Best movies like The Girl and the General
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Plot Summary:
A young woman and a soldier team up to deliver an Austrian General to Italian forces during World War I. Their quest for the 1,000 Lire reward changes their lives unexpectedly.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 103 min
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Cheaters (1984)
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Swaying between pleasure and despair, Elric throws himself into his pathological passion for the casino. Meeting Suzie could have saved him, but the young woman also sinks into gambling hell. The couple then start getting involved in the fearsome world of professional cheaters.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 621
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, West Germany, Portugal
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Soldati - 365 all'alba (1987)
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Claudio Scanna is a private in the Italian army: during his first night in a new military base he gets in a fight with senior recruits. Lieutenant Fili, Claudio's commanding officer, is denied a promotion because his superiors discover he was absent without justification during the night of the fight. Fili blames Claudio and vows to make his remaining months in the service a living hell.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 387
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags:
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The Voyeur (1970)
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Forty-year-old Sandro (Marcello Mastroianni) is married to Claude (Virna Lisi). Sandro has one strange obsession: he is a self confessed voyeur. He films his wife in all walks of life on his wobbly hand held camcorder. But everything changes when Mark (Timothy Dalton) enters their life. Written by Steven Dixon.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Porca vacca (1982)
Plot Summary:
When a stage artist is send to Fight he met a lovely girl.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: entertaining, low brow humor
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Great Idea (2000)
Plot Summary:
Five boys and girls, aged 20-25, take on an Interrail trip throughout Europe. After a first stop in Amsterdam, where they meet up with an old teacher of theirs who happens to be gay, they cross Germany and Italy, and eventually end up in a remote island in Greek Cyclades. There, they find a home at Knut's, a faded disco sensation who locked himself up in a beautiful mansion overlooking the sea. During their trip, everyone will discover who they really are.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Greece
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: road movie, sentimental, captivating, melancholic, tense, light, suspense, suspenseful, happy, exciting
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The Conjugal Bed (1963)
Plot Summary:
A 40 years old man, Alfonso, finally succeeds to marry a virgin, educate, beautiful and very catholic woman. But soon she, Regina, starts stressing him because she wants to be pregnant. When the stress is at its peak Regina at last gets pregnant. Once the goal is reached the man is put aside and dies.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 782
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grotesque, italian comedy
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Buone notizie (1979)
Plot Summary:
Giancarlo Giannini stars as the nameless hero, a disaffected media executive who spends his days watching violent programming on the six television screens in his office and his evenings neglecting his frustrated wife at home. An encounter with an apparently delusional old friend who claims to be in mortal danger, and the friend’s alluring nymphomaniac wife, provides a temporary respite from drab routine.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: suspense, black comedy, dark comedy
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Arrivano i bersaglieri (1980)
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In the year 1870 Rome, then governed by the Pope, was captured by the Italian General La Marmora's troops. After the armistice, the Italian soldier Alfonso killed a Pope's soldier, the son of Don Prospero. Then he sought refuge in the house of Don Prospero himself. There Costanza and Olimpia, respectively the wife and the daughter of Don Prospero, fall for him. Then Gustavo, who knew that Alfonso had killed Don Prospero's son arrived in the house... Some things are going to happen.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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The Oldest Profession (1967)
Plot Summary:
A collection of sketches on prostitution through the ages. 1) "The Prehistoric Era": A caveman discovers that a cavewoman is more attractive when cave paint is applied to her face. And she can earn more seashells that way. 2) "Roman Nights": The Emperor goes out seeking a little nocturnal amusement, only to find that the high-priced, Oriental courtesan he hires is his wife, the Empress. 3) "Mademoiselle Mimi": In revolutionary France, Mimi finds that her client, the nephew of a marquis, is more interested in watching the guillotinings out her window than he is in going to bed. 4) "The Gay Nineties": When Nini discovers by accident that her antiquated customer is a banker, she pretends to be an honest woman who has fallen in love with him. She even pays him, just like a gigolo! 5) "Paris Today": Two girls pick up clients by driving around in a car.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 604
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: anthology, sex comedy
