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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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Cheeky (2003)
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Consumed with sadness after the death of his wife and subsequent rejection from his son, a widower, at the urging of his friends, opts to appear on a vulgar, wildly popular game show (for which his wife signed him up) and watches his life start to change for the better.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, sincere, sweet, emotional, semi serious, sensual, independent film
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Trampas de amor (1969)
Plot Summary:
Love, infidelity and desire are the protagonists of three stories full of entanglements and romance.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: anthology, surprise ending
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The Girls (1968)
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A theater company rehearses Aristophanes play "Lysistrata" in which the Athenian women revolt to force the men to suspend the war and make peace. The three leading female actresses, Liz, Marianne and Gunilla, all live in humiliating circumstances to their men.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 880
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: experimental
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Jack the Dog (2001)
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Jack is a successful photographer who has always been a womanizer. But at one point in his life he wants to settle down. He marries Faith and together they have a son, Sam. But things aren't working out that well as the two, due to Jack's active working life, grow apart more and more. When Jack can't control himself anymore and starts an affair with Hope, the marriage is over. Faith moves to London to marry the wealthy Klaus and wants to take Sam with her. But Jack wants his son with him and both agree to shared custody. Jack desire for women doesn't vanish, but living together with his son slowly brings a change in him.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
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Huevos rancheros (1982)
Plot Summary:
Two "naughty" comedy episodes with naked women and bodies of water.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: anthology
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How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning (1965)
Plot Summary:
The film consists of three novels. The film begins with the fact that the Bernard Blier hero removes a lantern from the entrance to a brothel. The second part is about how the lantern and jewelery were stolen from a young baroness. And in the third part the hero of Louis de Funes hangs a lantern at the entrance to his house.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 594
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: anthology, slang
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Three Stories of Love (2015)
Plot Summary:
A depressed widower, a bored housewife, and a gay lawyer all intersect in this triptych of love lost.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: captivating, anthology, crying
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The Conjugal Bed (1963)
Plot Summary:
A 40 years old man, Alfonso, finally succeeds to marry a virgin, educate, beautiful and very catholic woman. But soon she, Regina, starts stressing him because she wants to be pregnant. When the stress is at its peak Regina at last gets pregnant. Once the goal is reached the man is put aside and dies.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 782
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grotesque, italian comedy
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The Head Of The Family (1967)
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A man is delighted to hear that his wife is pregnant and he begins to prepare for the wonders of fatherhood. As time progresses along, the family grows larger with each successive child and the father feels his importance in the family has been lessened with all the children. This man's quiet desperation to hold onto his position is an interesting lesson in the family dynamic and how everyone is an important part of the whole.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Movie box-ing (2004)
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2004 film.
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Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: anthology
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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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The Dark Room (2000)
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In 14th-century France, Aliénor breaks with the codes governing girls’ behavior and does as she wishes. The King of France grants her the hand of her childhood love, but her new husband deserts her immediately after the ceremony. Undeterred, she sets out after him, traveling to Siena to bring him back.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Luxembourg, Canada, Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags:
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The Oldest Profession (1967)
Plot Summary:
A collection of sketches on prostitution through the ages. 1) "The Prehistoric Era": A caveman discovers that a cavewoman is more attractive when cave paint is applied to her face. And she can earn more seashells that way. 2) "Roman Nights": The Emperor goes out seeking a little nocturnal amusement, only to find that the high-priced, Oriental courtesan he hires is his wife, the Empress. 3) "Mademoiselle Mimi": In revolutionary France, Mimi finds that her client, the nephew of a marquis, is more interested in watching the guillotinings out her window than he is in going to bed. 4) "The Gay Nineties": When Nini discovers by accident that her antiquated customer is a banker, she pretends to be an honest woman who has fallen in love with him. She even pays him, just like a gigolo! 5) "Paris Today": Two girls pick up clients by driving around in a car.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 604
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: anthology, sex comedy
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Dialogues of the Exiled (1975)
Plot Summary:
Chilean exiles in Paris discuss the problems facing them. They kidnap and attempt to re-educate a touring singer from their fatherland.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy
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The Couples (1970)
Plot Summary:
Three episodes. The refrigerator. A married couple of two poor emigrant workers spend almost all their money to buy a refrigerator (a must in the '70s). The purchase is too expensive for their familiar balance sheet. To earn some money they decide to go for prostitution. The wife is not so unhappy to the perspective. The room. To celebrate ten years of marriage a couple decides to spend a quick holiday in top luxury hotels in Sardegna. But the fashion luxury VIP world is too hard to enter; they soon will end in prison. The Lion. Two adulterous, Antonio and Giulia, are blocked by a lion, staying on the exit in the place they met. They both have to come back home, but couldn't move because of the lion presence. The critic situation soon drive them to their limit peak, showing their real essence.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: anthology, italian comedy
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Exterior Night (1980)
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Hoping to make a fresh start, Léo, a jazz musician, takes up temporary residence with his friend Bony, a young writer who is struggling to get his work published. One evening, Léo strikes up an acquaintance with a woman taxi driver, Cora; in spite of her impulsive and moody temperament, he cannot help being attracted to her. On the spur of the moment, Cora invites Léo to make love to her. When Bony meets Cora, he too finds her irresistible, but he lacks Léo’s self-confidence to make his move. Cora is not a woman that any man can possess readily. She is like a wild animal, a creature that revels in its freedom. Will either Léo or Bony be able to tame her...?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Love and Marriage (1964)
Plot Summary:
An anthology comedy with segments about love and marriage.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Playtime (1961)
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A young American girl at a French boarding school develops a crush on an egotistical sculptor living next door. One night, driving in a drunken stupor, he runs over and kills a man, and she witnesses it.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 87 min
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The Two Crocodiles (1987)
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Rene (Jean-Pierre Marielle) is a small-time crook who tries to shake down storekeeper Emile (Jean Carmet) in this uneven and humorless comedy. Things change when Rene starts to fall for the terminally boring and provincial Emile.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
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Pestonjee (1988)
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Phirojshah (Naseeruddin Shah) and Pestonjee (Anupam Kher) are two close friends. They attempt to do everything together, and they hope that they will marry the same day as well. Unfortunately, both go to see the same young lady, Jeroo (Shabana Azmi), and Pestonjee ends up getting married to Jeroo. Phirojshah has been stricken by Jeroo's beauty and decides not to marry, and takes a transfer away from the couple. During the years, he keeps in touch with the couple by mail. While on a visit to the couple, he finds out that Pestonjee has a mistress, and Jeroo does not know of this. How will this effect Phirojshah's friendship with Pestonjee? Does Phirojshah stand a chance with Jeroo?.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 262
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: art film
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Grand Guignol (1987)
Plot Summary:
Sarah, the wife of a theater director, decides to leave her mutt of a husband because she is tired of his morbid fantasies. It is true that Baptiste has a rather unstable troupe that rehearses horror plays in a dance hall. Sarah comes out of the wings for life, but it turns out to be as incongruous and phantasmagorical as her husband's plays. This is why she returns to him. "The real grand guignol is life. The other is the farce.".
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy
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The Truth (2019)
Plot Summary:
Fabienne is a star; a star of French cinema. She reigns amongst men who love and admire her. When she publishes her memoirs, her daughter Lumir returns from New York to Paris with her husband and young child. The reunion between mother and daughter will quickly turn to confrontation: truths will be told, accounts settled, loves and resentments confessed.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Japan, Switzerland
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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I'm Going Home (2001)
Plot Summary:
The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car crash. Having to take care of his now-orphaned grandson, he struggles to go on with his lifelong acting career like he's used to. But the roles he is offered -- a flashy TV show and a hectic last-minute replacement in an English-language film of Joyce's Ulysses -- finally convince him that it's time to retire.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, realistic, humorous, semi serious, offbeat
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Six in Paris (1965)
Plot Summary:
Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet), and Montparnasse et Levallois (Godard) are stories of love, flirtation and prostitution; Place d'Etoile (Rhomer) concerns a haberdasher and his umbrella; and La Muette (Chabrol), a bourgeois family and earplugs.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: anthology, realistic, semi serious
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Let's Have a Brainwash (1963)
Plot Summary:
This consists of four short films by different directors. Rosselini's 'Chastity' ('Illibatezza') deals with an attractive air hostess who receives the unwelcome attentions of a middle aged American. Godard's 'New World' ('Il Nuovo Mondo') illustrates a post-apocalypse world the same as the pre-apocalyptic one but for an enigmatic change in attitude in most people, including the central character's girlfriend. In Pasolini's 'Curd Cheese' ('La Ricotta'), a lavish film about the life of Jesus Christ is being made in a poor area. The impoverished people subject themselves to various indignities in the name of moviemaking in order to win a little food. The central character is hoisted up on a cross for filming, and dies there. Finally comes Gregoretti's 'Free Range Chicken' ('Il Pollo Ruspante') in which a family of the materialist culture inadvertantly illustrate the cynical, metallic voiced doctrine of a top sales theorist.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: anthology, offbeat, realistic, surreal, contemplative, semi serious, black comedy, avant garde
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Man About Town (2006)
Plot Summary:
A top Hollywood talent agent finds his cushy existence threatened when he discovers that his wife is cheating on him and that his journal has been swiped by a reporter out to bring him down.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, cynical, romantic drama, clever, realistic, biting, crying, suspense
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The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards (2015)
Plot Summary:
Seven vignettes explore the difference between fantasy and reality, memory and history, and the joy and agony of the human condition.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychological, thought provoking, serious, satirical, disturbing, existential
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Fourplay (2018)
Plot Summary:
A story of friendship, love, marriage, secrets, lies that unfolds between two couples in one apartment during a Sunday brunch that will affect their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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The April Fools (1969)
Plot Summary:
Newly-promoted if none too happily married Howard Brubaker leaves a rowdy Company party early with the stunning Catherine, whom it turns out is herself unhappily married - to the boss. They spend an innocent night in New York becoming more and more attracted to each other, so that when Catherine announces she intends to leave her husband and return to Paris Howard asks to go along too. In the cold light of morning problems and pressures from spouses crowd in.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious, neo screwball comedy
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Very Happy Alexander (1968)
Plot Summary:
Alexandre, a young and honest farmer, is oppressed by an authoritarian wife, who makes him work like a dog. When she dies in a car crash, he decides to stay in bed, absolutely free and inactive. Just a dog is occupied to carry food and newspapers to him.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: anthology, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious