Best movies like Murphy's Romance
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Plot Summary:
Emma is a divorced woman with a teen aged boy who moves into a small town and tries to make a go of a horse ranch. Murphy is the town druggist who steers business her way. Things are going along predictably until her ex husband shows up, needing a place to stay. The three of them form an intricate circle, Emma's son liking Murphy, but desperately wanting his father back.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious, hilarious, light, romantic, road movie
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Hard Promises (1991)
Plot Summary:
A man who doesn't like stable work environments has been away for too many years, and finds out his wife has divorced him and is planning to remarry. He comes home to confront her, trying to convince her not to get married, aided by the daughter, who loves him despite his wandering ways. The couple finds out they still have feelings for each other but must decide how best to handle the contradiction of their lifestyles.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 683
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Hart of Dixie (2011)
Plot Summary:
New Yorker Zoe Hart has it all figured out - after graduating top of her class from medical school, she'll follow in her father's footsteps and become a cardio-thoracic surgeon. But when her dreams fall apart, Zoe decides to work at a small practice in Bluebell, Alabama.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, sentimental, humorous, light, semi serious, teen, captivating, talky, medical drama
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The Love Letter (1999)
Plot Summary:
A romantic comedy about a mysterious love letter that turns a sleepy New England town upside down.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, romantic, sexy, clever, entertaining, sentimental, touching, realistic
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Stanley & Iris (1990)
Plot Summary:
An illiterate cook at a company cafeteria tries for the attention of a newly widowed woman. As they get to know one another, she discovers his inability to read. When he is fired, she takes on trying to teach him to read in her kitchen each night.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, sentimental, melancholic, sincere, serious, realistic, romantic, light, anamorphic
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Grumpy Old Men (1993)
Plot Summary:
For decades, next-door neighbors and former friends John and Max have feuded, trading insults and wicked pranks. When an attractive widow moves in nearby, their bad blood erupts into a high-stakes rivalry full of naughty jokes and adolescent hijinks. Will this love triangle destroy the two old grumps? Or will the geriatric odd couple overcome their differences and rediscover their friendship?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 53000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, light, hilarious, sentimental, touching, humorous, entertaining, dark comedy, romantic comedy
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The Buddy System (1984)
Plot Summary:
A quiet school truant officer, Joe, uncovers a young boy's attempt to fake a residential address, and subsequently gets involved romantically with the boy's mother. The truant officer waffles between a sadistic relationship with his on-again, off-again girlfriend and the mother. When one of the officer's inventions takes off, he chooses the girl and shatters the friendship with the boy and his mother. Only at the last possible moment does he figure out what he's sacrificed, and attempts to get it back.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Jersey Girl (1992)
Plot Summary:
A working girl from New Jersey looks for love with a fast-lane Manhattan salesman from Queens.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sentimental, romantic, touching, independent film, feel good, realistic, semi serious, sincere, erotic, funny
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Author! Author! (1982)
Plot Summary:
A broadway playwright is burning the candle at both ends. He is dealing with pressure from a production nearing premiere, a wife who is leaving him, and 5 children 4 of which belong to her.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, sentimental, touching, romantic, intense, light, feel good, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007)
Plot Summary:
This movie follows a mother who falls for a younger man while her daughter falls in love for the first time. Mother Nature messes with their fates.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: satirical, feel good, humorous, sentimental, light, romantic, cute, witty, stylized, intense
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Men Don't Leave (1990)
Plot Summary:
After her husband John dies unexpectedly, Beth Macauley is unprepared for life without him. She is unemployed with no job skills and $60,000 in debt from on-going renovations to their house located in suburban Bingham. She doesn't know what to do but sell what material possessions she has, such as the family pick-up truck and the house, and move into an apartment in the city, namely Baltimore. Beth just wants to survive by finding a job she doesn't dislike, and keep her family together while trying to maintain her sanity and sense of self-worth.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, sincere, feel good, realistic, semi serious, independent film, light, road movie
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The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963)
Plot Summary:
The film that started the classic TV series. Although he's only seven, Eddie's got it all figured out. He wants his father, a widower, to get remarried - to the girl next door. Unfortunately, she's not one of the women that his dad's been dating. Sweet family comedy.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, sweet, emotional, disturbing, melancholic, uplifting, feel good, humorous, realistic
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Passionada (2002)
Plot Summary:
The film is a romantic comedy about a Portuguese widow whose husband had been a fisherman who died at sea. The widow's teenage daughter wants to be a professional gambler and she convinces her mother to date a British man whose new in town. The widow falls for the Brit, who pretends to be in the fishing business but is actually a professional gambler. The naive daughter gets into some trouble.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: feel good, sentimental, touching, semi serious, humorous, realistic
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Bigger Than the Sky (2005)
Plot Summary:
After being dumped by his girlfriend, a man stuck in a deadend life decides to audition for a small role in a local community theatre's production of Cyrano de Bergerac. Despite having no experience as an actor, he lands the lead role, which wreaks havoc upon his life.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, spiritual, clever, realistic, talky, independent film
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My Sassy Girl (2008)
Plot Summary:
A guy (Jesse Bradford) has his life planned out, until he is wooed, groomed and then dumped by an elusive woman (Elisha Cuthbert).
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic comedy, touching, depressing, independent film
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Where the Heart Is (2000)
Plot Summary:
Novalee Nation is a 17-year-old Tennessee transient who has to grow up in a hurry when she's left pregnant and abandoned by her boyfriend on a roadside in Sequoyah, Okla., and takes refuge in the friendly aisles of Wal-Mart. In short order, some eccentric, kindly strangers "adopt" Novalee and her infant daughter, helping them buck the odds and build a new life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, sincere, sentimental, inspirational, romantic, sweet, humorous, realistic, cute
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Hope Floats (1998)
Plot Summary:
Birdee Pruitt has been humiliated on live television by her best friend, Connie, who's been sleeping with Birdee's husband, Bill. Birdee tries starting over with her daughter, Bernice, by returning to her small Texas hometown, but she's faced with petty old acquaintances who are thrilled to see Birdee unhappy -- except for her friend Justin. As he helps Birdee get back on her feet, love begins to blossom.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: romantic, sentimental, touching, light, sad, sweet, emotional, melancholic, intense, feel good
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Sabrina (1995)
Plot Summary:
An ugly duckling having undergone a remarkable change, still harbors feelings for her crush: a carefree playboy, but not before his business-focused brother has something to say about it.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, sweet, sentimental, light, fairy tale, romantic comedy, cute, clever, sad
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Steel Magnolias (1989)
Plot Summary:
This heart wrenching drama is about a beauty shop, in Louisana owned by Truvy, and the tragedies of all of her clients.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, sad, inspirational, emotional, tear jerker, sweet, compassionate, sincere, romantic
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The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)
Plot Summary:
Six Californians start a club to discuss the works of Jane Austen. As they delve into Austen's literature, the club members find themselves dealing with life experiences that parallel the themes of the books they are reading.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, romantic, sweet, light, entertaining, witty, touching, sentimental, semi serious
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Enough Said (2013)
Plot Summary:
Eva is a divorced soon-to-be empty-nester wondering about her next act. Then she meets Marianne, the embodiment of her perfect self. Armed with a restored outlook on being middle-aged and single, Eva decides to take a chance on her new love interest Albert — a sweet, funny and like-minded man. But things get complicated when Eva discovers that Albert is in fact the dreaded ex–husband of Marianne.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 66000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, feel good, sweet, clever, melancholic, sincere, sentimental, light, realistic
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Definitely, Maybe (2008)
Plot Summary:
When Will decides to tell his daughter the story of how he met her mother, he discovers that a second look at the past might also give him a second chance at the future.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 172000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: romantic, sentimental, feel good, sweet, romantic comedy, touching, cute, funny, light, teen
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Dan in Real Life (2007)
Plot Summary:
Advice columnist, Dan Burns is an expert on relationships, but somehow struggles to succeed as a brother, a son and a single parent to three precocious daughters. Things get even more complicated when Dan finds out that the woman he falls in love with is actually his brother's new girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 106000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, humorous, feel good, funny, sweet, entertaining, semi serious, light, emotional
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Catch and Release (2006)
Plot Summary:
Gray Wheeler just lost everything. But it could be the best thing that ever happened to her. After the death of her fiancé, Gray moves in with her late love's best friends. While Sam and Dennis do their best to cheer Gray up, Fritz doesn't seem to care. Once Gray breaks through Fritz's defenses, however, she finally sees why her fiancé thought so highly of him. As they spend more time together, Gray learns that her chances for love have not died out with her fiancé. But when some surprise guests show up on their doorstep, it'll take the love of all of her new friends to help Gray learn that life may be messy, but love is messier.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: romantic, sexy, melancholic, inspirational, sentimental, tragicomedy, light, cute, romantic comedy, feel good
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For Keeps? (1988)
Plot Summary:
Darcy, editor at her highschool paper, and her long-term boyfriend Stan are in their last months of school and already have found places in good colleges. Recently they started to sleep with each other and, surprise, surprise, Darcy gets pregnant. Neither Darcy's mother, who was left by her husband and had to bring up Darcy alone, nor Stan's catholic parents are very supportive and urge them to h.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, melancholic, light, romantic, sweet, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Something's Gotta Give (2003)
Plot Summary:
Harry Sanborn is an aged music industry exec with a fondness for younger women like Marin, his latest trophy girlfriend. Things get a little awkward when Harry suffers a heart attack at the home of Marin's mother, Erica. Left in the care of Erica and his doctor, a love triangle starts to take shape.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 127000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, sweet, romantic comedy, light, touching, intense, humorous, funny, romantic drama
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Puppy Love (2012)
Plot Summary:
When single mom Megan Nolan moves to a new town, she feels guilty for uprooting her ten-year-old daughter Caitlin. Seeing that the little girl's only friend is a neighbor's dog, Megan decides to adopt a shelter pet for Caitlin. She immediately regrets her decision when Caitlin gravitates to the biggest, sloppiest dog in the pound, Jake. Megan's beautiful new home is now in shambles and, as Megan considers returning Jake to the shelter, handsome ballplayer Ben shows up claiming Jake is his dog, the regrettable outcome of his roommate leaving a gate open. Megan and Ben butt heads. Ben wants to take his dog and leave, until he sees that Caitlin loves Jake as much as he ever could. Now it is clear: the pound puppy everyone loves deserves no less than joint custody.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, light, captivating, humorous, sentimental, realistic, semi serious
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Mystic Pizza (1988)
Plot Summary:
Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in Mystic Connecticut.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: light, sentimental, sweet, melancholic, feel good, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, teen
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Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)
Plot Summary:
After a rough divoce, Frances, a 35 year old book editor from San Francisco takes a tour of Tuscany at the urgings of her friends. On a whim she buys Bramasole, a run down villa in the Tuscan countryside and begins to piece her life together starting with the villa and finds that life sometimes has unexpected ways of giving her everything she wanted.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: feel good, sentimental, romantic, scenic, touching, humorous, inspirational, entertaining, romantic comedy, culinary
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Say Anything... (1989)
Plot Summary:
A budding romance between noble underachiever Lloyd Dobler and high school valedictorian Diane Court is threatened when Diane's overly possessive, disapproving father interferes with their relationship. With a prized scholarship to study abroad hanging in the balance, Diane must find a way to make both men happy.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 95000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: feel good, sweet, light, romantic, teen, romantic comedy, humorous, sentimental, cult classic, touching
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Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
Plot Summary:
A young boy who tries to set his dad up on a date after the death of his mother. He calls into a radio station to talk about his dad’s loneliness which soon leads the dad into meeting a Journalist Annie who flies to Seattle to write a story about the boy and his dad. Yet Annie ends up with more than just a story in this popular romantic comedy.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 187000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, touching, sentimental, inspirational, light, romantic comedy, funny, sweet, emotional