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Plot Summary:
A young couple decide to live together and they wind up having a baby. They decide they should give the baby up for adoption. The baby's Mother's parents wind up adopting the baby using a fake name.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 562
Genere: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Three for Two (1975)
Plot Summary:
THREE FOR TWO presents Lucy with the Great One, Jackie Gleason, combining their comedic talents for the first time, in a trio of comedy-dramas centered on the various aspects of marriage.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: dark comedy
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Generation (1969)
Plot Summary:
Jim Bolton, a well-off businessman from Chicago hears that his daughter Doris is pregnant in New York. Since he did not even know she was seeing anyone he fears the worst. Unbeknownst to him, his daughter and the father of his grandchild, Walter marry shortly before Jim's arrival in New York. Upon his arrival he is shocked to hear that Doris and Walter plan not only a natural childbirth but the birth will take place in their apartment NOT a hospital. To make matters worse, Walter states that he personally will deliver their child. Jim at first doubts Walter's sincerity and expertise but begins to gain respect for Walter after he calls in a doctor to consult and is told that Walter is very prepared for almost any contingency.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: independent film
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It All Started by Chance (1993)
Plot Summary:
A middle class couple crisis. A love story between a young blue collar guy an a Philippine girl. The lives of four people get closer in nowadays Rome.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: soap opera
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Wedding Bell Blues (1996)
Plot Summary:
Micki, Tanya and Jasmine have 24 hours to get divorced. There's just one problem...They're still single. When Jasmine, Tanya and Micki decide they'd rather be divorced than unmarried, they take off to Las Vegas in search of the perfect ex. In the tangled web that follows, Micki lassos a cowboy, Tanya acquires a rich businessman, and Jasmine finds true love in the arms of a regular guy. The result is an outrageous comedy of love, marriage and misadventure. As intelligent as it is absurd, Wedding Bell Blues pokes great fun at the twists and turns of modern love, with outstanding performances from a talented young cast, including Illeana Douglas, Paulina Porizkova and Julie Warner, it is without a doubt one of the year's most hilarious movies.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 493
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexy
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My X-Girlfriend's Wedding Reception (1999)
Plot Summary:
This brutally honest comedy depicts the Jewish-Italian wedding reception of Lisa Weinstein (Deborah Gibson), as guests can't help but notice the romantic sparks among Lisa, the groom (Joey Scherr), the maid of honor (Mo Gaffney) and the bride's ex-boyfriend, the reception band leader (Martin Guigui). Meanwhile, various guests on both sides of the aisle pursue their own love interests at the event. Dom DeLuise co-stars.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, clever, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Confetti (2006)
Plot Summary:
A mockumentary that follows three couples as they battle it out to win the coveted title of 'Most Original Wedding of the Year'.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, clever, touching, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, crying, fake documentary
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Bachelor in Paradise (1961)
Plot Summary:
A. J. Niles is the author of a series of 'Bachelor Books'. These books describe the romantic life of a bachelor in various cities of the world. But when he runs into trouble with the I.R.S. for back taxes, he needs to write another book fast, to pay them. His publisher decides a book about life in the American suburbs would be a hit, and settles him into Paradise Cove. One bachelor plus lonely housewives equals many angry husbands.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: retro, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, sexual, sexy, exotic
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Trade Your Love (2019)
Plot Summary:
Sung-seok and Hae-joo, who have been under pressure of marriage, devise a scheme at their first meet; a fake wedding. They reach an agreement under the desire of not only being free from their parents’ meddling but carrying their secret future plan. Sung-seok plans to run away with his lover who has a kid and Hae-joo plans to start her new career abroad after their planned marriage. However, their families get too much excited about this news more than their expectation and their near-flawless plan starts to become a mess.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Saved by the Bell: Wedding in Las Vegas (1994)
Plot Summary:
In this conclusion of the long running series it finally happens: Kelly and Zack will marry. Zack's parents are against the early commitment and Kelly's parents can't afford it, so only the gang travels to Las Vegas for the wedding. However, before the wedding can happen, they have to live through many adventures, including Zack losing his hard earned money, Kelly becoming jealous and Slater being chased by mobsters.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: cult classic, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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I Will... I Will... For Now (1976)
Plot Summary:
Elliot Gould stars as Les Bingham, who takes umbrage that his ex-wife Katie (Diane Keaton) has a new love in life. What Les doesn't realize is that her new paramour is lawyer Lou Springer (Paul Sorvino). When Katie's sister Sally (Candy Clark) arrives and tells the two about her new, hip '70s marriage contract, Les and Katie decide to try to get together again under a more liberal marriage contract, like Katie's sister. But, unfortunately for the couple, the contract is planted with the seeds of self-destruction, having been drafted by Lou.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Marry Me (2022)
Plot Summary:
Music superstars Kat Valdez and Bastian are getting married before a global audience of fans. But when Kat learns, seconds before her vows, that Bastian has been unfaithful, she decides to marry Charlie, a stranger in the crowd, instead.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA, China, Japan
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: romantic, psychological, captivating, disturbing, light, feel good, family comedy
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Wedding Every Weekend (2020)
Plot Summary:
Nate and Brooke are going to the same four weddings, four weekends in a row. To avoid the singles tables and set-ups, they agree to go together as "wedding buddies." But what starts as a friendship soon becomes something deeper.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, light, romantic, touching, humorous, talky
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Nothing in Common (1986)
Plot Summary:
On his way up the corporate ladder, David Basner confronts his greatest challenge: his father.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: weeping, sentimental, clever, touching, talky, cult classic, independent film, feel good, humorous, realistic
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Wedding Daze (2006)
Plot Summary:
After losing the woman of his dreams, Anderson is convinced he'll never fall in love again. But at the urging of his best friend, he spontaneously proposes to a dissatisfied waitress named Katie and an innocent dare evolves into the kind of love that both have been looking for all along.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: touching, witty, humorous, semi serious, realistic, romantic, hilarious, teen, indie film
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The Bachelor (1999)
Plot Summary:
Jimmie is seeing his single friends get married one by one. He isn't too worried until his girlfriend Anne catches the bouquet at his friend Marco's wedding. Suddenly, his wild mustang days are numbered. He finally decides to propose to her, but he sticks his foot in his mouth and botches the proposal. Being insulted by the defeatist proposal, Anne leaves town on an assignment. After she's gone, he finds out that his recently-deceased grandfather's will stipulates that he gets nothing of a multi-million dollar fortune unless he's married by 6:05pm on his 30th birthday: tomorrow! Not being able to find Anne, Jimmie begins backtracking through his past girlfriends to find a wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: romantic, clever, smart, sentimental, touching, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty
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Miami Rhapsody (1995)
Plot Summary:
Gwyn Marcus has always wanted a marriage like her parents. She has just accepted the proposal of her boyfriend Matt, but she has misgivings about their future together. Her fear of commitment grows as she learns of the various affairs that her family is having. With her sister getting married and her brother already married, her mother is growing concerned about Gwyn's being the last single person in the family. But the more she thinks about marriage, the more she must search for the balance between career, marriage and family.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, entertaining, melancholic, humorous, semi serious, clever, witty, talky, neurotic
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The War of the Roses (1989)
Plot Summary:
The Roses, Barbara and Oliver, live happily as a married couple. Then she starts to wonder what life would be like without Oliver, and likes what she sees. Both want to stay in the house, and so they begin a campaign to force each other to leave. In the middle of the fighting is D'Amato, the divorce lawyer. He gets to see how far both will go to get rid of the other, and boy do they go far.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy, psychological, satirical, cynical, humorous, funny, bad ending, clever, stylized
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Nearlyweds (2013)
Plot Summary:
Revolves around three friends who have dream weddings only to find out that the pastor who married them failed to complete the key paperwork required to make them official.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, cute
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Betsy's Wedding (1990)
Plot Summary:
Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper and her straight-laced investment-banker fiancé, Dylan Walsh, just want an intimate little wedding reception, but Betsy's father, Eddie, a Long Island construction contractor, feels so threatened by Jake's rich WASP parents that he blows the ceremony up into a bank-breaking showpiece, sending his wife, Lola, into a financial panic.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, talky, funny, melancholic, light, sentimental, feel good, semi serious, romantic, entertaining
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Father of the Bride Part II (1995)
Plot Summary:
Just when George Banks has recovered from his daughter's wedding, he receives the news that she's pregnant ... and that George's wife, Nina, is expecting too. He was planning on selling their home, but that's a plan that -- like George -- will have to change with the arrival of both a grandchild and a kid of his own.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: funny, entertaining, sentimental, touching, family comedy, relaxing, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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House Party 3 (1994)
Plot Summary:
Hip Hop duo Kid & Play return in the second follow-up to their 1990 screen debut House Party. Kid (Christopher "Kid" Reid) is taking the plunge and marrying his girlfriend Veda (Angela Means), while his friend Play (Christopher Martin) is dipping his toes into the music business, managing a roughneck female rap act called Sex as a Weapon. Play books the ladies for a concert with heavy-hitting pr.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: hood, black comedy, independent film, humorous, realistic, not serious, semi serious, funny, light, romantic
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The Wedding Singer (1998)
Plot Summary:
Robbie, a local rock star turned wedding singer, is dumped on the day of his wedding. Meanwhile, waitress Julia finally sets a wedding date with her fiancée Glenn. When Julia and Robbie meet and hit it off, they find that things are more complicated than anybody thought.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 160000
Genere: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: romantic, sentimental, romantic comedy, light, feel good, entertaining, sweet, hilarious, heartfelt, funny
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Laws of Attraction (2004)
Plot Summary:
Amidst a sea of litigation, two New York City divorce lawyers find love.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, not serious, talky, sexy, funny, romantic comedy, entertaining, feel good, teen
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Our Family Wedding (2010)
Plot Summary:
The weeks leading up to a young couple's wedding is comic and stressful, especially as their respective fathers try to lay to rest their feud.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic, black comedy, hispanic, independent film
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Father of the Bride (2022)
Plot Summary:
A father coming to grips with his daughter’s upcoming wedding through the prism of multiple relationships within a big, sprawling Cuban-American family.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Town & Country (2001)
Plot Summary:
Porter Stoddard is a well-known New York architect who is at a crossroads... a nexus where twists and turns lead to myriad missteps some with his wife Ellie, others with longtime friends Mona and her husband Griffin. Deciding which direction to take often leads to unexpected encounters with hilarious consequences.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, melancholic, light, semi serious, realistic, clever, witty, talky, sexual, parody
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My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (2016)
Plot Summary:
The continuing adventures of the Portokalos family. A follow-up to the 2002 comedy, "My Big Fat Greek Wedding.".
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: funny, romantic, entertaining, feel good, sweet, captivating, disturbing, parody, humorous, melancholic
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Father of the Bride (1991)
Plot Summary:
George Banks is an ordinary, middle-class man whose 21 year-old daughter Annie has decided to marry a man from an upper-class family, but George can't think of what life would be like without his daughter. He becomes slightly insane, but his wife tries to make him happy for Annie, but when the wedding takes place at their home and a foreign wedding planner takes over the ceremony.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 83000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, humorous, sentimental, funny, romantic, sweet, entertaining, romantic comedy, family comedy
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Wedding Season (2022)
Plot Summary:
Pressured by their immigrant parents to find spouses, two Indian-Americans pretend to date in order to survive a summer of weddings – but find themselves falling for each other as they struggle to balance who they are with who their parents want them to be.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Just Married (2009)
Plot Summary:
Nicola, a policeman in Puglia, is a reformed ladies' man with his heart set on marrying the daughter of the Indian ambassador.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 471
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious