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Plot Summary:
Based on a Japanese manga, "Kanna-San, Daiseikou Desu," this story revolves around Kang Han-na (Kim Ah-jung), an overweight phone sex employee and secret vocalist for Ammy, a famous Korean pop singer who actually lip syncs as she cannot sing. After getting humilitated publicly by an ungrateful Ammy, Han-na undergoes an extreme makeover to become a pop sensation herself.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, thought provoking, humorous, sincere, captivating, entertaining, realistic, heartbreaking, sad
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There's Always Woodstock (2014)
Plot Summary:
When Neurotic, struggling songwriter, Catherine Brown's life in New York City falls apart, she is forced to confront her past when she spends the summer at her childhood home in Woodstock.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 862
Genere: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, emotional, psychological, captivating, teen, touching, realistic, independent film
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Miss Granny (2014)
Plot Summary:
Oh Mal-Soon (Nah Moon-hee) is a 74-year-old widow that realizes she is becoming a burden on her family. As she is roaming the streets, she comes across a photo studio and decides to dress up for a self- portrait. When she walks out of the photo studio, she mysteriously turns back into her twenty year old self. Making the most out of this one in a lifetime opportunity, she changes her name to Oh Doo-Ri (Sim Eun-kyeong) and decides to make the most out of her youth.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Music
Country: South Korea
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, semi serious, entertaining, romantic, touching, light, captivating, sex comedy
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100 Days with Mr. Arrogant (2004)
Plot Summary:
After being dumped by her boyfriend just before their 100 day anniversary, Ha-Young, meets a college guy named Hyung-Joon when she accidentally kicks a can that hits him in the face and causes him to scratch his Lexus. He demands she pay him $3000 on the spot. She escapes from him, leaving her wallet behind.Hyung-Joon stalks her, demanding money to pay for his car. Since she is a poor high school student Hyung-Joon writes up a "Enslavement Agreement" for Ha-Young in order to pay for the damage to his car. Ha-Young is thrown into a nightmarish slave life for 100 days, cleaning his house, running his errands, doing his homework and cleaning his car.By accident she finds out that the damage to Hyung-Joon's car only costs $10! She then takes her revenge. However, before she knows it Hyung-Joon shows up at her house as her new tutor! He once again takes advantage of her, but soon Ha-Young finds herself falling head over heels for Hyung-Joon.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, romantic, sad, romantic comedy, cute, offbeat, sexual, sexy
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Catch Me... I'm in Love (2011)
Plot Summary:
Directed by Mae Czarina Cruz, Catch Me...I'm in Love is a light, rom-com film that centers on the lives of two young adults searching for that something that could complete their existence. For Roan Sanchez (Sarah Geronimo), it's finding that one, true love. For Eric Rodriguez (Gerald Anderson), it's learning how to appreciate his life and those of other people around him. The two would fall in love but conflict would arise to try to break their special bond. It was up to them to fight for their love despite the odds, or not.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, inspirational, cute
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Too Beautiful to Lie (2004)
Plot Summary:
A professional lady con makes herself the pharmacist's fiancée overnight, and faces a disastrous blemish in her impeccable con-woman career.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic, romantic comedy, romantic drama
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You Are Beautiful (2009)
Plot Summary:
You're Beautiful is a 2009 South Korean romantic comedy television drama series, starring Park Shin-hye, Jang Keun-suk, Lee Hong-ki of F.T. Island and Jung Yong-hwa of CN Blue. It is about a fictional boy band A.N.Jell and the relationship between its members when a female, posing as her twin brother, joins the group. It aired on Seoul Broadcasting System from October 7 to November 26, 2009 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 16 episodes. The series has been posted on SBS's YouTube channel. A Japanese remake of this drama was released in Japan in July 2011 as Ikemen desu ne, and included a cameo appearance by Jang in Episode 8 as his Japanese counterpart, Gunsoku. A Taiwanese remake, Fabulous Boys, was broadcast in 2013, which includes a cameo appearance by Park Shin-hye.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: sentimental, dorama, humorous, novela, semi serious, romantic drama, realistic
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Crazy First Love (2003)
Plot Summary:
A young student falls madly in love with a professor's daughter. Promised by the professor that he will let him marry his daughter if he graduates from university with a law degree, the student works hard and finally succeeds. When the time comes for the professor to fulfill his promise, his daughter suddenly announces that she will marry another.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 595
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, sex comedy, realistic
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Love 911 (2012)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Mi-Soo misdiagnoses a patient after she meets the woman's husband, whom she assumes to be abusive. With his wife in grave condition, the man sues the hospital. Kang-Il is a widowed firefighter who overhears the situation and when he attempts to counsel the woman's husband, he is assaulted by him. When Mi-Soo learns about the confrontation, she tries to get Kang-Il to be a character witness for her and realizes that he may also be her true love.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, sincere, humorous, captivating, semi serious, sad, serious, emotional, realistic
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You're My Pet (2011)
Plot Summary:
A woman finds a man in a box in front of her home and takes him in. She jokingly says she wants to keep him as her pet since the man reminds her childhood dog. The man agrees. Later the woman discovers that the man is a dance prodigy. Complications arise when her old flame from college appears.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, sincere, feel good, touching, realistic, romantic, sex comedy, anime
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Look at Me (2004)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of human beings who know exactly what they'd do if they were somebody else, but can't handle being themselves very well, who are very simply struggling to find out who they are.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: stylized, lyrical, sincere, semi serious, humorous, talky, realistic, witty, contemplative, biting
