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Plot Summary:
The story centers on a group of gossipy, high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon and haunting fashion shows. The sweet, happily-wedded Mary Haines finds her marriage in trouble when shop girl Crystal Allen gets her hooks into Mary's man.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: entertaining, witty, humorous, light, realistic, emotional, sexy, semi serious, erotic, clever
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Women in Trouble (2009)
Plot Summary:
A serpentine day in the life of ten seemingly disparate women: a porn star, a flight attendant, a psychiatrist, a masseuse, a bartender, a pair of call girls, etc. All of them with one crucial thing in common. Trouble.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, humorous, semi serious, realistic, sex comedy, offbeat, witty, stylized, independent film
Similar in 76%
Landline (2017)
Plot Summary:
A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, art house
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Tyler Perry's Diary of a Mad Black Woman - The Play (2002)
Plot Summary:
Before it was a movie, it was a theatrical phenomenon! When Helen learns that her husband is leaving her for her best friend, the women in her family are ready with advice. Her devout mother preaches strength and forgiveness, while her parolee grandmother shows up with a gun! Acclaimed African-American playwright Tyler Perry dares to mix sacred and secular humor with riotous results. Experience his most famous morality tale, now a major motion picture, in its original stage format...complete with live musical numbers!.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, emotional, semi serious, sentimental, realistic, independent film
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Sex & Mrs. X (2000)
Plot Summary:
A woman regains her sense of self through a sexual reawakening after her husband leaves her for another woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 597
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, sexy, sentimental, semi serious, inspirational, realistic, contemplative, sexual
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The First Wives Club (1996)
Plot Summary:
After years of helping their hubbies climb the ladder of success, three mid-life Manhattanites have been dumped for a newer, curvier model. But the trio is determined to turn their pain into gain. They come up with a cleverly devious plan to hit their exes where it really hurts - in the wallet!.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 53000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, funny, entertaining, hilarious, captivating, romantic comedy, sweet, satirical
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Hanging Up (2000)
Plot Summary:
A trio of sisters bond over their ambivalence toward the approaching death of their curmudgeonly father, to whom none of them was particularly close.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, intense, humorous, feel good, light, funny, hilarious, realistic, talky
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Mistress America (2015)
Plot Summary:
Tracy, a lonely college freshman in New York, is rescued from her solitude by her soon-to-be stepsister Brooke, an adventurous gal about town who entangles her in alluringly mad schemes. MISTRESS AMERICA is a comedy about dream-chasing, score-settling, makeshift families, and cat-stealing.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, depressing, heartbreaking, melancholic, witty, stylized, semi serious, realistic, mumblecore
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Chutney Popcorn (1999)
Plot Summary:
Reena is a young Indian American lesbian who lives and works in New York. Her sister Sarita, who is happily married, discovers that she is infertile. Reena offers to be a surrogate mother for her sister's baby, hoping to improve her relationship with their mother, who disapproves of Reena's sexual orientation. Reena has second thoughts when her girlfriend Lisa feels left out.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: multicultural, independent film, clever, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, queer cinema
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Bastards of Young (2013)
Plot Summary:
Welcome to adulthood! When two early-30s couples celebrate their last annual Halloween party in New York, they are confronted with sex, lies, and unspoken drama which tests their relationships and futures.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Beaches (1988)
Plot Summary:
A privileged rich debutante and a cynical struggling entertainer share a turbulent, but strong childhood friendship over the years.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: emotional, heartbreaking, tear jerker, sad, sentimental, melancholic, sweet, realistic, talky, inspirational
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Dinner with Friends (2001)
Plot Summary:
A husband and wife reevaluate their marriage after their closest friends, another couple decide to split up after twelve years.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: talky, witty, sincere, realistic, clever, entertaining, stylized, romantic drama, tense, serious
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Angie (1994)
Plot Summary:
Angie lives in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, N.Y. and dreams of a better life than everyone she knows. When she finds that she is pregnant by her boyfriend Vinnie, she decides that she will have the baby, but not Vinnie as a husband. This turns the entire neighborhood upside down and starts her on a journey of self discovery. This journey includes her family, a new lover and her life. Even her best friend Tina has trouble understanding Angie. Written by Tony Fontana.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: intense, sentimental, touching, entertaining, anamorphic, humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, inspirational
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The Single Moms Club (2014)
Plot Summary:
A group of single moms are brought together in the aftermath of an incident at their children's school.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: sentimental, semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, teen
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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008)
Plot Summary:
Four young women continue the journey toward adulthood that began with "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants." Now three years later, these lifelong friends embark on separate paths for their first year of college and the summer beyond, but remain in touch by sharing their experiences with each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, teen, sentimental, touching, humorous, funny, light, captivating, entertaining
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What to Expect When You're Expecting (2012)
Plot Summary:
Challenges of impending parenthood turn the lives of five couples upside down. Two celebrities are unprepared for the surprise demands of pregnancy; hormones wreak havoc on a baby-crazy author, while her husband tries not to be outdone by his father, who's expecting twins with his young trophy wife; a photographer's husband isn't sure about his wife's adoption plans; a one-time hook-up results in a surprise pregnancy for rival food-truck owners.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 75000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, romantic, funny, cute, romantic comedy, teen, sweet, parody, sexy
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The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)
