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Plot Summary:
B.J. Cassidy, a rich businesswoman, has to invest several billion dollars for fiscal reasons. She undertakes to buy back a small French factory, specialized in chocolate truffles.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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The Very Very Big Company (2008)
Plot Summary:
Four friends - an oyster-farmer, an accountant's assistant, a restaurateur and a blue-collar worker - decide to take on a multi-national agro-chemical company with a turnover of EUR9bn and which has been polluting their region on a large scale. Having been awarded a paltry amount of compensation, they decide to seek true justice. They have however just 30 days to uncover vital new evidence.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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It Isn't Easy to Get Along with Men (1985)
Plot Summary:
A divorcee and her two teenage daughters go on their summer holidays at sea. There they encounter some romantic (mis)adventures.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 828
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Nick and Jane (1997)
Plot Summary:
N.Y. corporate Jane discovers her boyfriend John in bed with another woman, leaves building enraged and jumps into cab. Her driver is Nick. Jane and her friend Vickie have a plan - to make John jealous, they'll give Nick a false corporate identity and pass him off as Jane's new boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, neo screwball comedy
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One Husband Too Many (2010)
Plot Summary:
28 year old Stéphanie Vasseur feels like all her dreams have come true. Young, beautiful, and eager to succeed in life, she's just been hired as the new editor-in-chief of the prestigious "GLAM" fashion magazine. She thinks she's attained perfect happiness after the proposal of Grégoire de Rougemont, a well-bred lawyer. But there's a problem: to get to where she is, Stéphanie lied about her past, her working class origins and the fact that she's still married to her ex, Alex, who's still in the North of France. Now, unbeknownst to Grégoire and his suspicious father, she must go back to Calais to finally divorce Alex. There, the region is in a crisis after the lace factory closed down, and face-to-face with her roots, Stéphanie starts to doubt the reason for which she returned.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Then Came You (2020)
Plot Summary:
A lonely widow plans a trip around the world with her husband's ashes, to visit the places they loved in the movies. During her first stop in Scotland at the beautiful estate she stays in, she meets the innkeeper who changes her life forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Married by Christmas (2016)
Plot Summary:
Due to an antiquated clause in her grandmother’s will, an ambitious young executive may lose her place at the family company unless she can get married by Christmas.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: romantic comedy, christmas comedy
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French Exit (1995)
Plot Summary:
Davis meets Zina in a car wreck. Their immediate attraction for one another is put into jeopardy when they learn each is competing for the same writing job.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sexy, crying, independent film, neo screwball comedy
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XXL (1997)
Plot Summary:
Alain Berrebi directs with his sister Lorène, a company of ready-to-wear in the Path. Their business is booming to the point to consider acquiring a nearby shop. Fortunately, it belongs to David Stern, the father of his fiancée Arlette.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Trial and Error (1997)
Plot Summary:
An actor poses as a lawyer to help his sick friend, and problems develop.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, melancholic, talky, feel good, not serious, romantic comedy, realistic, witty, independent film
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Body Swap (2019)
Plot Summary:
CJ is a high strung business woman at the Versa Corporation working on the biggest deal in her company's history. Casey is a laid-back slacker who mooches off his brother Roy. When Casey goes into an interview at Versa only to qualify for unemployment benefits he winds up switching places with her. Now he must contend with her frenemy Lisa while she has to woo an Italian girl Casey's been flirting with.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: parody, avant garde, psychotronic, surprise ending, experimental, ambiguous ending, independent film, spoof, postmodern, cult film
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Career Opportunities (1991)
Plot Summary:
Josie, the daughter of the town's wealthiest businessman, faces problems at home and wishes to leave town but is disoriented. Her decision is finalized after she falls asleep in a Target dressing room. She awakens to find herself locked in the store overnight with the janitor, Jim, the town "no hoper" and liar.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, funny, stylized, anamorphic, teen, offbeat, cult film
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Head Over Heels 2 (2012)
Plot Summary:
Alice owns a network of sex shops and workaholic who, in trying to reconcile the harsh routine of work and family life, suffers nervous breakdown, she is forced by her husband to go to spa. Precisely at this time, appears unique opportunity to expand its business in New York. Using fun gimmicks, risks his health, leaves spa party there with family to ride, but actually in order to facilitate their professional interests. In trying to reconcile the agendas, engage in hilarious situations and mistakes that culminate in the possible separation of the couple.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining
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10 (1979)
Plot Summary:
A Hollywood songwriter goes through a mid-life crisis and becomes infatuated with a sexy blonde newlywed.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy, sensual, erotic, funny, sentimental, clever, humorous, slapstick, realistic
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I Don't Buy Kisses Anymore (1992)
Plot Summary:
Bernie Fishbine is overweight. He stops at the neighborhood store to buy some chocolate kisses every day. This is where he meets Theresa Garabaldi. Then they take the same bus route every evening. Theresa invites Bernie to see her play piano at her father's restaurant. It is here that she gets him to join a gym. Theresa is in college and gets the idea to write about Bernie's weight problem for her thesis. She does this without telling Bernie. Meanwhile, Bernie is falling in love with Theresa, and vice versa.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, independent film, sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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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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With Love... from the Age of Reason (2010)
Plot Summary:
The day she turns 40, Marguerite Flora, a successful rep for a nuclear power company, begins receiving letters she'd sent to herself at age seven. The letters tell her what to do if her life hasn't turned out the way she thought it should, when she was living in poverty with her mother and brother in a small village in southern France. She decides to go back to her birthplace to get the lawyer to stop the letters, but also to visit her childhood sweetheart and her long-forgotten brother, in order to find peace within herself.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: semi serious, light, captivating, entertaining, sentimental, inspirational, thought provoking, touching, humorous, realistic
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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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Baby Mama (2008)
Plot Summary:
A successful, single businesswoman who dreams of having a baby discovers she is infertile and hires a working class woman to be her unlikely surrogate.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, funny, entertaining, feel good, romantic, cute, ironic, teen, raunchy
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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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Forget Paris (1995)
Plot Summary:
Mickey Gordon is a basketball referee who travels to France to bury his father. Ellen Andrews is an American living in Paris who works for the airline he flies on. They meet and fall in love, but their relationship goes through many difficult patches. The story is told in flashback by their friends at a restaurant waiting for them to arrive.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, light, sweet, intense, touching, realistic, clever, witty, non fiction
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Mr. Wonderful (1993)
Plot Summary:
Electrician Gus gets the chance to fulfill a childhood dream by buying an old bowling-alley with some of his friends.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, feel good, realistic, semi serious, independent film, sentimental, light, romantic, surprise ending
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Lost & Found (1999)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about finding your true love at any price. Dylan Ramsey resorts to snatching his beautiful neighbor's dog so he can spend time with her while they go on a phantom dog hunt. Succeeding in his plan, Dylan goes to return the pooch, only to discover that it has hidden Dylan's best friend's diamond ring. Written by WARNER BROS.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, romantic, sweet, entertaining, funny, light, sexy, sentimental, feel good, witty
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The Truth About Cats & Dogs (1996)
Plot Summary:
A successful veterinarian and radio show host with low self-esteem asks her model friend to impersonate her when a handsome man wants to see her.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: entertaining, touching, romantic, funny, light, sweet, romantic comedy, sentimental, feel good, humorous
Similar in 79%
Christmas in Toyland (2022)
Plot Summary:
When Charlie Sawyer, a data analyst at a toy store chain, discovers the only way to keep their brick and mortar locations open is to replicate whatever the company’s best performing location is doing, she's sent by corporate to meet convivial, yet stubborn, store manager, Grant Levinson, whose secret to success will challenge her to open up her mind… and her heart.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 816
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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That Old Feeling (1997)
Plot Summary:
A bride's divorced parents find their old feelings for each other during the wedding reception and over the course of the next few days upsetting the newlywed's honeymoon.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sexy, funny, light, humorous, feel good, romantic, realistic, semi serious, sex comedy, fairy tale
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Dave (1993)
Plot Summary:
Bill Mitchell is the philandering and distant President of the United States. Dave Kovic is a sweet-natured and caring Temp Agency operator, who by a staggering coincidence looks exactly like the President. As such, when Mitchell wants to escape an official luncheon, the Secret Service hires Dave to stand in for him. Unfortunately, Mitchell suffers a severe stroke whilst having sex with one of his aides, and Dave finds himself stuck in the role indefinitely. The corrupt and manipulative Chief of Staff, Bob Alexander, plans to use Dave to elevate himself to the White House - but unfortunately, he doesn't count on Dave enjoying himself in office, using his luck to make the country a better place, and falling in love with the beautiful First Lady.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: feel good, political, touching, humorous, witty, funny, romantic comedy, sweet, semi serious, realistic
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When the Cat's Away (1996)
Plot Summary:
When Chloe (Garance Clavel), a young Parisian, decides to take a long-overdue vacation, she has to find someone to look after Gris-Gris, her beloved cat. Everyone, including her gay male roommate, refuses to help her, but she finally makes an arrangement with the elderly Madame Renée (Renée Le Calm), who often watches over other peoples' cats and dogs. However, when Chloe comes back, Madame Renée tells her that unfortunately the cat has been lost, and the unlucky owner goes on a search for her dear animal friend. While looking for the cat, she meets many colorful characters who populate the neighborhood.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: realistic, sentimental, clever, touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, crying, light, philosophical
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Romantics Anonymous (2010)
Plot Summary:
What happens when a man and a woman share a common passion? They fall in love. And this is what happens to Jean-René, the boss of a small chocolate factory, and Angélique, a gifted chocolate maker he has just hired. What occurs when a highly emotional man meets a highly emotional woman? They fall in love, and this is what occurs to Jean-René and Angélique who share the same handicap. But being pathologically timid does not make things easy for them. So whether they will manage to get together, join their solitudes and live happily ever after is a guessing matter.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: feel good, romantic, touching, sentimental, semi serious, funny, inspirational, sexy, sweet, culinary
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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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Heartbreaker (2010)
Plot Summary:
Alex and his sister run a business designed to break up relationships. They are hired by a rich man to break up the wedding of his daughter. The only problem is that they only have one week to do so.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Monaco, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: feel good, romantic, sentimental, sexy, sweet, heartbreaking, light, unusual plot structure, not serious, entertaining