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Plot Summary:
After his entire department is outsourced, an American novelty products salesman heads to India to train his replacement.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, romantic, light, talky, semi serious, romantic comedy, intense, intercultural
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Falling Up (2009)
Plot Summary:
A nursing student forced to quit school for family reasons winds up taking a job as a doorman in an elite apartment building in New York City, where he sparks to one of his residents.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic, romantic comedy, independent film
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Not Another Happy Ending (2013)
Plot Summary:
When a struggling publisher discovers his only successful author is blocked he knows he has to unblock her or he's finished. With her newfound success, she's become too damn happy and she can't write when she's happy.The only trouble is, the worse he makes her feel, the more he realises he's in love with her.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, semi serious, realistic, romantic, sexual, romantic comedy, independent film, sexy
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Syrup (2013)
Plot Summary:
A slacker hatches a million-dollar idea. But, in order to see it through, he has to learn to trust his attractive corporate counterpart. Based on Max Barry's novel.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, independent film, funny, light, romantic, heartbreaking, family comedy, romantic comedy
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Dorfman in Love (2011)
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Unknowingly trapped in her role as caretaker of her unappreciative family, a young single woman desperately needs to get her own life. When she volunteers to cat sit at her unrequited love's downtown L.A loft, her world, as she knows it, changes forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, humorous, emotional, semi serious, romantic, romantic comedy, realistic, independent film
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Office Romance. Our time (2011)
Plot Summary:
Anatoli Yefremovich Novoseltsev works in a ratings company, whose director is an unattractive and bossy woman. An old friend of his, Yuri Grigorievich Samokhvalov, who gets appointed assistant director, wants to make Novoseltsev the manager but encounters objections from Ludmila Prokopievna Kalugina, the director. Samokhvalov then advises Novoseltsev to lightly hit on the boss. Ironically, Novoseltsev and Kalugina fall in love with each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, light, touching, sentimental, realistic, semi serious, funny
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Bitter/Sweet (2009)
Plot Summary:
American businessman Brian Chandler has a perfect life with a great job and beautiful fiancée. When his boss, renegade coffee mogul Calvert Jenkins sends him to Thailand to inspect a crop for purchase, Brian meets Ticha, a beautiful Bangkok executive who has long-since given up on the prospects of finding love.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Thailand, USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, touching, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Outsourced (2010)
Plot Summary:
Outsourced is an American television sitcom set in an Indian workplace. It is based on the John Jeffcoat film of the same name and adapted by Robert Borden of George Lopez and Universal Media Studios for NBC. The series originally ran from September 23, 2010 to May 12, 2011. The show was officially picked up by NBC on May 7, 2010 and on October 18, 2010, the show received a full season order. Outsourced was filmed at Radford Studios in Studio City, Los Angeles, California. When the renewal of the show was not announced with renewal of other NBC shows, the cast and crew started a campaign for fans of the show to request its renewal. On May 13, 2011, NBC announced that Outsourced was cancelled. Outsourced is set in a call center in Bombay, India, where an American novelties company has recently outsourced its order processing. A lone American manages the call center and must explain American popular culture to his employees as he tries to understand Indian culture.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, realistic, humorous, not serious, light, entertaining, hilarious
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In Good Company (2004)
Plot Summary:
Dan Foreman is a seasoned advertisement sales executive at a high-ranking publication when a corporate takeover results in him being placed under naive supervisor Carter Duryea, who is half his age. Matters are made worse when Dan's new supervisor becomes romantically involved with his daughter an 18 year-old college student Alex.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, realistic, romantic comedy, sentimental, emotional, humorous, semi serious, romantic, clever
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Price Check (2012)
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Pete is a good guy who used to be cool. Once living his dream in the music industry, he now toils away in the pricing department of a failing supermarket chain to provide for his loving wife and young son. When Pete’s new boss, Susan, takes over the department, her high-energy enthusiasm and unconventional ideas start to shake things up. She aims to reinvent the company while grooming Pete for the executive fast track. Making more money now than he ever hoped to in the music industry, Pete begins to wonder if this new career is just what he needs to become the man he’s always wanted to be.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, feel good, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Americanizing Shelley (2007)
Plot Summary:
A wannabe Hollywood player sets out to Americanize an Indian girl from the Himalayas.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 664
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic
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The Other End of the Line (2007)
Plot Summary:
An employee at an Indian call-center travels to San Francisco to be with a guy she falls for over the phone.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: UK, USA, India
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: feel good, semi serious, romantic, humorous, realistic, romantic comedy, sincere, captivating, sex comedy, multicultural
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My Sassy Girl (2008)
Plot Summary:
A guy (Jesse Bradford) has his life planned out, until he is wooed, groomed and then dumped by an elusive woman (Elisha Cuthbert).
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic comedy, touching, depressing, independent film
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For Love or Money (1993)
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New York concierge Doug Ireland wants to go into business for himself and refurbish a hotel on Roosevelt Island, N.Y., but he needs an investor. With a few weeks left before his option on the site runs out, Doug agrees to help wealthy Christian Hanover conceal his affair with salesgirl Andy Hart from his wife. Despite his own attraction to Andy, Doug tries to stay focused on getting Christian to invest $3 million in his project.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: entertaining, romantic, talky, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, light hearted, colorful
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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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The Giant Mechanical Man (2012)
Plot Summary:
An offbeat romantic comedy about a silver-painted street performer and the soft spoken zoo worker who falls for him.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, feel good, humorous, offbeat, independent film, heartbreaking, funny, romantic, cult classic
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New in Town (2009)
Plot Summary:
Lucy Hill is an ambitious up-and-coming executive living in Miami. She loves her shoes, she loves her cars and she loves climbing the corporate ladder. When she is offered a temporary assignment – in the middle of nowhere – to restructure a manufacturing plant, she jumps at the opportunity, knowing that a big promotion is close at hand. What begins as a straight-forward assignment becomes a life-changing experience as Lucy discovers greater meaning in her life and, most unexpectedly, the man of her dreams.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, sweet, light, entertaining, romantic, romantic comedy, cute, teen, philosophical
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Picture Perfect (1997)
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A young advertising executive's life becomes increasingly complicated when, in order to impress her boss, she pretends to be engaged to a man she has just met.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, sweet, light, talky, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic comedy
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The Ramen Girl (2008)
Plot Summary:
An American woman is stranded in Tokyo after breaking up with her boyfriend. Searching for direction in life, she trains to be a râmen chef under a tyrannical Japanese master.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: feel good, inspirational, touching, humorous, semi serious, romantic, teen, culinary, thought provoking, realistic
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Working Girl (1988)
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Witty, romantic look at life in the corporate jungle. Tess McGill is an ambitious secretary with a unique approach for climbing the ladder to success. When her classy, but villainous boss breaks a leg skiing, Tess takes over her office, her apartment and even her wardrobe. She creates a deal with a handsome investment banker that will either take her to the top, or finish her off for good.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: feel good, inspirational, captivating, light, talky, sweet, romantic comedy, romantic, humorous, clever
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Fools Rush In (1997)
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Alex Whitman (Matthew Perry) is a designer from New York City who is sent to Las Vegas to supervise the construction of a nightclub that his firm has been hired to build. Alex is a straight-laced WASP-ish type who, while enjoying a night on the town, meets Isabel Fuentes (Salma Hayek), a free-spirited Mexican-American photographer. Alex and Isabel are overtaken by lust at first sight and end up sp.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: entertaining, humorous, sentimental, touching, romantic, romantic comedy, sweet, light, feel good, realistic
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Bride & Prejudice (2004)
Plot Summary:
A Bollywood update of Jane Austen's classic tale, in which Mrs. Bakshi is eager to find suitable husbands for her four unmarried daughters. When the rich single gentlemen Balraj and Darcy come to visit, the Bakshis have high hopes, though circumstance and boorish opinions threaten to get in the way of romance.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: UK, USA, India, France
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, light, romantic comedy, scenic, colorful, humorous, funny, inspirational, happy
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Shanghai Calling (2012)
Plot Summary:
When ambitious New York attorney Sam is sent to Shanghai on assignment, he immediately stumbles into a legal mess that could end his career. With the help of a beautiful relocation specialist, a well-connected old-timer, a clever journalist, and a street-smart legal assistant, Sam might just save his job, find romance, and learn to appreciate the beauty and wonders of Shanghai. Written by Anonymous (IMDB.com).
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, China
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, independent film
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The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015)
Plot Summary:
As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals - Sonny pursues his expansionist dream of opening a second hotel.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, India
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: sweet, sentimental, feel good, romantic, bad ending, melancholic, witty, talky, humorous, touching
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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011)
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British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than its advertisements, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways as the residents find new purpose in their old age.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 99000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, uplifting, inspirational, sentimental, romantic, sweet, atmospheric, comedy drama, motivational
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My Faraway Bride (2006)
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The story of Alex, a copy-writer dreaming of being an adventure novelist someday, who meets and romances Indian beauty Reena, while she is vacationing in California. Torn by her blossoming feelings for Alex and her Indian family values and obligations, Reena returns home without saying goodbye. Alex, distraught by the turn of events, decides to follow her to Mumbai and win her back.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 659
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, India
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sentimental, semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic
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Namastey London (2007)
Plot Summary:
Indian-born Manmohan Malhotra decided to re-locate to London, England, established himself, returned to India, got married to Bebo, and after a period of 4 years got a visa for her so that she could live with him. Shortly thereafter she gave birth to Jasmeet. Manmohan was always embarrassed of Bebo, as she was overly healthy and not quite sophisticated, as a result he always left her at home, while he socialized. Bebo did not want Jasmeet to end up like her, so got her admitted in an English Medium school, encouraged to mingle with Caucasian friends, and as a result Jasmeet was transformed in to Jazz - a stunningly beautiful young woman, British in looks, talk, habits, and heart. Manmohan's plans to get her married to an Indian boy are all in vain. His friend, Parvez Khan, is in a similar situation with his son, Imran, openly romancing a Caucasian blonde, Susan. Manmohan decides to take his family for a tour in India.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, realistic, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, patriotic, cult classic, stylized
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Before We Go (2014)
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A woman who is robbed on her way to catch the 1:30 train to Boston is left stranded in New York City. She meets a man who helps her during the course of the night and the two form a romance.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, romantic, sweet, light, witty, romantic comedy, cute, emotional, talky, humorous
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The Proposal (2009)
Plot Summary:
When she learns she's in danger of losing her visa status and being deported, overbearing book editor Margaret Tate forces her put-upon assistant, Andrew Paxton, to marry her.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 349000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: feel good, romantic, light, sweet, funny, romantic comedy, witty, sexy, cute, hilarious
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Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year (2009)
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Rocket Singh - Salesman of the Year is the sometimes thoughtless, sometimes thoughtful story of a fresh graduate trying to find a balance between the maddening demands of the 'professional' way, and the way of his heart - and stumbling upon a crazy way which turned his world upside down, and his career right side up. Welcome to the world of sales boss!.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: feel good, entertaining, humorous, inspirational, light, melancholic, motivational, funny, powerful, realistic
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When We Met (2007)
Plot Summary:
Depressed after the passing of his father, Dharamraj; as well as his gorgeous girlfriend ditching him, Mumbai-based businessman Aditya Kashyap takes a BEST bus, goes to Chatrapati Shivaji Train Terminus, and boards a train. This is where he meets Geet Kaur Dhillon, who is returning home to Bhatinda, and who pays for his ticket. At Bar Nagar, he decides to leave, but she follows him, missing her train. They manage to get a ride to Ratlam, miss the train again, but eventually make it to Bhatinda. Once there, he gets to meet her family; her pretty sister, Roop; as well as her to-be betrothed, Manjeet Singh Mann. Before the engagement could be finalized, she manages to convince her family that she wants to marry Aditya, and they welcome him with open arms. Before he could take stock of these new developments, she elopes with him - not to get married - but to re-locate to Manali - where her true love, Anshuman, is waiting, and who she hopes to get married to.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, humorous, semi serious, inspirational, sentimental, funny, touching, entertaining, melancholic