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Plot Summary:
Stuck in the corridors of time, Godefroy de Montmirail and his faithful servant Jacquouille are projected to a time of profound political and social upheavals: the French Revolution... specifically, The Terror, time of great dangers, during which the descendants of Godefroy and Jacquouille had their castle and all their property confiscated by arrogant aristocrats, fleeing and lifes hanging by a thread.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France, Belgium, Czech Republic
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: entertaining, light, feel good, humorous
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The Magic Quill (2018)
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A fairy tale, featuring the landlady Margaret, the devil Boniface, the bribable councilors Fake and Chatterbox and the lazy tailor Greasy. In Hell, the devils have a quill that writes human sins into the Book of Sins and the devils go and pull the sinners down to Helll. One day, Boniface goes on Earth, Greasy the Tailor steals the quill from him. The Devils back in Hell think nobody is sinning and everything is all topsy-turvy. Boniface admits to Margaret that he is responsible for the whole mess. Together, they not only save the town of Pytlov from destruction, but Boniface learns what true love is.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 261
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Denmark
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, humorous, psychological, light, feel good, fairy tale, allegory, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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The Spooks (2016)
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IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: psychotronic, light, humorous, captivating, crying, freeze frame, spooky, urban fantasy
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Gramps Is in the Resistance (1983)
Plot Summary:
It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do they know that the son, Guy-Hubert Bourdelle, is far from being the cowardly hairdresser he pretends. He is in truth the Germans’ most feared opponent: le super-résistant!.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Music, War
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: cult classic, parody, spoof, cult film
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Plot Summary:
Directed by Richard Griffin.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, black comedy, psychotronic, independent film, amateur film, urban fantasy
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Paper Souls (2013)
Plot Summary:
A funeral-speech writer gets a new lease on life when he meets a widow who commissions him to write a piece for her 8-year-old son.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, light, feel good
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Do You Do You Saint-Tropez (2021)
Plot Summary:
Every summer, the Billionaire Tranchant and his wife Eliane host the glamorous world of celebrities in their luxurious mansion in the south of France. When a criminal car sabotage related to threatening letters wreak havoc in the villa, Tranchant goes in search of the best agent for the investigation. In the middle of this hot summer, only the arrogant and incompetent agent Boullin is available... To catch the suspect and solve the mystery, he will have no choice but to impersonate a newly hired butler and will turn everyone’s vacation into a hilarious game of ‘Cluedo’!.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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The Apple War (1971)
Plot Summary:
A German businessman wants to buy land in southern Sweden for a gigantic amusement park, his new project called "Deutschneyland" (a wordplay of Deutschland and Disneyland). Some of the locals dislike the idea, including the magically talented Lindberg family, and work to frustrate the development plans.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: satirical, sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, biting, psychotronic, slapstick comedy, slapstick, low brow humor
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Twist Again in Moscow (1986)
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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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A little girl Sveta has only one New Year wish - to make peace between her parents.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Russia
Duration:
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, entertaining
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Hunk (1987)
Plot Summary:
A "devilish" tale about an ordinary guy who is visited by a beautiful apparition promising him popularity and drop-dead good looks in exchange for his soul. Transformed overnight into a "hunk," he soon discovers there may be hell to pay for his new lifestyle!.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: light, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, sexy, humorous, semi serious, sex comedy, freeze frame, eighties
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Bis (2015)
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Éric and Patrice have been friends since high school. Over the years, they have both taken very different paths: Éric has become a hedonist, has a string of girlfriends and is always on the look out for a new one; Patrice has become a monogamous father with a very ordered life. After a drunken evening, the two childhood friends find themselves cast back into 1986, when they were 17 years old. This return to the past is a dream opportunity to try to change the path their lives will take. What will they do with this second chance?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, feel good, not serious
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L'opération Corned Beef (1991)
Plot Summary:
The unsanctioned efforts of a covert unit to gather evidence about illegal arms shipments with the unwitting help of an embassy employee.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Mexico
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, not serious, spoof, slapstick comedy, parody, campy
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Witch Way Love (1997)
Plot Summary:
Michael Firch is very skilled in computers and he goes to Paris to meet very important persons to discuss a contract. Michael was born on a special astral date. On arriving in Paris, he meets Morgane and her son. Morgane is a witch, she is beautiful, she is good and she needs Michael to save her son from evil powers. Molok is a sorcerer and he opposes Morgana's plan.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, sincere, sweet, offbeat, stylized
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Guardian Angels (1995)
Plot Summary:
Gerard Depardieu plays a sleazy Paris nightclub owner and ex-detective who flies to Hong Kong to rescue the young son of a friend murdered by the Chinese mob. He leaves the boy in the hands of an earnest priest (Christian Clavier), who escorts him back to Paris. Soon Clavier and Depardieu are fighting it out, each shadowed by his good or evil guardian angel.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, exciting, semi serious, feel good, realistic, slapstick comedy, neo screwball comedy
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Just Another Pandora's Box (2010)
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Qing Ye Se only knows how to be a thief, but he runs into major trouble when he accidentally steals the heart of Rose, an immortal fairy. During a chaotic chase, Qing gets ahold of the Pandora's Box, sending them both back in time to the Three Kingdoms era. Mistaken as a general, Qing is thrown right into the middle of the Battle of Red Cliff. Meanwhile, Rose continues to devise new ways to earn Qing's affection, even if it means having to be someone else.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 759
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, tense, entertaining
