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Plot Summary:
Michel Berthier, cadre supérieur d'une entreprise de matelasserie, vient d'être licencié. Comme il n'ose pas avouer la vérité à Juliette, sa compagne, il s'endette pour maintenir le niveau de la famille qu'il couvre de cadeaux. Mais il ne peut bientôt plus mentir et il décide alors de quitter la maison. Après avoir perdu son argent, sa voiture et ses chaussures, il rencontre Toubib, Mimosa et Crayon, trois «Sans Domicile Fixe» qui font leur toilette dans les lavabos de la gare de l'Est. Ils le prennent sous leur aile et l'entraînent à aller cambrioler son ancienne entreprise afin de se munir de duvets et de lits.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, sexy, cult film
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Everything's Jake (2000)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, psychological, independent film
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The Smile (1994)
Plot Summary:
An old psychiatrist finds out that he is likely to suffer a second and probably fatal heart attack in the near future. As a consequence he becomes determined to seduce Odile, a young woman he first encounters in a railway compartment.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 643
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sexy, humorous, realistic, contemplative, semi serious, sexual
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Our Women (2015)
Plot Summary:
Max, Paul and Simon have been friends for 35 years. They take great pleasure in their one vacation a year together without their partners and meet-up regularly to spend evenings drinking or playing cards. Each has a successful career and they all appear to have perfect lives until the night Simon announces to his friends that he has just strangled his wife, Estelle after a blazing row. Max and Paul are horrified by Simon's confession, but worse is to come when Simon asks them to lie and provide him with an alibi for the time Estelle was killed. Both men are torn between lying or turning over their best friend to the police.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 559
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, cynical, semi serious, captivating, realistic, talky
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Justi&Cia (2014)
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 214
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, biting, suspense
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Men, Women: A User's Manual (1996)
Plot Summary:
Benoit Blanc loves living, he loves women, he loves daring. He is a famous businessman who suffers from stomach-ache. Fabiolini, a would-be actor, is a policeman and he too suffers from the same sickness. The two man face suffering in opposite ways: Benoit Blanc is optimistic while Fabiolini, always unsure of himself, is persuaded he is seriously ill. The two men meet by chance while doing a gastroscopy and become friends. After having known their real different conditions, they will change and will understand better their lives. Around them, other people, women and men, will see their lives changed, by chance, by love or solely by the life stream.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 744
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, hot
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Turf (2013)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of four French friends: the Greek (an osteopath), Fifi (who lives with his mother), Fortuné (a West Indian) and Freddy (a gambler). They meet up regularly at a Parisian bookmakers’, their favourite haunt. Tired of frittering away the little spare cash they have, they agree to give up gambling. But no sooner have they taken this pledge than Fate intervenes, in the guise of the turf king, Monsieur Paul. The latter persuades the four friends to buy a champion racehorse, not knowing that it is in fact an old nag….
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 525
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating
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The Toy (1976)
Plot Summary:
When Francois, a journalist, tours a big store for an article, he is chosen by the son of the newspaper's owner, Rambal-Cochet, as his new toy. Needing money and unwilling to quit his job, Francois agrees to this ridiculous assignment. Gradually befriending the spoiled boy, he induces him to play at making a newspaper, unveiling publicly the tyrannical way of life of the father. The powerful emotional climax we experience with the child astonishes both men.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, exciting, realistic, light, satirical, funny, semi serious, biting, suspense, neo screwball comedy
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Pardon Mon Affaire, Too! (1977)
Plot Summary:
The film is the immediate continuation of Un éléphant ça trompe énormément, released the previous year. Having fortuitously discovered a photograph in which Marthe embraces someone unknown, clothed with a chequed jacket, Étienne Dorsay becomes jealous, and imagines various stratagems to identify the lover. In the meantime, Étienne and his friends acquire a weekend house for a very low price. As in the previous work, the film is largely narrated by the character Étienne, whose tone shifts with the reality of the images. The film contains a certain number of allusions to the films of Blake Edwards (the Pink Panther series).
