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Plot Summary:
Six different stories, about nine people, each with different issues and problems, all occurring within one place: the METRO.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, romantic, humorous, captivating, thought provoking, entertaining
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Shake It All About (2001)
Plot Summary:
Jacob is a young man used to getting everything he wants. For several years, he has been living in a happy homosexual partnership with Jørgen, and one night Jacob decides to pop the big question to Jørgen. Jørgen happily accepts Jacobs marriage proposal, but then something happens: Jacob falls in love with a girl, and not just any girl. The girl is Caroline, married to Jørgens younger brother Tom.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, romantic comedy, crying, sex comedy, gay cinema, queer cinema
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Another Life (2013)
Plot Summary:
The South of France. Internationally famous pianist Aurore collapses one night during a performance, over-exhausted from too many concerts. Tired of music, she believes she no longer has anything to offer her public. Then she meets Jean, an electrician who installs residential security systems. Despite their differences, they immediately fall in love and plan a new life together. Jean intends to leave his long-time partner, Dolorès, but she will stop at nothing to keep him.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: emotional, romantic, captivating, light, humorous, touching, serious, realistic
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Fasten Your Seatbelts (2014)
Plot Summary:
Elena (Kasia Smutniak) and Antonio (Francesco Arca) seem not to be made for each other. They are too different in terms of character, life choices, worldview, and the way they relate to others. They are total opposites. However, they are overwhelmed by a mutual attraction they're trying hard to avoid; but to which they succumb to. This dramedy on relationships also gets a very credible performance from Paola Miraccione, who plays the tragic, albeit funny, character Egle.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sexy, romantic, humorous, thought provoking, touching, twist ending, captivating, disturbing, romantic drama, realistic
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Don't Fall In Love With Me (2012)
Plot Summary:
Three interconnected stories explore the complicated relationships of young, attractive Argentinian adults searching for true love.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, disturbing
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Devdas (2002)
Plot Summary:
Devdas is sent away by his father so he can improve himself but upon his return his father still doesn’t welcome him back. Devdas and Paro are in love but Paro is a lower caste and is set to be married to an older widower. Devdas is devastated & leaves home. He becomes an alcoholic womanizer and falls in love with a courtesan. Paro tries to get Devdas away from drinking before he self destructs.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 185 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, weeping, sentimental, serious, captivating, romantic, rough, sincere, thought provoking
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The Other Side of the Bed (2002)
Plot Summary:
When Paula leaves her mate Pedro, he misses her and looks for comfort with his best friends, Javier and Sonia. Paula is having an affair with Javier. The cuckold Pedro tries to find who is the secret lover of Paula, and hires a private eye. Meanwhile, while comforting Pedro, Sonia has one night stand with him and Javier thinks she is cheating him with her lesbian friend Lucia.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, witty, humorous, melancholic, talky, stylized, intense, lyrical, feel good
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Love in the Time of Money (2002)
Plot Summary:
New York serves as a backdrop for a cast of characters in search of love, lust or lucre including a woman who makes awkward moves on the man renovating her SoHo loft, an embezzler, a sleazy artist and a phone psychic.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 733
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: talky, humorous, sexy, captivating, clever, serious, realistic, sexual
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Lawless Heart (2001)
Plot Summary:
In a British seaside resort, several lives intertwine following the funeral of a gay restaurant owner.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: melancholic, sentimental, touching, semi serious, talky, romantic, captivating, entertaining, humorous, realistic
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Incantato (2003)
Plot Summary:
The Pope's tailor sends his son, a virgin at 35, to Bologna hoping he will find a woman. Nello, a classicist moved by the romantic poetry of Ovid, proves to be a good teacher and also falls hopelessly in love with the beautiful Angela Gardini. Angela, herself recently blind and then spurned by her fiancé, uses Nello: she hopes her former lover will become jealous and return to her. Nello obliges, his head full of poetry and in love at last; he's happy to be near her, knowing that she, before her disability, wouldn't have looked twice at him. Bologna or Rome, teaching or stitching, love or solitude - will Nello make choices?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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A Married Woman (2005)
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They fall in love before they know its meaning, Lolita, orphaned at an early age & Shekhar, who reaches out & gives her the security she craves.They share joys & sorrows through childhood & adolescence,unknown to them the relationship of an unspoken right they hold over eachother metamorphs into an intense love, they don't even sense coming. It Takes and outsider for them to realize their love.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: sentimental, atmospheric, touching, captivating, realistic, emotional, semi serious, romantic, mesmerizing, stylized
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Chalte Chalte (2003)
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Priya Chopra is a fashion designer and Raj Mathur owns a small trucking company. They meet on the road, quarrel, and then fall for each other. Priya, who is already engaged, must decide whether she will marry her fiancé or leave him for Raj. Love triumphs, Raj and Priya marry and then begins the struggle to maintain their marriage in the face of the typical problems the world can throw at them.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 167 min
Plot tags: sincere, semi serious, sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic, romantic, entertaining, sexy, hot
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Mr Perfect (2011)
Plot Summary:
Vicky breaks his engagement with Priya, his childhood friend, after he learns that she is making many compromises for his sake. However, time makes him realise the need for compromises in life.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, semi serious
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I Think I Love My Wife (2007)
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Richard Cooper is a married man and father of two who is just plain bored with married life. Not getting any sex from his wife, he resorts to ogling random women on the street to the point he takes lunch late to look at them. When old crush Nikki Tru visits his office to get a reference letter, she becomes obsessed with Cooper and they begin a complicated relationship.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, India
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, talky, realistic, witty, semi serious, romantic, romantic comedy, sexual, entertaining
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5 to 7 (2014)
Plot Summary:
A young writer begins an affair with an older woman from France whose open marriage to a diplomat dictates that they can meet only between the hours of 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, independent film, captivating, romantic, romantic comedy, cute, teen, humorous, semi serious
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Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam (2002)
Plot Summary:
Radha and Suraj have been friends since childhood. Gopal has been in love with Radha ever since they spent a few years together as kids. Years later, Gopal's guardian proposes to Radha a marriage with Gopal, and she accepts.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 174 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, emotional, realistic, romantic drama
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Yes Boss (1997)
Plot Summary:
There are lots of poor people in India who want to get rich soon. A woman named Seema is one of them. She is very beautiful and has an admirer by the name of Sidharth. This man is very rich, and says he wants to marry Seema. But Seema finds out that he is already married, and has no intention to marry her. He assures her that he does not love his wife, and will divorce her, and then marry Seema. Then there is the story of another poor person, a man by the name of Rahul. Rahul is also an admirer of Seema. But Rahul works for Sidharth. Rahul knows that Sidharth is going to betray Seema and have an affair with someone else very soon. Rahul also knows that Seema wants to get rich very quickly. How will be convince her about Sidharth? Rahul is also afraid If Sidharth finds out he will fire Rahul, thus he will remain a poor man all his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 163 min
Plot tags: entertaining, romantic, sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, remake of american film
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Partner (2007)
Plot Summary:
The only male child in the family that sired six daughters, Prem has empathy towards the fair sex and decides to assist males to woo women so much so that he becomes popular as the 'Love Guru'. Amongst the men he assists are Bhaskar Chaudhry and Neil Bakshi. Klutz-like Bhaskar has fallen head over heels with his boss, a model and heiress, Priya Jaisingh. A disbelieving Prem refuses to assist him, but subsequently relents. Bhaskar uses his own charm to woo Priya successfully, and is introduced to her dad, Raj. Prem himself falls in love with a widowed single mother, Naina Shahani, a Journalist. Both men are satisfied with her respective lives not knowing that a scandalous secret will surface in the media - changing their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, powerful, remake of american film
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To Fall in Love (2000)
Plot Summary:
Prem Kapoor, an aspiring popstar, lives with his elder sister, Neelu, and brother-in-law, Vinod. Prem is in love with Nisha and both hope to marry soon.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 159 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, crying, weeping, remake of american film
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No Entry (2005)
Plot Summary:
Kishen is a newspaper baron married to Kaajal, a housewife who suspects her husband of having numerous non-existent affairs. Pooja is the believing wife of ever-philandering globe-trotting businessman Prem. Kishen and Prem are thick pals. Sanjana falls in love with Prem's loyal photographer Sunny and they get engaged. Kishen gets tired of his jealous wife and tries to have an affair with Bobby, a call girl. Due to circumstances, Bobby is introduced as the wife of Kishen during Sanjana's wedding, and as Sunny's wife to Kaajal. It becomes a bundle of confusions when all three couples meet.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 158 min
Plot tags: feel good, semi serious, humorous, realistic, funny
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Raja Hindustani (1996)
Plot Summary:
This is a story of a handsome young taxi driver, Raja, who falls in love with a beautiful rich girl, Aarti. Despite her family's disapproval Aarti marries Raja and goes to live with him in his village. Aarti's stepmother, uncle and cousin weave a web of deception to split them apart. Will Aarti realize that her stepmother is deceiving her? Will Raja and Aarti ever get back together?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 177 min
Plot tags: feel good, semi serious, humorous, realistic, romantic, entertaining
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Do Your Thing (2001)
Plot Summary:
Three inseparable childhood friends are just out of college. Nothing comes between them - until they each fall in love, and their wildly different approaches to relationships creates tension.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 75000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 183 min
