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Plot Summary:
Revolves around three friends who have dream weddings only to find out that the pastor who married them failed to complete the key paperwork required to make them official.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, cute
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True Love (1989)
Plot Summary:
Donna and Michael are getting married. But first, they have to plan the reception, get the tux, buy the rings, and cope with their own uncertainty about the decision. Michael fears commitment. Donna has her doubts about Michael's immaturity. Both are getting cold feet.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 807
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: funny, independent film, touching, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, biting, suspense
Similar in 78%
How to Fall in Love (2012)
Plot Summary:
An accountant, who never quite grew out of his awkward teenage years, finds himself with a dating coach - she happens to be his high school crush as well. Thanks to his coach, he gets a pretty woman he has his sights on for some time, but realizes they are incompatible. Meanwhile, his dating lessons with his teenage crush reawaken old feelings. Not realizing the feelings are mutual, he finds himself unable to act on them due to his fear of being rejected by the one he truly loves.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, semi serious, realistic, heartfelt, humorous
Similar in 79%
See Jane Date (2003)
Plot Summary:
Jane Grant has just received an invitation to her younger cousin's wedding, and it's engraved with two of the most dreaded words a perpetually available sing can encounter: "plus guest." Come wedding day, Jane had better deliver. After all, she's already told everyone, including her meddlesome Aunt Ina and now-famous high school nemesis Natasha Nutley, that she's in a serious relationship. Now Jane has two months to find a guy to fit the lie, complete the guest list, and save face. If the series of miserable set-ups orchestrated by her well-meaning best friends Eloise and Amanda are any indication, Jane's in for big trouble. From the first date to blind date, from double date to last date, the match game is on - and with millions of men to pick from, Jane is sure to find Mr. Right, right?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating
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Snow Bride (2013)
Plot Summary:
When a reporter encounters the eldest son of a famous political family at a mountain retreat, she winds up pretending to be his girlfriend over Christmas so he can save face with his family. Should she secretly expose newsworthy scoops about the famous family in order to save her job, or trust that she's falling in love for real? Stars Patricia Richardson and Katrina Law.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, romantic, emotional, realistic
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A Bride for Christmas (2012)
Plot Summary:
Bride-to-be Jessie Patterson calls off her third engagement - during the ceremony! She swears off serious relationships, until she meets and is pursued by Aiden MacTiernan. Aiden, on the other hand, has bet his friends he is marriage material, and can find a fiancé in the four weeks leading up to Christmas. When Jessie and Aiden begin to fall for each other, Jessie must decide if she is ready for serious love, and Aiden must decide if his bet is worth risking his relationship with Jessie.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: feel good, sentimental, humorous, light, sincere, cute, realistic, semi serious
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Now You Know (2002)
Plot Summary:
On the eve of his bachelor party, a man learns his fiancee wants to call off the wedding. The unmarried couple returns to New Jersey to sort out their relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, melancholic
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Three Many Weddings (2013)
Plot Summary:
A woman attends wedding of successive men in her life, though she gets to find a soul mate.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, sentimental, semi serious, romantic comedy, realistic
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This Is Not a Film (2003)
Plot Summary:
New Yorker Michael Connor attempts to find the woman who left him by making a film about her, hoping that someone (maybe you?) will recognize his ex and convince her to get back together with him. To help the viewer understand who he is and why his girlfriend left, Michael opts to re-enact his failed relationship for the camera. He hires an actress to portray his ex-girlfriend, and during the process of filming she quickly and mercilessly points out all of his mistakes, blunders and inadequacies as a boyfriend. "This Is Not a Film" is a romantic comedy about making mistakes and recognizing them in the most painful way possible--by making them over and over again.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 305
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sentimental, realistic, talky, semi serious, humorous, witty, independent film, offbeat
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Revenge of the Bridesmaids (2010)
Plot Summary:
Two women plot revenge against the woman marrying their friend's ex-boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sentimental, realistic, teen, romantic, feel good, cute, detective
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The Bachelor (1999)
Plot Summary:
Jimmie is seeing his single friends get married one by one. He isn't too worried until his girlfriend Anne catches the bouquet at his friend Marco's wedding. Suddenly, his wild mustang days are numbered. He finally decides to propose to her, but he sticks his foot in his mouth and botches the proposal. Being insulted by the defeatist proposal, Anne leaves town on an assignment. After she's gone, he finds out that his recently-deceased grandfather's will stipulates that he gets nothing of a multi-million dollar fortune unless he's married by 6:05pm on his 30th birthday: tomorrow! Not being able to find Anne, Jimmie begins backtracking through his past girlfriends to find a wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: romantic, clever, smart, sentimental, touching, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty
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License to Wed (2007)
Plot Summary:
Newly engaged, Ben and Sadie can't wait to start their life together and live happily ever after. However Sadie's family church's Reverend Frank won't bless their union until they pass his patented, "foolproof" marriage prep course consisting of outrageous classes, outlandish homework assignments and some outright invasion of privacy.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: romantic, romantic comedy, light, funny, realistic, cute, hilarious, teen, humorous, stylized
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You Stupid Man (2002)
Plot Summary:
After a man finally gets over his former girlfriend, who has moved to Los Angeles and become a television star, and falls in love with another woman, the former girlfriend's show is canceled and she wants him back.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, independent film
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Forget Paris (1995)
Plot Summary:
Mickey Gordon is a basketball referee who travels to France to bury his father. Ellen Andrews is an American living in Paris who works for the airline he flies on. They meet and fall in love, but their relationship goes through many difficult patches. The story is told in flashback by their friends at a restaurant waiting for them to arrive.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, light, sweet, intense, touching, realistic, clever, witty, non fiction
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With This Ring (2015)
Plot Summary:
After attending their friend Elise's (Sudano) wedding to Nate (Bishop) on New Year's Eve, Trista (Hall), a career-driven talent agent, Viviane (Scott), a successful gossip columnist, and Amaya (Cooper), a struggling actress, make a pact to get married within the year to either a new love or a man waiting in the wings. But the close friends face their own set of challenges - Trista has not gotten over her commitment-phobic ex-boyfriend Damon (White), Viviane is secretly in love with Sean (George), the father of her son, and Amaya is desperate to break up her boyfriend Keith's (Sanders) unhappy marriage so they can live happily ever after. Each woman starts the year with high hopes and dreams of what will happen over the next 12 months... but will they all make it to the altar?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, sentimental, realistic, semi serious
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If You Are the One 2 (2010)
Plot Summary:
A sequel to one of China's biggest box office hits, the wry romantic comedy "Fei Cheng Wu Rao 2" ("If You Are the One 2") — the first Chinese release to open in its homeland and North America on the same day — continues the odd-couple courtship saga of wealthy, middle-aged retiree Qin Fen (Ge You) and serious-minded young air hostess Xiaoxiao (Shu Qi).After an amusing prelude in which Qin presides over a lavish divorce ceremony for an amicably splitting married couple, he and Xiaoxiao decide to address their own relationship barriers — her youth and beauty, his cynical, childish sense of humor — by entering into a trial marriage while on a trip to the country's tropical southeast.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: touching, stylized, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Ceremony (2010)
Plot Summary:
Sam Davis convinces his former best friend to spend a weekend with him to rekindle their friendship at an elegant beachside estate owned by a famous documentary filmmaker. However, it soon becomes clear that Sam is secretly infatuated with his ex, Zoe, who is now the filmmaker’s fiancée, and that his true intention is to thwart their impending nuptials. As Sam’s plan begins to unravel, he is forced to realize how complicated love and friendship can be.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, semi serious, humorous, realistic, romantic, sexy, artsy, indie film, witty
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Love, Wedding, Marriage (2011)
Plot Summary:
A happy newlywed marriage counselor's views on wedded bliss get thrown for a loop when she finds out her parents are getting divorced.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, realistic, sexy, teen, independent film, feel good
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Never Again (2001)
Plot Summary:
A man and a woman who have pledged never to fall in love again meet in a gay bar.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 967
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, witty, semi serious, romantic, independent film, romantic comedy, realistic
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See You in September (2010)
Plot Summary:
Feeling abandoned by her therapist who's gone on an extended vacation, beautiful Lindsay (Estella Warren) gets help with her fear of commitment from an ad hoc support group formed by other New Yorkers also left high and dry by their shrinks. But when her pals dare her to date fellow group member A.J. (Justin Kirk), Lindsay begins to wonder if she's finally found her match. Tamara Tunie directs this charming romantic comedy.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 812
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sentimental, semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, sex comedy, independent film, sexual, sexy
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Holiday Engagement (2011)
Plot Summary:
