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Plot Summary:
An aspiring horror movie writer searches for love in a world of heartache, desperation and fluffy toys.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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E_mail (2000)
Plot Summary:
Athens in August becomes the place where a group of young people live, fall in love and have fun - guided by, and communicating through, the Internet.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 262
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Greece, France
Duration: 109 min
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The Ideal Man (1996)
Plot Summary:
Marie, incapable of choosing between three marriage proposals, decides to give up. Circumstances mean that the three men meet. Far from being hostile, Stéphane, Fabrice and Paul console each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 322
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: intellectual, slapstick comedy
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We Need to Talk About Kieran (2011)
Plot Summary:
Turning down an offer from Harvard, bumbling genius Kieran Edwards opts to follow his true love Juliet to The University of Nottingham. Within days of arriving, he finds her in bed with a muscular sportsman. Heartbroken and vulnerable, Kieran finds himself as the unlikely student of a pick up guru. Using an array of unorthodox techniques, Kieran immerses himself in a new area of study with geeky enthusiasm. To the surprise of his teacher and his contemporaries, Kieran becomes a phenomenon on the Nottingham dating scene. As his success levels soar out of control, Kieran's studies and morals begin to suffer. Can the friendship of an unusual course tutor tempt him out of the late night bars and back into the library?.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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Abgeschminkt! (1993)
Plot Summary:
An original satire about women of the 90s in search of the men of their dreams. Franzy believes she's through with men, but desperately needs new amorous story lines for the comic strip she writes for a newspaper. So she observes her friend Maischa struggling to satisfy her need for love -- and someone who knows how to install her new shelf. Since joiner Klaus demands too much attention, she sets her eyes on the good-looking footballer Rene.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 596
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags:
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Train for Hollywood (1987)
Plot Summary:
A young woman is bitten by the acting bug after seeing Marilyn Monroe in "Some Like It Hot". She patterns herself after MM and after finishing high school goes for screen tests to the Film Academy. Rejected because of her crooked teeth she takes a job of selling beer on a train and starts writing to Billy Wilder, trying to be casted in his next movie. At the trains station she meets a would-be cinematographer who is color blind. They become friends sharing their dreams of going to Hollywood. One day she finds a goldfish trapped in a beer bottle: she sets her free and makes three wishes, not for herself but for her friends. To her surprise all of them come true. As a reward she gets a long awaited call from Billy Wilder. Written by Polish Cinema Database.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 97 min
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Tulipany (2004)
Plot Summary:
The story of male friendship, vitality and the joy of living, even after turning 60 years old. When one of the three friends is taken to hospital, the others are there for him.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Alpha Males Experiment (2009)
Plot Summary:
When Ethan, the needy nice guy, is dumped by his fiancée, he asks his misogynist older brother, Kyle, to help him win her back.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, independent film, cult film
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Wedding Bell Blues (1996)
Plot Summary:
Micki, Tanya and Jasmine have 24 hours to get divorced. There's just one problem...They're still single. When Jasmine, Tanya and Micki decide they'd rather be divorced than unmarried, they take off to Las Vegas in search of the perfect ex. In the tangled web that follows, Micki lassos a cowboy, Tanya acquires a rich businessman, and Jasmine finds true love in the arms of a regular guy. The result is an outrageous comedy of love, marriage and misadventure. As intelligent as it is absurd, Wedding Bell Blues pokes great fun at the twists and turns of modern love, with outstanding performances from a talented young cast, including Illeana Douglas, Paulina Porizkova and Julie Warner, it is without a doubt one of the year's most hilarious movies.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 493
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexy
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Dags (1998)
Plot Summary:
"Dag" is an Australian term for filthy wool on the hindquarters of a sheep. It also is a slang term for an uncouth person. Therefore this film is a look at several uncouth individuals. The men are all beer drinkers and dopers who wear Hawaiian shirts, long socks, and sandals. The women are all in tank tops and hot pants and constantly after sex, but never enjoy it. One of the men gets a wild idea to get in the Guiness Book of Records by having one of his mates rob his video store every night. During one of these robberies, the robber "kidnaps" a customer and begins a romance. Meanwhile all of the other "dags" are sleeping with one another behind each other's backs.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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Leo and Loree (1980)
Plot Summary:
Ralph Malph from Philly moves to Hollywood with dreams of making it big, amazingly hooks up with starlet-to-be, loses starlet-to-be, gets back starlet-to-be, and becomes someone.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Romance, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Mutual Friends (2013)
Plot Summary:
Surprise parties rarely go well. This one is no different, as a group of 30-somethings head through life, love and a day in New York City.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, crying
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Irene (2002)
Plot Summary:
Irène is a beautiful girl working in Paris, she soon meets a manager and hopes a love story with him. But he tells a lie, so she falls in love with a house painter.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 635
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds in Love (1994)
Plot Summary:
Lewis and his nerdy friends attend Booger's wedding to the daughter of a rich politician, but nerd-haters in the family do everything possible to prevent the wedding going ahead. Meanwhile, Lewis awaits with eagerness the birth of his unborn foetal child.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, humorous, realistic, not serious, semi serious, teen comedy, eighties
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He Died with a Felafel in His Hand (2001)
Plot Summary:
A search for love, meaning and bathroom solitude. Danny goes through a series of shared housing experiences in a succession of cities on the east coast of Australia. Together these vignettes form a narrative that is surprisingly reflective.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Australia, Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, witty, cynical, semi serious, funny, art house, black comedy, realistic, contemplative
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For Love or Money (2019)
Plot Summary:
What started off as a whirlwind romance takes an unexpected turn when Mark discovers his beautiful bride-to-be is plotting against him. In cahoots with an old school buddy, they hatch a plan to take half of Mark’s £20 million fortune and use it for their own happy ending. What they don’t realize is that Mark is one step ahead of them.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sexy, funny, light, feel good, humorous, sweet
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Mission Pays Basque (2017)
Plot Summary:
Sibylle, a young Parisian with long teeth, intends to shine in her new job by buying a hardware store in the Basque Country to set up a supermarket. She imagines that she has "rolled" the old owner but the latter is under curatorship. Sibylle must therefore deal with Ramon, the nephew, to recover his money and sign as soon as possible. Otherwise, the ejection seat is assured. She will soon realize that the Basques do not intend to let themselves be made by a Parisian, however pretty she is.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 638
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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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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Wedding Every Weekend (2020)
Plot Summary:
Nate and Brooke are going to the same four weddings, four weekends in a row. To avoid the singles tables and set-ups, they agree to go together as "wedding buddies." But what starts as a friendship soon becomes something deeper.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, light, romantic, touching, humorous, talky
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Top End Wedding (2019)
Plot Summary:
Lauren and Ned are engaged, they are in love, and they have just 10 days to find Lauren's mother (who has gone AWOL somewhere in the remote far north of Australia), reunite her parents, and pull off their dream wedding.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sweet, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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Dirty Love (2005)
Plot Summary:
A modern day Cinderella story which sees disaster prone Rebecca embark on a journey in search of true love. Betrayed by her boyfriend, Richard and following a palm reader's psychic prophecy, Rebecca goes in search of her one true soul mate.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, not serious, funny, sexy, offbeat, realistic, cynical, biting, sexual
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Love, Surreal and Odd (2017)
Plot Summary:
If four couples meet at the same party, and a honey-sweet relationship begins between them, a surreal love out of nowhere... If every phase of the relationship is a situation comedy, where the sides get along well for a moment, only to quarrel the next... Can we then ask the question: Dear lovers, don’t you have anything to do with love?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, sincere, touching, captivating
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Dog Park (1998)
Plot Summary:
Sex comedy takes a look at contemporary dating mores and hypothesizes that the new dating location may be the dog walk in the park. A mild-mannered man loses his present girl friend to another man. His attraction to a kid's TV show hostess goes nowhere because of her obsession with her dog, Peanut. He then gets hooked up with an overly exuberant blonde who overwhelms him. He even lost his collie, Mogley, when his girl friend moved out. In a funny sub-plot, the collie is going to a doggie psychiatrist who determines the dog is being traumatized by his mistress' sexual antics. Jeri and Jeff are best friends whose constant smooching simply makes the leads life less comfortable.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, clever, feel good, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious, crying, sex comedy
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All Over the Guy (2001)
Plot Summary:
A contemporary romantic comedy exploring the unlikely pairing of two 20-somethings thrown together by their respective best friends in hopes of igniting their own romance.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, romantic, clever, witty, entertaining, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Ira & Abby (2006)
Plot Summary:
A neurotic, young psychology student, with low self-esteem, has a chance encounter with a free-spirited, extremely gregarious woman who works at the Paris Health Club in New York City, and who suggests that they immediately get married to see how it will work out. Both of the student's parents are analysts, and they provide the happy couple with a gift certificate for a year of marriage counseling as a wedding present.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, witty, smart, offbeat, realistic, talky, not serious, independent film
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Stuck Like Chuck (2009)
Plot Summary:
Romantic comedy about friendship, love, college and the awkward situations that bring them all together.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, psychological, light, touching, contemplative, independent film, cult film
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Mr. Wonderful (1993)
Plot Summary:
Electrician Gus gets the chance to fulfill a childhood dream by buying an old bowling-alley with some of his friends.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, feel good, realistic, semi serious, independent film, sentimental, light, romantic, surprise ending
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The Best Man (2005)
Plot Summary:
When writer's block derails the literary dreams of Olly Pickering, he has to move in with his friend Murray after losing all his money. Things start to look up when Olly's college pal James asks him to be the best man at his wedding. Prior to the nuptials, Olly is drawn to a woman whom he thinks is the bride's sister -- only she turns out to be the bride, Sarah. Can Murray, who dislikes James, help get Sarah and Olly together?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, Hungary, Germany, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, feel good, semi serious, romantic, philosophical, anamorphic, clever, realistic, vintage
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Mylove Lost (2018)
Plot Summary:
Mario (Dani Rovira) and Olivia (Michelle Jenner) fall madly in love. One afternoon, considering that every relationship ends, they end up breaking up. During the big fight, Miamor, the street cat adopted by both and who only attends if they call him "Miamor" and speak to him in Valencian, escapes and disappears, like the love that united them. For a time Olivia will give him for dead, love and the cat, while Mario keeps him alive in secret. Like Schrodingüer's cat, the love between the two remains alive and dead at the same time until, one day when she seems to have finally risen, Olivia feels victimized by a deception and decides to declare to Mario the war, one in the that, as in the love that still breathes, everything can be worth.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 702
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Love Is Eternal While It Lasts (2004)
Plot Summary:
Gilberto, 50enne, si fa coinvolgere in una cosiddetta speed-date, una gara in cui i protagonisti devono trovare un partner in 3 minuti. Arrestato, deve confessare tutto in presenza della moglie che lo sbatte fuori di casa. Rifugiatosi da amici scopre che il suo migliore amico è amante della moglie e comincia a tentare di avviare nuove relazioni che falliscono tutte.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Resort to Love (2021)
Plot Summary:
Aspiring pop star Erica ends up as the entertainment at her ex-fiancé’s wedding after reluctantly taking a gig at a luxurious island resort while in the wake of a music career meltdown.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, captivating, romantic, romantic comedy