Best movies like It's Complicated
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Plot Summary:
Ten years after their divorce, Jane and Jake Adler unite for their son's college graduation and unexpectedly end up sleeping together. But Jake is married, and Jane is embarking on a new romance with her architect. Now, she has to sort out her life – just when she thought she had it all figured out.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 97000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: feel good, realistic, light, romantic, humorous, witty, funny, entertaining, romantic comedy, sex comedy
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Ticket to Paradise (2022)
Plot Summary:
A divorced couple teams up and travels to Bali to stop their daughter from making the same mistake they think they made 25 years ago.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, Japan, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: romantic comedy, romantic, satirical, cute, feel good, neo screwball comedy
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Hello I Must Be Going (2012)
Plot Summary:
Divorced and demoralized Amy Minsky’s prospects look bleak when she is condemned to move back in with her parents at the age of 35. Everyone wants to help, but, as her patience level with advice is plummeting, a bold teenage boy enters her life, igniting her last bit of self-esteem. What ensues is an unconventional love story infused with all the good things Amy needs to get on in life, and that just may include great sex.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, independent film, sexy, heartbreaking, romantic, romantic comedy, happy
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Tuscan Wedding (2014)
Plot Summary:
Tuscan Wedding, the new romantic comedy from the creators of Loving Ibiza. Together with her father Tom and stepmother Marla, Sanne runs Casa Matrimonio, a luxurious villa in sunkissed Italy. The estate is located in Tuscany, a beautiful region where many couples go to have their perfect wedding. In Casa Matrimonio guests come together to celebrate love and life. A Tuscan Wedding is the apotheosis of everyone’s visit to the country side. And for some the villa is all too familiar as they return again and again: because some people only marry twice.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands, UK
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Rumor Has It... (2005)
Plot Summary:
Sarah Huttinger's return home with her fiance convinces her that the sedate, proper, country-club lifestyle of her family isn't for her – and that maybe the Huttinger family isn't even hers – as she uncovers secrets that suggest the Huttingers are neither sedate nor proper.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Australia, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, sentimental, semi serious, humorous, realistic, predictable, entertaining, philosophical, uplifting
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I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007)
Plot Summary:
This movie follows a mother who falls for a younger man while her daughter falls in love for the first time. Mother Nature messes with their fates.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: satirical, feel good, humorous, sentimental, light, romantic, cute, witty, stylized, intense
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Book Club (2018)
Plot Summary:
Four lifelong friends have their lives forever changed after reading Fifty Shades of Grey in their monthly book club.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, humorous, ironic, feel good, romantic drama, melancholic
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Mamma Mia! (2008)
Plot Summary:
Set on an idyllic Greek island, the plot serves as a background for a wealth of ABBA hit songs. Donna, an independent, single mother who owns a small hotel on the island is about to let go of Sophie, the spirited young daughter she's raised alone. But Sophie has secretly invited three of her mother's ex-lovers in the hopes of finding her father.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 267000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Germany
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, light, sentimental, stylized, not serious, teen, happy, funny, inspirational
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HouseSitter (1992)
Plot Summary:
After building his dream house, architect Newton Davis proposes marriage to his girlfriend, only to be summarily rejected. He seeks solace in a one-night stand with a waitress, never imagining that a woman he slept with once would end up posing as his wife. Gwen's ruse is so effective that by the time Newton learns of his "marriage," the entire town feels like they know him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, feel good, humorous, funny, clever, absurd, romantic comedy, uplifting, entertaining
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The Big Wedding (2013)
Plot Summary:
To the amusement of their adult children and friends, long divorced couple Don and Ellie Griffin are once again forced to play the happy couple for the sake of their adopted son's wedding after his ultra conservative biological mother unexpectedly decides to fly halfway across the world to attend. With all of the wedding guests looking on, the Griffins are hilariously forced to confront their past, present and future - and hopefully avoid killing each other in the process.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 52000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: entertaining, feel good, funny, not serious, humorous, light, romantic, hilarious, sweet, teen
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Hope Springs (2012)
Plot Summary:
After thirty years of marriage, a middle-aged couple attends an intense, week-long counseling session to work on their relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: melancholic, romantic, light, sweet, sincere, humorous, realistic, talky, romantic comedy, touching
Similar in 76%
Sabrina (1995)
Plot Summary:
An ugly duckling having undergone a remarkable change, still harbors feelings for her crush: a carefree playboy, but not before his business-focused brother has something to say about it.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, sweet, sentimental, light, fairy tale, romantic comedy, cute, clever, sad
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French Kiss (1995)
Plot Summary:
French Kiss is director Kasdan’s best film since the Bodyguard. The plot involves a couple in love and one woman’s attempt to fly to Paris to get her lover back from a business trip and marry him. On the way she unknowingly smuggles something of value that has a petty thief chasing her across France as she chases after her future husband.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 52000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: feel good, romantic, romantic comedy, humorous, sweet, light, entertaining, philosophical, uplifting, emotional
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Four Christmases (2008)
Plot Summary:
Brad and Kate have made something of an art form out of avoiding their families during the holidays, but this year their foolproof plan is about go bust -- big time. Stuck at the city airport after all departing flights are canceled, the couple is embarrassed to see their ruse exposed to the world by an overzealous television reporter. Now, Brad and Kate are left with precious little choice other than to swallow their pride and suffer the rounds.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 78000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, feel good, romantic, romantic comedy, entertaining, light, sex comedy, teen, happy
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Prime (2005)
Plot Summary:
A career driven professional from Manhattan is wooed by a young painter, who also happens to be the son of her psychoanalyst.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sweet, light, sentimental, romantic, funny, melancholic, humorous, semi serious, romantic comedy, witty
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Moonstruck (1987)
Plot Summary:
Cher is devastatingly funny, sinuous and beautiful as Loretta, an unlucky-in-love Italian widow who finds romance through the intervention of the Manhattan moon. With her wedding to a close friend just weeks away, she meets - and falls hopelessly in love with - his younger brother (Cage)!.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 66000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: romantic, sexy, sentimental, light, touching, humorous, sweet, melancholic, romantic comedy, clever
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Raising Helen (2004)
Plot Summary:
Helen Harris has a glamorous, big-city life working for one of New York's hottest modeling agencies. But suddenly her free-spirited life gets turned upside down when she must chose between the life she's always loved, and the new loves of her life!.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: romantic, sentimental, feel good, touching, entertaining, funny, sweet, cute, humorous, realistic
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Baby Boom (1987)
Plot Summary:
The life of super-yuppie J.C. is thrown into turmoil when she inherits a baby from a distant relative.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: light, touching, sentimental, sweet, sincere, humorous, realistic, semi serious, cute, retro
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Something's Gotta Give (2003)
Plot Summary:
Harry Sanborn is an aged music industry exec with a fondness for younger women like Marin, his latest trophy girlfriend. Things get a little awkward when Harry suffers a heart attack at the home of Marin's mother, Erica. Left in the care of Erica and his doctor, a love triangle starts to take shape.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 127000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, sweet, romantic comedy, light, touching, intense, humorous, funny, romantic drama
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The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)
Plot Summary:
Rose Morgan, who still lives with her mother, is a professor of Romantic Literature who desperately longs for passion in her life. Gregory Larkin, a mathematics professor, has been burned by passionate relationships and longs for a sexless union based on friendship and respect.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, humorous, sweet, sentimental, touching, romantic, emotional, intense, inspirational
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Julie & Julia (2009)
Plot Summary:
Julia Child and Julie Powell – both of whom wrote memoirs – find their lives intertwined. Though separated by time and space, both women are at loose ends... until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 127000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: feel good, inspirational, light, sweet, touching, sentimental, witty, culinary, romantic, cute
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When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
Plot Summary:
During their travels from Chicago to New York, Harry and Sally Will debate whether or not sex ruins a perfect relationship between a man and a woman. Eleven years later, and they're still no closer to finding the answer.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 236000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: feel good, romantic, sweet, sentimental, funny, sincere, romantic comedy, touching, light, cute
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The Family Stone (2005)
Plot Summary:
An uptight, conservative, businesswoman accompanies her boyfriend to his eccentric and outgoing family's annual Christmas celebration and finds that she's a fish out of water in their free-spirited way of life.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 73000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, touching, entertaining, humorous, funny, light, romantic, sweet, romantic comedy
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The Accidental Husband (2008)
Plot Summary:
When radio love guru Dr Emma Lloyd convinces Patrick Sullivan's fiancée to dump him the week before their wedding. He sets about teaching her a lesson for interfering in other peoples lives that she knows nothing about. Things take a turn when he finds himself falling for the very person who ruined his life and everyone is going to have to learn a few lessons about 'Real Love'.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, light, romantic comedy, sweet, cute, entertaining, witty, funny, philosophical
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Wedding Crashers (2005)
Plot Summary:
John and his buddy, Jeremy are emotional criminals who know how to use a woman's hopes and dreams for their own carnal gain. Their modus operandi: crashing weddings. Normally, they meet guests who want to toast the romantic day with a random hook-up. But when John meets Claire, he discovers what true love – and heartache – feels like.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 371000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: funny, sex comedy, romantic, hilarious, light, humorous, teen sex comedy, feel good, slapstick, romantic comedy
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The Proposal (2009)
Plot Summary:
When she learns she's in danger of losing her visa status and being deported, overbearing book editor Margaret Tate forces her put-upon assistant, Andrew Paxton, to marry her.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 349000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: feel good, romantic, light, sweet, funny, romantic comedy, witty, sexy, cute, hilarious
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The Wedding Date (2005)
Plot Summary:
With the wedding of her younger sister fast approaching, Kat Ellis faces the undesirable prospect of traveling alone to London for the ceremony. While this is bad enough, Jeffrey, the man who left her as they moved closer to marriage, happens to be the groom's best man. Determined to show everyone -- most of all Jeffrey -- that her romantic life is as full and thrilling as ever, Kat hires a charming male escort as her date.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, sweet, light, sexy, sentimental, funny, romantic comedy, realistic, witty
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The Holiday (2006)
Plot Summary:
Two women, one (Cameron Diaz) from America and one (Kate Winslet) from Britain, swap homes at Christmastime after bad breakups with their boyfriends. Each woman finds romance with a local man (Jude Law, Jack Black) but realizes that the imminent return home may end the relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 311000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, sweet, sentimental, light, touching, humorous, romantic comedy, cute, funny
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You've Got Mail (1998)
Plot Summary:
Book superstore magnate, Joe Fox and independent book shop owner, Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet – both blissfully unaware that he's putting her out of business.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 226000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: feel good, sweet, touching, sentimental, light, romantic, entertaining, humorous, cute, inspirational
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Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011)
Plot Summary:
Cal Weaver is living the American dream. He has a good job, a beautiful house, great children and a beautiful wife, named Emily. Cal's seemingly perfect life unravels, however, when he learns that Emily has been unfaithful and wants a divorce. Over 40 and suddenly single, Cal is adrift in the fickle world of dating. Enter, Jacob Palmer, a self-styled player who takes Cal under his wing and teaches him how to be a hit with the ladies.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 552000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, funny, light, emotional, touching, romantic comedy, sexy, humorous, cute
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The Intern (2015)
Plot Summary:
70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 269000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: feel good, inspirational, light, sweet, touching, emotional, funny, sentimental, motivational, entertaining