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Plot Summary:
Engineer Quiller has become rich by selling his completely indestructible shop-window glass to jeweleries around the world. But this got him lots of enemies too: the insurance agencies, who've lost hundreds of customers, and the burglarers. When he temporarily looses his memory and voice in an accident, of all people, a family of thieves finds and cares for him - believing he's a pocket-picker. Things get complicated when he falls in love with his host Tilli.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Hello, Fools! (1996)
Plot Summary:
Two people meet one another in a multi-million city.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags:
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Watch Out from Alkhot - Ehtares min Alkhot (1984)
Plot Summary:
Khousosi works for his late uncle's company and he's mad in love with his cousin Bolbola and wishes to marry her, but her mother is against it because she believes he's after the family's fortune. Feeling depressed, he seeks the help of Sami, the company's secretary who arranges for him to meet a hired killer in order to finish him off and cause Bolbola to regret her mistreatment towards him. Khousosi doesn't know that Sami intends to marry Bolbola as well, and also has plans to take over the company with the help of a cheating contractor. Later, Khousosi finds an old man in his apartment who turns out to be the killer but he doesn't murder him, and instead he suggests that he must fake his death to see how people are going to react to the news of his suicide. On the following day, Bolbola reads about her cousin's death in the newspaper, and that is when Sami tells her that he has embezzled lots of money from her company. It is up to Khousosi to prove his innocence to the world and to.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 721
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Egypt
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: detective
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E_mail (2000)
Plot Summary:
Athens in August becomes the place where a group of young people live, fall in love and have fun - guided by, and communicating through, the Internet.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 262
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Greece, France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags:
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The Ideal Man (1996)
Plot Summary:
Marie, incapable of choosing between three marriage proposals, decides to give up. Circumstances mean that the three men meet. Far from being hostile, Stéphane, Fabrice and Paul console each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 322
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: intellectual, slapstick comedy
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The Dolls (1965)
Plot Summary:
This semi-amusing sex (romance) comedy has four separate stories.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 366
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: anthology, italian comedy
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Mia moglie è una bestia (1988)
Plot Summary:
Gianni (Boldi) is an ad agent from Milan vacationing in the mountains. Inside a cave he stumbles upon a cavewoman (Grimaldi) frozen intact. Of course she retained all of her young beauty and immediately Gianni is attracted to her, but after he begins thinking she is best left behind she follows him around creating havoc in his normal life. Gianni believes he can transform her into a beautiful modern day woman.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 214
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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My Brother Has Come (1985)
Plot Summary:
Ovidio Ceciotti is a teacher, he is plump and he is not a man of character. He is treated badly by his school-master, by his students, by Lidia, his girl and even by his dog. One day his twin arrives. He calls himself Ralph Benson and has a completely different character. He is impudent, genial, he is popular with women, he is not plump, he spent six months in a jail. Even the dog likes him more than Ovidio. Ralph plays in a bar with the beautiful Esmeralda. They will have to live together. How long will it last?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 653
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Maria into Life (2022)
Plot Summary:
Maria is a cleaning lady, who is reserved, shy and clumsy. When she is assigned to the School of Fine Arts, she meets Hubert, the school's whimsical guardian. There she discovers a fascinating place where freedom, creativity and daring reign.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
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Ladies (2017)
Plot Summary:
Lucie is in remission and her illness is almost a distant memory. Her family pushes her to live life to the fullest, and in doing so Lucie meets the charming and arrogant Clovis, who is immediately beguiled by her wit and humor. It is Dalila, however, an eccentric and delightful dance teacher, who inspires Lucie to rebuild her life and to grow into the woman she always wanted to be. For her mother, for her daughter, for Clovis.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 555
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 99 min
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White Lies (1989)
Plot Summary:
While detective Liz Donaldson cashes her entire life savings to go to Rome, she meets Dr. Harry MacCrey on the plane. They both lie about their jobs and they fall in love in Rome. But, when they come home they have to try to keep their little white lies to themselves and not let either of them who's who.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
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Carry on Emmannuelle (1978)
Plot Summary:
The beautiful and sex-starved Emmannuelle Prevert just cannot inflame her husband's ardour. In frustration she seduces a string of VIPs, including the Prime Minister and the American Ambassador. A jealous lover gives a list of all her conquests to the national press and a scandal ensues. But will she ever manage to get her own husband into bed?.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, grindhouse, parody, spoof, independent film, campy
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Fireworks (1997)
Plot Summary:
Ottone is a shopkeeper in a pet-shop. During a trip to the Maldives, he tells a psychoanalyst his history with women. Mara had left him for a butcher; Barbara, his best friend, betrays her man and leaves him; Luna, beautiful and rich, wants him just for sex; Lorenza, the owner of the shop, would like to run away with him.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Kavalai Vendam (2016)
Plot Summary:
A chef who is separated from his wife decides to win back her love after she lands up at his doorstep asking for divorce.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 614
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags:
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Dog Years (2021)
Plot Summary:
Stella is a clumsy, cynical, imaginative and tormented teenage girl. After a life-changing car accident involving a dog, she convinces herself she must count her age in dog years: one year of her life counts for seven, and now that she’s turning sixteen, she is a centennial. For this reason, Stella thinks she has not much time left to live and pens a bucket list of all the things she would like to achieve before she dies.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 353
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
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Popcorn and Ice Cream (1978)
Plot Summary:
Gesa loses her vacation money in a warehouse bed while having sex with her boyfriend. When she realizes the money is gone, they return to the warehouse, but the beds have all been picked up for delivery. They immediately set off by train to follow the money.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, erotic, slapstick comedy, teen comedy
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Girls Unbutton (1994)
Plot Summary:
A film about the ups and downs of a beautiful young lass named Jenny and her never ending pursuit of a boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy, erotic
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Sugar, Honey and Pepper (1980)
Plot Summary:
Three episodes. First Valerio is mistaken for a notorious criminal. Very beautiful journalists succeed to bring him to her house for an exclusive interview. She tries to seduce him. Second. Guiseppe, an unlucky and ugly man, gets a job as a maid. His mistress falls in love for him. Third. Plinio is a taxi driver who loves his cab above all. But at one point he is involved with the kidnapping of a woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 462
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, erotic, sexy
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Madly in Love (1981)
Plot Summary:
Cristina is a rich, spoiled princess visiting Rome with her royal parents. The mission of their visit is to marry her off to a super-wealthy corporate type and thereby start to turn around the losses their small kingdom is experiencing in its casino business. These less-than-noble intentions get derailed when Barnaba, a zany bus driver enters their lives and falls madly in love with the gorgeous Cristina. He is nuts enough to succeed in this romantic chase after royalty, as love seems to fuel his determination to rid Cristina of her elitism and to make her see his own irrepressible attractions.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, humorous, witty
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What's It All About (1995)
Plot Summary:
Minimalistic frieze fifteen episodes about human behavior (desire, submission, love, jealousy, wisdom, honesty, sincerity, passion, faith, ...) located between two fantastic stories about the will and doubt.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: anthology, manga, clever, humorous, realistic, talky, cynical, semi serious, biting, sexual
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The Taming of the Scoundrel (1980)
Plot Summary:
A rich farmer is well known for being very unkind. He's misanthropic, misogynous and cantankerous. Until he meets by chance a gorgeous girl.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: romantic, humorous, semi serious, funny, witty, cynical, erotic, realistic, masterpiece
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Little Book of Love (1997)
Plot Summary:
Luiza is an architect who just got out of a ruined relationship. Gabriel is a biologist and he has finished a long-term marriage with divorce. When they both meet, chances that they can do well together are not that big. But they will try to, even if their friends Barata (a convict bachelor totally skeptical when it comes to love) and Marta (a mathematic analyst who wishes that human relations were just as exact as numbers are). Written by Pedro Aguiar.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 599
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Rice on White (2017)
Plot Summary:
'Rice on White' is a crass yet heartfelt romantic comedy with an un-PC take on how Asian-American men are perceived in today's dating scene. In the film, a group of disillusioned Asian guys try to master the art of seduction with results that are often hilarious, but sometimes unexpectedly sweet. Think of it as 'American Pie' meets 'Swingers' with an Asian twist.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, sexy, contemplative, independent film, unusual plot structure
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Malibu Hot Summer (1981)
Plot Summary:
John Logan is a poor little rich boy. He learns to love from three nubile L.A. newcomers that will do anything to be introduced into the sizzling nightlife of the City of Angels. Portraying the Malibu beach life by day, and the L.A. club life by night, Sizzle Beach U.S.A. is a stunning insiders critique on the sex and drug lifestyle of the West Coast swinger scene in the early 80s.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 850
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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I Will... I Will... For Now (1976)
Plot Summary:
Elliot Gould stars as Les Bingham, who takes umbrage that his ex-wife Katie (Diane Keaton) has a new love in life. What Les doesn't realize is that her new paramour is lawyer Lou Springer (Paul Sorvino). When Katie's sister Sally (Candy Clark) arrives and tells the two about her new, hip '70s marriage contract, Les and Katie decide to try to get together again under a more liberal marriage contract, like Katie's sister. But, unfortunately for the couple, the contract is planted with the seeds of self-destruction, having been drafted by Lou.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Out-Laws (2023)
Plot Summary:
A straight-laced bank manager is about to marry the love of his life. When his bank is held up by infamous Ghost Bandits during his wedding week, he believes his future in-laws who just arrived in town, are the infamous Out-Laws.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Manual of Love 2 (2007)
Plot Summary:
Four episodes. Nicola, paralyzed after a car crash, falls in love for his physiotherapist Lucia. Franco and Manuela, a young couple unfit to have child, fly to Barcelona for a specialized treatment for fertility. Filippo and Fosco, two gays, decide to marry. Ernesto, waiter in an important restaurant has a liaison with Cecilia the new young Spanish help in cuisine.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy, UK, Australia, France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, light, captivating, sexy, saga, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, anthology
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Western (1997)
Plot Summary:
Catalonian Paco is a traveling rep for a shoe manufacturer. When he stops to pick up Russian emigree hitchhiker Nino, Paco soon finds himself on the side of the road with everything stolen out from under him. Local gift shop owner Marinette gives the Spaniard a lift. Their mutual attraction manifests itself quickly, and Paco, who was fired over the stolen-car episode, hangs around. When he happens to spot Nino in the same town, he beats up the scrawny Russian, who lands in the hospital. Oddly enough, this marks the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Paco and Nino soon take the trip down the road together.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, road movie, independent film
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Queens (2005)
Plot Summary:
In Spain, a couple of days before a collective gay wedding, the lives of five mothers, whose sons will get married, are entwined: Judge Helena is in charge of the ceremony; the entrepreneur in hotel business Magda is hosting the guests in her hotel and is responsible for the banquet, while facing a strike leaded by her lover and chef; the nymphomaniac Nuria is facing problems due to her disease; the wealthy Reyes is having a crush for the father of her son's mate and her gardener; and the Argentinean cooker Ofelia is facing financial problems and difficulties in with her son's mate. Along three days, they have complicated relationships with their sons and mates, ex-husbands, lovers and employees.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain, Netherlands, Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, sexy, offbeat, sexual, non-linear, crying
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Dry Spell (2013)
Plot Summary:
Sasha tries to get her soon-to-be ex husband Kyle laid so she can move on with her sex life guilt-free.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, humorous, realistic, light, feel good, semi serious
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Love Is Eternal While It Lasts (2004)
Plot Summary:
Gilberto, 50enne, si fa coinvolgere in una cosiddetta speed-date, una gara in cui i protagonisti devono trovare un partner in 3 minuti. Arrestato, deve confessare tutto in presenza della moglie che lo sbatte fuori di casa. Rifugiatosi da amici scopre che il suo migliore amico è amante della moglie e comincia a tentare di avviare nuove relazioni che falliscono tutte.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining