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Plot Summary:
new film from Jing-Jie Lin.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration:
Plot tags: heartbreaking
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Utanför din dörr (2002)
Plot Summary:
After losing his parents in an accident, André quits his job and moves to a small town.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Love on Fire (2022)
Plot Summary:
Gia Summers is ready to start again with a promising new job, a new lakeside neighborhood, and a brand new home! After moving in, Gia soon forms an unexpected friendship with her next door neighbor, firefighter and single dad Jim Dunlap, whose love for barbecuing is equalled only by Gia's passion for cooking.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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Freshly Squeezed (2012)
Plot Summary:
A designer with an own store has to come to terms with being pregnant.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Horsing Around (2005)
Plot Summary:
A single father is more occupied with his race horse than his daughter.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Pink Tush Girl (1978)
Plot Summary:
Yuko's boyfriend dumps her just after they have her first sexual experience, so she runs away from her Tokyo home to the western coast of Japan in order to straighten out her feelings. Following behind her on her journey is her friend Rena, who is trying to track Yuko down and find out if she is all right. As Rena traces Yuko's steps, always missing her by a day or two, she discovers that her friend has decided to drop her inhibitions and begin enjoying herself with every man she encounters.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Almost Perfect (2012)
Plot Summary:
Anne has given up trying to find a man who will fit into her sensible and controlled life. Therefore she has chosen to become pregnant with an anonymous sperm donor who has been carefully chosen. But as her hormones get the better of her she realizes that the child may come to resemble the father and possibly get his less flattering characteristics. Anne feels compelled to find the sperm donor and ensure that he is as perfect as she imagines.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, entertaining, humorous
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We Are Pregnant (2016)
Plot Summary:
It seems simple: an egg + sperm = one embryo. But if your sperm is "few, vague and abnormal" and your woman is premenopausal at age 37, things start to get complicated.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, humorous, captivating, disturbing
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At Cafe 6 (2016)
Plot Summary:
After her car breaks down on a rainy night, Miss Liang enters a nearby coffee shop called Cafe 6. The owner of the shop finds out that Miss Liang has just gotten into a fight with her boyfriend who is currently overseas, so to kill time, he shares a story of his time back in 1996. During that year, Guan Min-lu and his good friend Xiao Bo-zhi always hang out together. Min-lu is secretly in love with Li Xin-rui while Bo-zhi is attracted to Xin-rui's best friend, Cai Xin-yi. The four young teenagers share a good relationship with each other and spend their days happily every day. But as their graduation day draws near, they wonder if they can still stay committed with each other after going their separate ways.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 849
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: heartbreaking, disturbing, psychological, humorous, suspense, suspenseful
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Policeman and Me (2017)
Plot Summary:
Kako, a 16-year-old high school girl, goes to a mixer pretending to be 22. While there, she meets Kouta who at first has a very intimidating aura. But once he saves her from an awkward situation, she wants to know more about him as does he. That is until he finds out she isn't 22. The next day Kako runs into him again, but this time he's working as a police officer. Kako still wants to get closer to Kouta, but he isn't interested...or is he?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 308
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: sentimental, light, sincere, touching, captivating, shoujo
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Mutual Friends (2013)
Plot Summary:
Surprise parties rarely go well. This one is no different, as a group of 30-somethings head through life, love and a day in New York City.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, crying
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Spanish Fly (1998)
Plot Summary:
A woman journalist, Zoe, knows better than to go into a story with her mind already made up. But that's exactly what she does when she heads off to Spain to write about its men and their macho take (as she sees it) on relationships. As she tries to prove her thesis, she soon realizes that she doesn't know as much about the male sex as she thought. She also finds herself involved in relationships with the wrong men.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain, UK, France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, erotic, sexy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual
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In Family I Trust (2019)
Plot Summary:
Bea is a successful architect who lives in Barcelona (Catalonia, northeast to Spain) with her boyfriend and boss, Víctor, a CEO of an important company. During a night celebration of an important contract signed to make a skyscraper designed by Bea, in the bar appears the famous TV reporter and anchorwoman Rebecca Ramos, Victor's personal erotic fantasy. Not measuring the consequences of her actions due to the alcohol she drank, Bea makes a meeting between Víctor and Rebecca. When to the next day she wakes up, Víctor proposes to wed Bea and she accepts, but after she arrives to the job, Bea learns about a videotape where Víctor and Rebecca make the love in a car that it's in all TV channels. In front of all CEOs during a full meeting, Bea slaps Víctor and destroys her design, being fired from the job. Looking for a break, she travels her natal coastal town, Santa Clara, just to discover that her rest isn't so easy as it seems: her eccentric, free-spirited and eternal smiling mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, humorous, captivating, neurotic, crying
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Good Times, Bed Times (2003)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of Carrie (Sammi Cheng), who plays a tabloid reporter who is doing a story on pin up police officer Paul Ko (Louis Koo). The word around is that he is impotent and Carrie is looking for the truth. Of course, from there you are looking to see if they will hook up. Also here are Raymond (Lau Ching Wan) as Carrie's ex, a judge and a very young looking Charlene Choi, who plays Tabbie, who wants to live with Raymond. In a small but fun interlude, the always great Sandra Ng plays Bobo.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 325
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating
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In Search of a Midnight Kiss (2007)
Plot Summary:
Broke and alone on New Year's Eve, Wilson just wants to spend the rest of a very bad year in bed. But, when his best friend convinces him to post a personal ad, he meets a woman bent on finding the right guy to be with at midnight.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: semi serious, independent film, romantic, mumblecore, light, melancholic, witty, sweet, humorous, funny
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Love at First Child (2015)
Plot Summary:
