Best movies like The Girl in the Picture
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Plot Summary:
Alan and Mary are pretty miserable together and split up. As an very presentable Glaswegian photographer Alan soon has chances to find consolation elsewhere, but more and more thinks of Mary. She however seems a lot less keen to try again.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film
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What a Whopper (1961)
Plot Summary:
A writer attempts to raise some cash by writing a book about the Loch Ness Monster. No publisher will take it because they all think there isn't really a monster. The writer and some of his friends make a fake monster and take photographs and then travel to Scotland to see if they can convince the locals.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: black and white, independent film
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Closure (2012)
Plot Summary:
All paths inevitably end, whether we want them to or not. This is a tale about one particular path, followed by two particular people, but this is not a tale about romance, this is simply a film about beginnings and endings. Daniel and Eve are a young couple in crisis. The film follows their relationship in reverse from the end to the beginning, starting with a break up. Daniel - a level-headed, well-meaning slacker caught between his desire to make something of himself,and his student inclinations to have fun. Upon meeting Eve at a party, Daniel finds her attractive precisely because she possesses the traits he does not. As their various differences bring them together, they are forced to acknowledge their faults, many of which are reflected in the other.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, independent film, low-budget
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Collage of Our Lives (2003)
Plot Summary:
A young cameraman receives a letter from an old girlfriend, announcing that she is to hold a photo exhibition in the United States. Having heard rumors that she has died, he follows his curiosity to New York City.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags:
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Fast Romance (2011)
Plot Summary:
The interweaving stories of seven very different people in the cosmopolitan city of Glasgow who decide that, in their pursuit of love, it is time to try something new. Little do they know that after one night of speed dating their lives will take dramatic new twists - and we'll be there to witness each and every one of them.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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To Marry a Captain (1986)
Plot Summary:
Captain Alexander Blinov goes on vacation and has to give a package to Lena. Lena is freelance photo journalist who runs from job to job. She also has a long conflicting relationship with her retired neighbor who thinks that people like her shouldn't live. Somehow, Blinov get's involved in that conflict and all other Lena's crazy adventures, and falls in love.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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The Apology Dance (2010)
Plot Summary:
Adam and Eve are in what seems to be a perfect relationship. When Adam gets her a gift that's a little over the top, it sends them into a spiral of chaos and mayhem! Getting advice from friends, co-workers, and family, Adam tries over and over to apologize, and just keeps making things worse.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags:
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Rules - Pyaar Ka Superhit Formula (2003)
Plot Summary:
Rules - Pyaar Ka Superhit Formula is a light look at the game of love. Radha (Meera Vasudevan) is employed with an advertising agency, and has a chance to see and meet prominent models. She meets her dreamboat, Vikram Verma (Milind Soman), on one such day. Needless to state, she is madly in love with him, but he has eyes for his girlfriend, the gorgeous model, Maggie (Namrata Barua), only. Radha's attempts to make him notice her are in vain, and in desperation she confides in her grandma (Tanuja), for a solution. Her grandma instructs her to follow a number of simple rules,.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: India
Duration:
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My Girlfriend's Boyfriend (1999)
Plot Summary:
Jake can only think of one thing after being dragged to the wedding of his girlfriend's best friend. How can he get out of it? On the advice of Wes, the out-and-proud best man, he pretends to be gay and gets caught kissing Wes. Little does Jake realize he's about to get caught up in a circle of jealousy and lies. Cliff, the groom, is getting married to help solidify his hunky, soap opera star image... and to stay closeted. Yep, he s gay. And his longtime boyfriend is none other than his best man. When Cliff and Wes get pictures taken of them in a compromising position (several, in fact) it looks as though his cover might be blown. Thrown into the mix is the bride's sex crazy mother and the nosy reporter-turned-wedding photographer with a sock puppet (pop icon Deborah Gibson). What ensues is a fun, quirky and modern comedy of errors that is sure to tickle your funny bone.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, neo screwball comedy
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The Ideal Man (1996)
Plot Summary:
Marie, incapable of choosing between three marriage proposals, decides to give up. Circumstances mean that the three men meet. Far from being hostile, Stéphane, Fabrice and Paul console each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 322
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: intellectual, slapstick comedy
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Gentlemen's Relish (2001)
