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Plot Summary:
In one long Friday evening, Takeshi Miyata (Yasuhi Nakamura), a straight-arrow businessman, will encounter a number of people (some only fleetingly) who have intertwining fates. The plot of the film is presented in succession first from the point of view of Maki Kuwata (Reika Kirishima), a young woman disappointed in love, then from Takeshi's point of view, then of his friend, Yusuke Kanda (Sō Yamanaka), a private detective, then of Takeshi's former girlfriend, Ayumi Kurata (Yuka Itaya), then of a wannabe-tough Yakuza, Asai (Kisuke Yamashita).
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Happy as One (2006)
Plot Summary:
Drama "in the improvisational style of Andreas Dresen or Mike Leigh" about three drifted apart sisters (Meret Becker, Stephanie Stappenbeck and Heidrun Bartholomäus) finding back together after the death of their mother.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min
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Hives (2012)
Plot Summary:
Thursday morning, Jerusalem. Nira goes to work. Ahmad in London does the same, Ralf in Cologne and a priest in Prague too. Matija, Croat, goes to work as well. Ok, he doesn't, but he acts as if he does. Ahmad is taking his routine red bus journey. Out-of-breath young man comes in and interrupts it. Schoolteacher Nira is also interrupted - her pupil jumps out and performs a love rap song he wrote for her. The priest in Prague doesn't feel like singing today, he is in the mood for (over)sleeping instead. Someone falls asleep, someone else - Ralf - falls in love. All five mentioned above are listening to the top-news about the disappearance of bees. And trying their best, each one of them in his or her own 'hive': Zagreb, Jerusalem, London, Cologne, Prague.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Croatia, Czech Republic, UK, Israel, Germany
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: anthology, intercultural
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L-O-V-E. (2009)
Plot Summary:
Four love stories by four talented Taiwanese first-time directors – well-known lyrist, Vincent Fang Wenshan; TV host, Huang Zijiao; online novelist, Jiu BaDao; and commercial director, Chen Yixian.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: anthology
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The Handsome Suit (2008)
Plot Summary:
An overweight cook is given the opportunity to woo the girl of his dreams when he is given a "handsome suit" that transforms him into an idealized human being in this absurd Japanese comedy.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 560
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min
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Inside Out II (1992)
Plot Summary:
Playboy does to softcore sex films what HBO's Tales from the Crypt did for horror. Contains the stories: "Mis-apprehended"; "I've Got A Crush On You"; "The Freak"; "There's This Travelling Salesman, See"; "Double Vision"; "Busty Gusty and her Twin 50's"; "Some Guys Have All The Luck"; "The Hitchhiker"; and "The Right Number".
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anthology, mockumentary
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Moscow, I Love You (2010)
Plot Summary:
18 directors, 18 novels, 18 short stories about Moscow.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, contemplative
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Trampas de amor (1969)
Plot Summary:
Love, infidelity and desire are the protagonists of three stories full of entanglements and romance.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: anthology, surprise ending
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Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Escape (1995)
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Hapless gangsters are hired by the yakuza to tail his daughter. Once the identity of the boy she's dating has been unveiled, the boss offers a reward for his capture.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Moods of Love (1977)
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Two stories are included in this erotic/romantic anthology. In the first, a Sung-Dynasty (10th-13th century) Buddhist monk is tricked into sexual relations with an unscrupulous female adventurer. He dies soon after with his misdeed on his conscience. In the second, the daughter of a woman who died in a brothel discovers that her mother died an unnatural death and seeks revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: anthology
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2004 film.
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Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Key of Life (2012)
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Unemployed 35 year old Sakurai aspired to become an actor, but failed miserably. He decides to end his own life, but first he goes to purify himself at a public bathhouse. While there, he meets the very prosperous Kondo, who subsequently suffers a fall, erasing his memory. On a whim, Sakurai switches locker keys, steals the man's belongings, and decides to pass himself off as Kondo. What Sakurai does not know is that Kondo runs an illegal business, which brings him into contact with ornery Yakuza members. Meanwhile, Kondo has been convinced that he is actually the failed actor Sakurai and he faces the dismal reality of that life with increasing bewilderment. Fortunately, at the hospital he meets the lovely Kanae who, while yearning for marriage, goes out of her way to help "Sakurai" pull himself together. Eventually Kondo regains his memory, but before he can make a new life with Kanae, he has to solve the many problems caused by the theft of his identity.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, tense, funny, light, entertaining, romantic, dark comedy, touching
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Piter FM (2006)
Plot Summary:
Lyrical story about two young people, Masha and Maxim, who have to decide what to do.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: light, touching, captivating, thought provoking, humorous
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Tokyo Raiders (2000)
Plot Summary:
When a private eye, a jilted bride and a mysterious stranger join forces to track down an elusive mobster, there's more than trouble in the air.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: humorous, stylized, semi serious, captivating, fast
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Sunday Lovers (1980)
Plot Summary:
A sex comedy anthology containing four stories, each from a different country (England, France, USA and Italy). "An Englishman's Home" "The French Method" "Armando's Notebook" "Skippy".
