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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
Plot tags:
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The 10 Commandments of Chloe (2013)
Plot Summary:
“The 10 Commandments of Chloe” is about the pursuit of The American Dream, with Chloe, a 20-something young woman, serving as our guide. Long considered a microcosm for America, the city of Nashville, TN comes alive as Chloe, from seemingly out of nowhere, arrives in town with one mission – to make her dreams as a singer-songwriter come true. Is she prepared to sacrifice comfort, security, and most of all love, to make it happen?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags:
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The Lessee (2016)
Plot Summary:
In a series of life events, a group of young adults expressed their love, desires, and secrets in ways they didn't imagine they could.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: multicultural
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You Do You (2023)
Plot Summary:
Merve chose the bohemian life, but it didn't choose her back. Faced with eviction, she starts a new job and stumbles into a spicy setup with her boss.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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Miss All-American Beauty (1982)
Plot Summary:
After winning a beauty contest in Texas, a teen-aged girl is unprepared for the demands of travel, press conferences and interviews that go with winning the title and participating in a national beauty pageant.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Holiday Harmony (2022)
Plot Summary:
A likeable and talented underdog gets momentarily sidelined from chasing her musical dreams when her van breaks down in a welcoming small town just before Christmas.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
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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
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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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Love & Gelato (2022)
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Lina is about to graduate high school and has her sights set on her future at MIT. But when her mom gets sick, she encourages Lina to follow in her footsteps and have “the summer of a lifetime” in Rome. Using her mom’s old diary as a guide, she explores the romantic and magical city, where she just might find love... and gelato, of course.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, semi serious
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Americanese (2006)
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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Take Care (1991)
Plot Summary:
A young man just released from the army is making great dreams for his life. Finally he gets a job in a butcher's shop and gains the confidence of the owner. After the butcher's death he falls in love with his daughter but also has an affair with the widow and cannot decide between them.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Talking Walls (1987)
Plot Summary:
A student tapes sexual encounters in a Hollywood hotel for his thesis.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, sexploitation film
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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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Honeysuckle Rose (1980)
Plot Summary:
Buck Bonham (Willie Nelson) is a country singer, with a good family, struggling to find national fame. He juggles his music career with his responsibilities to his wife and son. He has everything going his way until the daughter of his former guitarist joins his tour. The road leads to temptation, which leads to his downfall. The only question is will his family and friends stand by him?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: road movie, southern gothic, sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious, erotic, funny, light, feel good
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Choose Me (1984)
Plot Summary:
Several lost-soul night-owls, including a nightclub owner, a talkback radio relationships counseller, and an itinerant stranger have encounters that expose their contradictions and anxieties about love and acceptance.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: offbeat, neo noir, surreal, sex comedy, independent film, atmospheric, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Time for Me to Come Home for Christmas (2018)
Plot Summary:
Famous musician Heath and small-town girl Cara are each traveling back to Oklahoma for the holidays when they get stranded in Chicago. Despite his fame, she has no idea who he is, but they hit it off—and she even ends up providing some inspiration for the Christmas song he's writing.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sincere, light, captivating, realistic, romantic comedy
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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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Full Moon in Blue Water (1988)
Plot Summary:
Floyd, the owner of a bar on the Texas coast, has been depressed for a year after his wife disappeared in a swimming accident. He lives with his senile father-in-law "The General" and is helped by Jimmy, a former asylum inmate, and the good-natured Louise. The bar is rapidly losing money and Charlie wants to buy it cheaply before it becomes publicly known that a nearby bridge is to be built. Louise offers her savings to go into partnership with Floyd, but Floyd decides to sell when he is forced to pay his back taxes.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 809
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, psychological, emotional
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The Jazz Singer (1980)
Plot Summary:
Neil Diamond stars as Yussel in this tale of a young Jewish cantor who strives to make a career in music.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: touching, intense, sentimental, serious, emotional, realistic, independent film, inspirational, road movie, feel good
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Song to Song (2017)
Plot Summary:
In this modern love story set against the Austin, Texas music scene, two entangled couples — struggling songwriters Faye and BV, and music mogul Cook and the waitress whom he ensnares — chase success through a rock ‘n’ roll landscape of seduction and betrayal.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: stylized, atmospheric, serious, art house, independent film, inspirational, captivating, disturbing, philosophical, artsy
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The Thing Called Love (1993)
Plot Summary:
Miranda Presley moves from New York to Nashville to become a songwriter. At an unsuccessful audition she meets James Wright, a promising newcomer. After only a few days they marry but start to quickly regret it.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic, entertaining, talky, crying, light
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Crazy Heart (2009)
Plot Summary:
When reporter Jean Craddock interviews Bad Blake -- an alcoholic, seen-better-days country music legend -- they connect, and the hard-living crooner sees a possible saving grace in a life with Jean and her young son. But can he leave behind an existence playing in the shadow of Tommy, the upstart kid he once mentored?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 94000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: touching, romantic, depressing, emotional, sincere, sentimental, serious, feel good, cult classic, realistic
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Look Both Ways (2022)
Plot Summary:
On the eve of her college graduation, Natalie's life diverges into two parallel realities: one in which she becomes pregnant and must navigate motherhood as a young adult in her Texas hometown, the other in which she moves to LA to pursue her career. In both journeys throughout her twenties, Natalie experiences life-changing love, devastating heartbreak and rediscovers herself.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, realistic, touching, romantic comedy, feel good
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Purple Hearts (2022)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring musician agrees to a marriage of convenience with a soon-to-deploy Marine, but a tragedy soon turns their fake relationship all too real.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: romantic, disturbing, captivating, entertaining, thought provoking, touching, emotional, romantic comedy, romantic drama
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Still Breathing (1997)
Plot Summary:
Two lost souls: she a con-artist in L.A.; he a puppeteer in San Antonio have the same dream linking each with the other. He travels to L.A. to find this woman he has become obsessed with. She resists, afraid of his kooky ideas until she travels with him to San Antonio and meets his wise grandmother. Story of two disparate people linked by "fate" gets increasingly interesting as it rolls along.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, semi serious, entertaining, romantic, cult classic, heartbreaking, indie film, humorous, independent film
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The Affair (1973)
Plot Summary:
A crippled lady songwriter meets an older lawyer, who becomes her first love.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 294
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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Begin Again (2013)
Plot Summary:
A long lost music producer finds a singer-songwriter right about the moment he has given up all hope on life.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 165000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: touching, romantic, inspirational, independent film, sentimental, sincere, feel good, lyrical, sweet, dramatic