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty, sex comedy, sexual, sexy, hot
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Boudu (2005)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, captivating, clever, offbeat, realistic, biting, suspense
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The Storage (2011)
Plot Summary:
Antero Rousku is a storeman in a paint store. His job requires raw muscle power, mixing paints and carrying house repair materials around to earn his daily bread. But the basic salary is not enough for Rousku. He also sells a lot of stuff on the side from the storeroom directly to Jylhäkorpi, a frequent visitor, bypassing company bookkeeping. Rousku's colleague in the cellar storeroom is Raninen whose life consists of work, quarreling with his wife, and lottery. Raninen wants to win the main prize but he wants to have the right numbers in exactly the order in which they appear from the lottery machine. Raninen is not the sharpest pencil in the pencil box. Rousku's freedom is threatened by his relationship to the saleswoman Karita. Rousku wants to keep a distance to the woman except in bed. Karita has decided otherwise.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sexy, sincere, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, witty
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My Piece of the Pie (2011)
Plot Summary:
France, a factory worker, lives with her three daughters in Dunkirk. The factory where she worked has been closed, leaving France and all of her workmates without a job. She decides to go to Paris to look for work. There she finds a cleaning job at the home of a rich man, Steve, whose world is radically different from her own. As their paths keep crossing, she discovers that her employer played a part in closing the factory in Dunkirk.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Marius and Jeannette (1997)
Plot Summary:
Marius is the keeper of an abandoned cement works staying high above the quarter of l'Estaque in Marseilles. Jeannette is bringing up her two children alone with her poor checkout operator salary. Their meeting won't be without trouble, since besides material difficulties, both of them are wounded by life. They have to learn how to be happy again.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Easy Way Out (2014)
Plot Summary:
Patrick, a travel agent in his early 30s, lives with Arthur, an immigration lawyer; but for a long time, Patrick has been sleeping on an air mattress on the floor of their bedroom. His younger brother, Tony, plans to marry his high school sweetheart but is having an affair that is far more satisfying than his relationship with his fiancee. Their older brother, Ryan, is divorced, living at home and working at his parents’ hopelessly unprofitable men’s clothing store. And McCauley soon makes achingly clear that the parents’ marriage is far from happy.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Italian (2010)
Plot Summary:
Life smiles at Dino Fabrizzi,a cool forty-two-year old Italian. Not only is he the most successful salesman at The Maserati dealership in Nice but he has had a steady (and hot) relationship with Hélène,his girlfriend, who is beginning to contemplate marriage. To crown it all he is nearly certain to land a senior position at the dealership. But there is a tiny wee problem. The funny Italian is not Italian at all! His real name is Mourad and he is actually of Algerian origin. So, when to please his father (who does not know his son pretends to be Italian), he promises him to celebrate Ramadan he is bound to get into serious trouble.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Tomorrow's Another Day (2000)
Plot Summary:
Such an inconsequential event - the unfortunate purchase of a package of cling film - reveals the character and behavior of a small group of individuals caught up in the chaos of today's society. Though it creates arguments and inner questioning, this event - and its various consequences - also creates bonds.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 535
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, clever, offbeat
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The Pope's Toilet (2007)
Plot Summary:
A small South American village is in a flurry over the Pope's 1988 visit.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Uruguay, Brazil, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, touching, captivating, hispanic, biting, suspense
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Very Well, Thank You (2007)
Plot Summary:
The tough lives of two ordinary individuals: Alex, an accountant and his wife Béatrice, a taxi driver.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, biting, suspense
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Among Friends (2015)
Plot Summary:
Three longtime friends set off on a boat trip with their romantic partners, but inclement weather, jealousy and confessions, will put to test their friendships.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 766
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, psychological, realistic, talky
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Nationale 7 (2000)
Plot Summary:
In a nursing home for disabled near Toulon, René is unanimously hated by all. With fifty years and suffering from myopathy, has an irascible, rebellious character. But not resist provocations candor and uprightness of Julie, a special educator rookie. He confesses he wants to make love to a woman before her degenerative disease definitely catch it. Then Julie goes after one of the prostitutes who work in caravans along the N7.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 536