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Out of Sync (2000)
Plot Summary:
Roger Deacon, a down-and-out record producer, is given the job of making a singing star out of an industry mogul's girlfriend, an attractive but talentless starlet. He discovers a housewife with a powerful singing voice and decides to secretly use her to lip sync the other woman's voice for record recordings as a path to fame for her and him.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, realistic, gloomy
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Innocent Steps (2005)
Plot Summary:
Innocent Steps is a romantic Korean tale about a 19 year old girl (Mun Geun-yeong) from China on a dance contract. She is paid to practice and dance with her partner (Park Geon Hyeong) for the upcoming 'KDFA Cup Korea Dancesport Championship'. For the next three months, she trained hard for the competition. Love blossomed, of course. Being professional during the practices, they did not reveal their feelings to each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, captivating, romantic comedy
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Our Sunhi (2013)
Plot Summary:
Sunhi from the Department of Film stops by the school one day to get a letter of recommendation from Professor Choi to leave to the US. She expects him to write her a nice one since he took favor to her. She runs into two men from the past she's never met in a long time; Moon-soo, a recently turned movie director and senior director Jae-hak.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, captivating, sincere, romantic, sentimental, witty, talky, semi serious
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Sex Is Zero 2 (2007)
Plot Summary:
'Veteran' student Eun-sik and prom queen, swimming champ Kyung-ah are a notorious couple at the campus. While their relationship has been solid for three years, Eun-sik struggles to proceed to the 'next step' with Kyung-ah, and despite the help and support of his friends, does not manage to get her into bed. Eun-sik fears that Kyung-ah will turn her back on him and is determined to get her back.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, humorous, not serious, realistic, light, romantic, teen sex comedy, offbeat
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Sex Is Zero (2002)
Plot Summary:
At Sunjong University, a few students are serious, including Eun-hyo, who works hard at aerobics in hopes of doing well in a national competition. Most students goof off: drinking, partying, and focusing on sex. Eun-shik, a law student who's been in the military, is older but socially inept. He likes Eun-hyo; even though his earnest and simple side appeals to her, his juvenile excesses make him irrelevant when Sung-ok, a good-looking rich kid, charms Eun-hyo. They begin an affair, leaving Eun-shik on the sidelines. The national competition approaches and complications arise.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sexual, sex comedy, humorous, not serious, teen sex comedy, entertaining, captivating, funny, romantic, romantic comedy
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Scandal Makers (2008)
Plot Summary:
Former teen idol Nam Hyeon-soo is now in his thirties and working as a radio DJ. One day a young woman named Jeong-nam shows up and claims to be his own daughter. She also has a son whom she claims to be Hyeon-soo's grandson. Their relation is proven via DNA tests by Hyeon-soo's brother. This leads to Hyeon-soo attempting to avoid a scandal concerning him having children "unknown" to the media.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, entertaining, sad, touching, offbeat, realistic, semi serious
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Paradise (2013)
Plot Summary:
Carmen and Alfredo live a happy, quiet life in the suburbs surrounded by friends and family. After Alfredo receives a promotion, the two move away to Mexico City where they immediately feel the social pressure of being overweight in a bustling metropolis full of beautiful people. Taking the initiative, Carmen convinces her husband to join her in losing weight, but their relationship is put to the test when Alfredo’s program yields far better results than Carmen’s. From award-winning director Marianna Chenillo comes a touching comedy about how true beauty comes from the inside and paradise is closer to home than you might think.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 734
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, biting, suspense
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Dorfman in Love (2011)
Plot Summary:
Unknowingly trapped in her role as caretaker of her unappreciative family, a young single woman desperately needs to get her own life. When she volunteers to cat sit at her unrequited love's downtown L.A loft, her world, as she knows it, changes forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, humorous, emotional, semi serious, romantic, romantic comedy, realistic, independent film
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Do You Like Spring Bear? (2003)
Plot Summary:
A connected series of love notes scribbled in library art books convinces gawky grocery store clerk Hyun-chae that a mystery man - known only as 'Vincent' - is pursuing a relationship with her. Meanwhile, an infatuated pal from her high-school days - shy, quirky subway driver Dong-ha - relocated to Seoul to ACTUALLY pursue a relationship with her, which she rejects in favor of the ersatz paper chase provided by her mystery man, going so far as to pawn Dong-ha off on her friend at one point.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, feel good, entertaining, offbeat, realistic, stylized, semi serious
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Seoul Searching (2015)
Plot Summary:
In the 1980s a group of foreign-born Korean teenagers who meet at a Seoul summer camp to learn what it means to be Korean. The three boys, from the U.S., Mexico, and Germany, then meet three girls who rock their world.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: South Korea, China, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sincere, touching, captivating, feel good, offbeat, realistic, independent film
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Lost and Found (2008)
Plot Summary:
TV writer Ji-ho (Jin-hie Park) has been secretly in love with Min-woo (Ki-woo Lee) for the last 10 years. After a night of binge-drinking, she wakes up to face the worst day of her life. She wakes up to find that she has just gotten fired for low viewer ratings. On her way home her purse then gets snatched and Ji-ho pursues the thief. Then suddenly, when things seem that they can’t go any worse, Ji-ho gets hit by a car. But the chain of unfortunate events suddenly turns out to be a God-sent present. The man who hit her with the car turns out to be the very man she’s been in love with all these years, Min-woo. She then pretends to have amnesia ….
