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Plot Summary:
Not until three years after the death of her husband Jolly, Kay dares to move back into their former home, persuaded by her new fiancée Rupert. But soon her worst expectations come true, when not only her old memories haunt her, but also Jolly's ghost, who doesn't approve of her new mate. Invisible to anyone but Kay, he tries to prevent the wedding. Written by Tom Zoerner.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sad, sex comedy, touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Lovesick (1983)
Plot Summary:
Forget about accountants who want to fly, professors whose brains are being zapped by aliens and bored housewives passing the time. The one all-consuming problem Manhattan psychiatrist Saul Benjamin has is himself! Saul (Dudley Moore) and Chloe (Elizabeth McGovern), one of his patients, are in love. The situation could get him bounced from his profession but for lovers of romantic comedy, it's all delightful.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 886
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, humorous, semi serious
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Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1976)
Plot Summary:
In a small city of Brazil, Flor (a very good looking woman) marries Vadinho, a very handsome and erotic man. Once married she finds he is a good-for-nothing. She works teaching cooking to her neighbours but he takes all her money to gamble. One day he dies. Flor misses the goods of the marriage so she marries again with a very correct gentleman - the owner of the drugstore (Teodoro). Now she's very happy with her man, but misses the erotic moments with her previous husband. Then the ghost of Vadhino comes to earth to chase her.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, manga, humorous, semi serious, sexual
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968)
Plot Summary:
Peter Hall's Royal Shakespeare Company production is one of the best versions of this oft-attempted but seldom achieved vision.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 853
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, feel good, humorous, stylized, semi serious, independent film
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Pride and Prejudice (2003)
Plot Summary:
Pride & Prejudice: A Latter-Day Comedy is a 2003 independent film adaptation/updating of Jane Austen's novel, set in modern-day Provo, Utah, at Brigham Young University. The characters are Latter-day Saints (LDS).
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, touching, independent film, realistic
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Lovestruck: The Musical (2013)
Plot Summary:
Lovestruck: The Musical: Tells the story of Harper (Jane Seymour), one of the best dancers to hit Broadway. But an injury caused her to leave the spotlight, become a choreographer, and raise her daughter, Mirabella (Sara Paxton). When Mirabella, the star of Harper's next big production, decides to quit the show to get married, her mother is determined to put a stop to the wedding and show Mirabella that she cannot give up her career for love, especially to marry playboy Marco (Alexander DiPersia).
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, teen, light, feel good, realistic, relaxing, semi serious
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Cupid (2012)
Plot Summary:
With Valentine’s Day approaching, Eve Lovett, a workaholic TV talk show host with a string of failed relationships, is worried she will never find true love. But when a mysterious stranger named Vernon Gart shows up on the set claiming to work for Cupid, Inc., Eve has no idea her love life is about to get an arrow right through the heart.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, light, captivating, realistic, semi serious, independent film, sexual, sexy
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The Shrink Is In (2001)
Plot Summary:
A young woman impersonates a shrink to win over her Prince Charming.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, independent film, realistic
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Date with an Angel (1987)
Plot Summary:
Aspiring composer Jim Sanders is engaged to spoiled rich girl Patty. But the morning after his bachelor party, Jim wakes up to discover a beautiful, broken-winged angel in his pool. When everyone finds out about his heavenly houseguest, Jim must cope with a dangerously jealous fiancée, an exploitive future father-in-law and a group of buddies with an outrageous business plan!.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, feel good, humorous, semi serious, fairy tale, funny, light, romantic, sexy
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The Heavenly Kid (1985)
Plot Summary:
When Bobby dies in a car accident he is not allowed to enter heaven but has to stay in one of the lower levels until he has worked enough as an guardian angel in order to deserve paradise. One of his jobs is Lenny, a gifted boy, who loves his schoolmate Sharon who is the most beautiful girl of the class. But she does not even notice him so that he is about to commit suicide. Bobby prevents this and dresses Lenny up making him a playboy and tough guy so that he gets what he wants although Bobby knows that this is not the best. Thinking that his job is done, Bobby realizes that Lenny's mother is his former girlfriend who has married another guy. Although not being allowed he makes himself visible to her.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, feel good, independent film, humorous, semi serious, inspirational, nostalgic
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Hello Again (1987)
Plot Summary:
Lucy Chadman (Shelley Long) chokes to death and is resurrected by her loopy sister Zelda (Judith Ivey) on the one year anniversary of her death. Lucy, of course, does not believe she has actually been dead and thinks it is an elaborate hoax until she goes to her apartment and discovers her husband (Corbin Bernsen) married to her gold digging best friend, Kim (Sela Ward).
