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Plot Summary:
Writer Alex Sheldon (Luke Wilson) must finish his novel within a month. If he doesn't, he won't get paid. And, if that happens, angry Mafia types to whom he owes money will come looking for him. In order to expedite things, Alex hires typist Emma Dinsmore (Kate Hudson) and begins dictating his novel. The book is about a doomed love affair between a character similar to Alex and a character named Polina Delacroix (Sophie Marceau). But, as Alex falls for Emma, his work takes a different turn.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: feel good, romantic, sweet, light, semi serious, cute, humorous, realistic, inspirational, sexy
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Enemies of Laughter (2000)
Plot Summary:
Nerdy-looking Paul (David Paymer) is a neurotic, failed sitcom writer with a lackluster love life. But his best pal (Judge Reinhold) has an idea that might turn things around when he decides to film Paul's life and turn his romantic disasters into a comedic documentary. When a beautiful young director (Rosalind Chao) decides to produce the real-life romantic comedy, Paul realizes that Cupid may be poised with his bow and arrow.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic, sitcom, independent film
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The Third Wheel (2002)
Plot Summary:
The clumsy and shy Stanley is a nice fellow, beloved by his colleagues in the office. He has a crush on the gorgeous new-hire Diana, but he has difficulties to get close to her. When Stanley finally invites Diana for a date, he hits the homeless Phil with his Taurus, and his planned night turns upside down.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Bad Date Chronicles (2017)
Plot Summary:
Leigh runs the website "Bad Date Chronicles," which allows people to anonymously post horrible date experiences. When rival blogger Conner becomes the subject of one of her posts, they agree to date each other to see which one is the "bad dater.".
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 999
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: romantic, funny, uplifting, feel good, humorous, sweet, emotional
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The Story of My Life (2004)
Plot Summary:
Raphael is a ghostwriter who takes a job writing for famous footy player Kevin. To his delight and his girlfriend, Murials horror, Kevins current girlfriend is an old (easily rekindled) flame of Raphaels. A freak accident leaves a close friend dead and Raphael is forced to reconsider his priorities.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sentimental, funny, captivating, entertaining, light, romantic, feel good, realistic
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Down with Love (2003)
Plot Summary:
In 1962 New York City, love blossoms between a playboy journalist and a feminist advice author.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, period piece, humorous, parody, semi serious, funny, sweet, sex comedy, offbeat
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It Boy (2013)
Plot Summary:
Alice Lantins is 38, ambitious and so committed to her work that she neglects her personal life. In short, she is the ideal candidate for the next editor of the magazine Rebelle, or would be were it not for the fact that she appears to be stuck in a rut. When Balthazar, a charming 20-year-old, crosses her path, her colleagues begin to see her in a whole new light.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, light, family comedy, sentimental, weird
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Cake (2005)
Plot Summary:
A travel writer improves her love life when she becomes an editor for her father's wedding magazine.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Dream for an Insomniac (1996)
Plot Summary:
A girl with insomnia who works in a coffee house has impossibly high standards for her love and fears she will never meet a worthy man. Then in walks a new employee and they click - until she discovers he has a girlfriend. Undaunted, she moves to L.A. with a friend sure that he will dump the girlfriend and follow her. She puts all her faith in fate and hopes for the best.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Romance, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sweet, entertaining, light, melancholic, feel good, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, romantic, romantic comedy
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Blonde Ambition (2007)
Plot Summary:
A young professional woman (Simpson) unwittingly becomes the pawn of two business executives in their bid to oust the head of a mega-conglomerate.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, realistic, humorous, semi serious, romantic, teen, teen comedy
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My Sassy Girl (2008)
Plot Summary:
A guy (Jesse Bradford) has his life planned out, until he is wooed, groomed and then dumped by an elusive woman (Elisha Cuthbert).
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic comedy, touching, depressing, independent film
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Forces of Nature (1999)
Plot Summary:
Ben Holmes, a professional book-jacket blurbologist, is trying to get to Savannah for his wedding. He just barely catches the last plane, but a seagull flies into the engine as the plane is taking off. All later flights are cancelled because of an approaching hurricane, so he is forced to hitch a ride in a Geo Metro with an attractive but eccentric woman named Sara.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: road movie, light, romantic, entertaining, feel good, humorous, semi serious, touching, offbeat, realistic
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Life or Something Like It (2002)
Plot Summary:
A reporter Lanie Kerrigan interviews a psychic homeless man for a fluff piece about a football game's score. Instead he tells her that her life has no meaning and is going to end in just a few days, which sparks her to action, trying to change the pattern of her life.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Poland
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, light, sentimental, entertaining, touching, humorous, teen, funny, captivating
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Get Over It (2001)
Plot Summary:
When Berke Landers, a popular high school basketball star, gets dumped by his life-long girlfriend, Allison, he soon begins to lose it. But with the help of his best friend Felix's sister Kelly, he follows his ex into the school's spring musical. Thus ensues a love triangle loosely based upon Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", where Berke is only to find himself getting over Allison and beginning to fall for Kelly.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: romantic comedy, feel good, romantic, teen, funny, light, sweet, entertaining, humorous, semi serious
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Austenland (2013)
Plot Summary:
Obsessed with the BBC production of "Pride and Prejudice", a woman travels to a Jane Austen theme park in search for her perfect gentleman.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, light, humorous, period piece, witty, romantic comedy, cute, heartbreaking, happy
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Set It Up (2018)
Plot Summary:
Two overworked assistants with nasty bosses try to get their supervisors out of their hair.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, feel good, humorous, entertaining, romantic comedy, realistic, sweet, teen
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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
Similar in 78%
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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Bride Wars (2009)
Plot Summary:
Two best friends become rivals when their respective weddings are accidentally booked for the same day.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 114000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, humorous, funny, romantic comedy, teen, sentimental, cute, entertaining, semi serious
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The Back-up Plan (2010)
Plot Summary:
When Zoe tires of looking for Mr. Right, she decides to have a baby on her own. But on the day she's artificially inseminated, she meets Stan, who seems to be just who she's been searching for all her life. Now, Zoe has to figure out how to make her two life's dreams fit with each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 52000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, romantic comedy, sweet, feel good, touching, funny, teen, semi serious, cute
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Raising Helen (2004)
Plot Summary:
Helen Harris has a glamorous, big-city life working for one of New York's hottest modeling agencies. But suddenly her free-spirited life gets turned upside down when she must chose between the life she's always loved, and the new loves of her life!.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: romantic, sentimental, feel good, touching, entertaining, funny, sweet, cute, humorous, realistic
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Something's Gotta Give (2003)
Plot Summary:
Harry Sanborn is an aged music industry exec with a fondness for younger women like Marin, his latest trophy girlfriend. Things get a little awkward when Harry suffers a heart attack at the home of Marin's mother, Erica. Left in the care of Erica and his doctor, a love triangle starts to take shape.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 127000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, sweet, romantic comedy, light, touching, intense, humorous, funny, romantic drama
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The Wedding Planner (2001)
Plot Summary:
Mary Fiore, San Francisco's premiere wedding planner is rescued from an accident by the man of her dreams, pediatrician Steve Edison, only to find he is the fiancé of her latest client, wealthy Fran Donnolly. As Mary continues making the wedding arrangements, she and Steve are put into a string of uncomfortable situations that force them to face their mutual attraction.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 85000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, sweet, sentimental, cute, humorous, feel good, entertaining, sincere, captivating
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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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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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The Wedding Date (2005)
Plot Summary:
With the wedding of her younger sister fast approaching, Kat Ellis faces the undesirable prospect of traveling alone to London for the ceremony. While this is bad enough, Jeffrey, the man who left her as they moved closer to marriage, happens to be the groom's best man. Determined to show everyone -- most of all Jeffrey -- that her romantic life is as full and thrilling as ever, Kat hires a charming male escort as her date.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, sweet, light, sexy, sentimental, funny, romantic comedy, realistic, witty
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The Holiday (2006)
Plot Summary:
Two women, one (Cameron Diaz) from America and one (Kate Winslet) from Britain, swap homes at Christmastime after bad breakups with their boyfriends. Each woman finds romance with a local man (Jude Law, Jack Black) but realizes that the imminent return home may end the relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 311000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, sweet, sentimental, light, touching, humorous, romantic comedy, cute, funny
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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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Serendipity (2001)
Plot Summary:
Although strangers Sara and Jonathan are both already in relationships, they realize they have genuine chemistry after a chance encounter – but part company soon after. Years later, they each yearn to reunite, despite being destined for the altar. But to give true love a chance, they have to find one another again.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 119000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, touching, sentimental, sweet, light, witty, romantic comedy, cute, teen