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Plot Summary:
Up the Himalayas... Up the Yang-tze... Up in a balloon... Up-stage with a stripper... Up-town in Hong Kong... You can't keep a great adventurer down.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious, spoof, slapstick comedy, slapstick, parody, vintage, modern day adaptation
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The King of Escape (2009)
Plot Summary:
Armand, a man who sells farm machines in the country, is a popular middle-aged homosexual. Just as he was getting sick of life, he falls in love with a young girl called, Curlie, and goes on the run from her parents and the police.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 774
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, erotic, surreal, sex comedy, deep, offbeat, sexual
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The Vengeance of the Winged Serpent (1984)
Plot Summary:
An international intrigue with terrorists threatening to blow up the presidents of the most powerful countries.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 822
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Mexico
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, not serious, slapstick, spoof, parody
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The Southern Star (1969)
Plot Summary:
Comedy adventure based on a Jules Verne novel about the ups and downs of jewel thieves in the wilds of Africa circa 1900. George Segal is the appealing hero-heel and Ursula Andress is visually stunning as the lady in the proceedings. Orson Welles has a small role.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 594
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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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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Half a Chance (1998)
Plot Summary:
Alice Tomaso (Paradis) gets out of jail, and goes looking for Léo (Belmondo) and Julien (Delon), one of whom, it appears, is her father. On the way, she steals the wrong car - one belonging to the Russian mafia, and arrives at her destination with a gang of thugs out looking for her and the car.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, humorous, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977)
Plot Summary:
Digby Geste (Feldman) and his ‘identical’ twin brother Beau (York) compete with their stepmother (Ann-Margeret) over possession of a priceless family heirloom.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, War
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, witty, realistic, not serious, spoof, offbeat, slapstick, absurd, slapstick comedy
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Agent 38-24-36 (1964)
Plot Summary:
In this Eduardo Molinaro Spy-Spoof, Anthony Perkins plays a Russian spy sent out to steal sensitive information from NATO about military mobilization. Without much intelligence of his own, the distrusted agent of Soviet intelligence needs all the help he can get from his "talented" partner Penelope Lightfeather (Bardot) as they scatter around the French countryside for secret rendez-vous' while trying to avoid being caught by counter intelligence agents and distrustful communist operatives.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: spy comedy, exciting, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, parody, surprise ending
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The Frenchman's Son (1999)
Plot Summary:
A young boy and his two grandmothers flee from headhunters and other villainous types in the Brazilian rain forest in this wacky family adventure. Benjamin, whose mom is dead and whose dad is off in the jungle searching for gold, is more cool-headed than his two grandmothers, both of whom hate one another. Upper class teacher bristles at the coarse behavior of working class Suzanne, who shoplifts and cheats at cards. Soon bad guys threaten them, and the chase begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 329
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Loves and Times of Scaramouche (1976)
Plot Summary:
The adventures of a cad in Napoleonic times.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, West Germany, Yugoslavia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slapstick, exciting, sexy, humorous, realistic, not serious, slapstick comedy, erotic
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Ghost in the Noonday Sun (1974)
Plot Summary:
A pirate crewman kills his captain after learning where he has hidden his buried treasure. However, as he begins to lose his memory, he relies more and more on the ghost of the man he just murdered to help him find the loot.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: mystical, independent film, spoof, slapstick comedy, slapstick, parody
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The Stupids (1996)
Plot Summary:
An incredibly dull-witted family unknowingly stumble upon an illegal weapons deal while on the trail of their "stolen" garbage.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, slapstick, independent film, offbeat, not serious, scary, parody, funny, light, clever
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Amazon (2000)
Plot Summary:
On an observatory set high on a mountain, astronomers make a stunning discovery somewhere out in the galaxy. A flying object in the depths of the cosmos is showing signs of life, emitting an intelligent signal. The UFO has just landed on Earth somewhere in the midst of a rainforest. Margot, the enthusiastic young woman heading up the research team, decides to go to the spot and check out this phenomenon. Meanwhile Edouard, our hero, studies the flora and fauna of the tree tops in the rainforest. He perches on an enormous net that stretches over the still pure, unadulterated forest that spreads out beneath him. He discovers a naked little twelve-year old girl seated on the net. He covers her with a broad banana leaf and asks where she comes from. She quickly replies, in perfect French 'from another world'.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 520
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sincere, entertaining
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The Mad Adventures of 'Rabbi' Jacob (1973)
Plot Summary:
In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by Slimane, an Arab rebel leader. The two dress up as rabbis as they try to elude not only assasins from Slimane's country, but also the police, who think Pivert is a murderer. Pivert ends up posing as Rabbi Jacob, a beloved figure who's returned to France for his first visit after 30 years in the United States. Adding to the confusion are Pivert's dentist-wife, who thinks her husband is leaving her for another woman, their daughter, who's about to get married, and a Parisian neighborhood filled with people eager to celebrate the return of Rabbi Jacob.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, slapstick, funny, anthology, slapstick comedy
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The Prisoner of Zenda (1979)
Plot Summary:
Anthony Hope's classic tale gets a decidedly 'un-classic' treatment at the hands of Peter Sellers. Following the story somewhat, friends of the new King Rudolph of Ruritania fear for his life, and switch him with a look-a-like London cabby. Throw in two(!) lovely blondes, treachery, and a battle for life and honour, and enjoy life at its zaniest.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: exciting, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, parody, spoof, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Casino Royale (1967)
Plot Summary:
Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will be named 'James Bond'. One of the Bonds, whose real name is Evelyn Tremble is sent to take on Le Chiffre in a game of baccarat, but all the Bonds get more than they can handle.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, psychedelic, funny, surreal, cult classic, psychotronic, spy comedy, exciting, humorous
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The Jackpot! (1991)
Plot Summary:
To his family, François Voisin is nothing more than a humdrum civil servant. In truth, for the past twenty years he has been working as a secret agent. All goes well until circumstances put his secret in danger.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: spy comedy, parody, exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, witty, semi serious, cult film
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Fathom (1967)
Plot Summary:
While touring abroad in Europe, beautiful American skydiver Fathom Harvill gets wrapped up in international intrigue when Scottish spy Douglas Campbell recruits her to help him on a secret mission. Before long, Fathom realizes that no one around her, including the mysterious Peter Merriweather, can easily be trusted, leading to various adventures that involve bull fighting, beaches and, of course, romance.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: spy comedy, grindhouse, exciting, parody, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, not serious, fast, surprise ending
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The Brain (1969)
Plot Summary:
Arthur and Anatole are two little robbers. They want to rob money, money that will travel in a special train from Paris to Bruxelles. They don't know that other people have planned to do the same thing.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: fast paced, exciting, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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The Wild Goose Chase (1975)
Plot Summary:
The whole intrigue is centered around carte-blanche documents kept in a vault. Whoever fills in the blank becomes the owner of a revue. Big money is involved. The nephew of the owner of the vault is trying to cheat his uncle and have his name in the documents. Everything is even more complicated because the manager of the bank has a finger in the pie, too. Who but a humble bank-teller (Pierre Richard) will ruin the scheme?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slapstick, humorous, realistic, not serious, neurotic, detective, slapstick comedy, poliziottesco
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Safari (2009)
Plot Summary:
Richard Dacier owns a tour agency specialized on organizing safaris for European tourists eager to confront the African wild life. Actually, he took the job after his father and never went into the savanna by himself. As he owes big money to some mobster, he is compelled to convey a fake tourist, with a suspicious suitcase, toward Mozambic. To avoid suspicion from the authorities, he is supposed to tour a group of tourists as usual. The only problem - he is completely unexperienced as a guide!.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, light, captivating
