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Plot Summary:
Aging New York cabbie Flanagan still has hopes of making it as a stage actor. He can recite any Shakespeare sonnet and is facile with accents, but he can't land an agent or a job. During the course of one summing-it-all-up day, he drives his cab around the city dealing with fare evaders, an insolent stage manager determined to keep him from auditioning for his choice director, his estranged wife who has a new lover, his mistress who seems awfully close to her "drawing teacher", and two teenage sons whose bright visions of the future don't seem to include jobs. If he can only cope with all the annoyances of this day, maybe he can deal with the limitations in his abilities and his future.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Love and Something Like It (2022)
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Dan tragically loses his loving wife while only in his late 50s, then goes through the dilemma of finding "true love" again. It's a challenging journey, but he soon learns his life will change in ways he wasn't prepared for, with surprising and often hilarious results. Will Dan ever find love again? All bets and expectations are off in this modern American dark and romantic comedy!.
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Country: USA
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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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Crossover Dreams (1985)
Plot Summary:
Salsa singer screws over everybody on his way to the top; when his latest record flops, his career starts doing downhill.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Trilogy (1969)
Plot Summary:
Trilogy is an anthology film of three adaptations of Truman Capote short stories: Miriam, Among the Paths to Eden and A Christmas Memory. It was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was cancelled due to the events of May 1968 in France.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: anthology, independent film
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Goodbye, New York (1985)
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A young New York woman, devastated to find out that her husband has been cheating on her, decides to hop a plane to Paris to get away. However, she falls asleep on the plane, misses her connection, and winds up in Israel, with no money, no luggage and no friends.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Someone to Love (1987)
Plot Summary:
During a party at movie director Danny's home, a group of friends and actors people are reunited to converse about love and relationship. Orson Welles is the "judge" of these conversations.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: independent film, eighties
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A Royal Christmas on Ice (2022)
Plot Summary:
Looking to escape his Royal life, a dashing prince comes to the United States to start a business in a small town in upstate New York and winds up falling for a former Olympic ice skater.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 464
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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My Secret Billionaire (2011)
Plot Summary:
Ferro Olivetti, a billionaire playboy and businessman, promises to fulfill his dying father's final request: to live one month without his wealth.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 910
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, clever, captivating, humorous, independent film
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Minnie and Moskowitz (1971)
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Depressed and jaded after being dumped by her married boyfriend, aging beauty Minnie Moore (Gena Rowlands) wonders if she'll ever find love. After shaggy-haired parking lot attendant Seymour Moskowitz (Seymour Cassel) comes to her defense from an angry and rebuffed blind date, he falls hopelessly in love with her despite their myriad differences. Minnie reluctantly agrees to a date with Moskowitz, and, slowly but surely, an unlikely romance blossoms between the two.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: funny, independent film, sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, romantic, philosophical
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The Bachelors (2017)
Plot Summary:
After the early death of his wife, a mourning father moves with his teenage son across the country for a private school teaching job. Their lives begin to transform due to two unique women, who help them embrace life and love again.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: light, touching, feel good, humorous, romantic, sad, romantic comedy, road movie, teen comedy
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Romeo & Juliet (1994)
Plot Summary:
Adaptation of Shakespeare's play, presented originally on television for schools in the UK.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min
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Life in Flight (2008)
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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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Heaven Help Us (1985)
Plot Summary:
Sixteen-year-old Michael Dunn arrives at St. Basil's Catholic Boys School in Brooklyn circa 1965. There, he befriends all of the misfits in his class as they collide with the repressive faculty and discover the opposite sex as they come of age.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, sincere, feel good, captivating, funny, spiritual, grim, independent film, realistic
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Best Christmas Party Ever (2014)
Plot Summary:
With the holidays approaching, a young party planner arranges a special Christmas party for a New York toy store. When a powerful corporation threatens to shut her down, she decides to follow her heart, moving forward with the party plans and finding true love in time for Christmas.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: feel good, semi serious, light, sweet, emotional, sentimental, realistic, romantic comedy
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The Landlord (1970)
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At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Initially his intention is to evict the black tenants and convert it into a posh flat. But Elgar is not one to be bound by yesterday's urges, and soon he has other thoughts on his mind.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: funny, political, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, comedy drama, black cinema
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My Life's in Turnaround (1993)
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Two Manhattan slackers want to make a movie about their lives. One drives a cab, the other tends bar; neither has a clue how to make a movie. Things look up when real-life actors Phoebe Cates and Martha Plimpton agree to star in the project.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 460
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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She's the One (1996)
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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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Maggie's Plan (2015)
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Maggie 's plan to have a baby on her own is derailed when she falls in love with John, a married man, destroying his volatile marriage to the brilliant and impossible Georgette. But one daughter and three years later, Maggie is out of love and in a quandary: what do you do when you suspect your man and his ex wife are actually perfect for each other?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: romantic, melancholic, intellectual, satirical, talky, stylized, sentimental, romantic comedy, touching, teen
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Trust the Man (2005)
Plot Summary:
Overachieving actress, Rebecca (Moore), must come to grips with her failing marriage to stay-at-home dad, Tom (Duchovny). While Rebecca's slacker brother, Tobey (Billy Crudup), can't seem to commit to his aspiring-novelist girlfriend, Elaine (Maggie Gyllenhaal). As both relationships spin out of control, the two couples embark on a quest to rediscover the magic and romance of falling in love in New York.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, feel good, talky, philosophical, sincere, clever, touching, realistic
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Pete 'n' Tillie (1972)
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Unassuming and single thirty-three year old Tillie Shlain is at that phase of her life of being known as a soon to be spinster if she doesn't marry soon. She isn't looking forward to meeting the latest in a long string of blind dates, his name being Pete Seltzer. Pete and Tillie are not a match made in heaven, he using wisecracking and constant flirtations with women to mask his own insecurities about his average looks and not wanting to deal with life head on. Despite Tillie's guard being up with regard to Pete, he is able slowly to chip away at her defenses. They do embark on a relationship which ends up in a straightforward and somewhat mutual declaration that they will get married despite their fundamental differences. But can their relationship survive these fundamental differences, which don't change during the course of their marriage, and as they deal with the terminal malignant tumor diagnosis of their nine-year old son, Robbie?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: romantic comedy, sentimental, clever, touching, humorous, emotional, realistic, contemplative, talky, semi serious
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Willie & Phil (1980)
Plot Summary:
Loosely inspired by Truffaut's JULES ET JIM, this comedy-drama follows the experiences of two friends who fall in love with the same woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 522
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, emotional, realistic, semi serious
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Enemies: A Love Story (1989)
Plot Summary:
A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: emotional, talky, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sad, gloomy, independent film, black comedy
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You're a Big Boy Now (1966)
Plot Summary:
Bernard Chanticleer's father gives him two simple words of advice: "Grow up." Bernard knows that his first step is to find a girl who's "willing," but he passes up a sure thing, Amy Partlett, for a more elusive goal. Her name is Barbara Darling, an inscrutable go-go dancer. More than a few obstacles keep Bernard from his dream world. There's his doting mother, who mails him locks of her hair and weeps at the thought of her baby as a man; there's a malicious rooster, trained to attack pretty girls, patrolling the halls of his New York City rooming house; and most of all, there's Barbara herself. She turns out to be a man hater, emotionally scarred by the lecherous wooden-legged hypnotherapist who "counseled" her in high school. All in all, Bernard finds himself in an improbable universe with a calculated clumsiness designed to evoke his confusing coming-of-age.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, sex comedy, cult film
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For Love or Money (1993)
Plot Summary:
New York concierge Doug Ireland wants to go into business for himself and refurbish a hotel on Roosevelt Island, N.Y., but he needs an investor. With a few weeks left before his option on the site runs out, Doug agrees to help wealthy Christian Hanover conceal his affair with salesgirl Andy Hart from his wife. Despite his own attraction to Andy, Doug tries to stay focused on getting Christian to invest $3 million in his project.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: entertaining, romantic, talky, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, light hearted, colorful
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Manhattan (1979)
Plot Summary:
The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 145000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: black and white, romantic, humorous, visually stunning, meditative, sincere, sentimental, realistic, semi serious, ironic
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The Savages (2007)
Plot Summary:
A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: sentimental, realistic, independent film, emotional, compassionate, touching, depressing, melancholic, sincere, humorous
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Husbands and Wives (1992)
Plot Summary:
When Jack and Sally announce that they're splitting up, this comes as a shock to their best friends Gabe and Judy. Maybe mostly because they also are drifting apart and are now being made aware of it. So while Jack and Sally try to go on and meet new people, the marriage of Gabe and Judy gets more and more strained, and they begin to find themselves being attracted to other people.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: realistic, talky, melancholic, sincere, semi serious, romantic, philosophical, clever, bleak, witty
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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
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Lymelife (2008)
Plot Summary:
A coming of age dramedy where infidelity, real estate, and Lyme disease have two families falling apart on Long Island in the early eighties. Scott, 15, is at the point in his life when he finds out that the most important people around him, his father, his mother, and his brother, are not exactly who he thought they were. They are flawed and they are human.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sexy, romantic, talky, touching, sentimental, serious, realistic, emotional, indie film, heartbreaking
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Before We Go (2014)
Plot Summary:
A woman who is robbed on her way to catch the 1:30 train to Boston is left stranded in New York City. She meets a man who helps her during the course of the night and the two form a romance.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, romantic, sweet, light, witty, romantic comedy, cute, emotional, talky, humorous