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Plot Summary:
A lonely, chain-smoking office lady in Tokyo falls for her teacher when she decides to take English lessons. When her teacher disappears, she sets out on a journey to find him.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, road movie, cult classic, crying, weird, learning
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Tokyo Fiancée (2014)
Plot Summary:
A Japanophile young Belgian woman in Tokyo falls into a whirlwind romance with a Francophile Japanese student, in this charming and tender tale of young love and cultural discovery.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, France, Canada, Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, intercultural
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Piece of Cake (2015)
Plot Summary:
Shino Umemiya readily dates guys interested in her, because she believes that's better than being alone. She breaks up with her violent boyfriend after he discovered that she cheated on him. She moves to a new area to get a fresh new start on her life. There, Shino Umemiya meets her neighbor Kyoshiro Sugahara. He is also her manager at her new job. Shino Umemiya becomes interested in him, but he lives with mysterious woman Akari.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: exciting, romantic, captivating, disturbing, manga, talky, intense, crying
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Clover (2014)
Plot Summary:
Saya Suzuki (Emi Takei) is an ordinary employee working at a hotel. She falls in love with her elite boss Susumu Tsuge (Tadayoshi Okura). Through their romance, Saya Suzuki grows as a person.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, shoujo, entertaining
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The 8-Year Engagement (2017)
Plot Summary:
Hisashi and Mai are a happy couple in their 20s who are engaged to be married. But three months before their wedding, Mai becomes seriously ill. Her heart stops momentarily, and she falls into a deep coma. Hisashi visits Mai at the hospital every day before work. With no idea if or when she will ever awake, Mai’s parents encourage Hisashi to find someone else, but he refuses to give up and continues to pray for her recovery. As if his prayers are answered, Mai begins to regain consciousness several years later, and even utters a few words. But tragically, she has suffered brain damage and has no memory of Hisashi.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, sincere, serious, romantic drama, crying, humorous, fun
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Peach Girl (2017)
Plot Summary:
It's not easy being beautiful. The envy, the jealousy, the vicious rumors spread by your best friend. That's life for young Momo. While everyone thinks that Momo is a wild party girl, the reality is that she is shy and lonely. Can Momo confess her love to her classmate, Toji, or will her best friend Sae steal him away. It's a bittersweet drama of growing up and fitting in that will charm readers everywhere.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 622
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, touching, captivating, entertaining, manga, shoujo, crying, romantic drama
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Love with the Proper Stranger (1963)
Plot Summary:
When a one-night stand results in pregnancy, a musician and a young girl try to resolve the issue together.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, retro, offbeat, depressing, black and white, sincere, humorous, realistic, witty, contemplative
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Stand Up (2007)
Plot Summary:
Avi Rosen knows what's really funny: the laughs come with dollar signs in Hollywood. Bidding farewell to his crotchety grandmother, who wishes he'd find a nice Jewish girl and open a pharmacy, Avi leaves the Big Apple and heads West to Tinseltown. Shacking up with an old comic buddy from the East Coast, Avi is surprised to find his once caustic friend an incense-sniffing yoga nut seemingly let loose in LALA land. But the changes Avi experiences end up being far more unsettling. Avi is quickly immersed in the gritty maneuvers of sitcom star making by Leo Stein, an unscrupulous but influential back room power player. Leo capitalizes on the young comedian's blinding desire for success and propels him past the aspiring entertainers Avi soon counts as friends, who have been paying their dues far longer than the recent transplant. When one of those overlooked comedians, Sarah Green, becomes his lover, he mistakes her warnings about his nefarious manager as professional jealousy. Nearly too.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: comic
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The Comedian (2016)
Plot Summary:
A look at the life of an aging insult comic.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: captivating, light, melancholic, romantic, entertaining, experimental, romantic comedy, independent film, comic
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All I Wish (2017)
Plot Summary:
A woman struggles to escape the clutches of her overbearing, co-dependent mother, while gradually falling for a sexy, sophisticated attorney.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, feel good, humorous, captivating, slapstick comedy
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Gloria Bell (2018)
Plot Summary:
A free-spirited woman in her 50s seeks out love at L.A. dance clubs.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Chile, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sexy, touching, humorous, melancholic, semi serious
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After the Storm (2016)
Plot Summary:
Ryota is an unpopular writer although he won a literary award 15 years ago. Now, Ryota works as a private detective. He is divorced from his ex-wife Kyoko and he has an 11-year-old son Shingo. His mother Yoshiko lives alone at her apartment. One day, Ryota, his ex-wife Kyoko, and son Shingo gather at Yoshiko's apartment. A typhoon passes and the family must stay there all night long.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, semi serious, sincere, touching, melancholic, art house, independent film, weird, cult film
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Last Life in the Universe (2003)
Plot Summary:
An obsessive-compulsive Japanese librarian living in Bangkok spends most of his days contemplating suicide in his lifeless apartment. His life changes when he witnesses the death of Nid, seconds before he was about to jump off a bridge. This brings him in contact with Nid's elder sister Noi - these two lost and lonely souls help each other find the meaning to their meaningless existences.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand, Japan, Netherlands
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, lyrical, psychological, serious, art house, dark comedy, romantic, captivating, independent film
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On the Rocks (2020)
Plot Summary:
Faced with sudden doubts about her marriage, a young New York mother teams up with her larger-than-life playboy father to tail her husband.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, sentimental, light, sincere, romantic, funny, dramatic, cult classic, comedy drama
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Infinitely Polar Bear (2014)
Plot Summary:
A manic-depressive mess of a father tries to win back his wife by attempting to take full responsibility of their two young, spirited daughters, who don't make the overwhelming task any easier.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, semi autobiographical, sexy, cult classic, realistic, independent film, crying
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The Lovers (2017)
Plot Summary:
The separation of a long married couple goes awry when they fall for each other again.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: captivating, sincere, touching, humorous, art house, sensual, depressing, crying, feel good
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Greenberg (2010)
Plot Summary:
A New Yorker moves to Los Angeles in order to figure out his life while he housesits for his brother, and he soon sparks with his brother's assistant.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, independent film, semi serious, mumblecore, sincere, realistic, talky, satirical, art house, indie film
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Lovely & Amazing (2001)
Plot Summary:
Self-esteem and insecurity are at the heart of this comedy about the relationship between a mother and her three confused daughters.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, erotic, realistic, talky, sweet, inspirational, romantic, romantic drama, semi serious
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Table 19 (2017)
Plot Summary:
Eloise, having been relieved of maid of honor duties after being unceremoniously dumped by the best man via text, decides to attend the wedding anyway – only to find herself seated with five fellow-unwanted guests at the dreaded Table 19.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, sad, happy
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A Hologram for the King (2016)
Plot Summary:
Alan Clay, a struggling American businessman, travels to Saudi Arabia to sell a new technology to the King, only to be challenged by endless Middle Eastern bureaucracy, a perpetually absent monarch, and a suspicious growth on his back.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany, Mexico, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: melancholic, entertaining, light, realistic, stylized, road movie, novela, cult classic, freeze frame, romantic
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A Man Called Ove (2015)
Plot Summary:
Despite grumpy 59 year-old Ove being deposed as president of his condominium association, but he keeps looking over the neighbourhood with an iron fist. When pregnant Parvaneh and her family move into the terraced house opposite Ove and she accidentally back into Ove’s mailbox, it sets off a series of unexpected changes in his life.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 67000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: touching, compassionate, ironic, emotional, feel good, scenic, non-linear, social, funny, philosophical
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Up in the Air (2009)
Plot Summary:
George Clooney plays the dry cynical character of Ryan Bingham, an executive who specializes in "downsizing". Ryan lives out of his suitcase, traveling the country for the sole purpose terminating unwanted employees day after day. Just as Ryan is about to reach his life-long goal of the ten million mile frequent flyer mark some major changes come his way. Changes that threaten to crack the cold heartless exterior that is Ryan Bingham.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 347000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: touching, romantic, heartbreaking, emotional, sexy, realistic, thought provoking, humorous, feel good, melancholic
