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Plot Summary:
Alain Berrebi directs with his sister Lorène, a company of ready-to-wear in the Path. Their business is booming to the point to consider acquiring a nearby shop. Fortunately, it belongs to David Stern, the father of his fiancée Arlette.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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May Fools (1990)
Plot Summary:
An eccentric family is re-united during the 1968 general strike in France, after the death of the grandmother.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, talky, black comedy, period piece, dark comedy
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Man Is a Woman (1998)
Plot Summary:
Simon Eskenazy is a gay Parisian clarinet player who lives his single life to the fullest. One day, he receives a very tempting offer from his homophobic uncle, looking to continue the family legacy – if he gets married and has a child, he will receive ten million francs and inherit his uncle's luxurious mansion. After meeting Rosalie Baumann at his cousin David's wedding, and with some convincing on his mother's part, Simon sees an opportunity to fulfill his uncle's wishes and the pair go ahead and get married, but not before traveling to New York to meet Rosalie's Orthodox Jewish family. As Simon tries to develop real feelings for Rosalie, he struggles with his feelings for his newlywed cousin David.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 746
Genere: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, queer cinema
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Only God Sees Me (1998)
Plot Summary:
Albert, a sound engineer who is chronically hesitant successively meets three charming young women who will, each in their own way, provoke and help him to get a better hold of himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 623
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Modern Love (2008)
Plot Summary:
Marianne gets off to a bad start with gallery director and Brad Pitt look alike Vincent but everything works out "just like in the movies" in the end.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, sexy, romantic, sexual
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Marry Me (2000)
Plot Summary:
Oriane and Hadrian's couple is going through a crisis. Determined to save their marriage, Oriane visits a Gypsy fortune teller who foresees a dark future. But Oriane won't hear of anything but a happy ending and the psychic is forced to read another future which, unfortunately, also happens to end bitterly. Will the third reading satisfy the young woman?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, captivating, controversial, realistic
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Bimboland (1998)
Plot Summary:
A shy French anthropologist who happens to be secretly in love with her college superior, chooses "bimbos" as the subject of her thesis. She becomes one of them in order to do that, and the professor she loves falls for her new identity.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, sentimental, offbeat, humorous, realistic, not serious
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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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Love Is All There Is (1996)
Plot Summary:
The Malacicis, a hard-working Italian family recently immigrated from Florence, open a fancy restaurant in the Bronx, N.Y., drawing the ire of another clan. Mike and Sadie Capomezzo, equally hard-working Sicilian caterers from the area, find they cannot stand Piero and Maria Malacici. But things get complicated when the Malacicis' daughter, Gina, and the Capomezzos' son, Rosario, fall in love.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: spectacular, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, erotic, psychological, romantic, sexy, thought provoking
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Look for a Star (2009)
Plot Summary:
Wealthy construction mogul Sam Ching (Andy Lau) and cabaret dancer Milan Sit (Qi Shu) fall madly in love with one another despite the class differences that would keep many couples apart. However, what Sit doesn't know is that Ching is the man responsible for razing a building representing cherished memories from her childhood. Can they live happily ever after if this secret gets out?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 780
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating
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Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health (1996)
Plot Summary:
A woman seduces a hotel janitor to gain access to the famous musicians coming into town.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: sentimental, clever, touching, feel good, humorous, captivating, realistic, witty, semi serious, neo screwball comedy
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I Don't Buy Kisses Anymore (1992)
Plot Summary:
Bernie Fishbine is overweight. He stops at the neighborhood store to buy some chocolate kisses every day. This is where he meets Theresa Garabaldi. Then they take the same bus route every evening. Theresa invites Bernie to see her play piano at her father's restaurant. It is here that she gets him to join a gym. Theresa is in college and gets the idea to write about Bernie's weight problem for her thesis. She does this without telling Bernie. Meanwhile, Bernie is falling in love with Theresa, and vice versa.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, independent film, sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Story of My Life (2004)
Plot Summary:
Raphael is a ghostwriter who takes a job writing for famous footy player Kevin. To his delight and his girlfriend, Murials horror, Kevins current girlfriend is an old (easily rekindled) flame of Raphaels. A freak accident leaves a close friend dead and Raphael is forced to reconsider his priorities.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sentimental, funny, captivating, entertaining, light, romantic, feel good, realistic
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A NY Thing (2009)
Plot Summary:
Masquerading as another man, Antoine flies to New York for a three-day stay and promptly falls in love with Alice, who's dating someone else. When that doesn't work out for him, Antoine turns to the city itself for inspiration.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, mumblecore, offbeat
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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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He Is My Girl (2009)
Plot Summary:
Dix ans après L'Homme est une femme comme les autres, Simon Eskenazy est devenu un grand interprète de musique traditionnelle juive. Il voit successivement débarquer sa mère envahissante, son ex-femme, son fils de 10 ans qu'il n'a jamais vu et Naïm, un jeune travesti musulman qui va changer sa vie.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, clever, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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I'm Staying (2003)
Plot Summary:
A love triangle between a businessman, his wife, and a writer.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 777
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic
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Rum and Coke (1999)
Plot Summary:
A young, independent Latina has a safe relationship with her Anglo boyfriend until she is rescued and romanced by an aggressive Latino firefighter.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, touching, humorous, emotional, realistic, semi serious, sexual, hispanic, sexy
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Gregoire Moulin vs. Humanity (2001)
Plot Summary:
Grégoire Moulin, a shy accountant, sets up a blind date with a dance teacher at a bar. What he needed to do was just to cross the road. But it didn't happen to be as easy as it seems especially because of the final game of French soccer championship the very same night!.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, touching, offbeat, realistic, sexual, sexy
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After You (2003)
Plot Summary:
Antoine is a maitre d' in a Paris brasserie, Chez Jean, and is so full of being of service to others that he can't say 'no'. Late for dinner with his girlfriend, Christine, he takes a shortcut home through the park but finds a stranger, Louis, in the act of committing suicide by hanging. Louis is distraught by the loss of his girlfriend, Blanche, and is so grateful that he attaches himself to Antoine. Antoine arranges a job for Louis - as a sommelier at Chez Jean and sets about trying to repair Louis' life.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: romantic, compassionate, light, humorous, clever, realistic, witty, semi serious, inspirational, road movie
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Almost Charming (2013)
Plot Summary:
A romantic comedy about Jean-Marc who is a convinced bachelor and also very busy. So busy that he almost missed his own daughters wedding ceremony.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 727
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, humorous, light, realistic, semi serious
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Paris-Manhattan (2012)
Plot Summary:
In Paris, the pharmacist Alice has been an obsessed Woody Allen fan since she was fifteen and has seen all his movies and talks to him alone in her room. When she meets Pierre in a night-club, she finds that he loves jazz and she believes he is her prince charming. But when Pierre sees Alice's sister Hélène, they immediately fall in love with each other and marry each other. Years later, Alice is a spinster that administrates the pharmacy that belonged to her father and believes that movies can heal many diseases. However her father insistently tries to find a husband for her. When the alarm technician Victor meets Alice, she does not see any future relationship with him. But one day, Victor brings Alice to meet Woody Allen in Paris and the director gives an advice to Alice. [Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil].
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, romantic, light, witty, romantic comedy, realistic, talky, semi serious
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Shall We Kiss? (2007)
Plot Summary:
When Gabriel and Emilie meet by chance, he offers her a ride, and they spend the evening talking, laughing and getting along famously. At the end of the night, Emilie declines Gabriel's offer of "a kiss without consequences". Emilie admonishes him that the kiss could have unexpected consequences, and tells him a story, unfolding in flashbacks, about the impossibility of indulging your desires without affecting someone else's life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, erotic, sensitive, sexual, feel good, sexy, hot
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Try Me (2006)
Plot Summary:
Quand Yves-Marie, 9 ans, demande à Jacqueline, qui a son âge : "Epouse-moi", elle répond par une pirouette : "Le jour où tu vas dans les étoiles, je te donne ma main.".
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 624
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, realistic, semi serious
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Caprice (2015)
Plot Summary:
An average guy meets an actress who is more beautiful than he could ever imagine. But then a pesky girl materializes to make his life a living hell. His perfect girlfriend now thinks that he is involved with this Caprice.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, sincere, feel good, sensitive, sentimental, realistic
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So Woman! (2009)
Plot Summary:
Clemence is a brilliant young lawyer who has just settled herself in a comfortable chair. She does not want to be involved in love.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Green Card (1990)
Plot Summary:
Urban horticulturalist Brontë Mitchell has her eye on a gorgeous apartment, but the building's board will rent it only to a married couple. Georges Fauré, a waiter from France whose visa is expiring, needs to marry an American woman to stay in the country. Their marriage of convenience turns into a burden when they must live together to allay the suspicions of the immigration service, as the polar opposites grate on each other's nerves.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Australia, USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: romantic comedy, light, romantic, sentimental, retro, entertaining, happy, touching, feel good, humorous
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Would I Lie to You? (1997)
Plot Summary:
The sentimental and comedic adventures of Eddie, a non-Jew trying to pass as Jewish though totally ignorant of Jewish traditions, as he works in a Jewish community.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, cult film
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Bacon on the Side (2010)
Plot Summary:
Djalil Boudaoud and Justine Lacroix are a surgeon and a television reporter who enter a romantic relationship despite the objections of their families to the cultural gap.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 557
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, sentimental, touching, realistic
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French Film (2008)
Plot Summary:
Jed prepares to interview French cineaste and self-appointed expert on the nature of love - Thierry Grimandi. The worldly and somewhat jaded Jed is dead-set on dismissing the auteur's musings as pompous and, well French, until his own relationship with Cheryl starts to fall apart and he is forced to re-evaluate the illusive subject. Soon everyone is talking about love: his relationship counsellor, drinking buddy Marcus and Marcus' girlfriend Sophie Beginnings, endings, tricks...could the French be on to something?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 796
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic, clever
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Happiness Never Comes Alone (2012)
Plot Summary:
Sacha is a real seducer, a man with no ties or emotional or professional. Charlotte is a modern and independent woman, but barely has time to care for their three children. While Sacha and Charlotte are, at first glance, two incompatible beings, when they meet soon discover that they are quite complementary and need each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: romantic, sentimental, realistic, humorous, semi serious, touching, offbeat, feel good