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Plot Summary:
A young game designer falls in love with an older woman and suddenly his whole life turns upside down.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 727
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Complete Idiot (2007)
Plot Summary:
Based on Tommy Jaud's bestselling novel, this comedy focuses on a dispassionate clerk and his set-backs in life. 29-year-old Simon works in a phone shop, but his thoughts just circle around finding a new girl-friend after being left by his last one year ago. While his Croatian cleaner tries to procure him, his efforts to chat up women in clubs also fail. However, he finds the woman of his dreams (and mother of their future children) in his most hated coffee shop, although not having a clue how to win her heart.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: feel good, semi serious, humorous, realistic, sexual, sexy, hot
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Jesus, Mary and Joey (2005)
Plot Summary:
Twenty-something and aimless, Joey Vitello still lives at home with his colorful Italian-American family when he is reunited with a childhood schoolmate, Mary O'Callahan. Once mocked as 'Scary Mary' this ugly duckling has blossomed into an irresistible beauty. She's returned to the old neighborhood after an intense bout with cancer. When Joey learns her cure was the result of a miracle, friendship turns to romance as she educates him on the crossroads to the Almighty. Joey challenges his family's faith with his new found revelations and chaos ensues as they all search for a miracle of their own.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, realistic, semi serious, humorous
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All's Well, Ends Well 2011 (2011)
Plot Summary:
The follow-up to 2009's All's Well Ends Well, with returning stars Louis Koo, Sandra Ng, and Ronald Cheng delivering Lunar New Year period comedy shenanigans for 2010. Angelababy makes a cute appearance in this farce about mistaken identity and star-crossed lovers.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 442
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: sentimental, semi serious, humorous, realistic
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Cupid (2012)
Plot Summary:
With Valentine’s Day approaching, Eve Lovett, a workaholic TV talk show host with a string of failed relationships, is worried she will never find true love. But when a mysterious stranger named Vernon Gart shows up on the set claiming to work for Cupid, Inc., Eve has no idea her love life is about to get an arrow right through the heart.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, light, captivating, realistic, semi serious, independent film, sexual, sexy
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Tell Me About Love (2008)
Plot Summary:
Sasha is a boy in his twenties, deeply loving the beautiful Benedetta, who doesn't seem to recognize his existence. Nicole is a French woman in her forties, living in Rome with her husband. They casually meet and start a friendship which becomes a sentimental education foe the boy.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 704
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, light, captivating, sincere, touching, realistic, semi serious
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It Had to Be You (2000)
Plot Summary:
Two strangers meet and fall in love during the weekend that they are planning their respective weddings.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, semi serious, humorous, inspirational, cynical, realistic, independent film, romantic drama
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The Shrink Is In (2001)
Plot Summary:
A young woman impersonates a shrink to win over her Prince Charming.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, independent film, realistic
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Ed's Next Move (1996)
Plot Summary:
Ed lives in Wisconsin. He's just been dumped by his girlfriend, so he moves to New York City for a big change...but will he ever find love again? He loves his new job studying the genetics of different strains of rice. Then Ed meets Lee, a quirky singer. She's just what Ed thinks he's looking for, and she's available...or is she?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 474
Genere: Romance, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, talky, sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, inspirational, romantic
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Every Jack Has a Jill (2009)
Plot Summary:
Jack is encouraged to take the romantic Paris vacation he won, despite just being dumped by his girlfriend. His trip soon devolves into chaos and adventure, when his luggage is swapped for a French businesswoman's belongings who soon takes a liking to his belongings -- especially his shoes -- and sets out to find him.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sex comedy, offbeat
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It Boy (2013)
Plot Summary:
Alice Lantins is 38, ambitious and so committed to her work that she neglects her personal life. In short, she is the ideal candidate for the next editor of the magazine Rebelle, or would be were it not for the fact that she appears to be stuck in a rut. When Balthazar, a charming 20-year-old, crosses her path, her colleagues begin to see her in a whole new light.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, light, family comedy, sentimental, weird
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So Woman! (2009)
Plot Summary:
Clemence is a brilliant young lawyer who has just settled herself in a comfortable chair. She does not want to be involved in love.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Ages of Love (2011)
Plot Summary:
Roberto is a young and ambitious lawyer who is going to marry Sara. His whole life is perfectly planned out. During a expropriation which he is in charge of, he meets Micol, a gorgeous and provocative young woman from a small village in Tuscany. This is when things start to get complicated... Fabio, a famous anchorman, has been the perfect husband for twenty five years. At a party one night, he meets Eliana, a femme fatale full of surprises. This one-night stand proves to be more than what he bargained for when she refuses to leave... Adrian is an American art history professor who moved to Rome after his divorce. He is friends with Augusto, the building's concierge, whose ebullient daughter Viola is about to disrupt his peaceful existence and relight his fire.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sexy, touching, humorous, semi serious, social, realistic, contemplative, sexual, anthology
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I Kissed a Girl (2015)
Plot Summary:
Jérémie, 34, wakes up in an apartment he doesn't know, next to a woman he doesn't know. She is Adna, a stunning Swedish woman who is as funny as she is sweet. Is this the beginning of a fairy tale? Not quite, since Jérémie is about to get married—to Antoine.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating, realistic
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Cake (2005)
Plot Summary:
A travel writer improves her love life when she becomes an editor for her father's wedding magazine.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Remember Me? (2014)
Plot Summary:
