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Plot Summary:
A movie director-screenwriter finds a man to finance his latest project but soon discovers that the producer is actually an undercover FBI agent working on a mob sting operation.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, stylized, semi serious, clever, offbeat, realistic, witty, inspirational, parody
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An Almost Perfect Affair (1979)
Plot Summary:
From the back cover: Oscar winner Keith Carradine ("Nashville," "The Duelists") stars in this sparkling romantic comedy about two unlikely lovers who find each other amid the glitz, glamour and frenzy of the Cannes Film Festival. Carradine plays an idealistic first-time director who lives for his art--until his heart is stolen by a gorgeous, worldly wife (Monica Vitti) of an Italian producer. A passionate, made-in-Hollywood affair begins, but the couple's romance is tested as they face the temptations of fame and fortune...and try to keep their sanity amid the madness around them. With glorious scenery and a wonderful comic insider's view of the movie world, "An Almost Perfect Affair" is a complete cinematic treat.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Haggard (2003)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true story about Ryan Dunn (played by himself) and his ex-girlfriend Glauren and how she cheated on him. After the break up Glauren is rumored to have been hooking up with heavy metal Hellboy. Ryan enlists the help of his friends Valo and Falcone to find out the truth.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, cynical, semi serious, funny, surreal, sex comedy, independent film, offbeat, biting
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Spin (2007)
Plot Summary:
Six young people spend the morning after a wild club spree trying to piece together their misadventures from the night before, including a trip to the veterinarian hospital, at least one breakup and the unexpected discovery of a mobster's corpse. As the group shares their fragmented memories, some of their stories start to fit together while others just lead to more questions.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, offbeat, realistic, semi serious
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Bottoms Up (2006)
Plot Summary:
Captivated by the posh Hollywood scene, bartender Owen Peadman (Jason Mewes) travels from the Midwest to take part in a drink-serving contest. But he fails to win the jackpot and winds up working for a gossip show instead. Now, to uncover the latest juicy secret on super celebrity Hayden Field, Owen buddies up to Field's friend Lisa (Paris Hilton) and gets not only the inside scoop, but also fame,.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, parody, independent film, sex comedy, spoof
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Chump Change (2000)
Plot Summary:
A failed Hollywood actor returns to his home town in Wisconsin and reminisces about his life in L.A. to a potential new girlfriend about his faults, auditions, misadventures, and confrontations with the evils of Hollywood.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 406
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, cynical, semi serious, independent film, offbeat
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Hijacking Hollywood (1997)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring director working as a lowly production assistant, conspires with his aspiring producer roommate to steal the reels of a mega budgeted film he's working on.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 294
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, black comedy
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Free Enterprise (1998)
Plot Summary:
Young filmmakers trying to hawk a movie titled "Bradykillers" about a serial killer who goes after victims Marcia, Jan, and Cindy meet their screen idol, William Shatner. The two young men, who idolize him and in their fantasies have seen him as a shadowy fairy godfather figure, are alarmed at the reality of the middle-aged non-Captain Kirk man that they meet.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, independent film, clever, talky, realistic, cynical, ironic, parody
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Married to the Mob (1988)
Plot Summary:
Angela de Marco is fed up with her gangster husband's line of work and wants no part of the crime world. When her husband is killed for having an affair with the mistress of mob boss Tony "The Tiger" Russo, Angela and her son depart for New York City to make a fresh start. Unfortunately, Tony has set his sights upon Angela -- and so has an undercover FBI agent looking to use her to bust Tony.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, light, feel good, witty, realistic, talky, semi serious, cult classic, clever
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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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Top Five (2014)
Plot Summary:
A comedian tries to make it as a serious actor when his reality-TV star fiancé talks him into broadcasting their wedding on her TV show.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, light, satirical, semi serious, black comedy, cult classic, clever, witty, talky
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My Life's in Turnaround (1993)
Plot Summary:
Two Manhattan slackers want to make a movie about their lives. One drives a cab, the other tends bar; neither has a clue how to make a movie. Things look up when real-life actors Phoebe Cates and Martha Plimpton agree to star in the project.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 460
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Addicted to Love (1997)
Plot Summary:
Good-natured astronomer Sam is devastated when the love of his life, Linda, leaves him for a suave Frenchman named Anton. He therefore does what every other normal dumpee would do; go to New York and set up home in the abandoned building opposite his ex-girlfriend's apartment, intent on winning her back and waiting until she decides to leave her current lover.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: clever, romantic, melancholic, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, black comedy, cynical, sentimental
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Just Write (1997)
Plot Summary:
A Hollywood tour bus driver poses as a screenwriter to romance an up-and-coming young actress.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: feel good, witty, humorous, semi serious, inspirational, art house, independent film, realistic
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Full Frontal (2002)
Plot Summary:
A contemporary comedy set in Los Angeles, Full Frontal traces the complicated relationship among seven friends as they deal with the fragile connections that bind them together. Full Frontal takes place during a twenty-four hour period - a day in the life of missed connections.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: talky, entertaining, melancholic, non-linear, humorous, semi serious, witty, psychological, clever, offbeat
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Kettle of Fish (2006)
Plot Summary:
A lifelong bachelor confronts his intimacy issues when he sublets his apartment to a fetching biologist. His heartsick fish and his wise best buddy are on hand to provide perspective.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 724
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: witty, humorous, semi serious, captivating, clever, offbeat, realistic, talky, sexual, sexy
Similar in 79%
This Is Not a Film (2003)
Plot Summary:
New Yorker Michael Connor attempts to find the woman who left him by making a film about her, hoping that someone (maybe you?) will recognize his ex and convince her to get back together with him. To help the viewer understand who he is and why his girlfriend left, Michael opts to re-enact his failed relationship for the camera. He hires an actress to portray his ex-girlfriend, and during the process of filming she quickly and mercilessly points out all of his mistakes, blunders and inadequacies as a boyfriend. "This Is Not a Film" is a romantic comedy about making mistakes and recognizing them in the most painful way possible--by making them over and over again.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 305
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sentimental, realistic, talky, semi serious, humorous, witty, independent film, offbeat
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Amelia's 25th (2013)
Plot Summary:
Aspiring actress Amelia begins her 25th birthday by breaking up with her boyfriend, and things only go downhill from there. After visiting a dubious psychic for advice, Amelia sets off on a bizarre adventure to find money for rent and possibly love.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Smiling Fish & Goat on Fire (1999)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers share a house in LA's Fairfax district: Tony's a feckless actor, Chris is an accountant. Both are in relationships on rocky ground. As these emotions swirl, Tony meets his US Postal Service letter carrier, a single mom named Kathy who's come to LA from Wyoming with her daughter, a budding actress. Chris meets Anna, an Italian beauty working in the States for a few months wrangling animals on movie sets. Chris also befriends Clive, an aging and crusty man whose longing for his recently-deceased wife is a portrait of true love. Can Clive's example help Chris sort out his love life, and can Tony grow up enough to see the possibilities with Kathy and her daughter?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, crying, light, thought provoking
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Modern Romance (1981)
Plot Summary:
A film editor breaks up with his girlfriend, unsure if he is in love.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, melancholic, funny, disturbing, intense, realistic, semi serious, clever, witty, talky
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Hollywood Dreams (2006)
Plot Summary:
The tale of a young girl fresh off the bus from Iowa, who falls in love with a sexy and promising young actor, though their relationship threatens to complicate her own obsessive goal of becoming a famous actress. The film perfectly captures the delightful and desperate lives of those chasing dreams in Hollywood: One day they are shuffling down a boardwalk with too many suitcases, and the next they are lounging in contemporary hillside homes with a view of the city. Though neither state is permanent the more desirable one fuels the dream. The story's extraordinary execution portrays Hollywood as the fantastic and insane place that it is. Written by Lane Kneedler, American Film Institute Magazine.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: semi serious, captivating, psychological, emotional, sex comedy, independent film, humorous, realistic, witty, talky
