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Plot Summary:
New graduates Ohara, Kitamachi and Tachikawa take part in the battle of job-hunting, so as big companies recruiting talents and potentials. Interviews, tests and activities with odd ideas are carried out. Ohara looks successful in getting an offer from a famous TV station but he is surprised to know he is being set up. With his intelligence, he soon gets the offer, but things never go the way as expected.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min
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The Other Zoey (2023)
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Zoey Miller, a super smart computer major uninterested in romantic love, has her life turned upside down when Zack, the school’s soccer star, gets amnesia and mistakes Zoey for his girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: romantic comedy, teen
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Pink Cut: Love Me Hard, Love Me Deep (1983)
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A light comedy which celebrates youth's freedoms, aspirations, and boundless energy. Mayumi and Mai are hair stylists who open a Barber shop called The Pink Cut. The place is an immediate success, due mostly to their super-short skirts. When the girls decide to stop wearing underpanties, business goes thru the roof. Eventually Main and Mayumi add special massages and cream rinses to their list of extras. The girls laugh all the way to the bank. Ah, the joys of entrepreneurship!.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 68 min
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Zoe's Having a Baby (2023)
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Zoe Cain wants a baby. Single, and tired of the saturated NYC dating scene, she decides to go it alone. Using an anonymous sperm donor, the chances are slim but Zoe quickly becomes pregnant. She is elated but things get more than complicated when not one, but two eligible bachelors walk into her life….
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
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The Star of Prefecture Government (2006)
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Satoshi Nomura, a top-level bureaucrat of a prefecture government, has passion for his career. One day, he is hired by the fixed-term personnel exchange training between public and private businesses. This personnel exchange training is part of some big prefecture project. This project is very big, so success of this personnel exchange training will probably determine his career. Nomura goes to a supermarket called "Mantendo".
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 131 min
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Another Life (1992)
Plot Summary:
Saverio, a dentist, comes out as naive as usual while he falls in love with Alia, a russian immigrant he met in Rome. He must now deal with issues a guy like him would never have thought to come across.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
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Julia Has Two Lovers (1990)
Plot Summary:
Julia gets a call to a wrong number, but stays on the phone with the man on the other end for the entire day.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 385
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Twinkle (1992)
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Shoko and Mutsuki get married to satisfy their worried parents, but she is well past the age at which a 'good' Japanese woman should marry, and he is in love with a young male college student. The film is less a realistic exploration of gay life than a fairy tale of three young Japanese trying to construct an alternative to the sexual and familial roles given to them by a society turning increasingly emotionally barren.L.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Fall Guy (1982)
Plot Summary:
Ginshiro, threatened by poor repute and upcoming star Tachibana, forces his friend Yasu to marry Konatsu, Ginshiro's pregnant mistress; Yasu becomes a stuntman to make ends meet.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 776
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, cult film
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Soldier in the Rain (1963)
Plot Summary:
Sentemental military comedy revolves around two contemporary army buddies, Master Sergeant Maxwell Slaughter (Jackie Gleason), a smooth operator, who supply Sergeant Eustis Clay (Steve McQueen) idolizes and hopes will join him as a civilian in a private business enterprise. Clay endeavors to be a player in the military, just like Slaughter, but it seems as though Clay still has a lot to learn from his mentor. They are joined by Tuesday Weld as a shrill dizzy blonde teenager named Bobby Jo Pepperdine and Tony Bill as bumbling Private First Class Jerry Meltzer, McQueen's screwball sidekick.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021)
Plot Summary:
An unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction trap, and an encounter that results from a misunderstanding are the three episodes, told in three movements to depict three female characters and trace the trajectories between their choices and regrets.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, philosophical, anthology, independent film, poetic, weird, cult film
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Finding Sofia (2016)
Plot Summary:
A conflicted animation filmmaker travels to Argentina chasing after a girl he met online, only to end up living with her and her intimidating boyfriend on an isolated island on the outskirts of Buenos Aires.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 303
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Argentina
Duration: 112 min
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Ossan's Love: Love or Dead (2019)
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The story takes place after the TV drama series Ossan's Love (2018). It's been a year since Haruta and Maki pledged their undying love. Haruta has now come back and receives a warm welcome from familiar faces, his boss Musashi Kurosawa and other colleagues. Justice Yamada, a recruit who has been recently assigned to this branch, welcomes him too. One day, completely out of the blue, the headquarter-based project team "Genius 7" shows up at the Second Sales Branch. Project leader Jin Mamiana orders the Sales team to support them in their big project. Maki, who had been transferred and works now at the head office, is among the project team members with Mamiana. Haruta and Maki grow apart, and Haruta teams up with Justice. Then Kurosawa gets involved in an accident and loses his memory, but the loss of his memory is selective and he has forgotten only Haruta. However, when Kurosawa sees Haruta, he falls in love again.. Hilarious and heartwarming, the final battle of Ossan's Love begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: touching, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Scents and Sensibility (2011)
Plot Summary:
A twist on the classic Jane Austen novel.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, romantic comedy, romantic drama
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I Want You (2007)
Plot Summary:
A macho type man becomes entangled with an independent-minded girl.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: light, sweet, funny, feel good, humorous
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Aadavari Matalaku Ardhalu Verule (2007)
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Aadavari Matalaku Ardhalu Verule (Telugu: ఆడవారి మాటాలకు అర్ధాలు వేరులే, English: The Words of Women Have Different Meanings) is a 2007 Telugu language film, written and directed by Tamil film director Selvaraghavan, making his directorial debut in the Telugu film industry. The film stars Venkatesh and Trisha Krishnan in the lead and Kota Srinivasa Rao and Sriram) in supporting roles while Yuvan Shankar Raja composed the music for the film. The title for this film was derived from a song from N. T. R's Missamma. The film was released commercially on 27 April 2007 and became highly successful. It was also a critical success, winning three Nandi Awards and one Filmfare Award. Following the huge success, the film was remade into Tamil as Yaaradi Nee Mohini with Dhanush and Nayantara in lead.The role of Trisha Krishnan was initially given to Jyothika Saravanan.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 157 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, semi serious
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His Girlfriend (2015)
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Teen romance is complicated for a boy who's secretly in love with a college girl but who's also captured the heart of a high school freshman.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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One Starry Christmas (2014)
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An aspiring astronomy professor finds unexpected Christmas romance when she meets a charming cowboy during her holiday travel. As she decides between this new cowboy and her practical boyfriend, she must decide whether it's better to play it safe in love, or let an adventurous cowboy steal her heart.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, romantic, captivating, emotional, feel good
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Hana and Alice (2004)
Plot Summary:
Two teenage best pals attracted to the same boy end up scrambling his life after he walks into a door and is knocked unconscious.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, erotic drama, gay cinema, hot
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The Shanghai Kid (2007)
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Liam Liu unwittingly gets involved with a high school girl. He suddenly has to go to China after learning from his father that he has inherited his grandmother's home in Shanghai. He's not very appreciative of his Chinese roots and at first only wants to sell the house and get back to the U.S. as fast as possible. He gets a taste of the Chinese culture and ends up having some big decisions to make.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, China, Hong Kong
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, intercultural, romantic, clever, semi serious, crying, sexual, sexy
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Our Sunhi (2013)
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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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Mischievous Kiss the Movie Part 1: High School (2016)
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Based on a popular manga series of the same name, this Japanese romantic comedy follows the lives of two high school students, Kotoko, a bubbly girl who’s hopeless in school, and Naoki, her smart and handsome senior. Although Kotoko gathers up the courage to confess her love to him, he bluntly rejects her in public. But fate works in mysterious ways - when her house collapses, a childhood friend of her father’s, Mr. Irie, invites them to live with his family, and she learns that the son of Mr. Irie is none other than Naoki himself….
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: light, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic comedy
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Sex Is Zero 2 (2007)
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'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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I Am Losing Weight (2018)
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There's two great loves in Anya's life, her athlete boyfriend Zhenya and food. Zhenya is not happy how Anya has been gaining weight due to her eating habits and decides to dump her. But Anya doesn't want to give up and decides to get rid of excess weight with the help of Nikolai, an overweight man obsessed with the healthy living.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: entertaining, funny, romantic, humorous, feel good
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Sharabi (1984)
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Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and a peg of brandy instead of a glass milk, Vicky Kapoor, the only son of multi-millionaire industrialist, Amarnath, grows up to be an alcoholic, albeit with a good heart. Amarnath has detached himself completely from Vicky s life, and provides him money in lieu of affection and care, living this to be taken care off by Munshi Phoolchand. Vicky is very resentful of being ignored by his dad in this manner, and leaves no stone unturned to mock and belittle him at every available opportunity. Amarnath hopes to get his son married, but Vicky loves the daughter of a poor blind man, Meena, which is not acceptable to Amarnath. One day Amarnath decides he has had enough and decides to turn Vicky out of his house. He has him sign waivers, and asks him to get out, which Vicky does so. While Vicky is relieved of being freed from his dad s control, the question remains that with no skills at making a living, how is Vicky to survive in a cold-hearted world.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: humorous, emotional, realistic, semi serious
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Heavenly Forest (2006)
Plot Summary:
The story begins with Makoto Segawa, a freshman at Meikei University. On the day of his university entrance ceremony, Makoto meets a fresh-faced, quirky girl named Shizuru. Makoto has a complex which causes him to shy away from contact with other people, but she succeeds in getting him to open up to her naturally. All Shizuru wants is to be with Makoto, so she takes up a camera too. The two spend their days together taking photos in the forest behind the campus. However, Makoto has feelings for another student named Miyuki. Shizuru decides that if Makoto likes Miyuki, she wants to like her too. She wants to like everything that he does. One day, she tells Makoto that she wants to take a photo of them kissing in the forest as a present for 'her birthday'. He obliges for her sake, and they kiss in the forest.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, romantic, sad, shoujo, romantic drama
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The Mystery of Happiness (2014)
Plot Summary:
Life-long business partners Santiago and Eugenio understand each other without words, care for each other, and need each other. When Eugenio vanishes without a clue, Santiago and Laura, Eugenio’s wife, join forces to solve the mystery of his disappearance. What they discover is neither what they set out to find nor what you would expect, and their shared journey becomes a surprising and lighthearted meditation on friendship, love, and loyalty.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Brazil
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, talky
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To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You (2020)
Plot Summary:
Lara Jean and Peter have just taken their romance from pretend to officially real when another recipient of one of her love letters enters the picture.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: romantic, uplifting, touching, feel good, sweet, teen
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Mischievous Kiss the Movie Part 2: Campus (2017)
Plot Summary:
Based on a popular manga series of the same name, this Japanese romantic comedy sequel continues the story of Kotoko, a bubbly and cheerful girl and her crush, the handsome and aloof Naoki, as they enter the same university. Although they are in separate majors, Kotoko is determined to spend as much time with Naoki as possible and joins the tennis club with him, but all that awaits her is severe training and a love rival.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, romantic comedy
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Second Act (2018)
Plot Summary:
Maya, a 40-year-old woman struggling with frustrations from unfulfilled dreams. Until, that is, she gets the chance to prove to Madison Avenue that street smarts are as valuable as book smarts, and that it is never too late for a Second Act.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: light, inspirational, feel good, sweet, uplifting, funny, thought provoking, captivating, romantic comedy
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My Mother Frank (2000)
Plot Summary:
When a meddlesome mother enrolls in university with her son, old and new worlds collide with awesome consequences.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 579
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, independent film, emotional
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