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My Wife Is an Actress (2001)
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My Wife Is an Actress (2001)
Original name: Ma femme est une actrice
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: My Wife is an Actress is a French Romantic Comedy/Drama film starring real life couple Yvan Attal and Charlotte Gainsbourg. Attal plays a journalist who becomes obsessively jealous when his actress wife gets a part in a movie with an attractive co-star. Attal also wrote and directed the film.
Style: melancholic, disturbing, stylized, touching, semi serious, humorous, witty, romantic comedy, clever, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: jealous husband, love story, brutality, lifestyle, dishonesty, journalism, couples, actor's life, couple relations, relationship vs career, relationships, women, adultery, infidelity, actress, male female relationship, nudity, police investigation, love, sex, pregnancy, hotel, actor, filmmaking, guilt ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century, contemporary
Place: france, paris france, london, england, europe, new york, israel ...
Keyword: jewish, watching a movie, french, movie theatre

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Sex Is Comedy (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A director struggles with a difficult sex scene between a young actor and actress who can't stand one another. Aided by her loyal assistant, she is hell-bent on getting the scene right without compromise.
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Audience: adult
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Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: atlantic ocean
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My Man (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In Lyon, where many are unemployed, Marie is a prostitute who loves her work: she's thoughtful and exuberant toward clients old and young, slim or flabby. One night, a homeless man sleeps in the foyer of her apartment house; she gives him a hot ...
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Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: lyon, paris france, france
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Happily Ever After (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Is love compatible with coupledom? And what of freedom and fidelity? These are some of the questions facing two married men.
Style: witty, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, sex comedy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: midlife crisis, love, marriage, friendship, battle of the sexes, pregnancy, infidelity, introspection, lifestyle, love affair, buddies, crumbling marriage ...
Time: year 2004
Place: france, paris france
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Love, etc. (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A triangle: love, obsession, and choice. Pierre, a ladies' man who has little cash and no fixed residence, describes his best friend Benoît as the world's oldest 32-year-old. The shy, well-employed Benoît's life changes when he ...
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2 Days in Paris (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Adam Goldberg delivers "an uproarious study in transatlantic culture panic" as Jack, an anxious, hypochondriac-prone New Yorker vacationing throughout Europe with his breezy, free-spirited Parisian girlfriend, Marion. But when they make a ...
Style: humorous, romantic, artsy, funny, melancholic ...
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Plot: male nudity, love, parenthood, fish out of water, lifestyle, society, relationship problems, profanity, relationships, hipster, couples, fall in love ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe, venice, new york ...
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Duration: 104 min.
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Duration: 99 min.
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Time: year 2001, 21st century
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Agnès Jaoui co-writes and directs this romantic comedy of manners set in France's rustic Provence. Unpolished and ultra-pragmatic industrialist Jean-Jacques Castella (co-scripter Jean-Pierre Bacri) reluctantly attends Racine's tragedy ...
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Duration: 154 min.
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Broken English (2007)
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Country: France, Japan, USA
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Venus Beauty (1999)
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Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
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Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
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Playing by Heart (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
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Style: sincere, light, romantic, sweet, independent film ...
Audience: date night
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
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Style: humorous, touching, erotic, realistic, talky ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
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Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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Sleep with Me (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
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Style: sexy, talky, realistic, semi serious, witty ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: infidelity, love triangle, marriage, sexual relations, marriage proposal, redemption, lgbt, relationships, lesbian, poker, wedding, friendship ...
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