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Plot Summary:
Four love stories by four talented Taiwanese first-time directors – well-known lyrist, Vincent Fang Wenshan; TV host, Huang Zijiao; online novelist, Jiu BaDao; and commercial director, Chen Yixian.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Cute Girl (1980)
Plot Summary:
The daughter of a rich man, Wen helps out with her father’s business and also takes French lessons so that she can go to France with her fiancé. But she falls in love with a poor young man, Da-gang, who is studying civil engineering. Clashing with her father, she decides to leave home and go and stay with her aunt in the countryside. On a peaceful country road, she meets Da-gang again, who happens to be working there. Their relationship can now blossom. Later, when they get married and Wen gets pregnant, it turns out Da-gang also comes from a rich family….
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Wolves Cry Under the Moon (1997)
Plot Summary:
Episodic drama from Taiwan. Was nominated for nine awards at the Golden Horse Film Festival.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: anthology, road movie, allegory, black comedy
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A Stranger of Mine (2005)
Plot Summary:
In one long Friday evening, Takeshi Miyata (Yasuhi Nakamura), a straight-arrow businessman, will encounter a number of people (some only fleetingly) who have intertwining fates. The plot of the film is presented in succession first from the point of view of Maki Kuwata (Reika Kirishima), a young woman disappointed in love, then from Takeshi's point of view, then of his friend, Yusuke Kanda (Sō Yamanaka), a private detective, then of Takeshi's former girlfriend, Ayumi Kurata (Yuka Itaya), then of a wannabe-tough Yakuza, Asai (Kisuke Yamashita).
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: anthology
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In Between (1994)
Plot Summary:
Three directors deliver three stories about the love of in the modern world.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: anthology
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The Dolls (1965)
Plot Summary:
This semi-amusing sex (romance) comedy has four separate stories.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 366
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: anthology, italian comedy
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Most People Live in China (2002)
Plot Summary:
A movie inspired by eight Norwegian political parties, written by six writers and directed by nine directors: a man gets a nasty surprise skinny dipping, a cow eats a cell phone, a lesbian couple loses a child, a blind girl sells dubious lottery tickets, a boy falls in love, a man picks up a hitchhiker, three girls get help from a man in pajamas, and nine old men find a young girl stuck in a swamp.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 921
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: Norway
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, suspense, contemplative, anthology
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Inside Out II (1992)
Plot Summary:
Playboy does to softcore sex films what HBO's Tales from the Crypt did for horror. Contains the stories: "Mis-apprehended"; "I've Got A Crush On You"; "The Freak"; "There's This Travelling Salesman, See"; "Double Vision"; "Busty Gusty and her Twin 50's"; "Some Guys Have All The Luck"; "The Hitchhiker"; and "The Right Number".
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anthology, mockumentary
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Moscow, I Love You (2010)
Plot Summary:
18 directors, 18 novels, 18 short stories about Moscow.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, contemplative
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Ajlawju (1999)
Plot Summary:
The story follows complicated relation between Adas Miauczynski "Cezary Pazura" and Gosia "Katarzyna Figura".
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 760
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Happily Ever After (2005)
Plot Summary:
Happily Ever After is a trilogy. Each is a love story with a touch of magic, comedy and whimsy. Tying all the segments together is a seemingly fake fortune teller, who uses a science sphere she got at a novelty store as a crystal ball!.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration:
Plot tags: anthology
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Movie box-ing (2004)
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2004 film.
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Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012)
Plot Summary:
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: The love between man and woman... in an archetypical love story cut from 500 classics from all around the world.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Hungary
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, heartfelt, cult film
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Sunday Lovers (1980)
Plot Summary:
A sex comedy anthology containing four stories, each from a different country (England, France, USA and Italy). "An Englishman's Home" "The French Method" "Armando's Notebook" "Skippy".
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 418
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, UK, USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: anthology, sex comedy, sexy, hot
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Three Fables of Love (1962)
Plot Summary:
Four stories, based on four fables of Lafontaine, shows a woman trying to get her husband a wretch who wants to commit suicide, a jealous man who becomes associated with his rival, and a couple who was locked in an apartment.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: anthology, fable
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A Few Days with Me (1988)
Plot Summary:
Martial (Daniel Auteuil) is discharged from a mental insitution where he spent a few years due to a serious nervous breakdown. During his hospitalization, he ceases to speak with everyone, including his wife Régine (Thérèse Liotard), whom he had encouraged to find a new partner soon after entering the clinic. Upon his return he finds his mother (Danielle Darrieux), a busy business woman who owns a supermarket chain. She's convinced that his son, whom by now hardly talks to anyone after his experience, will be able to find himself again if tasked with some responbibilities. Soon enough, he's sent to Limoges on a business trip to check on one of their stores in the hope to reinvigorate its failing business. Once he arrives, Martial is faced with responsibilities he had never imagined, including dealing with the store's personnel.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: anthology, atmospheric, humorous, realistic, contemplative, semi serious, feel good
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Labor Pains (2000)
Plot Summary:
Sarah (Kyra Sedgwick) is a New York City columnist who falls in love with -- and quickly gets pregnant by -- Ryan (Rob Morrow), a free-spirited artist who promptly vanishes for eight months. Ryan, of course, has no idea he's going to be a father, and neither do her protective parents (Mary Tyler Moore and Robert Klein). The pregnancy is hidden until her zany best friend Lulu (Lela Rochon) spills the beans when Sarah is unable to sign the adoption papers while in the hospital during labor. When Ryan arrives at the hospital, he's confronted by Sarah, her parents, Lulu, the coming baby, and the woman Ryan is living with.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sincere, melancholic, touching, captivating, independent film, exciting
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Dear Ex (2018)
Plot Summary:
When Sanlian's ex-husband passes away, she discovers he has altered his insurance policy, cutting out their son in favor of a stranger named Jay.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: captivating, thought provoking, touching, humorous, social, independent film, visual, crying, queer cinema
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Open Tables (2015)
Plot Summary:
Within the walls of the trendiest restaurants, behind the closed doors of private dinner parties, and on the banks of the Seine in Paris, Open Tables, uses the the exploding foodie scene as the backdrop for intertwining stories of true love, love lost, and the importance of a good main course. Sam and Kate host a group of friends for dinner in hopes that sparks will fly between Kate's younger sister Cassie and their friend Ryan. Joining them at the table is Jon (Desmin Borges from FX's You're the Worst) and Dana, a couple with a seemingly perfect relationship. The first act of OPEN TABLES embraces a world where true love prevails and where even the most complicated of people can find their soul mate, even when - and sometimes because - their circumstances are unique. As the group dines, stories emerge. To impress Cassie, Ryan boasts about his sexual conquests; Jon and Dana tell the tale of betrayal that led to their connection, and Sam and Kate share the story of their friend Hannah,.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags:
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Our Dream Wedding (2021)
Plot Summary:
Commitment-shy Haley is as anti-marriage as it gets, but when she tries on her grandma’s ‘magical’ wedding veil, she’s transported to her future, where she and long-term boyfriend Scott are happily married with two beautiful children. Shocked, Haley tracks down her family to make sense of her vision and her view on love is changed for good. Is Haley ready to take the veil off – and is she finally ready for what will come after?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, touching, emotional, talky, romantic drama
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Women and Men: Stories of Seduction (1990)
Plot Summary:
This trio of tales, based on classic short stories, chronicles the complicated relations between the sexes. In "The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt," salesman Gerry seduces train traveler Viki. Then, in "Dusk Before Fireworks," a night of romance between Hobie and Kit goes bad when the phone keeps ringing. Finally, in "Hills Like White Elephants," Robert discovers Hadley is pregnant.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: anthology, touching, serious, realistic, stylized, gloomy
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Delicious (2013)
Plot Summary:
Recently released from prison, French chef Jacques pursues an obsession -- to leave his past behind and work for the great British chef Victor Ellwood. He knows Victor had an affair with his mother and may even be his dad. Working for iron-fisted Victor is back-breaking, but his existence is softened by the presence of a curious girl living in the downstairs flat. As he falls in love with her, he realises she not only has an aversion to restaurants, but food of all kinds. Is her eating disorder a force too resilient for anything, even love to cure?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 628
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, sexy, touching, humorous, emotional
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Plaza Suite (1971)
Plot Summary:
Film version of the Neil Simon play has three separate acts set in the same hotel suite in New York's Plaza Hotel with Walter Matthau in a triple role. In the first, Karen Nash tries to get her inattentive husband Sam's attention to spruce up their failing marriage. In the second, brash film producer Jesse Kiplinger tries to get his former one-time flame Muriel to see him for what he stands for. In the third, Roy Hubley and his wife Norma try and try to get their uncertain-of-herself daughter out of the bathroom before her approaching wedding.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, witty, anthology, realistic, semi serious, sketch comedy, funny, light, surprise ending
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Entropy (1999)
Plot Summary:
Entropy is the semi-autobiographical film by director which tells the story of a young director struggling to make a film for a despotic studio while his life falls apart around him. Along the way, he goes on tour with U2 to help them make a music video, gets married in Vegas, and has a conversation with his cat.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, crying
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A Faithful Man (2018)
Plot Summary:
Marianne leaves Abel for Paul, his best friend and the father of her unborn child. Eight years later, Paul dies and Marianne returns to Abel. However, things have changed for the both of them and feelings of jealousy surround their new relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, romantic, uplifting, touching, sweet, aesthetic
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Playing by Heart (1998)
Plot Summary:
Eleven articulate people work through affairs of the heart in L.A. Paul produces Hannah's TV cooking show. Mark is dying of AIDS. Men have scalded Meredith so she rebuffs Trent's charm, but he persists. The trendy, prolix Joan tries to pull the solitary Keenan into her orbit. An adulterous couple meet at hotels for evening sex. Hugh tells tall tales, usually tragic, to women in bars.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: sincere, light, romantic, sweet, independent film, sentimental, touching, realistic, talky, anthology
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Carefree (2016)
Plot Summary:
What starts as a crazy one-night stand ends up in a relationship. But Dharam and Shyra fall out of love just as quickly. Where will life take them now?.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: non-linear, sexy, psychological, sincere, unusual plot structure, contemplative, one man show, neo screwball comedy
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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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Hotel de Love (1996)
Plot Summary:
10 years ago at a party, Steven thinks he sees the girl of his dreams, Melissa. Just as he's about to make his move, his twin brother Rick gets to her first and they fall in love. Steven watches his brother's relationship bloom, longing for Melissa all the while. Eventually, Melissa leaves to go to college and the brothers go on with their lives. Steven becomes a workaholic to block out his feelings about Melissa and Rick becomes a spineless bellboy at the Hotel de Love, after a later girl friend stood him up at the altar. Enter Steven and Rick's warring parents visiting the Hotel de Love for their anniversary. Re-enter Melissa with her current boyfriend, Norman. Suddenly Rick and Steven have a second chance at Melissa. Also there's Alison the palm reader, Susie behind the counter, the owner/piano player, and the freshly married couple.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 669
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, funny, light, romantic
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Paris, I Love You (2006)
Plot Summary:
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to chose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 74000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Germany, USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: anthology, stylized, romantic, intellectual, talky, emotional, sentimental, atmospheric, art film, clever
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Delicacy (2011)
Plot Summary:
A French woman mourning over the death of her husband three years prior is courted by a Swedish co-worker.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, romantic, sincere, art house, sensual, happy, realistic