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Plot Summary:
A comedy about a man (Bill Pullman), who is on the run after his mistress (Julie Brown) confesses to her husband (Peter Boyle) that the two of them have been having an affair.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 697
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, dark comedy, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Lunatic (1991)
Plot Summary:
A Jamaican Comedy, The story of a village madman, Aloysious, who has the amazing ability to talk to anything, including trees, cows and cricket balls.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 188
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Jamaica, USA, UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Similar in 75%
California Casanova (1991)
Plot Summary:
Stagehand at a nightclub falls for one of the performers. He wins her heart after taking lessons on suavity from a gigolo "count".
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Similar in 78%
Hi-Life (1998)
Plot Summary:
Jimmy needs $900 to clear a gambling debt but a series of lies leads to Ray trying to raise the cash from friend's who owe him money.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 683
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: independent film, clever, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious
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Just Tell Me What You Want (1980)
Plot Summary:
A television producer woman tries to let down her overbearing boyfriend who is her boss. She wants to marry with a young writer.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 729
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: romantic comedy, intelligent, clever, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, biting, silent
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E=mc2 (1996)
Plot Summary:
A physicist struggling to prove one of Einstein's theories still finds time to dabble in an extra-curricular relationship with one of his lab assistants. Meanwhile at home his under-sexed wife struggles under the assumption that he is hard at work with his experiments. All of which explodes when she discovers otherwise. Written by John Sacksteder.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Trilogy: Two (2002)
Plot Summary:
A woman, concerned by her husband's eccentric behavior, hires a detective to follow his every move -- which yields unexpected results.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, art house, detective
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Be Wanton and Tread No Shame (1985)
Plot Summary:
Pablo and Fernando, owners of a children's book publishing company about to go bankrupt, have managed through unorthodox means to contract the country's best-selling author, Adela Mora. The evening of the official signing, Paco asks his friend to let him use his house for a love tryst while Fernando wines and dines Adela. At the same time, Paco's wife, Carmen, will be taking her lover to Rosa's house. From here on the rout begins, as Paco tries to get rid of Silvia, his secretary, and Carmen, her husband. Fernando thinks Rosa is cheating on him with Oscar, who thinks Fernando is gay and having an affair with his partner, while the soldier thinks his girlfriend is a professional.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 416
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sexy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, neo screwball comedy
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Mambo Caf? (2000)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful Puerto Rican girl and her family in Spanish harlem devise a novel plan to attract business to their restaurant, causing a wildly comic sequence of events ending in near disaster.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 409
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty, independent film, cynical
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Hit List (2011)
Plot Summary:
Charlotte is a woman with anger management issues whose therapist suggests she write a journal to keep her emotions in check. Unlucky in love, she ventures online to find a boyfriend. Just as she reaches her limit of unsuccessful dates, Charlotte meets her soul mate Lyle. Everything is perfect until Lyle finds Charlottes journal and sets out to prove just how deeply he loves her.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 833
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, sentimental, captivating, light, touching, feel good, melancholic, realistic, cynical, semi serious
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I Wonder Who's Kissing You Now (1998)
Plot Summary:
In this rom-com Sam is having problems with both his professional life and his marriage. His career as a film director has dried up, while at home he's sure that his new bride is having an affair. He might be right as she's started seeing a dentist who likes rough sex.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sex comedy, sexy
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It Takes Two (1988)
Plot Summary:
Travis is due to marry Stephanie in a few days when he is convinced by beautiful saleswoman Jonni to buy a fancy sports car. The car looks good, but it turns out to be a piece of junk. Travis is determined to get satisfaction and he and Jonni hit the road to confront the crooked car dealer.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 902
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Trap.com (2011)
Plot Summary:
Exposed by his girlfriend through a video on the Internet, Bruno tries to revive his reputation, but all he can do is get into a series of traps (Cilada, in Portuguese). Cilada.com is a comedy about love and betrayal that shows the power of the Internet to transform small intimacies and slips in fame and constraints globalized.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, realistic, not serious
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Bachelor in Paradise (1961)
Plot Summary:
A. J. Niles is the author of a series of 'Bachelor Books'. These books describe the romantic life of a bachelor in various cities of the world. But when he runs into trouble with the I.R.S. for back taxes, he needs to write another book fast, to pay them. His publisher decides a book about life in the American suburbs would be a hit, and settles him into Paradise Cove. One bachelor plus lonely housewives equals many angry husbands.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: retro, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, sexual, sexy, exotic
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Everybody Wants to Be Italian (2007)
Plot Summary:
Are all relationships based on lies? Jake Bianski runs a fish market in north Boston, surrounded by Italians. For years, he's carried a torch for Isabella, an ex-girlfriend now married with three children and no interest in Jake. Yet, he tells everyone she's his girlfriend, including Marisa, a veterinarian his employees set him up with at the Italian singles club. She's interested in him until he tells her about his girlfriend, then he's persistent in asking her to be his friend. As the friendship bumps along, Jake realizes that reality may be better than fantasy, but what if Isabella changes her mind about Jake, and what if it comes out that Marisa, like Jake, isn't Italian?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic, independent film
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Olive Juice (2001)
Plot Summary:
Comedy - Leighanne Littrell, James Berlau, Michael Hartson.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, offbeat
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A Pyromaniac's Love Story (1995)
Plot Summary:
A pastry boy and the son of a hair-piece mogul become involved in an arson scandal. Sergio is offered a bribe in exchange for taking the blame for the fire that destroys his workplace. Garet, the real arsonist, is apalled that someone else would try to take credit for his act of love. Before long, Sergio and Garet become entangled in a zany love-quadrangle involving Hattie and Stephanie. Written by Brian Whiting.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, funny, light, romantic, sexy, clever
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Coming & Going (2011)
Plot Summary:
Coming & Going is an irreverent romantic comedy that poses the question: How far would you go to capture the heart of the one you love? Lee (Rhys Darby) is a young, skilled OBGYN who lacks confidence when it comes to talking to women outside his successful medical practice. A minor injury temporarily lands him in a wheelchair and it is at that precise time that he meets his dream girl Alex (Sasha Alexander). Convinced she's only paid attention to him because he's in that chair, he stays in it to win her affections well after his injury has healed. Coming & Going is about love and the extreme things people do for it.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 745
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, light, feel good, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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My First Wedding (2006)
Plot Summary:
A young lady about to get married realizes that she has a problem: she fantasizes about every man she sees. She goes to confess at church but unknowingly confesses to a young man who is not a priest. He agrees to help her, but falls in love with her along the way. Unfortunately she still thinks he is a priest.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, sincere, captivating, melancholic, romantic, romantic comedy, exciting
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The Favor (1994)
Plot Summary:
Kathy is married to Peter. Now she can't help but wonder how things could have been if she got together with her old boyfriend, Tom. Being married prevents from doing that so she asks her friend, Emily to go to him and see if she can sleep with him then tell Kathy how it was. When Emily tells Kathy that things were awesome, their friendship suffers, at the same so does Kathy's marriage. Things get even more complicated when Emily learns she's pregnant, and she's not certain if it's Tom's or her boyfriend, Elliot.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sexy, light, humorous, entertaining, independent film, offbeat, realistic, talky, semi serious, sex comedy
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Soof (2013)
Plot Summary:
Soof is reaching 40 and has everything she ever wanted: three children, a small catering business, a sweet husband Kasper and a lovely home. Until she starts asking herself: 'is this all there is'?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Any Wednesday (1966)
Plot Summary:
Ellen Gordon, a New York executive's mistress falls for the executive's young business associate when the young man is accidentally sent to use the apartment where the executive and his mistress get together every Wednesday. More complications arise when the executive's wife shows up with plans to redecorate the apartment.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: sexy, humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious, witty, sex comedy
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Be My Baby (2007)
Plot Summary:
After dating several cheating husbands who pretended to be single, Rylee devises a scheme for revenge. She gets a married man drunk, convinces him that they slept together, then shows up a year later with a baby and demands money. Her blackmail plan is successful, but then she meets a single man, Max, who wants to be with her and keep the baby.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Just a Little Harmless Sex (1998)
Plot Summary:
Just a Little Harmless Sex examines a young married couple that faces a serious break-up when the husband is caught committing adultery with a prostitute.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 795
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, semi serious, sexual, sex comedy, sexy
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Almost Pregnant (1992)
Plot Summary:
Charlie (Conaway) is a happy man with a beautiful wife (Roberts), a wonderful career and every blessing a man could want except "...children". When the wife demands a "star child" and Charlie can't deliver the goods, they turn to their crazy neighbor (Calvin) to get the job done, so to speak. Very hilarious and bawdy comedy where "one rooster to a hen-house" is not always the truth.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 663
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Unfaithfully Yours (1984)
Plot Summary:
Dudley Moore plays a composer who suspects his wife of cheating. He plots to kill her and frame it on her lover. The whole movie sort of compares his expectations of a perfect result to reality. In the end nothing turns out as planned.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, clever, semi serious, sentimental, dark comedy, neo screwball comedy
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Two Much (1995)
Plot Summary:
A young gallerist is in love with two sisters at the same time. In order to solve the problem he decides to invent his own twin-brother.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, witty, anamorphic, realistic, semi serious, funny, inspirational, road movie
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Rum and Coke (1999)
Plot Summary:
A young, independent Latina has a safe relationship with her Anglo boyfriend until she is rescued and romanced by an aggressive Latino firefighter.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, touching, humorous, emotional, realistic, semi serious, sexual, hispanic, sexy
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Sibling Rivalry (1990)
Plot Summary:
Marjorie Turner is suffocating. Her younger sister Jeanine has no ambition, and her 8 year marriage to Harry puts her in constant competition with his family (all doctors).
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, sexy, entertaining, black comedy, cynical, dark comedy, realistic, not serious, independent film, exciting
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Wild Roomies (2004)
Plot Summary:
After his last girlfriend slept with his last roommate, Reno Rizzolla moves to L.A. with his new girlfriend... and chaos ensues when the debt on the house forces him to get roommates.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, scenic, independent film, sex comedy, hot, campy
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How to Go Out on a Date in Queens (2006)
Plot Summary:
A self-proclaimed dating expert tries to get his best friend, who lost his wife two years earlier, back into the dating scene, with disastrous results.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 416
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, independent film, realistic, semi serious