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Plot Summary:
Set in 1992, a manager Vincent has to run a children's holiday camp for three weeks and to face the unexpected concerning the place, his colleagues, various problems linked to children about the rooms, trips, their belongings.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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The Very Very Big Company (2008)
Plot Summary:
Four friends - an oyster-farmer, an accountant's assistant, a restaurateur and a blue-collar worker - decide to take on a multi-national agro-chemical company with a turnover of EUR9bn and which has been polluting their region on a large scale. Having been awarded a paltry amount of compensation, they decide to seek true justice. They have however just 30 days to uncover vital new evidence.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Theater Camp (2023)
Plot Summary:
After the indomitable and beloved founder of a scrappy theater camp in upstate New York falls into a coma, the eccentric staff must band together with her clueless "crypto-bro" son to keep the thespian paradise afloat.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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The Husbands, the Wives, the Lovers (1989)
Plot Summary:
In the summer holidays, a group of women stay behind in Paris whilst their husbands and children take a vacation on the sunny Island of Ré. The women – wives, frustrated spinsters and adolescents – profit from their new-found freedom to sort out their love lives and the men indulge their earthy passions with no less enthusiasm. Only the children seems capable of rising above this infantile summer madness.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Holiday Hotel (1978)
Plot Summary:
August in Brittany at a seaside hotel. Some guests are new, some come every year and are friends. The men nearing middle age fish and plan infidelities; their wives have surprises of their own in store. Teens fall in and out of love. Kids not yet teens have their own parties and friendships. In 11 months, most but not all will be back.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy, hot
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Knock (2017)
Plot Summary:
Doctor Knock is a former thug who has become a doctor and arrives in the small village of Saint-Maurice to make his fortune according to a particular method. It will make the villagers believe that they are not as healthy as they might think. It is thus that he will find in each one an imaginary symptom, or not, and thus will be able to exercise his profession lucratively. Under his seductive looks and after gaining the confidence of the village, Knock is on the verge of achieving his ends. But his past catches up with him and an old acquaintance disrupts the doctor's plans.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: funny, sincere, sentimental, captivating, uplifting, motivational
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Let's All Sing Around (1991)
Plot Summary:
A comedy on a typical children summer camp from the socialist time, telling the truth about it: combination of strange cynical leaders, absent-minded young assistants with complexes, teenage girls desperately in love with them etc. What a pioneer camp pretended to be and what it really was about. All this produces many embarrassing situations.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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Welcome, or No Trespassing (1964)
Plot Summary:
A satirical comedy about the excessive restrictions that children face during their vacation in a Young Pioneer camp.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: spiritual, political, educational
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Confessions from a Holiday Camp (1977)
Plot Summary:
Timmy Lea and his brother-in-law Sidney Noggett are working as entertainment officers at Funfrall, a typical British holiday camp. The staff are lazy and inefficient, preferring to laze by the pool rather than organise activities for the holiday campers. A new owner, Mr. Whitemonk, an ex-prison officer, takes over the camp and is determined to install discipline into the staff. He is on the verge of dismissing Timmy and Sidney; however, Sidney's suggestion of organising a beauty contest changes his mind.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, double entendre
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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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The Girls Of The Copacabana (1981)
Plot Summary:
Three students Juanita, Jean and Hans bored with their life in Paris go to Brazil in search of sexual adventures. Las Chicas de Copacabana is a sexual coming age film from maverick filmmaker Jess Franco. Visually the film is bland when compared to Franco’s most inspired films. To Franco’s credit he does know how to photograph women. The shots of women on the beach and close up of their assets are this films strongest asset.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexploitation film
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Bedside Head (1972)
Plot Summary:
The young headmaster of a boy's boarding school has decided that due to the virility of his young charges, they are a sort of national treasure. He believes that his school should become co-educational as soon as possible. In order to raise funds for the changeover, the boys stay behind during their summer vacation and temporarily convert the school into a love hotel.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Comedy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy, hot
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I Didn't Do It! (1999)
Plot Summary:
Eleven-year-old Martin is a basically good boy. Unfortunately each time he decides to give a hand things end in disaster. This summer, he has been invited to spend a vacation at the Hotel Nautilus by his friend Vincent's parents. This is a great place for kids with its cabin hidden among the branches of a tree they call the "baobab". The trouble is that this year a holiday camp settles nearby and that those trespassers immediately undertake to appropriate the "baobab". The war is declared.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 230
Genere: Family, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Nickelodeon's Sizzling Summer Camp Special (2017)
Plot Summary:
Nickelodeon’s Sizzling Summer Camp Special features all of your favorite Nickelodeon stars as they head off to a sleep-away camp together — but they soon find themselves in danger! The friends find out that their campsite has been haunted. The mysterious and legendary creatures have been haunting the camp for years! This is the third Nickelodeon Special in the series starring Nickelodeon stars such as Lizzy Greene, Jack Griffo, Kyla Drew Simmons, Jade Pettyjohn, Casey Simpson, and Mace Coronel.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: entertaining, funny, light, humorous, captivating
