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Plot Summary:
A young man navigates the bureaucracy of the Catholic Church when he tries to renounce his faith.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 723
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain, France, Uruguay
Duration: 80 min
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Easy Down There! (1971)
Plot Summary:
A priest gets a little hot under the collar when the wife he thought was dead unexpectedly returns.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 286
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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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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American Drive-In (1985)
Plot Summary:
The goings-on at a typical drive-in on a summer night.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, cult film
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Solange and the living (2016)
Plot Summary:
One day when Solange is studying the accumulated dust balls in her apartment, the doorbell rings. A delivery man claims to have a packet addressed to her. Solange is definite: it's impossible. The misunderstanding intensifies, Solange collapses. When a doctor suggests that someone watch over her for the night, her landlord accepts to do so. But he's called away on a mission and decides to find another watchman... A genuine human chain will then form so that Solange is not left alone because it seems that this relationship therapy is doing her good.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 67 min
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Le Roi des cons (1981)
Plot Summary:
Georges Le Roi lives odd jobs and shares his life between two girlfriends. One day, he falls in love with Sophie and records a message of love. The tape is mistakenly broadcast in the company. In the face of success, Sophie founded the company Tell me about love and spread the messages of Georges, who soon became a sex symbol.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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The Spousals of God (1999)
Plot Summary:
After receiving a visit from a messenger of God, a man (Joao Cesar Monteiro) wins his buddy's girlfriend (Joana Azevedo) through a roll of the dice.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 772
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: eros, slow cinema, aesthetic, masterpiece
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Bar Esperanza (1983)
Plot Summary:
Group of eccentric people gather at a popular bar in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, doomed to be closed to give way to the construction of a big building. Intellectuals, artists, night-people in general join forces to try to avoid its demolition. Among its costumers, we find Ana, an actress, her husband Zeca, an intellectual type in crisis about his work for TV, artists, newspapermen, a female researcher, and a couple who's always quarrelling, only to be reconciled moments later.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 127 min
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Italy is Rotten (1976)
Plot Summary:
Two Sicilian's, Peppe Truzzoliti and Antonio Mancuso, decide, after a misadventure with some mafia drug dealers, to leave the cold and racist Turin to return to their native land. Along for the ride with them is Domenica, a beautiful girl from Veneto, who had arrived in Turin in search of work, but due to a number of setbacks, had been forced into prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
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The Mantle of Love (1978)
Plot Summary:
De Mantel der Liefde is a bizarre, over the top and at times hilarious settling of scores with the Catholic Church, commercial movie culture and 1970's petit bourgeois Dutch culture in general.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Comedy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: biblical
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Isn't She Lovely? (2020)
Plot Summary:
A couple of parents get in over their heads when they decide to use Scandinavian alternative teaching methods for their teenager.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Comedy
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 91 min
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P.R.O.F.S. (1985)
Plot Summary:
A clique of four young teachers at a high school looks critically at their colleagues. To avoid falling in the same routine, they bring new ideas into the school lessons and play little games and pranks in their spare time -- sometimes get even more childish than their pupils. When they get opposition from the other teachers, they play tricks to get rid of them.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 946
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Three-Cornered Bed (1969)
Plot Summary:
German sex comedy.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 89 min
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The Rascals (1980)
Plot Summary:
Late spring 1942: France is under German occupation. But this doesn't much concern the boarders of a school lost in the French country. Bernard, a rather frivolous teenager, is in love for the first time; he's fond of Marie-Helene, an older and more mature girl. To approach her is not so easy.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Oh Marbella (2003)
Plot Summary:
Marbella, the original Costa del Sol paradise for the rich and famous and for those wishing they were.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Lover Boy (1978)
Plot Summary:
"The Pocket Lover" tells the story of Julien, a 15 year-old boy who falls in love with an older woman, later discovered to be a prostitute. Now, Julien will have to face several obstacles, which includes his parents opposition with this affair, and Julien's own perceptions about the woman's line of work, going out with wealthy guys.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Hello, Sisters (1975)
Plot Summary:
Denis spends a holiday at his friend's Marc home. Staying with the family for several days, even though the Chotards have other things in mind than sex, he will have nice encounters with the girl of the house, Marianne, a young maid, and more.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, teen sex comedy, teen comedy
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Nurses Report (1972)
Plot Summary:
Reporters reveal intolerable conditions in Munich's St. Martin Hospital. The nurses are underpaid and overworked, and have sex with doctors and patients.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, mockumentary, fake documentary
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Bringing Up Bobby (2009)
Plot Summary:
Bobby Wyler is a confused fifteen year old trying to figure out who he is and what he believes before life gets complicated.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 212
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: christian film
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Let's Do It! (1983)
Plot Summary:
A sex "comedy" is about a virgin named Freddie who has a major complex about his mother and won't let himself become involved with any other woman.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, teen sex comedy, teen comedy
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Hot Chili (1985)
Plot Summary:
A group of American teenage boys goes south of the border to work for the summer at a Mexican resort. There they encounter many wacky guests and have zany adventures involving a German dominatrix, a music teacher that gets hot when giving lessons, a buxom cook, and an uptight socialite that eventually thaws. More often than not they end up in bed with someone, but one of the teens is holding out for True Love.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 478
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, grindhouse, teen sex comedy, independent film, teen comedy
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The Blue Collar Worker and the Hairdresser in a Whirl of Sex and Politics (1996)
Plot Summary:
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
Plot tags:
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Lapland Odyssey 3 (2017)
Plot Summary:
In the third instalment of the franchise, Janne embarks on an epic hike, a journey of self-discovery. His dreams of a tranquil retreat into nature are quickly shattered however, when Räihänen and Kämäräinen both decide to come along for the trip. Meanwhile Janne’s spouse Inari gets the chance to go back to work, but only if she can prove she’s “management material” and a real leader. Inari enters the Swamp Soccer tournament, where to her horror she finds out her ex Little Mikko is also competing.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 103 min
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Landscape with Furniture (1987)
Plot Summary:
The story of a music academy student Zdenek, who meets a charming girl, and without realizing also gets a son with her. Dealing with such a situation is not easy, especially when one day the child's mother disappears. Twenty year old Zdenek faces a serious decision. Although he is aware that a child may endanger his studies and perhaps even future career, he refuses to entrust him to the care of the state institution.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Chechu y Familia (1992)
Plot Summary:
Chechu is a 13 year old boy who lives surrounded by peculiar people: his grandfather, his uncle, and two maids. He falls in love with one of them.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags:
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Wilderness Therapy (2022)
Plot Summary:
Deep in the Pyrenees, two close friends at rock bottom have the idea of the century: to pull themselves of their misery, they will launch a horse trekking tour, a voyage through the mountains for tourists in search of nature, silence and adventure.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Walking with Herb (2021)
Plot Summary:
Joe Amable-Amo is a bank executive and former amateur golfer struggling with his faith after an unexpected tragedy. Faced with growing doubts about himself, his purpose, and his belief in God, Joe is stunned when he receives a message from God on his computer screen telling him that he’s been chosen to inspire the world and play in a world championship golf tournament. Guided by God’s eccentric personal messenger, Herb, Joe learns that the seemingly impossible is possible…through faith, family, and second chances.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing
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Hard Feelings (2023)
Plot Summary:
Teenagers Charly and Paula worry that sex could ruin their friendship, while their suddenly and surprisingly bossy private parts urge them to go for it.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Whitcomb's War (1980)
Plot Summary:
A businessman, a preacher, and a host of comic characters battle for spiritual control of a small mid-western town. Bible carrying preacher, David Whitcomb battles stubborn businessman Phil Esteem and three bumbling and treacherous demons as they plaque a small midwestern church, catching the ear of certain members of the flock causing mayhem and confusion… But who is really in charge? A warm and witty satire.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: christian film
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Serial (Bad) Weddings 3 (2021)
Plot Summary:
Claude and Marie Verneuil will soon be celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary. For the occasion, their four daughters - Isabelle, Odile, Ségolène and Laure - decide to organize a big surprise party in their family home in Chinon. They also decide to invite, each, the parents of their respective husbands - Rachid Benassem, David Benichou, Chao Ling and Charles Koffi.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: feel good
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God Willing (2015)
Plot Summary:
The son of an atheist, authoritarian father, believed to be liberal, wants to become a priest.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sweet, light, feel good, witty, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, spiritual