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Plot Summary:
A schizophrenic romantic tracks down her college sweetheart to help her find their son she gave up for adoption sixteen years ago to the dismay of his new wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, offbeat, independent film
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No Vacancy (1999)
Plot Summary:
Lillian is a 21-year-old drifter engaged to a philandering loser and locked in her room with a strange man. She lives next to a failed violinist who won't stop playing his instrument. He lives next to a New Age fanatic who's into colonic treatments; she lives next to two drug addicts who mess with the wrong prostitutes and end up answering to a pimp named Mr. Tangerine. In a barrage of head-spinning vignettes, we are sucked into a surreal motel fantasy-land where society's riffraff dwell in that awkward place between freedom and desperation.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 911
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sexy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, surreal, semi serious, sexual, sex comedy, independent film
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Waking Up in Reno (2002)
Plot Summary:
Candy and Lonnie Earl are just crazy about each other. The problem: she's married to Roy and he's married to Darlene. So far it's been a secret affair. But that's about to change, because this foursome is driving cross-country and headed for some big surprises.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, talky, semi serious, witty, romantic comedy, offbeat, realistic, independent film, light
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Jane White Is Sick & Twisted (2002)
Plot Summary:
Jane White's only ambition is to appear on a popular talk show.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 443
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, cynical, semi serious, independent film, clever, offbeat, realistic, biting, parody
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Women and Men: Stories of Seduction (1990)
Plot Summary:
This trio of tales, based on classic short stories, chronicles the complicated relations between the sexes. In "The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt," salesman Gerry seduces train traveler Viki. Then, in "Dusk Before Fireworks," a night of romance between Hobie and Kit goes bad when the phone keeps ringing. Finally, in "Hills Like White Elephants," Robert discovers Hadley is pregnant.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: anthology, touching, serious, realistic, stylized, gloomy
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Welcome to L.A. (1976)
Plot Summary:
The lives and romantic entanglements of a group of young adults who have achieved "overnight" success in Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, humorous, talky, semi serious, independent film, atmospheric, contemplative, sexual, sexy
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Numb (2007)
Plot Summary:
Hudson Milbank is a successful Hollywood screenwriter who suddenly and strangely finds himself without any emotional feelings. He tries doctor after doctor and shrink after shrink, but nothing works. The Golf Channel, lesbian exercise classes and a dizzying variety of pills get him through the day, but don't quite solve his problem. His writing partner tries everything to get him back to normal, but it's not until Hudson meets Sara that he finds a real motivation to get better and to actually start feeling again. From the writer of Deuce Bigalow, comes NUMB, a romantic comedy following an unusual man looking for strange love.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, realistic, captivating, semi serious, independent film, sincere
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Flirt (1995)
Plot Summary:
The same situation is played out in different cities (New York, Berlin and Japan). A lover has to choose whether to commit to a partner who is returning home. In each case there are other people involved, an ex-partner and someone else in a "permanent" relationship, what do they choose to do?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany, Japan
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: art house, clever, witty, talky, anthology, independent film, retro, offbeat, humorous, realistic
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Race You to the Bottom (2005)
Plot Summary:
Nathan and Maggie are in the throes of a passionate affair. They're young, good-looking, and both have boyfriends. When Nathan is assigned to write a travel article on romantic hot-spots in Napa Valley, these unconventional lovers test the limits of the sensuality and fantasy that bond them.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 438
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: realistic, sincere, touching, serious, independent film, contemplative, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Plaza Suite (1971)
Plot Summary:
Film version of the Neil Simon play has three separate acts set in the same hotel suite in New York's Plaza Hotel with Walter Matthau in a triple role. In the first, Karen Nash tries to get her inattentive husband Sam's attention to spruce up their failing marriage. In the second, brash film producer Jesse Kiplinger tries to get his former one-time flame Muriel to see him for what he stands for. In the third, Roy Hubley and his wife Norma try and try to get their uncertain-of-herself daughter out of the bathroom before her approaching wedding.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, witty, anthology, realistic, semi serious, sketch comedy, funny, light, surprise ending
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Denial (1998)
Plot Summary:
Couples split up after a comment at an LA dinner party sets up arguments about how truthful partners are in their relationships.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, witty, semi serious, independent film, talky, sexual, sex comedy, sexy
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The Engagement Ring (2005)
Plot Summary:
A long-lost engagement ring still divides childhood sweethearts who are now in their golden years. Now, her daughter (Heaton) and his nephew meet and find that their attraction is hindered by the old feud.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 688
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating
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The Medicine Show (2001)
Plot Summary:
A cynical young man, diagnosed with cancer, meets a brash young leukemia patient in the hospital who more than matches his distaste for IV drips and weepy sentimentality.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, independent film, clever, offbeat, black comedy, dark comedy
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Always (1985)
Plot Summary:
A middle-aged couple, on the verge of proceeding with a divorce, find themselves questioning their decision to separate when fellow friends and neighbors, oblivious to their marital troubles, assemble at their house for a 4th of July Weekend party.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film, sincere, clever, touching, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious
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Feelings (2003)
Plot Summary:
Two seemingly happily married French couples are forced to contend with a number of issues.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, erotic, sensitive, sexy
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The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her (2013)
Plot Summary:
Told from the female perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, sincere, touching, realistic, sweet, sad
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The Trouble with Romance (2007)
Plot Summary:
A provocative, sexy and insightful exploration of relationships between men and women and why we all still yearn for love despite the trouble with romance.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, captivating, emotional, sexy, erotic, romantic, romantic comedy, independent film, touching
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Beijing Love Story (2014)
Plot Summary:
A cross-generational look at how denizens of China's largest city deal with romance and commitment.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 438
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: sentimental, semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic
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Perfect Opposites (2004)
Plot Summary:
The story of two college graduates from the Midwest who move to Los Angeles, where their love is tested for the first time.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic, romantic drama, independent film
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A Bird of the Air (2011)
Plot Summary:
A man in search of his past, and a woman who lives in the moment, are brought together when they pursue the origins of a stray parrot in this comedic and romantic drama.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sentimental, atmospheric, touching, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, romantic, romantic comedy, offbeat
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Fling (2008)
Plot Summary:
An attractive young couple's open relationship is stretched to the breaking point when each partner finds themselves falling in love with other people.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sexy, realistic, sincere, disturbing, powerful, clever, offbeat, humorous, witty, semi serious
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The Young Kieslowski (2014)
Plot Summary:
Grand romantic gestures need not apply in this comedic tale of star-crossed young love. Instead, freshman Brian Kieslowski displays endless reserves of bumbling awkwardness as he goes home with a girl for the first time... and then learns that he got her pregnant... with twins... all while she's going through a rather inconvenient Christianity phase. Could it be that being the good guy and doing what's right are two very different things?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 899
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, emotional, light, captivating, romantic, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Luke and Brie Are on a First Date (2008)
Plot Summary:
It is the first date of Luke and Brie. They will spend the night together at bars, parties and streets of Los Angeles. The risk of a first encounter, and the relentless pursuit of naturalness, will make their relationship dance between flirting and misunderstandings.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, touching, realistic, independent film
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Shades of Ray (2008)
Plot Summary:
American-born Ray Rehman comes home one night to find his Pakistani father on his doorstep. Ray's Caucasian mother threw him out. It's an awkward time for his father to move in as Ray just proposed to his Caucasian girlfriend - who hasn't given him an answer. While trying to get his parents back together, Ray meets a South Asian girl of mixed descent, just like him, and must decide where his identity truly lies.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic, informative, romantic comedy, independent film
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Just a Kiss (2002)
Plot Summary:
A group of thirtysomethings having problems with fidelity gets an opportunity to turn back the clock.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, clever, offbeat, talky, independent film
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All Relative (2014)
Plot Summary:
Things couldn't be going better for Harry and Grace, a young New York City couple in love, until Grace's mother turns Harry's world upside down.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty, romantic, romantic comedy, independent film
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Let's Ruin It with Babies (2014)
Plot Summary:
Channing has it all: a beautiful home, a rock star lifestyle, and a loving husband intent on ruining it all by knocking her up.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, independent film, sexy
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I Have Found It (2000)
Plot Summary:
Two young women with differing views on love find themselves with three suitors. Sowmya (Tabu) attracts the attention of aspiring film director Manohar (Ajith), while wounded Captain Bala (Mammootty) falls for her younger, hopelessly romantic sister, Meenu (Aishwarya Rai) but hesitates because he is much older than she. Meanwhile, Meenu meets and falls for a businessman with a passion for poetry, Srikanth (Abbas). Manohar goes to Madras to make a film and prove himself worthy of Sowmya, and Srikanth's business collapses, and he also departs to find someone who will lend him the money to pay off his investors.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 151 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, witty, semi serious, atmospheric, realistic, stylized
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Closing the Ring (2007)
Plot Summary:
During the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann, who is in love with one of them, Teddy. In modern-day Belfast, a man named Jimmy endeavors to return a ring found in the wreckage of a crashed plane. He travels to Michigan, where the grown Ethel Ann, who married another man after Teddy was killed in battle, now lives. Ethel Ann must decide whether to go with Jimmy to meet the soldier who last saw Teddy alive.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, suspenseful, realistic, romantic, period piece, romantic drama, independent film, feel good
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Gabriela (2001)
Plot Summary:
Mike is romantic and persistent, a social worker at a psychiatric clinic who falls for a new intern. Gabriela is passionate; she's also engaged; although her love for her fiance Patrick seems more fraternal than erotic, she has an overwhelming sense of obligation to marry him. Mike gets dubious counsel from a colleague, Douglas, who's seems to have a new relationship weekly, and from his unhappy brother. She gets advice from her supervisor, whose long-term marriage ended badly. Gabriela can't seem to say no to Mike, except when he asks her to end her engagement. She heads home to Mexico to introduce Patrick to her family. What's Mike to do? Will anything change her mind?.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, realistic, erotic, romantic, sexy, romantic drama, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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One Night Stand (1997)
Plot Summary:
In Los Angeles, Max Carlyle makes a good living directing commercials and has a happy home life with his wife, Mimi, and two children. When Carlyle travels to New York City to visit his friend Charlie, who has been diagnosed with AIDS, he has repeat run-ins with a beautiful woman, Karen, and eventually sleeps with her. Though he goes home the next day and doesn't return until a year later, Carlyle's infidelity still lingers.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sexy, melancholic, light, intense, touching, serious, realistic, erotic, clever, romantic