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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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Soapdish (1991)
Plot Summary:
Celeste Talbert is the star of the long-running soap opera "The Sun Also Sets." With the show's ratings down, Celeste's ruthlessly ambitious co-star, Montana Moorehead, and the show's arrogant producer, David Seton Barnes, plot to aggravate her into leaving the show by bringing back her old flame, Jeffrey Anderson, and hiring her beautiful young niece, Lori Craven.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, romantic, parody, humorous, witty, satirical, spoof, entertaining, soap opera, realistic
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The Night We Never Met (1993)
Plot Summary:
Sam has a problem with his roommates: they are disgusting, and don't seem to share his views on responsibility, privacy, and basic hygine. Such is his discomfort with his living arrangements that he agrees to share the occupancy of another flat: he gets two nights a week, the owner (a sleazy frat-boy yuppie named Brian, soon to be married) and Ellen (a would-be painter seeking relief from her boring marriage) each get their seperate nights in the flat. Things go extremely well until Sam and Brian swap nights without telling Ellen, who attributes the "nice" things that happen around the place to the slob Brian, while berating the responsible Sam for his hedonistic lifestyle.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: offbeat, clever, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film
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The Deal (2008)
Plot Summary:
Charlie Berns (William H. Macy) is a veteran Hollywood movie producer who has given up on his career and life. That is until his idealistic screenwriter nephew (Jason Ritter) comes bearing the script of a lifetime and Charlie decides to give his career one final shot. The only thing standing in his way is Diedre Hearn (Meg Ryan), a sharp-witted studio executive brought in to keep Charlie in line.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA, South Africa
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, romantic, romantic comedy, satirical
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Bowfinger (1999)
Plot Summary:
On the verge of bankruptcy and desperate for his big break, aspiring filmmaker Bobby Bowfinger concocts a crazy plan to make his ultimate dream movie. Rallying a ragtag team that includes a starry-eyed ingenue, a has-been diva and a film studio gofer, he sets out to shoot a blockbuster featuring the biggest star in Hollywood, Kit Ramsey -- only without letting Ramsey know he's in the picture.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 73000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, parody, humorous, witty, talky, light, feel good, not serious, spoof, hilarious
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Pipe Dream (2002)
Plot Summary:
A lonely plumber poses as a movie director to meet women, and the writer whose script he's stolen builds on his ruse to get her movie made.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, clever, semi serious, independent film
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Seeing Other People (2004)
Plot Summary:
Two months shy of their wedding, a couple decide to allow each other last flings until their wedding.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, touching, humorous, semi serious, funny, witty, sex comedy, clever, realistic, crying
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America's Sweethearts (2001)
Plot Summary:
In the midst of a nasty public breakup of married movie stars, a studio publicist scrambles to put a cap on the escalating situation as the couple's latest film has found it's only print kidnapped by the director.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 60000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, romantic, light, satirical, humorous, romantic comedy, clever, witty, realistic
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Election (1999)
Plot Summary:
A high school teacher's personal life becomes complicated as he works with students during the school elections.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 103000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy, political, humorous, witty, realistic, funny, semi serious, clever, biting
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Hollywood Ending (2002)
Plot Summary:
Woody Allen stars as Val Waxman, a two-time Oscar winner turned washed-up, neurotic director in desperate need of a comeback. When it comes, Waxman finds himself backed into a corner: Work for his ex-wife Ellie or forfeit his last shot. Is Val blinded by love when he opts for the reconnect? Is love blind when it comes to Ellie's staunch support? Literally and figuratively, the proof is the picture.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, witty, light, stylized, semi serious, realistic, psychological, funny, hilarious