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Plot Summary:
Bad financial conditions compel an aristocratic family named Lachesnaye to do strange work.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 713
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
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The Big Scare (1964)
Plot Summary:
Two police inspectors Triquet and Vergus launch their investigations to arrest a dangerous escaped forger named Mickey Le Bénedictin.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 526
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: detective, spoof, parody
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Incorrigible (1975)
Plot Summary:
Victor Vautier is incorrigible: he's in constant motion, working several cons at once, using different names and changing disguises. He's charming and outrageous, incapable of uttering a sentence that isn't embellished or an outright lie. His life goal is to make enough money to build a sea wall to protect Mont-Saint-Michel. Charlotte, a parole officer, shows up: she's young and seems taken in by Victor. He discovers she lives above the Senlus Museum, where her parents are the curators. With two pals he decides to steal a priceless El Greco triptych and then ransom it back to the cultural ministry. What will Charlotte do when she realizes he's used her to make a fortune?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
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Holy Tongue (2000)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 556
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
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Tender Scoundrel (1966)
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Jean-Paul Belmondo is a lovable lothario who delights in his womanizing ways in this ribald comedy adventure. When two women can't get enough of him, he is chased to Tahiti and back to Paris by admiring females. His experiences are exhausting to the point that he considers giving up his life as a ladies man.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 411
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 94 min
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Bonsoir (1994)
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No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
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Nasty Habits (1977)
Plot Summary:
In a Philadelphia convent, two nuns battle it out to be elected to the position of head abbess, and neither is about to let anything stand in the way of getting what she wants.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, cult film
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The Car Keys (2003)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, offbeat, claymation, allegory, independent film
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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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Happy He Who Like Ulysses (1970)
Plot Summary:
For 25 years now, under the Provence sun, Antonin, a farmhand, has shared his work and everyday life with a horse named Ulysse. What a shock when Pascal, the farmer, tells him he has decided to sell Ulysse to a picador for being too old. Not only will he be separated from his faithful companion, but he is well aware too that the arenas of Arles mean death for Ulysse. Being unable to stand such injustice, Antonin runs away from the farm in the company of Ulysse. Together, they go through the Lubéron, the Baux de Provence, the Alpilles, the Crau and the Vaccarès. Yet, their journey is no pleasure cruise, specially when it comes to crossing National Road 7. After a visit to Marcellin, an old friend of his, Antonin sets off again with Ulysse, this time towards the Rhône River.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
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The Stud (1970)
Plot Summary:
Veterinary surgeon William Chaminade is having a peaceful holiday in the South of France when he is witness to an event that will change not only his life but the destiny of France! A young woman tries to kill herself by jumping from the upstairs window of the hotel where he is staying. Thanks to the services of a passing athlete, the woman is unharmed, and she reveals that her distress is down to her husband’s apparent lack of interest in her. Immediately, Chaminade has a brainwave. He will open a special centre for people like this unfortunate young woman, who will be able to satisfy their romantic needs, at the tax payers’ expense. All is well until this innovative ’pleasure centre’ draws the attention of an over-zealous tax inspector, Dupuis.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
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She No Longer Talks She Shoots (1972)
Plot Summary:
Rosemonde, hailed as "the Princess" reign over a slum in the Paris suburbs. Herbert, a reporter who came to investigate on the pollution, ends up in a grinding machine of her invention. Rosemonde resells the bones to the church authorities who use them as holy relics. Inspector Adrian Bondu is handling the case... But a young hippie who looks like Jesus will have Rosemonde suddenly feel very earthly feelings.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, spoof, parody
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The Big Wash (1968)
Plot Summary:
Sickened to see his students always sleeping in class, a teacher with a colleague and an anarchist start a war against the television. They climbed on Paris roofs to coat the T.V. antennas with a special product cutting the signal reception.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: detective, slapstick comedy
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The Buddies (1965)
Plot Summary:
Seven pals decide to take a few days'holidays to free up the time necessary to pull three enormous pranks. Their aim is to ridicule three established bodies: the army, the church and the administration. Quite arbitrarily, they set their hearts on two peaceful sub-prefectures, Ambert and Issoire. Broudier, disguised as a government minister, turns up at the barracks, demands and obtains the organization of night maneuvers. The following day, Bénin, dressed up as a reverend, preaches in the cathedral of Issoire a sermon against the precepts of the Church. As for Lesueur, he disturbs the inauguration of the statue of Vercingétorix by an MP. But the holidays are over. The seven of them can'r part without a last joke.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
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Revenge of a Blonde (1994)
Plot Summary:
An upstanding provincial reporter becomes presenter of the TV news on a commercial network owned by an influential Italian businessman. He soon outgrows his family and neglects them terribly. Investigating a fascist terrorist cell, the reporter's integrity is called into doubt by the police. Soon after, his jealous wife unleashes her wrath live in TV. It goes from bad to worse until his wife's anger brings him back to his senses and back home.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 599
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
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Let's Have a Riot (1970)
Plot Summary:
Episodes centering on different aspects of early 1970s Italian life:set in a television studio, a factory, a university, and a Catholic parish.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: intellectual