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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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The New Adventures of Aladdin (2015)
Plot Summary:
A pair of losers working at department store plan to rob the place after it closes. When a bunch of kids show up begging for a story, the men launch into an improvised version of Aladdin.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: exciting, romantic, feel good, entertaining, sweet
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Josephine, Pregnant & Fabulous (2016)
Plot Summary:
At last, Josephine has found her perfect non-smoker-cat-loving-amazing-cook-perfect-man-soulmate. They’ve been in love for two years and everything is peachy. Until she realizes she’s… pregnant. Time for Josephine to transform her life, mature into a responsible adult, not become like her mother, get a job, hold on to her man, refrain from falling out with her friends, and tell her sister, who's been crashing at her place, that she's got to move out. A bunch of overwhelming challenges that Josephine will have to face in her own, special way.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 778
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, light, romantic, realistic
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School Is Over (2018)
Plot Summary:
Agathe Langlois, Parisian until the end of the nails well varnishes, is delighted: she is going to be confirmed as a professor of English. The happiness of the good news will not last as she learns that she is deployed to the countryside.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 429
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, light, feel good, unusual plot structure, humorous, entertaining, funny, crying
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I Hate My Best Friends' Kids (2007)
Plot Summary:
A month of vacation with friends: difficult to bear the kids of his friends, especially when the methods of education differ and that some prove to be unbearable.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious
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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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Camp Takota (2014)
Plot Summary:
With her personal and professional life in shambles, Elise ends up having to take a job as a counselor at her old summer camp. There, she reunites with two estranged friends who attended camp and never left. When the future of the camp is put in jeopardy, the three friends must band together to save it, changing the course of their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, sincere, feel good, captivating, teen, sentimental, realistic, semi serious
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Thong Girls (1987)
Plot Summary:
A funny comedy set mostly on the beach where countless men are trying to impress various women.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, erotic, sexploitation film
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Camping (2006)
Plot Summary:
Plastic surgeon Michel Saint-Josse is on his way to Spain where he hopes to spend a stress-free holiday in a luxury hotel with his teenage daughter Vanessa. When his car breaks down near a camping, Michel accepts the offer of help from an extrovert gigolo camper named Patrick Chirac. Whilst their car is being repaired, Michel and Vanessa agree to stay in Patrick’s well proportioned tent, not knowing that, thanks to a series of mishaps, it will be their home for several days.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The New Kid (2015)
Plot Summary:
Benoit is the new kid at a junior high school. He's bullied by a gang of arrogant boys who make things difficult for him. Determined not to be pushed around, Benoit organizes a big party and invites the whole class. But on the night of the party, only three students turn up.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, captivating
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The Life Coach (2009)
Plot Summary:
Max Chêne is a life coach who helps to motivate everybody from professional athletes to government ministers to business executives. After his gambling debts get out of control and his wife throws him out, he is approached to take on a unique client.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 465
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, entertaining, funny, light, feel good, captivating, clever, realistic
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The Tuche Family (2011)
Plot Summary:
Everyone in the village of Bouzolles knows the Tuche family, who live by the philosophy "Man is not made to work." Despite their lack of money, they strive to be happy... that is, until their hand-to-mouth existence is turned on its head. After winning the lottery, the Tuches get rich beyond their wildest dreams and move to Monaco. And while attempting to fit in in their swanky new homeland, they struggle to stay true to the same principles by which they've always lived.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: not serious, humorous, feel good, entertaining, realistic
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Joint Custody (2017)
Plot Summary:
A wife finds out her husband has a mistress. She decides to propose her to share her life with her husband, alternating every two weeks.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, happy, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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My Best Holidays (2012)
Plot Summary:
Over this long hot summer, Claude and Isabelle get their marriage back on track, while Bibou and Simon, spend a memorable summer discovering the world of grown-ups.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: feel good, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Les Gazelles (2014)
Plot Summary:
Marie and Eric, a couple in their thirties who have been together since college, buy their first apartment when Marie is suddenly overcome by doubt. Her encounter with a handsome, dark-haired man forces her to make a decision.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 852
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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Let's Be Friends (2005)
Plot Summary:
Claude Mendelbaum est un informaticien trentenaire, célibataire, timide, hypocondriaque et transparent. Depuis Vicky, sa dernière histoire d'amour, il a du mal à remonter la pente. Son travail dans une grande tour de la Défense, peu propice aux rencontres amoureuses, lui prend tout son temps, alors forcément les chances de rencontrer "LA" femme sont infiniment réduites.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, sentimental, touching, semi serious, entertaining, realistic
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The Intouchables (2011)
Plot Summary:
A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 909000
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: inspirational, feel good, touching, emotional, motivational, uplifting, sincere, realistic, dramatic, thought provoking