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All My Friends Part 2 (1982)
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. All My Friends Part 2 (Italian: Amici miei Atto II) is a 1982 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli. It is the sequel to Amici miei of 1975. The movie features Paolo Stoppa in one of his last roles. Description above from the Wikipedia article All My Friends Part 2, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: hilarious, italian comedy
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I'm Photogenic (1980)
Plot Summary:
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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Exterior Night (1980)
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Hoping to make a fresh start, Léo, a jazz musician, takes up temporary residence with his friend Bony, a young writer who is struggling to get his work published. One evening, Léo strikes up an acquaintance with a woman taxi driver, Cora; in spite of her impulsive and moody temperament, he cannot help being attracted to her. On the spur of the moment, Cora invites Léo to make love to her. When Bony meets Cora, he too finds her irresistible, but he lacks Léo’s self-confidence to make his move. Cora is not a woman that any man can possess readily. She is like a wild animal, a creature that revels in its freedom. Will either Léo or Bony be able to tame her...?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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The Nurse on a Military Tour (1977)
Plot Summary:
The routine of a military camp is shaken by the arrival of a non-commissioned medical shapes bursting. The beautiful female soldier awakens fantasies of graduates and recruits, putting in turmoil all over the field, but only a nice rebel soldier can drop it. The comrades do not just have to console themselves with a group of young auxiliary.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy
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Diary of a Maniac (1993)
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In this stylish and offbeat black comedy, Benito ( Jerry Calà) keeps a diary of his sexual fantasies and cravings. As a result of his on-again, off-again relationship with the beautiful and insatiable Luigia (Sabrina Ferilli), his thoughts along these lines have grown increasingly bizarre. For his own part, he is driven to pick up and bed women at almost every opportunity. As the fantasies recorded in his diary consume more and more of his life, and grow darker and darker, his ordinary waking life becomes flatter and duller, until he disappears altogether.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 298
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: erotic, ambiguous ending, psychotronic, grotesque
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All Screwed Up (1974)
Plot Summary:
A group of immigrants from the south of Italy live collectively in the Milano's suburbia in the 1974.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Secret Fantasy (1971)
Plot Summary:
Niccolò Vivaldi is a cello player and he plays in Arena di Verona Orchestra. But he is not the first and neither the second cello. He is frustrated. Nobody can remember his face, nor his name. Niccolò is married to Costanza, who is really beautiful and he takes some pictures of her naked. Later he shows the pictures to a friend and so he feels better. He starts to write a comic opera called "Il merlo maschio" only to discover later he had written Rossini's "La gazza ladra". To maintain his self-esteem he can only show his wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 547
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, italian comedy
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La otra alcoba (1976)
Plot Summary:
Marcos, an important businessman working in Madrid, is wealthy, ambitious and has political aspirations. On top of it, he has a beautiful wife, Diana. Their married life, however, is marred by the fact that, after years of married life, they do not have children. At the last minute Diana backs down from adopting a Vietnamese orphan. She is determined to have a biological child. However, Marcos is sterile and has kept this a secret from his wife. When he tells her the truth, Diana reveals that she already knew it having recently consulted a gynecologist who determined that she can conceive.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, gay cinema
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Trench of Hope (2003)
Plot Summary:
While playing football, two children stumble across the grave of a French WWI infantryman who died in the trenches in 1918. His name was Pierre Delpeuch and in the last days of his life he and his comrades shared an extraordinary human adventure. Exhausted, cut off from the front, huddled in their trench, Pierre and four others bravely stood firm. Facing them was another trench containing five similar exhausted and determined Germans. Their only aim was to resist, whatever the cost, until reinforcements arrived.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport, War
Country: France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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Come Home and Meet My Wife (1974)
Plot Summary:
50 year old Giulio (Tognazzi) and his 17 year old goddaughter, Vincenzina (Muti) fall madly in love with each other and soon are wed. Unfortunately for Giulio he walks in on his friend and Vincenzina upon a return from a trip. His jealousy and anger get the best of him and he kicks his wife out of the house. Years pass and Giulio decides to rekindle the lover affair with Vincenzina.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 816
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: erotic, freeze frame
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Property Is No Longer a Theft (1973)
Plot Summary:
A lowly bank clerk, literally allergic to money and revolted by its nefarious influence on humanity, launches a campaign of harassment against a wealthy butcher, stealing small, insignificant items— but never money—from the man. The victim uses the thefts to make large and fraudulent insurance claims, refusing to finger the thief for fear his own financial improprieties might be exposed.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags:
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The One I Love (2009)
Plot Summary:
Isabelle est une trentenaire célibataire (depuis qu'elle est divorcée). Elle est belle, sexy, drôle, émouvante, intelligente... Irrésistible ! Elle est numéro 2 d'un journal qu'elle a créé avec Brice son partenaire et qu'elle dirige d'une main de fer même pas recouverte d'un gant de velours ! Tous les hommes sont fous d'elle. Tous ! Trois en particuliers ! Son fils, Achille, 10 ans, qui depuis le.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The Cricket (1980)
Plot Summary:
An impressionable young woman's relationship with an aging prostitute leads to a job as a maid at a brothel.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: erotic
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The Smile (1994)
Plot Summary:
An old psychiatrist finds out that he is likely to suffer a second and probably fatal heart attack in the near future. As a consequence he becomes determined to seduce Odile, a young woman he first encounters in a railway compartment.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 643
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sexy, humorous, realistic, contemplative, semi serious, sexual
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The Summer of All My Parents (2016)
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After attempting to set a mailbox on fire, Pimpette, 14, and her elder sister, Joséphine, 18, spend their summer holidays shuttling between their secretly pregnant mom and bachelor father. But when Joséphine gets involved with the wrong crowd, little Pimpette turns out to be more responsible than the grown-ups who spend their time educating her.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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If You Don't, I Will (2014)
Plot Summary:
A couple goes on a hike in the woods, and the woman refuses to return.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 515
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Police Chief Pepe (1969)
Plot Summary:
A police commissioner in a little town in the Italian Venetian province investigates a prostitution ring run by two pensioners; during his investigations he also learns that a former manicurist shacks up with ten students, the prefect's daughter prostitutes to keep her pimp, a famous doctor has sex with his young patients, a headmaster has his eyes on the pupils, a noblewoman organizes orgies in her villa, the local convent is run by a dyke and his actual girlfriend poses for a hardcore magazine. He wants everything to come out in the open but his superiors try to put obstacles in his way.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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The Libertine (1968)
Plot Summary:
A sexy widow discovers her late husband had a secret apartment where he cheated on her. Now she decides to used the same apartment to explore her own sexuality.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 822
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, serious, realistic, sexual, cult film, italian comedy
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Bianca (1983)
Plot Summary:
Michele is a mathematics professor who just started a new job in a school with some peculiar teaching methods. After a woman in his neighborhood is murdered, Michele meets beautiful colleague Bianca, and a relationship begins between the two. Where is this relationship heading, and will Michele be able to help the police catch the murderer?.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: cult classic, psychological, sentimental, bleak, humorous, realistic, semi serious, surreal, black comedy, dark comedy
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Latin Lover (2015)
Plot Summary:
The five daughters of a famous actor, all from different mothers and different nationalities, get together on the 10th anniversary of his death for a celebration of his career.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 993
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: touching, tragicomedy, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, witty, talky
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Scent of a Woman (1974)
Plot Summary:
An army cadet accompanies an irascible, blind captain on a week-long trip from Turin to Naples. The captain, Fausto, who wants no pity, brooks no disagreement, and charges into every situation, nicknames the youth Ciccio, and spends the next few days ordering him about and generally behaving badly in public. In Rome, Fausto summons a priest to ask for his blessing; in Naples, where Fausto joins a blind lieutenant for drinking and revelry, the two soldiers talk quietly and seriously about "going through with it." Also in Naples is Sara, in love with Fausto, but treated cruelly by him. What do the blind soldiers plan? Can Sara soften Fausto's hardened heart?.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, philosophical, black comedy, sentimental, uplifting, touching, serious, realistic, dark comedy, italian comedy