Gabriell is a single mother, her 17-year-old daughter Claire is pregnant, however the child's father Simon has no desire to be involved with his future baby. When Gabrielle takes matters into her own hands and asks Simon's father Ange for help, an unexpected relationship begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Don't Blame the Kid (2016)
Plot Summary:
After a one-night stand results in pregnancy, a young woman decides to become partners with the emotionally immature father-to-be.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, romantic, captivating, not serious, buddy comedy, romantic comedy, feel good
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Woo (1998)
Plot Summary:
Gorgeous and extraverted Woo meets insecure and straight-laced law clerk Tim at a blind date.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sexy, feel good, semi serious, black comedy, independent film, humorous, realistic, stylized, neurotic, sex comedy
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Time of Happiness (2017)
Plot Summary:
True love is not about perfection, it is hidden in flaws. The movie 'Mutluluk Zamani' (Time of Happiness) tells the story of Mert (Baris Arduc) who creates his 'perfect' life without facing his past and Ada (Elcin Sangu) who builds her own way of life based on all of her past experiences.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: light, sweet, emotional, sincere, romantic, romantic comedy
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Love Under the Stars (2015)
Plot Summary:
Young at heart graduate student Becca strikes up an unlikely friendship with Emily, a quiet girl who recently lost her mother. With every passing play date chaperoned by Emily's father, Becca helps Emily come out of her shell and cope with her loss, and Emily teaches Becca to take on adult responsibilities. When a romance develops between Becca and Nate, though, the two must learn to balance their new relationship with Nate's responsibility to Emily, and with Becca's responsibility to finish her education.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, humorous, captivating, disturbing
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Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins (2008)
Plot Summary:
Martin Lawrence leads an all-star cast, including Cedric the Entertainer, Mo'Nique, and Mike Epps, in the hit comedy "Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins." When a celebrated TV show host (Lawrence) returns to his hometown in the South, his family is there to remind him that going home is no vacation! It's one outrageous predicament after another when big-city attitude and small-town values collide in this hysterical comedy critics are praising for its "over-the-top hilarity!" (Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel).
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, semi serious, entertaining, sentimental, black comedy, feel good, realistic, romantic, sexy
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Western (1997)
Plot Summary:
Catalonian Paco is a traveling rep for a shoe manufacturer. When he stops to pick up Russian emigree hitchhiker Nino, Paco soon finds himself on the side of the road with everything stolen out from under him. Local gift shop owner Marinette gives the Spaniard a lift. Their mutual attraction manifests itself quickly, and Paco, who was fired over the stolen-car episode, hangs around. When he happens to spot Nino in the same town, he beats up the scrawny Russian, who lands in the hospital. Oddly enough, this marks the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Paco and Nino soon take the trip down the road together.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, road movie, independent film
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Little City (1997)
Plot Summary:
Best friends Adam and Kevin have a lot in common. Probably too much! In fact, Kevin is carrying on a torrid affair with Adam's girlfriend, Nina, on the side! And if this triangle wasn't crowded enough, the arrival of a seductive newcomer in town, Rebecca, promptly adds a whole new set of twists to an already tangled mix! Here's a hilarious look at how modern relationships have never been so complicated ... or so much fun!.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: clever, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, semi serious, independent film
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Madly in Love (2013)
Plot Summary:
The film focuses on the tumultuous romance in the lives of four women in The Hague. Teenage daughter Eva, her mother Judith, aunt Barbara and older sister Anna make it under one roof Hague together a nice game of. They are beautiful, courageous and sensible, but sometimes they just do not know in a world full of tender love, serial dating, slaked lust, affairs, children's desires and indestructible old loves.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sexy, realistic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious
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Rendezvous in Paris (1995)
Plot Summary:
Three stories of love and coincidence around the theme of dates in Paris.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: clever, talky, touching, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, crying, romantic, sexy
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Ira & Abby (2006)
Plot Summary:
A neurotic, young psychology student, with low self-esteem, has a chance encounter with a free-spirited, extremely gregarious woman who works at the Paris Health Club in New York City, and who suggests that they immediately get married to see how it will work out. Both of the student's parents are analysts, and they provide the happy couple with a gift certificate for a year of marriage counseling as a wedding present.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, witty, smart, offbeat, realistic, talky, not serious, independent film
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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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Town & Country (2001)
Plot Summary:
Porter Stoddard is a well-known New York architect who is at a crossroads... a nexus where twists and turns lead to myriad missteps some with his wife Ellie, others with longtime friends Mona and her husband Griffin. Deciding which direction to take often leads to unexpected encounters with hilarious consequences.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, melancholic, light, semi serious, realistic, clever, witty, talky, sexual, parody
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Who Made the Potatoe Salad? (2006)
Plot Summary:
An urban romantic comedy about a young San Diego policeman who travels to Los Angeles with his fiance to meet her dysfunctional family and announce their engagement.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: black comedy, romantic, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing
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Must Love Dogs (2005)
Plot Summary:
Sarah Nolan is a newly divorced woman cautiously rediscovering romance with the enthusiastic but often misguided help of her well-meaning family. As she braves a series of hilarious disastrous mismatches and first dates, Sarah begins to trust her own instincts again and learns that, no matter what, it's never a good idea to give up on love.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, sweet, stylized, romantic comedy, sentimental, touching, light, entertaining, humorous
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Just Married (2009)
Plot Summary:
Nicola, a policeman in Puglia, is a reformed ladies' man with his heart set on marrying the daughter of the Indian ambassador.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 471
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious