Best movies like Brenda Starr
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Plot Summary:
Mike is a struggling artist who draws the 'Brenda Starr' strip for the papers. When Brenda comes to life in the strip and sees how unappreciated she is by Mike, she leaves the strip. To get her back, and keep his job, Mike draws himself into the strip. In her world, Brenda Starr is the Ace Reporter for the New York Flash. She is talented, fearless, smart and a very snappy dresser. The only competition she has is from the rival paper's top reporter Libby Lipscomb. Brenda heads to the Amazon jungle to find a scientist with a secret formula which will create cheap and powerful gas from ordinary water. (This movie was filmed in 1986 but release was delayed for several years.).
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, melancholic, semi serious, entertaining, independent film, light, sexy, enigmatic, feel good, unusual plot structure
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Continental Divide (1981)
Plot Summary:
A hard-nosed Chicago journalist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: clever, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, romantic, sexy, touching
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The Boyfriend School (1990)
Plot Summary:
Gus is a fat cartoonist that recently won a battle against cancer, which explains his baldness. But he is also lonely. Therefore, his caring sister tries to set him up with suitable woman. But to do so, she must turn him into an irresistible man. When he falls in love with Emily, Gus takes the identity of a mysterious biker from New Zealand.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, melancholic, independent film
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Back Roads (1981)
Plot Summary:
A prostitute and a drifter find themselves bound together as they make their way through the rural South, doing what they have to do to survive.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, talky, hispanic, campy
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Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1983)
Plot Summary:
Scarecrow and Mrs. King is an American television series that aired from October 3, 1983, to May 28, 1987 on CBS. The show stars Kate Jackson and Bruce Boxleitner as divorced housewife Amanda King and top-level "Agency" operative Lee Stetson who begin a strange association, and eventual romance, after encountering one another in a train station.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, humorous, semi serious, iconic
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Vibes (1988)
Plot Summary:
Medium Sylvia Pickel and psychometrist Nick Deezy meet at a psychic research facility in New York. Not long after, they're contacted by Harry Buscafusco, who offers them $50,000 to find his lost son in South America, in the heart of Incan territory where they discover an ancient mystical secret, and each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, retro, semi serious, romantic, clever, feel good, melancholic, satirical, surreal, twist ending
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Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993)
Plot Summary:
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman is a live-action American television series based on the characters in Superman and Action. Lois & Clark starred Dean Cain as Superman/Clark Kent and Teri Hatcher as Lois Lane, and aired on ABC from September 12, 1993 to June 14, 1997. Developed for television by Deborah Joy LeVine, the series loosely follows the philosophy of then-Superman writer John Byrne: Clark Kent is the true personality and Superman a disguise. As the show's title suggests, it focuses as much on the relationship between Clark Kent and Lois Lane as the adventures of Clark's alter-ego. The series spawned several short tie-in books aimed at young adults and a full-length novel for adults, Lois & Clark: A Superman Novel, written by C. J. Cherryh. The show was shot entirely in California.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, feel good, captivating, entertaining, epic, saga, thrilling, semi serious, telenovela
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Cabin Boy (1994)
Plot Summary:
A foul-mouthed finishing school graduate mistakenly winds up on an ill-fated fishing boat, and faces the wrath of a crew that considers him bad luck.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, melancholic, absurd, talky, not serious, cult classic, spoof, slapstick, nautical
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A Novel Romance (2015)
Plot Summary:
Romance novelist Liam Bradley (Dylan Bruce) has already found massive success with three books written under the pen name Gabriel August, but he's mysteriously unknown to his legions of readers. With his first book written as a way to heal after a broken relationship, Liam has slowly become disheartened with writing strictly for romantic fantasy, something evident to a sweet, but honest, journalist who reviews books, Sophie Atkinson (Amy Acker), whom he meets by chance on a plane. The two begin a tentative relationship in Sophie’s home town of Portland, Oregon, where Liam has come to find inspiration for his newest entry. Liam’s agent puts him on the spot with a long-planned reveal of Gabriel August’s true identity, but Sophie doesn’t know of his public persona. The longer Liam avoids telling her the truth, the deeper a hole he digs for himself. Will their romance survive once his true identity comes to light?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, funny, light, sweet, emotional, romantic comedy, cute
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The Beautician and the Beast (1997)
Plot Summary:
The story follows the misadventures of a New York City beautician who is mistakenly hired as the school teacher for the children of the president of a small Eastern European country.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, feel good, parody, realistic, romantic, sentimental, scary, fairy tale, funny
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Speechless (1994)
Plot Summary:
A romantic comedy. Michael Keaton and Geena Davis are speechwriters for competing political campaigns. Witty and amusing for the political junkies amongst us.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: romantic, sweet, entertaining, clever, humorous, witty, realistic, talky, semi serious, black comedy
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Petty Romance (2010)
Plot Summary:
A comic artist and an unemployed sex columnist are trying to work together in order to win a lucrative comic-book competition. An adult cartoon contest is announced offering a W130 million prize. Da-Rim (Choi Gang-Hee) does translation work for an adult magazine. Da-Rim wants to become a writer. Due to her creativity, Da-Rim is always making mistakes and gets fired by company. Talented cartoonist Jung-Bae (Lee Sun-Kyun) is constantly turned down by publishing companies because of his poor story lines. The two, who seemed perfectly matched, team up for the adult cartoon contest. Trouble is set to brew.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 763
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, light, entertaining, romantic, sex comedy, romantic comedy, sentimental, realistic
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Roxanne (1987)
Plot Summary:
Based on the play "Cyrano de Bergerac", large nosed C.D. Bales falls for the beautiful Roxanne while she falls for his personality but another man's looks.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, funny, romantic comedy, sexy, sentimental, romantic, entertaining, clever, offbeat
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Modern Romance (1981)
Plot Summary:
A film editor breaks up with his girlfriend, unsure if he is in love.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, melancholic, funny, disturbing, intense, realistic, semi serious, clever, witty, talky
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Alchemy (2005)
Plot Summary:
Can an university computer scientist (Cavanagh) make a woman fall in love with his interactive computer before she succumbs to a well-known professor?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 584
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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The Big Picture (1989)
Plot Summary:
Hollywood beckons for recent film school grad Nick Chapman, who is out to capitalize on the momentum from his national award-winning student film. Studio executive Allen Habel seduces Nick with a dream deal to make his first feature, but once production gets rolling, corporate reality begins to intervene: Nick is unable to control a series of compromises to his high-minded vision, and it's all he can do to maintain his integrity in the midst of filmmaking chaos.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: light, suspense, entertaining, melancholic, harsh, humorous, realistic, semi serious, funny, clever
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If Lucy Fell (1996)
Plot Summary:
Joe and Lucy are roommates and best friends. Lucy, whose love life is embarrassingly dull, convinces Joe, who is infatuated with a neighbor he's never met, that if they don't have stable romances within a month, they must jump off the Brooklyn Bridge.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sentimental, romantic, sweet, melancholic, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, offbeat, funny
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The Man On Her Mind (2014)
Plot Summary:
Nellie is a seemingly prim young woman who is conducting a clandestine affair with Jack, a super-suave, fast-talking lawyer. It doesn't matter that the pair seems mismatched because Jack doesn't really exist; he is a figment of Nellie’s imagination--someone she dreamed up out of bits and pieces of Leonard, a somewhat bland man with whom she had a blind date months earlier. Meanwhile, we meet Leonard, and learn that he too has an imaginary lover, whom he has fashioned after the attractive attributes of Nellie. When the two characters come together again, they are forced to compare and contrast their ideal—but, sadly, nonexistent--partners, with their flesh and blood counterparts. The question is, will Nellie choose the man on her mind over the man in her arms?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, entertaining, offbeat, independent film
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How I Got Into College (1989)
Plot Summary:
The simple story of two young Michigan high school students, Jessica, Class President, Local Smart Girl, and object of Marlon's affections attempt to get into a small Pennsylvania college. Jessica fights off her parent's expectation of going to their alma mater of the University of Michigan, while Marlon fights his grades and SAT scores.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, romantic, entertaining, satirical, light, melancholic, feel good, semi serious, realistic, inspirational
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Betsy's Wedding (1990)
Plot Summary:
Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper and her straight-laced investment-banker fiancé, Dylan Walsh, just want an intimate little wedding reception, but Betsy's father, Eddie, a Long Island construction contractor, feels so threatened by Jake's rich WASP parents that he blows the ceremony up into a bank-breaking showpiece, sending his wife, Lola, into a financial panic.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, talky, funny, melancholic, light, sentimental, feel good, semi serious, romantic, entertaining
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Happy Together (1989)
Plot Summary:
Christopher is an ambitious college freshman, striving to become a writer. Through a computer fault he's assigned the same room as Alex, a real party freak and... a girl! He's annoyed and tries to get a different room as soon as possible, but when he learns to know her, he also starts to like her. She not only improves his sexual life, but also his writing skills.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: romantic, melancholic, independent film, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sex comedy, funny, atmospheric
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How to Go Out on a Date in Queens (2006)
Plot Summary:
A self-proclaimed dating expert tries to get his best friend, who lost his wife two years earlier, back into the dating scene, with disastrous results.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 416
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, independent film, realistic, semi serious
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Born Yesterday (1993)
Plot Summary:
A businessman shows up in Washington to lobby agendas that are friendly to his construction plans. His ditsy ex-showgirl bimbo proves to be an embarrassment in social situations, so he hires a reporter to teach her how to appear more intelligent. Soon it becomes apparent to the reporter that she isn't so stupid after all, and things become more complicated as she begins questioning the papers her sugar daddy keeps getting her to sign, and the reporter begins falling in love with her.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, satirical, semi serious, witty, clever, talky, feel good, realistic, scary, sexy
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Zeus and Roxanne (1997)
Plot Summary:
Mary Beth is a marine biologist that gets annoyed when a dog called Zeus stows aboard her research boat. Nevertheless she is intrigued when the intrusive canine makes best-friends with her captive dolphin, Roxanne. She falls in love with Zeus's owner, Terry, a musician who rides a bike.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sweet, melancholic, touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, light, clever, unusual plot structure, entertaining
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Long Shot (2019)
Plot Summary:
Fred Flarsky is a gifted and free-spirited journalist who has a knack for getting into trouble. Charlotte Field is one of the most influential women in the world -- a smart, sophisticated and accomplished politician. When Fred unexpectedly runs into Charlotte, he soon realizes that she was his former baby sitter and childhood crush. When Charlotte decides to make a run for the presidency, she impulsively hires Fred as her speechwriter -- much to the dismay of her trusted advisers.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 119000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada, Colombia
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: light, entertaining, feel good, romantic comedy, funny, humorous, political, captivating, family comedy, cult classic
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Condorman (1981)
Plot Summary:
Comic artist and writer Woody performs a simple courier operation for his friend Harry who works for the CIA. But when he successfully fends off hostile agents, he earns the respect of the beautiful Natalia, who requests his assistance for her defection. Woody uses this request as leverage to use the CIA's resources to bring his comic book creation, Condorman, to life to battle the evil Krokov.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spoof, humorous, spy comedy, cult classic, exciting, feel good, semi serious, fast, parody, psychotronic
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The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000)
Plot Summary:
Rocky and Bullwinkle have been living off the finances made from the reruns of their cartoon show. Boris and Natasha somehow manage to crossover into reality and team up with Fearless Leader, an evil criminal turned media mogul with some evil plans up his sleeve. Rocky and Bullwinkle must stop the three of them before they wreak havoc.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, melancholic, surreal, feel good, not serious, family comedy, cult classic, offbeat, fast
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Beauty & the Briefcase (2010)
Plot Summary:
A freelance writer looking for romance sells a story to Cosmopolitan magazine about finding love in the workplace and goes undercover at a Finance Company.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, teen, romantic comedy, romantic drama, romantic, sentimental, realistic
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Set It Up (2018)
Plot Summary:
Two overworked assistants with nasty bosses try to get their supervisors out of their hair.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, feel good, humorous, entertaining, romantic comedy, realistic, sweet, teen
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Mr. Deeds (2002)
Plot Summary:
When Longfellow Deeds, a small-town pizzeria owner and poet, inherits $40 billion from his deceased uncle, he quickly begins rolling in a different kind of dough. Moving to the big city, Deeds finds himself besieged by opportunists all gunning for their piece of the pie. Babe, a television tabloid reporter, poses as an innocent small-town girl to do an exposé on Deeds.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 151000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: funny, entertaining, humorous, romantic comedy, hilarious, light, not serious, romantic, slapstick, predictable
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Morning Glory (2010)
Plot Summary:
A young and devoted morning television producer is hired as an executive producer on a long-running morning show at a once-prominent but currently failing station in New York City. Eager to keep the show on air, she recruits a former news journalist and anchor who disapproves of co-hosting a show that does not deal with real news stories.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 82000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, feel good, funny, entertaining, melancholic, inspirational, humorous, realistic, semi serious