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Plot Summary:
Army photographers on leave in Japan take over a geisha house.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Love and Other Troubles (2012)
Plot Summary:
Ville, 25, is a downbeat former child star who's successfully avoided his womanizing rock 'n' roll dad for years. Everything changes when his dad moves into his flat and they both fall in love with the same American line-dancing teacher.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Finland, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, entertaining, contemplative
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Made in Paris (1966)
Plot Summary:
A pretty fashion buyer visiting Paris on business is courted by a famous designer. Boris Sagal's 1966 romantic comedy stars Ann-Margret, Louis Jourdan, Richard Crenna, Chad Everett, Edie Adams, John McGiver, Reta Shaw and Count Basie.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 674
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, romantic comedy
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Standing on Fishes (1999)
Plot Summary:
A romantic comedy.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Mrs. Hanka's Diary (1963)
Plot Summary:
The young and beautiful wife of a prominent diplomat complains of boredom. To change her monotonous life, she has an affair, through which she gets entangled in intrigues and espionage affairs. (telemagazyn.pl).
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: detective
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Professor Albeit (1998)
Plot Summary:
High school teacher falls in love with his "best" female student.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 561
Genere: Romance, Comedy
Country: Hungary
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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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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Ramona! (1991)
Plot Summary:
Ramona travels the highways and backroads to Las Vegas and discovers that sometimes love is the greatest adventure of all.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Christmas Lovers Anonymous (2021)
Plot Summary:
A best-selling author hides her love for Christmas after an ugly break up, finding love again when she joins a website for people who are crazy about Christmas: "Christmas Lovers Anonymous".
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 343
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration:
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Me, Grandma, Iliko and Ilarion (1962)
Plot Summary:
Film is based on one of the most popular novels of N. Dumbadze.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: crying
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A Majority of One (1961)
Plot Summary:
A gentle love story about a Japanese businessman and widower, and a Brooklyn widow. But before a happy ending can ensue, they must learn again the lessons of tolerance, kindness and forgiveness.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 156 min
Plot tags: intercultural, inter cultural
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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
Plot tags:
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All in a Night's Work (1961)
Plot Summary:
Dean Martin and Shirley MacLaine star in this sweet 1961 comedy about Tony Ryder (Martin), who takes over the duties of magazine publisher when his uncle dies suddenly, supposedly while spending time with a mistress. Worried that the news will besmirch his magazine's wholesome reputation, Tony hires a detective to find out who the mistress is, but mistakenly identifies the publication's researcher, Katie Robbins (MacLaine), as the secret lover.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 942
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: retro, technicolor, sexy, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, vintage
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At Midnight (2023)
Plot Summary:
Alejandro's life is disrupted when actress Sophie Wilder stays at his hotel. To their surprise, the two fall for one another, meeting at midnight.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Dog Years (2021)
Plot Summary:
Stella is a clumsy, cynical, imaginative and tormented teenage girl. After a life-changing car accident involving a dog, she convinces herself she must count her age in dog years: one year of her life counts for seven, and now that she’s turning sixteen, she is a centennial. For this reason, Stella thinks she has not much time left to live and pens a bucket list of all the things she would like to achieve before she dies.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 353
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Less Than 30 (2016)
Plot Summary:
Alexa Cavender, pressured to find a relationship, takes an interesting approach by only dating those matched at less than 30%.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Moriah's Lighthouse (2022)
Plot Summary:
Moriah is a woodworking artisan living in a French, seaside town, who dreams of restoring the local lighthouse. When Ben, an American architect, comes to town, it seems as though her dreams will never become reality after she learns he’s there to give the lighthouse a makeover… but for another buyer.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 903
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada, France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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That Funny Feeling (1965)
Plot Summary:
Joan Howell, a young and pretty maid-for-hire, meets and begins dating wealthy New York City businessman Tom Milford. Embarrassed about bringing him back to her tiny apartment that she shares with her roommate Audrey, Joan brings Tom over to a fancy apartment that she cleans on a daily basis not knowing that it's his place. Tom plays along with the charade despite not knowing who Joan really is, while she tries to tidy up Tom's place not knowing who he really is. Written by Matthew Patay.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 989
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: retro, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Watching the Detectives (2007)
Plot Summary:
Neil, a self proclaimed film geek and owner of Gumshoe video, has always been content to live vicariously through his favorite films noir. But when he meets Violet, a real-life femme fatale, his mundane world gets turned upside down and the line between reality and the movies quickly begins to blur. Will Neil step up and embrace a life full of adventure or retreat back to his comfortable couch?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, touching, sincere, melancholic, romantic, cult classic, witty, independent film
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Move Over, Darling (1963)
Plot Summary:
Three years into their loving marriage, with two infant daughters at home in Los Angeles, Nicholas Arden and Ellen Wagstaff Arden are on a plane that goes down in the South Pacific. Although most passengers manage to survive the incident, Ellen presumably perishes when swept off her lifeboat, her body never recovered. Fast forward five years. Nicky, wanting to move on with his life, has Ellen declared legally dead. Part of that moving on includes getting remarried, this time to a young woman named Bianca Steele, who, for their honeymoon, he plans to take to the same Monterrey resort where he and Ellen spent their honeymoon. On that very same day, Ellen is dropped off in Los Angeles by the Navy, who rescued her from the South Pacific island where she was stranded for the past five years. She asks the Navy not to publicize her rescue nor notify Nicky as she wants to do so herself.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: technicolor, slapstick comedy, clever, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, romantic comedy
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Love Is a Ball (1963)
Plot Summary:
Etienne makes a good living out of marrying off poor but titled young men to rich but untitled young ladies. Millicent is now in his sights on the Riviera, and Grand Duke Gaspar is the bait. But what if Millicent starts to fancy planted chauffeur John instead, and Gaspar takes a shine to Etienne's secretary Janine?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 655
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic comedy
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Baptists at Our Barbecue (2004)
Plot Summary:
"Baptists at Our Barbecue" is the comedic story of the small town of Longwinded, USA, a divided, feuding town of 262 Mormons and 262 Baptists. It's also a love story, about one man who will try anything to end the ridiculous feud, bring the town together, and keep the peace-loving girl of his dreams from leaving town.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, semi serious, humorous, realistic, offbeat, contemplative
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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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The Last Time I Saw Archie (1961)
Plot Summary:
Two Air Force friends have fun during their enlistment.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 443
Genere: Comedy, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic
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Paris When It Sizzles (1964)
Plot Summary:
Hollywood producer Alexander Meyerheimer has hired drunken writer Richard Benson to write his latest movie. Benson has been holed up in a Paris apartment supposedly working on the script for months, but instead has spent the time living it up. Benson now has just two days to the deadline and thus hires a temporary secretary, Gabrielle Simpson, to help him complete it in time.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: romantic comedy, clever, witty, retro, absurd, feel good, humorous, semi serious, spoof, parody
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Rosaline (2022)
Plot Summary:
Left heartbroken after Romeo begins to pursue her cousin Juliet, Rosaline schemes to foil the famous romance and win back her guy in this comedic twist of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: period piece, cute, teen, parody
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I Will... I Will... For Now (1976)
Plot Summary:
Elliot Gould stars as Les Bingham, who takes umbrage that his ex-wife Katie (Diane Keaton) has a new love in life. What Les doesn't realize is that her new paramour is lawyer Lou Springer (Paul Sorvino). When Katie's sister Sally (Candy Clark) arrives and tells the two about her new, hip '70s marriage contract, Les and Katie decide to try to get together again under a more liberal marriage contract, like Katie's sister. But, unfortunately for the couple, the contract is planted with the seeds of self-destruction, having been drafted by Lou.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Starting Over (1979)
Plot Summary:
A divorced man falls in love, but somehow he can't get over his ex-wife. This effects his love life in comic ways. Based on Dan Wakefield's novel. Burt Reynolds is an attractive middle-aged man who suffers a crisis of confidence when ditched by his ambitious singer wife (Candice Bergen), until he begins to forge a new new relationship with an equally insecure teacher (Jill Clayburgh). But when the wife attempts a reconciliation - seduction followed by a truly excruciating song she has composed for him - he realizes where his loyalty lies.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, humorous, witty, semi serious, romantic comedy, clever, contemplative, talky, neo screwball comedy
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The Kissing Booth 3 (2021)
Plot Summary:
It’s the summer before Elle heads to college, and she has a secret decision to make. Elle has been accepted into Harvard, where boyfriend Noah is matriculating, and also Berkeley, where her BFF Lee is headed and has to decide if she should stay or not.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: realistic, tear jerker, thought provoking, sweet, emotional, semi serious, teen, atmospheric, sad, intense
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The Americanization of Emily (1964)
Plot Summary:
During the build-up to D-Day in 1944, the British found their island hosting many thousands of American soldiers who were "oversexed, overpaid, and over here". That's Charlie Madison exactly; he knows all the angles to make life as smooth and risk-free as possible for himself. But things become complicated when he falls for an English woman, and his commanding officer's nervous breakdown leads to Charlie being sent on a senseless and dangerous mission.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, realistic, witty, funny, black and white, cute, humorous, semi serious, sentimental, light
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Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber (2005)
Plot Summary:
Social satire based on the best-seller by Adele Lang humorously chronicles the life of Katya Livingston, a self-centered, obnoxious and conceited 28-year-old ad sales exec who won't let anything or anyone stand in her way in getting to the top of the San Francisco social ladder.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, sentimental