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Plot Summary:
Α crook turns a cabaret girl into a fine lady to use her as bait for his victims.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 96 min
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Throbs at the Desk (1963)
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Lisa is a student, pretending the sick not to go to school. Her parents are worried about her health and call the doctor to examine her. He realizes her lies but he covers her. Soon, they fall in love and eventually get married. However, after the honeymoon she begins to yearn school and her classmates and she returns to it without saying anything to her husband. Soon, her husband begins to suspect her because of her frequent absences from home and her secret meetings with the professor seem to confirm his suspicions.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 114 min
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Joy and Tears (1970)
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A carefree young man, Alekos, son of shipowner Venier, meets a poor girl, Christina, who makes the clown in a small circus. Christina does not tell Aleko the truth about her work, and when an unexpected episode forces her to return to the circus, Alekos begins to seek her everywhere and quickly finds her. She proposes to marry her and take her to London to meet her father. But Alekos is already engaged with a rich girl.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 369
Genere: Romance, Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 102 min
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A Bachelor's Pad For Ten (1981)
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To make some easy money, Stamatis rents Chroni's house to his womanizer boss Soultanoglou but also to his other boss's wife, Dora, who decided to cheat on her husband ... So, Chroni's house turns into a double love nest for cheating couples, without him having any clue.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 261
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 114 min
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Dollybirds (1997)
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The movie is set in the actual "Ki Mit Tud?" talent contest in 1962. In reality the contest in dance music category was won by an army brass band. "Omega" which later became one of the most successful Hungarian rock bands came out in the second place.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Hungary
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: cult classic, parody, independent film, cult film
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Love Under the Date-Tree (1990)
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Panagiotis (Argyris Bakirtzis) and Giannis (Lazaros Andreou) are two good friends but also rivals in love. The first is a merchant and the second a violinist; one is tall and slim and the other short and fat; one is bossy, the other one mild. Both make an inimitable comic couple, wandering in the Peloponnese, looking for a date tree that will prove the innocence or guilt of the wife of one of them and possibly lover of the other. They are guided by an old picture depicting Panagiotis' wife, Maria, in the arms of Giannis, under a date tree. However, the area of their search, there are no date trees.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 82 min
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Marriage... Greek Style (1964)
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Mina is dreaming of becoming a painter and Petros works in a company. They meet and fall in love during the carnival, but later lose contact. They meet again without recognizing each other and eventually get married. However they have no idea how hard marriage is.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Romance, Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy
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The Wise Guy (1962)
Plot Summary:
Alekos (Dinos Iliopoulos) is in love with Voula (Maria Voulgari) whose brother threatens to kill him if he doesn't marry her soon. Alekos' father (Pantelis Zervos) on the other hand insists that Alekos' sister (Zoe Laskari) has to get married before him. His sister Annoula (Zoe Laskari) is in love with Antonis (Stephanos Stratigos) and pressures him to ask for her hand in marriage from her family. Antonis meets Alekos by accident at a cafe in Panorama - they don't know each other - and advises him to use the infalible method of "escaping through an engagement" to calm down Voula's brother. This is after all what he intends to do himself... And God help them.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: romantic
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Teddy Boy My Love (1965)
Plot Summary:
Two young lovers are discovering that the widowed parents keep hidden bond and plan to marry soon Life, salesman dream and consumer goods of our civilization, will enter the life Asimaki, a benevolent and middle-aged widower chromatopoli, having neglected himself caring about life and rehabilitation of children.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 80 min
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My friend Lefterakis (1963)
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Theodoros in order to be able to go out with his occasional lovers, he "invented" a non-existent friend from Patras, Lefterakis, and use him as an alibi in wife Fofo. When one day arrives at home, quite suddenly, the non-existent friend Lefterakis Tsampardis, Theo will welcome him with surprise and terror.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 90 min
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Eftyhos... trellathika! (1961)
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Charilaos Maraziotis (Nikos Stavridis) is a shopkeeper who owes the whole market and is in danger of going to jail, both because of his creditors and because of IKA and the tax administration. Iro is his secretary and fiancee, because she is poor, decides to make a rich marriage with an arrangement. The mid-person is Antigone, who wants to get Charilaos to marry her half-sister, Ismene, who is in love with her peer-to-peer Thanos. Iro and Ismene, who have learned about Charilaos' plans, conspire to prevent unwanted developments. Charilaos is forced to portray the madman and closes himself in a freak. His lenders, once informed that they are crazy, change their attitude towards them, they are promised and relieved of their debts, thus escaping the prison and marrying Iro.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: mad
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The Policeman of the 16th Precinct (2008)
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Elias of the 16th Precinct follows three friends – Elias, Thomas and Vangelis – who face considerable financial hurdles with their debts rivalling the size of Everest. They decide the only solution is to snatch money from Vangelis’ boss, Labros ; a cafeteria owner, pawnbroker and fence. While Thomas will attempt the breaking and entering, Elias will be disguised as a police officer – for security reasons, of course. Hilarity ensues as this comedy of errors sends their plan spiralling off in a totally different direction.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 100 min
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Our Love (1968)
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An usherette in a theatre, where a distinguished and popular actor performs, gets her big break when the leading actress has an accident. The director decides to take advantage of the heretofore unexploited talent of the girl and asks her to replace the leading actress. This unexpected opportunity transforms her from a humble usherette into a shining star. Later on, she wins the heart of the leading actor with whom she was secretly in love. However, her sudden rise to theatrical-musical stardom creates complications in their love affair, as her companion sinks into disappointment and drowns himself in drink, abandoning his career. Nevertheless, the usherette/leading actress doesn't give up; She looks for him, finds him and supports him, psychologically and morally, until he makes a comeback to the stage and their love nest.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 95 min
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My Daughter, the Socialist (1966)
Plot Summary:
Liza falls in love with one of her father's employees. Her socialistic ideas about employment drive her to collide with her father and the sociopolitical status of the time.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 94 min
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Apollo Goes on Holiday (1968)
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Prince Jan is spying on beautiful tour guide Elena from his helicopter while touring Greece. He escapes from his entourage and joins the girl's group, posing as a humble visitor. The two fall in love, but Prince Jan, knowing that he has duties and responsibilities to his country, leaves her, never revealing his true identity.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Greece, Sweden
Duration: 88 min
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Take Care of Zuzu (1972)
Plot Summary:
When a college professor falls for one of his students, his fiancée decides to expose the student's shameful secret to all.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 498
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Egypt
Duration: 132 min
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Mitsos, the Laughing Stock (1984)
Plot Summary:
Gender-bender comedy directed by Omiros Efstratiadis.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 360
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: romantic, intellectual
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One 4 All (1999)
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Olivia, Irina and Masha are improving their acting skills. They no longer believe in Prince Charming, and their career is waning. Olivia works at the front desk at the airport and offers a wonderful plan: he would do so that friends will be aboard the Paris - New York plane and will sit next to wealthy men. Their task is to seduce the rich and pull them out of money. But the fraudsters do not suspect that Comissaire Bayard and his young assistant are closely watching them.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 367
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: crying
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Something Hot (1964)
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During an International Trade Fair at Thessaloniki, a mature woman, Rena (Martha Karagianni), goes there with her sister to convince her childhood friend Dinos (Dinos Iliopoulos) to have a "white wedding" so that she can inherit a large estate. Dinos though, does not accept because even though he is actually a womanizer he acts as a shy and modest man around people. Everyone there will meet a group of musicians and one of them will fall in love with the daughter of the strict manager of the company Dinos works for who is accompanied by Dinos. At some point, everyone goes to Athens where things get more complicated untill everyone finds his perfect match. In the end Rena gets her inheritance and all together they perform a musical play in a grand theater.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 652
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 110 min
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Three on a Couch (1966)
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An artist has an opportunity to go to Paris and wants to bring his fiancee along. However, she's a psychiatrist who currently has three female patients who don't like men. So, he guises himself as three different men to gauge their trust and hopefully cure them so that his fiancee can go with him.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy
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What a Way to Go! (1964)
Plot Summary:
This black comedy opens with Louisa Foster donating a multimillion dollar check to the IRS. The tax department thinks she's crazy and sends her to a psychiatrist. She then discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, retro, black comedy, offbeat, feel good, humorous, witty, semi serious, entertaining, silent
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Come September (1961)
Plot Summary:
Robert Talbot, an American millionaire, arrives early for his annual vacation at his luxurious Italian villa. His long-time girlfriend Lisa has given up waiting for him and has decided to marry another man. Meanwhile, his sneaky business associate Maurice secretly misappropriates the villa as a hotel while Talbot is away. The current guests of the "hotel" are a group of young American girls.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: retro, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic comedy
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Walk Don't Run (1966)
Plot Summary:
British industrialist Sir William Rutland - "Bill" to his friends - is in Tokyo on a business trip during the time of the Summer Olympic Games there in 1964. Having actually arrived in Tokyo two days before his original planned arrival, he has problems finding a hotel room because of the Olympics. Spotting an ad posted on a British Embassy message board of a room available to sublet, Bill is able to wrangle his way into the apartment of Christine Easton, who is renting out the sitting room of her one-bedroom apartment as a bedroom for the duration of the Olympics. Bill's short-term living situation in Christine's sitting room is despite her solely wanting a female roommate.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious, slapstick comedy, funny, light, romantic, sexy, clever
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Four Times that Night (1971)
Plot Summary:
John and Tina meet in a park one day. They immediately hit it off and go out on a date later that evening. Then late that night, Tina returns to her apartment with her expensive new dress badly torn apart, and John's forehead boasts some suspicous scratches. Three different people, John, Tina, and a doorman, give three separate and different perspectives on what happened that night before the truth is revealed.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 969
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy, West Germany, USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: erotic, surprise ending, sexy, sex comedy, independent film, hot
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A Garden of Cucumbers (1967)
Plot Summary:
When Miss Vicki's father dies, she becomes the world's greatest philanthropist. Unfortunately, she is flat broke! Her loyal butler, Claude Fitzwilliam, leads the household staff to rob from various businesses by charging goods to various wealthy people and misdirecting the shipments, all to keep Miss Vicki's standard of living.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Shooting Fish (1997)
Plot Summary:
Two con artists (Dan Futterman, Stuart Townsend) hire an unwitting medical-school student (Kate Beckinsale) as a secretary for their latest scam.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: romantic, clever, witty, black comedy, smart, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, cynical
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Sex and the Single Girl (1964)
Plot Summary:
A womanizing reporter for a sleazy tabloid magazine impersonates his hen-pecked neighbor in order to get an expose on renowned psychologist Helen Gurley Brown.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, retro, romantic comedy, cute, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)
Plot Summary:
A jealous piano teacher Orville Spooner sends his beautiful wife, Zelda, away for the night while he tries to sell a song to a famous nightclub singer Dino, who is stranded in town.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: clever, witty, biting, retro, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, sex comedy, tense
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Barefoot in the Park (1967)
Plot Summary:
In this film based on a Neil Simon play, newlyweds Corie, a free spirit, and Paul Bratter, an uptight lawyer, share a sixth-floor apartment in Greenwich Village. Soon after their marriage, Corie tries to find a companion for mother, Ethel, who is now alone, and sets up Ethel with neighbor Victor. Inappropriate behavior on a double date causes conflict, and the young couple considers divorce.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: funny, romantic, cute, clever, humorous, witty, talky, technicolor, feel good, realistic
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Western (1997)
Plot Summary:
Catalonian Paco is a traveling rep for a shoe manufacturer. When he stops to pick up Russian emigree hitchhiker Nino, Paco soon finds himself on the side of the road with everything stolen out from under him. Local gift shop owner Marinette gives the Spaniard a lift. Their mutual attraction manifests itself quickly, and Paco, who was fired over the stolen-car episode, hangs around. When he happens to spot Nino in the same town, he beats up the scrawny Russian, who lands in the hospital. Oddly enough, this marks the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Paco and Nino soon take the trip down the road together.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, road movie, independent film
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Party Girl (1995)
Plot Summary:
Although Mary has little income, she still finds ways to spend her nights at clubs. After being arrested for throwing an illegal rave, she asks her aunt Judy for bail money. Judy then finds Mary a job at her library so that Mary can repay her. Initially, Mary finds the job as a clerk boring and stifling, and prefers to get to know a street food vendor whom she likes. However, Mary must refocus her life once she loses her job and apartment.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, surprise ending, clever