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Swords of Blood (1962)
Plot Summary:
In the 18th century, Louis de Bourguignon is working with the Malichot's gang, but their ways are too 'unethical' for him. He creates his own band, acting under the name of Cartouche, making audacious robberies of the rich people, and even distributing the takings with the poor. Thus, cartouche attracts the people's sympathies, Venus's love, and hate from the Police and Malichot... Cartouche can escape all the traps they set at him - except the entrapments of love. Eventually, he will be saved by a woman, at her own cost.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, exciting, feel good, captivating, dramatic
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Swashbuckler (1971)
Plot Summary:
Nicolas Philibert goes to America after killing a French aristocrat. On his return he tries to divorce his wife, Charlotte, but when he sees others trying to woo her his own interest is rekindled.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Italy, Romania
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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All the Way Boys (1972)
Plot Summary:
The "Trinity" crew makes another modern era film. Plata and Salud are pilots ditching aircraft for insurance money. They wind up crashing for real in the jungles of South America. The plot involves "Mr. Big", who is buying the diamonds from the miners for much too little, and has thugs who keep the price down. Of course, Plata and Salud side with the miners.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, semi serious, captivating, grindhouse, rough, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Volunteers (1985)
Plot Summary:
Lawrence is a rich kid with a bad accent and a large debt. After his father refuses to help him out, Lawrence escapes his angry debtors by jumping on a Peace Corp flight to Southeast Asia, where he is assigned to build a bridge for the local villagers with American-As-Apple-Pie WSU Grad Tom Tuttle and the beautiful and down-to earth Beth Wexler.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, cult classic, feel good, realistic, semi serious, parody, hilarious, funny, light, romantic
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That Man from Rio (1964)
Plot Summary:
Farce, spy spoof, and adventure. Swarthy thieves ignore jewels to steal an Amazon figurine from the Museum of Man in Paris' Trocadero Palace and kidnap the world's authority on the lost Maltec civilization. Cut to Agnes, the daughter of a murdered man who possessed one of two other such figurines. Moments after her sweetheart, Adrien, an Army private with a week's leave, arrives in Paris to see her, Agnes too is kidnapped, drugged, and loaded on a plane to Rio. Adrien is in hot pursuit, and before he can rescue her (with the help of a shoeshine boy), foil the murderous thieves, and solve the riddle of the Maltecs, he must traverse Rio, Brasília, and the Amazon heartland... all before the end of his week's leave.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious, anthology, cult classic, detective, eurospy, weird
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The Odd Couple II (1998)
Plot Summary:
30 years after the first film, Oscar and Felix embark on a road trip together, to attend the wedding of Oscar's son to Felix's daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, slapstick, feel good, realistic, witty, not serious, semi serious, buddy comedy, funny
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Spies Like Us (1985)
Plot Summary:
Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for Nuclear War.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 52000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, suspense, parody, spoof, realistic, not serious, cult classic, hilarious
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The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2013)
Plot Summary:
After living a long and colorful life, Allan Karlsson finds himself stuck in a nursing home. On his 100th birthday, he leaps out a window and begins an unexpected journey.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Sweden, Croatia
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: black comedy, feel good, entertaining, absurd, semi serious, road movie, dark comedy, humorous, light, picaresque
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The Diamond Arm (1969)
Plot Summary:
Semyon Gorbunkov goes on a cruise with a smuggler on board. In Istanbul, he slips and breaks his arm. What he didn't know is that this was a signal for the gang of smugglers.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, light, realistic, funny, slapstick comedy, witty, not serious, crying, spoof
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Knight and Day (2010)
Plot Summary:
A fugitive couple goes on a glamorous and sometimes deadly adventure where nothing and no one – even themselves – are what they seem. Amid shifting alliances and unexpected betrayals, they race across the globe, with their survival ultimately hinging on the battle of truth vs. trust.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 208000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: romantic, exciting, entertaining, funny, light, sexy, action comedy, not serious, absurd, intense