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Plot Summary:
Elbow Grease is a sincere look into the humor and craziness that is the everyday life of the Barnes family as they come to terms with each other. Billy and Ellie's marriage may be on the rocks, but they don't know chaos until Billy's wayward brother arrives and spreads it not only through the family but to the neighbors and the entire town of Guppie, South Carolina as it prepares for its annual festival.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags:
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Little Vegas (1990)
Plot Summary:
Quirky serio-comedy about the unusual residents of a desert trailer park that mobsters want to turn into a gambling mecca.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, independent film
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Holiday (1999)
Plot Summary:
During a family reunion in 2000, guests decide to read out laud their "where i see myself in 10 years" wish lists which they wrote down during their 1990 family reunion.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Canada
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Personally Yours (2000)
Plot Summary:
In Alaska, Susannah Stanton and Jesse Stanton divorced two years ago. They have two daughters, the teenager Bridget and the young girl Hannah, and a young son, Sam, and they are good friends. Jesse lives in an isolated ranch, where he receives guests for fishing and tracking, and he depends on his plane to go to the city of Anchorage, where Susannah has a restaurant. They separated because Susannah felt bored and lonely in the ranch. Susannah is dating a lawyer, and their children decide to find a woman for Jesse, sending a letter to a popular magazine called Alaskan Love. He receives a large number of replies, and the children later feel that probably his perfect match is Susannah, and they try to arrange a plan to bring them together.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 664
Genere: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, emotional, sentimental
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Donkey (2009)
Plot Summary:
It is 1995. The summer when the war operation Storm will take place. Boro, who is going to be forty in a year and a half, with his wife Jasna and son Luka goes to his home village Drinovci, Herzegovina, after seven years. He wants to see his brother who managed to leave Sarajevo with his family. Boro knew that his brother was wounded, but when he sees him after many years, he discovers that the brother will spend the rest of his life in wheel chair. Boro constantly fights with Jasna, and he doesn't speak at all to his father Pako, whom he blames for his mother's death. In two weeks in August 1995, Boro will solve the years long dispute with his father, he will learn to be a better husband and a father.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 647
Genere: Drama
Country: Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, UK, Serbia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, unusual plot structure, contemplative
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Midway to Heaven (2011)
Plot Summary:
Years after his wife Kate died, Ned Stevens still cringes at the thought of dating other women. After all, why would he start dating again when he still has to look out for his daughter Liz? But when Liz comes home for a visit from college, she brings a surprise guest who will throw Ned for a loop. Can Ned ever accept that his little girl has fallen in love with David, a practically perfect know-it-all who drives Ned crazy?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 652
Genere: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: christian film, humorous, sentimental, light
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The Remake (2016)
Plot Summary:
Sheridan O'Connor and Riccardo Rossi were destined to meet on the set of their first big movie together when barely out of their teens. What they didn't know was that their on-screen chemistry would translate into a hot and heavy off-screen romance destined only for disaster. Now, living continents apart and a lifetime later, expecting their paths never to cross again, they are thrown back together to star in an updated version of their original film. The studio has high hopes that they will be able to attract the same audience who loved them the first time around. But working together again could demand greater acting skills than either ever imagined: long hours filming awkward romantic scenes, reliving the past and coming face to face with what fate has in store for them. Only slightly shaken and gently stirred by family and friends, Sheridan and Riccardo must find a way to make the perfect martini out of life so as not to waste a single drop of happiness.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, mysterious, tear jerker, independent film, tearjerker, nostalgic
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Gold (2014)
Plot Summary:
An offbeat comedy about an estranged father who returns to his hometown after an absence of ten years in order to reconnect with his daughter and ex-wife but unwittingly finds himself responsible for almost destroying all their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Ireland
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, tragicomedy, witty, uplifting, realistic, semi serious
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Our Town (1977)
Plot Summary:
3-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Happy Birthday, Gemini (1980)
Plot Summary:
Based on the off-Broadway smash of the 1970's; a poor Harvard student's romance with a girl hits a rough spot when he realizes , on his 21st birthday, that he's in love with her brother.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 298
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sexy, independent film, erotic, sincere, clever, touching, offbeat, humorous, realistic, talky
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The Year I Became a Liar (2009)
Plot Summary:
Filmmaker Ricardo Trogi recalls the events surrounding his family moving to a new neighborhood when he was 11-years-old.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, emotional, semi serious, feel good, teen, offbeat, realistic, crying
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Bert: The Last Virgin (1995)
Plot Summary:
The film is based on a series of immensely popular Swedish children's books, about the boy Bert, who is just hitting puberty and having the usual problems with it. But that's where the usual ends abruptly.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Harvest Moon (2015)
Plot Summary:
When her family goes bankrupt, privileged city girl Jen Stone travels to the country to try and fix up a struggling pumpkin farm that her father bought as an investment to get her money back. Not everyone is on board with her changes, least of all Brett, the farm's handsome manager. By working with what she knows best, she discovers the magic of pumpkin skincare and turns the struggling farm around while also falling in love.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, touching, feel good
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Life in Flight (2008)
Plot Summary:
Will is a rising star in New York City architecture, managing a tough project and negotiating to join an important firm. He rarely smiles. His wife Catherine is on the rise as well, as the social engine of his success. They have a son, about eight. Will hits a bump when he meets Kate, a designer of smaller spaces whose work Will has seen (at his son's school). He recommends her for a project, neglects to tell her he's married, and sort of seems available. She falls hard, then meets Catherine and gets a job offer in L.A. Should Will sign with the big firm, go with Catherine on a dream vacation in the Caribbean, and wonder about Kate in L.A.? A flock of birds may hold the answer.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 601
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, romantic, captivating
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Hard Promises (1991)
Plot Summary:
A man who doesn't like stable work environments has been away for too many years, and finds out his wife has divorced him and is planning to remarry. He comes home to confront her, trying to convince her not to get married, aided by the daughter, who loves him despite his wandering ways. The couple finds out they still have feelings for each other but must decide how best to handle the contradiction of their lifestyles.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 683
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Project Christmas Wish (2020)
Plot Summary:
For years Lucy has played Santa to her small town’s community by making their holiday wishes come true. But when Lucy grants a little girl’s wish for a Christmas like she used to have with her mom, she unexpectedly finds her own wishes coming true in life and love.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sentimental, inspirational, romantic, touching, feel good, sweet
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Two Turtle Doves (2019)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Sharon Hayes searches for a beloved family heirloom in a small Christmas town. When she unexpectedly discovers an adorable little girl and her disheartened father, she realizes that Christmas miracles really do happen.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, romantic, captivating
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Mixtape (2021)
Plot Summary:
On the eve of Y2K, orphaned 12-year-old Beverly discovers a broken mixtape crafted by her teen parents. Raised by her grandmother - who struggles talking about her late daughter - Beverly sees the mixtape as a chance to finally learn more about her parents.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, semi serious, emotional, dramatic, teen, inspirational
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The Hollars (2016)
Plot Summary:
Aspiring New York City artist, John Hollar returns to his Middle America hometown on the eve of his mother’s brain surgery. Joined by his girlfriend, eight months pregnant with their first child, John is forced to navigate the crazy world he left behind.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, humorous, disturbing, cute, tear jerker, moody, tearjerker
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The ButterCream Gang (1992)
Plot Summary:
Unlike most gangs, the ButterCream gang does good deeds. Their leader, Pete, has to go live with his aunt in Chicago. But things don't go well in Chicago and Pete is changed when he returns. Soon Pete is hanging around with the wrong crowd. But the remaining members of the gang, especially their new leader Scott, refuse to give up on their friend Pete.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: epic, independent film, touching, serious, realistic
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She's the One (1996)
Plot Summary:
Mickey, a free-spirited New York cabbie, and Francis, a materialistic Wall Street stockbroker, are extremely competitive and confused about women as a result of their father's influence. Though they disagree about everything, they have one thing in common: Mickey's ex-fiance Heather is Francis's secret love. Though both brothers have beautiful wives, Heather triggers their longtime sibling rivalry.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: talky, melancholic, humorous, sincere, semi serious, realistic, witty, emotional, funny, romantic
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Polish Wedding (1998)
Plot Summary:
The film centers on a big Polish family. Jadzia is the mother and the ruler of the Pzoniak family (she has five children). Though she's happily married to Bolek, she is also having a long-time affair with Roman. Her young daughter Hala is having an affair with neighbour cop Russell and becomes pregnant by him. Russell is pressed hard to marry Hala.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: light, melancholic, sentimental, touching, semi serious, realistic, talky, stylized, independent film, clever
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The Cake Eaters (2007)
Plot Summary:
The death of the Kimbrough family matriarch affects the three male survivors of the clan. Widower Easy (Bruce Dern) tries to reconnect with his old flame, Marg (Elizabeth Ashley). Eldest son and struggling musician Guy (Jayce Bartok) moves back to town, feeling guilty that he missed the funeral. His brother, Beagle (Aaron Stanford), who was his mother's caretaker, falls for Marg's granddaughter, Georgia (Kristen Stewart), a chronically ill girl who fears her time is growing short.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: emotional, sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, romantic, gloomy
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Music from Another Room (1998)
Plot Summary:
Music From Another Room is a romantic comedy that follows the exploits of Danny, a young man who grew up believing he was destined to marry the girl he helped deliver as a five year old boy when his neighbor went into emergency labor. Twenty-five years later, Danny returns to his hometown and finds the irresistible Anna Swann but she finds it easy to resist him since she is already engaged to dreamboat Eric, a very practical match. In pursuit of Anna, Danny finds himself entangled with each of the eccentric Swanns including blind, sheltered Nina, cynical sister Karen, big brother Bill and dramatic mother Grace as he fights to prove that fate should never be messed with and passion should never be practical.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, sweet, light, semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, talky, crying
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My Girl 2 (1994)
Plot Summary:
Vada Sultenfuss has a holiday coming up, and an assignment: to do and essay on someone she admires and has never met. She decides she wants to do an assignment on her mother, but quickly realises she knows very little about her. She manages to get her father to agree to let her go to LA to stay with her Uncle Phil and do some research on her mother.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: touching, teen, romantic, sentimental, feel good, entertaining, sad, independent film, humorous, realistic
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A Christmas Wish (2011)
Plot Summary:
MARTHA EVANS has been abandoned by her ne'er-do-well husband, who took all their cash and left her homeless and virtually destitute with her two daughters and stepson. Martha leaves town in hopes of finding a job and a place to stay, she finally finds a job at a sleepy rural diner, formerly famous for its home-made root beer. But with her car broken down and the bills piling up, it looks like it's going to be a bleak Christmas for the Evans family. However, there are warm hearts working behind the scenes that ultimately make this the happiest holiday of Martha's life -- a real answer to her prayers.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, crying
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Father of the Bride Part II (1995)
Plot Summary:
Just when George Banks has recovered from his daughter's wedding, he receives the news that she's pregnant ... and that George's wife, Nina, is expecting too. He was planning on selling their home, but that's a plan that -- like George -- will have to change with the arrival of both a grandchild and a kid of his own.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: funny, entertaining, sentimental, touching, family comedy, relaxing, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Author! Author! (1982)
Plot Summary:
A broadway playwright is burning the candle at both ends. He is dealing with pressure from a production nearing premiere, a wife who is leaving him, and 5 children 4 of which belong to her.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, sentimental, touching, romantic, intense, light, feel good, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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This Is 40 (2012)
Plot Summary:
Pete and Debbie are both about to turn 40, their kids hate each other, both of their businesses are failing, they're on the verge of losing their house, and their relationship is threatening to fall apart.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 149000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, emotional, melancholic, intense, touching, realistic, talky, semi serious, romantic comedy
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Bootmen (2000)
Plot Summary:
Sean Odkin loves to dance much to his fathers distain. When the woman he loves cannot return his love Sean goes in search of the only thing that can make him whole again and that is dancing.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, entertaining, independent film, sexy, clever, unusual plot structure, suspense
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My Girl (1991)
Plot Summary:
Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J., her best friend, is "allergic to everything", and sticks with Vada despite her hangups. When Vada's father hires Shelly, and begins to fall for her, things take a turn to the worse.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 87000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, feel good, crying, emotional, sad, sweet, inspirational, tear jerker, heartbreaking