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Plot Summary:
Holden and Banky are comic book artists. Everything is going good for them until they meet Alyssa, also a comic book artist. Holden falls for her, but his hopes are crushed when he finds out she's a lesbian.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 143000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: funny, talky, independent film, touching, romantic, sexual, melancholic, cult classic, semi serious, sex comedy
Best tv shows and movies like Chasing Amy (1997):
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Clerks II (2006)
Plot Summary:
A calamity at Dante and Randall's shops sends them looking for new horizons - but they ultimately settle at Mooby's, a fictional Disney-McDonald's-style fast-food empire.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 140000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, witty, cult classic, sincere, realistic, semi serious, clever, talky, scary
Similar in 76%
Just One Time (1998)
Plot Summary:
When the fiancee of a fireman reluctantly agrees to participate in a menage a trois with another woman, she does so on the condition that he reciprocate the favor with another man, which ultimately puts their impending marriage in jeopardy.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 781
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: art house, independent film, clever, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, crying
Similar in 83%
The Wedding Banquet (1993)
Plot Summary:
A Taiwanese-American man is happily settled in New York with his American boyfriend. He plans a marriage of convenience to a Chinese woman in order to keep his parents off his back and to get the woman a green card. Chaos follows when his parents arrive in New York for the wedding.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan, USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, realistic, emotional, melancholic, talky, semi serious, clever, intercultural, romantic
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Boy Meets Girl (2014)
Plot Summary:
BOY MEETS GIRL is a funny, tender, sex positive romantic comedy that explores what it means to be a real man or woman, and how important it is to live a courageous life not letting fear stand in the way of going after your dreams.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, melancholic, enigmatic, sweet, semi serious, romantic comedy, realistic, social, sex comedy
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The Art of Being Straight (2008)
Plot Summary:
A sexy, comedic drama about two college friends questioning their careers and sexuality in east Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 704
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexy, uplifting, clever, sexual
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The Object of My Affection (1998)
Plot Summary:
A pregnant New York social worker begins to develop romantic feelings for her gay best friend, and decides she'd rather raise her child with him, much to the dismay of her overbearing boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, feel good, light, sweet, humorous, romantic, romantic comedy, cute, entertaining
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Threesome (1994)
Plot Summary:
Eddy and Stuart share two-thirds of a dormitory suite. Due to bureaucratic error, a woman named Alex is added to their room. At first, relations among the three are tense. Soon, however, Alex falls for Eddy, and Stuart lusts after Alex.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, lgbt cinema, cute, sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Similar in 77%
Mallrats (1995)
Plot Summary:
Both dumped by their girlfriends, two best friends seek refuge in the local mall.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 128000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: entertaining, humorous, funny, talky, hilarious, cult classic, cynical, semi serious, game show, witty
Similar in 87%
200 Cigarettes (1999)
Plot Summary:
A collection of twentysomethings try to cope with relationships, loneliness, desire and their individual neuroses.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: talky, witty, melancholic, feel good, semi serious, humorous, funny, entertaining, offbeat, realistic
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Life Partners (2014)
Plot Summary:
A 29-year-old lawyer and her lesbian best friend experience a dramatic shift in their longtime bond after one enters a serious relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, talky, melancholic, sweet, touching, sincere, semi serious, independent film, captivating
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Celeste & Jesse Forever (2012)
Plot Summary:
Celeste and Jesse met in high school and got married young. They laugh at the same jokes and finish each other’s sentences. They are forever linked in their friends’ minds as the perfect couple – she, a high-powered businesswoman and budding novelist; he, a free spirit who keeps things from getting boring. Their only problem is that they have decided to get divorced. Can their perfect relationship withstand this minor setback?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, sentimental, independent film, mumblecore, light, heartbreaking, melancholic, romantic, emotional, semi serious
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Your Sister's Sister (2011)
