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Plot Summary:
Elvio Battistini works as a ticket taker in the local cinema of the small town where he lives. He has a prosthesis in one leg, the result of an accident, but he tells anyone who will listen it is a war injury. Giuseppe Mondardini, is also an older man living alone in what was the splendid family home. When Elvio and Giuseppe meet, they hit it off immediately. A trip to a cooler area is in order, so Mordardini unveils his ancient automobile.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 106 min
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A Touch of Grey (2009)
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Barb has the perfect life, or so she's been told. Somewhere down the road, she's gained a husband, kids and a career, but lost her freedom and passion for life. In an attempt to recapture the innocence of her carefree days, Barb calls her high school pals Patti, Karen and Liz together for a weekend reunion. Loosening up with a few bottles of wine, each shares their secrets and dreams. But they soon discover that they share much more - burden, responsibility and a deep dissatisfaction for where their decisions have taken them. The best friends reach out to one another for collective wisdom and guidance. But, is it enough to save these four friends and set them back on their chosen paths? A Touch of Grey is a bittersweet comedy. A poignant, soul-searching journey that explores the question, can we have it all and still be truly happy?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
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The Village of Simpletons (1981)
Plot Summary:
A vignette of stories from the small town of Pölhölä, known as the Village of Simpletons.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 298
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 87 min
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Vive nous! (2000)
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When Valérie's husband Yves confesses he's in love with another woman, she happens into a judo club and begins lessons. She likes it, she's a natural, and she's attracted to Bruno, the quiet instructor. He likes her as well, but sees social class as a barrier, and Yves never seems to be too far away. Valérie's two close friends have their own stories: Annette is continuously looking for a husband, with little luck. Clara cares more about wealth and power, and takes up with the country's finance minister, an older man who flips for her. Meanwhile, Yves's lover doesn't seem in a hurry to leave her husband, so Valérie looks good to him from time to time. Will Bruno ever make a move?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 96 min
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The Big Fox (1988)
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Ugo Maria Volpone is a very rich shipowner. He dissimulates to be close to die in order to have the attention of three of his friends: Corvino, Voltore and Corbaccio. The three accepts every kind of humiliation and money loss in order to inherit all Volpone's fortune. Volpone hires a new servant, Mosca. Together the two start to realize new jokes and extortions to the three greedy fake friends. Who will win the inheritance?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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Catherine and I (1980)
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Enrico has a troubled relationship with his wife, daughter and lover. For this reason he decide to download all of them and to dedicate himself to peace. In fact he has been attracted by the waiter-robot of a friend, and so Enrico asks him to sell it. The robot is called Catherine (Caterina) and serves Enrico to perfection, but he ends up falling in love with him, and so it equally happens to Catherine, who becomes infatuated with his master. Howeve, the different nature of the two prevents the relationship.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 364
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 117 min
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Nineties (1992)
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Scandalously famous collections of short Italian comedies of the 90s! All that was "fun" in those years in Italy - all here! The sea of black humor on all issues - sex, politics, mafia, crime, TV.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sketch comedy
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Anni 90 - Part II (1993)
Plot Summary:
Second scandalously famous collections of short Italian comedies of the 90s! All that was "fun" in those years in Italy - all here! The sea of black humor on all issues - sex, politics, mafia, crime, TV.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sketch comedy
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A Joke of Destiny, Lying in Wait Around the Corner Like a Bandit (1983)
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The internal minister's very sophisticated ultra-technological and plated car stops for a mechanical accident in front of a villa. The owner of the villa is De Andreis that immediately offers his help to save the minister entrapped inside the car. Everything has to be done in secret to avoid a scandal within the Roman politic world. Many attempt are done but the result is unexpectedly terrific.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
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Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa (1968)
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A rich businessman is fed up with work, family, society, and goes with a friend to Africa, in search of another friend who had vanished there in mysterious circumstances. They will find him alright - as a tribal chief, surrounded with lots of topless, shapely wives. They are going to return to civilisation, but will their friend come with them?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: parody, surprise ending, black comedy, dark comedy, italian comedy
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The Boom (1963)
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Sweet-sour comedy on Italy's 1950's rage to get rich as fast as possible! The businessman wants to satisfy his wife's craving for luxury and a "respectable life" so he becomes heavily indebted. In desperation he agrees to sell a precious part of his body for a large sum of money. But just before the crucial operation he panics.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: italian comedy
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A Common Sense of Modesty (1976)
Plot Summary:
A three novels about an ordinary people discovering erotic movies.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: anthology, sexy
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I'm Photogenic (1980)
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Antonio Barozzi moves from Lago Maggiore to Rome to become an actor. He does not realize his agent and acting coach are only manipulating him to further their own careers.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 519
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Attenti a quei P2 (1982)
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Attenti a quei P2 (Beware of those P2s) is a satirical parody of the judicial affair concerning the P2 Masonic lodge.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
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Il prof. Dott. Guido Tersilli, primario della clinica Villa Celeste convenzionata con le mutue (1969)
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Story of an ambitious young doctor through unethical means intend to make a quick career. Now is primary in a luxury clinic where administers the sick with the same cynicism of his young years.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 857
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
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All My Friends Part 3 (1985)
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This time the "amici" (friends) are just four: Necchi, Meandri, Mascetti and Sassaroli. Nevertheless they are older they still love to spend their time mainly organizing irresistible jokes to everyone in every kind of situation. Mascetti is hospitalized in a geriatric clinic. Of course the place become immediately the main stage for all their jokes. After some jokes they decided to place an ultimate incredible and farcical joke to the clinic guests.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: hilarious, italian comedy
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Surprise Trip (2022)
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IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 97 min
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Stay With Us (2022)
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Gad Elmaleh decides to leave New York and move back to Paris, to get baptized and become a Catholic. Despite his attempt to hide the truth from his Jewish family, Gad's parents discover their son's unconditional love for the Virgin Mary – and for them, it’s a nightmare! Determined to bring Gad back to reason and to his Jewishness, they turn his conversion into a battlefield - as Gad tries to make them understand by any means necessary that his sincere beliefs do not change his identity and the love he has for his family.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 365
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
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Be Sick... It's Free (1968)
Plot Summary:
The eventful ascent of a doctor in the corrupted Italian healthcare system.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: italian comedy
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The Blue Collar Worker and the Hairdresser in a Whirl of Sex and Politics (1996)
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This Italian political satire from filmmaker Lina Wertmuller will be most enjoyable for those well-grounded in Italian politics. Covering the late March through April general elections of 1994 in which right-wing conservatives routed the incumbent leftists. This is particularly upsetting for Tunin, a mechanic with a firm belief in communism. Fearing that his party is about to lose, he journeys to a northern village to stir up trouble. He isn't there long before he is arguing with a beautiful hairdresser. Their debate is fiery as is his growing and impossible-to-disguise passion for her. She too is intrigued with him, but their disparate ideologies threaten to keep them apart.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min
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Lady Football (1983)
Plot Summary:
In Italy in the early 1980s, a Brazilian football ace is afflicted by nostalgia for his country and for his beautiful girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Zoran, My Nephew the Idiot (2013)
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Paolo, passes his days dragging himself between drinking sessions in the local bar with his friends, an unsatisfying job and an infantile stalking of his ex-wife. One day, he comes across his nephew Zoran, a curious boy of fifteen, born and raised in the mountains along with an aunt that Paolo did not know to have. After her death, Paolo is the only person who can take care of the boy. Thanks to the wise man owner of the Paolo's usual bar, he discovers that Zoran has a bizarre and unexpected gift: he is a real champion in playing darts. This is an opportunity for Paolo to take a revenge against the world. But things do not always develop as we would like them to.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 962
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Italy, Slovenia, France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, light, feel good, offbeat, independent film
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Great! (1986)
Plot Summary:
Carlo Verdone at his best is incredibly supported by a fantastic Alberto Sordi and a cast of street-genie non-actors that outperform beyond any imagination.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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I Hate My Best Friends' Kids (2007)
Plot Summary:
A month of vacation with friends: difficult to bear the kids of his friends, especially when the methods of education differ and that some prove to be unbearable.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious
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The New Monsters (1977)
Plot Summary:
15 years after the monumental "I mostri" which was a great example of Italian sketch comedy, 3 of the greatest Italian directors ever (Risi, Monicelli, Scola) the best Italian writers ever (Age, Scarpelli) the best Italian actors ever (Tognazzi, Gassmann, Sordi) one of the most beautiful woman in the world (Ornella Muti) participate to this great tribute.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: anthology, black comedy, grotesque, italian comedy
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The 1000-Euro Generation (2009)
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In Milan, Matteo is an underemployed physicist, giving the occasional lecture at a university while working at a PR firm where he knows he'll be fired. Without his really trying, two women are attracted to him, a blond and a brunette. The blond is Angelica; they meet smoking on the office rooftop. To his surprise, she has clout in the company and soon has him flying off (with her) to make presentations. The brunette is Beatrice, a new flatmate, hoping for a teaching job in the national service. Angelica dangles a posting with her in Barcelona; Beatrice is simply Beatrice. Will Matteo figure out what he wants - and decide before opportunity passes him by?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, entertaining, humorous
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Four of Us (2014)
Plot Summary:
James prepares for his eighth grade oral exams while his family is going through different times.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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An Italian Name (2015)
Plot Summary:
Paolo and his wife are waiting a baby and deciding his name, but it seems that Paolo's family and friends don't really like the chosen name.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, witty, contemplative, talky, semi serious, feel good, funny, light, entertaining
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Love & Slaps (2010)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about generational conflict between two parents who do not want to grow old and a seventeen year old daughter who wants to become an adult. During a weekend with some friends in their country house in Tuscany, Marcello and Marina, relieved that the love affair of their teenage daughter Rose with another boy, Luke, is over, prepare to meet their daughter's new boyfriend. The problem is that the two adults, who still feel pretty young, do not know what to expect, and what they are about to discover will leave them speechless.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 589
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, feel good, realistic, talky, not serious
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A Little Lust (2015)
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Sixteen year old Rocco's two aims in life are to get laid and to see his favorite pop star in concert with his two best friends. When a bullying incident at school forces Rocco to come out to his divorced middle-class parents their liberal leanings are severely tested. Luckily his two friends stand by him and join him in running away from home (in his parents stolen car) to see their favorite singer in concert, followed hot on their heels by his neurotic mother and eccentric gran.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 339
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, unusual plot structure, humorous, suspense, suspenseful, queer cinema
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All Together (2011)
Plot Summary:
Five old friends decide to move in together as an alternate to living in a retirement home; joining them is an ethnology student whose thesis is on the aging population.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, sentimental, realistic