Best movies like Swashbuckler
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Plot Summary:
Nicolas Philibert goes to America after killing a French aristocrat. On his return he tries to divorce his wife, Charlotte, but when he sees others trying to woo her his own interest is rekindled.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Italy, Romania
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Best tv shows and movies like Swashbuckler (1971):
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Scoundrel in White (1972)
Plot Summary:
Jean-Paul Belmondo plays Paul, a former womanizer who marries the head of the medical department's "unattractive" daughter Christine because he thinks attractive women can't be trusted and make poor wives. A car accident leaves him bedridden and he begins to miss his playboy days, when Christine's bombshell sister Martine arrives and Paul decides he must have her. He begins drugging Christine at night so he can sneak out to kill of Martine's many suitors one by one.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 715
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sex comedy, black comedy, dark comedy, witty, cynical, slapstick
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The Race (2002)
Plot Summary:
Sami, Tacchini, Yaya and Kader are four small-time crooks from the suburbs of Paris. After a failed robbery, their boss, Carlito, sends them to Canada to spy on his fiancée. There, they are mistaken for a band of professional killers and are hired to assassinate the heiress Léonore de Segonzac.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 996
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
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Trilogy: Two (2002)
Plot Summary:
A woman, concerned by her husband's eccentric behavior, hires a detective to follow his every move -- which yields unexpected results.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, art house, detective
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Madame (1961)
Plot Summary:
Catherine Hubscher, who washes the shirts of young Napoleon and other soldiers fighting the Revolution, falls in love with Sergeant Lefebvre. Circumstances bring Lefebvre a noble title and even more -- Napoleon decides to make him the local ruler over a large territorial fiefdom. But trouble brews when Madame Sans-Gene, now elevated to the nobility along with her man -- cannot keep her frank observations under control.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sexy, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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South Kensington (2001)
Plot Summary:
The movie's about some Italian men living in London and having their lives sweetened by having wealthy parents and meeting many attractive women and one whale of a woman.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 683
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy, UK, France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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The Abduction Club (2002)
Plot Summary:
A group of Irish noblemen kidnap girls in order to marry into their fortune and avoid becoming priests or soldiers.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Ireland, Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, period piece, realistic, sexual, sexy, period drama
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Fanfan (2003)
Plot Summary:
In this 2003 remake of the classic 1952 French film, Fanfan la Tulipe is a swashbuckling lover who is tricked into joining the army of King Louis XV by Adeline La Franchise, who tells Fanfan that by doing so, he will eventually marry one of the king's daughters.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: captivating, humorous, semi serious, tense, exciting, weird
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Swords of Blood (1962)
Plot Summary:
In the 18th century, Louis de Bourguignon is working with the Malichot's gang, but their ways are too 'unethical' for him. He creates his own band, acting under the name of Cartouche, making audacious robberies of the rich people, and even distributing the takings with the poor. Thus, cartouche attracts the people's sympathies, Venus's love, and hate from the Police and Malichot... Cartouche can escape all the traps they set at him - except the entrapments of love. Eventually, he will be saved by a woman, at her own cost.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, exciting, feel good, captivating, dramatic
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The Black Tulip (1964)
Plot Summary:
In 1789, when the Revolution went on, a bandit named "Black Tulip" held the surroundings of village Roussillon in fear. The poor people respected him as Robin Hood, who declare himself a revolutioner but Count Guillaume de Saint Preux "plays" this benefactor.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: 70mm film, period drama
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Carry on Pimpernel (1967)
Plot Summary:
The time of the French revolution, and Citizen Robespierre is beheading the French aristocracy. When word gets to England, two noblemen, Sir Rodney Ffing and Lord Darcy take it upon themselves to aid their French counterparts. Sir Rodney is a master of disguise, and becomes "the black fingernail", scourge of Camembert and Bidet, leaders of the French secret police.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody, sex comedy, exciting, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film
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That Man from Rio (1964)
Plot Summary:
Farce, spy spoof, and adventure. Swarthy thieves ignore jewels to steal an Amazon figurine from the Museum of Man in Paris' Trocadero Palace and kidnap the world's authority on the lost Maltec civilization. Cut to Agnes, the daughter of a murdered man who possessed one of two other such figurines. Moments after her sweetheart, Adrien, an Army private with a week's leave, arrives in Paris to see her, Agnes too is kidnapped, drugged, and loaded on a plane to Rio. Adrien is in hot pursuit, and before he can rescue her (with the help of a shoeshine boy), foil the murderous thieves, and solve the riddle of the Maltecs, he must traverse Rio, Brasília, and the Amazon heartland... all before the end of his week's leave.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious, anthology, cult classic, detective, eurospy, weird
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Marry Me (2000)
Plot Summary:
Oriane and Hadrian's couple is going through a crisis. Determined to save their marriage, Oriane visits a Gypsy fortune teller who foresees a dark future. But Oriane won't hear of anything but a happy ending and the psychic is forced to read another future which, unfortunately, also happens to end bitterly. Will the third reading satisfy the young woman?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, captivating, controversial, realistic
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Enchanted Interlude (2000)
Plot Summary:
Summer 1969 on the Mediterranean coast. Paul and Vincent are childhood buddies. On a beach one day, they meet Alice and her friend Eve. After a series of memorable adventures, couples fall into place but not quite in the right order. Alice blossoms elsewhere, Paul marries Eve and Vincent weds Marie. The 70s are in full swing. Thanks to the pill, women's lives change radically, sexology is in, feminists's voices can be heard loud and clear but unrestricted and free access to abortion has yet to be attained. Against the backtop of a decade marked by sexual liberation, these three girls and two boys will cross each other's paths, love one another, split up and reunite.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, sexual, sexy
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The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982)
Plot Summary:
During the French Revolution, a mysterious English nobleman known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel (a humble wayside flower), snatches French aristos from the jaws of the guillotine, while posing as the foppish Sir Percy Blakeney in society. Percy falls for and marries the beautiful actress Marguerite St. Just, but she is involved with Chauvelin and Robespierre, and Percy's marriage to her may endanger the Pimpernel's plans to save the little Dauphin.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, entertaining, period piece, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, period drama, baroque, eighties
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Dry Spell (2013)
Plot Summary:
Sasha tries to get her soon-to-be ex husband Kyle laid so she can move on with her sex life guilt-free.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, humorous, realistic, light, feel good, semi serious
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Try Me (2006)
Plot Summary:
Quand Yves-Marie, 9 ans, demande à Jacqueline, qui a son âge : "Epouse-moi", elle répond par une pirouette : "Le jour où tu vas dans les étoiles, je te donne ma main.".
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 624
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, realistic, semi serious
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Nearlyweds (2013)
Plot Summary:
Revolves around three friends who have dream weddings only to find out that the pastor who married them failed to complete the key paperwork required to make them official.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, cute
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The Art of Love (2011)
Plot Summary:
The Art of Love is composed of several chapters, which follows several Parisian couples.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sentimental, realistic, witty, humorous, romantic, satirical, talky, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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If You Are the One 2 (2010)
Plot Summary:
A sequel to one of China's biggest box office hits, the wry romantic comedy "Fei Cheng Wu Rao 2" ("If You Are the One 2") — the first Chinese release to open in its homeland and North America on the same day — continues the odd-couple courtship saga of wealthy, middle-aged retiree Qin Fen (Ge You) and serious-minded young air hostess Xiaoxiao (Shu Qi).After an amusing prelude in which Qin presides over a lavish divorce ceremony for an amicably splitting married couple, he and Xiaoxiao decide to address their own relationship barriers — her youth and beauty, his cynical, childish sense of humor — by entering into a trial marriage while on a trip to the country's tropical southeast.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: touching, stylized, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Divorce Invitation (2012)
Plot Summary:
'Divorce Invitation' centers on Mike Christian, a happily married man who runs into his high school sweetheart Alex, and after all these years, sparks still fly. When Mike is determined Alex is his true soul mate, he realizes he has a huge problem-he signed an iron-clad pre-nuptial agreement and his wife will not let him out of the marriage.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, relaxing, sentimental, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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The Best Day of My Life (2004)
Plot Summary:
Not too excited Arthur asks marriage Lola. What should have been a quiet ceremony evolves in something bigger, expensive and overwhelming as family is involved. The organization of the best day of their lives threatens to destroy them.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 286
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, entertaining, funny, light, romantic, feel good, captivating
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R.T.T. (2009)
Plot Summary:
When Florence, his companion of five years, shocks him with the news that she's leaving him, moving to Miami and marrying another man, Arthur loses it. He follows Florence to all the way to Florida with plans to stop the wedding, which is set to take place in just a few days. Along the way, he crosses paths with Emilie, who is also heading to Miami, but unlike Arthur, is wanted by the police. As a result, Arthur gets stuck on an adventure he definitely never expected.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, entertaining, exciting, realistic
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Rockin' Meera (2006)
Plot Summary:
An upcoming hip-hop band from San Francisco makes the journey into the depths of modern Hindustan. They clash with a feisty Prince for the prized catch: Meera, a bold dusky beauty. The comic adventure unfolds in the jaws of a raging tiger, raining bullets and a deadly match of wits.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, feel good, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, witty
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Gaby Baby Doll (2014)
Plot Summary:
Gaby cannot stay alone ; she's afraid of the dark ,of everything .When her boyfriend leaves her (he wants to have sex with her and she gets on his nerves,because she only needs a protector),she's completely on her own .She's afraid of the daylight ,in these peaceful forests ,where danger might wait for her behind a bush ;at night when she gets back home, it's worse :may an intruder have sneaked into her place?As the men in the cafe do not want to spend the night with her as bodyguards,she sets her heart on the warden of a castle ;sadly ,he is a misanthropic hermit.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic
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Take-Away Romance (2014)
Plot Summary:
Amelle and Noom are two young thirties are total opposites and that fate will bring. Serious She manager at Starbucks, and dynamic IT dilettante, smart, and apprentice comic. Both victims disappointments in love, they swore that it does take longer. So how do when despite all these opposites attract? A game of seduction then sets up for our greatest happiness. But all is not so rosy, families, friends, colleagues get involved, wars are declared, quarrels explode. Caught between the roots of their education and the fire of their feelings, which side will they choose? The love he will triumph? One thing is sure, they will make us have a good loads of fun and excitement.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 377
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, entertaining, sentimental, realistic, semi serious
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Beaumarchais the Scoundrel (1996)
Plot Summary:
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his activities during the American War of Independence and his authorship of the Figaro trilogy of plays.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, History, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, stylized
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A Perfect Plan (2012)
Plot Summary:
Successful woman in love tries to break her family curse of every first marriage ending in divorce, by dashing to the alter with a random stranger before marrying her boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, romantic, funny, humorous, semi serious, sweet, exciting, realistic, crying
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Darling Trap (2014)
Plot Summary:
Clémence is pathologically jealous. Gabriel has asked her to marry him. To test whether he is faithful, unbeknownst to him she arranges that he crosses paths with beautiful Olivia.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, romantic comedy, realistic, semi serious
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Relationship Status: It's Complicated (2014)
Plot Summary:
Thirty-year-old Ben is about to marry Juliette. His quiet, ordered life will fall to pieces when he meets up again with the person he secretly wants to see the most: Vanessa, the high school bombshell who never so much as looked in his direction. She's back in Paris, and the only person she now knows is him….
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 957
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: feel good, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, realistic
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Divorce French Style (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ariane, a young French violinist, accepts the marriage proposal of Christen, an irresistible conductor. Only problem: she's a little bit ... married! Separated for two years with Nino, an Italian teacher with a strong character, she manages to convince him to follow her to Paris to divorce in 8 days flat. But their trip in the city of love looks much more eventful than expected.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 635
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, realistic, not serious