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Plot Summary:
‘Moscou’ is a densely populated working class neighbourhood on the outskirts of Ghent, Belgium. Matty, mother of three, bumps her car into a truck on the parking lot of a supermarket. Johnny climbs down from the cabin. He is infuriated by the dent in his front bumper and yells at Matty. Although impressed by the accident, Matty fights back with sharp words. Their discussion turns into a row, and the police have to intervene. Matty goes home, the trunk of her car dancing up and down. Back in her apartment, Matty takes a hot bath to recover from the afternoon’s emotionswhen the phone rings. It’s Johnny, apologizing for his behaviour on the parking lot. Matty tells him to stay out of her life. A dramatic comedy begins about a woman whose soul is full of dents and bruises.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, sincere, realistic
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Vincent (2016)
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Vincent is a 17-year old ecologist who drives his family crazy with his attempts to reduce their carbon footprint. Vincent‘s giddy French aunt Nikki takes him on a trip to France, convinced that the boy‘s obsession is related to his suffocating mother. But on their road-trip, Vincent proves to be much more than Nikki can handle.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 555
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: psychological, philosophical, black comedy
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Steve + Sky (2004)
Plot Summary:
Steve + Sky is a story about two struggling teenagers who are trying to find their own place in the world. He is a small-time crook recently released from prison and she is a prostitute craving some love and affection. They find each other in an obscure part of Gent. Jean-Claude is responsible for their meeting ; he is also an ex-inmate who has just traded the low-life crime scene for life as a pimp. Will their love survive?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Romance, Drama, Comedy
Country: Belgium
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sentimental, humorous, sincere, touching, melancholic, suspenseful, romantic comedy, stylized
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The Secret Laughter of Women (1999)
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Oscar-winner Colin Firth stars in this heart-warming cross-cultural romantic comedy set in the idyllic South of France. Nimi, a beautiful Nigerian single mother to son Sammy, is under pressure from her family to find a suitable husband and who better than the local Reverend? After making friends with Matthew, a British comic-book writer and one of his heros, Sammy has other ideas. He successfully plots to get them together but they've still a few obsticles to overcome. (from Amazon).
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 739
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Canada, Nigeria
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Okay (2002)
Plot Summary:
A bittersweet comedy with dogma star Paprika Steen in the strong leading role.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, emotional, semi serious, realistic
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Daddy or Mommy (2015)
Plot Summary:
Florence and Vincent Leroy are a model couple. They have great jobs, a perfect marriage and delightful children. And now they want their divorce to be an equal success. But when they are both simultaneously promoted to their dream jobs, their relationship becomes a nightmare. From that moment on, the gloves are off, the two exes declare war and will do everything in their power to NOT have custody of their children.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, tense, entertaining, funny, romantic, touching, feel good, captivating
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Every Other Week (2006)
Plot Summary:
Pontus is divorced and has custody of his children every other week while living life as a bachelor the rest of the time. His older brother, Jens, is married since 20 years and has three children. When Jens' marriage collapses, he moves in with his younger brother - a move which will change both of their lives radically.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 899
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, psychological, emotional, captivating, humorous, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Remember Me, My Love (2003)
Plot Summary:
The story of a normal Italian family in which come out the dreams of those who have lost their possibilities and of those who want to realize them. Carlo and Giulia are a married couple who have each given up their aspirations in order to live an average life. Their 19-year-old son, Paolo, is having trouble finding an identity, while their 18-year-old daughter, Valentina, has already figured out how to use sex to her advantage. The family goes through a crisis when Carlo begins having an affair, Giulia attempt to seduce the director of a local stage production she is in, and Valentina does what she does best to land an audition for a TV show.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Italy, France, UK
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, captivating, romantic, romantic drama, serious, emotional, realistic
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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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Something to Talk About (1995)
Plot Summary:
In one of her best-ever roles, Julia Roberts is Grace, whose reaction to the infidelities of Eddie (Dennis Quaid) turns the lives and loves of the people around her into something like falling dominoes. Robert Duvall, Gena Rowlands, Kyra Sedgwick and others in "the year's best ensemble of characters" (Jack Matthews, 'Newsday') co-star in this juicy, truthful story written by Callie Khouri.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: talky, light, satirical, feel good, humorous, clever, romantic drama, touching, realistic, semi serious
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The Irony of Fate. The Sequel (2007)
Plot Summary:
Zhenya and Nadya go their separate ways. Nadya stuck with her bureaucrat boyfriend, married him and had a daughter, also called Nadya. Zhenya married and had a son, Konstantin. Both later divorced. More than 30 years later, Konstantin ends up drunk in the flat where the younger Nadya finds him. He is there as part of a convoluted ruse by his father's friends to get Zhenya back into the arms of the woman with whom he shared a magical night. The waylaid son is the bait to get Zhenya back to Leningrad, now called St. Petersburg. One romance is rekindled and another between the son and daughter is struck up.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, offbeat, realistic, atmospheric
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The Oranges (2011)
Plot Summary:
A man's (Hugh Laurie) affair with his friend's much-younger daughter (Leighton Meester) throws two neighboring families into turmoil.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, romantic, melancholic, light, psychological, romantic comedy, cynical
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Feelings (2003)
Plot Summary:
Two seemingly happily married French couples are forced to contend with a number of issues.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, erotic, sensitive, sexy
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Tiptoes (2002)
Plot Summary:
A man is reluctant to tell his fiancee that his parents, uncle and brother are dwarfs.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, realistic, humorous, semi serious, offbeat
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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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Twice in a Lifetime (1985)
Plot Summary:
A middle-aged steelworker is content with his job and his family, but feels that something is missing in his life. On his 50th birthday, he stops in at a local bar for a drink to celebrate. He finds himself attracted to the young, very sexy barmaid--and, to his surprise, he finds that she is also very attracted to him.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: sentimental, emotional, realistic, sincere, touching, serious, independent film, contemplative
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An Unmarried Woman (1978)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: sentimental, psychological, touching, humorous, emotional, sincere, semi serious, retro, independent film, romantic comedy
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Tuscan Wedding (2014)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands, UK
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Plot Summary:
The old friends from "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," Mary and Rhoda, are reunited, only to discover that Mary has a daughter named Rose and Rhoda's daughter is named Meredith.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 445
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sitcom, sentimental, touching, humorous, talky, sincere, realistic, semi serious, clever
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Every Blessed Day (2012)
Plot Summary:
Guido and Antonia are a young couple with opposing characters and working schedules: he works a night job as a doorman in a hotel, and she works as an employee for a rental car service. This is the story of what happens to Guido and Antonia when they decide to have a child.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, captivating, light, realistic, semi serious
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Almost Perfect (2011)
Plot Summary:
A 30-something career woman tries to find the balance between her demanding family and her perfect new boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, captivating, sentimental, light, sincere, semi serious, sexual
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Marine Life (2000)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, humorous, emotional, semi serious, captivating, independent film
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Plot Summary:
When Joan Weldon discovers she is dying of lung cancer, she sets out to reconcile her dysfunctional relationships with her three children, her husband, and along the way, her former best friend. The family's destructive ways are offset by messy and somewhat humorous attempts by Joan to set her children on the right course before she dies. In this big dysfunctional mix, they will all learn to connect in their own ways, and realize on their own terms what life is about.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, dark comedy
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Watermelon (2003)
Plot Summary:
A tangled web of deciet pitches three lovers together with the added proposition of a baby.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 391
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic
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Expired (2007)
Plot Summary:
The film revolves around Claire, a kind soul who resents having to enforce the law at all times, and Jay, an angry Traffic Officer who loves his job, being the perfect outlet for his anger and frustrations. Coming both from a place of despair and loneliness, Jay and Claire meet and engage in a tumultuous relationship which will eventually teach them that love can spread redemption.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, sincere, touching, realistic, independent film, clever, offbeat
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Plot Summary:
Katrine is to be married. Her fiancé is gorgeous, their appartment is luxurious and her future in-laws are wealthy. Katrine only has one problem: she sometimes finds it difficult to tell the truth, and this sends her on a round-about jaunt with an old friend, Thomsen, who has just barged in unannounced from Kenya and who wants to return a favour and help Katrine with her wedding preparations. A labyrinthal excursion takes place. Tomorrow is another day, the wedding day!.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 960
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, sincere, feel good, semi serious, touching, offbeat, realistic
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Manual of Love (2005)
Plot Summary:
Four intertwined episodes on the joys and sorrows of love.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, sexy, saga, realistic, anthology
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Don't Fall In Love With Me (2012)
Plot Summary:
Three interconnected stories explore the complicated relationships of young, attractive Argentinian adults searching for true love.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 127
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Country: Argentina
Duration: 104 min
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When the Sea Rises (2004)
Plot Summary:
An actress, who goes all over rural France with her monologe "Sex and Crime", meets and falls in love with a man, since that moment starts helping him in his plays.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 725
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, feel good, realistic
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Plot Summary:
A commitment-phobic man reunites with his estranged, ailing father and comes to terms with his own childhood.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat, independent film
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Mademoiselle (2001)
Plot Summary:
Claire is a young woman who leads a somewhat formatted life. Pierre is an improviser, but not an actor. Brief encounter, brief romance, doomed or not, who can say? When things like that happen, you act on the spur of the moment.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 845
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
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