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Plot Summary:
Margaret and Martin Harper, both sixty years old, are filing for divorce, but plan to keep everything as civilized as possible. Complications arise when their respective attorneys, the equally cynical Emily Bennett and Kenton Rhodes, unexpectedly fall in love, throwing an extra kink into the proceedings both in and out of the courtroom.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 466
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
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The Neighbor (2007)
Plot Summary:
A businessman (Modine) watches as his life begins to unravel after learning his ex-wife is going to marry his best friend. A distracting battle of wills with a real estate developer, however, might just be the thing that turns his life around.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
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Till Dad Do Us Part (2001)
Plot Summary:
Banker Gavin Corbett refuses, unlike his wife Virginia, who would just wait, to stand by as his spoiled daughter Rebecca `Becky` announces she wants to abandon her medical studies and marry idealistic, unruly environmental activist Dennis Qualintip. Gavin hopes the answer is to match Becky with a dream prince, rising bank executive Brent Fenwick III, whom he makes his protégé. Alas the boy fears he`s wanted as gay boy-toy, while everyone else warms to Dennis.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
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Hochzeit in Rom (2017)
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On business trip in Milan, Bavarian architect Max Hauser falls in love with strong-willed waitress Bianca, who is fired for speaking up to his rude colleagues. When he proposes, she runs, but he traces her to Rome, where he finds she's actually the multi-titled rebellious daughter of impoverished prince and count Vibaldo D'Arcadia and his snobbish silver spoon wife Gioia, who inhabit a stunning but slowly derelict renaissance palace. When Max asks for her hand, she hastily accepts, and after getting the matriarchal blessing of the countess-mother Donna Costanza, Max invites his parents, egalitarian dentist Walter Hauser and wine merchant Eva and Zahnarzt to attend his socialite wedding. Max is not amused to find his father cornered by his mistress, flight attendant Xenia who demands Waleter's divorce, a secret they will painfully fail to keep under control, yet the parents refuse to spoil their son's wedding, but the palatial maid gets wind of half the story and confides into the.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 89 min
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1001 Nights (1968)
Plot Summary:
Omar and his friend, Ali, returning to Moorish Granada after several years in the Middle East, discover that an evil usurper is now in power. With the help of a female genie, Omar sets about restoring freedom and justice.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 92 min
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Sunset Cove (1978)
Plot Summary:
At the end of the school year, a group of students head out to Sunset Cove and do everything they can to save their favourite beach.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, grindhouse, sexy, independent film, hot
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When I Think of Christmas (2022)
Plot Summary:
Sara Thompson returns to her hometown to help her mother move and is surprised to find her ex-boyfriend Josh Hartman is back home. The two had once planned a life in music together but Sara left to study law. The former flames slowly reconnect and try to heal wounds, both old and new. When Sara makes a surprising discovery, she and Josh forge a bold plan for the upcoming Christmas concert that will lead them all back to their musical roots and make this a holiday to remember.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 809
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
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Meddling Mom (2012)
Plot Summary:
Take Carmen Vega downtown and book her! Carmen (Sonia Braga) is guilty as charged of scheming with her two best friends, Marisol and Valeria (Rose Abdoo and Saundra Santiago) to stick her nose in everything in her two adult daughter’s lives. From secretly leaving baby books out for recently wed daughter Yolanda (Ana Ayora) and her husband Rico (George Contreras) to manipulating youngest daughter Ally (Mercedes Renard) into a doomed date with best friend Marisol’s son Pablo (Rafael Amaya), Carmen can’t stop interfering. Now, the notorious mother of good intentions with equally hideous results is about to get a crash course in butting out!.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 329
Genere: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
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Christmas at the Drive-In (2022)
Plot Summary:
Sadie Walker is starting over in her hometown of Chesterfield, New York, following a series of major life disruptions that include leaving her law practice after losing her biggest case and no longer being engaged.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 975
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min
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Love in Glacier National: A National Park Romance (2023)
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Sparks fly when Hannah, an expert in avalanche forecasting, brings her new technology to Glacier National Park and faces pushback from the director of Mountain Rescue, who relies more on intuition and common sense. Their dual approach bring more than forecasting to the forefront of their hearts.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 716
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: romantic comedy
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Sag einfach ja! (2002)
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Vera and Hans have been happy for 15 years - only the marriage certificate is still missing. Vera's mother wants to help the couple on the jumps and proposes them to the local radio station as "the perfect couple of the week". This means that if they marry within four weeks, the sender pays the wedding. The stars are not unfavorable. But just before the wedding date confirmed that Libra and Taurus are an explosive combination. The high-caliber romantic comedy shows in an amusing, subtle way how heavenly influences in relationships can move mountains.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min
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Ein Sommer auf Lanzarote (2016)
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German careerist headhunter Juliane Paul, engaged to bureau CEO Kai Lenz, must recruit local engineer Juan Garcia for a Moroccan coast oil project during his home 'finca' holiday on Lanzarote (Canaries), so she goes visit her mother Eva, who runs a pastry bakery there in between environmentalist and naive campaigns. Eva makes her mind the shop but employed baker Diego has a family emergency, so she must find another for a wedding order. Juan, who dropped by to exchange airport-misplaced luggage, generously helps out and gets a crush on her, but she fails to identify herself and disclose her purpose. Private and professional interest seems incompatible, truth time promises to be bitter.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
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Blessed Events (2010)
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Again the film centres on a decidedly ordinary young woman – here, thirtysomething single Simone – caught up in an extraordinary situation: finding she’s pregnant after an anonymous (and evidently rare) one-night stand, she visits the hospital and unexpectedly bumps into the man in question. Still more surprisingly, this young doctor reveals he’d hoped to see her again and, told of the pregnancy, confesses he wouldn’t mind their becoming a couple. Nor would Simone – but is it all too good to be true? Few films have explored the psychological effects of pregnancy, planned or otherwise, and as with Gisela’s account of an extramarital affair, Stever steps into the fray bravely but wisely; steering clear of moral commentary, she allows actions to speak for themselves, while colour, lighting, landscape and architecture are deployed to evoke Simone’s swings between enchantment and alienation, desire and despair. Kuhl’s understated but eloquent lead performance fits the bill perfectly.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
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One Husband Too Many (2010)
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28 year old Stéphanie Vasseur feels like all her dreams have come true. Young, beautiful, and eager to succeed in life, she's just been hired as the new editor-in-chief of the prestigious "GLAM" fashion magazine. She thinks she's attained perfect happiness after the proposal of Grégoire de Rougemont, a well-bred lawyer. But there's a problem: to get to where she is, Stéphanie lied about her past, her working class origins and the fact that she's still married to her ex, Alex, who's still in the North of France. Now, unbeknownst to Grégoire and his suspicious father, she must go back to Calais to finally divorce Alex. There, the region is in a crisis after the lace factory closed down, and face-to-face with her roots, Stéphanie starts to doubt the reason for which she returned.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 91 min
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Then Came You (2020)
Plot Summary:
A lonely widow plans a trip around the world with her husband's ashes, to visit the places they loved in the movies. During her first stop in Scotland at the beautiful estate she stays in, she meets the innkeeper who changes her life forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Mr. Write (2016)
Plot Summary:
When the executives at Heartstrings Press wants to drop Michael Rothchild’s next romance book, junior editor, Dori Shephard, argues her way into working as the lead editor. But Dori’s dream job becomes her nightmare as she realizes Michael isn’t everything she imagined. Dori breaks the news to Michael that the executives think he’s an ill-mannered, washed up novelist and want to terminate his contract. Not wanting to be dropped from Heartstrings Press, Michael agrees to work with Dori for 30 days. While Dori wrestles with Michael’s languorous behavior she’s also in the midst of planning her wedding to her fiancé, Philip. However, things go awry for Dori when work becomes an obstacle in her relationship. Dori must learn what true love really means before it’s too late.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: emotional
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(Girl)Friend (2018)
Plot Summary:
Vincent and Nefeli just moved in together. They're best friends and swore to never fall in love again. That is until Vincent meets Julie.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 836
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: light, entertaining, humorous, sentimental
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Bros (2022)
Plot Summary:
Two emotionally unavailable men attempt a relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: art house, romantic comedy, crying, sex comedy, lgbt cinema, interesting, gay cinema, queer cinema
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For Richer or Poorer (1997)
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Brad Sexton and his wife, Caroline, are wealthy New Yorkers with both marital and financial problems. The latter issue becomes a pressing matter when they discover that their accountant has embezzled millions and pinned the blame on them. Forced to go on the lam, Brad and Caroline end up in an Amish area of Pennsylvania and decide to pose as members of the religious group to evade the IRS. As the two adapt to the simple Amish lifestyle, they begin to reconnect.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, semi serious, detective, funny, light, romantic, sweet, suspense, entertaining
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Autumn Dreams (2015)
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With plans to leave their small town, teenage loves Annie and Ben elope. Their big city plans are halted, though, when Annie's parents have the marriage annulled. Ben moves to New York, while Annie stays in Iowa to help her family. Fifteen years later, both engaged to their respective fiancés, the two discover that their annulment was never finalized. They reunite to make their divorce legal, but begin to reminisce about what could have been. When romantic feelings resurface, Annie and Ben must decide if their past love could be the love of their future.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, feel good, sweet, entertaining, emotional
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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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Spring Breakdown (2009)
Plot Summary:
Three women in their thirties head to a popular Spring Break destination and try to relive the Spring Break they never had.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, light, captivating, entertaining, teen, independent film
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Royal Hearts (2018)
Plot Summary:
Kelly, a hopeless romantic in Montana eager to finish her dissertation, and her father, Hank, a rancher, receive news that he has inherited an estate from a faraway land. When they travel there, they discover that Hank has not only inherited the estate, but the title that goes along with it – KING!.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: romantic, funny, light, captivating, entertaining, emotional
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I Will... I Will... For Now (1976)
Plot Summary:
Elliot Gould stars as Les Bingham, who takes umbrage that his ex-wife Katie (Diane Keaton) has a new love in life. What Les doesn't realize is that her new paramour is lawyer Lou Springer (Paul Sorvino). When Katie's sister Sally (Candy Clark) arrives and tells the two about her new, hip '70s marriage contract, Les and Katie decide to try to get together again under a more liberal marriage contract, like Katie's sister. But, unfortunately for the couple, the contract is planted with the seeds of self-destruction, having been drafted by Lou.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Love, of Course (2018)
Plot Summary:
A helicopter mom follows her daughter to college and lands a job on campus. When she meets a charismatic professor, she learns more about herself and discovers a life of her own.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, emotional
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Seems Like Old Times (1980)
Plot Summary:
Writer Nick Gardenia is kidnapped from his California cliffhouse and forced to rob a bank. Now a fugitive, he seeks help from his ex, Glenda. She is a public defender remarried to a prosecutor, and we get a houseful of hijinks.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, sweet, entertaining, melancholic, feel good, realistic, semi serious, romantic, witty, funny
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Barefoot in the Park (1967)
Plot Summary:
In this film based on a Neil Simon play, newlyweds Corie, a free spirit, and Paul Bratter, an uptight lawyer, share a sixth-floor apartment in Greenwich Village. Soon after their marriage, Corie tries to find a companion for mother, Ethel, who is now alone, and sets up Ethel with neighbor Victor. Inappropriate behavior on a double date causes conflict, and the young couple considers divorce.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: funny, romantic, cute, clever, humorous, witty, talky, technicolor, feel good, realistic
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The War of the Roses (1989)
Plot Summary:
The Roses, Barbara and Oliver, live happily as a married couple. Then she starts to wonder what life would be like without Oliver, and likes what she sees. Both want to stay in the house, and so they begin a campaign to force each other to leave. In the middle of the fighting is D'Amato, the divorce lawyer. He gets to see how far both will go to get rid of the other, and boy do they go far.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy, psychological, satirical, cynical, humorous, funny, bad ending, clever, stylized
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Lucky 7 (2003)
Plot Summary:
Before Amy Myer's mother died when Amy was 7, she planned out the little girl's life on a timeline, including the fact that Amy would marry her 7th boyfriend. When Amy falls in love with #6, she's thrown into a tailspin, because all of her mother's advice had worked perfectly. Now she must decide whether to follow her mother's advice and wait for #7, or follow her own heart.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, sentimental, touching, feel good, semi serious, sweet, romantic drama
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Play It Again, Sam (1972)
Plot Summary:
A mild mannered film critic is dumped by his wife and his ego is crushed. His hero persona is the tough guy played by Humphrey Bogart in many of his movies and the apparition of Bogart begins showing up to give him advice. With the encouragement of his two married friends, he actually tries dating again, with less than satisfactory results, until he relaxes.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, witty, talky, parody, scary, sad, neurotic, sex comedy, existential
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Must Love Dogs (2005)
Plot Summary:
Sarah Nolan is a newly divorced woman cautiously rediscovering romance with the enthusiastic but often misguided help of her well-meaning family. As she braves a series of hilarious disastrous mismatches and first dates, Sarah begins to trust her own instincts again and learns that, no matter what, it's never a good idea to give up on love.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, sweet, stylized, romantic comedy, sentimental, touching, light, entertaining, humorous