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Plot Summary:
What do animals, allergies and a bet have in common? A commitment-phobic woman named Lisa Harris. Lisa may hold the record for most failed short-term relationships in modern history. It's not that she doesn't want to find her true love, it's just that she doesn't seem to know what true love means.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 212
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Nick and Jane (1997)
Plot Summary:
N.Y. corporate Jane discovers her boyfriend John in bed with another woman, leaves building enraged and jumps into cab. Her driver is Nick. Jane and her friend Vickie have a plan - to make John jealous, they'll give Nick a false corporate identity and pass him off as Jane's new boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, neo screwball comedy
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Leo and Loree (1980)
Plot Summary:
Ralph Malph from Philly moves to Hollywood with dreams of making it big, amazingly hooks up with starlet-to-be, loses starlet-to-be, gets back starlet-to-be, and becomes someone.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Romance, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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No Sleep 'Til Christmas (2018)
Plot Summary:
Lizzie, a high-end event planner, lies awake nightly while her devoted fiancé Josh rests peacefully. When a sleep-deprived incident causes her to run into Billy, a low-key bartender who is just as sleepless and frustrated as she is, they discover that they can only fall asleep while next to each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, romantic, light, feel good, sweet, funny, emotional, sitcom, romantic comedy, christmas comedy
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Walking the Dog (2017)
Plot Summary:
Kristie Simmons, an attorney, initiates a legal battle trying to get approval for a bike lane for the local residents. When Bill, a local veterinarian, informs her that a dog named Gidget needs a home, Kristie agrees. While out walking Gidget, Kristie meets Keith Amos, an attorney on assignment from Seattle, while he's walking his lovable dog, Simon. Keith is immediately smitten with Kristie, her initially pleasant reaction to him turns sour when she learns he is her opposing counsel in the bike lane case.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Falling in Love with the Girl Next Door (2006)
Plot Summary:
Mark Lucas and Theresa Connolly fall in love but their overbearing mothers ruin their wedding plans and possibly their future together.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 702
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining
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Hearts of Spring (2016)
Plot Summary:
A famous mommy blogger faces an empty nest as her daughter prepares to go away to college. When she turns to her blog for advice, she finds herself on the attack by a reader who has conflicting opinions. While she deals with him online, offline she finally meets a great single dad and sparks start to fly. What she doesn’t know is that the confrontational reader and the adorable single dad are, in fact, the same person.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Tyrannical Love (2005)
Plot Summary:
Tyrannical Love is a film about the quirkiness of life and love when you are no longer a kid but not quite an adult. There is something for everyone in this ensemble piece about a close knit group of friends and the events that take place on New Years 1999. Most people believe that finding love is the greatest thing than can ever hapen to you, but some believe it is nothing but a fascist dictator that rules over your life.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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My Teacher, My Love (2018)
Plot Summary:
Ayuha Samaru is a high school student. She is honest and works hard at everything, no matter what. One day, she has trouble at a gyudon restaurant due to money. A man at the restaurant, Yoshitaka Hiromitsu, helps her out. The next day, she finds that Yoshitaka Hiromitsu has come to her school as a substitute teacher for her ill homeroom teacher. Ayuha Samaru now believes that Yoshitaka Hiromitsu is her fate in love. She keeps expressing her feelings to him.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 401
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Mark of Love (2009)
Plot Summary:
Mark is an average guy who has found himself unlucky in love. Looking for a hobby to fill his love-free spare time, he goes to a Karate Class... only to find himself the victim of five speed dating girls who have falsely advertised they're group in a desperate attempt for men to attend. Bribing him to stay, they hope he'll give them the answers to their relationship troubles. The tables are turned when instead of him helping them, they help him. Mark soon discovers that falling in love is one thing but realizing it is another.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, independent film, student film
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Hometown Hero (2017)
Plot Summary:
A cynical divorce mediator (Brooke Nevin) is forced to care for a client’s dog. The mischievous hound warms her heart, and after spending time with the local vet (Jake Sandvig), she begins to find that maybe the true love she dared not believe in is actually closer than she thinks.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 663
Genere: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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A Christmas Kiss II (2014)
Plot Summary:
At a Christmastime event, Jenna shares an impromptu, unforgettable kiss with the dashing billionaire, Cooper Montgomery. Unaware of his intentions and fearful of getting hurt in another relationship, Jenna vows to resist his charms, but begins to realize his affection is real as the two spend more time together.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, cute, teen, romantic comedy
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It Happened One Valentine's (2017)
Plot Summary:
When ambitious reporter Allie Rusch is recruited by vindictive music manager Vivian Cartwright to play cupid to famous pop musicians Caleb Greene and Carson Peet in return for an exclusive story over Valentine's weekend, Allie soon realizes Caleb has his sights set on her. Now, torn between her big career move and her growing feelings for Caleb, Allie is left to question whether she can coerce Caleb into something his heart does not desire, or if she should fall in love and make him her very own Valentine.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 718
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Falling Inn Love (2019)
Plot Summary:
When a San Francisco exec wins a New Zealand inn, she ditches city life to remodel and flip the rustic property with help from a handsome contractor.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, colorful, scenic, inspirational, captivating, colourful
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Modern Romance (1981)
Plot Summary:
A film editor breaks up with his girlfriend, unsure if he is in love.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, melancholic, funny, disturbing, intense, realistic, semi serious, clever, witty, talky
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Ira & Abby (2006)
Plot Summary:
A neurotic, young psychology student, with low self-esteem, has a chance encounter with a free-spirited, extremely gregarious woman who works at the Paris Health Club in New York City, and who suggests that they immediately get married to see how it will work out. Both of the student's parents are analysts, and they provide the happy couple with a gift certificate for a year of marriage counseling as a wedding present.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, witty, smart, offbeat, realistic, talky, not serious, independent film
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Dating Games People Play (2005)
Plot Summary:
Nick Jenkins finds himself back in the single scene as his relationship with his fiancee abruptly fall apart. With his roommate and best friend Jed Rollins, Nick jumps into the dating world. Mona, Jed, and Robin accompany him as they meander throught the quagmire of awkward situations they encounter on their dating escapades.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 210
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, captivating, sincere, independent film, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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The Break-Up Artist (2009)
Plot Summary:
A woman who gets paid to break people up is forced to become a matchmaker when some new competition muscles her out of the break-up business. Now, in order to save her company (and keep her high-priced wardrobe) she'll have to rely on her old nemesis: love.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic, romantic comedy, teen, romantic drama
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Love, Guaranteed (2020)
Plot Summary:
A lawyer takes on a new client that wants to sue a dating website because it guarantees love.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: romantic, funny, light, feel good, humorous, entertaining, romantic comedy
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Can You Keep a Secret? (2019)
Plot Summary:
Emma Corrigan, a girl with a few secrets on a turbulent plane ride, thinks she’s about to die, Emma spills them all to the handsome stranger sitting next to her. At least, she thought he was a stranger. But then, her company’s young and elusive CEO, arrives at the office. It’s him. And he knows every single humiliating detail about Emma.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, sweet, captivating, funny, feel good, humorous
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Mylove Lost (2018)
Plot Summary:
Mario (Dani Rovira) and Olivia (Michelle Jenner) fall madly in love. One afternoon, considering that every relationship ends, they end up breaking up. During the big fight, Miamor, the street cat adopted by both and who only attends if they call him "Miamor" and speak to him in Valencian, escapes and disappears, like the love that united them. For a time Olivia will give him for dead, love and the cat, while Mario keeps him alive in secret. Like Schrodingüer's cat, the love between the two remains alive and dead at the same time until, one day when she seems to have finally risen, Olivia feels victimized by a deception and decides to declare to Mario the war, one in the that, as in the love that still breathes, everything can be worth.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 702
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Faith, Hope & Love (2019)
Plot Summary:
Faith, a recent divorcee, enters a dance contest to save her dance studio, where she meets Jimmy and starts rediscovering her faith and dreams.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, romantic comedy
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Something About Love (2021)
Plot Summary:
Opposites Isa and Ruben are totally in love and over the moon with each other. Until Mr. Perfect steps into Isa's life.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Love Fiction (2012)
Plot Summary:
A writer looking for inspiration finds a perfect muse in a girl. After much work, he makes her his girlfriend. But then he starts to get tired of her.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 451
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Love & Coffee (2016)
Plot Summary:
Zoe Walker is a food scientist who's been sent to Colombia to design a coffee flavor that appeals to millennials. In the village of Salento, Zoe meets Diego Valdez, a local plantation owner who is reluctant to work with her at first, but allows Zoe to use his coffee beans so long as she helps him with the final harvest. As Zoe spends time working the land with Diego, romance begins to brew despite their very different roots.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 798
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Colombia, USA, UK, Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, captivating, entertaining
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Tell Me I Love You (2019)
Plot Summary:
A modern romantic comedy about 3 Malibu best friends, roommates and bandmates discovering their dreams and discovering love with a crazy plot to make some cash on the way.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Starting Up Love (2019)
Plot Summary:
A young finance executive inherits her uncle's mountain cabin only to discover that he also left half of it to the ruggedly handsome handyman that had been caring for it.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Snowkissed (2021)
Plot Summary:
A travel-averse journalist chases her dream assignment where she unwillingly finds herself mentoring a handsome B&B owner who wants to be a tour guide.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, captivating, entertaining
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The Truth About Lies (2018)
Plot Summary:
Gilby finds himself in a tangled web of lies when the truth proves to be too much to admit and even harder to accept.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 607
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, satirical, semi serious, thrilling
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Love in the Villa (2022)
Plot Summary:
A young woman takes a trip to romantic Verona, Italy, after a breakup, only to find that the villa she reserved was double-booked, and she'll have to share her vacation with a cynical British man.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, semi serious, romantic comedy
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Hopeless Romantic (2016)
Plot Summary:
A man uses methods from romantic comedy movies to try and win back his ex-girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 570
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: romantic, psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, emotional