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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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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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Diary of a Hooker (1971)
Plot Summary:
Controversial director Paul Verhoeven made his feature-film debut with this Dutch comedy-drama about two prostitutes working in the Amsterdam Red Light district, and the many strange and unusual men they meet through their work. Also known as Diary Of A Hooker, Business is Business, and Any Special Way, Wat Zien Ik? was based on the short stories of Albert Mol; the film was photographed by Jan de Bont, who later went on to become a successful director himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, sex comedy, psychological, humorous, realistic, cynical, semi serious, sexual, sexy, hot
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The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom (1968)
Plot Summary:
A housewife, bored with her bra-manufacturer husband, who spends most of his time obsessed with classical music, strikes up an affair with one of his employees whom she hides in the attic--something both she and the lover find quite a suitable arrangement.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 666
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, sexual, absurd
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The Players (2012)
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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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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Please, Please Me! (2009)
Plot Summary:
riane believe her male partner is another woman dreams of. In order to lure him out in sex, she decided to take the initiative to develop relations with male partner with this woman, the results found that women had a French president’s daughter!.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 857
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, sexy, clever, realistic, not serious, slapstick, sexual
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How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby (1974)
Plot Summary:
A story about a guy who still lives with his mother and sells some really awful alcohol to bartenders. The only way for him to do this is to cry and invent himself an awful life. Then he meets the beautiful woman whose goal in life is to sleep with the less exciting guys on Earth.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 446
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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Mail Order Wife (2004)
Plot Summary:
A documentarian funds a NYC doorman's Asian mail order bride in exchange for the right to film the experience.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic, mockumentary, talky, biting, suspense
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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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Paris Follies (2014)
Plot Summary:
Long married 50-somethings Brigitte and Xavier are prize cattle breeders in regional France. Life is good, but the departure of their children from home has thrown Brigitte’s world into flux, as she finds herself locked into routine. She keeps hoping for something else, something more. A party held by students on the adjoining property accelerates this latent crisis and Brigitte impulsively sets off for Paris under the guise of a doctor’s appointment. The city immediately invigorates her, and when she meets a charming Danish gentleman, she impulsively allows herself to be flattered by his attentions….
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic drama
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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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Six in Paris (1965)
Plot Summary:
Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet), and Montparnasse et Levallois (Godard) are stories of love, flirtation and prostitution; Place d'Etoile (Rhomer) concerns a haberdasher and his umbrella; and La Muette (Chabrol), a bourgeois family and earplugs.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: anthology, realistic, semi serious
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The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker (1971)
Plot Summary:
Director Lawrence Turman's 1971 drama examines a young couple's unhappy marriage.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, cult film
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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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Off Key (2001)
Plot Summary:
A trio of opera singers are reunited by a wedding ten years after their stormy breakup.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain, Italy, UK
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty
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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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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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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 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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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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A Spot of Bother (2009)
Plot Summary:
Retired Englishman George Hall's hypochondria worsens and takes its toll on his family.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 576
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic, witty, clever
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My New Gun (1992)
Plot Summary:
Debbie and Gerald's lives drastically change after they get a gun. Their mysterious neighbor, Skippy, becomes an important and transforming figure in their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 818
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, biting, suspense
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Love at the Top (1974)
Plot Summary:
The relationship between a successful businessman and a prostitute is exploited by a cynical novelist.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: erotic, satirical, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, semi serious, biting, suspense
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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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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
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Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970)
Plot Summary:
Tina Balser is a bored New York housewife-mother married to Jonathan, a pompous, social-climbing lawyer who ridicules her in front of their children, criticizing everything she does or wears. She begins an affair with George Prager, a dashing, successful and blatantly sadistic writer. Finally after George has tormented Tina in much the same manner Jonathan has, and has been unfaithful to boot, she goes back to her husband and begins group therapy.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: romantic, sexy, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, biting, sex comedy, suspense