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Plot Summary:
Eight short films explore the subject of male infidelity. Serial cheaters, Fred and Greg, spend a night on the town doing what they do best, and with absolutely no regrets. The duo play various characters in assorted extracurricular situations, ranging from sexist to the darker sides of carnal desires.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: sexual, humorous, semi serious, realistic, sex comedy, erotic, light, art house, black comedy, anthology
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Sex Lives of the Potato Men (2004)
Plot Summary:
Two lowlifes with active fantasy sex lives deliver potatoes to various restaurants and grocers.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, melancholic, sentimental, touching, erotic, sex comedy, offbeat, sexual
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At Home with the Rozes (2003)
Plot Summary:
Two ex-convicts, MG and Gilbert find refuge in a charming middle-class house whose couple is about to celebrate its 20-year old marriage. Our duo has no other solution than to take this entire brood in hostage. But, contrary to all expectations, they are warmly greeted by the occupants who don't think twice before helping them, they are even ready to put their guests off, even to kill them if necessary.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, hilarious, realistic, dark comedy
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Bankers Also Have Souls (1982)
Plot Summary:
Gregoire is retiring after many years with the same bank, and his collegues surprise him with the gift of a beautiful call girl.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 476
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual
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Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? (1963)
Plot Summary:
TV star Jason Steel reluctantly becomes the sounding board for his best friends' bored wives, and must fend off their advances while managing his own fragile relationship.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 608
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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The Twist (1976)
Plot Summary:
Bored aristocratic Parisian couples begin affairs with each other which only brings trouble.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 343
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, psychological, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, biting, sexual
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Made for Each Other (2009)
Plot Summary:
The best part of any marriage is consummating it. However after 3 months of a sexless marriage Dan, in a moment of weakness, finds himself in the throws of casual sex with another woman. Dan decides the only way to morally rectify this is of course to get his wife to cheat on him and thus he sets out to find the right man to put the hurt on his old lady.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 975
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, sexy, sex comedy, realistic, cynical, slapstick, sexploitation film
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French Fried Vacation 3 (2006)
Plot Summary:
After the Club Med and skiing, what happened to the Bronzés 27 years later? Early response: the same, and worse.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, sexy, sexual
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The 3 L'il Pigs (2007)
Plot Summary:
As their mother lies in a coma, two brothers discuss the advantages and disadvantages of adultery, under the nose of their virtuous elder, who tries in vain to discourage them.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, light, captivating, sex comedy, feel good, realistic, semi serious
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Happy Easter (1984)
Plot Summary:
Chronic serial womanizer Stephane Margelle (Jean-Paul Belmondo) drops his wife Sophie (Marie Laforet) off at the airport so she can go away for Easter weekend. He immediately picks up beautiful young Julie (Sophie Marceau), who has just had a fight with her married boyfriend. He gets her back to his apartment and is preparing for a sexy weekend, when his wife suddenly returns home. He makes up a bizarre, on-the-spot, spur-of-the-moment story that the gorgeous girl is actually his long-lost daughter. Julie plays along, but this leads to a whole series of increasingly ridiculous lies and comical situations (such as when her real mother shows up).
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, feel good, sex comedy, light, erotic, surprise ending
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Maybe... Maybe Not (1994)
Plot Summary:
Der Bewegte Mann is a German comedy about a heterosexual man, Axel, who is thrown out of his girlfriends home for cheating and ends up moving in with a gay man. Axel learns the advantages of living with gay men even though they are attracted to him and when his girlfriend wants him back he must make a tough decision.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, sexual, homoerotic, realistic, semi serious, tense, funny, light, road movie, rough
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Strange Bedfellows (2004)
Plot Summary:
Two 'very straight' old timers have to learn how to pass as a loving gay couple after falsely claiming same-sex status to take advantage of newly legislated tax laws.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, queer cinema, cult film
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Best in Bed (2014)
Plot Summary:
Raised to believe in performance and in the idea that all abilities must be optimized, Emma is a young, methodical woman who appears determined and relatively sure of herself. But two consecutive failures (real or imagined) lead her to believe that she has a real problem: she is useless in bed. Because she is more fragile than she appears, Emma hence decides to become... the best lay in Paris! She then sets out on a formidable plan of action (theory, practical, validation of acquired knowledge), which soon provokes a series of misunderstandings and disasters within her immediate vicinity. For one thing, her method doesn't turn out to be really adapted to her field of investigation. And Emma has probably also forgotten a little detail: love doesn't obey any plan. In this absurd and nutty quest, Emma will learn to let go, to lose control, and, to finally win her freedom.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 660
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, light, captivating, feel good, realistic, sexual, sex comedy, sexy
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Sexy Boys (2001)
Plot Summary:
Friends since high school, 20-year-olds Seb, Frank and Manu are navigating their college years with humor and a longing for romance. Through a series of ridiculous accidents, each young man learns to look for love in unexpected places.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 761
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, entertaining, light, sex comedy, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Swingers (2018)
Plot Summary:
Ihor, is bored with his glamorous girlfriend Ilona. Meanwhile, Irina, demands sex of Andrew, for which he has neither strength nor desire. Ihor and Irina demand a sexual experiment - a swinger's party. Meanwhile, Sveta, left naked on her lover's balcony when his wife suddenly returns, is saved by Denis the neighbour. But the evening gets more interesting when Edward appears on Denis's doorstep.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 531
Genere: Comedy
Country: Ukraine, Latvia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, feel good, sexy
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Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You (1970)
Plot Summary:
An American playwright living in Rome consults a quack psychiatrist to combat his fears of balding and save his failing marriage.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 661
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sex comedy, campy
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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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The Big Bad Wolf (2013)
Plot Summary:
Once upon a time in 2012, three brothers lived happily. One day their mom fell into a coma. So Henri, Philippe, and Louis suddenly started wondering about the meaning of their lives and were swamped by a wave of existential doubts. An entirely new situation for this bourgeois trio in their forties, one which opened a door to the novel and indeed the forbidden... and to the big bad wolf!.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 905
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, feel good, sex comedy
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Never Say... Never! (2005)
Plot Summary:
Paris, 1830. Valentin loses himself in alcohol, gambling and women. He does not believe in life and especially not in love. His uncle Van Buck believes only in the virtues of money and trade. Everything separates them until the day when Van Buck, to improve his public image, wants to make Valentin marry the young and impoverished Baroness Cécile. Valentin, who has absolutely no desire to get married, bets that he can easily seduce her in 24 hours and thus prove that she, like all the others, is not worth loving... But Cécile, who believes in true love, will prove much more difficult to woo than envisaged and Valentin will have to use all possible stratagems to try and win his bet. The game of cat and mouse starts... But who is the cat?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 648
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, entertaining, satirical, realistic
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All That Glitters (2010)
Plot Summary:
Ely and Lila are like sisters. They know each other since childhood,they share everything and dream of a better life.they live in the same suburb, 10mn from Paris. Today,Ely and Lila dont want to be 10mn away from their life anymore.from small troubles to big lies, they will do everything to penetrate a world which is not theirs, a world where everything is possible or so they think.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: feel good, realistic, touching, humorous, semi serious
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Hard Off (1999)
Plot Summary:
Claude, an auctioneer in his 50s, forms with Marie a couple united for fifteen years and still in love. However, in the intimacy, and in spite of a desire always alive, Claude has problems of erection. While Marie agrees with a smile of these failures, Claude becomes angry and decides to consult a specialist. There followed various medical examinations which Marie mocks gently. To reassure himself, he decides to seduce other women. While on a business trip to Geneva, he gets the Viagra pill, but his attempt at seduction fails. On his return to Paris, Marie, more seductive than ever, strives to make him forget his age and his weaknesses.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic, sex comedy, sexual, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexy
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What a Drag (1996)
Plot Summary:
A closeted gay man's attempt to "act straight" for the sake of his job has unexpected consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy, clever, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, hot, campy
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The Ultimate Accessory (2013)
Plot Summary:
The story of Aleksandra and Cyrille, a prominent, trendy, and very well-off Parisian couple, whose life is not quite the same after seven-year-old Alekseï from Russia suddenly pops up in their 100% cashmere, childless home. Aleksandra soon realises that this little boy they have adopted is not quite what she had been hoping for.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 718
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, feel good, suspense, biting
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The Sex Monster (1999)
Plot Summary:
A neurotic L.A. building contractor (Mike Binder in his best Woody Allen imitation) pushes his wife (Mariel Hemingway) into entering into a three way sexual relationship. Unfortunately for him, his wife gets more out of it than he does and becomes a tigress seducing every female she meets including the contractor's secretary.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, sexy, sex comedy, independent film, biting, sexual, suspense
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Max mon amour (1986)
Plot Summary:
A French wife takes a zoo chimp named Max to be her lover.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: disturbing, clever, humorous, realistic, erotic, controversial, sex comedy, offbeat, surreal, witty
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Relax... It's Just Sex (1998)
Plot Summary:
A mixed group of individuals - lesbian, gays, and heterosexuals who all frequent a local bar struggle to accept each others lifestyles. However when the two gays are attacked and fight back and ultimately rape one of their attackers, the group becomes strongly divided on their actions.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: touching, melancholic, sincere, sexy, humorous, independent film, sex comedy, realistic, talky, semi serious
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The Last Married Couple in America (1980)
Plot Summary:
Jeff and Mari Thompson have been married for fifteen years. Although their marriage is not perfect, they are seemingly happy in their married and family life. But all their married friends seem to be getting divorced or separated. These newly single friends try to convince both Jeff and Mari - together and individually - that divorce is the way to go. Even if they do decide to remarry, it will be an inevitability that that marriage too will end in divorce. And divorce can even re-energize the love in an otherwise stale marriage. In light of these assertions by their friends, Jeff and Mari do evaluate their marriage. Their friends also place each of them in potentially compromising positions, despite the fact that they still are married. Will Jeff and Mari's marriage be able to withstand all this outside pressure?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 722
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual
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Knots (2004)
Plot Summary:
A male-centric take on contemporary relationships, where three guy friends look for love and commitment.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy, humorous, light, romantic, funny, realistic, semi serious, sexual, erotic
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A Midsummer Comedy (2009)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful waterfront house, a Swedish flag fluttering in the wind. A sailboat tied to the wooden deck below. This is the setting of the friends' annual Midsummer celebrations. The friends are gathered at Emil's family house and the herring lunch, sauna, games and compulsory skinny dipping are as always prepared. Expectations are set - Micke worries about his highly pregnant wife and the fastest way to the nearest hospital. Eva is looking for some distraction from her recent split with Patrick and Sam. Emil's college buddy from the States arrives with his own expectations of Swedish sin. Wannabe singer-songwriter Anders hasn't told his wannabe pregnant girlfriend Maria about his low sperm count and hopes to solve the problem over the weekend. To top it off Emil's surprise seems to lift the party to unprecedented heights. If everything had gone according to plan that is.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 518
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, Sweden
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, humorous, realistic, contemplative, semi serious, sex comedy
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What Every Frenchwoman Wants (1986)
Plot Summary:
Roger is a 16-year-old who seeks to lose his virginity in this softcore erotic drama. His initial efforts are unsuccessful, but World War I breaks out and men are seen marching off to battle. Roger goes overboard when he is presented with several amorous opportunities.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, sex comedy, captivating, unusual plot structure, sexy, romantic, explicit