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Mark | imdb: 7.7 |
Genre | action, comedy, crime |
Country | France, Italy, West Germany |
An aging gangster, Fernand Naudin is hoping for a quiet retirement when he suddenly inherits a fortune from an old friend, a former gangster supremo known as the Mexican. If he is ambivalent about his new found wealth, Fernand is positively nonplussed to discover that he has also inherited his benefactor’s daughter, Patricia. Unfortunately, not only does Fernand have to put up with the thoroughly modern Patricia and her nauseating boyfriend, but he also had to contend with the Mexican’s trigger-happy former employees, who are determined to make a claim.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | comedy, adventure, crime |
Country | France, Italy, Spain |
Duration | 01:51 |
In this Frenco-Italian gangster parody, a shop keeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash which totals his car. The culprit can only compensate his ruined trip by driving an American friends car from Napels to Bordeaux, but as it happens to be filled with such contraband as stolen money, jewelry and drugs, the involuntary and unwitting companions in crime soon attract all but recreational attention from the "milieu".
Mark | imdb: 5.8 |
Genre | comedy, drama, history |
Country | Italy, France |
Duration | 02:18 |
It's 1348. The plague has brutally hit Florence. A group of then young people, seven women and three men, rebel against the feeling of death that is about to swallow them. They flee the city and find refuge in an abandoned villa in the Tuscan hills. Here, between moral doubts and the tasks needed to survive, they kill time by telling each other stories until they will decide to return. The stories are varied - tragic, bizarre, funny or erotic - but common and central to all of them is the female presence.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | fantastic, comedy, drama |
Country | France, Italy, Luxembourg, USA |
Duration | 01:43 |
A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and a new-found infatuation with the sci-fi film's starlet.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | comedy, documentary |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:30 |
A documentary about branding, advertising and product placement that is financed and made possible by brands, advertising and product placement.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama, biography |
Country | Mexico |
Mike Todd is a Broadway producer struggling to produce the film. Around the World in 80 Days. In Mexico, Mario Moreno, a young entertainer is struggling to get some respect, and he manages to become a star. A twist of faith makes them partners. Together they won the Oscar for Best Picture.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | Italy, France, Belgium |
Duration | 01:18 |
A summer day in Italy. The camera follows the deaf-mute Giacomo and a childhood girlfriend Stefi closely – in the woods, by the river – without wanting to disrupt the mystery of their relationship, between restrained sensuality and childhood games.
Mark | imdb: 7.7 |
Genre | comedy, documentary |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:10 |
It's James Franco's turn to step in to the celebrity hot seat for the latest installment of The Comedy Central Roast.
Mark | imdb: 7.9 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | Italy, France |
Duration | 01:59 |
In an Italian seaside town, young Titta gets into trouble with his friends and watches various local eccentrics as they engage in often absurd behavior. Frequently clashing with his stern father and defended by his doting mother, Titta witnesses the actions of a wide range of characters, from his extended family to Fascist loyalists to sensual women, with certain moments shifting into fantastical scenarios.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | comedy, crime, detective |
Country | Italy, France |
Duration | 01:53 |
A vicious serial sex killer is on the loose, and landscape gardener and shop-window outfitter Loris is the prime suspect, thanks to his unfortunate habit of getting caught in compromising situations (for which there is always a totally innocent explanation that the police fail to spot). Undercover policewoman Jessica is assigned by eccentric police psychologist Taccone to follow Loris and ...
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama, musical |
Country | France, Italy |
Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin plays the wily impresario Danglard, who makes the cancan all the rage while juggling the love of two beautiful women—an Egyptian belly-dancer and a naive working girl turned cancan star.
Mark | imdb: 7.8 |
Genre | comedy, documentary |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:34 |
In 2013 Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond embarked on what they hoped would be the perfect road trip. It started well and ended, quite frankly, very badly. Unbowed, the Top Gear pair are back for another crack and this time they're hoping to avoid inconveniences like apprehension by the French police. Welcome, then, to The Perfect Road Trip... 2. Once again, Clarkson and Hammond are seeking joy and perfection wherever it may be with a range of fast, beautiful and exciting cars unleashed on glorious roads amongst gorgeous scenery and drenched in Mediterranean sunshine. As part of their arduous research into perfection, the duo will also undertake some ridiculous challenges and hilarious stunts culminating in a strangely literal car race on the island of Capri. Top Gear - The Perfect Road Trip 2. This time it really is perfect. Except for the bits that aren't.
Mark | imdb: 7.9 |
Genre | comedy, drama, music |
Country | France, Italy |
Duration | 01:30 |
Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | fantasy, comedy, drama |
Country | Italy, France |
Middle-aged Giulietta grows suspicious of her husband, Giorgio, when his behavior grows increasingly questionable. One night when Giorgio initiates a seance amongst his friends, Giulietta gets in touch with spirits and learns more about herself and her painful past. Slightly skeptical, but intrigued, she visits a mystic who gives her more information -- and nudges her toward the realization that her husband is indeed a philanderer.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | comedy, documentary |
Country | USA |
One hundred superstar comedians tell the same very, VERY dirty, filthy joke--one shared privately by comics since Vaudeville.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | comedy |
Country | France, Italy |
Duration | 01:37 |
Assola is an imaginary village on the border between Italy and France and the borderline crosses the village itself. The French customs agent Ferdinand is always trying to catch the Italian smuggler Giuseppe. Giuseppe discovers that Ferdinand was actually born in Italy and therefore he can't be a French customs agent.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | fantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, history |
Country | Italy, France, West Germany |
The final part of Pasolini's Trilogy of Life series is rich with exotic tales of slaves and kings, potions, betrayals, demons and, most of all, love and lovemaking in all its myriad forms. Mysterious and liberating, this is an exquisitely dreamlike and adult interpretation of the original folk tales.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | comedy, documentary |
Country | Italy |
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Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | Italy, France |
Duration | 01:39 |
Beatrice is a blabbermouth and a so-called billionaire countess who likes to believe she’s in intimacy with world leaders. Donatella is a young quiet tattooed woman, locked in her own mystery. They are both patients of a mental institution and subject to custodial measures.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | Italy, France |
Duration | 02:43 |
Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (known as Baarìa in the local Sicilian dialect), from the 1930s to the 1980s, to tell the story of the loves, dreams and delusions of an unusual community.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, melodrama |
Country | Italy, France |
In the near future, big wars are avoided by giving individuals with violent tendencies a chance to kill in the Big Hunt. The Hunt is the most popular form of entertainment in the world and also attracts participants who are looking for fame and fortune. It includes ten rounds for each competitor, five as the hunter and five as the victim.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | Italy, France |
Duration | 01:56 |
A dark comedy centering on the lives of a Neapolitan based family whose father, a fish merchant, is so infatuated with the reality TV show "Grande Fratello" (the Italian version of "Big Brother") he starts living his life as if he were on it.
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | comedy, documentary |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:25 |
Academy Award-winning director Michael Moore returns with what may be his most provocative and hilarious film yet: Moore tells the Pentagon to "stand down" — he will do the invading for America from now on.