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Plot Summary:
A ne'er-do-well who's married to a millionnaire realizes his financial trouble might be solved if his wife was dead - and sets out a plot to achieve just that. A remake of Dino Risi's "il vedovo".
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 929
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Marry Me, Maribel (2002)
Plot Summary:
Maribel (Natalia Dicenta) is a prostitute working in Madrid in the late fifties. One night he meets Marcelino (Carlos Hipolito), shy and quiet man who falls for her. For Maribel is in principle a client more, but gradually begins to feel attracted to the shy provincial, owner of a chocolate factory in Soria. Pili (Nathalie Seseña), Rufi (Mireia Ros) and Nini (Malena Alterio), the companions of Maribel, truculent by nature suspicious of this relationship and begin to suspect that the provincial could be a murderer. When Maribel Marcelino asks her to marry him, they intervene and away from Marcelino and his "strange family". Adapted from the play "Maribel and the Strange Family" by Miguel Mihura.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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What a Crush (2018)
Plot Summary:
Ferhat is a spoiled man who takes over his father's company. Ferhat's right hand is his childhood friend, the company's finance manager, Gökhan. They are not very kind to their employees. One day they will be friends with the restaurant owner. Ferhat falls in love with the restaurant owner's daughter Elif. But Elif is not a delicate and pure young girl. Her career, her hard character, and her witless intelligence, which are full of special trainings and superior services, will make Ferhat much more difficult.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Suddenly Paradise (2003)
Plot Summary:
Lorenzo, owner of a firm that makes atmospheric effects for film and television, is a happy bachelor. His beliefs begin to falter after the arrival of Amaranta, a beautiful and rich Colombian girl that, as a surprise to her boyfriend, has commissioned a fake snow in his luxurious villa overlooking the sea.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Incompatibles (2013)
Plot Summary:
Matthew has everything a young man could want: a large apartment in Monaco, which he shares with his best friend Sebastian, affluence and all the women he wants end up in his bed. When Emma young seasonal worker with a strong character, has no other choice but to live with him, disputes are in the air and their incompatibility is undoubtedly. Between battle of the sexes and life lessons, Emma and Matthew will share their conceptions of desire and the male / female relationship ... and gradually, disagreements will take less and less importance.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Comedy
Country: Monaco
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Beached Tuna (2018)
Plot Summary:
Francesco, a young man who wants to be a comedian, insults his girlfriend to make his public laugh; she will break up with and so he will think of a crazy plan to win her back.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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The Key Game (2022)
Plot Summary:
Laura has been with Antonio all her life and, just when she begins to wonder if that is really the life she wants, Sergio and Siena cross paths in their lives. Sergio is a former high school classmate and Siena, his millennial girlfriend who arrives to revolutionize everyone's lives. Laura, Raquel and Cris, close friends for years, convince their respective husbands to play a game that Siena proposes to them: the game of keys. The game consists of everyone putting their keys in a bowl. At random, each one chooses some keys and he must go to spend the night with the owner of the keys. This game will revolutionize the group of friends and their lives. It will make them discover who they are and what they really want.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 768
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Santa Maradona (2001)
Plot Summary:
An unemployed young man finds his life turned upside down when he falls in love with a beautiful actress.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, clever
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A Woman as a Friend (2014)
Plot Summary:
Francis and Claudia are good friends . He is a lawyer, she is veterinary doctor. Among them there are no secrets , until John arrives. Claudia decides to marry him. Francis realizes that friendship between man and women is more complicated.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 775
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, not serious, funny, romantic, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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What's your sign? (2014)
Plot Summary:
A few stories about the different Zodiac signs.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 461
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, anthology
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Mr. & Mrs. Player (2013)
Plot Summary:
Chinese Feng Shui master Carson was a "Natural Born Player", taking names and breaking hearts. Fate had it that he would meet his match, the hot veterinarian Chi-Ling. It was love at first sight but neither could stand the other's fickle nature lest the affair might have ended as soon as it began. Chi-Ling's roommates, Big S and Small S came up with a perfect plan – to invite Carson to move in with Chi-Ling and make him promise to have no sexual contact with any girls for 100 days. Carson accepted the challenge without a second thought. Yet, the two sisters and his ex-lovers took turns in seducing him. Ninety difficult days have since passed, the biggest temptation arrived in the form of the hottest bachelor in Hong Kong, Daniel Lee began courting Chi-Ling. At the same time, Karen, Carson’s first love, suddenly came back into his life. Would these star crossed lovers cross the finish line together?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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A Liberal Passion (2013)
Plot Summary:
When an uncompromising idealist and rich, arrogant heir cross paths, their contrasting beliefs begin to shift when they fall for each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 646
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, sincere, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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We Get Married (2013)
Plot Summary:
Yang Tao and Guo Ran meet each other on a blind date. Unexpectedly, they develop feelings towards each other. However, when Yang Tao is ready to share her whole life with him, she finds out that Guo Ran is scared of marrying her.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Comedy
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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YYY The Series (2020)
Plot Summary:
A new Y-series sitcom series, breaking all the rules in this world. That will come to disturb everyone in this April. Come and join the amazing apartment together.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Comedy
Country: Thailand
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Soulmate(s) (2021)
Plot Summary:
Lifelong best friends, Sam and Jess, are each other’s everything. But when Jess meets a handsome out-of-stater, Landon, Sam begins to fear she’s being cast aside. To make matters worse, a massive corporation - who happens to be Landon’s employer - is threatening the small-town way of life they know and love in Vermont. In order to save her sisterhood and protect the town, Sam will pull out all the stops to keep both Jess’s relationship and the ominous company from developing any further.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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The Way We Weren't (2019)
Plot Summary:
Since meeting online, Charlotte and Brandon have fudged, re-imagined, and outright lied about their pasts in an attempt to be each other's perfect match. Now that they've said their "I do's" they are about to get a funny, hellish, and eye-opening look at just who they've vowed to spend the rest of their lives with. Will familiarity breed contempt... or bliss?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, Switzerland
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: funny, romantic, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, erotic, romantic comedy
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Dating & New York (2021)
Plot Summary:
After an electric one-night stand, two New York millennials draw up a friends-with-benefits contract to avoid the pitfalls of their past relationships.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 844
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: funny, romantic, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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All's Well, Ends Well 2009 (2009)
Plot Summary:
Kei's eldest sister Sandra is a hot-tempered magazine editor and her temperament has left her single all this while. One of the family rules is that none of the siblings could get married before their eldest sister. Kei seeks help from the famous Casanova, Koo Chai, to pretend to court his eldest sister and lure her into the mood of love.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 506
Genere: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, romantic comedy
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Boss Engira Baskaran (2010)
Plot Summary:
Bhaskaran is a happy-go-lucky guy, who is yet to complete his B.A. degree, writing arrear examinations annually for years. His only friend is Nallathambi who owns a barber saloon, which he received as a dowry for marrying a two-month pregnant woman. He lives with his mother, Sivakami, brother Saravanan who is a successful veterinarian and sister, Nithya. When his brother marries Nandhini, he gets to meet Nandhini's younger sister Chandrika and wishes to marry her. When he approaches his family for a chance, everyone talks very frankly of his unemployed status which rankles him and he leaves his house to prove himself. With the support of Nallathambi, he establishes a tutorial for Class 10 students and despite early setbacks makes it work, while also convincing Chandrika, who eventually reciprocates his love. However despite all this, Chandrika's father is against her marriage with Bhaskaran for a reason which is revealed in the end.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 161 min
Plot tags: romantic, funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Let's Tie the Knot, Honey! (2022)
Plot Summary:
Guille decides it's time to take the next step and proposes to his girlfriend Bea, but things get complicated and nothing goes as planned.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Comedy
Country: Peru
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: funny, romantic, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, romantic comedy
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Swingers (2019)
Plot Summary:
Two couples are bored in their everyday lives and decide to meet. Their exciting experience turns out not to be as well planned as they thought.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Comedy
Country: Norway
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Love of My Loves (2014)
Plot Summary:
Two couples get to know what we all dream about: love at first sight. The problem is they meet it with different people to the ones they are engaged with, and they are just at seven days to get married. Up to that moment, they have to reconsider what’s love and what’s a habit, and to face them going against an idea with an expiration date: marriage. "Love of my loves" is based upon the successful mexican theatrical play "Un dos tres por mí y por todos mis amores", and explores compromise, doubts and commitment mixing drama and comedy.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 977
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Before Monday (2016)
Plot Summary:
After their cars collide, a penniless actor makes a deal with a criminal tycoon to deliver a giant Easter egg from Turin to Naples.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 227
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Finally Married (2018)
Plot Summary:
Enzo and Monica, after a brief moment of popularity for having participated in a reality show, decide to marry. Monica dreams a perfect marriage: everything has to be special. But special things are often the most expensive ones.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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It's Not You, It's Me (2013)
Plot Summary:
Serial commitment-phobe, Dave, is reeling from his decision to break up with his near perfect, now ex-girlfriend. As he tries to forget her, his battling inner voices come to life and cloud his mind with conflicting desires. Meanwhile, Carrie's own disjointed inner voices push her to move on with someone less complicated. Sensing time is short, Dave embarks on a sincere and sometimes fumbled personal journey to conquer his fear of commitment.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 294
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Mismatch (2018)
Plot Summary:
Mishka is terrified of her husband Abir's fantasies. Her boss Aditi intimidates her husband Anirban. The two mismatched couples begin a wild journey!.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 296
Genere: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 20 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, erotic
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Don't Call Me Spinster (2018)
Plot Summary:
After an unexpected breakup throws 35-year-old Patricia for a loop, it's up to her gal pals to show her single life is not all doom and gloom.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 201
Genere: Comedy
Country: Peru
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Divorce French Style (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ariane, a young French violinist, accepts the marriage proposal of Christen, an irresistible conductor. Only problem: she's a little bit ... married! Separated for two years with Nino, an Italian teacher with a strong character, she manages to convince him to follow her to Paris to divorce in 8 days flat. But their trip in the city of love looks much more eventful than expected.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 635
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, realistic, not serious
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Everyone Wants It (2015)
Plot Summary:
Giovanna, Carla, Francesca, Chiara. What these women have in common so different from each other? Which will never be the not insignificant detail that makes their lives secretly imperfect? And what mystery female is so intimate and private, that more private you can not? Whatever it is, all they want. A food designer, her first love and one sciampista for dogs are the stars of this comedy merrily shameless telling women what no one had ever dared to tell.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 667
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: funny, romantic, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Loving Only You (2015)
Plot Summary:
Lukewarm wedding acquires a new meaning when the father of the groom rekindles his long-time love for the mother of the bride.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 823
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: funny, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, queer cinema
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Just Married (2009)
Plot Summary:
Nicola, a policeman in Puglia, is a reformed ladies' man with his heart set on marrying the daughter of the Indian ambassador.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 471
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious