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Plot Summary:
Shown a life in the remote siberian village. Vasia, who never leave his family, village, comes to pass summer holiday on the Black Sea. New world, new people - so, hi's temted by a half-crazy woman (Raisa Zaharovna). And after short time Vasia returns to his wife and children.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, realistic, feel good, talky, sentimental, sincere, semi serious, touching
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My Girl (2003)
Plot Summary:
Jeab hears that his childhood sweetheart Noi-Naa is to be married, so he makes the trip back home to his provincial village. As he does so, the memories come flooding back to his childhood in 1980s Thailand. He remembers always being late to school, so his father would have to give him a ride on the back of the motorcycle. After school, he would always play with Noi-Naa and her girlfriends while the neighborhood boys rode their bicycles and played football and Chinese fantasy characters.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, offbeat, sad, romantic comedy
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Me You Them (2000)
Plot Summary:
A true story that comically depicts the relationship between an ordinary woman and her three husbands, who live in the same house in a poor and arid small village of the Brazilian northeast.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: melancholic, light, road movie, talky, stylized, feel good, humorous, semi serious, sentimental, sincere
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Office Romance (1977)
Plot Summary:
Anatoli Yefremovich Novoseltsev works in a statistics institution, whose director is an unattractive and bossy woman. An old friend of his, Yuri Grigorievich Samokhvalov, who gets appointed assistant director of the institution, wants to make Novoseltsev the head of the department but encounters objections from Ludmila Prokopievna Kalugina, the director. Samokhvalov then advises Novoseltsev to lightly hit on the boss. Ironically, Novoseltsev and Kalugina fall in love with each other.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 159 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, funny, humorous
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The Theme (1979)
Plot Summary:
A self-pitying but popular playwright drives to Vladimir to relax with a doting female student and another writer. He's convinced his writing is of no lasting value, but he still has an ego, about his work and his masculine appeal. He's drawn to a museum guide he sees on his first afternoon.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 557
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: intelligent, psychological, serious, captivating, realistic, contemplative, talky, intellectual
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Afonya (1975)
Plot Summary:
The 1975 film by Georgi Daneliya "Afonya" was an unexpected commercial hit in USSR. The main character "Afonya" Borshev is a plumber, who spends his life partying with "buddies", many of whom he doesn't even remember after nights of heavy drinking. His wife leaves him, his boss places him on probation, his whole life is falling apart, but he doesn't realize it. Afonya met Katya at a dance club, yet didn't pay her much attention. But she is the one, who can save him... In this movie Daneliya achieves a perfect balance of satire and drama. Quotes from the movie gained a cult status in USSR.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: funny, sincere, satirical, ironic
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A Railway Station for Two (1983)
Plot Summary:
Platon Ryabinin, a pianist, is traveling by train to a distant town of Griboedov to visit his father. He gets off to have lunch during a twenty minute stop at Zastupinsk railway station. He meets Vera, a waitress, after he refuses to pay her for the disgusting food he doesn't even touch and misses his train due to police investigation of the incident. His passport is then accidentally taken away from him by Andrei, Vera's fiancé, and his money is stolen as he waits for the next train to Griboedov. Vera learns that Platon is about to get sentenced and sent to prison in the Far East for a car accident he isn't guilty for. During the few days that Platon has to spend in Zastupinsk he and Vera develop feelings for each other.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: romantic, sentimental, serious, captivating, realistic, touching, insightful
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Walking the Streets of Moscow (1964)
Plot Summary:
"I Am Walking Along Moscow" aka "Ya Shagayu Po Moskve" (1963) is a charming lyrical comedy directed by Georgi Daneliya in 1963 that was nominated for Golden Palm at Cannes Film Festival. Daneliya proved that it is possible to create a masterpiece in the most difficult genre of romantic comedy. Made by the team of young and incredibly talented artists that besides Daneliya included writer/poet Gennady Shpalikov, composer Andrei Petrov, and cinematographer Vadim Yusov (who had made four films with Andrei Tarkovski), and the dream cast of the talented actors even in the smaller cameos, "I Am Walking Along Moscow" keeps walking victoriously through the decades remaining deservingly one of the best and most beloved Russian comedies and simply one of the best Russian movies ever made. Funny and gentle, dreamy and humorous, romantic and realistic, the film is blessed with the eternal youth and will always take to the walk on the streets of Moscow new generations of the grateful viewers.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, humorous, nostalgic
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The Blonde Around the Corner (1984)
Plot Summary:
An unemployed astrophysicist finds a job of a docker at a grocery store, where he falls in love with a street-wise saleswoman in the produce department. But the groom runs away at the wedding reception.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, romantic, humorous, captivating
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Autumn Marathon (1979)
Plot Summary:
Andrey Pavlovich Buzykin, who makes a living by teaching at an institute and translating English literature, is cheating on his wife. Buzykin's main problem is that he's a kind man with a weak character. The lies he is telling his wife all the time are inconvincing, but he never has the courage to tell her the truth. His lover, Alla, is aware of his family life, but gets offended when, for example, he cannot meet her so that he doesn't come home late, or when he doesn't want to go home in a new jacket she gives him to avoid having to explain to his wife. Alla and Nina, Andrei's wife, both leave him, forgive him, and return to him at the same time, and Andrei continues with this kind of life, full of suffering and deceit. Finally, both women are so fed up with his lies that they don't believe him even when he is telling the truth.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Divorce French Style (2016)
Plot Summary:
Two years have passed. After missing their separation, the Leroy seem perfectly successful in their divorce. But the appearance of two new lovers in the life of Vincent and Florence will set fire to the powders. The match between the former spouses resumes.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, feel good, humorous, sentimental
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Days and Nights (2014)
Plot Summary:
Reckless desire wreaks havoc over Memorial Day weekend as a family confronts the volatile and fragile nature of love. A modern retelling of Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull", set in rural New England.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, realistic, talky, captivating, light, clever, semi serious, independent film
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Our Sunhi (2013)
Plot Summary:
Sunhi from the Department of Film stops by the school one day to get a letter of recommendation from Professor Choi to leave to the US. She expects him to write her a nice one since he took favor to her. She runs into two men from the past she's never met in a long time; Moon-soo, a recently turned movie director and senior director Jae-hak.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, captivating, sincere, romantic, sentimental, witty, talky, semi serious
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Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (1980)
Plot Summary:
This is a life story of three girlfriends from youth to autumn ages. Their dreams and wishes, love, disillusions.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, romantic, uplifting, realistic, emotional, art house, insightful, semi serious, fairy tale
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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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Mischievous Kiss the Movie Part 1: High School (2016)
Plot Summary:
Based on a popular manga series of the same name, this Japanese romantic comedy follows the lives of two high school students, Kotoko, a bubbly girl who’s hopeless in school, and Naoki, her smart and handsome senior. Although Kotoko gathers up the courage to confess her love to him, he bluntly rejects her in public. But fate works in mysterious ways - when her house collapses, a childhood friend of her father’s, Mr. Irie, invites them to live with his family, and she learns that the son of Mr. Irie is none other than Naoki himself….