Plot tags: feel good, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, funny, inspirational, romantic, cult classic, light
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I Will Love Him Till the End of Time (2003)
Plot Summary:
Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon is the story of Sanjana (Kareena Kapoor), a girl of today's generation full of life and vibrant ecstasy. She lives life on her own terms and gets very upset when her mother Susheela (Himani Shivpuri), arranges for her to see a boy leading to a marriage prospect.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 197 min
Plot tags: sentimental, semi serious, humorous, realistic, flamboyance
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Let's Be Friends! (2002)
Plot Summary:
Raj has always had a unrequited childhood crush on a friend named Tina, but Tina's best friend Pooja has always had a crush on Raj. When Raj's family move to England to get involved in an internet business, Raj promises Tina that he will keep in touch with her and that their friendship will always be forever. However Tina disregards him and chooses not to respond to his first e-mail, in turn Pooja decides to keep in touch with him but signs under Tina's name. Fifteen years later, and their friendship has blossomed via e-mail, Raj believing that he's getting to know Tina when it's really Pooja. His family decides to go back on a holiday to India for 2 weeks, when Tina discovers the truth about Pooja's e-mails, they decide together that Tina will play along with the charade. When Raj arrives in India, he is struck by Tina's beauty but equally as struck to Pooja's personality. Who will he choose?.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 149 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, romantic, realistic
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Cocktail (2012)
Plot Summary:
Gautam is an incorrigible flirt, who runs after every girl he sees. Meera is a pretty girl with desi values and attire, who comes to London from Delhi for a fresh start. Veronica is the spoilt bombshell who loves partying and drinking. Though different from each other, these three are perfect friends staying under one roof until friendship becomes confusing, and love becomes complicated.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, India
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic, romantic comedy
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Love Actually (2003)
Plot Summary:
Follows seemingly unrelated people as their lives begin to intertwine while they fall in – and out – of love. Affections languish and develop as Christmas draws near.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 515000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: feel good, romantic, sentimental, touching, sweet, romantic comedy, funny, humorous, happy, light
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Barfi! (2012)
Plot Summary:
He is cute. He's shrewd. The girls love him. The cops hate him. He can't speak but is always talked about. His naughty antics will make you scream, but he will never listen. Cos he can't! Next summer ride a rollercoaster of emotions with Barfii - the Chalu Chaplin!.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 86000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 151 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, sentimental, inspirational, sweet, light, humorous, romantic, sad, funny
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This Youth Is Crazy (2013)
Plot Summary:
Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani features two polar opposite characters, who at one point were classmates in Modern School. The first is Naina Talwar (Deepika Padukone), a studious bespectacled young girl. The second is Bunny (Ranbir Kapoor), a carefree young travel-show host, intent on breaking out of the pattern of getting an education, a career, a wife, children, retirement, and eventually death.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 50000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: feel good, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, romantic, light, inspirational, touching, entertaining, cult classic
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The Lunchbox (2013)
Plot Summary:
A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system (Mumbai's Dabbawallahs) connects a young housewife to a stranger in the dusk of his life. They build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. Gradually, this fantasy threatens to overwhelm their reality.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 60000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India, France, Germany, USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, light, melancholic, sweet, heartbreaking, emotional, serious, romantic, independent film
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Wake Up Sid (2009)
Plot Summary:
Wake Up Sid! is the story of a lazy Mumbai college student who does absolutely nothing, with a turn of events will Sid realize his potential in this world and become a success in the fast-paced life of Mumbai.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, romantic, inspirational, captivating, funny, feel good, entertaining, cult classic
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When We Met (2007)
Plot Summary:
Depressed after the passing of his father, Dharamraj; as well as his gorgeous girlfriend ditching him, Mumbai-based businessman Aditya Kashyap takes a BEST bus, goes to Chatrapati Shivaji Train Terminus, and boards a train. This is where he meets Geet Kaur Dhillon, who is returning home to Bhatinda, and who pays for his ticket. At Bar Nagar, he decides to leave, but she follows him, missing her train. They manage to get a ride to Ratlam, miss the train again, but eventually make it to Bhatinda. Once there, he gets to meet her family; her pretty sister, Roop; as well as her to-be betrothed, Manjeet Singh Mann. Before the engagement could be finalized, she manages to convince her family that she wants to marry Aditya, and they welcome him with open arms. Before he could take stock of these new developments, she elopes with him - not to get married - but to re-locate to Manali - where her true love, Anshuman, is waiting, and who she hopes to get married to.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, humorous, semi serious, inspirational, sentimental, funny, touching, entertaining, melancholic