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Plot Summary:
Robbie is a rich and wealthy man who is married to a woman called Magda. One day, they decide to go on holiday. Magda suggests via ferry, despite the fact that Robbie HATES sea travel. He suggests via airplane, but Magda has a fear of heights. During a routine emergency training exercise, Robbie accidentally takes it seriously. That night, a genuine emergency arises, but Robbie thinks it's just a drill. This foolish act leaves Magda no option but to leave the ship alone, making Robbie the only person aboard the ship when it sinks. Upon waking up, Robbie thinks everything is normal, but he soon discovers he is the one remaining person on board the entire ship, which is now at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. He escapes and arrives on a desert island, forced to live á la "Robinson Crusoe". Robbie must now survive until.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, light, entertaining
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Second Honeymoon (2001)
Plot Summary:
A couple, secretly on the verge of announcing plans to divorce, reluctantly depart for a second honeymoon after their family surprises them with a tropical trip as a gift for their 20th wedding anniversary.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 342
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Dear Claudia (1999)
Plot Summary:
A romantic comedy about a lonely postman, a desperate hitchhiker, a gifted sculptor, an infatuated pilot, a blind a sailor, a street kid, a mistress, a miner, a butcher, two thieves and a dead man. Walter and Claudia crashed into the story by plane. The others arrived in a bag of mail!.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: entertaining, light, romantic, captivating, manga, independent film
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Madly in Love (1981)
Plot Summary:
Cristina is a rich, spoiled princess visiting Rome with her royal parents. The mission of their visit is to marry her off to a super-wealthy corporate type and thereby start to turn around the losses their small kingdom is experiencing in its casino business. These less-than-noble intentions get derailed when Barnaba, a zany bus driver enters their lives and falls madly in love with the gorgeous Cristina. He is nuts enough to succeed in this romantic chase after royalty, as love seems to fuel his determination to rid Cristina of her elitism and to make her see his own irrepressible attractions.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, humorous, witty
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S.O.S.: Women to the Sea (2014)
Plot Summary:
Recently divorced Adriana tries to get revenge on the woman who took her husband away from her by going on a European cruze along with them.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 890
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, humorous, scenic, romantic comedy
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Life is Wonderful (2018)
Plot Summary:
Life Is Wonderful is a feel-good movie about love and longing. Best friends Mees and Boelie are spending a beautiful spring day in Amsterdam's Vondelpark. It seems like just a normal day, until they meet the young and attractive Panda. While the heat rises in the park, it's nowhere to be found between the long-married couple Etta and Ernst-Jan. Ernst-Jan suspects Etta of cheating and has his own ideas of how to catch her in the act. We also meet Rosa and Kees, old lovers whose paths cross after decades of not seeing each other. On this spring day in Amsterdam, their love starts blooming again.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, black and white
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Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. (1966)
Plot Summary:
Lt. Robin Crusoe is a navy pilot who bails out of his plane after engine trouble. He reaches a deserted island paradise where he builds a house and begins to adjust to life. He is in for trouble however when a local girl is banished to the island by her father, who then comes after Crusoe.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: independent film, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Man Friday (1975)
Plot Summary:
Englishman Robinson Crusoe, stranded alone on an island for years, is overjoyed to find a fellow man, a black islander whom he names Friday. But Crusoe cannot overcome the shackles of his own heritage and upbringing and is incapable of seeing Friday as anything other than a savage who needs Crusoe's brand of cultural and religious enlightenment. Friday attempts to share his own more generous and unashamed culture, but ultimately realizes that Crusoe can never see him as anything but an inferior being. With that awareness, Friday sets out to turn the tables on Crusoe.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, captivating, realistic, biting, suspense
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My God Father (2020)
Plot Summary:
Got, a young and energetic racing man who hates his father. There is a reason for him to warp back in the year 1998, just a year before he was born, Got met his young father when he was Godfather.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: light, funny, romantic, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Girl's Life, Boy's World (2003)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 408
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Welcome to the Jungle (2013)
Plot Summary:
A company retreat on a tropical island goes terribly awry.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Puerto Rico, USA, UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: not serious, humorous, witty, feel good, perverse, cult classic, offbeat, realistic, independent film, parody
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Turkish for Beginners (2012)
Plot Summary:
During an emergency landing on a deserted island suddenly traumatized by antiauthoritarian education Lena Schneider (Josefine Preuss) together with the Turkish Super Macho Cem Öztürk (Elyas M'Barek) must fight for survival. After initially Cem macho repulsive acts on Lena, a jellyfish in the water and sand in a bikini, she recognizes the time the romantic core behind his cool facade. Meanwhile, meet also their parents, who obdurate psychologist Doris (Anna Stieblich) and Metin Öztürk (Adnan Maral) to work together to find their missing children. So both generations take an involuntary Turkish Basic Course for beginners.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, romantic, humorous, light, not serious, realistic, slapstick, teen comedy
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Swept Away (2002)
Plot Summary:
Stranded and alone on a desert island during a cruise, a spoiled rich woman and a deckhand fall in love and make a date to reunite after their rescue.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sexy, humorous, light, romantic, melancholic, sensual, semi serious, erotic, dark, clever
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Miss Cast Away (2004)
Plot Summary:
A plane carrying beauty contestants crash lands on a deserted island. Captain Maximus Powers (Roberts) and co-pilot Mike Saunders (Schlatter) have to take care of their passengers, while avoiding the dangers of Jurassic Pork (a giant prehistoric pig) and a group of apes busy trying to relaunch Noah's Ark.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, not serious, entertaining, captivating, grindhouse, offbeat, independent film
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The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980)
Plot Summary:
Misery is brought to a small group of Sho in the Kalahari desert in the form of a cola bottle. In his quest to throw the evil object over the edge of the earth, Xixo encounters Western "civilization," a haphazard doctor and a tyranical despot.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: South Africa, Botswana
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, feel good, intellectual, cult classic, slapstick, independent film, mockumentary, spectacular
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Little Indian, Big City (1994)
Plot Summary:
Stephen, an international trader, tracks down his ex-wife Patricia in some Amazonian backwater. He needs her consent to a divorce so that he can marry Charlotte. Unfortunately, he discovers a son he didn’t know he had – Mimi-Siku. The young jungle boy yearns to see Paris so Stephen reluctantly agrees to take him back home with him for a few days. How will Mimi-Siku react to life in the great metropolis?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, entertaining, semi serious, sexy, feel good, unusual plot structure, sweet, melancholic, splatter
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Kitchen in Paris (2014)
Plot Summary:
The employees of the famous Russian "Claude Monet" restaurant are forced to move their business to Paris.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, sentimental, light, touching, melancholic
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Rent a Friend (2000)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 726
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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The Right One (2021)
Plot Summary:
Sara, a novelist struggling with writer's block, needs inspiration — and finds it when she serendipitously meets Godfrey, a down-on-his-luck oddball who constantly changes personas and alter egos in order to cope with his past and avoid reality. Just as Godfrey begins to open up to Sara, he discovers that she’s been using him as inspiration for her next novel, and he vanishes from her life. Did Sara just lose the man of her dreams, or will she be able to find him and make things right?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 628
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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The Savage (1975)
Plot Summary:
Caracas, Venezuela. Just after her engagement with Vittorio, Nelly runs away from him. As he pursued her, she looks for help to Martin, a French middle-aged man she met by accident. He helps her to escape and drives her to the airport and gives her a plane ticket to Paris. Then he thinks he can go back to his peaceful lonely life on his island. Of course, he is wrong and will be bothered again by Nelly.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Wrecked (2016)
Plot Summary:
Single-camera comedy centering on a diverse group of survivors adjusting to being stranded on an uninhabited island, a dangerous new world where they must face many threats – mostly brought on by themselves. No longer plugged into the rest of the world, the group struggles to navigate their makeshift society while also learning to live without such modern comforts as indoor plumbing, Wi-Fi, social media and Chipotle.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: captivating, spoof, funny, humorous, entertaining, parody, feel good
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Swept Away (1974)
Plot Summary:
Stranded and alone on a desert island during a cruise, a spoiled rich woman and a deckhand fall in love and make a date to reunite after their rescue. He is stood up.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: melancholic, harsh, talky, humorous, realistic, captivating, semi serious, sexy, biting, sexual
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Love Wrecked (2005)
Plot Summary:
On a Caribbean cruise, Jenny (Bynes) is marooned on a beach with her rock and roll idol. Deliriously in love with the idea of time alone with him, she manages to hide the fact that they're a stone's throw away from their resort.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, feel good, romantic, entertaining, romantic comedy, teen, semi serious, teen comedy
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Ovunque tu sarai (2017)
Plot Summary:
Francesco, Carlo, Loco e Giordano, lifelong friends, depart from Rome towards Madrid to celebrate the bachelor party of Francesco but above all to make, as happened on other occasions, a trip together. In fact, the trip is also an excuse to go see their favorite team away in the Champions League. In their path intersect to Pilar, a beautiful Spanish singer who, unknowingly, brings havoc within a close-knit group favoring, including unexpected, laughter and comical situations, even the come to diversity afloat, insecurities and never those words. On their return, nothing will be as before.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: funny, road movie, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Rockin' Meera (2006)
Plot Summary:
An upcoming hip-hop band from San Francisco makes the journey into the depths of modern Hindustan. They clash with a feisty Prince for the prized catch: Meera, a bold dusky beauty. The comic adventure unfolds in the jaws of a raging tiger, raining bullets and a deadly match of wits.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, feel good, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, witty
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Momzillas (2013)
Plot Summary:
Maricel Soriano and Eugene Domingo co-star with Billy Crawford and Andi Eigenmann as lovers set to get married. However, theres one stumbling block: Their mothers (that is, Maricel and Eugene) are against it. The two moms are revealed to be mortal enemies because in their younger years they fell in love with the same man. The young lovers hatch a plan to reconcile their feuding moms. The tragedy: The mothers get lost in a remote island where they are forced to work together and settle their issues if they have to survive. They do become friends again. What they dont know is that their children are on the brink of separation.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, light, romantic, humorous, captivating, entertaining, tagalog
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Six Days Seven Nights (1998)
Plot Summary:
When Quinn, a grouchy pilot living the good life in the South Pacific, agrees to transfer a savvy fashion editor, Robin, to Tahiti, he ends up stranded on a deserted island with her after their plane crashes. The pair avoid each other at first, until they're forced to team up to escape from the island -- and some pirates who want their heads.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 82000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, funny, light, sexy, entertaining, humorous, romantic comedy, cute, psychological
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Romancing the Stone (1984)
Plot Summary:
Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her abducted sister, so Joan flies to South America to hand it over. But she gets on the wrong bus and winds up hopelessly stranded in the jungle.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 101000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: feel good, exciting, light, romantic, entertaining, sexy, romantic comedy, funny, breathtaking, action adventure
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Blue Island (1982)
Plot Summary:
After an airplane crash, a handsome couple is left stranded on a tropical desert island. Bonnie and Billy are forced to fight against nature and the inhospitable environment to survive. Then soon learn to live with the environment then suddenly a large man-beast appears and threatens their heavenly and exotic ménage. So this paradise can change into hell... Sexy blond Sabrina Siani, who has starred mostly in Italian barbarian films, stars in this Italian rip-off of the film THE BLUE LAGOON. As this is an Italian rip-off, the sexual content significantly surpasses it's inspiration. Also stars Fabio Meyer and Mario Pedone.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sexploitation film
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Life's an Itch (2012)
Plot Summary:
A married man reaches the point where he questions everything: career, creativity and even his marriage. Hilarious complications and temptations arise when his wife invites her open-minded (and very sexy) yoga instructor to stay in the guest house while she’s away on vacation with the kids.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, romantic, captivating, light, feel good, entertaining, sexy, realistic, not serious
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You Don't Get Life a Second Time (2011)
Plot Summary:
Mumbai-based Kabir Dhiman, who comes from a wealthy building construction family, proposes to his long-time girlfriend, Natasha, much to the delight of both their respective families. He then gets together with one of two of his close friends, Imran Habib, a writer by profession, and they contact their London-based financial broker friend, Arjun, to remind him of a pact of traveling to Spain. The trio commence their long overdue trip not fully realizing that Arjun has still not forgiven Imran for his break-up with Sunani, while he himself regrets being dumped by Rohini, and must also compete with Imran for the affections of gorgeous Deep Sea Diving Instructor, Laila; Kabir struggles to accept life as Natasha's husband; and Imran must ready himself to meet his biological father, Salman, who had abandoned him at birth.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 84000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India, Spain
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: road movie, entertaining, realistic, philosophical, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, inspirational, romantic, thought provoking