Best movies like Minnie and Moskowitz
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Plot Summary:
Depressed and jaded after being dumped by her married boyfriend, aging beauty Minnie Moore (Gena Rowlands) wonders if she'll ever find love. After shaggy-haired parking lot attendant Seymour Moskowitz (Seymour Cassel) comes to her defense from an angry and rebuffed blind date, he falls hopelessly in love with her despite their myriad differences. Minnie reluctantly agrees to a date with Moskowitz, and, slowly but surely, an unlikely romance blossoms between the two.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: funny, independent film, sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, romantic, philosophical
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The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
Plot Summary:
Three days into his Miami honeymoon, Lenny meets tall, blonde Kelly. This confirms him in his opinion that he has made a serious mistake and he decides he wants Kelly instead.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: funny, clever, humorous, witty, talky, scary, cynical, sex comedy, independent film, feel good
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Choose Me (1984)
Plot Summary:
Several lost-soul night-owls, including a nightclub owner, a talkback radio relationships counseller, and an itinerant stranger have encounters that expose their contradictions and anxieties about love and acceptance.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: offbeat, neo noir, surreal, sex comedy, independent film, atmospheric, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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California Dreaming (1979)
Plot Summary:
Young T.T. comes from Chicago to spend the summer in California. He slowly becomes "California-ized," while learning about love and life in the Golden State.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 852
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, sentimental, sincere, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sex comedy
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Husbands (1970)
Plot Summary:
A common friend's sudden death brings three men, married with children, to reconsider their lives and ultimately leave together. But mindless enthusiasm for regained freedom will be short-lived.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min
Plot tags: contemplative, independent film, clever, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious, neorealism, buddy comedy, dark comedy
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The April Fools (1969)
Plot Summary:
Newly-promoted if none too happily married Howard Brubaker leaves a rowdy Company party early with the stunning Catherine, whom it turns out is herself unhappily married - to the boss. They spend an innocent night in New York becoming more and more attracted to each other, so that when Catherine announces she intends to leave her husband and return to Paris Howard asks to go along too. In the cold light of morning problems and pressures from spouses crowd in.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious, neo screwball comedy
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Plaza Suite (1971)
Plot Summary:
Film version of the Neil Simon play has three separate acts set in the same hotel suite in New York's Plaza Hotel with Walter Matthau in a triple role. In the first, Karen Nash tries to get her inattentive husband Sam's attention to spruce up their failing marriage. In the second, brash film producer Jesse Kiplinger tries to get his former one-time flame Muriel to see him for what he stands for. In the third, Roy Hubley and his wife Norma try and try to get their uncertain-of-herself daughter out of the bathroom before her approaching wedding.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, witty, anthology, realistic, semi serious, sketch comedy, funny, light, surprise ending
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She's the One (1996)
Plot Summary:
Mickey, a free-spirited New York cabbie, and Francis, a materialistic Wall Street stockbroker, are extremely competitive and confused about women as a result of their father's influence. Though they disagree about everything, they have one thing in common: Mickey's ex-fiance Heather is Francis's secret love. Though both brothers have beautiful wives, Heather triggers their longtime sibling rivalry.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: talky, melancholic, humorous, sincere, semi serious, realistic, witty, emotional, funny, romantic
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California Suite (1978)
Plot Summary:
Misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: funny, clever, humorous, witty, talky, captivating, realistic, semi serious, sketch comedy, light
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Some Girl (1998)
Plot Summary:
Four unstable twenty-something women search for long-term relationships in 1990s Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 983
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, talky, semi serious, independent film, clever, realistic
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Same Time, Next Year (1978)
Plot Summary:
A man and woman meet by chance at a romantic inn over dinner. Although both are married to others, they find themselves in the same bed the next morning questioning how this could have happened. They agree to meet on the same weekend each year. Originally a stage play, the two are seen changing, years apart, always in the same room in different scenes. Each of them always appears on schedule, but as time goes on each has some personal crisis that the other helps them through, often without both of them understanding what is going on.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: sentimental, clever, talky, sad, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic
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The Only Game in Town (1970)
Plot Summary:
Fran walks into a piano bar for pizza. She comes back home with Joe, the piano player. Joe plans on winning $5,000 and leave Las Vegas. Fran waits for something else. Meanwhile, he moves in with her.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, gloomy, semi serious
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A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
Plot Summary:
Mabel, a mother and wife, is on the brink of insanity as her blue-collar husband Nick attempts to understand her plight.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: independent film, art house, psychological, depressing, intense, tense, bleak, emotional, realistic, talky
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Playing by Heart (1998)
Plot Summary:
Eleven articulate people work through affairs of the heart in L.A. Paul produces Hannah's TV cooking show. Mark is dying of AIDS. Men have scalded Meredith so she rebuffs Trent's charm, but he persists. The trendy, prolix Joan tries to pull the solitary Keenan into her orbit. An adulterous couple meet at hotels for evening sex. Hugh tells tall tales, usually tragic, to women in bars.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: sincere, light, romantic, sweet, independent film, sentimental, touching, realistic, talky, anthology
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Trust the Man (2005)
Plot Summary:
Overachieving actress, Rebecca (Moore), must come to grips with her failing marriage to stay-at-home dad, Tom (Duchovny). While Rebecca's slacker brother, Tobey (Billy Crudup), can't seem to commit to his aspiring-novelist girlfriend, Elaine (Maggie Gyllenhaal). As both relationships spin out of control, the two couples embark on a quest to rediscover the magic and romance of falling in love in New York.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, feel good, talky, philosophical, sincere, clever, touching, realistic
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All Night Long (1981)
Plot Summary:
Executive George Dupler loses his temper and is demoted to the night manager at a 24 hour drugstore. After he suggests to his teenage son Freddie that he stop having an affair with suburban housewife Cheryl Gibbons, who is a distant cousin, Cheryl tries to seduce George. At home, in front of his mother, Freddie accuses his dad of stealing his girl, because he found Cheryl serving George a meal in the middle of the night, while her husband Bobby was on duty at the fire station. George then separates from his wife Helen, quits his job, moves into a warehouse, and asks Cheryl to move in with him.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic, offbeat, sexual, sexy
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Music from Another Room (1998)
Plot Summary:
Music From Another Room is a romantic comedy that follows the exploits of Danny, a young man who grew up believing he was destined to marry the girl he helped deliver as a five year old boy when his neighbor went into emergency labor. Twenty-five years later, Danny returns to his hometown and finds the irresistible Anna Swann but she finds it easy to resist him since she is already engaged to dreamboat Eric, a very practical match. In pursuit of Anna, Danny finds himself entangled with each of the eccentric Swanns including blind, sheltered Nina, cynical sister Karen, big brother Bill and dramatic mother Grace as he fights to prove that fate should never be messed with and passion should never be practical.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, sweet, light, semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, talky, crying
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The Sterile Cuckoo (1969)
Plot Summary:
Two students from neighboring colleges in upstate New York are swept up in a tragic romantic interlude calling for a maturity of vision beyond their experience of capabilities. Pookie Adams - a kooky, lonely misfit with no family and no place to go, insists on calling all those who won't participate in her world, "weirdos," clings to a quiet studious Jerry, who has the ability to make a choice of living in Pookie's private little world or be accepted by the society that Pookie rejects. Unwittingly, it is through their awkward relationship that Pookie actually prepares Jerry for the world of "weirdos" that she doesn't fit into or wish to be apart of.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, feel good, semi serious, independent film
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Blume in Love (1973)
Plot Summary:
Lawyer Stephen Blume, specialized in divorces, lives a paradoxical situation when, having his own marriage break up, is still in love with his ex-wife. Gedorge Segal plays a divorce lawyer who is divorced himself after his wife (Susan Anspach) catches him cheating on her. She, in turn, moves on and falls into an easy-going relationship with an even more easy-going musician (Kris Kristofferson in one of his first film roles). But Blume chooses this moment to fall back in love with his ex-wife (Marsha Mason) and begins to woo her anew.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: funny, romantic comedy, sentimental, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, stylized, semi serious
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Rumor Has It... (2005)
Plot Summary:
Sarah Huttinger's return home with her fiance convinces her that the sedate, proper, country-club lifestyle of her family isn't for her – and that maybe the Huttinger family isn't even hers – as she uncovers secrets that suggest the Huttingers are neither sedate nor proper.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Australia, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, sentimental, semi serious, humorous, realistic, predictable, entertaining, philosophical, uplifting
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In Good Company (2004)
Plot Summary:
Dan Foreman is a seasoned advertisement sales executive at a high-ranking publication when a corporate takeover results in him being placed under naive supervisor Carter Duryea, who is half his age. Matters are made worse when Dan's new supervisor becomes romantically involved with his daughter an 18 year-old college student Alex.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, realistic, romantic comedy, sentimental, emotional, humorous, semi serious, romantic, clever
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Griffin & Phoenix (2006)
Plot Summary:
A terminally ill man falls in love with a woman who has a secret that threatens their time spent together.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, realistic, humorous, romantic, erotic, heartfelt, semi serious, tear jerker, tearjerker
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A Lot Like Love (2005)
Plot Summary:
On a flight from Los Angeles to New York, Oliver and Emily make a connection, only to decide that they are poorly suited to be together. Over the next seven years, however, they are reunited time and time again, they go from being acquaintances to close friends to ... lovers?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 71000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: romantic, romantic comedy, sweet, light, feel good, melancholic, realistic, sexy, touching, humorous
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Broken English (2007)
Plot Summary:
Nora Wilder (Parker Posey), a single, career woman works at a Manhattan boutique hotel where her excellent skills in guest relations lack in the romantic department. If it is not her loving and dominant mother (Gena Rowlands) attempting to set her up that consistently fail, she has her friend’s (Drea de Matteo) disastrous blind dates to rely on as a backup for further dismay. She's surrounded by friends who are all happily engaged or romantically involved and somehow, love escapes Nora -- until she meets an unusual Frenchman (Melvil Poupaud) who helps her discover life beyond her self-imposed boundaries.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Japan, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: light, sweet, emotional, sexy, stylized, sentimental, romantic, romantic comedy, touching, erotic
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Moonstruck (1987)
Plot Summary:
Cher is devastatingly funny, sinuous and beautiful as Loretta, an unlucky-in-love Italian widow who finds romance through the intervention of the Manhattan moon. With her wedding to a close friend just weeks away, she meets - and falls hopelessly in love with - his younger brother (Cage)!.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 66000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: romantic, sexy, sentimental, light, touching, humorous, sweet, melancholic, romantic comedy, clever
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Sleeping with Other People (2015)
Plot Summary:
Can two serial cheaters get a second chance at love? After a one-night stand in college, New Yorkers Lainey and Jake meet by chance twelve years later and discover they each have the same problem: because of their monogamy-challenged ways, neither can maintain a relationship. Determined to stay friends despite their mutual attraction, they make a pact to keep it platonic, a deal that proves easier said than done.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: light, sexy, funny, sex comedy, teen, melancholic, romantic comedy, independent film, humorous, semi serious
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He's Just Not That Into You (2009)
Plot Summary:
Remember that really cute guy who said he'd call – and didn't? Maybe he lost your number. Maybe he's in the hospital. Maybe he's awed by your beauty, brains or success. Or maybe... he's just not that into you.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 180000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: romantic, sexy, funny, sweet, romantic comedy, entertaining, feel good, light, humorous, cute
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Down to You (2000)
Plot Summary:
College coeds in New York City, Al, the son of a celebrity chef, and Imogen, a talented artist, become smitten the second they lay eyes on one another at a bar. However, the road to happiness is not a smooth one. Outside forces, including a predatory porn star who wants to lure Al into her bed, threaten to pull apart the young lovers before their romance has a chance to really flourish.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: feel good, romantic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, teen, sex comedy, realistic, independent film, soap opera
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The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)
Plot Summary:
Rose Morgan, who still lives with her mother, is a professor of Romantic Literature who desperately longs for passion in her life. Gregory Larkin, a mathematics professor, has been burned by passionate relationships and longs for a sexless union based on friendship and respect.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, humorous, sweet, sentimental, touching, romantic, emotional, intense, inspirational
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My Faraway Bride (2006)
Plot Summary:
The story of Alex, a copy-writer dreaming of being an adventure novelist someday, who meets and romances Indian beauty Reena, while she is vacationing in California. Torn by her blossoming feelings for Alex and her Indian family values and obligations, Reena returns home without saying goodbye. Alex, distraught by the turn of events, decides to follow her to Mumbai and win her back.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 659
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, India
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sentimental, semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic
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Before We Go (2014)
Plot Summary:
A woman who is robbed on her way to catch the 1:30 train to Boston is left stranded in New York City. She meets a man who helps her during the course of the night and the two form a romance.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, romantic, sweet, light, witty, romantic comedy, cute, emotional, talky, humorous