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Plot Summary:
A young man gets married before his older sister leaving her bitter, jealous, and without a proper dowry.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 995
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Pakistan
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: parody, crying
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Joni's Promise (2005)
Plot Summary:
A film delivery man promises a beautiful young woman to deliver a film reel on time to a movie theater. But the the whole city seems to conspire against him.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: neo screwball comedy
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The Story of Boys & Girls (1989)
Plot Summary:
At a farmhouse, a large family cooks mountains of food for the next day's engagement party for Silvia and her city fiancé, Angelo. Her parents feud about infidelity; an aging salesman who rents a cottage from them arrives with a young French woman; in Bologna, Angelo's mother frets that her son is marrying beneath him; his sisters are less critical. Early the next morning, the four of them go by train to the farmhouse, joined by Angelo's married, unpregnant sister. The day-long dinner is riotous, couples display affection and impatience, children chase angels. Angelo's family stays the night, and his sister Linda has a visitor. A silver elephant makes the perfect gift.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: black and white
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Rose Tinted Dreams (1977)
Plot Summary:
An amiable picture about entering adulthood, great dreams, and the first - forbidden - love of a white postman, Jakub, and a pretty Gypsy girl, Jolanka. This is a poetic story, a mosaic of the playful world springing from the wild imagination of the village postman and its clash with the pragmatic mundane reality that finally beats the rosy dreams of the young protagonists. Director Dušan Hanák and screenwriter Dušan Dušek's most popular film has been cherished by critics as will as wide audiences at home and abroad.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags:
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Bicycle Bride (2010)
Plot Summary:
Beena struggles to follow her dream of the freedom to choose her own destiny and the love of her life, but her overly dramatic and meddlesome Indian mother Billo, wants to marry her off.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Love Trap (2004)
Plot Summary:
Law student Thijs shares a house in which every room is the HQ of constant cruising for one night stands, relationships are considered a waste of lives. Suddenly Ben, his best mate since childhood, announces he passed on his room to Susan, who brings her studly boyfriend Stef, because Ben is- getting married to heiress Talita Bekooy. Thijs now remembers his old ambition to start his own restaurant, but can't get a bank loan- until Ben recommends Thijs, the till then reluctant best man, to his in-laws-to-be as MC for the society wedding of the year, Sir is pleased to hear the extravaganza budget 'reduced' to 150,000 Euros. Then Cupid's arrow hits Thijs himself and Susan, but when the banker tells dad Bekooy he's totally inexperienced and poor, it all crumbles down. Yet the boy bravely perseveres.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 434
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: juvenile
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This Is Christmas (2022)
Plot Summary:
Follow Adam and Emma on their daily commute from the village of Langton to London, where they meet the same passengers every day. One morning, Adam breaks the unspoken taboo of talking to strangers on a train and invites the entire carriage to hold their own Christmas party together.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags:
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The Remake (2016)
Plot Summary:
Sheridan O'Connor and Riccardo Rossi were destined to meet on the set of their first big movie together when barely out of their teens. What they didn't know was that their on-screen chemistry would translate into a hot and heavy off-screen romance destined only for disaster. Now, living continents apart and a lifetime later, expecting their paths never to cross again, they are thrown back together to star in an updated version of their original film. The studio has high hopes that they will be able to attract the same audience who loved them the first time around. But working together again could demand greater acting skills than either ever imagined: long hours filming awkward romantic scenes, reliving the past and coming face to face with what fate has in store for them. Only slightly shaken and gently stirred by family and friends, Sheridan and Riccardo must find a way to make the perfect martini out of life so as not to waste a single drop of happiness.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, mysterious, tear jerker, independent film, tearjerker, nostalgic
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Best Friends (1982)
Plot Summary:
When a professional couple who have lived & worked together for many years finally decide to marry, their sudden betrothal causes many unexpectedly funny and awkward difficulties. They soon find that being married is often quite different from being "best friends.".