Thirty-something Hillary Burns has spent her life trying to get the approval of her parents, most specifically her judgmental mother, Meredith Burns, thus far without success. Part of that approval for Hillary is to marry the right man. That's why Hillary is so happy that she is engaged to successful lawyer Jason King, who she will bring home to meet the family for the first time at their Thanksgiving get-together weekend in a week's time. However, Hillary's life starts to fall apart when simultaneously she loses her part-time newspaper writing job when the newspaper itself folds, and Jason dumps her as he tries to focus on his career which is seemingly more important to him than Hillary. On the advice of her best friend Sophie, Hillary - who feels she can't go home without Jason, especially as her two sisters' lives seem to meet their mother's approval - decides.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, sweet, teen, christmas comedy, sentimental, touching, realistic
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For Better or For Worse (2014)
Plot Summary:
Wendy is finally settling in to single life after the death of her husband. She runs a successful wedding planning company with the help of her friend Roseanne. Wendy's business and values are challenged when Marco, a charming but irritating divorce attorney, opens shop right next door!.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, touching, realistic, semi serious
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The Break-Up Artist (2009)
Plot Summary:
A woman who gets paid to break people up is forced to become a matchmaker when some new competition muscles her out of the break-up business. Now, in order to save her company (and keep her high-priced wardrobe) she'll have to rely on her old nemesis: love.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic, romantic comedy, teen, romantic drama
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My Boyfriends' Dogs (2014)
Plot Summary:
The owners of a small diner are surprised one rainy evening when, just after close, a young woman wearing a wedding dress with three dogs in tow begs to come into their restaurant. What follows is the young woman's retelling of how she arrived at this curious junction in her life and how, through the search for the right man, she ended up as a runaway bride with three new dogs.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, touching, semi serious, light, captivating, realistic
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Exit Strategy (2012)
Plot Summary:
Evicted from his apartment, James has to move in with his girlfriend of 3 months. He quickly discovers that she's everything he never wanted in a woman. His only option is to get her to break up with him -- but still let him sleep on the couch.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, romantic, sex comedy, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Black Coffee (2014)
Plot Summary:
Robert picked the wrong time to meet his soul mate! After being fired from his own father's company, he feels like his luck has run out - until Morgan enters into his life.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 805
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, feel good, captivating, light, erotic, sentimental, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Our Family Wedding (2010)
Plot Summary:
The weeks leading up to a young couple's wedding is comic and stressful, especially as their respective fathers try to lay to rest their feud.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic, black comedy, hispanic, independent film
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One Small Hitch (2013)
Plot Summary:
On a flight home to Chicago for a family wedding, childhood friends Josh and Molly innocently agree to fake a wedding engagement to make Josh's dying father happy. Things quickly get out of hand with their two boisterous families, and a series of events causes them to pretend to be a couple and start planning a phony wedding. When the playacting begins to foster real feelings, the two must make some serious decisions: Split up and return to their lives in LA, or make a life as a couple back in Chicago?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: semi serious, romantic, feel good, sweet, captivating, satirical, romantic comedy, cute, touching, humorous
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Bride Wars (2009)
Plot Summary:
Two best friends become rivals when their respective weddings are accidentally booked for the same day.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 114000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, humorous, funny, romantic comedy, teen, sentimental, cute, entertaining, semi serious
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Love is Not Blind (2011)
Plot Summary:
Xiaoxian’s life is right on track. She has a steady job at an upscale wedding planning company, a cute apartment, and most importantly, a loving boyfriend of 7 years. Any day now, Xiaoxian is sure that he’ll pop the question. But everything comes crashing down when she discovers that he’s actually cheating on her— with her best friend. How could things go so wrong? Dumped and heartbroken, Xiaoxian is a total mess. It doesn’t help that she has to face perky brides every day. Things go from bad to worse until her sassy, but jaded, co-worker Jian intervenes. It’s not that Jian really cares. It’s more that he’s sick of witnessing her pathetic decline. Xiaoxian seriously needs to get a grip. 33 days into her breakup, Jian’s brand of tough love is working, but Xiaoxian still can’t help wondering: will she ever get a chance at love again?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, light, captivating, sentimental, semi serious
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The Wedding Planner (2001)
Plot Summary:
Mary Fiore, San Francisco's premiere wedding planner is rescued from an accident by the man of her dreams, pediatrician Steve Edison, only to find he is the fiancé of her latest client, wealthy Fran Donnolly. As Mary continues making the wedding arrangements, she and Steve are put into a string of uncomfortable situations that force them to face their mutual attraction.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 85000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, sweet, sentimental, cute, humorous, feel good, entertaining, sincere, captivating