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Plot Summary:
In 1993, Max was 13 when he was offered his first camera. For 25 years he will not stop filming. The bunch of friends, the loves, the successes, the failures. From the 90s to the 2010s, it is the portrait of a whole generation that is emerging through its objective.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, entertaining, romantic comedy
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A Love You (2015)
Plot Summary:
After a drunken evening and an unforgettable night with a total stranger, Manu wakes up alone to find a message on his arm giving him an appointment in Avignon. Convinced that the appointment is with the dreamy woman from the night before, he is ready to do anything to find her again.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, sincere, entertaining, contemplative, unusual plot structure
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The Brats (2013)
Plot Summary:
Newly engaged, Thomas meets his future father-in-law Gilbert, who has been married for 30 years to Suzanne. Disillusioned Gilbert is convinced that his marriage has meant he's missed out on life. He persuades Thomas not to marry his daughter Lola and encourages him to drop everything else in his life as well. The two men then throw themselves into a new brats' life full of adventure, convinced that freedom is elsewhere. But at what cost do we rediscover our adolescent dreams?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, hilarious, contemplative
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Cross Country Christmas (2020)
Plot Summary:
Former classmates Lina and Max are traveling home for the holidays, until a storm hits and they have to work together to make it home in time, no matter the mode of transportation.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, captivating, realistic, romantic comedy
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All or Nothing (2017)
Plot Summary:
The lives of three best friends - Linda, Vanda and Edo - get all tangled by four attractive men.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 497
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: funny, romantic, humorous, captivating, entertaining, witty, crying, queer cinema
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(Girl)Friend (2018)
Plot Summary:
Vincent and Nefeli just moved in together. They're best friends and swore to never fall in love again. That is until Vincent meets Julie.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 836
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: light, entertaining, humorous, sentimental
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Hikers (1997)
Plot Summary:
Deux filles et trois garçons partent en randonnée sur l'île de Beauté. La difficulté des chemins escarpés de la Corse va les révéler à eux-mêmes.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating
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Blind Date (2015)
Plot Summary:
He invents puzzles. He’s committed body and soul to his work and needs silence to be able to concentrate. She is an accomplished pianist and can’t live without music. She must prepare for a competition that could change her life. They are going to be forced to coexist without seeing each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, romantic, humorous, disturbing, captivating, entertaining, satirical, funny, romantic comedy, whimsical
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The Wedding Cake (2010)
Plot Summary:
The wedding of Vincent and Berenger does not begin well. For starters, the fabulous cake for the reception falls apart as the butler of the château, and one of the caterers is taking down a flight of stairs falls. The cream puffs are carefully picked up from the floor an arranged as though nothing happened. The bride comes from a bourgeois family, presided by Maddie, an old lady with a secret in her heart. The wedding, to be performed at the local church, by father Victor, proves to be not the classic marriage that has been planned.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 731
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, psychological, sincere, serious, realistic
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Rosalie Blum (2015)
Plot Summary:
Vincent Machot knows his life by heart. He shares it between his hair dressing salon, his cousin, his cat, and his too-invasive mother. But life sometimes holds surprises, even for the most prudent of people... He crosses paths with Rosalie Blum by accident. She is a mysterious and solitary woman whom he is sure he has already met. But where? Intrigued, he decides to follow her everywhere, in the hope of knowing more about her.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, feel good, captivating, non-linear
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In Search of a Midnight Kiss (2007)
Plot Summary:
Broke and alone on New Year's Eve, Wilson just wants to spend the rest of a very bad year in bed. But, when his best friend convinces him to post a personal ad, he meets a woman bent on finding the right guy to be with at midnight.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: semi serious, independent film, romantic, mumblecore, light, melancholic, witty, sweet, humorous, funny
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Love at First Child (2015)
Plot Summary:
