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Plot Summary:
Dear Galileo is created by the director who was behind the runaway success of “Seasons Change”. It’s the story of two friends, Tai and Toey. One wants to runs away from school and the other is running away from love. They decide to travel and work as waitresses in Europe. Their goal is to see the birthplace of Galileo.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 394
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 130 min
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The Buttercup Chain (1970)
Plot Summary:
Born to twin sisters on the same day in London, France and Margaret are more like brother and sister than cousins. The close relationship between the cousins is suspended when Margaret is sent abroad for schooling. Now a young woman, Margaret returns to London and resumes her intimate connection with France.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
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Barbarian Light (2019)
Plot Summary:
THE WAKE OF LIGHT is a romantic drama about a young woman grappling between a deep-felt responsibility in caring for her ailing father and her newfound love for a young man passing through her small town on the way to see the one place his father never could. In confronting the heart-rending choice to leave her father, Barbarian Light explores the desire to connect with life's deeper meaning and questions the existence of faith.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
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One More Time (2023)
Plot Summary:
On her 40th birthday, Amelia makes a fateful wish to be 18 again back in 2002 but soon regrets it when she's stuck reliving the day over and over again.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 85 min
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My Precious (2023)
Plot Summary:
Tong and his group of friends are in love with the same girl, Lin. Tong is forced to be supervised by another student due to his bad behavior. And his school life changes learning, playing and finding the first love.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 120 min
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That Sounds Good (2010)
Plot Summary:
That Sounds Good is a romantic comedy that takes you on a journey with two girls, one guy, and their complicated love triangle through the magnificent landscapes of three countries: Thailand, Laos and Vietnam. When Soontri and Ter, two clumsy girls- one with thick glasses, the other with a hearing aid- meet a traveler named Somchun while on a trip to Vietnam, they soon realize that they are both smitten with him. As Somchun is more interested in Ter, the friendship between the two girls begins to get complicated.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: romantic comedy
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Searching for You (2016)
Plot Summary:
Etsinnässä (Searching for You) is a story about Joni, a young man in his twenties, who returns to his hometown for summer vacation from university. While on his vacation, Joni tries to find himself and happiness.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film
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A School Trip (1983)
Plot Summary:
Italy, 1914. Two teachers take their pupils for a school outing from Bologna to Florence.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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303 (2018)
Plot Summary:
On the way from Berlin to Portugal in her rusty '303' camper van, young biology student Jule picks up hitchhiker Jan. While having intense conversations about everything and the world, they try not to fall in love.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: road movie, light, sincere, melancholic, philosophical, noir, mumblecore, art house, aesthetic, independent film
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Waiter! (1983)
Plot Summary:
After a life of emotional and professional upsets, Alex finds himself headwaiter in a chic Parisian restaurant. Well into middle age, divorced but still very much a ladies’ man, he has one great ambition: to open an amusement park by the sea. One day, an old flame, Claire, suddenly re-enters his life. For Alex, the fires of love are easily re-kindled, but Claire has another man in her life….
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 816
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
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Girl's Best Friend (2008)
Plot Summary:
A disgruntled music critic travels cross-country with her inheritance -- a Jack Russell Terrier named Binky.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 461
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, sentimental, light, offbeat, realistic, witty, ridiculous
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Gone with the Woman (2007)
Plot Summary:
A woman moves into a young man's home and starts to run his life -- a process that makes him fall hopelessly in love with her.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, melancholic, captivating, cult classic, cult film
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I, Cesar (2003)
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Cesar is a young schoolboy living in Paris with his family. Their life is ordinary, but Cesar wants more excitement (which he creates, in one instance, by claiming to his teachers that his father has been arrested). During the school holidays, Cesar and his friend Sarah decide to help their mutual friend, Morgan, find his father who supposedly lives in London. Each one tells their parents that they're staying with the other two, and together they sneak out to begin their search.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Dreamfactory (2019)
Plot Summary:
A romantic drama set in 1961 that follows a young studio extra's ambitious efforts to reunite with the French girl he loves after being separated by the construction of the Berlin Wall.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: romantic, uplifting, touching, sweet, sentimental
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Bye Bye Blackbird (2005)
Plot Summary:
A period drama set in the early years of the 20th century. Josef, a former construction worker who delighted in dancing on girders high above the city, who now sweeps up at the circus. Once the big top's owner spots the young roustabout defying gravity on the trapeze, however, he endeavors to pair Josef with his aerialist daughter Alice in a perilous sky-high pas de deux. Offers a romantic view of big top life, with a moth-eaten angel in his feathered, tattered costume.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Drama
Country: Austria, Luxembourg, Germany, UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, realistic, captivating, romantic, serious, stylized
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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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Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1987)
Plot Summary:
Middle-class Parisian suburbs: Blanche and Lea, office worker and student, meet and become friends. Lea is going out with Fabien, but is thinking of leaving him. Blanche falls for Lea's handsome and witty friend Alexandre, but is tongue-tied whenever she meets him. Lea goes on holiday and Blanche, still smitten with the dashing Alexandre, begins to get to get know Fabien. A classic Rohmer moral tale.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, aesthetic, clever, feel good, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious, crying, eighties