Plot Summary:
Iris invites her friend Jack to stay at her family's island getaway after the death of his brother. At their remote cabin, Jack's drunken encounter with Hannah, Iris' sister, kicks off a revealing stretch of days.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: romantic, sincere, emotional, independent film, witty, psychological, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Love! Valour! Compassion! (1997)
Plot Summary:
Gregory invites seven friends to spend the summer at his large, secluded 19th-century home in upstate New York. The seven are: Bobby, Gregory's "significant other," who is blind but who loves to explore the home's garden using his sense of touch; Art and Perry, two "yuppies" who drive a Volvo and who celebrate their 14th anniversary together that summer; John, a dour expatriate Briton who loathes his twin brother James; Ramon, John's "companion," who is physically attracted to Bobby and immediately tries to seduce the blind man; James, a cheerful soul who is in the advanced stages of AIDS; and Buzz, a fan of traditional Broadway musicals who is dealing with his own HIV-positive status.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, touching, realistic, witty, clever, feel good, humorous, semi serious, hispanic
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High Fidelity (2000)
Plot Summary:
When record store owner Rob Gordon gets dumped by his girlfriend, Laura, because he hasn't changed since they met, he revisits his top five breakups of all time in an attempt to figure out what went wrong. As Rob seeks out his former lovers to find out why they left, he keeps up his efforts to win Laura back.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 188000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: realistic, melancholic, feel good, funny, romantic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, cult classic, clever
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Jersey Girl (2004)
Plot Summary:
Ollie Trinke is a young, suave music publicist who seems to have it all, with a new wife and a baby on the way. But life deals him a bum hand when he's suddenly faced with single fatherhood, a defunct career and having to move in with his father. To bounce back, it takes a new love and the courage instilled in him by his daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 69000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: romantic, sweet, feel good, sentimental, touching, sexy, sincere, humorous, entertaining, anamorphic
Similar in 82%
Reality Bites (1994)
Plot Summary:
A small circle of friends suffering from post-collegiate blues must confront the hard truth about life, love and the pursuit of gainful employment. As they struggle to map out survival guides for the future, the Gen-X quartet soon begins to realize that reality isn't all it's cracked up to be.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 53000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: realistic, talky, romantic, teen, humorous, witty, cynical, semi serious, intellectual, cult classic
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Love & Other Drugs (2010)
Plot Summary:
Maggie, an alluring free spirit who won't let anyone - or anything - tie her down. But she meets her match in Jamie, whose relentless and nearly infallible charm serve him well with the ladies and in the cutthroat world of pharmaceutical sales. Maggie and Jamie's evolving relationship takes them both by surprise, as they find themselves under the influence of the ultimate drug: love.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 219000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: sexy, romantic, sexual, emotional, funny, sweet, romantic comedy, sex comedy, erotic, cute
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Latter Days (2003)
Plot Summary:
Aaron Davis (Steve Sandvoss) and Christian Markelli (Wes Ramsey) are the two most opposite people in the world. Aaron is a young Elder (or a Mormon missionary) who wants to do his family proud and is quite passionate about his religion and film. Christian is a shallow WeHo waiter/party boy who only looks forward to bedding a new guy every night.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: romantic, sentimental, touching, controversial, sexy, erotic, independent film, realistic, lgbt cinema, humorous
Similar in 87%
Get Real (1998)
Plot Summary:
A tenderly romantic coming-of-age story as two boys in a British school fall in love.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, teen, sincere, romantic, emotional, realistic, sexy, lgbt cinema, romantic comedy
Similar in 77%
Show Me Love (1998)
Plot Summary:
Åmål is a small insignificant town where nothing ever happens, where the latest trends are out of date when they get there. Young Elin has a bit of a bad reputation when it comes to guys, but the fact is that she has never done *it*. Another girl in her school, Agnes, is in love with her but is too shy to do anything about it. For different reasons, Elin ends up at Agnes' birthday party as the only guest. They have a girl's night out together but after that Elin desperately avoids Agnes, refusing to even consider her own homosexuality.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 55000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sexual, heartbreaking, teen, sentimental, emotional, cult classic, realistic, touching, lgbt cinema, art house
