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Plot Summary:
In this goofy comedy, Mark Ruffalo (ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND) stars as Alex, a struggling painter going through a particularly bad patch. Dumped by his girlfriend and unable to get work, Alex finds his life taking a rare upswing when he moves into a new apartment and falls for his neighbor, Lori (Beth Ulrich). But when things start to go wrong between Alex and Lori, their close proximity to each another proves to have an enormous downside, leading to further amusing antics as Ruffalo proves his comedic chops.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 674
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, independent film, exciting
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Cool Blue (1989)
Plot Summary:
Dustin, an aspiring painter meets this woman named Christiane. Dustin is on a search for love, sex, and inspiration. When Christiane dumps him and disapears as quickly as she dropped in, Dustin embarks on an obsessive search in Southern California to search for her.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 491
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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You Can't Hurry Love (1988)
Plot Summary:
A comedy of a guy who moonlights as a low-budget director of commercials, and is looking for someone to love. So, he pays a dating service and is videotaped on several occasions. The film shows the many women who seduce our hero, until he finally finds his true love.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 576
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, parody
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The Journey (2007)
Plot Summary:
Steve, a young slacker is forced to grow up when his girlfriend Rhona leaves for Mexico to study archeology. Steve resolves to go on a journey to find his love.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Bachelor in Paradise (1961)
Plot Summary:
A. J. Niles is the author of a series of 'Bachelor Books'. These books describe the romantic life of a bachelor in various cities of the world. But when he runs into trouble with the I.R.S. for back taxes, he needs to write another book fast, to pay them. His publisher decides a book about life in the American suburbs would be a hit, and settles him into Paradise Cove. One bachelor plus lonely housewives equals many angry husbands.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: retro, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, sexual, sexy, exotic
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Two Guys Talkin' About Girls (1996)
Plot Summary:
When longtime friends Joey Fortone and Lenny Kaminski get together, the race is on to get one up on the other. Their fantasies abound and their results lag far behind.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick
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30 Days Until I'm Famous (2004)
Plot Summary:
A Latina working in Los Angeles as a messenger is randomly discovered and fashioned into a pop music star.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 420
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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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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Olive Juice (2001)
Plot Summary:
Comedy - Leighanne Littrell, James Berlau, Michael Hartson.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, offbeat
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Young, Single & Angry (2006)
Plot Summary:
Since girlhood, TAYLOR has believed that love and marriage are the most important events in every woman's life. Now she's 35 and single with no prospects in sight. As Taylor and her friends wade through the mire of the L.A. dating pool, they realize a lot more is involved in finding the right mate as they meet co-dependents, addicts and sexual deviants. As they hit bottom, thinking there maybe no happiness in their future, a trap door opens leading them to the discovery that they can find happiness within themselves.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, cynical, semi serious, sexy, biting, sexual, sex comedy, suspense
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The Perfect You (2002)
Plot Summary:
A waiter/writer living with his dad and a neat freak who's just landed a job as a reporter in New York, meet by colliding on the Brooklyn Bridge, and romance ensues.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 798
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, independent film, realistic, sex comedy
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Muffin Top: A Love Story (2014)
Plot Summary:
"Muffin Top: A Love Story" is the story of Suzanne (Cathryn Michon) a Women's Studies Pop Culture professor at Malibu University, who studies images of women in the media for a living, and yet is made insecure by the constant parade of female perfection that is our airbrushed culture. She has been going through IVF treatments to get pregnant by her network executive husband (Diedrich Bader), but discovers on her birthday, that her husband has knocked up his younger, skinnier, co-worker (Haylie Duff) and wants a divorce. Happy Birthday! She goes on to find a more authentic version of who she really is, despite the delights of being suddenly single in Los Angeles, where low self-esteem for women is our number one export to the world.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 754
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, independent film
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Look for a Star (2009)
Plot Summary:
Wealthy construction mogul Sam Ching (Andy Lau) and cabaret dancer Milan Sit (Qi Shu) fall madly in love with one another despite the class differences that would keep many couples apart. However, what Sit doesn't know is that Ching is the man responsible for razing a building representing cherished memories from her childhood. Can they live happily ever after if this secret gets out?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 780
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating
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Now You Know (2002)
Plot Summary:
On the eve of his bachelor party, a man learns his fiancee wants to call off the wedding. The unmarried couple returns to New Jersey to sort out their relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, melancholic
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This Is Not a Film (2003)
Plot Summary:
New Yorker Michael Connor attempts to find the woman who left him by making a film about her, hoping that someone (maybe you?) will recognize his ex and convince her to get back together with him. To help the viewer understand who he is and why his girlfriend left, Michael opts to re-enact his failed relationship for the camera. He hires an actress to portray his ex-girlfriend, and during the process of filming she quickly and mercilessly points out all of his mistakes, blunders and inadequacies as a boyfriend. "This Is Not a Film" is a romantic comedy about making mistakes and recognizing them in the most painful way possible--by making them over and over again.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 305
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sentimental, realistic, talky, semi serious, humorous, witty, independent film, offbeat
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Smiling Fish & Goat on Fire (1999)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers share a house in LA's Fairfax district: Tony's a feckless actor, Chris is an accountant. Both are in relationships on rocky ground. As these emotions swirl, Tony meets his US Postal Service letter carrier, a single mom named Kathy who's come to LA from Wyoming with her daughter, a budding actress. Chris meets Anna, an Italian beauty working in the States for a few months wrangling animals on movie sets. Chris also befriends Clive, an aging and crusty man whose longing for his recently-deceased wife is a portrait of true love. Can Clive's example help Chris sort out his love life, and can Tony grow up enough to see the possibilities with Kathy and her daughter?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, crying, light, thought provoking
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The Irony of Fate. The Sequel (2007)
Plot Summary:
Zhenya and Nadya go their separate ways. Nadya stuck with her bureaucrat boyfriend, married him and had a daughter, also called Nadya. Zhenya married and had a son, Konstantin. Both later divorced. More than 30 years later, Konstantin ends up drunk in the flat where the younger Nadya finds him. He is there as part of a convoluted ruse by his father's friends to get Zhenya back into the arms of the woman with whom he shared a magical night. The waylaid son is the bait to get Zhenya back to Leningrad, now called St. Petersburg. One romance is rekindled and another between the son and daughter is struck up.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, offbeat, realistic, atmospheric
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I Love You, Don't Touch Me! (1997)
Plot Summary:
The story of a 25 year old virgin girl, looking for the right boyfriend, not realizing that "the one" has been next to her for many years.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 511
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sexy, witty, sexual, independent film, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, erotic
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50 Ways to Leave Your Lover (2004)
Plot Summary:
s after an earthquake convince Owen, a writer of hack "as told to" autobiographies, to leave L.A. He burns his bridges telling people what he really thinks, quits his current client (a randy astronaut), and heads for the airport. Waiting for his flight to New York, he sees Val, a friend of his latest ex; they chat, and Owen postpones leaving just to make sure she's not for him.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: semi serious, sentimental, feel good, humorous, clever, realistic
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Gregoire Moulin vs. Humanity (2001)
Plot Summary:
Grégoire Moulin, a shy accountant, sets up a blind date with a dance teacher at a bar. What he needed to do was just to cross the road. But it didn't happen to be as easy as it seems especially because of the final game of French soccer championship the very same night!.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, touching, offbeat, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Hannah Has a Ho-Phase (2012)
Plot Summary:
When Leslie gets fed up with her prudish roommate, Hannah, she challenges her to the bet of a lifetime: Hannah must sleep with ten guys while Leslie does the unthinkable and "re-virginizes".
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: realistic, witty, humorous, semi serious
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So Woman! (2009)
Plot Summary:
Clemence is a brilliant young lawyer who has just settled herself in a comfortable chair. She does not want to be involved in love.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Stonerville (2011)
Plot Summary:
When Troy "Slam" Slamsky loses his girl, love makes a wake-up call and he finds success in the world of online advertising with some hysterical twists on an old theme. Finding a new love who understands his vision sets Slam free to do what he loves, love who he does and make crazy videos.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: not serious, humorous, realistic, independent film, parody
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Love on a Diet (2001)
Plot Summary:
Sammi Cheng plays Mimi Mo, a young exchange student to Japan who met and fell in love with a budding pianist, Kurokawa, played by Rikiya Kurokawa. Kurokawa eventually leaves to study music in the USA and returns to Japan as a famous musician. Meanwhile, Mimi has dealt with her depression by eating and weights over 300lbs and Kurokawa doesn't recognize her. Mimi eventually meets Fatty (Andy Lau) who helps her lose the weight so she can fulfill her promise of meeting Kurokawa made 10 years earlier. But then they fall in love.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, Japan
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sad
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Never Again (2001)
Plot Summary:
A man and a woman who have pledged never to fall in love again meet in a gay bar.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 967
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, witty, semi serious, romantic, independent film, romantic comedy, realistic
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2 Million Stupid Women (2009)
Plot Summary:
A handful of insults and fighting best friends, not quite the Birthday presents every girl hopes for. Melissa s not every girl. She is determined to collect insults from all of her past boyfriends before her birthday night is over. But her journey to rid herself of her bad hook-up karma leads to some pretty strange situations, and by the nights end she might just learn a thing or two about relationships. Will things start looking up for the insulted party girl, or will she be stuck with bad karma for another year?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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6 Month Rule (2011)
Plot Summary:
A womanizer teaches his clueless friend the rules about being single and avoiding emotional attachment.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 733
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, thought provoking
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Dating Games People Play (2005)
Plot Summary:
Nick Jenkins finds himself back in the single scene as his relationship with his fiancee abruptly fall apart. With his roommate and best friend Jed Rollins, Nick jumps into the dating world. Mona, Jed, and Robin accompany him as they meander throught the quagmire of awkward situations they encounter on their dating escapades.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 210
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, captivating, sincere, independent film, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Let's Ruin It with Babies (2014)
Plot Summary:
Channing has it all: a beautiful home, a rock star lifestyle, and a loving husband intent on ruining it all by knocking her up.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, independent film, sexy
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Perfect Combination (2010)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of a fairly successful young black man, just shy of 30 years old, who decided he needs to be less of a workaholic and meet and date women, with marriage and family as a goal.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, touching, realistic, sexual
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Pipe Dream (2002)
Plot Summary:
A lonely plumber poses as a movie director to meet women, and the writer whose script he's stolen builds on his ruse to get her movie made.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, clever, semi serious, independent film