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Plot Summary:
Muriel is a shy woman who bluffs and blusters around in order to hide her shyness and to protect her loneliness, even though she longs wistfully for a companion of some sort. She has been lonely so long that now she is an old maid and has never been wooed. In this gentle French film, Muriel gets a glimpse of romance when Gabriel walks into the seaside hotel she is vacationing in. His car has broken down, and he has to stay there for a few days while it is repaired. Hers is the only dinner table with room at it, and Gabriel cannot prevent himself from charming women. She is stiff with him at first, but soon they develop a friendship.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 504
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Budapest (2018)
Plot Summary:
Two best friends stuck in boring jobs become bachelor party planners in Budapest.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, absurd, not serious, happy, sex comedy
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Go for It, Baby (1968)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 540
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Europa Camping (1992)
Plot Summary:
A pretty mixed society get together in a camping area. They enjoy their vacation and do not know that two of the vacationists are demolition experts, who are looking for a huge bomb which may explode in any minute. Written by Tamas Patrovics.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Comedy
Country: Hungary
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags:
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Charlots Go to Spain (1972)
Plot Summary:
Four friends from Paris are living misadventures of all sorts in Spain when their group of travelers is forced to split due to a travel scam.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 406
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Numbskull Emptybrook in Spain (1985)
Plot Summary:
Uuno Turhapuro is searching for a job and takes a correspondence course in tour guiding. Eventually he gets a job in a small travel agency and takes a group of Finnish tourists to Marbella, Spain. Unfortunately Uuno's father-in-law Tuura is in the group, too, with his wife and daughter, Uuno's wife Elisabet. Tuura tries to get a signature to an important paper from a minister who's having a holiday in the area. Meanwhile, Uuno just relaxes and enjoys the sun.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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Sea Oak (2017)
Plot Summary:
A lonesome woman comes back from the dead to live the life she was too afraid to live.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 603
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 32 min
Plot tags:
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Diggin' Up Business (1990)
Plot Summary:
A black comedy set in a funeral home.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, independent film
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Don't Play with Tigers (1982)
Plot Summary:
A stories of three really unlucky characters are discovered during the trial.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 573
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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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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King Guillaume (2009)
Plot Summary:
Magali plays in a brass band. Guillaume drives a small tourist train. Both spin a perfect love, they share modest dreams and their baby is about to come. But an unexpected news upsets their routine: a man appears and announces that he is Guillaume's estranged father and also reveals that Guillaume is his legitimate heir of a kingdom offshore of France and England. Guillaume and Magali start to dream of a life as monarchs, surrounded by faithful subjects in their castle, enjoying their wealth. But reality is often different to what you can imagine.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Holidays by the Sea (2011)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about funny adventures of the group of French people during the summer vacation.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: humorous, contemplative, not serious, funny, offbeat, realistic, slapstick, silent, freeze frame, dark comedy
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Club Las Piranjas (1995)
Plot Summary:
Karl-Heinz, a filling-station attendant, and his family, Herta, a retiree, Kurt, a drugstore branch manager, and Margot, a divorced man-hunter, have only one thing in common: they have booked a holiday at Club Las Piranjas, where they want to relax from their nerve-racking occupations. But there are three people knowing a way to prevent this. Most notably the two animators Edwin and Biggy, who don't allow any amusement outside their own plans, and of course the always drunken club chief Mrs. Wenger, whose only thought is, that there shouldn't be any reclamation from the travel agency. Apart from the scruffy condition of the Club (no water in the pool, etc). and the obscure Club activities involving Biggy and Edwin, the vacation becomes a complete horror trip, with only one end in sight, which is to part from the club as soon as possible. Written by Stefan Fey.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 666
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Jupiter's Thigh (1980)
Plot Summary:
Antoine, a professor of Greek, and Lise, a police inspector, honeymoon in Greece. There they meet a young couple, Charles, an archaeologist, and Agnes, a dishy flirt. Charles unearths the lovely buttocks of a classical statue and is determined to donate it to the Louvre. Agnes wants to sell it and gets a handsome local sailor to take it for an appraisal. When the sailor is murdered, the police suspect Charles and arrest Antoine as his accomplice. Lise swings into action, but before she can clear the men, Agnes springs them from jail, and now Lise must help them elude the police, find the real murderer, and recover the statue fragment. More art goes missing. What is the statue's secret?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 976
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: road movie, anthology, surprise ending, exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious, spoof, hood, parody
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Her mit den kleinen Schweinchen (1984)
Plot Summary:
Wolfgang cannot make up his mind whether to choose a pretty young thing without money or a rich widow. Egon his friend advises him to choose the young girl and leads rich and ugly widow Olga to the altar himself. Now he lives in the lap of luxury, but his jealous wife never lets him out of her sight. Wolfgang takes the hen-pecked husband to the "Ball of the Piggies", where Egon promptly succumbs to the charms of an ever so sweet and sexy Piggy, those of his wife. While Olga ransacks the hotel in search of Egon the next morning, the real beneficiaries are Wolfgang and Eva who chalk up the nocturnal happenings to experience.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags:
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He's My Girl (1987)
Plot Summary:
Bryan and Reggie are best friends who are in the music business in Missouri. When Reggie enters Brian for a chance to go to L.A., Bryan wins the contest and wants to bring Reggie with him. However, Bryan must bring a girl. In an effort to make sure Bryan gets his shot, Reggie decides to pose as a girl. When the duo arrive in L.A., both fall in love with two women and they must stop the promoter of the contest when he steals Bryan's song for his star, Simon Sledge.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 645
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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3 Sexy Girls in Tirol (1977)
Plot Summary:
Otto runs a hotel for tourists in Tyrol but has troubles both with the economy and with his wife Olga. After a trip to Stockholm he imports three Swedish blondes who eventually save Otto from disaster, both marital and financial.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, sex comedy
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Lapland Odyssey 2 (2015)
Plot Summary:
It’s been three years since we last met Janne and Inari. Since then, they’ve had a daughter named Lumi. Janne and his friends experience a new adventure, this time on an autumn night. The boys go to a party but end up chasing Lumi who has disappeared. Meanwhile, Inari enjoys a girls-night-out and has an adventure of her own.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: complex
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Love and Marriage (1964)
Plot Summary:
An anthology comedy with segments about love and marriage.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Ever Been to the Moon? (2015)
Plot Summary:
Giulia is thirty years old and unmarried. She has a good job which allows her to travel and lead a luxurious life in Milan and Paris. She is convinced that she has everything she needs for happiness, but after meeting Renzo, a charming Apulian farmer, Giulia understands that she's missing the most important thing in her life - true love.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, light, captivating, romantic comedy
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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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The Wife on Vacation... The Lover in Town (1980)
Plot Summary:
Andrea Damiani sends his wife Valeria off on a skiing holiday so he can spend time with his demanding mistress, Giulia. Little does he suspect that Valeria is having a rendezvous with a Count she recently met. However, Valeria does not know that 'Count' Giovanni is really just a manager's assistant, namely, Andrea's.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 461
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy
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We Will Go to Deauville (1962)
Plot Summary:
Comical adventures of two pairs of friends during their stay in Deauville, Normandy.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Odd Jobs (1986)
Plot Summary:
Four students who work on different jobs during their vacations in summer are tired of doing the same thing every year. Therefore they decide to open up a moving company together and confront themselves with the former boss of one of them.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 515
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Twist Again in Moscow (1986)
Plot Summary:
Igor, who manages a fancy hotel and is on the take, has to juggle several problems at once. He has a two-hour window to get his ill-got gain out of the hotel, he must misdirect and obstruct the inquiries of a Party auditor who suspects that all is not above board, and he must keep out of sight and out of trouble his interloping and troublesome young brother-in-law, who arrives unannounced with barrels of rotten herring.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 639
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Would I Lie to You? 3 (2012)
Plot Summary:
Eddie, Dov, Yvan et les autres… Nos chaleureux amis ont migré du Sentier moribond à la banlieue florissante d’Aubervilliers… Là où les vieux entrepreneurs juifs ont laissé le terrain à de jeunes grossistes chinois courageux et dynamiques… La petite bande est toujours aussi soudée, solidaire que lors des épisodes précédents, et la vie suit son cours, au gré des petits évènements familiaux et des affaires. Dov semble toujours frivole, Eddie entreprenant, Yvan transi, Karine désinvolte, Sandra résolue, Chochana naïve, Serge irresponsable et mythomane. Quant à Patrick, il est amoureux et l’heureuse élue est loin d’être facile d’accès. Tout irait pour le mieux jusqu’à ce qu’un vent mauvais apporte son lot d’adversité compromettant sérieusement la cohésion du groupe. Succomberont-ils sous l’orage à la zizanie, ou bien, une fois de plus, à force d’entraide, de ruses et d’habileté, triompheront-ils de la crise avec panache ?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic
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Camping (2006)
Plot Summary:
Plastic surgeon Michel Saint-Josse is on his way to Spain where he hopes to spend a stress-free holiday in a luxury hotel with his teenage daughter Vanessa. When his car breaks down near a camping, Michel accepts the offer of help from an extrovert gigolo camper named Patrick Chirac. Whilst their car is being repaired, Michel and Vanessa agree to stay in Patrick’s well proportioned tent, not knowing that, thanks to a series of mishaps, it will be their home for several days.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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What's New Pussycat (1965)
Plot Summary:
A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, sex comedy, esoteric, feel good, realistic, semi serious, slapstick comedy, romantic comedy, erotic
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Unhappily Ever After (2023)
Plot Summary:
María José and Alfredo are about to celebrate their 20th anniversary and their children give them a trip to the hotel where they celebrated their honeymoon, but a spell will make them repeat the same day.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, entertaining, light, captivating
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Our Happy Holiday (2018)
Plot Summary:
Marion and Ben, thirty years old, meet on Tinder. That's about all they have in common; but the opposites attract each other, and they decide in the early morning of their meeting to go on vacation together despite the advice of their entourage. They will finally leave - to Bulgaria, halfway to their dream destinations: Beirut for Marion, Biarritz for Ben. Without a precise plan and, as they will soon discover, with very different conceptions of what a dream holiday should be.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: scenic, light, feel good, sweet, funny, romantic, humorous, captivating
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The Belgian Job (2012)
Plot Summary:
Willy Vander Brook, a world with Franco-Belgian roots, travels to Paris for an interview. He is welcomed by his childhood friend Serge, an ex pub operator, and his roommate Frank, a fierce supporter of the Walloon independence. When Willy discovers that his candidacy is not accepted because he is Belgian, he and his compatriots decide to take revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, realistic, semi serious