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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
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A Tale of Love (1986)
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This drama about a young girl's struggle to overcome the dehumanization of poverty depicts the steady, corrosive effects of her life on her psyche. Bruna (Valeria Golino) has had to work since the age of 13 to help support her father and brothers. She gets up at 3 A.M. to catch the bus to go clean offices, and when she is home, she cleans and cooks for her siblings and father. In spite of this existence, she is spunky and optimistic. As she gets older, she falls in love with Sergio (Bals Roca-Rey), and he moves in with her and her family. But that relationship ends when she meets another young man, Mario (Livio Panieri). This new romance leads her away from her siblings and father and although there is no inkling of any trouble, the drudgery of her past existence catches up with her.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 109 min
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Love Between the Raindrops (1980)
Plot Summary:
Karel Bursík, as a child called Kajda, recalls his childhood spent in Prague - Zizkov. His father, a shoe-maker, moved there his wife and three children hoping they would escape a country poverty. He soon threw his daughter Vera out of home; he did not like her relationship with a married man. The competition of Bata factory was unsurpassable for a minor craftsman Bursík and his neighbours owed him for minor services. The desperate Bursík sent Kajda to sell his mother's dresses to get money for food. In a second-hand shop, Kajda met his first love.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 126 min
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Close Friends (1992)
Plot Summary:
Fifteen-year-old Sabrina has lived with her father since he split with her mother. As the film unfolds it gradually becomes clear that Sabrina is a victim of incest.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Fullt alvor (2018)
Plot Summary:
A father and son reunites for a summer vacation after the tragic loss of their cancer ill mother and ex-wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, realistic, suspenseful
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Love & Gelato (2022)
Plot Summary:
Lina is about to graduate high school and has her sights set on her future at MIT. But when her mom gets sick, she encourages Lina to follow in her footsteps and have “the summer of a lifetime” in Rome. Using her mom’s old diary as a guide, she explores the romantic and magical city, where she just might find love... and gelato, of course.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, semi serious
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How Not to Disappear Completely (2015)
Plot Summary:
'How Not To Disappear Completely' follows a week in the life of a young photographer Tom as he returns to London after spending two years traveling in India. Tom is at a crossroads in his life. A stranger in the cold hard city, he struggles to reconnect with his friends whilst searching for his half sister. Along the way Tom is forced to face up to his past and soon realises that it may not be his life he's been running away from but himself.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, melancholic
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Where the Heart Is (1998)
Plot Summary:
From the director of Marius et Jeannette, this story of two working-class families is a fable with an optimist streak. A young black man, Francois, is wrongly accused of rape by a racist policeman. The story is told in voiceover by his childhood friend, neighbor, and the mother of his future child, Clementine, who is white. The city is Marseilles as in the previous film, symbolic with its churches, prisons and ruins. Except in this film, director Robert Guediguian also ventures outside, taking the story to Sarajevo; two different cities, one devastated by war, the other by a bad economy and unemployment. A la Place du coeur won a Special Jury Prize at the 1998 San Sebastian Film Festival and was also shown at the 1998 Toronto Film Festival and the 1998 Montreal Film Festival.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 382
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 113 min
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Luna (2017)
Plot Summary:
A film in which the director captures the beautiful and accurate qualities of reality when building the energetic portrait of a 16-year-old girl immersed in the macho culture of urban suburban south-west France, just a stone’s throw away from the nearby countryside.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating
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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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Ali's Wedding (2017)
Plot Summary:
After a "white lie" which spirals out of control, a neurotic, naive and musically gifted Muslim cleric's eldest son must follow through with an arranged marriage, except he is madly in love with an Australian born-Lebanese girl.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sweet, sentimental, romantic, uplifting, touching, feel good, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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There's No Place Like Home (2018)
Plot Summary:
A big family that like any other one includes relatives that see each other often and others that rarely meet, reunite to celebrate the 50th wedding anniversary of grandma Alba and grandpa Pietro in a big Villa, on the island they moved to. Because of weather conditions they all remain stranded on the island and the idyll between them seems to be over.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: light, psychological, humorous, captivating, happy, dark 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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Dearest Jane (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young girl learn to accept love and change, after being sent to live with her uncle in Indiana.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, tense, suspense, contemplative, independent film, unusual plot structure
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Over the Dark Water (1993)
Plot Summary:
Leningrad; 60th years; white nights. Walking on Neva Embankment, the charming provincial has met three friends: poet, artist and film director. And each of young people has suggested to marry him.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, psychological, melancholic
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My Worst Nightmare (2011)
Plot Summary:
Agathe runs an art gallery. Her husband François is a publisher. Together they have one son, and in every way seem to be the picture of normality — but emotions are stewing under the surface. All it takes is the arrival of a complete stranger for things to start unravelling. Patrick is brash, uncouth and totally unselfconscious.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, funny, entertaining, cynical, sentimental, realistic, semi serious
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All inclusive (2014)
Plot Summary:
After finding out that her husband cheated on her, Lise and her two daughters Ditte and Sigrid decides to go on vacation to Malta. The two sisters are very different and tries to cheer the mother up in very different ways. All inclusive is a movie about love and figuring out how to be a family.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: emotional, psychological, humorous, captivating
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Holiday Date (2019)
Plot Summary:
When Brooke’s boyfriend, Ethan, breaks up with her just before the holidays, she agrees to go home with Joel, an actor who will pose as her boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: light, touching, humorous, captivating
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Love to Eternity (1972)
Plot Summary:
Liza slowly replaces Melampo, Giorgio's dog. While she accepts it, Giorgio forces her to wear collars and leashes.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 868
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sexy, independent film, grotesque
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Yellow (1997)
Plot Summary:
Eight friends in Los Angeles spend their last evening together as they face graduation from high school and the onset of their adult lives. One of them gets in unexpected trouble when he loses a large sum of his dad's money. The friends rally together to attempt to raise the money back in one evening in a wild and desperate scavenger hunt.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, rough, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious
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Dean (2016)
Plot Summary:
A freelance illustrator in New York suffers a quarter-life crisis and leaves his home for the west coast.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: romantic, humorous, disturbing, semi autobiographical, independent film
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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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Almost Peaceful (2002)
Plot Summary:
Set during the largely unexplored period immediately following World War II, the film follows a group of mostly Jewish Parisians who attempt to restart their lives and rekindle their capacity for happiness in the shadow of unspeakable horrors. Variety called it "thoroughly charming. Sad, gentle, and funny in the best French tradition of high quality cinema." A film by Marcelo Gomes.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, emotional, thought provoking, bleak, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, intellectual
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My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument (1996)
Plot Summary:
Paul Dedalus is at a crossroads in his life. He has to make several decisions; should he complete his doctorate, does he want to become a full professor, does he really love his long-standing girlfriend, or should he re-start with one of his other lovers?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 178 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, realistic, witty, contemplative, talky, semi serious, sexual, neurotic, crying
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The Pompatus of Love (1995)
Plot Summary:
Four guys sit around drinking beer and talking, trying to figure out the meaning of "the pompatus of love" (from the Steve Miller song "Joker") and analyzing their relationships with women.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 620
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: clever, talky, independent film, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, sexual, neurotic, light
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One Wild Moment (2015)
Plot Summary:
Antoine and Laurent, old friends, spend their vacation in Corsica with their respective daughters: seventeen-year-old Louna and eighteen-year-old Marie. One evening at the beach, Louna seduces Laurent. Louna is in love, but for Laurent it was nothing more than a momentary distraction. Without revealing her lover's name, Louna confides in her father, who tries by any means to discover who his daughter's lover is. How long will the secret be able to be kept hidden?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: erotic, sentimental, romantic, emotional, captivating, witty, sexy, interesting, remake of french film
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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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Sweetheart (2019)
Plot Summary:
A working woman, mother a three children, realizes that, when her youngest one is about to go to Canada to continue her education, she will end up out of her most precious goal, being a mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 916
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, humorous, melancholic, social
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Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2002)
Plot Summary:
Dek, a decent but somewhat dull man, enjoys a happy existence with beloved girlfriend Shirley. They live together with her 12-year-old, Marlene: her daughter by the delinquent Jimmy, who flew the coop years ago and hasn't been heard from since. Dek loves Shirley so much that he proposes to her on national television.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, sweet, entertaining, melancholic, intense, atmospheric, witty, touching, feel good, semi serious
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Nearing Grace (2005)
Plot Summary:
Did you ever wish you could get the hottest girl in school? This is the story of how non-jock Henry (Gregory Smith) indeed gets the girl, Grace (Jordana Brewster), but not without complications.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Outside Providence (1999)
Plot Summary:
In this coming-of-age comedy, Tim Dunphy is leading a go-nowhere existence, spending his days smoking pot and hanging out with his best friend, Drugs Delaney. But Tim's lazy days of getting high are jettisoned after a brush with the law convinces his blue-collar dad to send him to a Connecticut prep school. The one saving grace of the new school is Jane, a fellow student Tim falls for immediately.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, sweet, intense, semi serious, touching, independent film, epic, sentimental, realistic