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Plot Summary:
In the summer holidays, a group of women stay behind in Paris whilst their husbands and children take a vacation on the sunny Island of Ré. The women – wives, frustrated spinsters and adolescents – profit from their new-found freedom to sort out their love lives and the men indulge their earthy passions with no less enthusiasm. Only the children seems capable of rising above this infantile summer madness.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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All the Right Noises (1970)
Plot Summary:
A married man with two small children begins an affair with a beautiful young actress which quickly blossoms into a full blown romance, until she tells him that she is only 15 years old….
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Those Happy Days (2006)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1992, a manager Vincent has to run a children's holiday camp for three weeks and to face the unexpected concerning the place, his colleagues, various problems linked to children about the rooms, trips, their belongings.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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Holiday Hotel (1978)
Plot Summary:
August in Brittany at a seaside hotel. Some guests are new, some come every year and are friends. The men nearing middle age fish and plan infidelities; their wives have surprises of their own in store. Teens fall in and out of love. Kids not yet teens have their own parties and friendships. In 11 months, most but not all will be back.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy, hot
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Whooping Cough (1987)
Plot Summary:
The story of 10-year-old boy and his family against the backdrop of the bloody events of 1956, in Budapest. Children do not yet understand what is going on, but they're happy because the schools are closed. But gradually, to adults and children comes the understanding that something terrible is happening. Disappearing relatives, friends, and even killed some. Tips sent an army to put down the counterrevolutionary rebellion.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 484
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Sex Shop (1972)
Plot Summary:
The owner of a bookshop in Paris suffers a personal crisis. In order to solve it he decides to convert his library into a sex-shop but the only effect is that he turns himself into a sexual obsessive man.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 351
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, West Germany, Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Just Between Us (2010)
Plot Summary:
Nikola is a man who knows how to really enjoy life; he's even able to rouse sympathy for his sinful ways. His brother turns a blind eye to his philandering although, with a broken marriage behind him, he doesn't have a clear conscience, either. Is there anything positive to be said about infidelity, or does it simply deserve the utmost contempt, particularly when it's more premeditated than spontaneous?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, tense, suspenseful, melancholic, gloomy, sexual, sexy
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Romaine (1997)
Plot Summary:
First Adventure: Romaine goes on vacation by herself. Second Adventure: Romaine dones internships. Third Adventure: Romaine loses her memory ... Three stories of a girl without friends, without hope, without desire.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min
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Shadow of a Chance (1974)
Plot Summary:
Mathias is an anarchist who lives with his 27 year old son, Michel, in late 1960s type communal weirdness.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Die dressierte Frau (1972)
Plot Summary:
An episodic battle of the sexes inspired by the best-selling book of the same name.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, erotic, psychotronic
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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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Exterior Night (1980)
Plot Summary:
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 Empire of Desire (1981)
Plot Summary:
Sandra is a rich widow who wants to know the beach house her late husband has left her. She goes there with her lover Odilon, an unscrupulous young man whose studies she's supporting. Helping her with the red tape is dr. Carvalho, a very conservative and old-fashioned lawyer. In her way to the house, she meets a couple of hippies, looking for a place to stay. She hires them as temporary housekeepers.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Dad Is Gone, Mom Also (1989)
Plot Summary:
A coming-of-age film: When Laurette's parents disappear following a row, Laurette assumes responsibility for the family. The initial fiesta of children alone gives way to abandonment and the pressures of responsibility.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Ninguém Ama Ninguém Por Mais de Dois Anos (2015)
Plot Summary:
"No one loves anyone for more than two years" is an adaptation of Nelson Rodrigues' work about five couples that live in Brazil in the early 60's, who are seen by the society as conventional people, but whose intimate lives turn out to be morally questionable.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Il Solco di Pesca (1976)
Plot Summary:
A former priest has become bored to the point of impotence by the easy availability of beautiful women. He misses the shame of the priesthood which made sex more enjoyable, and this leads to his strange fascination with photographing asses. He gets involved with a sexy married woman, but he is more interested in her virginal maid.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, erotic, sexy
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The Two Crocodiles (1987)
Plot Summary:
Rene (Jean-Pierre Marielle) is a small-time crook who tries to shake down storekeeper Emile (Jean Carmet) in this uneven and humorless comedy. Things change when Rene starts to fall for the terminally boring and provincial Emile.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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The Little Thief (1988)
Plot Summary:
In a small town in post-World-War-II France, an unhappy sixteen-year-old (Janine Castang) tries to escape her dreary situation by any means at her disposal. Three successive friends (Michel Davenne, a married lover; Raoul, a fellow thief; Mauricette Dargelos, a photographer and fellow prisoner) help her learn from her mistakes.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: anthology, sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, intellectual, fake documentary