Plot Summary:
The career of the once successful classical portraitist, Kingdom Swann, has hit bad times. When a leading gallery rejects his work, he seems at the point of giving up. It is only the support of his housekeeper, Violet Askey, that keeps him going and it is she who encourages him to switch to photography. Soon Swann has developed a healthy (and respectable) business with portraits of naked women in classical and exotic settings. However, the nature of Swann's new work is open to misinterpretation and he finds himself at the centre of a scandal involving the misuse of his pictures by a SOHO pornographer, and the focus of a campaign by suffragettes against the expoitation of women. At the same time, he loses the support of the loyal Violet, who leaps to the wrong conclusion about Swann's relationship with one of his models. When Violet then becomes involved in the suffragette and amti-pornography movements, it seems all may be lost for Swann - both professionally...and personally.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 257
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, period drama
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Threebound (2019)
Plot Summary:
Breakups happen. Boy meets girl. Boy likes girl; girl likes boy. Boy and girl decide to sleep with 3 other people first, to avoid the rebound relationship.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: independent film, romantic comedy
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Alpha Males Experiment (2009)
Plot Summary:
When Ethan, the needy nice guy, is dumped by his fiancée, he asks his misogynist older brother, Kyle, to help him win her back.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, independent film, cult film
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Jhooth Bole Kauwa Kaate (1998)
Plot Summary:
Abhyankar (Amrish Puri) is an orthodox head of his family, a retired police officer, he has values which he wants his family to also uphold.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 865
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 148 min
Plot tags: funny
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A Guide to Second Date Sex (2019)
Plot Summary:
Laura and Ryan are perfect for each other: they both love Meryl Streep, have been totally destroyed by previous relationships, and they have no idea what they are supposed to do tonight. They also both know that they'll have to pretend to be completely different to how they've ever been previously, in the hope of getting it right this time. How bad can a second date really go and what is there to lose? Ryan and Laura are about to find out.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: romantic, sentimental, touching, light, feel good, humorous, sweet, sex comedy
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Less Than 30 (2016)
Plot Summary:
Alexa Cavender, pressured to find a relationship, takes an interesting approach by only dating those matched at less than 30%.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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High Season (1987)
Plot Summary:
On the isle of Rhodes, Katherine, an expatriate English photographer, lives with her daughter. A young local wants to encourage tourism, so he commissions a sculpture of the Unknown Tourist for the town square; the sculptor he brings to Rhodes is Kate's ex-husband. Also there to see Kate is Sharp, an aging antiquarian and her dear friend. He has something important to tell her. As Kate, her ex, and Sharp sort out things that go back years, two English tourists bumble about, one thinking he's fallen in love with Kate, his wife thinking she's found her own lover. A rare vase, a spy, old friendships, the statue's unveiling, and off-hand English sorting-out play into the resolution.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 460
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic comedy
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Calendar (1993)
Plot Summary:
A photographer and his wife travel across Armenia photographing churches for a calendar project. Travelling with them is a local man acting as their driver and guide. As the project nears completion, the distance between husband and wife grows.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, Armenia, Germany
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: spiritual, independent film, psychological, clever, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, fake documentary
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Sophie's Revenge (2009)
Plot Summary:
Dumped by her fiance just two months before their wedding, comic strip writer Sophie hatches an elaborate plan to get her Jeff back and punish the movie star, Joanna, who seduced him away. She finds herself a partner, Gordon, an ex-lover of Joanna's. The two start on a comic adventure full of laughs and tears, aided by Sophie's two best friends, Lucy and Lily. At the eve of her success, Sophie suddenly faced of having to chose between a repentant Jeff and Gordon who has fallen for her.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea, China
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, sentimental, light, touching, feel good, melancholic
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Whisky Galore (2016)
Plot Summary:
The story of the inhabitants of the isolated Scottish island of Todday, in the Outer Hebrides, where gloom sets in as their wartime rationing of whisky runs out. When cargo ship the SS Cabinet Minister runs aground the shrewd islanders run rings around the buffoonish English Home Guard commander Captain Waggett and conspire to hide away cases of the precious amber nectar.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Rice on White (2017)
Plot Summary:
'Rice on White' is a crass yet heartfelt romantic comedy with an un-PC take on how Asian-American men are perceived in today's dating scene. In the film, a group of disillusioned Asian guys try to master the art of seduction with results that are often hilarious, but sometimes unexpectedly sweet. Think of it as 'American Pie' meets 'Swingers' with an Asian twist.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, sexy, contemplative, independent film, unusual plot structure
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Walking the Dog (2017)
Plot Summary:
Kristie Simmons, an attorney, initiates a legal battle trying to get approval for a bike lane for the local residents. When Bill, a local veterinarian, informs her that a dog named Gidget needs a home, Kristie agrees. While out walking Gidget, Kristie meets Keith Amos, an attorney on assignment from Seattle, while he's walking his lovable dog, Simon. Keith is immediately smitten with Kristie, her initially pleasant reaction to him turns sour when she learns he is her opposing counsel in the bike lane case.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Gregory's Girl (1980)
Plot Summary:
In his Scottish New Town home, gangling Gregory and his schoolfriends are starting to find out about girls. He fancies Dorothy, not least because she has got into the football team - and is a better player than him. He finally asks her out, but it is obviously the females in control of matters here, and that very much includes Gregory's younger sister.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, independent film, comedy drama, sincere, touching, offbeat, humorous, realistic, contemplative
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Dry Spell (2013)
Plot Summary:
Sasha tries to get her soon-to-be ex husband Kyle laid so she can move on with her sex life guilt-free.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, humorous, realistic, light, feel good, semi serious
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Random Encounters (2013)
Plot Summary:
What seems to be a chance encounter one day at a coffee shop leads to a full-fledged romance, but the couple must fight for their relationship to survive the craziness that is show business.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 765
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, sentimental, touching, suspenseful, realistic, semi serious
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The Break-Up Artist (2009)
Plot Summary:
A woman who gets paid to break people up is forced to become a matchmaker when some new competition muscles her out of the break-up business. Now, in order to save her company (and keep her high-priced wardrobe) she'll have to rely on her old nemesis: love.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic, romantic comedy, teen, romantic drama
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Mylove Lost (2018)
Plot Summary:
Mario (Dani Rovira) and Olivia (Michelle Jenner) fall madly in love. One afternoon, considering that every relationship ends, they end up breaking up. During the big fight, Miamor, the street cat adopted by both and who only attends if they call him "Miamor" and speak to him in Valencian, escapes and disappears, like the love that united them. For a time Olivia will give him for dead, love and the cat, while Mario keeps him alive in secret. Like Schrodingüer's cat, the love between the two remains alive and dead at the same time until, one day when she seems to have finally risen, Olivia feels victimized by a deception and decides to declare to Mario the war, one in the that, as in the love that still breathes, everything can be worth.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 702
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Love Is Eternal While It Lasts (2004)
Plot Summary:
Gilberto, 50enne, si fa coinvolgere in una cosiddetta speed-date, una gara in cui i protagonisti devono trovare un partner in 3 minuti. Arrestato, deve confessare tutto in presenza della moglie che lo sbatte fuori di casa. Rifugiatosi da amici scopre che il suo migliore amico è amante della moglie e comincia a tentare di avviare nuove relazioni che falliscono tutte.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Cyrano Agency (2010)
Plot Summary:
The Cyrano Agency is a dating agency which helps people who can't date to have a love life. The agency staff try helping their clients without being noticed. The agency's representatives Byeong-hoon and Min-yeong are giving their best to pair up their client, Sang-yong, with his love interest named Hee-joong. But when Byeong-hun sees Hee-joong's profile, he begins to doubt their abilities. Will "Cyrano Agency" succeed in their mission?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: sincere, romantic, humorous, captivating, entertaining, sad, romantic comedy
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Yes Man (2008)
Plot Summary:
Carl Allen has stumbled across a way to shake free of post-divorce blues and a dead-end job: embrace life and say yes to everything.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 378000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, light, humorous, romantic, motivational, thought provoking, hilarious, realistic, inspirational
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Made of Honor (2008)
Plot Summary:
Tom and Hannah have been platonic friends for 10 years. He's a serial dater, while she wants marriage but hasn't found Mr. Right. Just as Tom is starting to think that he is relationship material after all, Hannah gets engaged. When she asks Tom to be her 'maid' of honor, he reluctantly agrees just so he can attempt to stop the wedding and woo her.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 75000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, funny, entertaining, humorous, cute, teen, captivating, romantic comedy, philosophical