Best movies like My Korean Teacher
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Plot Summary:
Young-Ung was dumped by his girlfriend. While he is in Okinawa, Japan on a business trip, the company he works for goes bankrupt. Sakura is a single mother and works for a travel agency. She needs to learn Korean for her job. At a Korean language institute, Sakura meets Young-Ung and their romance begins.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, uplifting, feel good, humorous, sweet
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Seven Dinners (2019)
Plot Summary:
After five years of marriage, their relationships have come to a dead end – no kids, no common interests, almost no more love is left… When the wife asks for divorce, the husband tries the last remedy to cure their relationships – a scientific method known as "7 dinners".
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, sentimental, humorous, touching
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The Immature: The Trip (2012)
Plot Summary:
After the events of the first movie, the "immatures" go on a trip to the Greek island of Paros.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, romantic, uplifting, sweet
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Happy Anniversary (2018)
Plot Summary:
A quirky couple spends their three-year dating anniversary looking back at their relationship and contemplating whether they should break up.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, sweet, romantic, romantic comedy, independent film
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My Little Monster (2018)
Plot Summary:
Problem student Haru Yoshida sits next to the cold and studious Shizuku Mizutani in class. Without any other friends to turn to, both of them start to get to know each other and grow closer. Haru eventually develop feelings for Shizuku and confesses his feelings to her. Will Haru and Shizuku get their happily ever after?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 774
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: romantic, uplifting, touching, feel good, sweet, anime, romantic comedy
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Closest Love To Heaven (2017)
Plot Summary:
Nino is a quiet outcast with only a bird for a friend. Kira is a popular boy with a big secret. Even though they live next to each other, they have never spoken. But when Nino learns Kira's secret, everything begins to change, and what starts as a hesitant friendship grows into something more... but how long can it last?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 750
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: romantic, sentimental, uplifting, touching, sweet, shoujo
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Literally, Right Before Aaron (2017)
Plot Summary:
Still reeling from his breakup with college sweetheart Allison, Adam's world is thrown into further chaos when he’s surprisingly invited to attend her wedding.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: romantic, sentimental, funny, uplifting, humorous, sweet, romantic comedy, happy
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All You Need Is Love (2018)
Plot Summary:
When popular TV show host Dr. Love goes missing ahead of the annual Christmas special, a zany search for his replacement and holiday romance ensues.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 728
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, romantic, feel good, humorous, sweet
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As If It Were the First Time (2019)
Plot Summary:
A man falls in love with a girl who has short-term memory loss.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico, Dominican Republic
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: funny, romantic, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, remake of american film
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A New Girl In Paris! (2018)
Plot Summary:
Tamara has been separated from Diego for two years. She finally leaves home to live the student adventure in Paris with his girlfriend Sam. In a galley apartment, they accept a cohabit with Wagner. Problem: Diego is part of the lot, and he is no more single.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, uplifting, feel good, humorous, sweet
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Deported (2020)
Plot Summary:
Ross and Harper are a young couple living in the United States, but their short-lived romance is torn apart when Harper is deported back to her home in Canada. Unwilling to commit to marriage Ross decides to hire a fake husband so Harper can re-enter the Country.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 706
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, light, sweet, feel good, humorous
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Principal: Am I In a Love Story? (2018)
Plot Summary:
After her parents divorced, Shima Sumitomo lived with her mother. She felt uncomfortable living with her stepfather and she was unable to hang out with people at her high school. Shima Sumitomo decides to move to Hokkaido where her father lives. At her new high school in Hokkaido, she meets classmate Gen Tatebayashi and Wao Sakurai. They are the two most popular boys at her school. A principle of her school is that "Gen and Wao are for everyone." If anyone breaks the rule, that person will be ostracized. Even so, Shima Sumitomo gets closer to Gen and Wao.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: funny, light, captivating, entertaining
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Stay Away from Me (2013)
Plot Summary:
Jacopo has a serious problem. He may be a brilliant marriage guidance counsellor, but he can never manage to have a steady relationship for more than two weeks. And for good reason: since he was very young, Jacopo has been cursed and brought bad luck to every woman who has fallen in love with him. Really bad luck. Because of this, he has vowed to stay away from women, for their own good. But the moment he lays eyes on Sara at a friend’s birthday party, he is smitten. Despite his resistance, the two fall head over heels leading to back-to-back, laugh-out-loud moments of disaster! Sara will quickly learn the consequences of her choice as the limits of her love are put to the test.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 882
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Hot for Teacher (2006)
Plot Summary:
Strict teachers, all those hours inside four walls, all your desires and youthful energy repressed. School is an endless drag - until she comes along. Uhm Ji Young (Kim Sa Rang of A Love to Kill) has a perfect body and metric tons of sex appeal, and she knows it. Needless to say, all the students go crazy, and the male teachers too! They should be preparing for the annual school festival, but they're all occupied with other matters. Then a scandal erupts. The three major suspects are the school's trio of professional playboys, Kim Tae Yo (Ha Suk Jin of See You After School), Bae Jae Sung (Park Jun Kyu of My Wife is a Gangster 2), and Ahn Myung Seop (Ha Dong Hoon of My Boss, My Teacher). A particularly strict teacher is after them. His mission: find out who slept with her?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Me gusta, pero me asusta (2017)
Plot Summary:
Brayan Rodriguez is an innocent heir to a criminal Sinaloa family sent to Mexico City to expand the business, and where he meets Claudia, and their worlds collide. Love and fun are everywhere.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 616
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Our Happy Holiday (2018)
Plot Summary:
Marion and Ben, thirty years old, meet on Tinder. That's about all they have in common; but the opposites attract each other, and they decide in the early morning of their meeting to go on vacation together despite the advice of their entourage. They will finally leave - to Bulgaria, halfway to their dream destinations: Beirut for Marion, Biarritz for Ben. Without a precise plan and, as they will soon discover, with very different conceptions of what a dream holiday should be.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: scenic, light, feel good, sweet, funny, romantic, humorous, captivating
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Night Shift (2018)
Plot Summary:
Max loses his job at the plant and to feed his family, is forced to accept an unexpected offer former classmate to work as a stripper. Hiding the new profession from his wife, Ani, Max gets into a lot of amazing and ridiculous situations and end up losing the trust of the woman he loved. In an effort to return peace and harmony to the family, he appealed for help to colleagues from the strip club, that all leads to fun chaos.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, humorous, funny, sincere, light
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Too Neapolitan (2016)
Plot Summary:
When Deborah's ex-husband, a popular neomelodic singer, loses his life in a stage dive, Deborah worries for her eleven-year-old son, Ciro, who is exhibiting signs of depression. Searching for a solution, Deborah takes Ciro to see Tommaso, a shy child psychologist. During the course of their visits, Ciro confesses that it's not his father's death that has got him down, it's his love for his classmate, the beautiful Ludovica. The two make a deal: Tomasso will help Ciro to win the affections of Ludovica, while Ciro gives Tomasso a hand at having a chance with his mother.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 367
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, funny, entertaining, captivating, idiotic
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Bangla (2019)
Plot Summary:
A 22 year-old Bangladeshi-Italian Muslim boy meets a beautiful, exciting Italian girl who makes him re-analyze his beliefs and culture.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Sandy Wexler (2017)
Plot Summary:
When a hapless but dedicated talent manager signs his first client who actually has talent, his career finally starts to take off.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, uplifting, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, happy
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Bad Date Chronicles (2017)
Plot Summary:
Leigh runs the website "Bad Date Chronicles," which allows people to anonymously post horrible date experiences. When rival blogger Conner becomes the subject of one of her posts, they agree to date each other to see which one is the "bad dater.".
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 999
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: romantic, funny, uplifting, feel good, humorous, sweet, emotional
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Nerd Boy (2008)
Plot Summary:
DeDe is an emotional wreck after her boyfriend, Stix gives her the boot. Once the word gets out that DeDe is single, all available men, including the neighborhood nerd line up for a chance to date her.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, independent film
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S.O.S.: Women to the Sea 2 (2015)
Plot Summary:
Afraid her husband will fall back with his ex girlfriend after they're assigned to work together, Adriana and her sister set sail to the U.S. to go after him to stop this from happening.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 366
Genere: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, humorous, sweet, captivating, romantic comedy
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Wolf Girl and Black Prince (2016)
Plot Summary:
Erika Shinohara (Fumi Nikaido) is a first year of high school student. While talking to friends, she makes up a story about her "boyfriend." In reality, Erika Shinohara doesn't have a boyfriend. Erika's friends soon begin to doubt her story and Erika is also running out of lies. Erika then sees a pretty boy on the street and takes his picture discreetly. She later shows his picture to her friends as her boyfriend. The boy in the picture is Kyouya Sata (Kento Yamazaki) and happens to attend the same school as Erika. She tells Kyouya about her situation and asks him to be her pretend boyfriend. Even though Kyouya has a pretty appearance, he has a dark side.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: romantic, sentimental, uplifting, touching, feel good, humorous, sweet, shoujo
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In a Relationship (2018)
Plot Summary:
Long-term couple Owen and Hallie are breaking up—or maybe not?—and just as their relationship reaches a turning point, Matt and Willa embark on a romance of their own.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, uplifting, sweet, captivating
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You Choose! (2017)
Plot Summary:
Even at the age of 40, Juliette is used to other people making decisions for her. When she meets two guys she likes, she has to finally make her own decision.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, uplifting, feel good, humorous, sweet
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Santa Maradona (2001)
Plot Summary:
An unemployed young man finds his life turned upside down when he falls in love with a beautiful actress.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, clever
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El tamaño sí importa (2016)
Plot Summary:
A typical next door mexican girl –away from the beauty standards-, will try to conquer her old boss, a very handsome and charismatic socialite, who is now broken and alone.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: funny, entertaining, light, feel good, humorous, captivating
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Dating & New York (2021)
Plot Summary:
After an electric one-night stand, two New York millennials draw up a friends-with-benefits contract to avoid the pitfalls of their past relationships.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 844
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: funny, romantic, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Let's Tie the Knot, Honey! (2022)
Plot Summary:
Guille decides it's time to take the next step and proposes to his girlfriend Bea, but things get complicated and nothing goes as planned.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Comedy
Country: Peru
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: funny, romantic, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, romantic comedy
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Love of My Loves (2014)
Plot Summary:
Two couples get to know what we all dream about: love at first sight. The problem is they meet it with different people to the ones they are engaged with, and they are just at seven days to get married. Up to that moment, they have to reconsider what’s love and what’s a habit, and to face them going against an idea with an expiration date: marriage. "Love of my loves" is based upon the successful mexican theatrical play "Un dos tres por mí y por todos mis amores", and explores compromise, doubts and commitment mixing drama and comedy.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 977
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious