Best movies like My Scary Girl
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Plot Summary:
A man with no experience in the art of relationships, is encouraged by his friend to ask Lee Mina out on a date. Unexpectedly successful, he falls in love. When Lee Mina's ex-boyfriend shows up and ruins the new relationship, she takes matters into her own hands. A distraught Dae-Woo begins investigating Lee Mina's murky past and discovers a series of scary secrets.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 707
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, humorous, realistic, touching, exciting, captivating, melancholic, dark comedy, fairy tale, crying
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Brightest Star (2013)
Plot Summary:
A recent college graduate sets out to win back the girl of his dreams.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, humorous, captivating, light, independent film, semi serious
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Sad Movie (2005)
Plot Summary:
This film is about eight individuals facing the most brilliant separations in their lives. The passionate fire fighter, 30 years old, tries to propose to his lover but every time he misses the chance. In the meantime, she becomes anxious whenever she hears a siren. Suk-hyeon intends to break up with her jobless lover, Ha-seok, and he begins an agency that helps other lovers to break up. Juyeong is mad at her son's troubles in school, but she realizes that she has little time to spend with him. Su-eun, with a hearing impairment and a burn on her face, falls in her first love but she doesn't have the courage to come out in his presence.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, captivating, melancholic, sad, romantic comedy, romantic, feel good, depressing, anthology
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Jonny's Sweet Revenge (2015)
Plot Summary:
Rick and Reni came to California in search of a new lease on life. Unfortunately, all they found was each other... In a last ditch effort to save their struggling relationship, the duo twist their couples' counseling therapy into a plot that would see them turning back into their Texas low-life roots as petty criminals. As has been the case throughout the history of Rick and Reni's calamity plagued relationship, their haphazard scheme to hold up a dive bar goes horribly wrong. When a diverse cast of bar patrons gets caught up in their failed plot, Rick and Reni begin to not only wonder if they'll survive the day, but if they can survive one another.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: tense, humorous, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, crying, dark comedy
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Tim Timmerman: Hope of America (2017)
Plot Summary:
Impeached high school president, Tim Timmerman, seeks to redeem himself and get into Yale.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 339
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, realistic, romantic, teen comedy
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Only Human (2004)
Plot Summary:
Leni takes Rafi to meet her family in Madrid. Leni's family is Jewish - mother, father, older sister and daughter, brother, and grandfather. Rafi is Palestinian, in Spain since age 12. Before her father returns from work, Leni reveals Rafi's origins. He accidentally drops a block of frozen soup out the flat window, probably killing a passerby. Leni initiates a cover-up and Rafi figures out the body is probably Leni's father. The body disappears and without telling the rest of the family what they know, Leni and Rafi organize a search for dad. Mom is sure he's having an affair. Leni's belly-dancing sister kisses Rafi. Her brother grabs a rifle to shoot the Arab. Can anything be put right?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain, Argentina, Portugal, UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious, erotic, multicultural, crying, dark comedy
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Women in Temptation (2010)
Plot Summary:
When a marriage counselor is abandoned by her husband for a younger woman, she sets out for new companionship.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 797
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: humorous, psychological, light, contemplative, sex comedy, crying
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Windstruck (2004)
Plot Summary:
When police officer Kyungjin met with Myungwoo accidentally in a crime, she found that this responsible teacher was a really nice guy. At that night, Kyungjin got into a fight with a bunch of high school kids and got trouble in a big gun fight between rival drug dealers. Myungwoo tried to help her but then something happened that forces them stayed together all day long. They got closer to each other and Myungwoo was not able to repulse the strange but pure nature. He fell in love with her. One day, when Kyungjin was chasing a notorious criminal, Myungwoo helped her again, however, not knowing that what would happen that day changed their relationship forever.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea, Hong Kong
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, captivating, inspirational, romantic, touching, feel good, sad, light hearted, realistic
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What a Man Wants (2018)
Plot Summary:
Two couples' windy comedy movie that is more dangerous than typhoons in Jeju Islands.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, crying, freeze frame
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Made in Hong Kong (1997)
Plot Summary:
The first independent film to emerge from the former British colony since the changeover to China in 1997, Made in Hong Kong is an intoxicating drama about teenage alienation.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: art house, brutal, neo noir, crime drama, cult classic, psychological, offbeat, bleak, serious, captivating
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Loot (1970)
Plot Summary:
Based on the play by 'Joe Orton' this film follows the adventures of two pals who have pulled off a bank robbery and have to hide the loot. Fortunately (?) one of them works in a funeral parlour and they have a coffin to spare.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 605
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, crying, independent film, detective
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Love at Second Sight (2019)
Plot Summary:
Overnight, Raphael finds himself immersed in a world where he has never met Olivia, the woman of his life. How is he going to reconquer his wife, who has become a complete stranger?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, South Korea
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: psychological, surprise ending, touching, humorous, feel good, sweet, romantic comedy, crying, urban fantasy
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The Grissom Gang (1971)
Plot Summary:
The Grissom Gang is a remake of the notorious 1949 British melodrama No Orchids For Miss Blandish. Kim Darby plays a 1920s-era debutante who is kidnapped and held for ransom. Her captors are the Grissoms, a family comprised of sadists and morons, and headed by Ma Barker clone Irene Dailey. One of the Grissoms, played by Scott Wilson, takes a liking to his prisoner, which results in a bloody breakdown of the family unit. Both The Grissom Gang and the original No Orchids For Miss Blandish were inspired by the best-seller by James Hadley Chase, though neither film retains Chase's original ending.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, tense, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cynical, biting, crying
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The Late Bloomer (2016)
Plot Summary:
A sex therapist goes through puberty after the successful removal of a benign tumor resting against his pituitary gland. He experiences all the changes and effects of puberty over a three-week period.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sex comedy, light, touching, feel good, captivating, funny, romantic, sexy
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Let's Get Those English Girls (1976)
Plot Summary:
When their little cheat fails, Alain and Jean Pierre fail their final high-school exams in English. Their parents deny them the planned vacation to the Cote D'azur and send them instead to Ramscale in England, to improve their English. However many other parents had the same idea, so they meet more of their own than English folks and end up more at beach parties than in class. Only with the girls they seem to have no luck, although they desperately try.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 580
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy, teen sex comedy, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, freeze frame, period piece
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Home Again (2017)
Plot Summary:
Life for a single mom in Los Angeles takes an unexpected turn when she allows three young guys to move in with her.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, funny, light, neurotic, crying, freeze frame, romantic drama
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Under the Riccione Sun (2020)
Plot Summary:
While vacationing on the crowded beaches of Riccione, a group of teenagers becomes fast friends as they grapple with relationship issues and romance.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, entertaining, funny, romantic, crying, buddy comedy, teen comedy
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Serious Moonlight (2009)
Plot Summary:
A high-powered attorney duct tapes her adulterous husband to the toilet ... right before their home is invaded by burglars.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: not serious, witty, humorous, realistic, cynical, black comedy, dark comedy, surprise ending, crying, independent film
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Forgive and Forget (2000)
Plot Summary:
A jealousy erupts between two long-time friends as one is about to move in with his girlfriend. Now the friend must confront his long-hidden homosexuality. UK.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 676
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, emotional, realistic, semi serious, crying
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Testosterone (2003)
Plot Summary:
Dean has been stumped for some time in his attempt to produce a follow-up to "I was a Teenage Speed Freak," his incredibly successful graphic novel. His fans expect great things from him and his editor, Louise, is hounding him. Instead of working, however, Dean spends his time searching for his Argentine lover Pablo, who went out one night for cigarettes and never came back.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, melancholic, erotic, dark comedy, black comedy, queer cinema
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Nurse Betty (2000)
Plot Summary:
What happens when a person decides that life is merely a state of mind? If you're Betty, a small-town waitress and soap opera fan from Fair Oaks, Kansas, you refuse to believe that you can't be with the love of your life just because he doesn't really exist. After all, life is no excuse for not living. Traumatized by a savage event, Betty enters into a fugue state that allows -- even encourages -- her to keep functioning... in a kind of alternate reality.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, black comedy, light, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, dark, clever, road movie
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Adam and Eve (2005)
Plot Summary:
Easy-going, gentle college-boy Adam Baker enjoys frat-life, however disgusting the frat-house gets because of his sloppy house-mates Freddie, Ferguson and Munch. Then Adam meets Eve, starts falling in love, but gets jealous of frat-brother Billy, who 'bumps' almost constantly without seeking love, while Eve guards her campus-unique virginity. As even his thrice-divorced dad, an MD, urges Adam to get laid rather then loved, his patience runs out against healthy hormones.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, sentimental, captivating, melancholic, erotic, romantic, independent film, sexual
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Jealousy, Italian Style (1970)
Plot Summary:
A three-way love affair in the Rome of the early seventies. Construction worker Oreste and young fiancee Adelaide meet Nello, cook in a pizzeria. This love triangle often go to communist rallies, and enjoy the filthy beach of Ostia. Will the hostile environment leave a way to jealousy?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: tragicomedy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, biting, non-linear, crying, detective
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Love Comes to the Executioner (2006)
Plot Summary:
A young man is hired as the executioner at a prison where his brother sits on death row. Things get more surreal when he falls in love with his brother's ex-girlfriend -- who's imprisoned herself.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 938
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, realistic, absurd, black comedy, dark comedy, psychological thriller, psycho film
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Something for Everyone (1970)
Plot Summary:
An opportunistic young man working as a servant to a European countess uses his sexual talents to better his station in life.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: independent film, clever, black comedy, dark comedy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, biting, fairy tale
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Bongwater (1998)
Plot Summary:
David (Luke Wilson) is an artist and a pothead. He's fallen in love with the beautiful and sexy Serena (Alicia Witt), and things are going simply splendidly until poor David's house burns down. Serena doesn't need the bad vibes, so she splits the scene and runs off to New York with rocker and junkie Tommy (Jamie Kennedy). Lonely David finally turns to the sweet, sweet comfort of marijuana and his strange menagerie of friends to forget about his lost home and love.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, crying
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Out Of My League (2020)
Plot Summary:
Marta may be an orphan, and she may be affected by a lethal illness, yet she is the most positive person one can meet. She wants a boy to fall for her. Not any boy - the most handsome of them all. One day, she may have found her match.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: romantic, humorous, captivating, entertaining, crying
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40 Days and 40 Nights (2002)
Plot Summary:
Matt Sullivan's last big relationship ended in disaster and ever since his heart's been aching and his commitment's been lacking. Then came Lent, that time of year when everybody gives something up. That's when Matt decides to go where no man's gone before and make a vow: No sex. Whatsoever. For 40 straight days. At first he has everything under control. That is until the woman of his dreams, Erica, walks into his life.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 75000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy, humorous, light, romantic, romantic comedy, teen, erotic, funny, realistic
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Just Married (2003)
Plot Summary:
Tom Leezak and Sarah McNerney fall in love and plan to get married, despite opposition from Sarah's uptight, rich family. When they do get married, and get a chance to prove Sarah's family wrong, they go on a European honeymoon and run into disaster after disaster. They have to decide whether the honeymoon from hell and a few pre-marital mistakes are worth throwing away their love and marriage.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 74000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, romantic, sexy, romantic comedy, hilarious, semi serious, light, entertaining
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Intermission (2003)
Plot Summary:
A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. An ill-timed and poorly executed couple's break-up sets off a chain of events affecting everyone in town.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, humorous, touching, melancholic, witty, black comedy, semi serious, cult classic, realistic, intense
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Whatever It Takes (2000)
Plot Summary:
A nerdy teen, Ryan Woodman is smitten with the popular and gorgeous Ashley Grant, who apparently has no interest in him. Meanwhile, dim star athlete Chris Campbell has his eye on Ryan's brainy and beautiful friend, Maggie Carter. The two agree to help each other in their romantic quests, but, as they come closer to their goals, both Ryan and Chris suspect that they might be pursuing the wrong girls.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: romantic, teen, feel good, humorous, semi serious, teen sex comedy, sex comedy, comedy drama, realistic, crying