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: offbeat, feel good, humorous, witty, semi serious, slapstick comedy, light, sexy, unusual plot structure, sweet
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Truly Madly Deeply (1990)
Plot Summary:
Nina is totally heartbroken at the death of her boyfriend Jamie, but is even more unprepared for his return as a ghost. At first it's almost as good as it used to be - hey, even the rats that infested her house have disappeared. But Jamie starts bringing ghostly friends home and behaving more and more oddly.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: romantic, sentimental, touching, offbeat, humorous, witty, thought provoking, spiritual, sad, romantic comedy
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Maxie (1985)
Plot Summary:
When Nick and Jan move into their new apartment in San Francisco, the batty landlady upstairs tells them about a girl who used to live there in the 20's: a brash young party girl named Maxie, who died in a car crash the morning before her big audition for a Hollywood studio. The trouble is, Maxie, or rather her ghost, hasn't left the house. Worse, she can take over Jan's body. And the only way she's going to leave is if she gets that audition.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, independent film, offbeat
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It All Came True (1998)
Plot Summary:
A bachelor afraid of marriage angers his long-time girlfriend by buying a splendid townhouse just for himself, only to find it haunted by the ghosts of a famous theatrical couple, who teach him about love and commitment. The film was later re-released under the title "It All Came True". It was to be Peter Yates' last film made for cinema, although in most markets it went directly to TV or home entertainment.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: feel good, semi serious, humorous, talky, spiritual, clever, independent film
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Confessions of an American Bride (2005)
Plot Summary:
Young career woman Samantha 'Sam' Hoyt gets swept off her feet by Benjamin 'Ben' Rosen, who romances her better then anyone before, so she jumps at the offer of becoming his fiancée. If Ben thought a girls typical obsession with the perfect wedding was testing, she soon proves a particularly bad case, and before he gets used to that meeting each-others parents complicates things gravely, as Jewish and church wedding traditions don't exactly mix easily. They take their time preparing while living together. Then fate strikes again: the key man from the client of her firms advertising campaign is Luke Stinson, the perfect gay at college whom she could never date because of a rather serious fall just when they could have kissed. Luke proves still as irresistible, gorgeous, charming, easy-going and simply too sexy for any female not to lust for at first sight, and.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, feel good, semi serious
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Cake (2005)
Plot Summary:
A travel writer improves her love life when she becomes an editor for her father's wedding magazine.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Lucky 7 (2003)
Plot Summary:
Before Amy Myer's mother died when Amy was 7, she planned out the little girl's life on a timeline, including the fact that Amy would marry her 7th boyfriend. When Amy falls in love with #6, she's thrown into a tailspin, because all of her mother's advice had worked perfectly. Now she must decide whether to follow her mother's advice and wait for #7, or follow her own heart.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, sentimental, touching, feel good, semi serious, sweet, romantic drama
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If You Are the One 2 (2010)
Plot Summary:
A sequel to one of China's biggest box office hits, the wry romantic comedy "Fei Cheng Wu Rao 2" ("If You Are the One 2") — the first Chinese release to open in its homeland and North America on the same day — continues the odd-couple courtship saga of wealthy, middle-aged retiree Qin Fen (Ge You) and serious-minded young air hostess Xiaoxiao (Shu Qi).After an amusing prelude in which Qin presides over a lavish divorce ceremony for an amicably splitting married couple, he and Xiaoxiao decide to address their own relationship barriers — her youth and beauty, his cynical, childish sense of humor — by entering into a trial marriage while on a trip to the country's tropical southeast.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: touching, stylized, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Love, Wedding, Marriage (2011)
Plot Summary:
A happy newlywed marriage counselor's views on wedded bliss get thrown for a loop when she finds out her parents are getting divorced.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, realistic, sexy, teen, independent film, feel good
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Prelude to a Kiss (1992)
Plot Summary:
A couple fall in love despite the girl's pessimistic outlook. As they struggle to come to terms with their relationship, something supernatural happens that tests it.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sweet, emotional, sentimental, feel good, romantic, romantic comedy, fairy tale, humorous, semi serious, light
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When Harry Tries to Marry (2011)
Plot Summary:
An Indian-American surprises his family when he announces his desire for an arranged marriage with an Indian woman, though his affection for a longtime American friend complicate his plan.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 678
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, sentimental, realistic, semi serious, independent film, intercultural, inter cultural
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Thank God He Met Lizzie (1997)
Plot Summary:
The romantic myth is exposed for Guy when he is plagued by memories of an old girlfriend on his wedding day.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 725
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film
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For Better or For Worse (2014)
Plot Summary:
Wendy is finally settling in to single life after the death of her husband. She runs a successful wedding planning company with the help of her friend Roseanne. Wendy's business and values are challenged when Marco, a charming but irritating divorce attorney, opens shop right next door!.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, touching, realistic, semi serious
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The Love Letter (1998)
Plot Summary:
20th century computer games designer Scott exchanges love letters with 19th century poet Elizabeth Whitcomb through an antique desk that can make letters travel through time.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: heartbreaking, sentimental, touching, heartfelt, semi serious, sexy, period drama, hot
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Over Her Dead Body (2008)
Plot Summary:
After his fiancée, Kate, dies in an accident on their wedding day, veterinarian Henry grows depressed. To help him move on, his sister has him visit psychic Ashley and gives her Kate's diary. Ashley uses the journal's details to convincingly deliver the fake message that Kate wants Henry to move on. However, Kate's ghost is watching over Ashley and Henry. Furious when they fall for each other, she vows to sabotage their relationship.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: romantic comedy, romantic, light, melancholic, funny, feel good, humorous, semi serious, cute, teen
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My Boyfriends' Dogs (2014)
Plot Summary:
The owners of a small diner are surprised one rainy evening when, just after close, a young woman wearing a wedding dress with three dogs in tow begs to come into their restaurant. What follows is the young woman's retelling of how she arrived at this curious junction in her life and how, through the search for the right man, she ended up as a runaway bride with three new dogs.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, touching, semi serious, light, captivating, realistic
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Mannequin (1987)
Plot Summary:
Jonathan Switcher, an unemployed artist, finds a job as an assistant window dresser for a department store. When Jonathan happens upon a beautiful mannequin he previously designed, she springs to life and introduces herself as Emmy, an Egyptian under an ancient spell. Despite interference from the store's devious manager, Jonathan and his mannequin fall in love while creating eye-catching window displays to keep the struggling store in business.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: romantic, sexy, cult classic, teen, romantic comedy, retro, family comedy, colorful, touching, feel good
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Black Coffee (2014)
Plot Summary:
Robert picked the wrong time to meet his soul mate! After being fired from his own father's company, he feels like his luck has run out - until Morgan enters into his life.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 805
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, feel good, captivating, light, erotic, sentimental, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Made in Heaven (1987)
Plot Summary:
A romantic, occasionally funny, drama about two souls who consummate their marriage literally in "Heaven". Mike Shea, in his first life dies as a young man performing a heroic rescue. Shortly after arriving in "Heaven" he meets a new soul, Annie Packert, who has never lived on Earth before. The drama centers around their separation soon after being wedded and the burning question is whether they will reunite on Earth before time runs out or whether they are fated to eternal soul-searching.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: touching, offbeat, spiritual, humorous, semi serious, fairy tale, independent film, sentimental, light, romantic
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Chances Are (1989)
Plot Summary:
Louie Jeffries is happily married to Corinne. On their first anniversary, Louie is killed crossing the road. Louie is reincarnated as Alex Finch, and twenty years later, fate brings Alex and Louie's daughter, Miranda, together. It's not until Alex is invited to Louie's home that he begins to remember his former life, wife and best friend. Of course, there's also the problem that he's attracted to Louie's/his own daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, romantic, funny, light, sweet, melancholic, feel good, semi serious, humorous
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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