Plot Summary:
Six Californians start a club to discuss the works of Jane Austen. As they delve into Austen's literature, the club members find themselves dealing with life experiences that parallel the themes of the books they are reading.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, romantic, sweet, light, entertaining, witty, touching, sentimental, semi serious
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Girl in Progress (2012)
Plot Summary:
As single mom Grace juggles work, bills, and her affair with a married doctor, her daughter, Ansiedad, plots a shortcut to adulthood after finding inspiration in the coming-of-age stories she's reading for school.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, independent film, teen, realistic
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The Other Woman (2014)
Plot Summary:
After discovering her boyfriend is married, Carly soon meets the wife he's been cheating on. And when yet another affair is discovered, all three women team up to plot mutual revenge on the three-timing SOB.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 148000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, entertaining, humorous, romantic, sexy, teen, romantic comedy, sweet, absurd
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She-Devil (1989)
Plot Summary:
A cunning and resourceful housewife vows revenge on her husband when he begins an affair with a wealthy romance novelist.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: black comedy, funny, dark comedy, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, light, retro, mysterious, aesthetic
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How to Be Single (2016)
Plot Summary:
New York City is full of lonely hearts seeking the right match, and what Alice, Robin, Lucy, Meg, Tom and David all have in common is the need to learn how to be single in a world filled with ever-evolving definitions of love.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 93000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, humorous, sexy, funny, teen, semi serious, sweet, touching, feel good
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Sex and the City (2008)
Plot Summary:
A New York writer on sex and love is finally getting married to her Mr. Big. But her three best girlfriends must console her after one of them inadvertently leads Mr. Big to jilt her.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 126000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, witty, romantic comedy, sexy, teen, sex comedy, feel good, emotional, funny
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Carrie Pilby (2016)
Plot Summary:
Awkward, isolated and disapproving of most of the people around her, a precocious 19-year-old genius is challenged to put her convictions to the test by venturing out on to the NYC dating scene, in this adaptation of Caren Lissner’s best-selling 2003 novel.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, humorous, psychological, sincere, captivating, offbeat, entertaining, romantic comedy, cute
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Sex and the City 2 (2010)
Plot Summary:
Carrie, Charlotte, and Miranda are all married now, but they're still up for a little fun in the sun. When Samantha gets the chance to visit one of the most extravagant vacation destinations on the planet and offers to bring them all along, they surmise that a women-only retreat may be the perfect excuse to eschew their responsibilities and remember what life was like before they decided to settle down.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 83000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: romantic, romantic comedy, teen, visually appealing, sex comedy, sexy, realistic, witty, stylized, semi serious
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Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)
Plot Summary:
A single mother, with dreams of becoming a writer, has a son at the age of 15 in 1965, and goes through a failed marriage with the drug-addicted father.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: emotional, melancholic, sentimental, touching, sad, teen, realistic, humorous, feel good, heartbreaking
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Uptown Girls (2003)
Plot Summary:
Molly Gunn, the freewheeling daughter of a deceased rock legend, is forced to get a job when her manager steals her money. As nanny for precocious Ray, the oft ignored daughter of a music executive she learns what it means to be an adult while teaching Ray how to be a child.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, feel good, funny, inspirational, sweet, teen, sentimental, light, emotional
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Something Borrowed (2011)
Plot Summary:
Though Rachel (Ginnifer Goodwin) is a successful attorney and a loyal, generous friend, she is still single. After one drink too many at her 30th-birthday celebration, Rachel unexpectedly falls into bed with her longtime crush, Dex -- who happens to be engaged to her best friend, Darcy (Kate Hudson). Ramifications of the liaison threaten to destroy the women's lifelong friendship, while Ethan (John Krasinski), Rachel's confidant, harbors a potentially explosive secret of his own.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 65000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: romantic, sweet, feel good, sexy, light, entertaining, funny, semi serious, sentimental, humorous
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How to Make an American Quilt (1995)
Plot Summary:
Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheating on her. In order to clear her head, Finn visits her grandmother, Hy, and great aunt, Glady Joe Cleary, in Grasse, Calif. There, Finn learns that Hy and Glady Joe are members of a group of passionate quilters, and over the course of her visit she is regaled with tales of love and life by women who have collected rich experiences and much wisdom.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, light, emotional, sweet, melancholic, talky, sincere, humorous, semi serious
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Stepmom (1998)
Plot Summary:
Jackie is a divorced mother of two. Isabel is the career minded girlfriend of Jackie’s ex-husband Luke, forced into the role of unwelcome stepmother to their children. But when Jackie discovers she is ill, both women realise they must put aside their differences to find a common ground and celebrate life to the fullest, while they have the chance.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 73000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sad, inspirational, touching, emotional, tear jerker, heartbreaking, romantic, romantic comedy, depressing
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The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
Plot Summary:
The Devil Wears Prada is about a young journalist who moves to New York to work in the fashion industry. Her boss however is extremely demanding and cruel and won’t let her succeed if she doesn’t fit into the high class elegant look of their magazine when all she really wants to be a good journalist.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 451000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, funny, romantic comedy, light, teen, realistic, entertaining, cute, witty
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The Intern (2015)
Plot Summary:
70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 269000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: feel good, inspirational, light, sweet, touching, emotional, funny, sentimental, motivational, entertaining