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Dandelions by the Roots (1964)
Plot Summary:
Jockey Jack has a bill open with a gangster just released from jail. He somehow manages to parry the gangster's knife attack backstage at a theatre and the latter ends up dead being put into a double bass case. A day later the gangster mysteriously has disappeared, but it turns out that he was carrying a bet ticket for a horse race now worth over a million. A turbulent run for the money begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 650
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, surprise ending
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The Apprentices (1995)
Plot Summary:
Black comedy about two best friends, one a budding playwright and the other a motorbike freak, who spend their time annoying their girlfriends and getting into various scrapes. Things turn nasty, however, when the pair are caught burgling the offices of a karate magazine, the consequences of which sends the playwright into a spiraling bout of depression.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, biting, suspense
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My Pastor Among the Nudists (1982)
Plot Summary:
A country priest receives his bishop with the mission of converting a nudist colony.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Waiting for the Light (1990)
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A former vaudevillian magician (MacLaine) moves her straight-laced niece (Garr) and her two mischievous children to a small town. When the two kids get in trouble with a neighbor for stealing vegetables from his garden, the aunt concocts an illusion of ghosts in revenge. Only trouble is the whole town believes it is real and soon the press is swarming the town and a major magic trick is required for everyone to save face.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 573
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Idiot in Paris (1967)
Plot Summary:
Goubi, the simpleton of his village in the French Department Allier, has but one wish: to see Paris. One day, the truckers Grafouillère deposit a drunk Goubi in the biggest market of Paris (the "Halles"). The poor man is completely lost, but the meat merchant Dessertine takes him under his wings when he hears that Goubi was likewise 'raised by the State'.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 371
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Teen Spirit (2007)
Plot Summary:
A 30 ans, Bruno, rock-star has been, vit toujours aux crochets de sa petite amie. Les temps sont durs... surtout quand une ex ressurgit de nulle part pour lui apprendre qu'il est le père de Nancy, 13 ans, dont il n'a jamais soupçonné l'existence.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Women on the 6th Floor (2010)
Plot Summary:
Paris, in the early 1960s. Jean-Louis Joubert is a serious but uptight stockbroker, married to Suzanne, a starchy class-conscious woman and father of two arrogant teenage boys, currently in a boarding school. The affluent man lives a steady yet boring life. At least until, due to fortuitous circumstances, Maria, the charming new maid at the service of Jean-Louis' family, makes him discover the servants' quarter on the sixth floor of the luxury building he owns and lives in. There live a crowd of lively Spanish maids who will help Jean-Louis to open to a new civilization and a new approach of life. In their company - and more precisely in the company of beautiful Maria - Jean-Louis will gradually become another man, a better man.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: romantic, sentimental, feel good, inspirational, unusual plot structure, humorous, realistic, semi serious, funny, light
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The Suitor (1962)
Plot Summary:
Absent-minded yet cultured, Pierre answers his parents demands to wed by ignoring both astronomy and the housemaid, instead falling head-over-heels for rich damsels.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: mind bending, psychedelic, surreal, sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick
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Dad on the Run (2000)
Plot Summary:
Jonas (Clément Sibony), a 23-year-old dad attempts to carry out an important Jewish tradition: burying the foreskin of his newly circumcised son. The forgetful father only has a few hours to complete the task... but have a group of hit men on his trail won't help matters much.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, sexy, offbeat
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The Magic Tuche (2018)
Plot Summary:
After a groundbreaking presidential election, Jeff Tuche becomes the new President of France and moves in the Elysee with his family to govern the country.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining
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Chouchou (2003)
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Choukri, alias Chouchou, a transvestite Maghrebi with clear eyes, comes illegally to Paris to find his nephew. Hired as an assistant by a psychotherapist, known for his good mood, he also work as a waiter in a transvestite cabaret of Clichy where he meets Stanislas.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, cult film
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The Ultimate Accessory (2013)
Plot Summary:
The story of Aleksandra and Cyrille, a prominent, trendy, and very well-off Parisian couple, whose life is not quite the same after seven-year-old Alekseï from Russia suddenly pops up in their 100% cashmere, childless home. Aleksandra soon realises that this little boy they have adopted is not quite what she had been hoping for.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 718
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, feel good, suspense, biting
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Daddy Cool (2008)
Plot Summary:
The story about the age gap between a scientist father, Philipe Le Tallec, and his newly discovered teen aged daughter, Eglantine.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 629
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic
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Bachelor Days Are Over (2011)
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Arnaud nicknamed "Cui Cui" no longer knows which way to look. He is about to marry Anna but he is not sure he really loves her. To make matters worse, he falls in love during the stag party he has with his friends. And Léa, a nightclub singer, is obviously the woman of his dreams. What to do? Cancel the wedding and create a scandal but be able to live with a woman he loves truly and loves him in return? Or be a good boy and not disappoint the company but say farewell to happiness. For four days, Arnaud goes to and fro aimlessly between Anna and Léa, between his eccentric sister and his self-centered mother, between hope and depression.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, contemplative, light, feel good, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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Serial (Bad) Weddings (2014)
Plot Summary:
A catholic French couple sees their life upside down when their four daughters get married to men of different religion and origins.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: light, funny, entertaining, humorous, romantic, feel good, hilarious, semi serious, realistic, romantic comedy