Gabriell is a single mother, her 17-year-old daughter Claire is pregnant, however the child's father Simon has no desire to be involved with his future baby. When Gabrielle takes matters into her own hands and asks Simon's father Ange for help, an unexpected relationship begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Mission Pays Basque (2017)
Plot Summary:
Sibylle, a young Parisian with long teeth, intends to shine in her new job by buying a hardware store in the Basque Country to set up a supermarket. She imagines that she has "rolled" the old owner but the latter is under curatorship. Sibylle must therefore deal with Ramon, the nephew, to recover his money and sign as soon as possible. Otherwise, the ejection seat is assured. She will soon realize that the Basques do not intend to let themselves be made by a Parisian, however pretty she is.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 638
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Christmas Crush (2019)
Plot Summary:
When holiday fanatic Addie (Cindy Sampson) makes a Christmas wish for her next door neighbor Sam (Robin Dunne) to fall in love with her, she’s not expecting anything to happen – and she definitely isn’t expecting the wish to go awry and cause her other neighbor, Pete (Chris Violette) to fall in love instead. When Pete’s romantic gestures grow more and more over-the-top, Addie recruits Sam to help. With Sam’s assistance, can Addie break the spell by Christmas? Or will she spend the rest of her life dealing with a love-lorn Pete?.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 773
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sweet, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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Babysitting (2014)
Plot Summary:
Looking for a baby-sitter for the night, Marc Schaudel entrusts his son Remy to the care of his employee Franck, a straight man. But the thing that Marc doesn't know, is that Franck is getting 30 years old this weekend and that his son Remy is a very capricious child. The next day, Marc and his wife Claire are awakened by a call from the police. Remy and Franck are missing, and the house is totally devastated. The police finds a camera in the leftovers. Marc, Claire and the police start watching the video that has been recorded the day before during the night and find out what happened to Franck and Remy.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, feel good, funny, captivating, entertaining, cynical, romantic, slapstick
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The Story of My Life (2004)
Plot Summary:
Raphael is a ghostwriter who takes a job writing for famous footy player Kevin. To his delight and his girlfriend, Murials horror, Kevins current girlfriend is an old (easily rekindled) flame of Raphaels. A freak accident leaves a close friend dead and Raphael is forced to reconsider his priorities.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sentimental, funny, captivating, entertaining, light, romantic, feel good, realistic
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Try Me (2006)
Plot Summary:
Quand Yves-Marie, 9 ans, demande à Jacqueline, qui a son âge : "Epouse-moi", elle répond par une pirouette : "Le jour où tu vas dans les étoiles, je te donne ma main.".
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 624
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, realistic, semi serious
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Caprice (2015)
Plot Summary:
An average guy meets an actress who is more beautiful than he could ever imagine. But then a pesky girl materializes to make his life a living hell. His perfect girlfriend now thinks that he is involved with this Caprice.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, sincere, feel good, sensitive, sentimental, realistic
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Games of Love and Chance (2003)
Plot Summary:
The life of a band of teenager in a suburb near Paris. But instead of showing what would be the "urban legend" of this kind of poor suburb (violence, rapes...), Abdelatif Kechiche shows us what's the daily life of those guys: not much to do, not much dreams. Still, some of them have fun rehearsing for a play. Among those "players", Lydia, long time friend of Krimo... And Krimo, a bit shy, finds himself in love with this joyful girl.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: slang, touching, semi serious, sincere, humorous, realistic, anthology, crying, multicultural
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Anything for Alice (2014)
Plot Summary:
Slacker Max fell so hard for single mother Alice in college that he developed a website aimed at winning her heart. Years later, after his venture has earned him millions of dollars, Max risks his entire fortune performing an ever more complicated series of social contortions to get close to Alice, now a politically motivated factory worker.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 556
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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The Art of Seduction (2011)
Plot Summary:
Jean-François is a psychoanalyst in love with one of his patients. When she decides to stop therapy, Jean-François at last feels free to seduce the woman. Paralyzed when in front of his object of love, Jean-François accumulates blunders of every kind. He hence turns to Julien, one his patients who is in therapy to overcome his compulsive-obsessive flirting disorder. It's a totally absurd initiative on Jean-François's part. But, even so.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, sincere, sentimental, realistic, semi serious