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Kissing Jessica Stein (2001)
Plot Summary:
Jessica, a Jewish copy editor living and working in New York City, is plagued by failed blind dates with men, and decides to answer a newspaper's personal advertisement. The advertisement has been placed by 'lesbian-curious' Helen Cooper, a thirtysomething art gallerist.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, feel good, humorous, romantic comedy, independent film, realistic, talky, sex comedy, offbeat
Similar in 75%
Go Fish (1994)
Plot Summary:
Max is a trendy, pretty, young lesbian, who is having trouble finding love. A friend sets her up with Ely, whom Max likes, but Ely is frumpy, homely, and older. Nor do they have much in common. Can Max learn to look past the packaging?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: independent film, black and white, sexual, clever, witty, lgbt cinema, mumblecore, touching, feel good, humorous
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The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love (1995)
Plot Summary:
An adventurous love story between two young women of different social and economic backgrounds who find themselves going through all the typical struggles of a new romance.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: teen, independent film, sentimental, sincere, touching, lgbt cinema, semi serious, crying, realistic, humorous
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The Four-Faced Liar (2010)
Plot Summary:
The Four Faced Liar is a story of love and lies for four twenty-somethings looking to find themselves in New York City... A story of love and lies for four twenty-somethings looking to find themselves in New York City. A pair of best friends and a seemingly perfect couple meet at a local Irish pub tucked in the winding streets of the West Village. Through their chance meeting, the four bond and over time all of their relationships with one another morph into love, betrayal and heartbreak for all.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, sexual, sensual, clever, offbeat, independent film
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Gray Matters (2006)
Plot Summary:
Sam and Gray are such a well-matched pair that it is difficult to believe they are brother and sister rather than husband and wife. They both share a love of 1940s movies and dancing, and when they meet Charlie, they have something else in common: They both fall in love with her. Sam must deal with unexpected feelings of jealousy, while Gray struggles to come to terms with her sexual orientation.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, touching, humorous, clever, realistic, semi serious, independent film, stylized, erotic
Similar in 82%
Saving Face (2004)
Plot Summary:
A Chinese-American lesbian and her traditionalist mother are reluctant to go public with secret loves that clash against cultural expectations.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, sexy, humorous, romantic comedy, intercultural, realistic, witty, lgbt cinema, sex comedy
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My Best Friend's Wedding (1997)
Plot Summary:
When she receives word that her longtime platonic pal Michael O'Neal is getting married to debutante Kimberly Wallace, food critic Julianne Potter realizes her true feelings for Michael -- and sets out to sabotage the wedding.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 152000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, sentimental, sweet, funny, romantic comedy, sexy, light, cute, clever
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As Good as It Gets (1997)
Plot Summary:
New York City. Melvin Udall, a cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer, finds his life turned upside down when neighboring gay artist Simon is hospitalized and his dog is entrusted to Melvin. In addition, Carol, the only waitress who will tolerate him, must leave work to care for her sick son, making it impossible for Melvin to eat breakfast.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 314000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, sweet, emotional, sentimental, inspirational, romantic comedy, psychological, funny, romantic
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When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
Plot Summary:
During their travels from Chicago to New York, Harry and Sally Will debate whether or not sex ruins a perfect relationship between a man and a woman. Eleven years later, and they're still no closer to finding the answer.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 236000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: feel good, romantic, sweet, sentimental, funny, sincere, romantic comedy, touching, light, cute
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Imagine Me & You (2005)
Plot Summary:
During her wedding ceremony, Rachel notices Luce in the audience and feels instantly drawn to her. The two women become close friends, and when Rachel learns that Luce is a lesbian, she realizes that despite her happy marriage to Heck, she is falling for Luce. As she questions her sexual orientation, Rachel must decide between her stable relationship with Heck and her exhilarating new romance with Luce.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: romantic, sexy, sentimental, stylized, semi serious, erotic, light, sexual, romantic comedy, cute