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Plot Summary:
Dan tragically loses his loving wife while only in his late 50s, then goes through the dilemma of finding "true love" again. It's a challenging journey, but he soon learns his life will change in ways he wasn't prepared for, with surprising and often hilarious results. Will Dan ever find love again? All bets and expectations are off in this modern American dark and romantic comedy!.
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Country: USA
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Your Place or Mine (1998)
Plot Summary:
Your Place or Mine! explores the difficulties of finding true love in the modern Hong Kong setting via the encounters of two advertising executives, Wai and Patrick. Wai is a faithful guy who often falls for the girl that he grooms. However he is often dumped by them once they found fame and someone better than him. Just when he was about to give up on finding true love, he met an innocent fish ball seller and a tough boss who both falls for him and left him even more undecided in love. Patrick on the other hand is a playboy who keeps a girlfriend at home while frequently has one night stands outside. Can a colleague who has crush on him since school days change his cheating ways?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min
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Boredom in Brno (2003)
Plot Summary:
Black-and-white comedy about two young people who want to lose, finally, their innocence, and about life in a very boring city of Brno.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 845
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: dark comedy
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North Beach (2000)
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San Francisco comes alive in this amusing chronicle of urban life. When Tyler has a drunken one night stand with a local stripper, his secret precedes him all over town. Now amidst a haze of springtime revelry, he must make amends to his fiance before she dumps him for good.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Love Trap (2004)
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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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Newly Single (2017)
Plot Summary:
On the heels of booking a life-changing motion picture, a film director drives away his girlfriend and aggressively re-enters the LA dating scene.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, black comedy, dark comedy
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Dirty Beautiful (2015)
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A lonely artist brings a young drifter back to his tiny apartment to live with him. Between his obsessive tendencies and her non-stop drinking, something strange happens: they start to care for each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 877
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: romantic, sexy, romantic comedy
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According to Spencer (2001)
Plot Summary:
According to Spencer, She's the one... Everyone else thinks so too!.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 730
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, touching, sincere, melancholic, independent film, offbeat, crying
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Single All the Way (2021)
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Desperate to avoid his family’s judgment about his perpetual single status, Peter convinces his best friend Nick to join him for the holidays and pretend that they’re now in a relationship. But when Peter’s mother sets him up on a blind date with her handsome trainer James, the plan goes awry.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, gay cinema, queer cinema
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Plot Summary:
A commitment-averse man frantically hits the dating scene after his girlfriend starts pressuring him to pop the question.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: feel good, sexy, humorous, semi serious, realistic, talky, sex comedy, independent film, hot
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All I Wish (2017)
Plot Summary:
A woman struggles to escape the clutches of her overbearing, co-dependent mother, while gradually falling for a sexy, sophisticated attorney.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, feel good, humorous, captivating, slapstick comedy
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Nothing in Common (1986)
Plot Summary:
On his way up the corporate ladder, David Basner confronts his greatest challenge: his father.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: weeping, sentimental, clever, touching, talky, cult classic, independent film, feel good, humorous, realistic
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My Life's in Turnaround (1993)
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Two Manhattan slackers want to make a movie about their lives. One drives a cab, the other tends bar; neither has a clue how to make a movie. Things look up when real-life actors Phoebe Cates and Martha Plimpton agree to star in the project.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 460
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, funny, sweet, talky, sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 812
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, crying
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The Pompatus of Love (1995)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 620
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: clever, talky, independent film, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, sexual, neurotic, light
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The Thing Called Love (1993)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic, entertaining, talky, crying, light
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
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Duration: 97 min
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious, erotic, independent film
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
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Plot tags: humorous, intellectual, witty, melancholic, philosophical, cult classic, clever, realistic, talky, touching
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About Last Night... (1986)
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A man and woman meet and try to have a romantic affair, despite their personal problems and the interference of their disapproving friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
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Plot tags: romantic, erotic, sentimental, talky, funny, retro, sensual, sincere, clever, touching
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
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Friends for ten years, a group of twenty-somethings head for the ski slopes as guests of Ian's father. (Ian and dad are estranged because dad worked too many hours when Ian was a lad.) Dad has something to say, but Ian won't listen. Meanwhile, David is gay and virginal; Ian's business partner, Keaton, is unhappy that his sister Jane is pregnant with no plans to tell the father; Lisa is everybody's pal and no one's lover; John, stuck in adolescence, is always on the make. He brings German-born stunner, Carla, and promptly loses her affection to Hans, a fast-talking ski instructor. David meets Manny: they have chess in common. Soon, surprises abound as relationships take new turns.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sexy, melancholic, humorous, realistic, independent film, sentimental, clever, touching, offbeat, witty
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
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Strictly Sexual (2008)
Plot Summary:
Two successful women, sick and tired of dating and relationships, decide to keep two young men in their pool house for strictly sexual purposes.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sexy, romantic, emotional, sentimental, erotic, sex comedy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, tear jerker
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
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Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 29000
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Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 286
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Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: romantic, sweet, realistic, clever, entertaining, sexy, unusual plot structure, touching, sentimental, humorous