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Plot Summary:
An idealistic but struggling actor finds his life unexpectedly complicated when he stops a robbery while wearing the costume of Captain Avenger, a superhero character of a film he is hired to to promote. He decides to dabble at being a superhero only to find that it is more difficult and dangerous than he ever imagined.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, inspirational, feel good, crying, scary, funny
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The Movie Hero (2003)
Plot Summary:
A man believes his life is a movie watched by an audience only he can see.In his feature film debut, director Brad T. Gottfred delivers a spoof of cinema cliches with a memorable protagonist named Blake Gardner (Jeremy Sisto), who believes his life is a movie. Playing to an audience only he perceives -- and determined to entertain them. Blake recruits a comical black sidekick (Brian J. White), attempts to apprehend the bad guy (Peter Stormare) and begins romancing his court-appointed psychotherapist (Dina Meyer).
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 823
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, funny, light, feel good, entertaining, independent film, offbeat, realistic
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The Last Fling (1987)
Plot Summary:
Television comedy about a young woman who decides to have one more romantic escapade before marrying her dull fiance.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973)
Plot Summary:
A computer programmer decides to become a thief. And when he starts making waves an insurance investigator hounds him. He also meets a woman who becomes his accomplice.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, cult film
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Please, Not Now! (1961)
Plot Summary:
Sophie, a flighty young model, learns that her boyfriend is planning to leave her for another woman. Sophie resolves to either win him back or assassinate her rival. A handsome doctor (who happens to be falling for Sophie himself) assists her with the former plan so that she won't have to resort to the latter.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 513
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Women in running (2019)
Plot Summary:
Women on the Run. Vera has lived a wonderful life with Jindrich, and she is fully determined to fulfill his last wish - running a marathon. The emancipated and spirited mother of three daughters doesn't think that doing so will be a problem. She and her daughters will split up the route into four parts, and they'll overcome the over 42-kilometer-long challenge as a family relay team. Of course, the fact that neither of them has ever ran even a meter poses no problem.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 827
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, witty, crying, detective
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Tim Timmerman: Hope of America (2017)
Plot Summary:
Impeached high school president, Tim Timmerman, seeks to redeem himself and get into Yale.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 339
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, realistic, romantic, teen comedy
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Only Human (2004)
Plot Summary:
Leni takes Rafi to meet her family in Madrid. Leni's family is Jewish - mother, father, older sister and daughter, brother, and grandfather. Rafi is Palestinian, in Spain since age 12. Before her father returns from work, Leni reveals Rafi's origins. He accidentally drops a block of frozen soup out the flat window, probably killing a passerby. Leni initiates a cover-up and Rafi figures out the body is probably Leni's father. The body disappears and without telling the rest of the family what they know, Leni and Rafi organize a search for dad. Mom is sure he's having an affair. Leni's belly-dancing sister kisses Rafi. Her brother grabs a rifle to shoot the Arab. Can anything be put right?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain, Argentina, Portugal, UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious, erotic, multicultural, crying, dark comedy
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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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The Callback Queen (2013)
Plot Summary:
In the cut-throat London film industry a vivacious actress chasing her big break struggles to maintain her integrity in the face of the director's advances.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, sex comedy, romantic, crying
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My sister's wedding (2018)
Plot Summary:
Marie is a typical urban single. Although she works as a successful television presenter, she has the gift of attracting only idiots in relationships. On the contrary, her sister Karolína has already found the right one and is planning a wedding. That is why Maruska comes to visit her home village after a long time with her family. At home, he meets his old love, Jirka. In a few moments, it is clear that their feelings are not in the past and will end up in bed together. But the whole thing has one big catch. he is her sister's fiance.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: neurotic, funny, light, romantic, feel good, humorous, captivating, suspense, entertaining, witty
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A Fine Madness (1966)
Plot Summary:
A womanizing poet falls into the hands of a psychiatrist with a straying wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: retro, psychological, humorous, realistic, cynical, semi serious, biting, crying, suspense
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The Late Bloomer (2016)
Plot Summary:
A sex therapist goes through puberty after the successful removal of a benign tumor resting against his pituitary gland. He experiences all the changes and effects of puberty over a three-week period.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sex comedy, light, touching, feel good, captivating, funny, romantic, sexy
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The Wedding Unplanner (2020)
Plot Summary:
Marina is a woman in her thirties who works organizing weddings. Not because she is an inveterate romantic just because, as she says, "when people are in love, they don't care about money". Unlike her customers, she enjoys a life without ties or commitments, until the moment when she falls in love with Carlos. The problem is not only he is about to get married, but also his fiancee is Marina's childhood friend and they have hired her as their Wedding Planner.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: feel good, semi serious, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, crying, slapstick comedy, freeze frame, remake of french film
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The Impossible Years (1968)
Plot Summary:
Trouble in suburbia: psychiatrist's teenage daughter gets arrested for demonstrating on a college campus--holding a sign with a "dirty word" written on.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 763
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: clever, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, crying, freeze frame, family comedy
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There's a Girl in My Soup (1970)
Plot Summary:
TV personality Robert Danvers, an exceedingly vain rotter, seduces young women daily, never staying long with one. He meets his match in Marion, an American, 19, who's available but refuses any romantic illusions.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, retro, humorous, realistic, semi serious, crying, freeze frame, erotic, funny, light
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The Last Summer (2019)
Plot Summary:
Standing on the precipice of adulthood, a group of friends navigate new relationships, while reexamining others, during their final summer before college.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: romantic comedy, sincere, thought provoking, touching, humorous, romantic, feel good, sentimental, teen comedy
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Home Again (2017)
Plot Summary:
Life for a single mom in Los Angeles takes an unexpected turn when she allows three young guys to move in with her.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, funny, light, neurotic, crying, freeze frame, romantic drama
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Employee of the Month (2006)
Plot Summary:
When he hears that the new female employee digs ambitious men who are the store employee of the month, a slacker gets his act together but finds himself in competition with his rival, an ambitious co-worker.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 50000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: romantic, funny, light, humorous, not serious, teen, feel good, cult classic, hilarious, realistic
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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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Seems Like Old Times (1980)
Plot Summary:
Writer Nick Gardenia is kidnapped from his California cliffhouse and forced to rob a bank. Now a fugitive, he seeks help from his ex, Glenda. She is a public defender remarried to a prosecutor, and we get a houseful of hijinks.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, sweet, entertaining, melancholic, feel good, realistic, semi serious, romantic, witty, funny
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Moon Over Parador (1988)
Plot Summary:
Little known actor, Jack Noah, is working on location in the dictatorship of Parador at the time the dictator dies. The dictator's right hand man, Roberto, makes Jack an offer he cannot refuse.. to play the dictator. Jack's acting skills fool the masses but not close friends and employees of the dictator.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: political, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, tense, parody, funny, light
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What's Up, Doc? (1972)
Plot Summary:
Two researchers have come to San Francisco to compete for a research grant in Music. One seems a bit distracted, and that was before he meets her. A strange woman seems to have devoted her life to confusing and embarrassing him. At the same time a woman has her jewels stolen and a government whistle blower arrives with his stolen top secret papers. All, of course have the same style and color overnight bag.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: hilarious, funny, romantic, fast paced, feel good, humorous, witty, romantic comedy, buddy comedy, family comedy
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Love at First Hiccup (2009)
Plot Summary:
A high school romantic comedy about freshman Victor who has contracted a case of Anya-itis, (acute and incurable love passion for high school senior Anja.) And why shouldn't he?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Denmark
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, teen sex comedy, feel good, light, captivating, sentimental, romantic, sensual, heartfelt, realistic
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My Best Friend Is a Vampire (1987)
Plot Summary:
Young student finds himself being transformed to a vampire after a night with a quite attractive female vampire. First, he does not quite believe it himself, but with the help of a 300 year old teacher and the handbook "vampirism - a guide to an alternative lifestyle", he finds out that blood does not taste as bad as he expected.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, horror comedy, exciting, tense, captivating, dark comedy, independent film, psychotronic, freeze frame
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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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The Secret of My Succe$s (1987)
Plot Summary:
Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York, but once in New York, he learns that jobs - and girls - are hard to get. When Brantley visits his uncle, Howard Prescott, who runs a multi-million-dollar company, he is given a job in the company's mail room.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious, funny, entertaining, cult classic, retro
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Hero (1992)
Plot Summary:
Bernie Laplante is having a rough time. He's divorced, his ex-wife hates him and has custody of their son, the cops are setting a trap for him, then to top it all, he loses a shoe whilst rescuing passengers of a crashed jet. Being a thief who is down on his luck, Bernie takes advantage of the crash, but then someone else claims credit for the rescue.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: harsh, sentimental, inspirational, touching, melancholic, satirical, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical
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Just Married (2003)
Plot Summary:
Tom Leezak and Sarah McNerney fall in love and plan to get married, despite opposition from Sarah's uptight, rich family. When they do get married, and get a chance to prove Sarah's family wrong, they go on a European honeymoon and run into disaster after disaster. They have to decide whether the honeymoon from hell and a few pre-marital mistakes are worth throwing away their love and marriage.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 74000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, romantic, sexy, romantic comedy, hilarious, semi serious, light, entertaining
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What Happens in Vegas (2008)
Plot Summary:
During a wild vacation in Las Vegas, career woman Joy McNally and playboy Jack Fuller come to the sober realization that they have married each other after a night of drunken abandon. They are then compelled, for legal reasons, to live life as a couple for a limited period of time. At stake is a large amount of money.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 185000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: feel good, romantic, romantic comedy, funny, sweet, teen, light, entertaining, cute, hilarious
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Failure to Launch (2006)
Plot Summary:
Tripp, an attractive man in his thirties, is still living with his parents Al and Sue. Tripp's best friends Demo and Ace are also still living in their parents' homes and seem proud of it. Al and Sue are not happy, however, and are fascinated when friends whose adult son has recently moved away from home reveal they hired an expert to arrange the matter and couldn't be happier with the result.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 85000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: feel good, romantic, entertaining, romantic comedy, light, funny, humorous, sentimental, cute, teen