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Plot Summary:
Etienne makes a good living out of marrying off poor but titled young men to rich but untitled young ladies. Millicent is now in his sights on the Riviera, and Grand Duke Gaspar is the bait. But what if Millicent starts to fancy planted chauffeur John instead, and Gaspar takes a shine to Etienne's secretary Janine?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 655
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic comedy
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That Funny Feeling (1965)
Plot Summary:
Joan Howell, a young and pretty maid-for-hire, meets and begins dating wealthy New York City businessman Tom Milford. Embarrassed about bringing him back to her tiny apartment that she shares with her roommate Audrey, Joan brings Tom over to a fancy apartment that she cleans on a daily basis not knowing that it's his place. Tom plays along with the charade despite not knowing who Joan really is, while she tries to tidy up Tom's place not knowing who he really is. Written by Matthew Patay.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 989
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: retro, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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A Garden of Cucumbers (1967)
Plot Summary:
When Miss Vicki's father dies, she becomes the world's greatest philanthropist. Unfortunately, she is flat broke! Her loyal butler, Claude Fitzwilliam, leads the household staff to rob from various businesses by charging goods to various wealthy people and misdirecting the shipments, all to keep Miss Vicki's standard of living.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Falling for Grace (2006)
Plot Summary:
Grace is a Chinese American who longs to be a part of New York's high society. At a socialite event, she is mistaken for a Hong Kong heiress and meets her Prince Charming. Nothing is as it seems absorbing drama. What will happen to this Cinderella when the clock strikes midnight?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 755
Genere: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, independent film
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The Beautician and the Beast (1997)
Plot Summary:
The story follows the misadventures of a New York City beautician who is mistakenly hired as the school teacher for the children of the president of a small Eastern European country.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, feel good, parody, realistic, romantic, sentimental, scary, fairy tale, funny
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The Third Wheel (2002)
Plot Summary:
The clumsy and shy Stanley is a nice fellow, beloved by his colleagues in the office. He has a crush on the gorgeous new-hire Diana, but he has difficulties to get close to her. When Stanley finally invites Diana for a date, he hits the homeless Phil with his Taurus, and his planned night turns upside down.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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It Happened in Saint-Tropez (2013)
Plot Summary:
Zef’s stormy relationship with his brother Roni is further aggravated when Roni marries his daughter just as he is attending to his wife’s funeral. The two brothers have never got on with each other. One is faithful to his religion, the other lives only for the present. Between London, Paris, Saint-Tropez and New York, a series of confrontations and betrayals threatens to drive the family further apart, but out of this confusion will come a great love story, perhaps even two.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, romantic comedy, realistic, semi serious
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Two Much (1995)
Plot Summary:
A young gallerist is in love with two sisters at the same time. In order to solve the problem he decides to invent his own twin-brother.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, witty, anamorphic, realistic, semi serious, funny, inspirational, road movie
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Three Many Weddings (2013)
Plot Summary:
A woman attends wedding of successive men in her life, though she gets to find a soul mate.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, sentimental, semi serious, romantic comedy, realistic
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Finding Mr. Right (2013)
Plot Summary:
Tang Wei plays Jiajia, a young woman in Beijing who lives a luxurious life provided by her wealthy boyfriend. When Jiajia got pregnant, she goes to the United States, hoping that the baby will be born an American citizen. While waiting for the baby’s arrival, Jiajia loses contact with her boyfriend and suddenly finds that she is unable to make end meets. At this point, she meets Frank, played by Wu Xiubo, who offers help and makes her think twice about who her Mr. Right really is.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, light, exciting, sincere, realistic, semi serious, romantic drama
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Piccadilly Jim (2004)
Plot Summary:
Set in the 1930s, an American with a scandalous reputation on both sides of the Atlantic must do an about-face in order to win back the woman of his dreams.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, tragicomedy, social, ironic, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Stranded in Paradise (2014)
Plot Summary:
When a driven HR exec loses her high-powered job, she travels to Puerto Rico in an attempt to save her career at a business conference. But as the trip quickly becomes a disaster and a hurricane shuts down the whole island, she meets a handsome world traveler who gives her a new perspective on finding passion in life and love.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating, sentimental, uplifting, realistic
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Pulling Strings (2013)
Plot Summary:
Rachel is an intelligent, modern-day woman constantly on the move. Primarily focused on her career as a diplomatic consul for the U.S. embassy, she's literally lived her life on the move, globe-trotting from city to city. Currently working in Mexico City and set to leave for London, Rachel's world turns upside down on the eve of her own goodbye party when she gets drunk and passes out on the street. Saved by Alejandro, a handsome Mariachi singer and single father, Rachel wakes up in his apartment with no recollection of how she got there. Nor does she remember that she rejected his visa the day before, which he desperately needs for his daughter. Romance unexpectedly blossoms between the two, but either sparks or fists will fly after she finds out his secret.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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On the Edge (2008)
Plot Summary:
A young game designer falls in love with an older woman and suddenly his whole life turns upside down.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 727
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Best Day of My Life (2004)
Plot Summary:
Not too excited Arthur asks marriage Lola. What should have been a quiet ceremony evolves in something bigger, expensive and overwhelming as family is involved. The organization of the best day of their lives threatens to destroy them.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 286
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, entertaining, funny, light, romantic, feel good, captivating
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Anything for Alice (2014)
Plot Summary:
Slacker Max fell so hard for single mother Alice in college that he developed a website aimed at winning her heart. Years later, after his venture has earned him millions of dollars, Max risks his entire fortune performing an ever more complicated series of social contortions to get close to Alice, now a politically motivated factory worker.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 556
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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The Art of Seduction (2011)
Plot Summary:
Jean-François is a psychoanalyst in love with one of his patients. When she decides to stop therapy, Jean-François at last feels free to seduce the woman. Paralyzed when in front of his object of love, Jean-François accumulates blunders of every kind. He hence turns to Julien, one his patients who is in therapy to overcome his compulsive-obsessive flirting disorder. It's a totally absurd initiative on Jean-François's part. But, even so.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, sincere, sentimental, realistic, semi serious
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Born Yesterday (1993)
Plot Summary:
A businessman shows up in Washington to lobby agendas that are friendly to his construction plans. His ditsy ex-showgirl bimbo proves to be an embarrassment in social situations, so he hires a reporter to teach her how to appear more intelligent. Soon it becomes apparent to the reporter that she isn't so stupid after all, and things become more complicated as she begins questioning the papers her sugar daddy keeps getting her to sign, and the reporter begins falling in love with her.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, satirical, semi serious, witty, clever, talky, feel good, realistic, scary, sexy
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Bacon on the Side (2010)
Plot Summary:
Djalil Boudaoud and Justine Lacroix are a surgeon and a television reporter who enter a romantic relationship despite the objections of their families to the cultural gap.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 557
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, sentimental, touching, realistic
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Cherry on the Cake (2012)
Plot Summary:
Amanda believes men are too complicated and has lost faith finding the perfect one. Her friend and a psychoanalyst have a plan how to make her fall in love. She insists that Amanda not stay home alone on New Year's Eve, and only gets her way after swearing that all the other guests will be couples, except for Maxime, a gay colleague. But Maxime leaves at the last minute to join his lover in Amsterdam, and Antoine, recently separated from his wife, arrives alone at the party.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 393
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, feel good, captivating, funny, light, realistic, semi serious
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Love on the Rocks (2004)
Plot Summary:
Wong is shocked to learn from his girlfriend Annie (Leung) that she wants to break up. He decides to go online and seek help from love experts on the net. He finds Crystal, a 19-year old self-proclaimed love advisor who has never been actually involved in a relationship. As she assists Wong by telling him to revisit all of his ex-girlfriends in order to find out the root of his problems, the two of them also find themselves falling for one another.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Jatt & Juliet 2 (2013)
Plot Summary:
A sequel to the hit Punjabi romantic comedy.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, India
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, realistic, not serious, fun
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BachelorMan (2003)
Plot Summary:
In these times of enlightened sexual politics, Ted Davis is a scoring machine. He's got the rap, the charm and his little black book weighs several pounds. Ted has become a guru to his buddies who can only aspire in awe to his greatness. This is a man's man, a ladies man, a super-hero: He's Ted Davis: "BachelorMan".
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 466
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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When Harry Tries to Marry (2011)
Plot Summary:
An Indian-American surprises his family when he announces his desire for an arranged marriage with an Indian woman, though his affection for a longtime American friend complicate his plan.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 678
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, sentimental, realistic, semi serious, independent film, intercultural, inter cultural
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Shirin in Love (2014)
Plot Summary:
Despite being engaged to a successful Iranian plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills, Shirin finds herself falling for a mysterious young man who lives in a lighthouse in northern California.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 904
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, light, sentimental, realistic, independent film
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For Better or For Worse (2014)
Plot Summary:
Wendy is finally settling in to single life after the death of her husband. She runs a successful wedding planning company with the help of her friend Roseanne. Wendy's business and values are challenged when Marco, a charming but irritating divorce attorney, opens shop right next door!.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, touching, realistic, semi serious
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Perfect Combination (2010)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of a fairly successful young black man, just shy of 30 years old, who decided he needs to be less of a workaholic and meet and date women, with marriage and family as a goal.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, touching, realistic, sexual
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Take-Away Romance (2014)
Plot Summary:
Amelle and Noom are two young thirties are total opposites and that fate will bring. Serious She manager at Starbucks, and dynamic IT dilettante, smart, and apprentice comic. Both victims disappointments in love, they swore that it does take longer. So how do when despite all these opposites attract? A game of seduction then sets up for our greatest happiness. But all is not so rosy, families, friends, colleagues get involved, wars are declared, quarrels explode. Caught between the roots of their education and the fire of their feelings, which side will they choose? The love he will triumph? One thing is sure, they will make us have a good loads of fun and excitement.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 377
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, entertaining, sentimental, realistic, semi serious
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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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Darling Trap (2014)
Plot Summary:
Clémence is pathologically jealous. Gabriel has asked her to marry him. To test whether he is faithful, unbeknownst to him she arranges that he crosses paths with beautiful Olivia.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, romantic comedy, realistic, semi serious
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What Rats Won't Do (1998)
Plot Summary:
Soon to be married lawyer Kate Beckenham has landed the case of a lifetime. Her courtroom opponent turns out to be the charming Jack Sullivan, who has never lost a single case.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 794
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sweet, romantic comedy, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film