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious, biting, crying, weeping, sentimental, funny
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The Year I Became a Liar (2009)
Plot Summary:
Filmmaker Ricardo Trogi recalls the events surrounding his family moving to a new neighborhood when he was 11-years-old.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, emotional, semi serious, feel good, teen, offbeat, realistic, crying
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Ali's Wedding (2017)
Plot Summary:
After a "white lie" which spirals out of control, a neurotic, naive and musically gifted Muslim cleric's eldest son must follow through with an arranged marriage, except he is madly in love with an Australian born-Lebanese girl.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sweet, sentimental, romantic, uplifting, touching, feel good, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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Camera Buff (1979)
Plot Summary:
Filip buys an 8mm movie camera when his first child is born. Because it's the first camera in town, he's named official photographer by the local Party boss. His horizons widen when he is sent to regional film festivals with his first works but his focus on movie making also leads to domestic strife and philosophical dilemmas.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: biting, existential, art house, poetic, clever, humorous, realistic, semi serious, parody, meta
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Hitler (1996)
Plot Summary:
This movie is about the life of Madhavankutty (locally known as Hitler), a bachelor protective brother of five younger sisters.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 153 min
Plot tags:
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Thenmavin Kombath (1994)
Plot Summary:
The story revolves around Manikyan (Mohanlal), Sreekrishnan(Nedumudi Venu) and Karthumbi (Shobana) and the love triangle between them. Manikyan works for Sreekrishnan and Sreekrishnan sees him like a brother. Once when they both are returning from a Mela after shopping, Sreekrishnan sees Karthumbi and gets attracted.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 164 min
Plot tags:
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Yearning (1964)
Plot Summary:
After a bombing raid destroys the family store and her husband, Reiko rebuilds and runs the shop out of love stopped short by destruction.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Jawani Zindabad (1990)
Plot Summary:
Shashi, Akbar and a group of young people pledge never to give nor receive dowry. Acting against his mother's wishes, Shashi marries Sugandha Srivastav, and does not accept any dowry. He arranges his sister's, Rama's marriage with Ravi Verma, the son of Goverdhan and Shakuntala. Goverdhan and Shakuntala did not get any dowry, and are quite upset, though Ravi is happy. Both want Ravi to re-marry, so that they can get dowry. They send Ravi away, and Goverdhan plans to accidentally kill Rama, but things go wrong, and instead Shakuntala gets badly burned, and has to be hospitalized. Taking this opportunity, Goverdhan blames Rama for attemtping to kill Shakuntala, and has her arrested. Now Shashi will have to put all his resources together to free his sister, as the evidence and motive are not in her favor.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 703
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 163 min
Plot tags:
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The Christmas Club (2019)
Plot Summary:
Two busy strangers meet when they help an elderly woman find her lost Christmas savings. Thanks to fate and Christmas magic, they also find something they were both missing: true love.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sweet, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, emotional
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The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)
Plot Summary:
When the Muppets graduate from Danhurst College, they take their song-filled senior revue to New York City, only to learn that it isn't easy to find a producer who's willing to back a show starring a frog and a pig. Of course, Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy won't take no for an answer, launching a search for someone to take them to Broadway.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, slasher, fantasy adventure, exciting, feel good, not serious, funny, light, romantic, clever
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A Brief Vacation (1973)
Plot Summary:
Vittorio De Sica's A Brief Vacation (Una Breva Vacanza) stars Florinda Bolkan as a downtrodden working woman. Forced to support herself, her children, her physically incapacitated husband and her obtrusive brother and mother, Bolkan contracts tuberculosis. She is granted a brief vacation at a health spa, where a whole new world--and potential new life--is opened up to her.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 964
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: neorealism, psychological, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, crying
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Nearlyweds (2013)
Plot Summary:
Revolves around three friends who have dream weddings only to find out that the pastor who married them failed to complete the key paperwork required to make them official.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, cute
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Learning to Drive (2014)
Plot Summary:
As her marriage dissolves, a Manhattan writer takes driving lessons from a Sikh instructor with marriage troubles of his own. In each other's company they find the courage to get back on the road and the strength to take the wheel.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, serious, realistic, independent film, social, crying, buddy comedy, romantic comedy, romantic drama
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Queen Bees (2021)
Plot Summary:
Helen is an independent widow who moves into the Pine Grove Senior Community and discovers it’s just like high school – full of cliques and flirtatious suitors. What she initially avoids leads her to exactly what she has been missing: new friendships and a chance at love again with newcomer Dan.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, satirical, double entendre, romantic comedy, romantic drama
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Mr. & Mrs. Khiladi (1997)
Plot Summary:
When his astrologer uncle (Satish Kaushik) predicts a favorable future for Raja (Akshay Kumar), he decides to nothing until the prediction comes true. When he meets Shalu (Juhi Chawla) the daughter of a millionaire (Kadar Khan) he decides his predicted future has arrived. However his lazy lifestyle does not meet with his future father-in-law's standards, and he insists that Raja does some hard work for a change. Written by gavin@[email protected].
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Blue Umbrella (2005)
Plot Summary:
Young Biniya lives a poor lifestyle in a small village in the mountainous and snowy region of Himachal Pradesh in India along with her widowed mom and wrestler brother. She entertains various tourists, and while doing so with some tourists from Japan, trades in her bear-tooth amulet with a blue umbrella.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: India
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, anime, art film, cult classic, sincere, crying, freeze frame
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Cheerful Weather for the Wedding (2012)
Plot Summary:
England, 1932. Today is Dolly Thatcham's wedding day, and her family is arriving at the manor house with all the cheerfulness, chaos and grievances that accompany such gatherings. Trouble soon appears in the shape of Joseph, Dolly's lover from the previous summer, who throws her feelings into turmoil. But Dolly's mother will not allow her carefully laid plans for her daughter's future to be threatened.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: feel good, realistic, semi serious, sweet, captivating, entertaining, heartbreaking, period piece, humorous, stylized
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Raja Rani (2013)
Plot Summary:
John (Arya) and Regina (Nayanthara) are forced into wedlock against their wishes. Both undergo a rough patch initially in their marriage as they are not able to get over their past romances. Prior to their marriage, Regina was in love with Surya (Jai), while John romanced Keerthana (Nazriya). What leads to the Arya-Nayanthara wedding? How they forget their romantic past and finally come together forms the rest of the story.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, light, captivating, romantic
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Together (2000)
Plot Summary:
Elisabeth leaves her abusive and drunken husband Rolf, and goes to live with her brother, Göran. The year is 1975 and Göran lives in a commune called Together. Living in this leftist commune Elisabeth learns that the world can be viewed from different perspectives.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Italy
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, witty, sincere, realistic, talky, romantic, feel good, clever
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Too Beautiful for You (1989)
Plot Summary:
A car dealer, well-to-do and with a beautiful wife, finds himself attracted to his rather plain new temporary secretary. Despite her own commitments she feels the same and the two soon embark on an affair. Though it would seem it has happened before his wife finds this particular entanglement of her husband's very difficult to accept.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: talky, cynical, clever, humorous, realistic, semi serious, crying, erotic, psychological, atmospheric
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Kings and Queen (2004)
Plot Summary:
Nora Cotterelle, a woman in her 30s is caring for her ill father, Louis Jenssens. While Nora tries to present a facade that all is well with her life, she is twice divorced and has a son, Elias, whose father is dead. Nora's present relationship is not going well, and she is soon to marry a businessman, while Elias is becoming increasingly withdrawn. A parallel storyline follows her former lover and second husband, Ismaël Vuillard, a musician, with whom she had lived for seven years. He is given to strange behaviour, and as a result he has been committed to a mental hospital, from which he is planning to escape. Nora learns that her father's digestive problems are actually cancer, and facing her father's death, Nora desperately seeks out Ismaël to ask that he reconnect with Elias, but he has mixed feelings about adopting her son. Moreover, he has met Arielle, another patient.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, serious, emotional, clever, realistic, contemplative, talky, gloomy, crying
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The Last Kiss (2006)
Plot Summary:
Revolves around a young couple and their friends struggling with adulthood and issues of relationships and commitment. Based on the 2001 Italian film L'ultimo bacio, directed by Gabriele Muccino.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: emotional, romantic, intense, sentimental, touching, humorous, feel good, realistic, philosophical, thought provoking
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Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam (2002)
Plot Summary:
Radha and Suraj have been friends since childhood. Gopal has been in love with Radha ever since they spent a few years together as kids. Years later, Gopal's guardian proposes to Radha a marriage with Gopal, and she accepts.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 174 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, emotional, realistic, romantic drama