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Plot Summary:
A stuntwoman on a western picture takes over the lead role when the star's alcohol problems prove too much, and she finds herself gradually falling in love with the film's producer.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, erotic drama
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Between Us (2016)
Plot Summary:
Longtime couple Henry and Dianne are afraid that if they finally tie the knot it would mean the end of their days as free-spirited urbanites. But a whirlwind night apart involving temptations from a duo of strangers will either make them realize why they are together in the first place or finally drive them apart forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 881
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: romantic, romantic comedy, independent film
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Where the Grass Is Greener (2008)
Plot Summary:
A romantic comedy about an unemployed young woman from East Germany who ends up taking a summer job in the Swiss Alps and has to contend with stubborn cows, an amorous dairyman and illegal workers from the Balkans after a German passport.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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On Parade (2010)
Plot Summary:
An honest look at the lives of three self-absorbed men as they complicate their love lives.
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Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Twogether (1992)
Plot Summary:
An artist and an environmentalist go through an up and down relationship over the years. They get married in an early fling, she gets pregnant as they celebrate their divorce together, they deal with his nude artwork and her tempermental situation as they learn about her strict upbringing and her fear of commitment based on her father's unflinching attitudes.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 227
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, independent film
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Talking Walls (1987)
Plot Summary:
A student tapes sexual encounters in a Hollywood hotel for his thesis.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, sexploitation film
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Just Looking (1995)
Plot Summary:
All in all, Jim has a good life: He's a successful architect, he and his wife Mary are in love, and they have a healthy, well behaved child. The only thing more Jim could ask for is for his wife to be a little more open about sex; all she ever wants is soft, gentle lovemaking, while Jim would like to be a little more wild once in a while. Mary sees the problem as being on Jim's end; she thinks that they're examples of his personal shortcomings and that his sexual desires are abnormal and selfish. When she begins withholding sex from Jim, his frustration builds and begins to affect his whole life; he keeps renting porn films, fails to get an account at work, and ends up trying to get satisfaction by spying on his neighbors with binoculars.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 203
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Two Roses and a Golden Rod (1969)
Plot Summary:
In this steamy drama, a Hollywood screenwriter lusts after his beautiful 16-year-old daughter -- who reciprocates his feelings -- while his wife finds herself torn between her spouse and her lesbian inclinations.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: independent film, erotic, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Tempting Devils (2018)
Plot Summary:
A woman discovers curious erotic messages on a lost cell phone in the train. When she meets the owner of the phone, a liberated young woman, the two of them embark on an erotic journey.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: erotic, romantic, uplifting, touching, sweet, art house, erotic drama
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Sex Weather (2018)
Plot Summary:
Sleepy-eyed filmmaker Darrel wakes to find himself in bed with his crew member Sydney. As they begin to discuss the previous evening and tepid reviews of his new film, emotions give rise to a passionate and thoughtful relationship that once could have been if either had taken the chance.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, sexy
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Rediscovering Christmas (2019)
Plot Summary:
A talented department store window designer helps her sister design the decor for the annual Snowflake Festival Christmas Eve dance and clashes with the stubborn grandson of the founders of the festival.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 471
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sweet, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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Manhattan Romance (2014)
Plot Summary:
Danny, a commercial editor and documentary filmmaker attempts to finish his film, a study on relationship while navigating the relationships in his own life. Will he continue to chase the unattainable Theresa a hippy new age dancer(Caitlin Fitzgerald) or will he finally admit he's in love with his best friend Carla (Katherine Waterston) who is in an unfulfilling relationship with a political strategist(Gaby Hoffman). Manhattan Romance is a funny insightful look at contemporary life in Manhattan. It explores new age ideas and open relationship as well as true friendship and connection.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: feel good, sweet, funny, light, crying, mockumentary
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Christmas Hotel (2019)
Plot Summary:
A big city hotelier's boss informs her that she will receive a promotion if she can pull off a major project.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 510
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sweet, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, romantic comedy
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Same Love, Same Rain (1999)
Plot Summary:
Jorge is a writer for a left-leaning Buenos Aires magazine that's at odds with the country's military dictatorship. He meets lovely and intelligent actress Laura and begins an on-and-off romance that will continue for the next two decades. Fearful of commitment, Jorge initially moves on from her and his fortunes suffer, but the situation changes when he and Laura renew their acquaintance. Meanwhile, the country undergoes a political transformation.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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Ricordi? (2018)
Plot Summary:
A long love story, seen through the memories of one young couple. The journey through the years of two individuals, united, divided, happy, unhappy, deeply in love, or in love with others, in a single stream of emotions and shades of feeling. Over the course of the film, he learns that love can indeed last, while she learns to live with nostalgia.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, sexy, touching, emotional
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The Sweetest Christmas (2017)
Plot Summary:
After breaking up with her long-term boyfriend just before the holidays, passionate baker Kylie reconnects with her high school sweetheart, Nick. Thanks to their newly rekindled friendship, Kylie uses Nick’s restaurant to prepare for a gingerbread baking competition with a large cash prize that would help her open her own bakery.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sweet, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, romantic comedy
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The Teenie Weenie Bikini Squad (2012)
