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Plot Summary:
Long after their breakup, Chinese American Raymond Ding and Amerasian Aurora Crane struggle to let go. Torn apart by mismatched ideals, meddling friends, and the complexities of racial identities, they find other suitable mates but cannot stay away from each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Baja Oklahoma (1988)
Plot Summary:
Television drama about the love life of a Texas barmaid aspiring to be a songwriter. Great musical guest stars and Roberts' screen debut!.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 401
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
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The Wash (1988)
Plot Summary:
Mako is a neglectful husband. Not the most loving man. His wife gradually encounters a widower who is a kind, gentle figure. She eventually makes the transition to leave her husband and go to this fellow.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Joey Breaker (1993)
Plot Summary:
Joey Breaker is a fast-talking, ambitious, workaholic agent representing actors, screenwriters, and comedians for the New York firm of Morgan Creative. He is callous and intolerant, but when he unexpectedly falls in love, he begins to see that he has been missing much of what is important in life. His demeanor mellows and he learns to be more tolerant of others. Suddenly, he is faced with a difficult choice when his girlfriend graduates from nursing school and returns to Jamaica.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 203
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Sam & Kate (2022)
Plot Summary:
Bill is an ailing larger-than-life father being taken care of by his son Sam, who has returned home to care for him. While home, Sam falls for a local woman, Kate. At the same time, Bill starts to fall for her mom, Tina.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Doing Therapy (2006)
Plot Summary:
"Doing Therapy" is a lighthearted romantic comedy set in modern-day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Humorous, silly, and even suspenseful at times, it is a heartwarming tale with the sincerity and simplicity of a black-and-white 1950s melodrama.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Crazy in Love (1992)
Plot Summary:
Three generations of women live on a small island off the coast of Washington state with their men with whom they have no end of problems.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 370
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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In Your Dreams (2023)
Plot Summary:
You know the feeling. It feels like time slows down as your eyes meet a stranger’s. Then you walk pass each other, neither of you looking back. That’s what happened with Pelin and Engin. Lo and behold, they open their eyes in the same bed. And you may want to brace yourself for this one, as a two-year married couple! It must be a dream. No, a nightmare. But now, to wake up they must fall in love.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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I Do, Maybe? (2016)
Plot Summary:
Brad and Monica are excited about their upcoming wedding, but every time they turn around something happens. If it's not the baby mama drama with Cindy, the in-laws and their opinions and feuds, the step child, the friends who can't mind their own business and think they are giving you the right advice or the unforeseen accidents, they probably wouldn't doubt their decision to marry. Can their love be strong enough to pull them through the dilemmas? When all the smoke clears and the truth is out, will there be a "happily" ever after?.
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Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: independent film
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City Lovers (1982)
Plot Summary:
This socially conscious film, set in South Africa, presents an interracial love story between a German geologist and a young black woman. The German is only visiting South Africa. He meets his new love in a shop where he hires her as his housekeeper. She soon becomes his lover and this infuriates their nosy neighbors who report them to the police.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Africa
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Where the Heart Is (1998)
Plot Summary:
From the director of Marius et Jeannette, this story of two working-class families is a fable with an optimist streak. A young black man, Francois, is wrongly accused of rape by a racist policeman. The story is told in voiceover by his childhood friend, neighbor, and the mother of his future child, Clementine, who is white. The city is Marseilles as in the previous film, symbolic with its churches, prisons and ruins. Except in this film, director Robert Guediguian also ventures outside, taking the story to Sarajevo; two different cities, one devastated by war, the other by a bad economy and unemployment. A la Place du coeur won a Special Jury Prize at the 1998 San Sebastian Film Festival and was also shown at the 1998 Toronto Film Festival and the 1998 Montreal Film Festival.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 382
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags:
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Burning Patience (2022)
Plot Summary:
Mario is a young fisherman who dreams of becoming a poet. He gets a job as the postman to Pablo Neruda when the legendary writer moves there after being exiled from Chile.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 350
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Chile
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: period drama
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Love in Taipei (2023)
Plot Summary:
A young American woman is sent by her parents to a cultural immersion program in Taipei where she begins a new journey of self-discovery and romance.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 623
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Rediscovering Christmas (2019)
Plot Summary:
A talented department store window designer helps her sister design the decor for the annual Snowflake Festival Christmas Eve dance and clashes with the stubborn grandson of the founders of the festival.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 471
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sweet, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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The View From Here (2017)
Plot Summary:
Bay Area Chef, Mark Matheson has everything he ever wanted: A Restaurant of his own, the love of his girlfriend, Gillian and the respect of the culinary community. But in the wake of bad press and personal demons returning to haunt him, Mark struggles to hold onto everything. Before he can be called great, he'll have to learn to be okay, again.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: culinary
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Candy Jar (2018)
Plot Summary:
Dueling high school debate champs who are at odds on just about everything forge ahead with ambitious plans to get into the colleges of their dreams.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, funny, sincere, feel good, teen, independent film
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Through My Window: Across the Sea (2023)
Plot Summary:
After a year of long-distance, Raquel and Ares reunite on a steamy beach trip. Faced with fresh flirtations and insecurities, will their love prevail?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: teen comedy
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Black and White (2008)
Plot Summary:
Racial integration is Elena's profession and passion, not only filling her working day as a cultural mediator assisting immigrants, but spilling over into her home life as well. All too often her husband Carlo must attend charity events where he feels distinctly out of place. During one of these evenings, Carlo meets Nadine, a beautiful black woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 623
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, captivating, disturbing
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Georgia, Georgia (1972)
Plot Summary:
The great Diana Sands stars as a African American pop star with few political ideas, and no need for black-activist war deserters who want her voice for their cause--much to the dismay of the quietly seething white-hating Minnie Gentry. Georgia's mother-figure and companion fears for Georgia's soul--in every sense of the word. Written by Maya Angelou (but made on a low budget), this is a significant, powerfully radical movie-of-ideas in need of rediscovery. (IMDb).
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Honky (1971)
Plot Summary:
Black girl from rich family loves white boy from poor family.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Zebrahead (1992)
Plot Summary:
Interracial love story set in Detroit.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: multicultural, independent film, sincere, bleak, serious, realistic, gloomy, light, romantic, sexy
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The Painting (2001)
Plot Summary:
Heath Freeman (Tru Calling, ER) heads an all-star cast including Clifton Davis (Any Given Sunday) Ben Vereen (Roots), Stacey Dash (Renaissance Man) and Debbie Allen (Fame) in the period drama Soldier of Change, which resurrects the turmoil and confusion of the late sixties. Travel back in time to visit a young man, Randy (Freeman) who finds himself immersed in the impassioned civil rights cause in the States, and struggles valiantly to adjust to the changing social fabric around him. But this is only the first of two worlds that Randy encounters. When he is drafted and shipped off to Asia - and the nightmare that called itself Vietnam - this inexperienced soldier must fight for his life and his convictions as he attempts to survive amid the turmoil of a war whose real nature is alien even to the country fighting it.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, romantic, touching, independent film
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The Landlord (1970)
Plot Summary:
At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Initially his intention is to evict the black tenants and convert it into a posh flat. But Elgar is not one to be bound by yesterday's urges, and soon he has other thoughts on his mind.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: funny, political, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, comedy drama, black cinema
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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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Come See the Paradise (1990)
Plot Summary:
Come See The Paradise is a deeply touching love story set against the backdrop of a dramatic and controversial period in American history, It follows the romance and eventual marriage of Jack McGurn (Dennis Quad), a hot blooded Irish American, and a beautiful Japanese American Lily Dawanura (Tamlyn Tomita), at the outset of World War II. The clash of cultures, at once painful for the two lovers, becomes insurmountable after the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. Lily and the Kawamuras are relocated To a bleak, outdoor internment camp in California, Jack is drafted into the Army, powerless to help the woman he loves abandoning all hope of ever winning her family's approval.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: emotional, sincere, thought provoking, serious, realistic, contemplative, crying, sentimental, romantic, clever
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Something New (2006)
Plot Summary:
Kenya McQueen, a corporate lawyer finds love in the most unexpected place when she agrees to go on a blind date with Brian Kelly, a sexy and free-spirited landscaper.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: romantic, sexy, light, sweet, sincere, humorous, romantic comedy, entertaining, erotic, feel good
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The Big Sick (2017)
Plot Summary:
Pakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani and grad student Emily Gardner fall in love but struggle as their cultures clash. When Emily contracts a mysterious illness, Kumail finds himself forced to face her feisty parents, his family's expectations, and his true feelings.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 142000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: romantic, sweet, feel good, romantic comedy, touching, sentimental, melancholic, humorous, cute, sad
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Corrina, Corrina (1994)
Plot Summary:
When Manny Singer's wife dies, his young daughter Molly becomes mute and withdrawn. To help cope with looking after Molly, he hires sassy housekeeper Corrina Washington, who coaxes Molly out of her shell and shows father and daughter a whole new way of life. Manny and Corrina's friendship delights Molly and enrages the other townspeople.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, sweet, light, uplifting, gothic, realistic, semi serious, independent film, humorous
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Guess Who (2005)
Plot Summary:
The fiancé of an African-American woman who's met with skepticism and suspicion from her father when she takes him home for the all-important introduction. As the wedding approaches, Dad must come to terms with his future son-in-law.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: romantic, humorous, funny, entertaining, feel good, hilarious, slapstick, black comedy, erotic, hood
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The Wedding (1998)
Plot Summary:
Shelby Coles (Halle Berry) is engaged to marry talented white jazz musician Meade Howell, but the pair face opposition from both Meade's family, who object to an inter-racial marriage, and Shelby's parents, who want her to marry a professional. As Shelby is afflicted by pre-marital doubts, handsome Lute McNeil arrives on the scene, determined to make Shelby his at any cost.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 546
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags:
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Nappily Ever After (2018)
Plot Summary:
After an accident at the hair salon, Violet realizes she's not living life to the fullest. A soulful barber helps her put the pieces back together.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: uplifting, inspirational, sincere, psychological, thought provoking, captivating, light, romantic comedy, touching