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Plot Summary:
Marcel, a simple-minded factory worker, is tricked into buying a high-priced American convertable car by a widow determined not to let it fall into the hands of her late husband's secretary/secret lover. Once in pocession of the car, Marcel only encounters one bad luck episode after another with the excessive gasoline consumtion, his wife trying to sell it to make ammends meet, getting into traffic jams, accidently riding into a car wash with the top down, and more.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 691
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
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Heavy Weather (1995)
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At Blandings Castle, the Earl of Emsworth only cares about his prize pig 'The Empress' and is wilfully ignorant of the fact that his brother is planning to publish a book which might ruin the family name forever. Moreover, the Earl's nephew might cause the family some major damage by getting married to a terribly unsuitable chorus girl. An adaptation of P.G. Wodehouse's novel of the same name.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min
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Chyťte doktora (2007)
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Nothing very unusual has happened to Michal (Michal Malátný). He finds himself in the middle of a situation he is partly responsible for and partly not, but it's up to him to solve it. Everyone expects it of him and he himself would like to arrange things honorably and peacefully for everyone involved. But it isn't possible. There seem to be plenty of alternatives. And because this is a film, Michal can try all of them.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 93 min
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The Juliette Year (1995)
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Camille Prader, back from a physicians' meeting, is waiting for his suitcase on the Airport conveyor belt. Clémentine, his girlfriend of the day, has come to fetch him. With a radiant smile, she tells Fabrice that she left everything to live with him. When Camille picks a case he realizes ha has taken the wrong one. The label shows it belongs to a musician called Juliette Graveur. Hegrasps the occasion to run away from Clémentine by claiming Juliette is his mistress.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 227
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
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The Amusements of Private Life (1990)
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Italian-French costume dramedy that takes place in France in the end of 18th Century during the French Revolution. It is "The Marriage of Figaro" meets "The Dangerous Liaisons" and it tells the story of two women, Mathilde Seurat, the actress and Julie Renard, the aristocratic wife and a mother (Delphine Forest plays both) with the same face who came from the different parts of society and at one point exchanged their identities and their lives. The movie also features Giancarlo Giannini and great Vittorio Gassman.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 88 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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For Better And For Worse (2023)
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Jean has been the conservative mayor of a small town for several years. He intends to run for another term. Edith, his wife, is the paragon of the traditional devoted housewife and mother. So it comes as quite a shock when she tells her husband of forty years that deep down, she has always been... A MAN! Totally blindsided, Jean didn't see this coming. For a politician campaigning on family values, this is too much! But Edith, still the loving wife, make a deal with him: she will postpone her transition and stay a woman until after the elections. But as we know, campaigns are all about digging up dirt to keep the rumor mill turning.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 428
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 89 min
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Vos gueules les mouettes (1974)
Plot Summary:
A TV channel organizes a super-8 competition, and Kenavec family decides to film their small village in Brittany.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 82 min
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The Vixen (1969)
Plot Summary:
Clara becomes a secretary who must cater to all the desires of the womanizing writer Jérôme, while he tries to write his memoirs.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 449
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Happy He Who Like Ulysses (1970)
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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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Lisa (2016)
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IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 7
Genere: Comedy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 78 min
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The Man from the Diners' Club (1963)
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Mobster Foots Pulardos, who operates a health gym as a front, plans to flee to Mexico to evade government tax officials. His girl friend, Sugar Pye, suggests that he first arrange for the cremation of a man having his own peculiar identifying characteristic--feet of different sizes--and then apply for a Diners' Club card for use in paying his fare. The request for the credit card comes to the desk of Ernie Klenk, a timid clerk. Nervous about his forthcoming marriage to the boss's secretary, Lucy, Ernie inadvertently okays the application, then, discovering his mistake, rushes to the health gym to recover the club card he has issued.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 459
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: retro, independent film, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, slapstick
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The Joy of Singing (2008)
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Agents des services secrets, Muriel et Philippe forment un improbable duo amoureux. Dans leur nouvelle mission, ils sont chargés de mettre la main sur une clé usb cachée par Constance, la veuve d'un trafiquant d'uranium fraîchement assassiné. Cette jeune bourgeoise étrangement ingénue conduira le duo dans un cours de chant lyrique où s'entremêlent d'autres espions aux voix ensorcelantes.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, erotic, realistic, semi serious, sexual, dark comedy, sexy
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The Volcano (2013)
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The eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull causes major disruptions to travelers' plans around the world. For Alain and Valérie, it's a catastrophe. Because to make it to the small Greek village in time for their daughter's wedding, this divorced couple, whose mutual hatred knows no bounds, will be obliged to set out on the road together.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, absurd, cynical, romantic, realistic, semi serious
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I Don't Know Much, But I'll Say Everything (1973)
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Pierre Gastié-Leroy is the son of a wealthy director of a factory of weapon manufacturing. Despite his parents, two generous uncles and a bishop godfather who try to inculcate him the rigid values of his social level, Pierre is a dreamer, antimilitaristic, social educator who dreams of saving three thugs, his "little guys" at the limit of delinquency. After several resounding failures that sent him to prison, Pierre is ordered by his father to join his factory to direct the social service. Tired of the venality of his father and the foolishness of the "little guys", Pierre hires them at the factory.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 668
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: slapstick, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, slapstick comedy
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The Seducers of Saint-Tropez (1983)
Plot Summary:
Four friends discover the pleasures of Saint-Tropez.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 324
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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The Little Bather (1968)
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Louis-Philippe Fourchaume, another typical lead-role for French comedy superstar Louis de Funès, is the dictatorial CEO of a French company which designs and produces sail yachts, and fires in yet another tantrum his designer André Castagnier, not realizing that man is his only chance to land a vital contract with the Italian magnate Marcello Cacciaperotti. So he has to find him at his extremely rural birthplace in 'la France profonde', which proves a torturous odyssey for the spoiled rich man; when he does get there his torment is far from over: the country bumpkin refuses to resume his slavish position now the shoe is on the other foot, so Fourchaume is dragged along in the boorish family life, and at times unable to control his temper, which may cost him more credit then he painstakingly builds up.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious
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Made in Italy (2008)
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French writer Luca Morandi was born in Italy. He is forty years old and finds himself at a crossroads in his life. He doesn't know where to turn: France, his adopted home where he was raised, or Italy, the country of his birth, perfect, wonderful and ideal, like a child’s dream.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic, sexy, offbeat, sexual
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Please, Please Me! (2009)
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riane believe her male partner is another woman dreams of. In order to lure him out in sex, she decided to take the initiative to develop relations with male partner with this woman, the results found that women had a French president’s daughter!.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 857
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, sexy, clever, realistic, not serious, slapstick, sexual
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Idiot in Paris (1967)
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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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Wild and Wonderful (1964)
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Cognac, a pampered poodle and popular star on French television, creates marital problems for his pretty owner Giselle when he becomes jealous of her new husband.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 351
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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I Hate My Best Friends' Kids (2007)
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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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Get Well Soon (2014)
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After an accident, Pierre, a sixty years old grumpy man, ends up stuck on an hospital bed with a cast. While Pierre dreams of silence and solitude with his strong character, the whole world seems to invite himself to his hospital bed. Powerless, he has to support the daily visits of doctors,nurse and hospital staff then his closes including his brother Herve. Visits after visits, funny or touching, Pierre starts to reconsider some people and reexamine his environment. And after all, his stay becomes a second chance.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 752
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, psychological, light, captivating, realistic
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Traffic (1971)
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Mr. Hulot is the head designer of the Altra Automotive Co. His latest invention is a newfangled camper car loaded with outrageous extra features. Along with the company's manager and publicity model, Hulot sets out from Paris with the intention of debuting the car at the annual auto show in Amsterdam. The going isn't easy, however, and the group encounters an increasingly bizarre series of hurdles and setbacks en route.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: road movie, stylized, parody, manga, cult classic, offbeat, humorous, realistic, not serious, psychological
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Neuilly Yo Mama II (2018)
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In 2008, Sami Benboudaoud discovered the hell of Neuilly-sur-Seine. Ten years later, now that everything is for the best for Sami who brilliantly completes his studies of political science, nothing will go for his cousin Charles of Chazelle.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 486
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Pardon Mon Affaire, Too! (1977)
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The film is the immediate continuation of Un éléphant ça trompe énormément, released the previous year. Having fortuitously discovered a photograph in which Marthe embraces someone unknown, clothed with a chequed jacket, Étienne Dorsay becomes jealous, and imagines various stratagems to identify the lover. In the meantime, Étienne and his friends acquire a weekend house for a very low price. As in the previous work, the film is largely narrated by the character Étienne, whose tone shifts with the reality of the images. The film contains a certain number of allusions to the films of Blake Edwards (the Pink Panther series).
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty, sex comedy, sexual, sexy, hot
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Notre univers impitoyable (2008)
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Victor and Margot are both lawyers in a major consulting firm and form a solid couple in private. Yet one day they find themselves competing for the same job promotion. How will their relationship stand up to the outcome?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, entertaining, clever, witty, stylized, semi serious
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Last Call for Nowhere (2016)
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French border cop José Fernandez has just one last extradition to do before his long-awaited promotion to the crime bureau. But his detainee Akim, victim of a judiciary glitch, is outraged to find himself saddled with the identity of a potential terrorist and put on a flight back to Kabul, where he has never even set foot before! What starts as a routine trip for Fernandez and his skirt-chasing partner Guy goes haywire when their plane is grounded in Malta, forcing them to bunk up with Akim, who will stop at nothing to avoid extradition!.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, entertaining, feel good
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With Open Arms (2017)
Plot Summary:
Jean-Étienne Fougerole is an intellectual bohemian who released his new novel "In Open Arms" and calling the wealthiest people to welcome home the families in need. While he promotes his book during a televised debate, his opponent criticized him for not applying what he himself advocates. While stuck, Jean-Étienne Fougerole accepts the challenge, for fear of being discredited. The same evening, a family of Roma rings the door of his Marnes-la-Coquette villa and the writer feels obliged to house them.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: political, funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, happy, intellectual
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The Closet (2001)
Plot Summary:
A man spreads the rumor of his fake homosexuality with the aid of his neighbor, to prevent his imminent firing at his work.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, humorous, witty, melancholic, talky, semi serious, hilarious, clever, spectacular
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The Dinner Game (1998)
Plot Summary:
Each week, Pierre and his friends organize what is called as "un dîner de cons". Everyone brings the dumbest guy he could find as a guest. Pierre thinks his champ -François Pignon- will steal the show.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, feel good, light, hilarious, sentimental, talky, dark comedy, sincere, sweet