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, feel good, humorous, entertaining, romantic, romantic comedy, realistic, semi serious
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My Little Bride (2004)
Plot Summary:
Boeun (Moon Geun Young) is an ordinary high school girl who worries about grades and has a crush on her school's baseball team ace, Jungwoo. One day, Boeun's grandfather orders her to marry Sangmin (Kim Rae Won) because of a pact he made with Sangmin's grandfather during the Korean War. Despite the grandchildren's opposition, they are forced to marry because of Boeun's grandfather's strong influence. She pretends that she doesn't have a husband and starts dating Jungwoo. Everything goes smoothly until Sangmin visits Boeun's school as a student teacher. There a teacher called Miss.Kim flirts with Sangmin and she later finds out that Sangmin and Boeun are married.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: emotional, touching, humorous, semi serious, captivating, dramatic, crying, romantic comedy, cute, realistic
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Castaway on the Moon (2009)
Plot Summary:
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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Forever My Girl (2018)
Plot Summary:
After being gone for a decade, a country star returns home to the love he left behind.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, melancholic, sentimental, sincere, captivating, emotional, sad, scenic, family comedy
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High Fidelity (2000)
Plot Summary:
When record store owner Rob Gordon gets dumped by his girlfriend, Laura, because he hasn't changed since they met, he revisits his top five breakups of all time in an attempt to figure out what went wrong. As Rob seeks out his former lovers to find out why they left, he keeps up his efforts to win Laura back.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 188000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: realistic, melancholic, feel good, funny, romantic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, cult classic, clever
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When Romance Meets Destiny (2005)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers, Kwang-sik and Kwang-tae, have very different attitudes toward women. Kwang-sik is extremely shy and can't say a word to a woman. But Kwang-tae is a playboy who just sleeps around. One day, Kwang-sik meets Yoon-kyung for the first time in seven years and he tries to confess his feelings to her, in his own way. Similarly, Kwang-tae meets Kyung-jae during a marathon and he tries his own ways on her. At first Kwang-sik still finds it very difficult to even talk to Yoon-Kyung and Kwang-tae thinks of Kyung-Jae as yet another temporary conquest, but in each case something changes in the brothers. Will they be able to love this time?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 377
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, semi serious
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Lover's Concerto (2002)
Plot Summary:
Lee Ji-hwan receives photographs in the mail that reminds him of how he met two girls, Shim Su-in and Kim Gyeong-heui, one summer five years ago. He shares his memories with his friend Cheol-hyeon. He recalls initially being in love with Su-in, but she rejects him. Throughout the summer, the three remain friends. Ji-hwan and Gyeong-heui develop feelings for each other but are reluctant to admit it. Ji-hwan recalls the complex relationship between the three to Cheol-hyeon.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, romantic, captivating, romantic comedy, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative
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Detroit Metal City (2008)
Plot Summary:
Soichi Negishi moved to Tokyo to chase his dream of becoming a musician playing stylish, Swedish-style pop. Instead, he finds himself leading the death metal band Detroit Metal City, or DMC, as the costumed and grotesquely made-up "demon emperor" Johannes Krauser II. Although he hates the role and the things he has to do as a member of the band, he has a definite talent for it.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, anime, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Begin Again (2013)
Plot Summary:
A long lost music producer finds a singer-songwriter right about the moment he has given up all hope on life.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 165000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: touching, romantic, inspirational, independent film, sentimental, sincere, feel good, lyrical, sweet, dramatic
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Coyote Ugly (2000)
Plot Summary:
Graced with a velvet voice, 21-year-old Violet Sanford heads to New York to pursue her dream of becoming a songwriter only to find her aspirations sidelined by the accolades and notoriety she receives at her "day" job as a barmaid at Coyote Ugly. The "Coyotes" as they are affectionately called tantalize customers and the media alike with their outrageous antics, making Coyote Ugly the watering hole for guys on the prowl.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 120000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: romantic, stylized, exciting, entertaining, sexy, semi serious, humorous, erotic, feel good, romantic comedy