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Plot Summary:
As shy, awkward and, frankly, nerdy as she is, 25 year old public official Na Young-ju has little hope of landing a boyfriend. But then a game of chance designates her as the member of her office staff who will take English courses—much to her horror. In the same class, she encounters show salesman Park Moon-su, who fancies himself a dashing ladies’ man. He’s studying English in part to communicate with his long-lost American sister, but mostly for the purpose of wielding exotic pick-up lines, and is soon deploying them at the less-than-impressed Cathy, the pretty Australian teaching the class. But while Park flirts with Cathy, it’s Young-ju who finds herself mooning after the handsome if self-absorbed fellow.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, romantic, romantic comedy, realistic
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Kimberly (1999)
Plot Summary:
Four young men fall in love with the same woman. When they all find themselves attracted by Kimberly, hey vow not to fight for her affections during the season -- but then she gets pregnant and doesn't know which teammate is the father.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 797
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: romantic comedy, independent film, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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The Boyfriend School (1990)
Plot Summary:
Gus is a fat cartoonist that recently won a battle against cancer, which explains his baldness. But he is also lonely. Therefore, his caring sister tries to set him up with suitable woman. But to do so, she must turn him into an irresistible man. When he falls in love with Emily, Gus takes the identity of a mysterious biker from New Zealand.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, melancholic, independent film
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Marrying the Mafia (2002)
Plot Summary:
The film is a gangster comedy about a businessman who becomes involved with the gangster underworld through the daughter of a crime boss.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 695
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, realistic, semi serious, slapstick
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Sex is No Laughing Matter (2007)
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Mirume (Ken'ichi Matsuyama) is a 19 year old college student who falls in love with Yuri (Hiromi Nagasaku), an almost 40 year old art teacher at his university. Yuri isn't your typical college professor, having a quirky sense of humor and unpredictable personality. When Yuri invites Murume to her studio, she playfully seduces the still naive 19 year old student. Things become more complicated when Mirume discovers that Yuri is married to a much older man.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 528
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, romantic, realistic, semi serious, queer cinema
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Plot Summary:
When popular TV show host Dr. Love goes missing ahead of the annual Christmas special, a zany search for his replacement and holiday romance ensues.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 728
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, romantic, feel good, humorous, sweet
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Too Beautiful to Lie (2004)
Plot Summary:
A professional lady con makes herself the pharmacist's fiancée overnight, and faces a disastrous blemish in her impeccable con-woman career.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic, romantic comedy, romantic drama
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Wok of Love (2018)
Plot Summary:
It's a love story hotter than the boiling oil in a sizzling hot wok. Across the street of the 6-star Hotel Giant, there stands a small, shabby Chinese restaurant, Hungry Wok. Chil Seong, the owner of the restaurant, originally took over the restaurant in order to provide a place to work for his former prison mates. One day, a man and a woman whose lives turned upside down overnight come visit Chil Seong. A former star chef, Seo Poong, and a broke heiress, Sae Woo, are in need of Chil Seong's help so that they can get back on their feet. Tune in to Wok of Love and learn about the passion and love that can be found in the hectic working environment of a kitchen.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: captivating, dorama, light, sincere, humorous, entertaining, romantic
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Cinderella and the Four Knights (2016)
Plot Summary:
Eun Ha-Won is a college student. She is a bright girl who wants to be a veterinarian, but at home she is lonely. She is isolated from her family members. Eun Ha-Won lives with father, step-mother and step-sister after her mother died in a car accident. One day, she helps a mysterious old man. The old man suggests to her to live in a mansion and pursue her dream of becoming a veterinarian. Since than, she moves into the mansion and lives with three cousins Kang Ji-Woon, Kang Hyun-Min, Kang Seo-Woo and their bodyguard Lee Yoon-Sung.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: feel good, romantic, touching, sincere, captivating, dorama, novela, romantic comedy
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Passionate People (2002)
Plot Summary:
Uma, tired of waiting for the man of her dreams to raise a family, decides that Nico, the boyfriend of her best friend Lucy, has all necessary features. So she asks her a favor: to lend her boyfriend once. In the middle of surprising situations, Uma convinces Lucia and Nico. That way it starts what first seems "a simple procedure".
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, neo screwball comedy
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Petty Romance (2010)
Plot Summary:
A comic artist and an unemployed sex columnist are trying to work together in order to win a lucrative comic-book competition. An adult cartoon contest is announced offering a W130 million prize. Da-Rim (Choi Gang-Hee) does translation work for an adult magazine. Da-Rim wants to become a writer. Due to her creativity, Da-Rim is always making mistakes and gets fired by company. Talented cartoonist Jung-Bae (Lee Sun-Kyun) is constantly turned down by publishing companies because of his poor story lines. The two, who seemed perfectly matched, team up for the adult cartoon contest. Trouble is set to brew.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 763
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, light, entertaining, romantic, sex comedy, romantic comedy, sentimental, realistic
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You're My Pet (2011)
Plot Summary:
A woman finds a man in a box in front of her home and takes him in. She jokingly says she wants to keep him as her pet since the man reminds her childhood dog. The man agrees. Later the woman discovers that the man is a dance prodigy. Complications arise when her old flame from college appears.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, sincere, feel good, touching, realistic, romantic, sex comedy, anime
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My Tutor Friend (2003)
Plot Summary:
This is a touching story of two completely different students from two completely different worlds. One is a rich male repeating his third year of high school and the other a poor girl in her second year of university struggling to make ends meet.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, humorous, semi serious, romantic, romantic comedy, realistic
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Singles (2003)
Plot Summary:
Na-nan has known best pals Dong-mi and Jung-joon since childhood, and now the trio shares the ups and downs of their turbulent single lives together. But everything gets turned on end when Dong-mi and Jung-joon end up in bed! Should the longtime friends make it official or call it a mistake? Na-nan has a job offer and a marriage proposal from the charming Soo-heon to consider, and her twenties are fast coming to end.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 365
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexy, sexual
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All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane (2007)
Plot Summary:
Anthea is 25, single, hates her job – and all her friends are leaving Brisbane. Should she follow the herd to Sydney or London? Is there anything worth staying for now that her best friend Michael finally has a girlfriend? This film tells a universal story about finding your place and yourself.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 351
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic, offbeat, sexual, sexy
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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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Plot Summary:
Yvonne is a divorced middle-aged Chinese immigrant who thinks her life is over, and she is doomed to spend the rest of her days as a slave to her large and eccentric family. Suddenly, romance enters her life and Yvonne gets a long deferred chance for true love. However, she falls for the last person a Chinese family would ever accept, Jose, a Mexican-American dentist. It doesnt matter what race or culture youre from, deep down inside we are the same. And from this lesson Yvonne and her family begin to love each other for who they are and to accept Jose into the family.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, captivating, light, realistic, semi serious
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Seoul Searching (2015)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: South Korea, China, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sincere, touching, captivating, feel good, offbeat, realistic, independent film
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 212
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
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Plot Summary:
TV writer Ji-ho (Jin-hie Park) has been secretly in love with Min-woo (Ki-woo Lee) for the last 10 years. After a night of binge-drinking, she wakes up to face the worst day of her life. She wakes up to find that she has just gotten fired for low viewer ratings. On her way home her purse then gets snatched and Ji-ho pursues the thief. Then suddenly, when things seem that they can’t go any worse, Ji-ho gets hit by a car. But the chain of unfortunate events suddenly turns out to be a God-sent present. The man who hit her with the car turns out to be the very man she’s been in love with all these years, Min-woo. She then pretends to have amnesia ….
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, feel good, humorous, entertaining, romantic, romantic comedy, realistic, semi serious
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Love Hurts (2009)
Plot Summary:
After his wife leaves him, middle-aged Ben Bingham slips into a funk and refuses to change out of his pajamas. Justin, Ben's 17-year-old son, has the cure for what ails his depressed dad: he gives Ben a makeover and pushes him out into the singles scene. Soon Ben is the most popular guy in town, but when Justin falls in love for the first time, Ben must refocus his priorities and set about trying to win back his wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, feel good, romantic, touching, realistic, witty
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Bigger Than the Sky (2005)
Plot Summary:
After being dumped by his girlfriend, a man stuck in a deadend life decides to audition for a small role in a local community theatre's production of Cyrano de Bergerac. Despite having no experience as an actor, he lands the lead role, which wreaks havoc upon his life.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, spiritual, clever, realistic, talky, independent film
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Happiness Never Comes Alone (2012)
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Sacha is a real seducer, a man with no ties or emotional or professional. Charlotte is a modern and independent woman, but barely has time to care for their three children. While Sacha and Charlotte are, at first glance, two incompatible beings, when they meet soon discover that they are quite complementary and need each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: romantic, sentimental, realistic, humorous, semi serious, touching, offbeat, feel good
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Swindler in My Mom's House (2007)
Plot Summary:
An attractive single mother rents a room in her house to a mysterious drifter who has nefarious plans to swindle her.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, funny, captivating, light, romantic, feel good, entertaining, realistic, semi serious
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The Best Man (2005)
Plot Summary:
When writer's block derails the literary dreams of Olly Pickering, he has to move in with his friend Murray after losing all his money. Things start to look up when Olly's college pal James asks him to be the best man at his wedding. Prior to the nuptials, Olly is drawn to a woman whom he thinks is the bride's sister -- only she turns out to be the bride, Sarah. Can Murray, who dislikes James, help get Sarah and Olly together?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, Hungary, Germany, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, feel good, semi serious, romantic, philosophical, anamorphic, clever, realistic, vintage
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Plot Summary:
Former childhood pals Leo and Nikki are attracted to each other as adults—but will their feuding parents' rival pizzerias put a chill on their sizzling romance?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, atmospheric, touching, humorous, captivating, sincere, funny, sentimental
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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
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Plot tags: humorous, touching, feel good, captivating, light, erotic, sentimental, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Hot Young Bloods (2014)
Plot Summary:
A comedy romance movie about the last generation of youths and their passionate romance based in Hongseong, Chungcheong Namdo in the 1980s.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
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Mood of the Day (2016)
Plot Summary:
By chance, a man and a woman meet on the KTX train and spend 24 hours in the unfamiliar city of Busan, South Korea.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
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Plot Summary:
romantic comedy in which a geek and the most sought-after college beauty are paired together by a twist of fate. And under all odds, an impossible love story begins.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, entertaining, touching, realistic, witty
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Plot Summary:
Through the course of their lives, a man and his first love are repeatedly separated from each other because of circumstances out of their control.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: romantic, emotional, sentimental, sincere, captivating, realistic, disturbing, anime