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Plot Summary:
After discovering her boyfriend for the past four years is married, a distraught and depressed young woman turns to a Catholic priest for counseling -- and finds mutual attraction. Now the inseparable couple are thwarted by his holy vow of celibacy, and must rely on the Vatican for a solution to their dilemma.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 699
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Lady L (1965)
Plot Summary:
Lady L is an elegant 80-year-old woman who recalls her amorous life story, including past loves and lusty, scandalous adventures she has lived through.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, France, Italy
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, feel good, exciting, absurd, sex comedy, retro, sexy, realistic, stylized
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Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963)
Plot Summary:
Stories about three very different women and the men they attract. Adelina sells black-market cigarettes in Naples, is married to the unemployed Carmine, and faces a jail sentence. She can avoid it as long as she's pregnant. Several years and seven children later, Carmine is exhausted, so jail looks inescapable as does her contempt for Carmine. In Milan, Anna drives a Rolls, is bored, and picks up a writer. She talks dreamily of running off with him until he dents her car; that gets her emotional attention. Mara, a Roman call girl, turns the head of a naive seminarian, prompting a run-in with his granny and a vow of abstinence. Mara's fizzy lover from Bologna grows impatient.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: anthology, neorealism, sexy, manga, art house, black and white, aesthetic, sex comedy, humorous, realistic
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The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (1966)
Plot Summary:
A citizen of the Veneto in her sixties. Three stories of "love in the country".
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: sexy, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, biting, sexual, anthology, suspense, hot
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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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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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Post Coitum (2004)
Plot Summary:
This adult comedy looks at the complex, intermingled sexual relationships between a bunch of diverse characters - a barmaid, a part-time prostitute, a hippy, a rocker, a medical student and a confused virgin!.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sexy, semi serious, humorous, realistic, offbeat, sexual, experimental, slapstick comedy, hot
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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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Marriage Italian Style (1964)
Plot Summary:
In Naples, in the Second World War, the wolf businessman Domenico Soriano meets the seventeen years old whore Filumena Marturano in a brothel during an allied bombing. Two years later, in the post-war, they meet each other by chance and begin a long affair. For twenty-two years, Filumena is his mistress and administrates his shops in Naples while Domenico is traveling. When Domenico decides to marry the young cashier of his bakery, Filumena lures him as if she were near to death and he marries her. Later he annuls their matrimony, and she tells him that she has three sons that she raised secretly, one of them is his legitimate son but she does not disclose his identity. The middle-age Domenico uses the most different subterfuges trying to find which teenager might be his son.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sentimental, witty, sexy, touching, captivating, realistic, romantic, social, semi serious, crying
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If a Man Answers (1962)
Plot Summary:
Chantel worries about her new marriage to photographer Eugene failing so she decides to take her mother's advice and manipulate him. First, her mother gives her a book that will solve all her problems about how to treat a husband - namely a book on how to train dogs. Then, her mother gives her a second trick, an imaginary boyfriend who used to come in handy during her own marriage to Chantel's father. However, if Chantel's mother made this man up, what is she going to do when Eugene brings him home for dinner one night?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, semi serious, captivating, independent film, sexual, sexy
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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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White on Rice (2009)
Plot Summary:
40-year-old Jimmy is growing up, or at least he's getting older. While mooching the upper bunk of his ten-year-old nephew's bed, he enjoys the never-ending generosity of his sister Aiko, and dodges the wrath of his impatient brother-in-law Tak. He thinks that if only he could get married all his problems would be solved. But when he falls head over heels for Tak's niece things only go from bad to worse.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 545
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat
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Special Delivery (2002)
Plot Summary:
An unexpected phone call from a certain Kirsch sets off a crisis between Catherine and Raphaël that will affect all those around them, be they close friends or casual acquaintances.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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100 Mile Rule (2002)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 775
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: realistic, cynical, semi serious, humorous, clever
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The Tiger and the Pussycat (1967)
Plot Summary:
Comedy-drama about a middle-aged Italian businessman Vittorio Gassman who is married to Eleanor Parker and is innocently introduced one day to a schoolgirl with pigtails named Carolina. Years later, that young schoolgirl has become a vivacious young woman (Ann-Margret), and she pursues him, luring him into an on-again-off-again romantic tryst where she pulls the strings and holds all the cards.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 463
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sentimental, serious, realistic
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Macaroni (1985)
Plot Summary:
A businessman from the United States returns to Italy for the first time in four decades only to discover that an old girlfriend of his, along with her brother, have involved him in a massive hoax.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 841
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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A Bizarre Love Triangle (2002)
Plot Summary:
Eun-hee is an extravagant and selfish woman who lives a life of luxury. She constantly swears, acts extremely careless, and is unashamedly tactless. Yet she somehow manages to be loved by both her husband, Doo-chan, and Keum-sook, a childhood female friend. However, what Doo-chan doesn't know is that Eun-hee and Keum-sook are secretly involved in a love affair. As Keum-sook continues to grow jealous with the two women. All three then enter the twists of love, betrayal, and revenge as they will all go to the extreme to get what they want.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, futuristic, realistic, sexual, entertaining, sexy
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V.O.S. (2009)
Plot Summary:
A game between four characters. A comedy about love and friendship. A film about the great lie of story telling that moves between reality and fiction.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, meta, realistic, witty
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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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Love is in the Air (2012)
Plot Summary:
Couple Andrea and Giulia, an outwardly successful couple, are having problems in the bedroom. When Giulia invites Max, an old friend from high school, to stay in the family home with their teenage son, some new attitudes begin to form.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 985
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, feel good, melancholic, sentimental, captivating, suspenseful, sexy, sexual
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All About My Bush (2007)
Plot Summary:
Allt om min buske är en sexkomedi i trädgårdsmiljö om oväntade kärleksförbindelser och avgrundsdjup svartsjuka. Det vackra och välbärgade paret Nils och Karin flyttar in med sin dotter Barbro i det exklusiva villaområdet. I huset intill med den botaniska trädgården bor systrarna Isabel och Lily. Systrarna sköter trädgården och livnär sig på att arrangera guidade turer genom den artrika floran. Mötet med systrarna blir omvälvande för Nils och Karin när deras ordnade tillvaro och noggrant formgivna livsstil ställs på ända. Någon vandaliserar plötsligt den prunkande trädgården och oanade naturkrafter frigörs när jakten på kärlek och trädgårdssabotörer tar sin början.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 752
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, sexy, sexual
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For Pete's Sake (1974)
Plot Summary:
Henry (Streisand) is a woman who would do anything for her husband Pete-- including borrow money so he has a chance of making his dreams come true. But now there's the loan sharks to deal with.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: hilarious, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, neo screwball comedy
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Any Wednesday (1966)
Plot Summary:
Ellen Gordon, a New York executive's mistress falls for the executive's young business associate when the young man is accidentally sent to use the apartment where the executive and his mistress get together every Wednesday. More complications arise when the executive's wife shows up with plans to redecorate the apartment.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: sexy, humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious, witty, sex comedy
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Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1972)
Plot Summary:
A middle aged restaurateur begins to feel the desire to roam and realizes that one day each week, his mother's apartment will be empty all afternoon. He makes several attempts at seduction, only to learn that it is much more complicated and difficult than he could have imagined.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 642
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, colorful, sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, hot
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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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Love Thy Neighbor (1984)
Plot Summary:
Suburbanites Danny and Linda try to overcome their various differences and try to get along after his wife and her husband run off with each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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One Stays, the Other Leaves (2005)
Plot Summary:
A story about two couples, longtime friends in which both husbands engage in long-term affairs and, as the title says, ultimately one remains with his wife and one makes a new life with another woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 649
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Falling for Mala (2015)
Plot Summary:
Maria Laura "Mala" is an actress with little luck, but she is successful working for other women, seducing their boyfriends to know if they are faithful or not. But everything changes when her dream to perform in her acting career depends on a job to be performed with Santiago who breaks the pattern and shakes her professional convictions.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious, captivating, light
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Four Play (2001)
Plot Summary:
This romantic comedy deals with the fleeting attractions between men and women. When American Ben arrives in London to become a writer on a well-known sitcom, he never dreamed that he would end up in a complex love quadrangle. Sitcom star Carly is married to show producer Allen. French make-up artist Fiona is single, as is Ben. Though Carly quickly develops a crush on Ben, she decides that Fiona w.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 697
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: semi serious, sentimental, clever, humorous, realistic, sex comedy, independent film