Comedies From Around the World (And Where to Stream Them)
Could you use some hearty laughs? Then you’re in the right place! Enjoy this selection of diverse international comedies.
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A film director with a crisis of creativity, a journalist of Telemadrid, a butcher and a housewife with both legs in plaster, a North African taxi driver, an unemployed publicity manager, a young judge, a child of good family who works as a laborer. Amazingly, all these characters have something in common: they are spending the summer in Madrid. The relentless heat in midsummer will leave its mark on their lives
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A film director with a crisis of creativity, a journalist of Telemadrid, a butcher and a housewife with both legs in plaster, a North African taxi driver, an unemployed publicity manager, a young judge, a child of good family who works as a laborer. Amazingly, all these characters have something in common: they are spending the summer in Madrid. The relentless heat in midsummer will leave its mark on their lives
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