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: light, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic comedy
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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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Mary and Rhoda (2000)
Plot Summary:
The old friends from "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," Mary and Rhoda, are reunited, only to discover that Mary has a daughter named Rose and Rhoda's daughter is named Meredith.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 445
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sitcom, sentimental, touching, humorous, talky, sincere, realistic, semi serious, clever
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Office Romance. Our time (2011)
Plot Summary:
Anatoli Yefremovich Novoseltsev works in a ratings company, whose director is an unattractive and bossy woman. An old friend of his, Yuri Grigorievich Samokhvalov, who gets appointed assistant director, wants to make Novoseltsev the manager but encounters objections from Ludmila Prokopievna Kalugina, the director. Samokhvalov then advises Novoseltsev to lightly hit on the boss. Ironically, Novoseltsev and Kalugina fall in love with each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, light, touching, sentimental, realistic, semi serious, funny
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Engeyum Eppodhum (2011)
Plot Summary:
Engeyum Eppodhum revolves around a group of passengers traveling in two different buses, each having their own past and a reason for their travel. The most prominent among these passengers is the love track between Kathiresan (Jai), Manimegalai (Anjali) and the other between Vinay (Saravanandh) and Amudha (Ananya).Jai is a responsible young person who works as a mechanic and secretly loves his neighbour Anjali, but Anjali is an extremely practical girl and believes that love alone doesn't suffice life. The evolution of their love through these forms the crux of their relationship.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, sincere, feel good, inspirational, serious, realistic, tragic
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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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The Buddy System (1984)
Plot Summary:
A quiet school truant officer, Joe, uncovers a young boy's attempt to fake a residential address, and subsequently gets involved romantically with the boy's mother. The truant officer waffles between a sadistic relationship with his on-again, off-again girlfriend and the mother. When one of the officer's inventions takes off, he chooses the girl and shatters the friendship with the boy and his mother. Only at the last possible moment does he figure out what he's sacrificed, and attempts to get it back.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Author! Author! (1982)
Plot Summary:
A broadway playwright is burning the candle at both ends. He is dealing with pressure from a production nearing premiere, a wife who is leaving him, and 5 children 4 of which belong to her.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, sentimental, touching, romantic, intense, light, feel good, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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Bigger Than the Sky (2005)
Plot Summary:
After being dumped by his girlfriend, a man stuck in a deadend life decides to audition for a small role in a local community theatre's production of Cyrano de Bergerac. Despite having no experience as an actor, he lands the lead role, which wreaks havoc upon his life.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, spiritual, clever, realistic, talky, independent film
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The Mystery of Happiness (2014)
Plot Summary:
Life-long business partners Santiago and Eugenio understand each other without words, care for each other, and need each other. When Eugenio vanishes without a clue, Santiago and Laura, Eugenio’s wife, join forces to solve the mystery of his disappearance. What they discover is neither what they set out to find nor what you would expect, and their shared journey becomes a surprising and lighthearted meditation on friendship, love, and loyalty.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Brazil
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, talky
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The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! (1976)
Plot Summary:
A group of old friends have a tradition of going to a public bathing house on New Years eve. Occasionally too much vodka and beer makes two of them unconscious. The problem is that one of them (Sasha) has to go to Leningrad but another one (Zhenya) goes. Zhenya wakes up at Leningrad airport. Believing that he is still in Moscow he takes a taxi and goes home. The street name, building and even apartment number, the way an apartment complex looks the same and the key coincide completely - just typical Soviet-type 'economy' architecture. Imagine the surprise of Nadya when she enters her apartment and finds a man without trousers in her bed. What's more - Nadya's fiancé also finds him there.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 192 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, feel good, funny, romantic comedy, talky, semi serious, witty
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Operation 'Y' & Other Shurik's Adventures (1965)
Plot Summary:
The film consists of three independent parts: "Workmate", "Déjà vu" and "Operation Y". The plot follows the adventures of Shurik (alternative spelling — Shourick), the naive and nerdy Soviet student who often gets into ludicrous situations but always finds a way out very neatly. "Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures" was a hit movie and became the leader of Soviet film distribution in 1965.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: witty, feel good, light, humorous, realistic, funny, buddy comedy, slapstick, slapstick comedy, not serious
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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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Rifkin's Festival (2020)
Plot Summary:
The story of a married American couple who go to the San Sebastian Film Festival. They get caught up in the magic of the festival, the beauty and charm of Spain and the fantasy of movies. She has an affair with a brilliant French movie director, and he falls in love with a beautiful Spanish woman who lives there.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain, USA, Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, sincere, romantic, humorous, touching, feel good, funny, aesthetic
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Moonstruck (1987)
Plot Summary:
Cher is devastatingly funny, sinuous and beautiful as Loretta, an unlucky-in-love Italian widow who finds romance through the intervention of the Manhattan moon. With her wedding to a close friend just weeks away, she meets - and falls hopelessly in love with - his younger brother (Cage)!.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 66000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: romantic, sexy, sentimental, light, touching, humorous, sweet, melancholic, romantic comedy, clever
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The Jasmine Vine in Seethamma's Courtyard (2013)
Plot Summary:
Brothers Peddodu and Chinnodu are unemployed and do not get along well due to their contrasting natures. They have problems marrying the women they love before an accident changes their lives.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 159 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, inspirational, sad