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Plot Summary:
When the men of a Sicilian village start obsessing over ravishing blonde midwife Jessica (Angie Dickinson), angry females revolt by refusing to have sex with their husbands. As the local priest (Maurice Chevalier) tries to encourage procreation, Jessica falls for a tricky recluse (Gabriele Ferzetti). An adaptation of a Flora Sandstrom novel, this charming comedy also features Noel-Noel as a matchmaking old-timer.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France, USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, sexy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, hot
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Georgy Girl (1966)
Plot Summary:
Georgy has resigned herself to being one of life's accidents. She disapproves somewhat of her father's butlering James Leamington. She's tall, plump, sloppy and wistfully envious of what she conceives to be the life led by her beautiful, but icy roommate. Where her roommate, Meredith, is cool and calculating, Georgy gets so involved with the people around her she behaves like an affectionate puppy. Most of all she burns to be a mother. But it is Meredith that is in the hospital having an unwanted child.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: retro, romantic comedy, sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic, road movie, atmospheric
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The Happy Housewife (2010)
Plot Summary:
Lea is an immaculate 30-something wife whose husband’s job in real estate allows her an enviably glossy lifestyle. The word ‘emancipation’ simply isn't in her vocabulary and as long as the money rolls in, all is rosy. So, when Harry Jr. arrives, she is a little traumatized at having to swap canapés for nappies.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, captivating, semi serious, psychological, realistic
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Bed & Board (1970)
Plot Summary:
Parisian everyman Antoine Doinel has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon, and the newlyweds have set up a cozy domestic life of selling flowers and giving violin lessons while Antoine fitfully works on his long-gestating novel. As Christine becomes pregnant with the couple's first child, Antoine finds himself enraptured with a young Japanese beauty. The complications change the course of their relationship forever.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, feel good, realistic, anthology, art house, postmodern, offbeat, semi serious
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Gone with the Woman (2007)
Plot Summary:
A woman moves into a young man's home and starts to run his life -- a process that makes him fall hopelessly in love with her.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, melancholic, captivating, cult classic, cult film
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Gabriela (2012)
Plot Summary:
Naïve and provocative Gabriela is a raggedy migrant worker who arrives in town to mesmerize all with her playful and simple, yet raw sensuality. Set in 1925, the story unravels in Ilhéus, a quiet northeastern coastal city thriving with cocoa crops and aspirations for progress, even though the traditional ways still rule.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: touching, humorous, captivating, semi serious, novela, soap opera, sentimental, realistic, telenovela
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Tieta of Agreste (1996)
Plot Summary:
Just when her family starts believing that she is dead, and that they can expect a rich heritage, Tieta returns from São Paulo to her native village in Bahia, which she had been forced to leave long ago because of some involvement with a goat herd. Believed to be fabulously rich - and nobody knows how - she brings to the great disappointment of her family a young step-daughter and heir. With the arrival of Tieta turmoil enters into the life of her family and their fellow villagers. Most particularly into the life of her nephew - promised to the Church - and the young aspiring mayor.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil, UK, France
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: sexy, manga, humorous, serious, realistic, semi serious
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Madly in Love (2013)
Plot Summary:
The film focuses on the tumultuous romance in the lives of four women in The Hague. Teenage daughter Eva, her mother Judith, aunt Barbara and older sister Anna make it under one roof Hague together a nice game of. They are beautiful, courageous and sensible, but sometimes they just do not know in a world full of tender love, serial dating, slaked lust, affairs, children's desires and indestructible old loves.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sexy, realistic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious
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Take a Girl Like You (1970)
Plot Summary:
Young Jenny heads to the South of England to start a new career as a school teacher. Even before she has had a chance to settle in she meets Patrick, one of the local "lads". Within a short time she has her hands full when a number of the local boys take a liking to her. But who will be the lucky one who wins her affections?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 779
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, romantic comedy, sexy, independent film, touching, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual
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Tamara Drewe (2010)
Plot Summary:
A young newspaper writer returns to her hometown in the English countryside, where her childhood home is being prepped for sale.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sexy, witty, romantic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, feel good, realistic, sex comedy
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Heartbeat (1993)
Plot Summary:
The beautiful and talented Adrian is a writer for one of America's most popular TV soap operas. She is also pregnant, and when she refuses to abort her baby, Adrian's selfish husband deserts her. It falls to one of the soap opera's producers, the recently divorced Bill, to convince Adrian to give romance a second chance.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 407
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, realistic, humorous, serious, soap opera
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Roseanna's Grave (1997)
Plot Summary:
Roseanna is dying of a heart condition, and all she wants is to be buried next to her daughter, in a cemetery that is getting full fast. The cemetery can't expand because Capestro, the man who owns the land next to the cemetery, won't sell. While Marcello is doing good deeds to make sure no one dies, Roseanna thinks of Marcello's future.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, sentimental, romantic, sweet, melancholic, talky, semi serious, humorous, realistic
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The Ages of Love (2011)
Plot Summary:
Roberto is a young and ambitious lawyer who is going to marry Sara. His whole life is perfectly planned out. During a expropriation which he is in charge of, he meets Micol, a gorgeous and provocative young woman from a small village in Tuscany. This is when things start to get complicated... Fabio, a famous anchorman, has been the perfect husband for twenty five years. At a party one night, he meets Eliana, a femme fatale full of surprises. This one-night stand proves to be more than what he bargained for when she refuses to leave... Adrian is an American art history professor who moved to Rome after his divorce. He is friends with Augusto, the building's concierge, whose ebullient daughter Viola is about to disrupt his peaceful existence and relight his fire.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sexy, touching, humorous, semi serious, social, realistic, contemplative, sexual, anthology
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Sorry if I Want to Marry You (2010)
Plot Summary:
Second part of the film "Sorry if I love you". Alex (Raoul Bova) and Niki (Michela Quattrociocche) are more in love than ever. They have just returned from the lighthouse on the island Blu where they have lived unforgettable days. Niki returns to see his friends, but a number of important changes in their lives will test the friendship of the girls. Alex also resume life with his old friends. All of them, Flavio, Enrico and Pietro, are no longer serene and safe husbands due to certain difficulties that have compromised their marriages.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sexy, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Shadows in the Sun (2005)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring young writer (Jackson) tracks a literary titan (Keitel) suffering from writers block to his refuge in rural Italy and learns about life and love from the irascible genius and his daughters.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, realistic, sincere, romantic, light, philosophical, sentimental, humorous, semi serious
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You and Me (2006)
Plot Summary:
In Paris, Ariane and Lena are sisters. Ariane writes photo novellas for the magazine "Toi et Moi." She's emotional and her long-time boyfriend, Farid, has her in a state because he won't propose, won't ask her to live with him, and often is unavailable. Lena is a cellist, quiet and circumspect in life and in her playing. She lives without passion with her boyfriend François; they're talking about having a baby.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 659
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, sexy, captivating, light, emotional, realistic, semi serious, sexual, hot
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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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Every Blessed Day (2012)
Plot Summary:
Guido and Antonia are a young couple with opposing characters and working schedules: he works a night job as a doorman in a hotel, and she works as an employee for a rental car service. This is the story of what happens to Guido and Antonia when they decide to have a child.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, captivating, light, realistic, semi serious
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Almost Perfect (2011)
Plot Summary:
A 30-something career woman tries to find the balance between her demanding family and her perfect new boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, captivating, sentimental, light, sincere, semi serious, sexual
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Flirting with Forty (2008)
Plot Summary:
A divorcee has a passionate affair with a much younger surfing instructor in Hawaii.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, erotic, romantic, sexy, touching
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Ball & Chain (2004)
Plot Summary:
Somewhere in the middle of Texas, Ameet (Sunil Malhotra) and Saima (Lisa Ray) have a problem. They were perfectly happy avoiding each other until their parents set them up to get married. The reluctant couple decide to do whatever it takes to break off the engagement. After some very embarrassing efforts, they finally succeed in getting their parents to call off the wedding, only to realize they have another problem, they're in love! Meanwhile, Saima's father (Asrani), deciding that she's passed her expiration date, promises her to Ashol (Ismail Bashey)- a sleazy playboy.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 619
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, sentimental, emotional, realistic, semi serious
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Watermelon (2003)
Plot Summary:
A tangled web of deciet pitches three lovers together with the added proposition of a baby.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 391
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic
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Manual of Love (2005)
Plot Summary:
Four intertwined episodes on the joys and sorrows of love.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, sexy, saga, realistic, anthology
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I Do (2004)
Plot Summary:
Denise Richards plays Lauren, a divorced wedding-planner who falls for the groom-to-be (Dean Cain).
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic, feel good, relaxing
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Let's Ruin It with Babies (2014)
Plot Summary:
Channing has it all: a beautiful home, a rock star lifestyle, and a loving husband intent on ruining it all by knocking her up.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, independent film, sexy
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Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas (2005)
Plot Summary:
A woman discovers the truth about her former lover from the diary that his first wife wrote to their son, Nicholas.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, realistic, touching, serious, emotional, erotic, tear jerker
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The Italian Key (2011)
Plot Summary:
A romantic fairy tale about a 19-year old orphan girl who, as her sole inheritance, gets an antique key that unlocks both an old Italian villa and the secrets of her family history.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, USA, Italy, UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, sentimental, feel good, realistic, stylized, romantic, fairy tale
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Angie (1994)
Plot Summary:
Angie lives in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, N.Y. and dreams of a better life than everyone she knows. When she finds that she is pregnant by her boyfriend Vinnie, she decides that she will have the baby, but not Vinnie as a husband. This turns the entire neighborhood upside down and starts her on a journey of self discovery. This journey includes her family, a new lover and her life. Even her best friend Tina has trouble understanding Angie. Written by Tony Fontana.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: intense, sentimental, touching, entertaining, anamorphic, humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, inspirational
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What to Expect When You're Expecting (2012)
Plot Summary:
Challenges of impending parenthood turn the lives of five couples upside down. Two celebrities are unprepared for the surprise demands of pregnancy; hormones wreak havoc on a baby-crazy author, while her husband tries not to be outdone by his father, who's expecting twins with his young trophy wife; a photographer's husband isn't sure about his wife's adoption plans; a one-time hook-up results in a surprise pregnancy for rival food-truck owners.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 75000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, romantic, funny, cute, romantic comedy, teen, sweet, parody, sexy
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I Do...Knot (2009)
Plot Summary:
Sebastian is very lucky with women, going to parties and getting drunk every night. His mother asks him to change his way of life but he refuses to stop partying and meeting new women. One day, after one night of serious partying he wakes up with a beautiful woman named Alexa. He realizes he got married to her, but he can't remember anything about it. And being married is a serious problem for a man like him.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 690
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: semi serious, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, sentimental, realistic, witty
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Fools Rush In (1997)
Plot Summary:
Alex Whitman (Matthew Perry) is a designer from New York City who is sent to Las Vegas to supervise the construction of a nightclub that his firm has been hired to build. Alex is a straight-laced WASP-ish type who, while enjoying a night on the town, meets Isabel Fuentes (Salma Hayek), a free-spirited Mexican-American photographer. Alex and Isabel are overtaken by lust at first sight and end up sp.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: entertaining, humorous, sentimental, touching, romantic, romantic comedy, sweet, light, feel good, realistic