)
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A rich oligarch is setting a two million dollar prize contest looking for a perfect girl who will give a birth to his grandson.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Comedy
Country: Kazakhstan
Duration: 88 min
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The Fortune Buddies (2011)
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Lam Luk (Cho-lam Wong), Jit Sau (Johnson Lee), Fook Cheung (Louis Yuen) are three unemployed friends who come together to help Lam Luk get married. After Lam Luk proposed to his girlfriend (Fiona Sit), his future father-in-law (Eric Tsang) stipulated that he will allow the marriage only if Lam Luk can come up with $500,000 for the downpayment of their future apartment. The three friends must now do everything they can to come up with the money ….
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 89 min
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Amore vuol dir gelosia (1975)
Plot Summary:
A dentist is married to frigid Licia, has two daughters and three other women.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 95 min
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Vedo nudo (1969)
Plot Summary:
Seven episodes about sex.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 512
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: anthology, italian comedy
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Spaghetti a mezzanotte (1981)
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Savino La Gastra discovers his wife Celeste has a liaison with an architect: Andrea. Even if also Savino has a story with Elvira, a judge's wife, he decides anyway to ask to a mobster to kill his wife. In the mean time Celeste is organizing a surprise party for Savino's birthday, and that day things start to get complicated. First Savino kills accidentally the mafia killer in charge to kill Celeste; second his lover Elvira arrives to the party with the judge... not to mention the police and the mafia Don.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 593
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sexy, surprise ending
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The Gorilla (1982)
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Ruby has been trained in martial arts by her father and now has a job safeguarding a wide range of people and their valuables. A clumsy artist named Adelmo falls for Ruby at first sight but remains clueless about her profession. Things are complicated by Adelmo's French neighbor and sometime model having a crush on him, and Ruby's father trying to hook up his daughter with various body builders while putting the moves on the French girl.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Los gatos de las azoteas (1988)
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There are people disappearing in an apartment building and a psychopath killer is doing it. A man is busy cheating on his wife, another man is looking for love in the same building. It's up to Los Gatos to stop the sexy madness.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Los Verduleros 3 (1992)
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Enjoy a fun day with the cops that leak to bad to good to pursue! A sensational affair with a dangerous killer who escapes from prison and decides to take revenge on them killing them one to one ... If crime is bad business and crime a disease ... do not worry friends Alfonso Zayas is medicine! Enjoy this sensational sexy comedy with more parrots and destrampados greengrocers market of laughter and love. Divertase con los policias que dejan escapar a los malos Para perseguir a las buenas! Una sensacional aventura con un peligroso homicida que se fuga de prision y decide vengarse de ellos asesinandolos uno a uno...Si el crimen es un mal negocio y la delincuencia una enfermedad... no se preocupen amigos Alfonso Zayas es la medicina! Disfrute esta sensacional sexy comedia con los verduleros mas cotorros y destrampados en el mercado de la risa y del amor.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, teen comedy
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Gidget Grows Up (1969)
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After spending the last two years in Europe as an exchange student, Gidget returns home to California only to discover that things have changed. The letters she had been writing to her beloved "moondoggie" to try to make him jealous have had the wrong effect. Disillusioned with love, and after hearing a speech on television, she decides to make a real difference in the world by going to New York to become a youth worker at the United Nations. While there she has a proposal of marriage from an extremely wealthy Arabian Sheik, but instead she falls for a handsome but older Australian diplomat.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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The National Shotgun (1978)
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A catalan manufacturer of intercoms travels to Madrid, accompanied by his mistress, to attend a hunt that he has organized. Its main purpose is to mix with people of high society to improve their business. All seems well until the owner of the farm shows full authority over James, who is the real organizer of the meeting. The celebration is diverse characters who live next to absurd situations.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: parody
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The 120 Days of Bottrop (1997)
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Die letzten Überlebenden der alten Fassbinder-Zunft tun sich zusammen, um auf dem Potsdamerplatz den wirklich allerletzten Neuen Deutschen Film, ein Remake von Pasolinis "120 Tage von Bottrop" zu drehen. Schlingensief soll Regie führen, wird aber von einem gewissen "Sönke Buckmann" ersetzt, dem prompt Katja Riemann den Bundesfilmpreis überreicht. Eine Hommage an Rainer Werner Fassbinder, an die Exzentrik und den Wahnsinn einer längst vergangenen Zeit.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: controversial
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Jagdrevier der scharfen Gemsen (1975)
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About the film: Mr. Shimenger receives from his brother inherited the hotel. Then he flies to Germany, settling there as an ordinary guest, and finds out that his hotel has a reputation as a brothel.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Bar Esperanza (1983)
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Group of eccentric people gather at a popular bar in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, doomed to be closed to give way to the construction of a big building. Intellectuals, artists, night-people in general join forces to try to avoid its demolition. Among its costumers, we find Ana, an actress, her husband Zeca, an intellectual type in crisis about his work for TV, artists, newspapermen, a female researcher, and a couple who's always quarrelling, only to be reconciled moments later.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 127 min
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Italy is Rotten (1976)
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Two Sicilian's, Peppe Truzzoliti and Antonio Mancuso, decide, after a misadventure with some mafia drug dealers, to leave the cold and racist Turin to return to their native land. Along for the ride with them is Domenica, a beautiful girl from Veneto, who had arrived in Turin in search of work, but due to a number of setbacks, had been forced into prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
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Attack Of The Bat Monsters (1999)
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Join schlock impresario Francis Gordon as his intrepid crew attempt to shoot an impromptu monster movie in the three days left over from the film they’ve just wrapped. From the Saul Bass opening title homage to its highly authentic, comic evocation of 1950s’ grade-Z grind house, this was lost when it was made in 1999. But ace restorer Mark Rance (who restored Tobe Hooper’s Eggshells) found it and has lovingly refurbished it under writer/director Kelly Greene’s supervision.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, spoof, parody, cult film
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That's Adequate (1989)
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This mockumentary about fictional movie studio Adequate Pictures boasts an interesting cast. Tony Randall hosts, and James CoCo (practically on his deathbed) stars as head of the studio. Includes parodies of everything from silent comedies to porn, including an ultra violent "three stooges" style comedy team who put a new spin on the eye poking gag.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, independent film, spoof, parody, fake documentary
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The Doctor Prefers Sailors (1981)
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A doctor in a hotel has a lot of problems like a man repeatedly fails to commit suicide, a pair of window washers witness a murder by a hit man, a suspicious wife checks up on her husband who happens to be having an affair with her and many more.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration:
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Italian Sex (1974)
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A sexy graduate student is giving her thesis presentation, which creates quite a stir since it reveals that she has just posed as a prostitute for several months to do sociological research for her thesis. She relates various stories of her experiences to her salivating thesis committee and a large audience of curious on-lookers.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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All in Good Taste (1983)
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A filmmaker is upset to find out that his wholesome script about an orphan and his dog has been warped into a film about ... strippers?!!.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 520
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Bedside Dentist (1971)
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Thomas, a naive young dental student, faces a rather difficult challenge. His millionaire aunt, a bit of a sex nut, will give both him and his dental school millions if he can prove that he is sexually able and skillful. His schoolmates hear rumors of this trial, but understand the challenge to be for him to keep his celibacy.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Comedy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sexy, teen sex comedy, hot
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Love in 4 Easy Lessons (1976)
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IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sexy, anthology, erotic, sex comedy
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Polski film (2012)
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“The fact that I’m playing myself doesn’t mean that it’s me.” Four old schoolmates, today well-known Czech actors (Pavel Liška, Tomáš Matonoha, Josef Polášek and Marek Daniel), decide to make a movie together. Their ambitious colleague Jan Budař takes up directing duties and financing has arrived from Poland. What started out pleasantly enough, however, soon goes awry. Liška’s pronunciation difficulties, Daniel’s alter ego Havlát, and Matonoha’s financial machinations turn the shoot into a fight for survival. More than just a film about friendship and the absurdity of actors’ lives, director Marek Najbrt gives us a witty meditation on reality and illusion, and a unique take on the reality film genre. One of Pavel Liška’s on-set comments (“I didn’t know if I should act as if I were acting, or act as if I weren’t acting, or just not act at all”) illustrates the provocative nature of Najbrt’s subversive, quasi-documentary game.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czech Republic, Poland
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: mockumentary
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School Days (1976)
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When the local science teacher hurts herself during a failed experiment and ends up in hospital, she is replaced by young and sexy Stevania Marini. Barely out of school herself, Stefania finds herself the object of affection for several men, including a young baron and and even most of her male students. One of these, Andrea Balsamo is part of the family with whom Stefania is staying and as such has a stronger foothold than most of the other men in town.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy
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Poker In Bed (1974)
Plot Summary:
A poker player on a losing streak meets a beautiful young woman. He's attracted to her, but she appears to be perfectly content with her boyfriend, a somewhat wussy writer. The gambler gets the idea that if he can get this woman into bed, it will change his luck at the gambling tables.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy, vintage
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Evil Thoughts (1976)
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Mario Marani is a well-respected lawyer in late 70s Milano. He and his wonderful wife Francesca have an intense high social life. But Mario has a problem. He is obsessed by bad thoughts (cattivi pensieri); he is always concerned about his wife, thinking continuously to be betrayed by her. It is a nightmare, every time Mario sees Francesca talking to one of their friends immediately starts to see her and him in an hot affair. Jealousy and suspects increase and increase, till their life cross with a young man hidden inside their flat.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sex comedy
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Tigers in Lipstick (1979)
Plot Summary:
8 comic sketches set in Italy, with 4 of the most famous European sex symbols of the 70's playing 2 roles each.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy, erotic, hot
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Homo Eroticus (1971)
Plot Summary:
Michele is a three-testicle, sexually insatiable man who goes around bedding all women in town (regardless of age), until one day things goes terribly wrong.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, erotic
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The Muse (1999)
Plot Summary:
What happens when a screenwriter (Brooks) loses his edge, he turns to anyone he can for help... even if it's the mythical "Zeus's Daughter" (Stone). And he's willing to pay, albeit reluctantly, whatever price it takes to satisfy this goddess, especially when her advice gets him going again on a sure-fire script. However, this is not the limit of her help, she also gets the writer's wife (MacDowell) going on her own bakery enterprise, much to the chagrin of Brooks, who has already had to make many personal sacrifices for his own help.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: satirical, funny, light, feel good, surprise ending, clever, humorous, witty, inspirational, captivating