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Plot Summary:
Based on Molière's play. The children of Harpagon, Cléante and his sister Elise, are each in love but they still haven't spoken to their father yet. Harpagon is a miser who wants to choose the right man and the right woman for his children. When Cléante, at last, tries to speak to Harpagon, the old man informs the family that he wants to marry Marianne, the young girl loved by Cléante. Unaware of his son's sorrow, Harpagon doesn't understand why Cléante has become so angry with him.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: funny, black comedy, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, eighties
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Dirty Work (2018)
Plot Summary:
Employees of a wealthy home look for a chance of revenge against the unfair way they are treated.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Comedy
Country: Dominican Republic
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, semi serious, funny, entertaining, satirical, black comedy
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Scoundrel in White (1972)
Plot Summary:
Jean-Paul Belmondo plays Paul, a former womanizer who marries the head of the medical department's "unattractive" daughter Christine because he thinks attractive women can't be trusted and make poor wives. A car accident leaves him bedridden and he begins to miss his playboy days, when Christine's bombshell sister Martine arrives and Paul decides he must have her. He begins drugging Christine at night so he can sneak out to kill of Martine's many suitors one by one.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 715
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sex comedy, black comedy, dark comedy, witty, cynical, slapstick
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Jackpot (2006)
Plot Summary:
Kummelin Jackpot, was released in February 2006. It was about a divorced man portrayed by Silvennoinen, who realises a way to trick himself a jackpot in football betting.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, entertaining, realistic, semi serious
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The Discord (1978)
Plot Summary:
Guillaume has made it: A machine that can clean dirty air by simply sucking all dirt into air balloons and then shipping them far far away so his explanation. Some Japanese business guys, after dinner with a lot of alcohol, order 5,000 pieces. His only problem: His production capacity is way to small so he gets to produce the machines in his private house. His wife Bernadette is far from being happy about it. Her private life goes down the line so she decides to leave Guillaume and to finally have revenge she candidates for major against her husband.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, slapstick, humorous, realistic, not serious, slapstick comedy, fun
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Made in Italy (2008)
Plot Summary:
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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Life Is a Long Quiet River (1988)
Plot Summary:
Two babies are switched at birth. When the mistake is discovered 12 years later, it leads to complications in the lives of both families. One family is affluent, with dutiful and (apparently) contented children. The other family is poor, with rambunctious (even delinquent) children, often hungry, but with lots of laughter in the house.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, cult classic, humorous, captivating, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, cult film
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Donald Glover: Weirdo (2012)
Plot Summary:
Fearlessly funny stand-up comic and sitcom star Donald Glover puts on a live show in New York, confessing his love for Cocoa Puffs and Toys "R" Us.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, talky, clever, witty, not serious, realistic, independent film, biting, suspense
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Dealin' with Idiots (2013)
Plot Summary:
Faced with the absurd competitiveness surrounding his son's youth league baseball team, Max Morris, a famous comedian, decides to get to know the colorful parents and coaches of the team better in an attempt to find the inspiration for his next movie.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, realistic, not serious, funny, offbeat, cynical, independent film, biting, suspense
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A Slightly Pregnant Man (1973)
Plot Summary:
Marco Mazzetti (Marcello Mastroianni), a driving instructor, lives with his wife Irène (Catherine Deneuve) and their young. After a series of dizzy spells, he goes to the doctor and discovers that he is four-month pregnant. Marco then becomes internationally famous.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 923
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: mind bending, psychedelic, surreal, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, biting
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Royal Palace (2005)
Plot Summary:
Eugenia is the queen of an imaginary European country. When her husband dies, quite unexpectedly, the country is left without a king. According to the law, the new king needs to be married so that leaves out the eldest son. Her youngest son, Prince Arnaud is married to the lovely Armelle and they have two young children. They become the future rulers of the kingdom.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic, funny, offbeat
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The Grand Dukes (1996)
Plot Summary:
Three aging and failed comedians, Georges Cox, Victor Vialat and Eddie Carpentier, hit the road again with a lousy production of a lousy play, of course under the worst possible conditions.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious
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Oh Dear 2 (2011)
Plot Summary:
Second part of the turkish comedy film series.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: not serious, humorous, realistic, light, feel good, slapstick
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Absolutely Fabulous (2001)
Plot Summary:
The wildly popular British television show Absolutely Fabulous gets a Francophonic makeover with this film version directed by Gabriel Aghion. In this go around, Josiane Balasko and Nathalie Baye play the incorrigible Eddie and Patsy, who leave no impulse unenacted and no lust unsated -- be it for sex or the latest in designer clothing. Waking up from a night of drunken debauchery, the two dip right into a feast of champagne and caviar, much to the irritation of Eddie's elegant mother and her resentful daughter. As Eddie stretches an appalling pair of leopard-print leotards (complete with matching shoes, purse, and hat) over her massive rear end, she and Patsy learn of a handsome young Rollerblading delivery boy who quickly becomes the object of their lust. This film was screened at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic, sex comedy, offbeat, sexual, black comedy, slapstick comedy, sexy
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The Cosmopolitans (2014)
Plot Summary:
A look at the lives and loves of a group of young ex-patriates living in Paris. Part of Amazon's Pilot Season, in which viewers, after watching the pilot episode, get to vote on which show they want to return for more episodes. "The Cosmopolitans" didn't get picked up by Amazon after the pilot.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 739
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 26 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty, talky
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I Want to Go Home (1989)
Plot Summary:
Joey Wellman, an American cartoonist from Cleveland now largely forgotten at home, visits France with his partner Lena to attend an exhibition in Paris about the comic strip (bande dessinée) which features his work. He also hopes to be reconciled with his daughter Elsie who has been a student in Paris for two years, in flight from the American culture of which she sees her father as a typical example. Elsie is naively infatuated with French literature, and is trying to secure an introduction to the brilliant university professor Christian Gauthier, an expert on Flaubert but also an enthusiast for comic books. The meeting of father and daughter goes badly, but Elsie is persuaded to join Joey and Lena for the weekend at the country house of Gauthier's mother, Isabelle. During a comic-themed masquerade party, all of the characters are made to reconsider their present and past relationships.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 794
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, surreal, witty, semi serious, biting, suspense
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Oscar (1967)
Plot Summary:
This film originated as a play in Paris. The story focuses on the one-day adventures of Bertrand Barnier played with a genius of French cinema, Louis de Funes. In the same morning he learns that his daughter is pregnant, an employee stole a large amount of money from his company, his maid is about to resign in order to marry a wealthy neighbor and his body builder is interested in marrying his daughter. The seemingly complicated story-line is full of comedy or errors and some of the most hilarious mime scenes of the French cinema.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, sincere, entertaining, funny, realistic, not serious, surprise ending
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Lovers and Other Strangers (1970)
Plot Summary:
Mike Vecchio and Susan Henderson are preparing for their upcoming wedding. However, they seem to be the only two people at the wedding that are happy. Mike's brother Richie and his wife Joan are going through a divorce, which is upsetting his overly devout Catholic mother Beatrice. Also, Susan's father is carrying on an affair and her sex starved older sister Wilma is going through her troubles with her husband Johnny. All this is going on while Mike's best friend Jerry is trying to bed the maid of honor, Susan's cousin Brenda.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: funny, independent film, sentimental, clever, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, talky
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Pardon Mon Affaire, Too! (1977)
Plot Summary:
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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Penny Pincher! (2016)
Plot Summary:
François Gautier is stingy! Saving puts the joy, it causes pay sweats. His life is set for the sole purpose of never spend anything. A life that will switch in one day: he falls in love and discovers he has a daughter he did not know existed. Forced to lie in order to hide his terrible default, this will be the beginning for François problems. Because lie can sometimes be expensive. Very expensive….
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, sincere, sweet, humorous
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Spoiled Brats (2021)
Plot Summary:
The billionaire is tired of the whims of his own children and decides to teach them a lesson. He announces to them that he has become bankrupt. Now spoiled teenagers will have to do what they have never done: go to work, learn to love and value life.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: absurd, realistic, light, entertaining, feel good, humorous, not serious, funny, happy, sentimental
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Boudu (2005)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, captivating, clever, offbeat, realistic, biting, suspense
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Mother and Daughter: California Dream (2016)
Plot Summary:
Barbara was sellected for a fashion contest, the World Fashion Summer Dress, but the contest takes place in California and she lives in Paris. Barbara and Isabelle travels to Los Angeles where a great adventure waits for them.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration:
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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An Italian Name (2015)
Plot Summary:
Paolo and his wife are waiting a baby and deciding his name, but it seems that Paolo's family and friends don't really like the chosen name.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, witty, contemplative, talky, semi serious, feel good, funny, light, entertaining
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The Chain (1984)
Plot Summary:
Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 433
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, biting, suspense
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Noises Off... (1992)
Plot Summary:
A travelling theater group has so much action going on behind-the-scenes it almost ruins the performances.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, feel good, light, witty, talky, metafiction, offbeat, romantic comedy, realistic
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Dead Tired (1994)
Plot Summary:
Stressed and overworked, famous French movie star Michel Blanc (Michel Blanc) is beginning to wear down, physically and mentally, from the pressure and demands of fame. Already in a fragile state of mind, strange events start to transpire all around him, and he gradually loses his grip. Taking the advice of a psychiatrist, Blanc retreats to the countryside with his friend, Carole Bouquet (Carole Bouquet), but Blanc still has not managed to escape all of his problems.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: light, absurd, melancholic, talky, humorous, clever, witty, entertaining, offbeat, realistic
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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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Relative Values (2000)
Plot Summary:
A comedy of discriminating taste and dirty little secrets, the story is set in 1952 England, where Nigel, the Earl of Marshwood, woos Hollywood star Miranda Frayle, upsetting both his mother, Countess Felicity of Marshwood, and her former love, fellow Hollywood star Don Lucas. Right before the engagement party to be held at Marshwood, Moxie, the Countess's personal maid and best friend reveals that Miranda is her estranged sister. Crestwell, the Countess's butler, quickly devises a plan-but an inebriated Lucas's arrival at Marshwood to try to talk to Miranda causes all chaos to break loose.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic, witty, stylized, independent film, clever
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The Cost of Living (2003)
Plot Summary:
Une héritière qui n'arrive pas à hériter, un radin qui ne peut rien dépenser, un petit garçon qui trouve un billet dans la rue, un restaurateur prodigue qui ne fait que donner... Tels sont, entre autres, les personnages de ce film "choral". Pourquoi certains dépensent-ils de manière convulsive là où d'autres retiennent l'argent comme la partie la plus vitale de leur être ? On croit parler d'argent, mais c'est d'amour dont il s'agit.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 659
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Max (2012)
Plot Summary:
Max is 6 years old. She lives with her dad Toni, a small time crook with a golden heart. For Xmas, Max offers him Rose, a call-girl found on the street whom she’s very fond of. Despite the complicated situation, Toni’s gonna have a hard time refusing her daughter’s «gift» and must coexist with Rose.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious