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Plot Summary:
Jerzy Stuhr scripted, directed and plays four roles in this Polish comedy about four men -- an army officer, a college instructor, a priest, and a drug dealer -- and their relationships with four females. An attractive student (Dominika Ostalowska) puts the teacher in an awkward spot when she reveals her love for him. An 11-year-old (Karolina Ostrozna) informs the priest that she's his daughter. The army officer is pleased when confronted by a past lover (Irina Alfiorowa). The drug dealer, taken prisoner, must decide whether or not to trust his wife (Katarzyna Figura) with his hidden loot. In the wrap-up, the elderly accountant (Jerzy Nowak) passes judgment on all four men. Stuhr acted in films by the late Krzysztof Kieslowski, who had some input here by offering advice to Stuhr on this screenplay. Shown at the 1997 Venice Film Festival, this film is also known as Love Stories.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 556
Genere: Romance, Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic
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No desire is forbidden in this twisted suspense-comedy about a group of sexually ambivalent 20-somethings living in the Hollywood Hills. Kevin (Smith Forté) shares space with a male stripper, a girl who dreams of becoming a rock star and an orphaned teenager -- and none of them pay any rent. But after another renter falls to his death in a drunken stupor, Kevin's landlady -- who also happens to be his mother -- threatens to evict him.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 340
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy, hispanic, queer cinema, campy
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Letters to Santa (2011)
Plot Summary:
A romantic comedy set on Christmas Eve in Warsaw and centered around a series of characters.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sincere, sentimental, captivating, disturbing, feel good, humorous, entertaining
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Promise Me This (2007)
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An old man named Zivojin Markovic, living in a remote village prays for his grandson Cane to go to the city, sell his cow and bring back a wife. In the city he is supposed to meet up with his grandfather's stepbrother, but this man is dead. Instead, he meets this man's two grandsons, two good-natured brothers who are nevertheless small-time criminals and experts in demolition. Cane soon clicks with these men, and also falls in love with a schoolgirl (Jasna), who he wants to marry as part of his testament with his grandfather. He gets involved in this girl's family affairs, rescuing both her and her mother from prostitution and gangsters headed by a man called Bajo, and the new group of people return to the small village in time to celebrate Zivojin's wedding to his neighbor, despite the gangsters' best efforts to stop the celebration, which results in a double wedding.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Serbia, France
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Raising Waylon (2004)
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Waylon is a nine year old boy who, after losing their parents, begins to live with her godparents, couples in the past but now separated and with little appetite for adoption. The boy's arrival will be the ultimate test to confirm whether the two are better together or apart.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 371
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, captivating, emotional, touching, realistic, semi serious
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A Picture Perfect Wedding (2021)
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Wedding photographer Lindsey gets her big opportunity when a New York mogul’s son, Josh, asks her to shoot his sister’s wedding. Sparks fly as Josh and Lindsey prepare for ceremony, and the pair begin to fall for each other. But as the big day arrives and the project finishes, do they go back their old, separate lives or will they follow their hearts?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, touching, emotional, talky
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A woman, concerned by her husband's eccentric behavior, hires a detective to follow his every move -- which yields unexpected results.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, art house, detective
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The Oddball (1992)
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Can one ensure immortal love? Hippolyte, an eccentric notary, sees his marriage to Camille as his one great success. He also believes that love doesn't last, and this flummoxes him as they approach their 15th anniversary. To test her love for him, he promotes her seduction by an anonymous stranger, behaves badly to guests, makes love clumsily, sleeps in the guest room. All this breaks her spirit, and she asks him to move. It's devastating to Hippolyte, Camille, and their two sweet children, but he persists; he can't seem to shake this humour. Then, they reconcile and depart on a second honeymoon. Is this a renewal of domestic bliss or a an interlude in Hippolyte's mad design?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 638
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: romantic comedy, touching, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: biting, existential, art house, poetic, clever, humorous, realistic, semi serious, parody, meta
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Miffo (2003)
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Tobias is the new, idealistic priest in a suburb but he soon learns that his flock is quite uninterested in Christianity. However, he befriends Carolina, a chain smoking woman his age, wheelchair-bound since birth. It is opposites attract although their backgrounds are different.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 105 min
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Love on Trend (2021)
Plot Summary:
When Allie Ederling left her small town to move to New York to pursue her dream of becoming a fashion designer, little did she imagine that the city had big plans for her… and for her heart!.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, touching, emotional, talky
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Let It Snow (1999)
Plot Summary:
Our two young lovers meet on a series of snowy days in high school. Years later they reconnect in Manhattan, but life is more complicated. Sarah sleeps with her beeper. James goes to "open-mike therapy". As Sarah plans her wedding to someone else, James prays for snow and a second chance at first love.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 640
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, sincere, clever, touching, offbeat, humorous, realistic, contemplative, talky
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I Wonder Who's Kissing You Now (1998)
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In this rom-com Sam is having problems with both his professional life and his marriage. His career as a film director has dried up, while at home he's sure that his new bride is having an affair. He might be right as she's started seeing a dentist who likes rough sex.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sex comedy, sexy
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A Previous Engagement (2008)
Plot Summary:
When Julia Reynolds talks her husband into a family vacation in Malta she has a secret agenda: a date made twenty-five years earlier with her first love.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, Malta, UK
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, realistic, humorous, witty, semi serious
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Little Book of Love (1997)
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Luiza is an architect who just got out of a ruined relationship. Gabriel is a biologist and he has finished a long-term marriage with divorce. When they both meet, chances that they can do well together are not that big. But they will try to, even if their friends Barata (a convict bachelor totally skeptical when it comes to love) and Marta (a mathematic analyst who wishes that human relations were just as exact as numbers are). Written by Pedro Aguiar.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 599
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Plot Summary:
Columnist Peyton MacGruder befriends a reader who sent her a note that inspires Peyton to reconsider the choices she's made and her reluctance to accept her boyfriend's marriage proposal.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 443
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sentimental, uplifting, emotional, realistic, touching, serious
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IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic, sitcom, independent film
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As shy, awkward and, frankly, nerdy as she is, 25 year old public official Na Young-ju has little hope of landing a boyfriend. But then a game of chance designates her as the member of her office staff who will take English courses—much to her horror. In the same class, she encounters show salesman Park Moon-su, who fancies himself a dashing ladies’ man. He’s studying English in part to communicate with his long-lost American sister, but mostly for the purpose of wielding exotic pick-up lines, and is soon deploying them at the less-than-impressed Cathy, the pretty Australian teaching the class. But while Park flirts with Cathy, it’s Young-ju who finds herself mooning after the handsome if self-absorbed fellow.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
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Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, romantic, romantic comedy, realistic
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A young lady about to get married realizes that she has a problem: she fantasizes about every man she sees. She goes to confess at church but unknowingly confesses to a young man who is not a priest. He agrees to help her, but falls in love with her along the way. Unfortunately she still thinks he is a priest.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, sincere, captivating, melancholic, romantic, romantic comedy, exciting
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Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health (1996)
Plot Summary:
A woman seduces a hotel janitor to gain access to the famous musicians coming into town.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: sentimental, clever, touching, feel good, humorous, captivating, realistic, witty, semi serious, neo screwball comedy
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The Student (1988)
Plot Summary:
Romantic comedy about an ambitious teaching student, busy preparing for her final exams, whose studies are interrupted by a passionate affair with a jazz musician. Twenty-one-year-old Valentine (Sophie Marceau) works part time as a teacher while she prepares for her all-important final exams. She meets Edouard (Vincent Lindon), a jazz musician who hopes to someday be a composer. Despite the fact that the two have different schedules and career agendas, they engage in a passionate affair. Valentine compares her relationship with Edouard to the dry dissertation of Moliere's The Misanthrope during her oral exams at the Sorbonne. aka - 'You Call It Love'.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: realistic, romantic, light, sentimental, retro, sensual, semi serious, humorous, touching
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Just a Father (2008)
Plot Summary:
No overview.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 470
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: uplifting, touching, emotional, psychological, sincere, funny, light, romantic, feel good, humorous
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Plot Summary:
Grégoire Moulin, a shy accountant, sets up a blind date with a dance teacher at a bar. What he needed to do was just to cross the road. But it didn't happen to be as easy as it seems especially because of the final game of French soccer championship the very same night!.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, touching, offbeat, realistic, sexual, sexy
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 331
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
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Duration: 103 min
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 286
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy, France
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Plot tags: humorous, emotional, light, captivating, sentimental, touching, feel good, realistic, semi serious
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Schools Out (2008)
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 809
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Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, semi serious, humorous, offbeat
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Plot Summary:
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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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Mona (2008)
Plot Summary:
Two 35 year old men going backwards in life meet a vibrant 23 year woman, bounding unselfconsciously forward.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
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Let's Ruin It with Babies (2014)
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Channing has it all: a beautiful home, a rock star lifestyle, and a loving husband intent on ruining it all by knocking her up.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, independent film, sexy