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Plot Summary:
The film narrates a utopian abandonment, consensual and festive of the market economy and high productivity. The population decides on a number of resolutions beginning with "We stop everything" and the second "After a total downtime will be revived-reluctantly-that the services and products including lack will prove intolerable. Probably: water to drink, electricity for reading at night, the TSF to say "This is not the end of the world, this is an 01, and now a page of Celestial Mechanics". The implementation of these resolutions is the first day of a new era, Year 01. The Year 01 is emblematic of the challenge of the 1970s and covers such diverse topics as ecology, negation of authority, free love, communal living, rejection of private property and labor.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 601
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: cult classic
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Parfum de printemps (2016)
Plot Summary:
In 2011 Tunisia, as the Arab Spring awakens, unemployed graduate Aziz, nicknamed Zizou (Zied Ayadi), travels from his Saharan village to the big city of Tunis in search of a job. From television aerial installation to political intrigue, this fresh-faced young Candide will learn the ways of the world, fall in love with the ravishing Aicha (Sara Hanachi), and become famous.--Eddie Cockrell, FilmFest DC.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Comedy
Country: Tunisia, France, Lebanon
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Who Cares: Anatomy of a Delivery Boy (1971)
Plot Summary:
Experiencing something of a mid-life crisis after his beloved son marries and moves out, a factory worker makes some drastic changes in his life, moves in with the boy and his wife, and sets them all on the path to a communal lifestyle.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, erotic, perverse
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The Jews (2016)
Plot Summary:
A French-Jewish actor seeks counseling and discusses a number of stereotypes concerning Jewish people. Told in the form of short stories that accompany each stereotype.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: anthology, black comedy
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RobbyKallePaul (1989)
Plot Summary:
After a quarrel Henry leaves the apartment. New fellow-lodger of Robby and Kalle becomes Paul. The three guys couldn't be more different, but nevertheless all of them have the same problem: women. When the mysterious Malu appears, each of them wonders if she may be their dream-woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Sex in the Snow (1971)
Plot Summary:
Trois instructeurs de ski sont plus occupés à accumuler les conquêtes amoureuses qu'à donner des leçons ils passent donc plus de temps au lit que sur les pentes. Le curé de la paroisse Saint-Roch, monseigneur Raymond Lavoie, dépose une plainte pour obscénité et fait saisir le film par la police municipale en avril 1971. Le propriétaire du cinéma Capitol est traîné devant les tribunaux accusé d'avoir présenté un spectacle immoral, indécent et obscène.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: erotic, sex comedy
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Seduction Squad (1972)
Plot Summary:
Jane Birkin, Bernadette Lafont, Elisabeth Wiener and Emma Cohen are 4 pretty girls rooming together. After witnessing and accidentally helping several thugs get away with a heist, the women notice through their telescope that the stolen loot is in the apartment right across the street! They plan their own burglary of the already stolen loot in this lighthearted caper comedy with a bit of nudity! Serge Gainsbourg did the bouncy score.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Sadsacks In the Boarding School (1978)
Plot Summary:
1978, France. Young recruits are secretly digging an underground tunnel to get to the boarding school for girls, located in front of their barracks. Sexual girls are digging a tunnel towards.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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The Starry Sky Above Me (2017)
Plot Summary:
1996, Bruno publishes his first novel. He is critically acclaimed and is seen as the french John Fante. Twenty years later, Bruno is soon 50 and has not published anything since. He is single, has no children and lives with a young Femen as a roommate. For him, all goes well but his loved ones are worried and decide to take action.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags:
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Fidibus (2006)
Plot Summary:
Kalle, a nice middleclass kid, who because of a debt and old friendship ends up as a 'fidibus', a gofer, for the hash baron Paten. But only until Paten is anything but innocently jailed and asks Kalle to mind the store while he is gone. No one touches Paten's money, Paten's car or, least of all, Paten's girl, Saby, who is dumber than water.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags:
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Bar Esperanza (1983)
Plot Summary:
Group of eccentric people gather at a popular bar in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, doomed to be closed to give way to the construction of a big building. Intellectuals, artists, night-people in general join forces to try to avoid its demolition. Among its costumers, we find Ana, an actress, her husband Zeca, an intellectual type in crisis about his work for TV, artists, newspapermen, a female researcher, and a couple who's always quarrelling, only to be reconciled moments later.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags:
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The Unfinished Works Of Sean Weathers (2004)
Plot Summary:
During the early-2000s filmmaker Sean Weathers took 3 projects into production which he would not finish (Gangz vs. Cults, The Erotic Adventures of Samson & Delilah and Escape from Bloodbath Island).
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, grindhouse, campy, cult film
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The Couples of Boulogne (1974)
Plot Summary:
In order to receive their part of an inheritance, Barbara and Bernard must find the other beneficiary, Jean-Pierre. As they search for him, they arrive at Boulogne, which they will find is used by rich people as a place to be sexually free in total privacy. There, they will be led by other couples to fulfill their most daring fantasies.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Die Rache der Ostfriesen (1974)
Plot Summary:
Bavarian sex comedy from Germany.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Confessions of a Window Cleaner (1974)
Plot Summary:
Young Timmy starts as a window cleaner in the little company of his brother. Soon he learns that some female customers expect additional service. Young and curious as he is, he reluctantly accepts the juicy duty. However his heart belongs to Liz, who demands the highest commitment until she lets him go all the way.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, erotic, cult film
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The Rascals (1980)
Plot Summary:
Late spring 1942: France is under German occupation. But this doesn't much concern the boarders of a school lost in the French country. Bernard, a rather frivolous teenager, is in love for the first time; he's fond of Marie-Helene, an older and more mature girl. To approach her is not so easy.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Paz! (2002)
Plot Summary:
A bunch of students live in an apartment in Bologna, during the 70's. This is a 24-hour sample of their ordinary life, where, between marjuana, school, university, girls and political contrasts, spectators can get a nice and colourful picture of that time, of those people and of their ideas and problems. Crazy, halucinated, somehow "Trainspotting Italian style", this movie was taken from comic strips by Andrea Pazienza and it respects very well their atmosphere and style.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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My Pastor Among the Nudists (1982)
Plot Summary:
A country priest receives his bishop with the mission of converting a nudist colony.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Vive les femmes! (1984)
Plot Summary:
The love affairs of Bob, a womanizer and seducer and Mammouth, the unhappy loner.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Hello, Sisters (1975)
Plot Summary:
Denis spends a holiday at his friend's Marc home. Staying with the family for several days, even though the Chotards have other things in mind than sex, he will have nice encounters with the girl of the house, Marianne, a young maid, and more.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, teen sex comedy, teen comedy
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The Joy of Singing (2008)
Plot Summary:
Agents des services secrets, Muriel et Philippe forment un improbable duo amoureux. Dans leur nouvelle mission, ils sont chargés de mettre la main sur une clé usb cachée par Constance, la veuve d'un trafiquant d'uranium fraîchement assassiné. Cette jeune bourgeoise étrangement ingénue conduira le duo dans un cours de chant lyrique où s'entremêlent d'autres espions aux voix ensorcelantes.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, erotic, realistic, semi serious, sexual, dark comedy, sexy
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Distracted (1970)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about an absent-minded man who works at a advertising company and topples from one problem to another.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: cult classic, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, surprise ending, cult film
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The Seducers of Saint-Tropez (1983)
Plot Summary:
Four friends discover the pleasures of Saint-Tropez.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 324
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Themroc (1973)
Plot Summary:
Made without proper language, just gibberish and grunts, "Themroc" is an absurdist comedy about a man who rejects every facet of normal bourgeois life and turns his apartment into a virtual cave.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: surreal, disturbing, dark comedy, erotic, intellectual, experimental, controversial, cult classic, absurd, avant garde
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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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Rosalie Blum (2015)
Plot Summary:
Vincent Machot knows his life by heart. He shares it between his hair dressing salon, his cousin, his cat, and his too-invasive mother. But life sometimes holds surprises, even for the most prudent of people... He crosses paths with Rosalie Blum by accident. She is a mysterious and solitary woman whom he is sure he has already met. But where? Intrigued, he decides to follow her everywhere, in the hope of knowing more about her.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, feel good, captivating, non-linear
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The Rendez-Vous of D?j?-Vu (2013)
Plot Summary:
Hector meets Truquette on Bastille Day and becomes obsessed with seducing her. The plan is to get her to the seaside pronto. Pator is not complaining, especially if her friend Charlotte comes along for the ride. So off they go, down the country roads of a broke and broken France. Times are hard ! Suddenly the government cancels a month of summer. Everyone back to work! A wad of cash and two gun shots later, the group splits in two like France itself. But careering away from work in no way daunts the remaining trio, dead set on relocating the Bastille Girl and reveling in an endless summer.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, offbeat, road movie
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Wilderness Therapy (2022)
Plot Summary:
Deep in the Pyrenees, two close friends at rock bottom have the idea of the century: to pull themselves of their misery, they will launch a horse trekking tour, a voyage through the mountains for tourists in search of nature, silence and adventure.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Skylab (2011)
Plot Summary:
It is 1979 and Albertine, 10, and all her family members have gathered in Brittany to celebrate the birthday of her grandmother. Everyone thinks that the Skylab space station from NASA will fall on their heads this summer. The meeting turns into a crazy weekend full of revelations, love and song.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious
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The Van (1977)
Plot Summary:
Bobby blows all his college savings on a van and tries to get the girl of his dreams. It's a wild time with Bobby and his friends.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult classic, sex comedy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, not serious, sexual, independent film, sexy
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Anarchy TV (1998)
Plot Summary:
A group of anarchists use their public-access TV show to satirize the government until a right-wing preacher attempts to shut them down.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, biting, parody, suspense