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 418
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, UK, USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: anthology, sex comedy, sexy, hot
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Three Fables of Love (1962)
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Four stories, based on four fables of Lafontaine, shows a woman trying to get her husband a wretch who wants to commit suicide, a jealous man who becomes associated with his rival, and a couple who was locked in an apartment.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: anthology, fable
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Sad Movie (2005)
Plot Summary:
This film is about eight individuals facing the most brilliant separations in their lives. The passionate fire fighter, 30 years old, tries to propose to his lover but every time he misses the chance. In the meantime, she becomes anxious whenever she hears a siren. Suk-hyeon intends to break up with her jobless lover, Ha-seok, and he begins an agency that helps other lovers to break up. Juyeong is mad at her son's troubles in school, but she realizes that she has little time to spend with him. Su-eun, with a hearing impairment and a burn on her face, falls in her first love but she doesn't have the courage to come out in his presence.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, captivating, melancholic, sad, romantic comedy, romantic, feel good, depressing, anthology
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Kabukicho Love Hotel (2014)
Plot Summary:
This erotically charged drama from Japanese director Ryuichi Hiroki (Vibrator) traces the intersecting stories of a group of employees and visitors at a notorious "love hotel" in Tokyo's red-light district.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 835
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: serious, sentimental, realistic, sexual, sincere, captivating, romantic, sexy, anthology, detective
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Glory to the Filmmaker! (2007)
Plot Summary:
Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through a number of different genres in an effort to complete his latest project.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, exciting, captivating, surreal, offbeat, weird
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The All Together (2007)
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IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 906
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, semi serious, realistic, not serious, surprise ending, independent film, black comedy, neo screwball comedy
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Tamako (Atsuko Maeda) graduated from a university in Tokyo, but she now lives with her father back in Kofu. Tamako doesn't help her father or tries to get a job. She spends her time just eating and sleeping throughout the four seasons of the year.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 789
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 78 min
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It's Not a Date (2014)
Plot Summary:
IT'S NOT A DATE tells the story of Carly and Milo, a couple in their twenties on their first date. Although "It's not a date" but more of a casual meet at a local club; it begins as a classic girl meets boy saga with casual conversation that escalates to a night of passion. It evolves, NOT into a romantic partnership or a parting nod, to "bad chemistry" but instead with Carly. Frustrated with a life full of bad dates and believing that Milo is the worse of them she takes Milo on a detour into insanity so extreme he wishes "It's not a date.".
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 396
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Right in Front of Me (2021)
Plot Summary:
Carly gets a second chance at romance with her college crush but isn’t sure how to impress him until her new friend Nick starts giving her advice. Soon she learns who the right man for her really is.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, semi serious
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Love for Share (2006)
Plot Summary:
Three women from three different social, economic, and ethnic groups discuss their lives in polygamous household.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: anthology, light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Last Life in the Universe (2003)
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An obsessive-compulsive Japanese librarian living in Bangkok spends most of his days contemplating suicide in his lifeless apartment. His life changes when he witnesses the death of Nid, seconds before he was about to jump off a bridge. This brings him in contact with Nid's elder sister Noi - these two lost and lonely souls help each other find the meaning to their meaningless existences.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand, Japan, Netherlands
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, lyrical, psychological, serious, art house, dark comedy, romantic, captivating, independent film
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The Man Who Loved Women (1977)
Plot Summary:
At Bertrand Morane's burial there are many of the women that the 40-year-old engineer loved. In flashback Bertrand's life and love affairs are told by himself while writing an autobiographical novel.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: erotic, controversial, anthology, art house, sex comedy, sexual, sexy, clever, touching, humorous
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Shoppen (2006)
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An almost bombproof method of staying single is called "speed dating". 18 people participate in such an event. Nine men and nine women are sitting opposite each other in order to sell optimally under the pressure of time and to find a partner. They are looking for a date - and have nothing else in common. They talk about allergies, cappuccino, consumer behavior, buses and designer clothes: the list of serious embarrassments is long. Yet none of the lonely hearts has given up the hope of romance.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, feel good, surreal, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Castaway on the Moon (2009)
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Mr. Kim is jobless, lost in debt and has been dumped by his girlfriend. He decides to end it all by jumping into the Han River - only to find himself washed up on a small, mid-river island. He soon abandons thoughts of suicide or rescue and begins a new life as a castaway. His antics catch the attention of a young woman whose apartment overlooks the river. Her discovery changes both their lives.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: touching, philosophical, emotional, psychological, romantic, scenic, art house, atmospheric, sincere, uplifting
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Deliver Us from Eva (2003)
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Eva Dandridge is a very uptight young woman who constantly meddles in the affairs of her sisters and their husbands. Her in-laws, who are tired of Eva interfering in their lives, decide to set her up with someone so she can leave them alone. They end up paying Ray, the local "playboy," $5,000 to date her. The plan goes by smoothly, but troubles comes when Ray actually falls in love with Eva.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: feel good, romantic comedy, funny, light, romantic, humorous, teen, erotic, black comedy, hood
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Broken English (2007)
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Nora Wilder (Parker Posey), a single, career woman works at a Manhattan boutique hotel where her excellent skills in guest relations lack in the romantic department. If it is not her loving and dominant mother (Gena Rowlands) attempting to set her up that consistently fail, she has her friend’s (Drea de Matteo) disastrous blind dates to rely on as a backup for further dismay. She's surrounded by friends who are all happily engaged or romantically involved and somehow, love escapes Nora -- until she meets an unusual Frenchman (Melvil Poupaud) who helps her discover life beyond her self-imposed boundaries.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Japan, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: light, sweet, emotional, sexy, stylized, sentimental, romantic, romantic comedy, touching, erotic
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Paris, I Love You (2006)
Plot Summary:
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to chose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 74000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Germany, USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: anthology, stylized, romantic, intellectual, talky, emotional, sentimental, atmospheric, art film, clever