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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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Joe Versus the Volcano (1990)
Plot Summary:
Hypochondriac Joe Banks finds out he has six months to live, quits his dead end job, musters the courage to ask his female co-worker out on a date, and is then hired to jump into a volcano by a mysterious visitor.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: romantic, sweet, cult classic, offbeat, humorous, surreal, dark comedy, uplifting, anamorphic, surprise ending
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About Adam (2000)
Plot Summary:
A waitress falls for a handsome customer who seduces her, her two sisters, her brother, and her brother's girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sexy, sweet, melancholic, light, stylized, witty, semi serious, humorous, realistic, intense
Similar in 77%
I.Q. (1994)
Plot Summary:
Albert Einstein helps a young man who's in love with Einstein's niece to catch her attention by pretending temporarily to be a great physicist.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: feel good, entertaining, sweet, romantic, funny, light, realistic, humorous, semi serious, clever
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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
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Breaking Up (1997)
Plot Summary:
An aloof, struggling food photographer thinks he has found true love with a fiery grade-school teacher. At first, the relationship is all wine and roses, but as they realize they have little in common besides great sex, the romance wanes, and they struggle through a succession of break-ups and reunions as they try to work things out.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, humorous, semi serious, clever, realistic, talky, sexy, suspense, intense
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Mr. Jealousy (1997)
Plot Summary:
After his first date at age 15 ended with the girl making out with another man at a party, aspiring writer Lester Grimm has treated all his girlfriends with jealousy and suspicion. While dating Ramona Ray, paranoia gets the best of him when he discovers that her most recent ex is successful novelist Dashiell Frank. Lester begins attending the same group therapy sessions as Dashiell to learn about Ramona's past with him.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: independent film, clever, humorous, witty, talky, realistic, semi serious, funny, romantic, sexy
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Miami Rhapsody (1995)
Plot Summary:
Gwyn Marcus has always wanted a marriage like her parents. She has just accepted the proposal of her boyfriend Matt, but she has misgivings about their future together. Her fear of commitment grows as she learns of the various affairs that her family is having. With her sister getting married and her brother already married, her mother is growing concerned about Gwyn's being the last single person in the family. But the more she thinks about marriage, the more she must search for the balance between career, marriage and family.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, entertaining, melancholic, humorous, semi serious, clever, witty, talky, neurotic
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If Lucy Fell (1996)
Plot Summary:
Joe and Lucy are roommates and best friends. Lucy, whose love life is embarrassingly dull, convinces Joe, who is infatuated with a neighbor he's never met, that if they don't have stable romances within a month, they must jump off the Brooklyn Bridge.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sentimental, romantic, sweet, melancholic, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, offbeat, funny
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Picture Perfect (1997)
Plot Summary:
A young advertising executive's life becomes increasingly complicated when, in order to impress her boss, she pretends to be engaged to a man she has just met.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, sweet, light, talky, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic comedy
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Laws of Attraction (2004)
Plot Summary:
Amidst a sea of litigation, two New York City divorce lawyers find love.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, not serious, talky, sexy, funny, romantic comedy, entertaining, feel good, teen
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Going the Distance (2010)
Plot Summary:
Erin and Garrett are very much in love. When Erin moves to San Francisco to finish her journalism degree and Garrett stays behind in New York to work in the music industry, they gamely keep the romance alive with webcams and frequent-flyer miles. But just when it seems the lovers will soon be reunited, they each score a big break that could separate them for good.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 60000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: romantic, funny, sentimental, humorous, romantic comedy, light, sweet, feel good, realistic, semi serious
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Someone Like You... (2001)
Plot Summary:
Jane Goodale has everything going for her. She's a producer on a popular daytime talk show, and is in a hot romance with the show's dashing executive producer Ray. But when the relationship goes terribly awry, Jane begins an extensive study of the male animal, including her womanizing roommate Eddie. Jane puts her studies and romantic misadventure to use as a pseudonymous sex columnist -- and becomes a sensation.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, romantic comedy, sexy, feel good, humorous, entertaining, cute, sex comedy, teen
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HouseSitter (1992)
Plot Summary:
After building his dream house, architect Newton Davis proposes marriage to his girlfriend, only to be summarily rejected. He seeks solace in a one-night stand with a waitress, never imagining that a woman he slept with once would end up posing as his wife. Gwen's ruse is so effective that by the time Newton learns of his "marriage," the entire town feels like they know him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, feel good, humorous, funny, clever, absurd, romantic comedy, uplifting, entertaining
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A Couch in New York (1996)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Henry Harriston is a successful psychoanalyst in New York City. When he is near a nervous breakdown, he arranges to change his flat with Beatrice Saulnier from France for a while. Both don't know each other and both find themselves deeply involved into the social settings of the other, because the decision to change their flats is made overnight. Could be the perfect amusement, but suddenly Henry finds himself beaten up by Beatrice' lover and Beatrice is considered to be Dr. Harriston's substitute by his clients.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sweet, melancholic, light, feel good, humorous, clever, witty, offbeat, realistic, semi serious
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That Old Feeling (1997)
Plot Summary:
A bride's divorced parents find their old feelings for each other during the wedding reception and over the course of the next few days upsetting the newlywed's honeymoon.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sexy, funny, light, humorous, feel good, romantic, realistic, semi serious, sex comedy, fairy tale
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Runaway Bride (1999)
Plot Summary:
Ike Graham, New York columnist, writes his text always at the last minute. This time, a drunken man in his favourite bar tells Ike about Maggie Carpenter, a woman who always flees from her grooms in the last possible moment. Ike, who does not have the best opinion about females anyway, writes an offensive column without researching the subject thoroughly.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 103000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, feel good, humorous, romantic comedy, sweet, entertaining, cute, sentimental, touching
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The Hating Game (2021)
Plot Summary:
Resolving to achieve professional success without compromising her ethics, Lucy embarks on a ruthless game of one-upmanship against cold and efficient nemesis Joshua, a rivalry that is complicated by her growing attraction to him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: romantic, romantic comedy, entertaining, semi serious, light, cute, captivating
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French Kiss (1995)
Plot Summary:
French Kiss is director Kasdan’s best film since the Bodyguard. The plot involves a couple in love and one woman’s attempt to fly to Paris to get her lover back from a business trip and marry him. On the way she unknowingly smuggles something of value that has a petty thief chasing her across France as she chases after her future husband.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 52000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: feel good, romantic, romantic comedy, humorous, sweet, light, entertaining, philosophical, uplifting, emotional
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Anything Else (2003)
Plot Summary:
Jerry Falk, an aspiring writer in New York, falls in love at first sight with a free-spirited young woman named Amanda He has heard the phrase that life is like "anything else," but soon he finds that life with the unpredictable Amanda isn't like anything else at all.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, France, UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: melancholic, witty, sentimental, touching, semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, romantic, clever
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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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When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
Plot Summary:
During their travels from Chicago to New York, Harry and Sally Will debate whether or not sex ruins a perfect relationship between a man and a woman. Eleven years later, and they're still no closer to finding the answer.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 236000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: feel good, romantic, sweet, sentimental, funny, sincere, romantic comedy, touching, light, cute
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Leap Year (2010)
Plot Summary:
When yet another anniversary passes without a marriage proposal from her boyfriend, Anna decides to take action. Aware of a Celtic tradition that allows women to pop the question on Feb. 29, she plans to follow her lover to Dublin and ask him to marry her. Fate has other plans, however, and Anna winds up on the other side of the Emerald Isle with handsome, but surly, Declan -- an Irishman who may just lead Anna down the road to true love.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 109000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, sweet, touching, sexy, funny, sentimental, light, romantic comedy, humorous
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Only You (1994)
Plot Summary:
A childhood incident has convinced Faith Corvatch that her true love is a guy named "Damon Bradley," but she has yet to meet him. Preparing to settle down and marry a foot doctor, Faith impulsively flies to Venice when it seems that she may be able to finally encounter the man of her dreams. Instead, she meets the charming Peter Wright. But can they fall in love if she still believes that she is intended to be with someone else?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, romantic, sweet, romantic comedy, light, sentimental, realistic, semi serious, heartfelt
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The Accidental Husband (2008)
Plot Summary:
When radio love guru Dr Emma Lloyd convinces Patrick Sullivan's fiancée to dump him the week before their wedding. He sets about teaching her a lesson for interfering in other peoples lives that she knows nothing about. Things take a turn when he finds himself falling for the very person who ruined his life and everyone is going to have to learn a few lessons about 'Real Love'.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, light, romantic comedy, sweet, cute, entertaining, witty, funny, philosophical
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What Happens in Vegas (2008)
Plot Summary:
During a wild vacation in Las Vegas, career woman Joy McNally and playboy Jack Fuller come to the sober realization that they have married each other after a night of drunken abandon. They are then compelled, for legal reasons, to live life as a couple for a limited period of time. At stake is a large amount of money.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 185000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: feel good, romantic, romantic comedy, funny, sweet, teen, light, entertaining, cute, hilarious
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Pretty Woman (1990)
Plot Summary:
When a millionaire wheeler-dealer enters a business contract with a Hollywood sex worker Vivian Ward, he loses his heart in the bargain.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 348000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: feel good, romantic, sweet, sentimental, romantic comedy, inspirational, cute, teen, funny, light
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27 Dresses (2008)
Plot Summary:
Altruistic Jane finds herself facing her worst nightmare as her younger sister announces her engagement to the man Jane secretly adores.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 172000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, light, romantic comedy, sweet, cute, sentimental, funny, teen, humorous
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Two Weeks Notice (2002)
Plot Summary:
Dedicated environmental lawyer Lucy Kelson goes to work for billionaire George Wade as part of a deal to preserve a community center. Indecisive and weak-willed George grows dependent on Lucy's guidance on everything from legal matters to clothing. Exasperated, Lucy gives notice and picks Harvard graduate June Carter as her replacement. As Lucy's time at the firm nears an end, she grows jealous of June and has second thoughts about leaving George.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 124000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, sweet, funny, romantic comedy, cute, feel good, entertaining, witty, sentimental
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How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003)
Plot Summary:
An advice columnist, Andie Anderson (Kate Hudson), tries pushing the boundaries of what she can write about in her new piece about how to get a man to leave you in 10 days. Her editor, Lana (Bebe Neuwirth), loves it, and Andie goes off to find a man she can use for the experiment. Enter executive Ben Berry (Matthew McConaughey), who is so confident in his romantic prowess that he thinks he can make any woman fall in love with him in 10 days. When Andie and Ben meet, their plans backfire.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 262000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, light, humorous, romantic comedy, entertaining, sweet, cute, teen, funny
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Hitch (2005)
Plot Summary:
Dating coach Alex 'Hitch' Hitchens mentors a bumbling client, Albert, who hopes to win the heart of the glamorous Allegra Cole. While Albert makes progress, Hitch faces his own romantic setbacks when proven techniques fail to work on Sara Melas, a tabloid reporter digging for dirt on Allegra Cole's love life. When Sara discovers Hitch's connection to Albert – now Allegra's boyfriend – it threatens to destroy both relationships.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 331000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: feel good, romantic, funny, light, romantic comedy, sentimental, sweet, hilarious, sexy, witty