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The French Woman (1977)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story. Madame Claude, a well connected Parisienne with dark past, runs a network of high-class call girls. She sends her girls to any place in the world to satisfy sexual desires of wealthy and powerful men. Claude's manipulations also involve big business and politics. Meanwhile, photographer David Evans is trying to clear his own criminal record by providing the authorities with pictures of Claude's girls with important clients in compromising positions. But powerful men can do anything to keep their secrets.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 647
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sensual
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Fill 'er Up with Super (1976)
Plot Summary:
Klouk drives a station wagon with his friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 360
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Textiles (2004)
Plot Summary:
Sophie and Olivier are a young married couple who work in Paris as bakers. Out of the blue, they decide to buy a summer house on the seaside, but without actually seing it. When Sophie, along with her two kids, arrives first on the premices, she discovers that they have bought a house located in the midst of a nudist camp.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 684
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, sexy, sex comedy
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Zig Zag Story (1983)
Plot Summary:
The lives of three Parisians - a color-blind painter, a radio show host and a perverted photographer - intertwine and go hilariously out of control.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, fast
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Slogan (1969)
Plot Summary:
Commercial director Serge Faberge (Serge Gainsbourg) is having an affair with Evelyne (Jane Birkin), the 18 year old fiancee of friend Hugh (James Mitchell). His own pregnant wife Francoise (Andréa Parisy) usually does not mind his dalliances, until he actually walks out on her and their newborn baby to move in with Evelyne. The shoe is on the other foot when dashing stuntman Dado (Gilles Millinaire) catches Evelyne's eye in Venice.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 471
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Thong Girls (1987)
Plot Summary:
A funny comedy set mostly on the beach where countless men are trying to impress various women.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, erotic, sexploitation film
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Topsy Turvy (1983)
Plot Summary:
An uptight young man and his equally uptight family moves next door to a hedonistic clan, including the beautiful, sexy Topsy, who charms the new neighbor boy Tom. But Tom discovers that the price of loving Topsy may be higher than he's willing to pay -- she insists on absolute honesty and a life and love without possession or exclusivity.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy
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Girls Can't Swim (2000)
Plot Summary:
Gwen is a teenager living in a small coastal town. Lise is her best friend, a city girl who comes every year with her family to spend the summer. This year things are different though; at first Lise might not come at all, and when she does it is obvious that Gwen grew up faster than she did.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 624
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sincere, realistic, captivating, disturbing, sentimental, touching, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Cookies (1975)
Plot Summary:
Henri Serin, a sales rep in umbrellas who lives in Saumur, is bored with his life. Married to an unloving, uptight wife, who, unlike him, has no interest in sex, he is also rejected by his children. Thus, he spends most of his time travelling from town to town, flirting with women and meeting all kinds of people in the hotels, restaurants, shops and places he visits. He also dabbles in painting, particularly portraits. After his car breaks down as he is driving through Brittany, he meets a rough, foul-mouthed painter who offers him to stay at his house, near Pont-Aven. There, Henri falls in love with Angela, the painters model and fling, and soon they run off together.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: erotic, anthology, sex comedy, touching, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces (1990)
Plot Summary:
Twelve-year-old Noura dangles uncertainly in that difficult netherworld between childhood and adulthood. His growing libido has gotten him banned from the women's baths, where his mother took him when he was younger, but he's not yet old enough to participate in grown-up discussions with the men of his Tunisian village. Noura's only real friend is a troublemaker named Salih -- the village political outcast.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: Tunisia, France, Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: erotic, sincere, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Kiss & Tell (2018)
Plot Summary:
This French comedy follows various people in two families. Bertrand and his wife, Elizabeth, are a wealthy couple who plan to vacation near the same coastal town as their friends, Jerome and Veronique, who are secretly struggling with financial problems. Meanwhile, Bertrand and his daughter, Emilie, have each been hiding a secret, and these deceptions are bound to have repercussions.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 556
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Venus Beauty (1999)
Plot Summary:
Madam Nadine manages with pride the "Vénus Beauté" Salon which offers relaxation, massage and make-up services. The owner and her three beauticians: Samantha, Marianne and Angèle are pros. Contrary to her friend Marianne, who still dreams of the big day, Angèle no longer believes in love. Marie, the youngest of the three employees, discovers love in the hands of a sixty year-old former pilot, who risks everything.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sexy, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, cult film
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The Decline of the American Empire (1986)
Plot Summary:
Four very different Montreal university teachers gather at a rambling country house to prepare a dinner. Remy (married), Claude (a homosexual), Pierre (involved with a girlfriend) and Alain (a bachelor) discuss sex, the female body and their affairs with them. Meanwhile, their four female guests, Louise (Remy's wife of 15 years), Dominique (a spinster), Diane (a divorcée) and Danielle (Pierre's girlfriend) are spending the time at a downtown health gym. They also discuss sex, the female body and, naturally, men. Later in the evening, they finally meet at the country house and have dinner. A ninth guest, named Mario, who used to know Diane, drops in on the group for some talk and has a surprise of his own.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: talky, intellectual, humorous, sincere, realistic, semi serious, art house, sex comedy, independent film, cult classic