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, humorous, semi serious, sexy, offbeat, realistic, sexual
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The Belgian Job (2012)
Plot Summary:
Willy Vander Brook, a world with Franco-Belgian roots, travels to Paris for an interview. He is welcomed by his childhood friend Serge, an ex pub operator, and his roommate Frank, a fierce supporter of the Walloon independence. When Willy discovers that his candidacy is not accepted because he is Belgian, he and his compatriots decide to take revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, realistic, semi serious
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Granny's Funeral (2012)
Plot Summary:
A provincial chemist in the throes of a mid-life crisis must choose between burying his dearly departed grandmother and cremating her in this quirky comedy of manners starring Valerie Lemercier, Denis Podalydes, and Isabelle Candelier.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 938
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film, humorous
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Homeland (2013)
Plot Summary:
Farid, a young 26-year-old Frenchman, must travel to Algeria to save his father's house. While discovering this country in which he had never before set foot, he succumbs to the charms of a host of astonishing characters whose humour and simplicity affect him deeply. Amongst these is his cousin, a bright and lively young man who has the dream of one day going to France.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 680
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Morocco, Belgium
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, road movie
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Discount (2014)
Plot Summary:
To fight against the introduction of automatic checkouts that threaten their jobs, staff members at Hard Discounts secretly create their own "Alternative Discount" outlet by salvaging products that would otherwise have been wasted.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 526
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, realistic, semi serious, biting
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The Girl from Paris (2001)
Plot Summary:
Sandrine, a woman in her thirties gets tired of life in Paris and decides to leave her work in computers and become a farmer. She takes the required practice for two years, and after that she buys an isolated farm from Adrien, an old farmer who decides it's time to retire. However, Adrien wants to stay a few more months before moving away from the farm, and the rough winter finds them together.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Gilded Cage (2013)
Plot Summary:
In the beautiful area of Paris, Maria and José Ribeiro lived for almost thirty years on the ground floor of a Haussmann building, in their dear little lodge.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, semi serious, realistic, intercultural, masterpiece
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All Together (2011)
Plot Summary:
Five old friends decide to move in together as an alternate to living in a retirement home; joining them is an ethnology student whose thesis is on the aging population.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, sentimental, realistic
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Gooische Vrouwen (2011)
Plot Summary:
Gooische Vrouwen (Vipers Nest) is based on a very popular Dutch TV series and can be described as a Dutch variation of Sex and the City and Desperate Housewives. The film tells the story of four girlfriends who live in the bourgeois area ‘t Gooi, where life always seems to run smoothly, but dark clouds are gathering on the horizon. A flight seems the only way out….
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, sexy, humorous, realistic, witty, offbeat, biting, sexual, suspense
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The Dandelions (2012)
Plot Summary:
A young girl is frustrated by her over-protective mom. At school, she meets another fearless little girl that is going to have a big influence on her.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, humorous, realistic
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Change of Plans (2009)
Plot Summary:
So called friends at a dinner party end up acting like a dysfunctional family.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, biting, suspense
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Monsieur Batignole (2002)
Plot Summary:
In 1942, in an occupied Paris, the apolitical grocer Edmond Batignole lives with his wife and daughter in a small apartment in the building of his grocery. When his future son-in-law and collaborator of the German Pierre-Jean Lamour calls the Nazis to arrest the Jewish Bernstein family, they move to the confiscated apartment. Some days later, the young Simon Bernstein escapes from the Germans and comes to his former home. When Batignole finds him, he feels sorry for the boy and lodges him, hiding Simon from Pierre-Jean and also from his wife. Later, two cousins of Simon meet him in the cellar of the grocery. When Pierre-Jean finds the children, Batignole decides to travel with the children to Switzerland.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, tense, exciting, captivating