Best movies like King Ralph
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Plot Summary:
As the only relative to take over the Royal throne, a down on his luck American slob must learn the ways of the English.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, light, absurd, satirical, humorous, witty, not serious, entertaining, retro
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Three Days to Vegas (2007)
Plot Summary:
Four grumpy old men go on a road trip from their retired life in Florida to the excitement of Las Vegas in order to stop one of their daughters from marrying the wrong guy.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 314
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, feel good, entertaining, light, sincere
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Meeting Daddy (2000)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring writer from New York visits his girlfriend's eccentric family in Georgia.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film, offbeat
Similar in 79%
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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The Sweeter Side of Life (2013)
Plot Summary:
Pampered Manhattan housewife Desiree Harper has it all. That is until her husband unexpectedly dumps her for his acupuncturist. Faced with an airtight prenup, Desiree reluctantly lands a job making cupcakes at her father's bakery in Flemington, NJ. She soon discovers there's more to life than 5th Avenue and true love can be even sweeter in small town America.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: humorous, romantic, sincere, captivating, funny, light, feel good, entertaining, touching, offbeat
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The Beautician and the Beast (1997)
Plot Summary:
The story follows the misadventures of a New York City beautician who is mistakenly hired as the school teacher for the children of the president of a small Eastern European country.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, feel good, parody, realistic, romantic, sentimental, scary, fairy tale, funny
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Coming & Going (2011)
Plot Summary:
Coming & Going is an irreverent romantic comedy that poses the question: How far would you go to capture the heart of the one you love? Lee (Rhys Darby) is a young, skilled OBGYN who lacks confidence when it comes to talking to women outside his successful medical practice. A minor injury temporarily lands him in a wheelchair and it is at that precise time that he meets his dream girl Alex (Sasha Alexander). Convinced she's only paid attention to him because he's in that chair, he stays in it to win her affections well after his injury has healed. Coming & Going is about love and the extreme things people do for it.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 745
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, light, feel good, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Arthur (1981)
Plot Summary:
Arthur is the most quotable drunk millionaire that is likely to ever steal your heart. Dudley Moore portrays Arthur, a thirty year old child who will inherit 750 million dollars if he complies with his family's demands and marries the woman of their choosing.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, romantic comedy, slapstick, sentimental, clever, humorous, witty, offbeat, sad, satirical
Similar in 76%
Son in Law (1993)
Plot Summary:
Country girl Rebecca has spent most of her life on a farm in South Dakota, and, when she goes away to college in Los Angeles, Rebecca immediately feels out of place in the daunting urban setting. She is befriended by a savvy party animal named Crawl, who convinces the ambivalent Rebecca to stay in the city. When Thanksgiving break rolls around, Rebecca, no longer an innocent farm girl, invites Crawl back to South Dakota, where he pretends to be her fiancé.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, feel good, sex comedy, slapstick comedy, romantic comedy, realistic, not serious, hilarious, entertaining
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Piccadilly Jim (2004)
Plot Summary:
Set in the 1930s, an American with a scandalous reputation on both sides of the Atlantic must do an about-face in order to win back the woman of his dreams.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, tragicomedy, social, ironic, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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The MatchMaker (1997)
Plot Summary:
Marcy, a worker in the reelection campaign of bumbling Senator John McGlory, is sent to Ireland on a quest to find the Irish ancestry of Sen. McGlory, to help him win the Irish vote. But when Marcy arrives in the small village of Ballinagra, she finds herself in the middle of a matchmaking festival, and the local matchmaker is determined to pair her off with one of the local bachelors.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, witty, feel good, black and white, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, independent film, fairy tale
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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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Lovemakers (2011)
Plot Summary:
Small time Hungarian matchmakers get the job to make a Hollywood star fall in love with a Russian businessman's spoiled brat sister. They get one million dollars if they succeed, but if they fail, they will have to pay with their lives.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hungary, USA, UK, Russia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, offbeat, realistic, not serious
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Easy Virtue (2008)
Plot Summary:
A young Englishman marries a glamorous American. When he brings her home to meet the parents, she arrives like a blast from the future - blowing their entrenched British stuffiness out the window.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: witty, sexy, stylized, light, melancholic, period piece, realistic, humorous, semi serious, funny
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Slap Her, She's French! (2002)
Plot Summary:
Welcome to Splendona High School, Texas, where football players, cheerleaders and beauty queens rule the hallways. And Starla Grady, the most popular girl in school, is on top of it all. That is, at least until Genevieve LePlouff, a French foreign exchange student arrives and turns her life upside down.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany, UK, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, sexy, teen, light, feel good, entertaining, romantic, dark comedy, independent film
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Brain Donors (1992)
Plot Summary:
Three manic idiots; a lawyer, cab driver and a handyman team up to run a ballet company to fulfill the will of a millionaire. Stooge-like antics result as the trio try to outwit the rich widow and her scheming big-shot lawyer, who also wants to run the ballet.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, witty, light, clever, unusual plot structure, surreal, absurd, talky, stylized
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Bacon on the Side (2010)
Plot Summary:
Djalil Boudaoud and Justine Lacroix are a surgeon and a television reporter who enter a romantic relationship despite the objections of their families to the cultural gap.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 557
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, sentimental, touching, realistic
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Bitter/Sweet (2009)
Plot Summary:
American businessman Brian Chandler has a perfect life with a great job and beautiful fiancée. When his boss, renegade coffee mogul Calvert Jenkins sends him to Thailand to inspect a crop for purchase, Brian meets Ticha, a beautiful Bangkok executive who has long-since given up on the prospects of finding love.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Thailand, USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, touching, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Shirin in Love (2014)
Plot Summary:
Despite being engaged to a successful Iranian plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills, Shirin finds herself falling for a mysterious young man who lives in a lighthouse in northern California.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 904
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, light, sentimental, realistic, independent film
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Looking for Maria Sanchez (2013)
Plot Summary:
Raul, a Puerto Rican born in New York, meets Maria, a young Puerto Rican woman visiting NY, one night. Struck by love at first sight, he travels to Puerto Rico in search of this beautiful girl.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Puerto Rico, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, sentimental, captivating, light, feel good, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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For Love or Money (1993)
Plot Summary:
New York concierge Doug Ireland wants to go into business for himself and refurbish a hotel on Roosevelt Island, N.Y., but he needs an investor. With a few weeks left before his option on the site runs out, Doug agrees to help wealthy Christian Hanover conceal his affair with salesgirl Andy Hart from his wife. Despite his own attraction to Andy, Doug tries to stay focused on getting Christian to invest $3 million in his project.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: entertaining, romantic, talky, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, light hearted, colorful
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My Boss's Daughter (2003)
Plot Summary:
When a young man agrees to housesit for his boss, he thinks it'll be the perfect opportunity to get close to the woman he desperately has a crush on – his boss's daughter. But he doesn't plan on the long line of other houseguests that try to keep him from his mission. And he also has to deal with the daughter's older brother, who's on the run from local drug dealers.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, parody, not serious, sexy, funny, hilarious, feel good, slapstick, erotic, romantic
Similar in 77%
Coming to America (1988)
Plot Summary:
Prince Akeem, heir to the throne of Zamunda, leaves the tropical paradise kingdom in search of his queen. What better place than Queens, New York, to find his bride? Joined by his loyal servant and friend, Semmi, Akeem attempts to blend in as an ordinary American and begin his search.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 220000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, humorous, entertaining, romantic comedy, cult classic, light, hilarious, parody, romantic
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The Princess Diaries (2001)
Plot Summary:
A socially awkward but very bright 15-year-old girl being raised by a single mom discovers that she is the princess of a small European country because of the recent death of her long-absent father, who, unknown to her, was the crown prince of Genovia. She must make a choice between continuing the life of a San Francisco teen or stepping up to the throne.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 160000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, fairy tale, entertaining, teen, romantic, sweet, romantic comedy, funny, cute
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New in Town (2009)
Plot Summary:
Lucy Hill is an ambitious up-and-coming executive living in Miami. She loves her shoes, she loves her cars and she loves climbing the corporate ladder. When she is offered a temporary assignment – in the middle of nowhere – to restructure a manufacturing plant, she jumps at the opportunity, knowing that a big promotion is close at hand. What begins as a straight-forward assignment becomes a life-changing experience as Lucy discovers greater meaning in her life and, most unexpectedly, the man of her dreams.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, sweet, light, entertaining, romantic, romantic comedy, cute, teen, philosophical
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The Wedding Ringer (2015)
Plot Summary:
Doug Harris is a loveable but socially awkward groom-to-be with a problem: he has no best man. With less than two weeks to go until he marries the girl of his dreams, Doug is referred to Jimmy Callahan, owner and CEO of Best Man, Inc., a company that provides flattering best men for socially challenged guys in need. What ensues is a hilarious wedding charade as they try to pull off the big con, and an unexpected budding bromance between Doug and his fake best man Jimmy.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 79000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: feel good, entertaining, humorous, funny, not serious, witty, absurd, hilarious, light, black comedy
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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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Surviving Christmas (2004)
Plot Summary:
Drew Latham is an executive leading an empty, shallow life with only wealth on his side. Facing another lonely Christmas ahead, he revisit his old childhood home in the hope of reliving some old holiday memories – but he finds that the house in which he was raised is no longer the home in which he grew up.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, funny, entertaining, hilarious, light, captivating, black comedy, teen, happy
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Mr. Deeds (2002)
Plot Summary:
When Longfellow Deeds, a small-town pizzeria owner and poet, inherits $40 billion from his deceased uncle, he quickly begins rolling in a different kind of dough. Moving to the big city, Deeds finds himself besieged by opportunists all gunning for their piece of the pie. Babe, a television tabloid reporter, poses as an innocent small-town girl to do an exposé on Deeds.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 151000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: funny, entertaining, humorous, romantic comedy, hilarious, light, not serious, romantic, slapstick, predictable
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Arthur (2011)
Plot Summary:
A drunken playboy stands to lose a wealthy inheritance when he falls for a woman, his family doesn't like.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 53000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: funny, entertaining, melancholic, romantic, stylized, humorous, sentimental, realistic, not serious, romantic comedy
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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