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Plot Summary:
Fai, a talented actor who has won the Best New Artist of the Hong Kong Film Awards and always plays leading roles in television, is an arrogant guy who does not cherish the opportunities given to him. As he keeps on criticizing his co-workers, his career and popularity gradually deteriorates. He is not offered leading roles anymore and has to take the parts of villains and rapists. Finally, he has even lost his job at the TV station. Fai becomes extremely depressed, but a twist of fate makes him become an agent for extras. As Fai gives pointers to a young girl named Fei, who truly loves acting, he regains his own enthusiasm towards acting and life.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 470
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, light, entertaining
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Instant Karma (1990)
Plot Summary:
The writer of a bad TV series begins to rethink his life when he meets and falls in love with a beautiful actress.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Last Goodbye (2004)
Plot Summary:
A confusing intermingling of individuals, drunk office worker, vampire slayer actress, rock band members, runaway teenage girl, father, whiskey drinking preacher etc., whose lives are somehow connected.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Drama, Adventure, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: gothic, realistic, semi serious, captivating, independent film, humorous, campy
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Nine Chronicles for a Screaming Heart (2012)
Plot Summary:
In a mosaic of human relationships and day-to-day situations, men and women of different ages feel a pressing need to reinvent themselves. As they cross each other's paths, they all are at a turning point in their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, semi serious, captivating, romantic, humorous, contemplative, talky, independent film, entertaining
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Starting Over Again (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ten years ago, Ginny (Toni Gonzaga), an Architecture student, and Marco (Piolo Pascual), a History professor, began a one-of-a-kind and unpredictable love story. In the five years that they were together, they brought out the best in each other, which included Marco’s unrealized dream of becoming a chef. Together, they worked towards their dream of opening up a restaurant, but when Ginny realized her own pursuits were different from his, she rejected his wedding proposal and left the country for a Masters degree in Architecture. At present, Ginny co-owns a one-stop Architecture and Interior Design firm specializing in Restoration. She receives an email from Marco, which was written and sent after their break-up, meant to be read four years later. It makes her feel even more regretful of leaving the love of her life.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 605
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, disturbing, vintage
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In Real Life (2008)
Plot Summary:
In his new film a young director puts his girlfriend through a love test. By doing so he risks his real life relationship with her.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, captivating, emotional, clever, offbeat, realistic, semi serious
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The Space Between The Lines (2019)
Plot Summary:
Emmi would like to cancel her subscription to "Like" magazine via e-mail. But due to a typo, her messages land in Leo Leike’s inbox. When Emmi repeatedly sends mails to the wrong address, Leo decides to inform her of her mistake. This marks the beginning of an extraordinary e-mail exchange, which can only be held between two strangers. Treading the fine line between complete strangeness and noncommittal intimacy, the two are soon sharing their innermost secrets and longings – until they need to face the unavoidable question: Will their feelings, sent and received virtually, survive the test of a real-life encounter? And what will happen if they do?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: realistic, romantic, atmospheric, emotional, captivating, feel good
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The Life I Want (2004)
Plot Summary:
A relationship develops between seasoned actor Stefano and his young, ambitious co-star Laura when they are cast as the two leads in a film. Stefano must deal with his growing jealousy when Laura's career begins to take off.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 398
Genere: Romance, Drama
Country: Italy, Germany
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating
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Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2 (2014)
Plot Summary:
Hong Kong action auteur Johnnie To indulges his silly side with this hilariously inventive sequel to his hit romantic comedy, about two former lovers who find themselves irresistibly drawn back together — despite the fact that each of them is engaged to someone else.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 775
Genere: Romance
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: feel good, realistic, semi serious, light, captivating, entertaining, humorous
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Coming Soon (2014)
Plot Summary:
Pirated DVD seller Zafer who is formerly an extra in movies; swore to give up illegal works when his wife wanted to get divorce. To win his family back, he and his old-fashioned crew decided to make a movie called "Summit - The End Of Evil" which is a fantastic science fiction movie and couldn't be shot since 1977. A funny, entertaining and emotional journey awaits him who waded into this adventure with his unqualified crew.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Boys Life 3 (2000)
Plot Summary:
Jason Gould satirizes coming out in Hollywood in Inside Out, starring Alexis Arquette and papa Elliot Gould. Lane Janger's Just One Time was a festival favorite recently expanded into a feature film that turns the tables on a groom-to-be and his fantasies of sex with two women. Bradley Rust Gray's Hitch follows two attractive young guys on a dizzying road trip that leads them toward sexual self-discovery. David Fournier's Majorettes in Space is a witty French spoof of post-modern sex, romance, relationships, the Pope and baton-twirling majorettes. And, Gregory Cooke's $30 is the bittersweet story of a closeted teen presented with a young prostitute on his 16th birthday.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 340
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, romantic, captivating, anthology, realistic, independent film, gay cinema
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Together (2013)
Plot Summary:
Comprised by two love stories: The first story features Donnie Yen as a traffic cop, “Mr. Cool” who never smiles due to a rare disease. He meets and falls in love with Michelle Chen, a patient with amnesia, and spends most of her time looking for her missing fiancé. The second story features Zhendong Ke as a Criminal Intelligence Bureau cop who falls in love with Angela Baby after a 7-day "game of romantic" with her. But when his bureau starts monitoring her, he begins to have doubt on her. Is she a criminal?.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 264
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: emotional, sentimental, touching, realistic, captivating, serious
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The Big Picture (1989)
Plot Summary:
Hollywood beckons for recent film school grad Nick Chapman, who is out to capitalize on the momentum from his national award-winning student film. Studio executive Allen Habel seduces Nick with a dream deal to make his first feature, but once production gets rolling, corporate reality begins to intervene: Nick is unable to control a series of compromises to his high-minded vision, and it's all he can do to maintain his integrity in the midst of filmmaking chaos.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: light, suspense, entertaining, melancholic, harsh, humorous, realistic, semi serious, funny, clever
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Look Both Ways (2022)
Plot Summary:
On the eve of her college graduation, Natalie's life diverges into two parallel realities: one in which she becomes pregnant and must navigate motherhood as a young adult in her Texas hometown, the other in which she moves to LA to pursue her career. In both journeys throughout her twenties, Natalie experiences life-changing love, devastating heartbreak and rediscovers herself.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, realistic, touching, romantic comedy, feel good
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Tiny Times 2.0 (2013)
Plot Summary:
Set four years after the first movie, Lin Xiao, Lily, Nan Xiang, and Ruby, confront opportunities and challenges as their school days come to an end.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sexy, captivating, realistic, stylized, semi serious
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Fish Without a Bicycle (2003)
Plot Summary:
Comedy - Julianna (Jenna Mattison) is a struggling actress in a dead end relationship with Danny (Brad Rowe), a fireman who no longer lights her fire. When she decides to leave him and go "find herself" she ends up falling in love with an egotistical director, Michael (Bryan Callen), who can barely fit her in between Pilates classes.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, emotional, clever, realistic, witty, talky, semi serious, sexual
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Straight From the Heart (2003)
Plot Summary:
Jordan Donavan, a photographer in New York, is so disappointed when after five years of going steady Edward Morgan offers her not marriage but just to move in with him, that she accepts the match-making arranged via a magazine by her female friend with Tyler Ross, a horse rancher in the West, whose candidacy was actually also posted by his sister. After a bad start they soon grow closer.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, semi serious, humorous, light, romantic, captivating, sex comedy, realistic, romantic drama
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An American in Hollywood (2014)
Plot Summary:
A talented young filmmaker from New York sets off to Los Angeles in pursuit of the Hollywood dream, only to discover through his relationship with a beautiful feisty young actress, that Hollywood is not all that it seems.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, sincere, captivating, humorous, independent film
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Your Life in 65 (2006)
Plot Summary:
A Sunday, three young friends read the obituary of a schoolmate with whom long ago they lost contact. They go to the morgue and realize that they are wrong: that burial is not that of their fellow student. From this, the confusion and random weave a story of friendship, love and death.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 703
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, realistic, semi serious, romantic, captivating, heartbreaking, offbeat, feel good, complex
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They Shoot Movies, Don't They? ...The Making of 'Mirage' (2000)
Plot Summary:
They Shoot Movies, Don't They? is a voyeuristic look at first time director Tom Paulson and the movie he wrote called Mirage. Frank Gallagher is the documentarian whose camera waits and watches as Paulson navigates through a jungle of investors, colleagues, friends and family, searching for money to finish his film. They Shoot Movies, Don't They? offers a line-blurring examination of what one might give up, in order to succeed.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, clever, captivating, independent film, mockumentary, humorous, fake documentary, cult film
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Almost Heaven (2006)
Plot Summary:
A Canadian television director is hired to salvage an international fishing show in Scotland. The only hitch: his ex-wife is the host. What he finds in Scotland is love in the form of a local fishing guide (called a ghillie) and the chance to repair his life and his friendship with his ex-wife with whom he had a child who died.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: touching, realistic, semi serious, captivating, offbeat, humorous
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Tiny Times (2013)
Plot Summary:
When four best friends try and move forward in their work and personal life, they realize that trying to live their life's dream is more difficult than they imagine -- especially in the high fashion world of Shanghai.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, humorous, stylized, 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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Love's Brother (2004)
Plot Summary:
Set in rural Australia and Tuscany in the 1950's, this is the story of two brothers and the bride who - as fate would have it - arrives from Italy betrothed to one yet falls madly in love with the other.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, funny, light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Love in the Buff (2012)
Plot Summary:
When old flames reunite, will it be second time's the charm or a case of once bitten twice shy? Jimmy and Cherie, two ex-lovers from Hong Kong, cross paths in Beijing and can't seem to forget each other, despite being involved with someone else. Torn between fidelity towards their new partners or following their hearts, they explore the struggles, doubts and fears that exist among modern young couples.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, humorous, light, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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Lion's Heart (2013)
Plot Summary:
Ivana Cornejo is just getting used to being single again after her divorce three years ago. After an exasperating call from her ex-husband, she throws her cell phone away. Fortunately, the man who finds it calls her to return it, and to her amusement they have an instant rapport. The man on the other end of the phone is León Godoy, a renowned architect with a charming voice and a charismatic personality. They schedule a date so that he can return the cell phone. When León arrives, Ivana is surprised: he is everything she had imagined, except for one unexpected and startling detail... he’s only 4'5" tall.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Brazil
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, sincere, romantic, entertaining, romantic comedy, sentimental, realistic
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Lost in Time (2003)
Plot Summary:
Sui Wai lost her fiance Ah Man in a car accident. With the obligations of life sitting heavy on her shoulders, she lives on only to find herself confiding in her beloved through a phone call. Dai Fai. a mini-bus driver who witnessed Ah Man's death, is always there offering her attentive encouragement and support, yet he himself also lives in the shadow of his last relationship. When Siu Wai strives to face the future without the man she loves, Dai Fai finds himself steadily falling in love with her.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, sincere, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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Four of Hearts (2013)
Plot Summary:
Like many couples, April and Derrick feel like the spark is missing from their marriage. With the demands of work and their hectic schedules, they find themselves in a six-month dry spell. Desperate to shake up their love life and rekindle their passion for each other, they decide to share a steamy night with their free-spirited friends, Christy and Matt. Soon after, April and Derrick find themselves dealing with unexpected feelings and must find a way to let go of the mistrust and fall in love with each other all over again.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy, entertaining
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Lust for Love (2014)
Plot Summary:
Winning your childhood sweetheart can create more problems than it solves.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: romantic, humorous, semi serious, touching, funny, light, captivating, entertaining, romantic comedy, realistic
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A Perfect Fit (2021)
Plot Summary:
Sparks fly when a fashion blogger in Bali meets a gifted shoemaker, leading her to question her commitment to her fiancé.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 687
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating
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The Role of Her Life (2004)
Plot Summary:
Freelance writer in a fashion journal, Claire meets Elisabeth Becker, a movie star. Everything separates them, their characters, their relationships with men, and of course money. Claire is hired as Elisabeth's personal assistant.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 563
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious, captivating, humorous