Best movies like Personals
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Plot Summary:
Romance - Keith, a freelance journalist, knows sex sells. With the help of a personal ad, he decides to combine business and pleasure through a piece of freelance investigative reporting on the dating scene: 30 dates in 30 days, A Personal Journal. The research takes him beyond his wildest expectations. Keith's world begins to unravel when he meets a girl who sees right through him. Can his cool be liquefied by a funny thing called love? Is this true happiness or is it the prelude to a core meltdown? - Malik Yoba, Stacey Dash, Monteria Ivey.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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I Really Hate My Ex (2015)
Plot Summary:
How far would you go to get over your ex? After recent bad relationships with men, best friends Brea, Wendy, and Jessica want answers—so they decide to kidnap their exes and hold them hostage until they get them! After the kidnappers share their story in an internet chat room, they become a worldwide sensation, as millions cheer on their battle of the exes in this screamingly funny comedy of seduction and abduction.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Pipe Dreams (1976)
Plot Summary:
Pipe Dreams is a 1976 film starring soul singer Gladys Knight in her acting debut as a woman who attempts to regain the love of her husband played by real-life spouse Barry Hankerson. In this drama, her husband must choose between reuniting with her or giving in to pressure of the local boss.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Lust: A Seven Deadly Sins Story (2021)
Plot Summary:
Tiffanie is about to have the wedding of her dreams to her soul mate, the dashing Damon King, founder of King Enterprises. But when Damon’s old friend Trey arrives, fresh from prison to step in as Damon’s best man, Tiffanie’s whole world gets rocked. Sexy and mysterious, Trey triggers a passion in Tiffanie that she never expected, and suddenly the life she’s always planned with Damon is uncertain.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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The Preacher's Son (2017)
Plot Summary:
When the romantic secrets of his family members become public, the career and community standing of a respected bishop are threatened.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 386
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Snapshots (2002)
Plot Summary:
An aging hippy and a beautiful young woman meet in Amsterdam and find love.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Romance
Country: Netherlands, UK, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: uplifting, serious, emotional, realistic, sentimental, touching, feel good
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Blue Chill (1989)
Plot Summary:
A voyeuristic musician meets a seductive senator's wife who wants her husband and stepson out of the way.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sexploitation film
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Anna Nicole Smith: Exposed (1998)
Plot Summary:
Anna Nicole Smith as herself describe a "normal" day of her life and shows what she think and feel about any person or anything in her daily life. From male servant to female servant, from cook to driver, from friends to lawyers, from photographer to a camera, from bed to bath-tub, she describes everything about her daily life.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 410
Genere: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexploitation film
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Watch Me (1995)
Plot Summary:
A struggling photographer makes an amazing discovery when a new tenant in his building starts to behave strangely. Paul the landlord and photographer lives with his girlfriend Samantha. A new tenant hopeful named Elise shows up and Paul is somewhat attracted to her from the start. As time wears on Elise starts watching and seeing things with her telescope from her window. Little does she know that while she is a peeping tom someone else is watching her... Watching her every move.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 306
Genere: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
Similar in 87%
You People (2023)
Plot Summary:
A new couple and their families reckon with modern love amid culture clashes, societal expectations and generational differences.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, feel good
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Initiation Love (2015)
Plot Summary:
Set in Shizuoka and Tokyo, Japan in the late 1980's. Takkun is a university student in Shizuoka attempting to find a job. Mayu is a dental hygienist. They meet through a blind date and begin to date, but Takkun finds a job in Tokyo and goes there. They begin a long distance relationship, but their relationship breaks down.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, psychological thriller, romantic, twisted
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The Broken Hearts Club (2009)
Plot Summary:
An apathetic clinical psychiatrist is put to the test when his clinically insane patients are replaced with the clinically heart-broken.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Blind Love (2005)
Plot Summary:
The films plot hinges on a bizarre love triangle involving a loser ventriloquist, his assistant & a blind woman - Hikari is blindly (literally) in love with Daisuke, a failing ventriloquist yet when she finally musters up enough courage to meet him face to face and present him with some flowers backstage she mistakes his assistant for him. For some reason Daisuke and his assistant decide to follow through with the mistaken identity farce which leads to some amusing complications, particularly in the bedroom.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags: romantic, erotic
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Never and Again (2021)
Plot Summary:
Kevin and Jasmine who, as two teenagers with equal passion for each other's dreams - his love for football and hers for music - fall head over heels in love with each other but tragedy and one horrible lapse in judgment tears them apart. Many years later, Kevin (Long) and Jasmine (Boutte), have to trust one another after their paths cross again. Is their first love strong enough for them to save each other now?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, emotional, talky
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Seducing Mr. Perfect (2006)
Plot Summary:
Min-joon is a believer in true love and always very dedicated to her current boyfriend. Distracted by the latest break-up, she bumps into a car and a man steps out of it - who turns out to be her new boss, Robin Heiden. Heiden has very clear ideas about a relationship and love: both are a game of power and Min-Joon seeks advice from him, as she doesn't want to get dumped again. However, when she starts to treat men like Heiden treats women, she realizes that she prefers her older behaviour, even if that means that she gets dumped again; she doesn't see love as a game of power and never will. Heiden, who has to deal with his own heartbreak, as he loved a woman so much that she had to shoot him to get the message across that she wasn't interested in him, starts to soften at Min-joon's attitude towards life. He eventually falls in love with her and both get into a real relationship and a happy ending of their own.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Romance
Country: South Korea, Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, romantic, romantic comedy, cute
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Flannel Pajamas (2006)
Plot Summary:
A study of a relationship that starts quickly, burns bright, and then gets rocky, not from any one thing, but from an accumulation of civilization and its discontents. Stuart is glib and generous, Nicole is shy and forthright. Is love enough to see them through?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 949
Genere: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, realistic, semi serious, erotic, mumblecore, sex comedy, talky
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The Perfect Match (2016)
Plot Summary:
Terrence J. stars as Charlie, a playboy who's convinced that relationships are dead. His two best friends, Donald Faison and Robert C. Riley, bet him that if he sticks to one woman for one month, he's bound to get attached. Charlie denies this until he crosses paths with the beautiful and mysterious Eva, played by singer/actress Cassie. They may agree to a casual affair, but eventually Charlie is questioning whether he may actually want more.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, feel good, romantic, sexy
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Hav Plenty (1998)
Plot Summary:
Lee Plenty is an almost broke would-be novelist and Havilland Savage is rich and very beautiful woman and his friend. When she invites him to her home for New Year's Eve, they start to build up a romance.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: black comedy, independent film, clever, witty, sentimental, touching, humorous, captivating, realistic, talky
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Gabriel's Inferno: Part Three (2020)
Plot Summary:
The final part of the film adaption of the erotic romance novel Gabriel's Inferno written by an anonymous Canadian author under the pen name Sylvain Reynard.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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A Boy. A Girl. A Dream. (2018)
Plot Summary:
On the night of the 2016 Presidential election, Cass, an L.A. club promoter, takes a thrilling and emotional journey with Frida, a Midwestern visitor. She challenges him to revisit his broken dreams - while he pushes her to discover hers.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 563
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, political
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The Bounce Back (2016)
Plot Summary:
Father, author and relationship expert, Matthew Taylor is on a whirlwind book tour promoting his new best seller, The Bounce Back. He's got it all figured out until he meets the acerbic Kristin Peralta, a talk show circuit therapist who's convinced he's nothing but a charlatan. Matthew's life is turned upside down when he inadvertently falls for Kristin and has to face painful truth of his past relationship.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 747
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, romantic
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A Warm December (1973)
Plot Summary:
Widower Dr. Matt Younger and his daughter go to London for a month of dirt-bike racing. While there, Dr. Younger is surprised by finding himself attracted to Catherine, a charming but elusive woman who seems to have some mysterious men following her. A romance slowly develops between the doctor and Catherine, but there are complications to their happiness.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 772
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, surprise ending
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Saltwater (2012)
Plot Summary:
This American Indie drama follows several endearing characters as they wade through life seeking happiness, peace and ultimately, love. Will (Ronnie Kerr, Vampire Boys 2, Shut Up and Kiss Me) leaves the Navy after many years, soon reunites old friends and begins to start his new civilian life. His friend Rich (Bruce L Hart) tries to set him up with ruggedly handsome Josh (Ian Roberts-a former Australian professional rugby player, actor and model-Cedar Boys, Superman Returns, Little Fish). While there is immense chemistry between the two, timing and certain ideals never seem to align. When a shocking tragedy happens the two are paired up to pick up the pieces and sort through the after effects. Saltwater is a story about men of all ages, finding love, losing friends, navigating their way through life and knowing it's the journey rather then the destination that's important.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 332
Genere: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: serious, touching, realistic, light, sincere, queer cinema
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Love Jones (1997)
Plot Summary:
Darius Lovehall is a young black poet in Chicago who starts dating Nina Moseley, a beautiful and talented photographer. While trying to figure out if they've got a "love thing" or are just "kicking it," they hang out with their friends, talking about love and sex. Then Nina tests the strength of Darius' feelings and sets a chain of romantic complications into motion.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: romantic, sexy, light, sentimental, talky, hood, romantic drama, erotic, cult classic, independent film
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Sprung (1997)
Plot Summary:
Two pairs of best friends - Montel & Clyde and Brandy & Adina meet at the party, where Clyde makes Adina think he is very rich and gets her into bed the same evening. When Adina finds out that she's been fooled, she becomes Clyde's worst enemy. Meanwhile Montel and Brandy fall in love and plan to marry, and Adina and Clyde try to do everything to stop them.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: black comedy, humorous, slapstick, independent film, clever, realistic, witty, semi serious, biting, parody
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Booty Call (1997)
Plot Summary:
Rushon is sexually pent-up and ready to take thing things to the next level with his girlfriend, Nikki. But when he calls for a date, she asks to make it a double -- bringing along her brash friend Lysterine, whom Rushon sets up with his lewd buddy, Bunz. Things go better than expected. As the evening transitions from the restaurant to the bedroom, the two men go on a madcap search for what will surely make the night complete: condoms.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: sexy, humorous, black comedy, sexual, hood, romantic comedy, realistic, witty, semi serious, sex comedy
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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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The Best Man (1999)
Plot Summary:
Harper, a writer who's about to explode into the mainstream leaves behind his girlfriend Robin and heads to New York City to serve as best man for his friend Lance's wedding. Once there, he reunites with the rest of his college circle.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: romantic, clever, romantic comedy, light, black comedy, hood, sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous
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Strictly Business (1991)
Plot Summary:
Waymon has a great job in real estate and a promising future, but he's also trapped in a loveless longterm relationship. He meets Natalie, a beautiful club-hopping hipster, and quickly falls in love. Realizing he's just not cool enough to attract her on his own, he seeks the help of his friend Bobby, a free-spirited smooth talker who works in the mail room at Waymon's firm and utilizes the predicament as leverage to advance in the company.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: black comedy, hood, independent film, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, surprise ending, black cinema
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Think Like a Man Too (2014)
Plot Summary:
All the couples are back for a wedding in Las Vegas, but plans for a romantic weekend go awry when their various misadventures get them into some compromising situations that threaten to derail the big event.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: funny, absurd, sexy, humorous, not serious, teen, sex comedy, happy, realistic, bad ending
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Two Can Play That Game (2001)
Plot Summary:
Vivica A. Fox sizzles as a woman scorned who plans to get her man back by any means necessary. In this comedy about players and those who "get played." As corporate overachiever and all-around fly chick Shanté Smith, Fox thinks she's got the goods to keep her slickster boyfriend (Morris Chestnut) from straying - until he discovers a greener pasture, Shanté's archrival (Gabrielle Union).
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: romantic, humorous, sexy, satirical, romantic comedy, feel good, clever, talky, black comedy, hood