Sharing the same psychologist, a kleptomaniac (Robert) that writes stories a bit too realistic and scary for kids, and a narcoleptic (Beatrice) that documents everything in her life, begin to see that love can be a cure for their ailments. But nothing comes easy to either of them, and, just like in Robert's stories, the happy ending really needs to be sought after. Will they find their own?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 844
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, sentimental, touching, romantic comedy, offbeat, realistic, semi serious
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The Perfect Date (2010)
Plot Summary:
Michel dreams of a perfect meeting with the woman of his dreams, entirely due to chance, as his parents and grandparents experienced. Vincent, Michel's contrast, is completely different. He is more the man of the direct approach and he follows his...! The two childhood friends Michel and Vincent, with completely opposite views when it comes to women, soon discover the limits of their respective techniques when they meet Angèle and Nathalie.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Love on a Diet (2001)
Plot Summary:
Sammi Cheng plays Mimi Mo, a young exchange student to Japan who met and fell in love with a budding pianist, Kurokawa, played by Rikiya Kurokawa. Kurokawa eventually leaves to study music in the USA and returns to Japan as a famous musician. Meanwhile, Mimi has dealt with her depression by eating and weights over 300lbs and Kurokawa doesn't recognize her. Mimi eventually meets Fatty (Andy Lau) who helps her lose the weight so she can fulfill her promise of meeting Kurokawa made 10 years earlier. But then they fall in love.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, Japan
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sad
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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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New Low (2010)
Plot Summary:
Wendell, a neurotic, aimless twentysomething, struggles to figure out which girl he really belongs with: Joanna, the best girl he's ever known, or Vicky, the worst. His friend, Dave, helps him sort through his thoughts as Wendell discovers not only who he should be with, but who he truly is under all that neuroses.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: humorous, mumblecore, feel good, semi serious, light, captivating, independent film, sentimental, clever, realistic
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Bacon on the Side (2010)
Plot Summary:
Djalil Boudaoud and Justine Lacroix are a surgeon and a television reporter who enter a romantic relationship despite the objections of their families to the cultural gap.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 557
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, sentimental, touching, realistic
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Romantic Debtors (2010)
Plot Summary:
A policeman in debt is constantly called by a woman working to collect his debt. When they meet by accident they attracted to each other, and does not realize they already have a hostile phone-relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 212
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, feel good, sentimental, realistic, witty, queer cinema
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BachelorMan (2003)
Plot Summary:
In these times of enlightened sexual politics, Ted Davis is a scoring machine. He's got the rap, the charm and his little black book weighs several pounds. Ted has become a guru to his buddies who can only aspire in awe to his greatness. This is a man's man, a ladies man, a super-hero: He's Ted Davis: "BachelorMan".
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 466
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Flirting with Forty (2008)
Plot Summary:
A divorcee has a passionate affair with a much younger surfing instructor in Hawaii.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, erotic, romantic, sexy, touching
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Looking for Maria Sanchez (2013)
Plot Summary:
Raul, a Puerto Rican born in New York, meets Maria, a young Puerto Rican woman visiting NY, one night. Struck by love at first sight, he travels to Puerto Rico in search of this beautiful girl.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Puerto Rico, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, sentimental, captivating, light, feel good, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Bridal Fever (2008)
Plot Summary:
It’s a race to the altar when a steamy romance novelist with a long line of torrid romances – and ex-husbands – sets out to help a single woman ditch her bridesmaid dresses once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 566
Genere: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: feel good, semi serious, sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic
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Bed & Breakfast: Love is a Happy Accident (2010)
Plot Summary:
Bed and Breakfast is a romantic comedy about a saleswoman from a large department store in Rio who discovers she has inherited property in the wine country of California. She could never expect what she would find in "Webster", a small country town.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sincere, captivating
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I Hate Valentine's Day (2009)
Plot Summary:
A love story set in Manhattan, where a florist who abides by a strict five-date-limit with any man finds herself wanting more with the new restaurateur in town.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, semi serious, humorous, realistic, sincere, sweet, touching, romantic comedy, exciting
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Hope Springs (2003)
Plot Summary:
British artist Colin Ware discovers that his fiancée, Vera, is going to marry another man. Distraught and despondent, he gets on a plane for America and ends up in the tiny town of Hope in New England. At first, Colin is depressed, but he soon finds more than a shoulder to cry on when his innkeepers introduce him to Mandy, a beautiful nurse. All's going well and Colin has almost forgotten his old flame until Vera shows up with a surprise of her own.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, sweet, funny, feel good, humorous, sentimental, touching, romantic comedy, offbeat
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Mademoiselle (2001)
Plot Summary:
Claire is a young woman who leads a somewhat formatted life. Pierre is an improviser, but not an actor. Brief encounter, brief romance, doomed or not, who can say? When things like that happen, you act on the spur of the moment.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 845
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sexy, touching, sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual
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Carolina (2003)
Plot Summary:
Carolina is a 2003 romantic comedy film directed by Marleen Gorris, starring Julia Stiles, Shirley MacLaine, Alessandro Nivola, Mika Boorem, Randy Quaid, and Jennifer Coolidge. Lisa Sheridan has a cameo role in the film, and Barbara Eden has the uncredited part of Daphne. It is set in Los Angeles, California. Shot in 2003, the film failed to find a distributor and was released direct-to-video in 2005.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: feel good, sentimental, realistic, humorous, semi serious