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Elizabethtown (2005)
Plot Summary:
Drew Baylor is fired after causing his shoe company to lose hundreds of millions of dollars. To make matters worse, he's also dumped by his girlfriend. On the verge of ending it all, Drew gets a new lease on life when he returns to his family's small Kentucky hometown after his father dies. Along the way, he meets a flight attendant with whom he falls in love.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 72000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: emotional, sweet, feel good, melancholic, road movie, sentimental, romantic, light, touching, sincere
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The Sure Thing (1985)
Plot Summary:
Gib, a beer-guzzling slob, and Alison, an uptight Ivy-Leaguer, are an unlikely duo stuck together on a cross-country trip during Christmas break. At first they get on each other's nerves but, as time passes, they find their divergent natures complement each other. Now they need to realize what they've already found before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: road movie, feel good, sex comedy, funny, light, sweet, humorous, romantic, cute, teen
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The Meddler (2015)
Plot Summary:
An aging widow from New York City follows her daughter to Los Angeles in hopes of starting a new life after her husband passes away.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: romantic, melancholic, sentimental, sincere, captivating, funny, light, feel good, social, romantic comedy
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Spread (2009)
Plot Summary:
In Los Angeles, Nikki is homeless, car-less and closing in on 30, but he's amoral, good-looking, and adept in the sack, moving from one wealthy woman of 35 or 40 to another, a kept boy-toy. His newest gig, with Samantha, an attorney whose house overlooks L.A., is sweet, although it's unclear how long she'll put up with him. Then Nikki meets Heather, a waitress. Is the player being played, or might this be love? What will Nikki discover?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, romantic, sentimental, teen, psychological, captivating, cynical, sex comedy, light
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Kings and Queen (2004)
Plot Summary:
Nora Cotterelle, a woman in her 30s is caring for her ill father, Louis Jenssens. While Nora tries to present a facade that all is well with her life, she is twice divorced and has a son, Elias, whose father is dead. Nora's present relationship is not going well, and she is soon to marry a businessman, while Elias is becoming increasingly withdrawn. A parallel storyline follows her former lover and second husband, Ismaël Vuillard, a musician, with whom she had lived for seven years. He is given to strange behaviour, and as a result he has been committed to a mental hospital, from which he is planning to escape. Nora learns that her father's digestive problems are actually cancer, and facing her father's death, Nora desperately seeks out Ismaël to ask that he reconnect with Elias, but he has mixed feelings about adopting her son. Moreover, he has met Arielle, another patient.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, serious, emotional, clever, realistic, contemplative, talky, gloomy, crying
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Saving Face (2004)
Plot Summary:
A Chinese-American lesbian and her traditionalist mother are reluctant to go public with secret loves that clash against cultural expectations.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, sexy, humorous, romantic comedy, intercultural, realistic, witty, lgbt cinema, sex comedy
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The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them (2014)
Plot Summary:
A New York couple's relationship is tested after the loss of their child. This film is the wide-released combination of the original two :him and :her volumes that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, meditative, surreal, sincere, touching, crying, sad, eros, cute
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Sleeping with Other People (2015)
Plot Summary:
Can two serial cheaters get a second chance at love? After a one-night stand in college, New Yorkers Lainey and Jake meet by chance twelve years later and discover they each have the same problem: because of their monogamy-challenged ways, neither can maintain a relationship. Determined to stay friends despite their mutual attraction, they make a pact to keep it platonic, a deal that proves easier said than done.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: light, sexy, funny, sex comedy, teen, melancholic, romantic comedy, independent film, humorous, semi serious
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Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
Plot Summary:
When Sarah Marshall dumps aspiring musician Peter Bretter for rock star Aldous Snow, Peter's world comes crashing down. His best friend suggests that Peter should get away from everything and to fly off to Hawaii to escape all his problems. After arriving in Hawaii and meeting the beautiful Rachel Jansen, Peter is shocked to see not only Aldous Snow in Hawaii, but also Sarah Marshall.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 299000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: feel good, sexy, funny, romantic, sex comedy, humorous, romantic comedy, hilarious, light, teen