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Plot Summary:
Oh Mal-Soon (Nah Moon-hee) is a 74-year-old widow that realizes she is becoming a burden on her family. As she is roaming the streets, she comes across a photo studio and decides to dress up for a self- portrait. When she walks out of the photo studio, she mysteriously turns back into her twenty year old self. Making the most out of this one in a lifetime opportunity, she changes her name to Oh Doo-Ri (Sim Eun-kyeong) and decides to make the most out of her youth.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Music
Country: South Korea
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, semi serious, entertaining, romantic, touching, light, captivating, sex comedy
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Sing My Life (2016)
Plot Summary:
Katsu (Mitsuko Baisho) is a 73-years-old woman. She often makes trouble with her biting remarks. While raising a daughter alone, Katsu was unable to live the life she wished for. One day, Katsu goes to a photo studio and takes a picture. She leaves the photo studio, but finds that she is now 20-years-old (Mikako Tabe) again. Katsu changes out of her grandmother clothes, picks out a more youthful style and names herself Setsuko Otori. Later, Katsu decides to take part in a singing contest held in a shopping district. Her singing fascinates the audience and she wins the contest. Katsu begins to move closer to her past dream of becoming a singer.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Sweet Twenty (2017)
Plot Summary:
Adapted from Korean movie, Miss Granny, this movie tells a story of old woman that despise old-age that suddenly transform to a pretty girl with all her youth problems.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Music, Musical
Country: Indonesia, South Korea
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: funny, light, captivating, entertaining, sweet, fun
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Wonderful Nightmare (2015)
Plot Summary:
By God’s mistake, an arrogant single lawyer turns into a mother of two kids! Yeon-woo, an ambitious lawyer never believes in love is about to start her new job at the biggest law firm in the states. A day before her departure she gets into a car accident and passes out. She arrived in heaven and realizes that she died instead of her namesake. The death manager LEE, to cover his mistake, offers her to live in someone else’s body for one month. Yeon-woo now has to live as a mother of a 6 years old daughter with a mundane officeholder. Will Yeon-woo manage to live as an ordinary housewife?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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It's a Fairy! (2016)
Plot Summary:
Geraldine is a fairy who lost their wings by using unconventional methods in their missions. Her last chance to retrieve them will be the mission "Julia".
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, light, feel good, humorous
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Willy/Milly (1986)
Plot Summary:
Milly is annoyed whenever her mom tells her to behave more appropriate for a girl. She's just not interested in fancy dresses or prom dances. Some day her best friend's little brother offers her a potion which can make her deepest wish come true during a solar eclipse. She goes through with it and ends up with male genitals, additionally. So she has to decide if she wants to life as boy or girl. Her father, who always wanted a son, supports her in checking out life as a boy. Hence Milly changes school and starts out as Willy.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 539
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, offbeat, humorous, semi serious
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200 Pounds Beauty (2006)
Plot Summary:
Based on a Japanese manga, "Kanna-San, Daiseikou Desu," this story revolves around Kang Han-na (Kim Ah-jung), an overweight phone sex employee and secret vocalist for Ammy, a famous Korean pop singer who actually lip syncs as she cannot sing. After getting humilitated publicly by an ungrateful Ammy, Han-na undergoes an extreme makeover to become a pop sensation herself.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, thought provoking, humorous, sincere, captivating, entertaining, realistic, heartbreaking, sad
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Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie (2014)
Plot Summary:
When Moore Street market-trader Agnes Brown finds her livelihood under threat from a ruthless developer, she and her family embark on a campaign to save her stall, aided as only the Browns will be by a motley troop of blind trainee Ninjas, an alcoholic solicitor, and a barrister with Tourettes Syndrome.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, happy, realistic, witty, not serious
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20 Once Again (2015)
Plot Summary:
A visit to the photographer’s returns the physical looks of a 70-year-old grandmother back to her 20s. Things get even stranger when his grandson asks her to join his band, and his best friend begins to fall for her.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Music
Country: China, South Korea, Taiwan
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, sincere, dramatic
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Marci X (2003)
Plot Summary:
A Jewish-American Princess is forced to take control of a hard-core hip-hop record label and tries to rein the one of the label's most controversial rappers.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty, spooky, satirical, controversial
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The Sweeter Side of Life (2013)
Plot Summary:
Pampered Manhattan housewife Desiree Harper has it all. That is until her husband unexpectedly dumps her for his acupuncturist. Faced with an airtight prenup, Desiree reluctantly lands a job making cupcakes at her father's bakery in Flemington, NJ. She soon discovers there's more to life than 5th Avenue and true love can be even sweeter in small town America.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: humorous, romantic, sincere, captivating, funny, light, feel good, entertaining, touching, offbeat
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Love and Mary (2007)
Plot Summary:
Mary is a sophisticated pastry chef who's struggling to keep the doors of her bakery open. Facing eviction, she decides to return back home with her fiancé, Brent, to collect a sizable engagement gift from her eccentric Texan family. But, when Brent is felled by allergies and unable to travel, Mary bails his identical-twin brother, Jake, out of jail and travels back home passing him off as her fiancé.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 557
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, romantic, realistic, semi serious, romantic drama
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Change of Address (2006)
Plot Summary:
In Paris, the emotional and professional tribulations of a musician and his roommate. Fraîchement installé à Paris, David, un musicien, timide et maladroit, tombe fou amoureux de sa jeune élève, Julia. Il tente tout pour la séduire. Sa colocataire, Anne, l'encourage, le conseille, et le console... passionnément !.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 861
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, entertaining, touching, realistic, semi serious
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Barbecue (2014)
Plot Summary:
On his 50th birthday, a man who's been watching his weight, health and temper all his life suffers a heart attack. He's been doing everything he was told he should do and it still didn't help. He decides to turn the page and let loose.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, profound
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What's with This Granny!? (2019)
Plot Summary:
Aurora's life suddenly gets complicated after her seven grandkids arrive to her house for vacation.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 505
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, sincere, captivating, entertaining
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What a Wonderful Family! 2 (2017)
Plot Summary:
Several years after Shuzo settled his wife’s birthday-surprise divorce proposal (What a Wonderful Family, 40th), the Hirata family faces new problems. Ignoring his family’s worry that he is too old to drive, Shuzo takes his old schoolmate for a spin after carousing. Soon, a new disturbance arises for the Hirata family. Veteran director Yamada Yoji continues his comedy about the “perfect“ Japanese family turned upside down in chaos, laughters and understanding. This time, with an additional taste of death.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 770
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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A Dinner for Them to Meet (2007)
Plot Summary:
Actor Sandro Lanza is experiencing the most painful moment of his existence. After a suicide attempt, his three daughters, scattered throughout Europe, each with a different mother, come to his side. The sisters meet to decide what to do with their father, establishing a genuine tie for the very first time.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 527
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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Escort in love (2011)
Plot Summary:
35 year old Alice has a husband and a son. Her life seems a beautiful dream, but it soon turns out to be a nightmare. Her husband dies in a car accident and her lawyer tells her that she is on her uppers. The only way she finds to earn money in short time is to do the oldest job in history.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: feel good, semi serious, humorous, realistic, light, captivating, entertaining, happy
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Lord, Give Me Patience (2017)
Plot Summary:
An ultraconservative family father must spend a weekend with his dysfunctional children for the burial of his wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, happy, road movie
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Half-Sister (2013)
Plot Summary:
When Nénette discovers the identity of her father in a letter, she quickly goes off in search of him. But instead of finding her father, she is met by her half-brother, Paul. Paul, a bitter man who gave up his dream to take over his father’s pharmacy business, is less than thrilled at the arrival of his ‘embarrassing’ half-sister. After refusing to take her in, he soon gets a taste of his own medicine. Under the influence of a potent drug, for one day Paul is generous, happy and sensitive. The next morning, however, once the drug has worn off, his nasty side comes back.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, light, feel good, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War (2002)
Plot Summary:
After her husband's death, woman starts looking for independence.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 834
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, feel good, funny, light, captivating, entertaining, black comedy, realistic, semi serious
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You're My Pet (2011)
Plot Summary:
A woman finds a man in a box in front of her home and takes him in. She jokingly says she wants to keep him as her pet since the man reminds her childhood dog. The man agrees. Later the woman discovers that the man is a dance prodigy. Complications arise when her old flame from college appears.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, sincere, feel good, touching, realistic, romantic, sex comedy, anime
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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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18 Again! (1988)
Plot Summary:
18 Again! is a 1988 comedy film starring George Burns and Charlie Schlatter. The plot involves a grandson switching souls with his grandfather by means of an accident. This was one of a series of unrelated films, including Like Father, Like Son and Vice Versa, produced in the late 1980s involving a similar plotline.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, melancholic, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, sex comedy, romantic comedy, independent film, offbeat, funny
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Romantic Debtors (2010)
Plot Summary:
A policeman in debt is constantly called by a woman working to collect his debt. When they meet by accident they attracted to each other, and does not realize they already have a hostile phone-relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 212
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, feel good, sentimental, realistic, witty, queer cinema
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Lost and Found (2008)
Plot Summary:
TV writer Ji-ho (Jin-hie Park) has been secretly in love with Min-woo (Ki-woo Lee) for the last 10 years. After a night of binge-drinking, she wakes up to face the worst day of her life. She wakes up to find that she has just gotten fired for low viewer ratings. On her way home her purse then gets snatched and Ji-ho pursues the thief. Then suddenly, when things seem that they can’t go any worse, Ji-ho gets hit by a car. But the chain of unfortunate events suddenly turns out to be a God-sent present. The man who hit her with the car turns out to be the very man she’s been in love with all these years, Min-woo. She then pretends to have amnesia ….
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, feel good, humorous, entertaining, romantic, romantic comedy, realistic, semi serious
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Swindler in My Mom's House (2007)
Plot Summary:
An attractive single mother rents a room in her house to a mysterious drifter who has nefarious plans to swindle her.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, funny, captivating, light, romantic, feel good, entertaining, realistic, semi serious
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Life-Size 2 (2018)
Plot Summary:
Grace Manning is in the middle of her quarter-life crisis, realizing she is in over her head as CEO. To make matters worse, her wild-child ways are causing the company’s stock to plummet. With the help of her young next-door neighbor, Grace’s old Eve doll magically awakens to help get Grace back on track and give her the confidence to be the woman and leader Eve knows Grace can be.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Mr. St. Nick (2002)
Plot Summary:
Kelsey Grammer stars as Nick St. Nicholas, a Miami-based playboy philanthropist who is about to make his life complete by wedding the girl of his dreams, gorgeous TV weathercaster Heidi Gardelle (Elaine Hendrix). Not known to the general public is that the profligate St. Nicholas is really the son of none other than Santa Claus (Charles Durning)--or, as the jolly old elf is known in this story, Nicholas XX. Expected to take over the "family business" at the North Pole before his father's power fades, Nick balks, choosing instead to remain in Miami, where he is about to launch his latest charity at the behest of his fiancee Heidi. By the time he realizes that his "dream girl" is actually a mercenary nightmare, Nick finds himself besieged by a vindictive INS agent (Colin Cunningham)--and racked with guilt over the gloomy fate awaiting his father and the North Pole toy factory.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 851
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious
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A Boss in the Living Room (2014)
Plot Summary:
Cristina lives a peaceful life until her older brother Ciro, who has to attend a trial, asks to spend house arrests at Cristina’s home.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, light, feel good, realistic
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All in Good Time (2012)
Plot Summary:
East is East writer Ayub Khan-Din returns with another funny, tender-hearted portrait of family strife. Based on his popular play Rafta, Rafta (itself inspired by Bill Naughtons 1960s classic All in Good Time), the film is set in Bolton where Atul and Vina are celebrating their marriage. However, a honeymoon spent with his parents was not part of their plans. Thoughtless patriarch Eeshwar seems determined to emasculate and embarrass his son. As the weeks pass, consummating their union becomes an impossibility that threatens the couples entire future. A breezy mixture of heartbreak and hilarity, All in Good Time also offers peerless performances from original stage stars Harish Patel and Meera Syal.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, feel good, captivating, light, multicultural, sentimental, realistic, semi serious