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With only 12 percent of its pupils obtaining their baccalaureate, Jules Ferry High School is the worst school in France. The Inspector of Schools has already exhausted all the conventional means to raise standards at the school and he has no choice but to take the advice of his deputy. It is a case of having to fight fire with fire: the worst pupils must be taught by the worst teachers.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, realistic, slapstick, crying, slapstick comedy, freeze frame, low brow humor
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Cineman (2009)
Plot Summary:
A maths teacher acquires the power to travel into movies to save the woman of his dreams and bring her back to her correct film.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 684
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, feel good, stylized, humorous, semi serious, captivating
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The Three Kings (2001)
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The Three Wise Men – Balthazar, Melchior and Gaspard – are on their way to Bethlehem to pay homage to the infant Jesus when they are suddenly, an inexplicably, transported two thousand years into the future. They find themselves walking the streets of Paris, where they encounter a young woman called Macha who, they are convinced, will lead them to the newborn Messiah.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, humorous, captivating, entertaining, funny
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Last Call for Nowhere (2016)
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French border cop José Fernandez has just one last extradition to do before his long-awaited promotion to the crime bureau. But his detainee Akim, victim of a judiciary glitch, is outraged to find himself saddled with the identity of a potential terrorist and put on a flight back to Kabul, where he has never even set foot before! What starts as a routine trip for Fernandez and his skirt-chasing partner Guy goes haywire when their plane is grounded in Malta, forcing them to bunk up with Akim, who will stop at nothing to avoid extradition!.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, entertaining, feel good
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With Open Arms (2017)
Plot Summary:
Jean-Étienne Fougerole is an intellectual bohemian who released his new novel "In Open Arms" and calling the wealthiest people to welcome home the families in need. While he promotes his book during a televised debate, his opponent criticized him for not applying what he himself advocates. While stuck, Jean-Étienne Fougerole accepts the challenge, for fear of being discredited. The same evening, a family of Roma rings the door of his Marnes-la-Coquette villa and the writer feels obliged to house them.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: political, funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, happy, intellectual
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How Not to Marry a Princess (2021)
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, crying, psychotronic
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The Price to Pay (2007)
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Jean-Pierre, a wealthy businessman, is lonely. He still desires his wife but she only seems interested in shopping and the beauty salon. Tired of lunching alone every day, one day he decides to invite his chauffeur to join him, and a relationship quickly develops as the two find they have much in common. Are they just cash machines for their wives? Don't they deserve some love (i.e. sex) in return? Jean-Pierre confiscates his wife's credit card, but things don't turn out exactly the way he'd hoped.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, realistic, not serious
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Maid to Order (1987)
Plot Summary:
Spoiled Jessie Montgomery, whose wild behavior and spending excesses cause her well-meaning but exasperated millionaire father Charles to wish he never had her, is visited by fairy godmother Stella. In an effort to save Jessie, Stella casts a spell which causes Charles to no longer have a daughter. Jessie, now penniless and without a friend, must take a maid's job to earn a living, and hopefully to learn her lesson.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Fantasy, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sweet, entertaining, melancholic, light, romantic, sentimental, humorous, feel good, semi serious, independent film
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Two Worlds (2007)
Plot Summary:
A French tradesman travels in time and liberates an oppressed tribe in another world.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, captivating, offbeat, not serious
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You Don't Choose Your Family (2011)
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César Borgnoli, an unsuccessful car salesman from Italy, lives well beyond his means. In order to get out of his financial disaster, he agrees to a deal: he pretends to be the husband of his sister's girlfriend Kim so she can legally adopt a little girl from Thailand. Caesar believes this to be a great idea and is looking forward to his trip to Thailand. After all, he is going to be able to mix business with pleasure--so he thinks. He didn't expect the local police, the Chinese Triads and the director of the orphanage to chip in, who want to make sure that little Mai is going to end up in a nice family.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: not serious, humorous, captivating, entertaining, exciting, sex comedy, realistic, sitcom
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The Corridors of Time: The Visitors II (1998)
Plot Summary:
The sequel to The Visitors reunites us with those lovable ruffians from the French Medieval ages who - through magic - are transported into the present, with often drastic consequences. Godefroy de Montmirail travels to today to recover the missing family jewels and a sacred relic, guarantor of his wife-to-be's fertility. The confrontation between Godefroy's repellent servant Jack the Crack and his descendent, the effete Jacquart, present-day owner of the chateau, further complicates the matter.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, semi serious
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The Visitors (1993)
Plot Summary:
This outrageous time-travel comedy follows the misadventures of a wacky medieval knight (Jean Reno) and his faithful servant when they are accidentally transported to contemporary times by a senile sorcerer. Mayhem rules as these 12th-century visitors try adapting to the wildly confusing modern world. To avoid being stuck here for good, however, they soon begin an all-out cosmic assault on their former castle -- now a luxury hotel -- in their quest to return to the past.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, light, absurd, hilarious, sexy, psychological, parody, feel good, entertaining
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Serial (Bad) Weddings (2014)
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A catholic French couple sees their life upside down when their four daughters get married to men of different religion and origins.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: light, funny, entertaining, humorous, romantic, feel good, hilarious, semi serious, realistic, romantic comedy
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Black Knight (2001)
Plot Summary:
Martin Lawrence plays Jamal, an employee in Medieval World amusement park. After sustaining a blow to the head, he awakens to find himself in 14th century England.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, hilarious, funny, parody, entertaining, light, slapstick, captivating, sweet
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Just Visiting (2001)
Plot Summary:
A knight and his valet are plagued by a witch, and to repair the damage they make use of the services of a wizard. However, something goes wrong and they are transported from the 12th century to the year 2000. There the knight meets some of his family and slowly learns what this new century is like. However, he still needs to get back to the 12th century to deal with the witch, so he starts looking for a wizard.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, absurd, feel good, exciting, funny, hilarious, not serious, independent film, light, romantic