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A Faithful Man (2018)
Plot Summary:
Marianne leaves Abel for Paul, his best friend and the father of her unborn child. Eight years later, Paul dies and Marianne returns to Abel. However, things have changed for the both of them and feelings of jealousy surround their new relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, romantic, uplifting, touching, sweet, aesthetic
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Stop Calling Me Baby! (1977)
Plot Summary:
A man hires a P.I. to find a sexy woman he fell in love with. The woman lives with her underage teen sister who dreams about having sex for the first time, but wants a real man. That's when the P.I. shows up and stirs up the household.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Frenchmen (2003)
Plot Summary:
The life of four best friends in Paris: Antoine (a gym school teacher), Jeff (director of a monthly journal), Alex (Jeff's associate in the monthly journal and a Don Juan) and Manu (owner of fine food store). Their time is shared between their respective jobs, their relationship with women (their own and others...) and the times they meet together to discuss about life and play sport lottery.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, clever
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Frenchmen 2 (2007)
Plot Summary:
Alex, Antoine, Jeff and Manu. Four friends, four years later. Their relationships, friendship, shared secrets, feelings of guilt and their desire to change and improve.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 822
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: witty, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Snowed Inn Christmas (2017)
Plot Summary:
Jenna Hudson (Bethany Joy Lenz) and Kevin Jenner (Andrew Walker) are polar opposites working for the same online publication in New York City. With both having nowhere they want to be for Christmas, they volunteer for a special writing assignment. After a snowstorm forces their plane to land in none other than Santa Claus, Indiana, the two are placed in a Christmas Wonderland and the focus of their story shifts to saving the historic town inn run by Carol and Christopher Winters. As the two overcome their differences, they also rediscover the magic of Christmas. But with the inn's fate in jeopardy and the return of someone from Jenna's past, Carol and Christopher lend a helping hand to bring Jenna and Kevin together.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sweet, entertaining, disturbing, emotional, captivating
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God, You're Such a Prick (2020)
Plot Summary:
16-year old Steffi just graduated from high school and is very much looking forward to her class trip to Paris where she has promised her boyfriend Fabian the romantic night that she has kept him waiting for so long. Her lifelong plan to join the police forces is already set up, her adult life is right around the corner. At a routine health check-up, just before the trip to Paris, Steffi and her parents are faced with a shattering diagnosis.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 570
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: road movie, sincere, touching, serious, captivating, realistic
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You and Me (2006)
Plot Summary:
In Paris, Ariane and Lena are sisters. Ariane writes photo novellas for the magazine "Toi et Moi." She's emotional and her long-time boyfriend, Farid, has her in a state because he won't propose, won't ask her to live with him, and often is unavailable. Lena is a cellist, quiet and circumspect in life and in her playing. She lives without passion with her boyfriend François; they're talking about having a baby.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 659
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, sexy, captivating, light, emotional, realistic, semi serious, sexual, hot
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Breakup Buddies (2014)
Plot Summary:
Recently cuckolded and reeling from a messy divorce, a hapless former singer hits the road - and the bar - with his all-too-helpful best bud, in this hilarious romantic comedy.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, light, feel good, realistic, not serious
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French Kiss (1995)
Plot Summary:
French Kiss is director Kasdan’s best film since the Bodyguard. The plot involves a couple in love and one woman’s attempt to fly to Paris to get her lover back from a business trip and marry him. On the way she unknowingly smuggles something of value that has a petty thief chasing her across France as she chases after her future husband.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 52000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: feel good, romantic, romantic comedy, humorous, sweet, light, entertaining, philosophical, uplifting, emotional
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2 Days in Paris (2007)
Plot Summary:
Adam Goldberg delivers "an uproarious study in transatlantic culture panic" as Jack, an anxious, hypochondriac-prone New Yorker vacationing throughout Europe with his breezy, free-spirited Parisian girlfriend, Marion. But when they make a two-day stop in Marion's hometown, the couple's romantic trip takes a turn as Jack is exposed to Marion's sexually perverse and emotionally unstable family.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, romantic, artsy, funny, melancholic, witty, contemplative, romantic comedy, realistic, talky
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Paris (2008)
Plot Summary:
Pierre, a professional dancer, suffers from a serious heart disease. While he is waiting for a transplant which may (or may not) save his life, he has nothing better to do than look at the people around him, from the balcony of his Paris apartment.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, sentimental, romantic, uplifting, semi serious, touching, serious, realistic
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Dance Baby Dance (2007)
Plot Summary:
London, an overcrowded cafe, one table to share. Two strangers tell each other “how I met my fiancé” stories to kill time. Rikki (Abhishek Bachchan) met his fiance Anaida (Lara Dutta) at the Ritz in Paris and Alvira (Preity Zinta) met her prince charming Steve (Bobby Deol) at Madame Tussauds.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: feel good, stylized, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Frenchmen 3 (2013)
Plot Summary:
Alex, Antoine and Manu meet Jean, a loner who ignores the pleasures of friendship. Little by little, they learn to know each other, to appreciate each other. Jean is moved by the complicity and affection that fuels the relationship with his new friends.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 465
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty, light, feel good
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The Spanish Apartment (2002)
Plot Summary:
A strait-laced French student moves into an apartment in Barcelona with a cast of six other characters from all over Europe. Together, they speak the international language of love and friendship.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, touching, romantic, realistic, romantic comedy, intense, sentimental, road movie, sweet