Plot Summary:
Sexy secret agents go undercover (and under the covers) at an erotic magazine to catch a saboteur.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, erotic, sex comedy, sexploitation film
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Bolero (1984)
Plot Summary:
Follows the tale of a young woman’s sexual awakening and subsequent journey around the world in pursuit of her ideal lover. Encounters include an Arabian sheik and a Spanish bullfighter. Her friend and butler accompany her and help to arrange her couplings.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, grindhouse, sex comedy, serious, realistic, sexual, psychotronic, independent film, bizarre
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Gabriela (1983)
Plot Summary:
In 1925, Gabriela becomes cook, mistress, and then wife of Nacib, a bar owner in a small Brazilian coastal town runs by the local colonels. Nacib becomes tired of Gabriela's uneducated ways, and annuls the marriage when he finds her in bed with his friend Tonico. The political ways of the town modernize slightly and Gabriela returns as Nacib's mistress.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, sexy, pornochanchada, humorous, semi serious
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Lay the Favorite (2012)
Plot Summary:
A former stripper's talent with numbers lands her a job with a professional gambler who runs a sports book in Las Vegas.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sexy, realistic, humorous, semi serious, sincere, independent film
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Finding Bliss (2009)
Plot Summary:
Jody Balaban, an aspiring filmmaker, is fresh to L.A. with New York film school accolades and the dream of making her movie. Unable to get a job where she can use the skills she so finely honed, Jody must edit adult entertainment to make ends meet. The uncompromising desire to make her movie, leads Jody to secretly film in the porn studio facilities at night - until she is caught in the act.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, witty, realistic, semi serious, sexy, offbeat, sexual, sex comedy, hot
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Reckless (1984)
Plot Summary:
Rebellious footballer Johnny, falls for cheerleader Tracy. They come from opposite backgrounds; she's from a comfortable well off family, he is poor and broken. Tracy already has a boyfriend but he acts like a jerk, so Johnny has to win Tracy's heart - something she seems reluctant to let him do.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, surprise ending, eighties
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Entropy (1999)
Plot Summary:
Entropy is the semi-autobiographical film by director which tells the story of a young director struggling to make a film for a despotic studio while his life falls apart around him. Along the way, he goes on tour with U2 to help them make a music video, gets married in Vegas, and has a conversation with his cat.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, crying
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Love Scenes (1984)
Plot Summary:
Acclaimed actress Val Binnes decides to play a bold and uninhibited role in a controversial new movie for her ambitious, but neglectful and self-absorbed director husband Peter. Val finds herself becoming too caught up in the risqué part, throws caution to the wind, and has an adulterous affair with her hunky, but arrogant leading man Rick. Can Val and Peter's marriage survive the pressure and problems of making the picture?.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: erotic drama, sensual, independent film, sexploitation film, hot
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The Big Picture (1989)
Plot Summary:
Hollywood beckons for recent film school grad Nick Chapman, who is out to capitalize on the momentum from his national award-winning student film. Studio executive Allen Habel seduces Nick with a dream deal to make his first feature, but once production gets rolling, corporate reality begins to intervene: Nick is unable to control a series of compromises to his high-minded vision, and it's all he can do to maintain his integrity in the midst of filmmaking chaos.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: light, suspense, entertaining, melancholic, harsh, humorous, realistic, semi serious, funny, clever
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About Last Night... (1986)
Plot Summary:
A man and woman meet and try to have a romantic affair, despite their personal problems and the interference of their disapproving friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: romantic, erotic, sentimental, talky, funny, retro, sensual, sincere, clever, touching
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Easy (2003)
Plot Summary:
Quirky Jamie Harris (Marguerite Moreau) has a big problem: She's a magnet for less-than-kind men as she hops beds. But things start to look up when she becomes the object of affection of two seemingly normal guys, Mick (Brian O'Byrne) and John (Naveen Andrews). Unfortunately, there's the immense problem of her self-imposed 90-day moratorium on sex. Emily Deschanel co-stars as Jamie's sister, Laura.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, witty, erotic, clever, realistic, talky, semi serious, sexual
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Cocktail (1988)
Plot Summary:
After being discharged from the Army, Brian Flanagan moves back to Queens and takes a job in a bar run by Doug Coughlin, who teaches Brian the fine art of bar-tending. Brian quickly becomes a patron favorite with his flashy drink-mixing style. Brian adopts his mentor's cynical philosophy on life and goes for the money. He leaves his artist girlfriend Jordan Mooney for Bonnie, a wealthy, high-powered executive. Brian soon must chose between the two, as he evaluates his options.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 90000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sexy, entertaining, romantic comedy, realistic, sentimental, semi serious, romantic, stylized, suspense, retro
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And God Created Woman (1988)
Plot Summary:
In this variation on director Vadim's own, more acclaimed Et Dieu Créa La Femme (1956, the same title in French), the vamp Robin Shea marries charming carpenter Billy Moran, only to get out of prison, but soon decides to seduce James Tiernan, who runs for state governor.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sexy, realistic, intense, semi serious, humorous, erotic, independent film, melancholic, romantic, feel good
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Spread (2009)
Plot Summary:
In Los Angeles, Nikki is homeless, car-less and closing in on 30, but he's amoral, good-looking, and adept in the sack, moving from one wealthy woman of 35 or 40 to another, a kept boy-toy. His newest gig, with Samantha, an attorney whose house overlooks L.A., is sweet, although it's unclear how long she'll put up with him. Then Nikki meets Heather, a waitress. Is the player being played, or might this be love? What will Nikki discover?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, romantic, sentimental, teen, psychological, captivating, cynical, sex comedy, light
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The Last American Virgin (1982)
Plot Summary:
The friendship of a group of young friends struggling with teen sex, drugs, and work is jeopardized by a romantic interest which may turn pals into bitter rivals.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sexual, sexy, touching, melancholic, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sex comedy, erotic