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New Year's Eve (2011)
Plot Summary:
The lives of several couples and singles in New York intertwine over the course of New Year's Eve.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 89000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, romantic comedy, touching, melancholic, teen, sweet, realistic, sentimental, humorous
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Christmas in Boston (2005)
Plot Summary:
Gina and Seth have been pen pals for 13 years and now will have the chance to meet. Both used their best friends pictures to send to each other and now will let their friends meet. True love is found in the end for all.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sincere, romantic, feel good, captivating, entertaining, cute
Similar in 79%
Love Hard (2021)
Plot Summary:
An LA girl, unlucky in love, falls for an East Coast guy on a dating app and decides to surprise him for Christmas, only to discover that she's been catfished. But the object of her affection actually lives in the same town, and the guy who duped her offers to set them up if she pretends to be his own girlfriend for the holidays.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: romantic, sincere, feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, emotional, happy
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Let It Snow (2019)
Plot Summary:
When a huge blizzard (that doesn't show signs of stopping) hits, Gracetown is completely snowed in. But even though it's cold outside, things are heating up inside, proving that Christmas is magical when it comes to love.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, teen, sincere, romantic, romantic comedy, feel good, queer cinema
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A Christmas Kiss (2011)
Plot Summary:
Wendy Walton is the best designer in Boston... but no one knows it yet. Hoping to kick-start her career, Wendy has left work with the local theatre to take a job as an assistant to Priscilla Hall, the most prestigious designer in the city. Ms. Hall works Wendy around the clock, which is how Wendy finds herself trapped in an elevator late one night with an incredibly handsome stranger. Wendy and the mystery man share an impulsive, romantic, life changing kiss before the doors open and Wendy runs out, leaving him behind. The next day at work, Wendy answers the door to find the handsome gentleman standing in front of her.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, sentimental, touching, semi serious, sincere, captivating, entertaining, romantic, sweet
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Crush in Jaipur (2016)
Plot Summary:
A light hearted romantic-road comedy produced by Big Band Story in association with the French TV network TF1. The film had its world premiere in Festival de la Fiction TV, La Rochelle. The film stars popular French TV stars Rayane Bensetti, Lucie Lucas, Cécile Rebboah & Xavier Robic.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sincere, romantic, road movie, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, semi serious
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Beautiful Lies (2010)
Plot Summary:
A hairdresser forwards a passionate love letter to her widowed mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, entertaining, sentimental, sincere, touching, realistic, neurotic
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Made of Honor (2008)
Plot Summary:
Tom and Hannah have been platonic friends for 10 years. He's a serial dater, while she wants marriage but hasn't found Mr. Right. Just as Tom is starting to think that he is relationship material after all, Hannah gets engaged. When she asks Tom to be her 'maid' of honor, he reluctantly agrees just so he can attempt to stop the wedding and woo her.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 75000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, funny, entertaining, humorous, cute, teen, captivating, romantic comedy, philosophical
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Amelie (2001)
Plot Summary:
At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie (Audrey Tautou) accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. Soon Amelie is spending her days as a matchmaker, guardian angel, and all-around do-gooder. But when she bumps into a handsome stranger, will she find the courage to become the star of her very own love story?.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 784000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: feel good, inspirational, touching, sweet, stylized, sentimental, romantic, visually stunning, surreal, colorful
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Love, Rosie (2014)
Plot Summary:
Since the moment they met at age 5, Rosie and Alex have been best friends, facing the highs and lows of growing up side by side. A fleeting shared moment, one missed opportunity, and the decisions that follow send their lives in completely different directions. As each navigates the complexities of life, love, and everything in between, they always find their way back to each other - but is it just friendship, or something more? Based on Cecelia Ahern's bestselling novel, LOVE, ROSIE is a heart-warming, modern comedy-of-errors posing the ultimate question: do we really only get one shot at true love?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 152000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: touching, sweet, sentimental, cute, teen, emotional, tear jerker, light, feel good, romantic comedy