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Plot Summary:
After a failed marriage, Masha retreats to the sanctuary of her humble profession as a translator of serious literature. Financial difficulties force her to accept an offer to interpret during a seminar held by an English puppeteer.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 544
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 96 min
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Sugared Cranberries (1995)
Plot Summary:
The actor of the provincial puppet theater comes to try his luck in Leningrad. He stops at his longtime friend - an imitation actor and a big joker. Willingly leaving a friend in his apartment for the night, a friend invites a “call girl” for the guest.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 76 min
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Come Look at Me (2001)
Plot Summary:
The movie is about an old disabled lady who lives with her spinster daughter. The lady desperately wants her daughter to marry, and the daughter, driven by the supposed imminent death of her mother, invites a total stranger home and introduces him as her boyfriend. The man and the prospective mother-in-law eventually start to like each other, and he makes every effort to be liked by the daughter. With the intervention of a fantasy granddaughter, quasi-miraculous healing, and a lot of hilarious repartee in between, the movie has a happy ending.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 700
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: emotional, touching, semi serious, captivating
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It Isn't Easy to Get Along with Men (1985)
Plot Summary:
A divorcee and her two teenage daughters go on their summer holidays at sea. There they encounter some romantic (mis)adventures.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 828
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 91 min
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Nick and Jane (1997)
Plot Summary:
N.Y. corporate Jane discovers her boyfriend John in bed with another woman, leaves building enraged and jumps into cab. Her driver is Nick. Jane and her friend Vickie have a plan - to make John jealous, they'll give Nick a false corporate identity and pass him off as Jane's new boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, neo screwball comedy
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When Will You Get Married? (2015)
Plot Summary:
Dinda is a successful Hotel Manager in Jakarta, but her parents think that she's a failure because she's still single in her 30s. An unacceptable thing for her parents who keeps their traditional culture by heart, where women should have babies in their early 20s. Dinda finally give in by her parents' pressure. She devise a plan to hire an actor, Satrio, to pretend to become her boyfriend for a week. She brings along Satrio to Jogjakarta for her parents' wedding anniversary party. But what it seems as a harmless plan turns into chaos. All Dinda's plan didn't work out as she hope to be. Satrio turns out to be an idealistic and eccentric actor who never follow Dinda's scenario and always has his own act to charm Dinda's parents. Dinda is trying juggling everything in order,but little does she knows that her parents also has their own scenario for Dinda. Hilarity ensues.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 115 min
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The Adventure Of The King (2010)
Plot Summary:
From the director of “72 Tenants Of Prosperity” comes a period comedy movie about an emperor (Richie Ren) who disguises himself as a commoner and later falls in love with Phoenix (Barbie Hsu), the lady boss of an inn.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sincere, romantic, humorous, captivating
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Hello, Fools! (1996)
Plot Summary:
Two people meet one another in a multi-million city.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 112 min
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My Anfisa (1979)
Plot Summary:
The love of brigadier-painter Anfisa and the student of philology Nicholas resulted in a storm of indignation of his parents. Separation followed. And for separation - and the search for lost love.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 70 min
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Everything's the Wrong Way (1982)
Plot Summary:
A story about a guy and a girl who decided to get married.They want to have their own place and live without parents. They search for apartment to live together because they can't live without each other, they're seriously falling in love, but parents are getting tougher to deal with and they forbid her to see him. He comes up with a plan to sneak into her house pretending to be her English girl-teacher named Olga with two long braids and funny voice.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: teen comedy
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Surprise Party (2002)
Plot Summary:
How do you go about detaining a total stranger for 12 hours? This is what Ha-young (Lee Yo-won) has to do for her best friend, Mi-ryung (Kim Min-hee). Mi-ryung has been planning for a surprise party for her overseas boyfriend Jun-woo (Shin Ha-gyun), but her plans are stopped short when her father finds out that Jun-woo is half-Hawaiian, and forbids the party from being held. Mi-ryung is put under even greater pressure when Jun-Woo tells her that he would arrive early, and she pleads with Ha-Young to intercept Jun-Woo at the airport, and to keep him from turning up at Mi-ryung's place before she can iron things out.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: romantic, surprise ending
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8 Days to Premiere (2008)
Plot Summary:
8 Days to Premiere is a love story set in the world of theater. Romeo and Juliet is to be the season´s grand premiere. Noora, the female lead in the play, breaks her leg at the kickoff party, and Laura, an actress who due to her debilitating stage fright has ended up as the prompter for the play, gets a chance of a lifetime. There are 8 days to the premiere.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 553
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 107 min
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The Cyclone (1996)
Plot Summary:
Levante lives in a small city near Florence (Tuscany, Italy) and his life is plain and a bit boring, until the day the twister arrives: a bus with six Spanish flamenco dancers that will twist Levante and his family life.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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The Marriage App (2022)
Plot Summary:
Tangled in a troubled marriage, a frustrated couple finds hope in a watch-based app that rewards good deeds — until unhealthy obsessiveness takes over.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags:
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The Movie Hero (2003)
Plot Summary:
A man believes his life is a movie watched by an audience only he can see.In his feature film debut, director Brad T. Gottfred delivers a spoof of cinema cliches with a memorable protagonist named Blake Gardner (Jeremy Sisto), who believes his life is a movie. Playing to an audience only he perceives -- and determined to entertain them. Blake recruits a comical black sidekick (Brian J. White), attempts to apprehend the bad guy (Peter Stormare) and begins romancing his court-appointed psychotherapist (Dina Meyer).
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 823
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, funny, light, feel good, entertaining, independent film, offbeat, realistic
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Theatre (1978)
Plot Summary:
Human attempts to understand why when acting they are all going through the heart, but in real life are playing a role.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 322
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 136 min
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All's Well That Ends Well (1981)
Plot Summary:
Helena loves Bertram, but he's of noble birth, while she's just a doctor's daughter. But Bertram is at the court of the King of France, who is ill, and Helena has a remedy that might cure him and win her the right to marry Bertram. But does Bertram want to marry her?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags:
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Piter FM (2006)
Plot Summary:
Lyrical story about two young people, Masha and Maxim, who have to decide what to do.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: light, touching, captivating, thought provoking, humorous
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The Men (1973)
Plot Summary:
Vazgen, Sako, Suren and Aram are taxi drivers and close friends. When Aram fell in hopeless love with Karine, other three decide to help their friend.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags:
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Falling for Christmas (2022)
Plot Summary:
An engaged, spoiled hotel heiress finds herself in the care of a handsome, blue-collar lodge owner and his precocious daughter after getting amnesia in a skiing accident.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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At Midnight (2023)
Plot Summary:
Alejandro's life is disrupted when actress Sophie Wilder stays at his hotel. To their surprise, the two fall for one another, meeting at midnight.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Rich Boy, Rich Girl (2018)
Plot Summary:
Andy is a front desk clerk with a little ambition until he finds his muse. Hayley is a beautiful shampoo girl chasing big dreams in NYC. When their worlds collide in a hapless run-in, the starstruck lovers assume false identities and follow the script of life from the same self-improvement book which lead to potentially bigger problems than they could have ever dreamed.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 344
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, humorous, captivating
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Kill Me If You Dare (2019)
Plot Summary:
Kill Me Darling is the story of a couple who decide to kill each other. Okan and Demet are married couple for 5 years. However, despite their years together, their relationship is not very good. The love of the two started like a fairy tale, continued with great excitement and reached a happy end. However, as their lives began to become ordinary after marriage, that sense of excitement within the couple began to die. At the end of 5 years, they become overwhelmed by each other. Even though they want different lives, the young couple, who cannot express it and start to become nervous to each other without making a sound, become a victim of a great misunderstanding on their wedding anniversary. As a result of the mistake, the husband and wife of 5 years decide to kill each other.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, light, romantic, romantic comedy
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Leo and Loree (1980)
Plot Summary:
Ralph Malph from Philly moves to Hollywood with dreams of making it big, amazingly hooks up with starlet-to-be, loses starlet-to-be, gets back starlet-to-be, and becomes someone.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Romance, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Boxing Day (2021)
Plot Summary:
Melvin, a British author living in America, returns home to London for Christmas to introduce his American fiancée Lisa to his eccentric British-Caribbean family. Their relationship is put to the test as she discovers the world her fiancé has left behind.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags:
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Alex & the List (2017)
Plot Summary:
Alex, a lovable, unassuming dog trainer is in love with a great woman - Katherine - smart, talented, from a good family. Katherine adores Alex's quirky sense of humor, honesty and capacity to listen. Having decided to pop the question, Alex is blindsided when Katherine produces a detailed list of well-thought-out "improvements" she feels will tweak Alex on their way to becoming the ideal couple. Alex instinctively rejects the suggestion that he needs to change anything. But with the threat of a new competitor, Alex decides to "do the list." Guided by a coterie of friends that include: Dave, Alex's loyal childhood buddy, best female friend Lily, her husband Michael, and their 8 year old son, Nicky, Alex's journey has him reconsider and question his beliefs, values and world.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, entertaining, captivating
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Walking the Streets of Moscow (1964)
Plot Summary:
"I Am Walking Along Moscow" aka "Ya Shagayu Po Moskve" (1963) is a charming lyrical comedy directed by Georgi Daneliya in 1963 that was nominated for Golden Palm at Cannes Film Festival. Daneliya proved that it is possible to create a masterpiece in the most difficult genre of romantic comedy. Made by the team of young and incredibly talented artists that besides Daneliya included writer/poet Gennady Shpalikov, composer Andrei Petrov, and cinematographer Vadim Yusov (who had made four films with Andrei Tarkovski), and the dream cast of the talented actors even in the smaller cameos, "I Am Walking Along Moscow" keeps walking victoriously through the decades remaining deservingly one of the best and most beloved Russian comedies and simply one of the best Russian movies ever made. Funny and gentle, dreamy and humorous, romantic and realistic, the film is blessed with the eternal youth and will always take to the walk on the streets of Moscow new generations of the grateful viewers.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, humorous, nostalgic
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Inadequate People (2010)
Plot Summary:
Adequacy is relative.Vitalik the main character of the movie seems to be pretty normal. With a respectable office job, a comfy little dwelling and a personal couch doctor, Vitalik looks as adequate as a human can possibly be. Wait till he drinks and drives himself into depression, and after that falls in love with an under-age girl living next door. Whos adequate now?.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, uplifting, non-linear
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The Blonde Around the Corner (1984)
Plot Summary:
An unemployed astrophysicist finds a job of a docker at a grocery store, where he falls in love with a street-wise saleswoman in the produce department. But the groom runs away at the wedding reception.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, romantic, humorous, captivating
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Without Saying Goodbye (2022)
Plot Summary:
The opposite lives of a workaholic architect and a fiery artist are upended when their chance encounter in breathtaking Peru shifts their views on life.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain, Peru
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Hairshirt (1998)
Plot Summary:
Danny Reilly (Dean Paras) is a self-obsessed man who, after dumping Renee Weber (Neve Campbell), falls in love again with Corey Wells (Katie Wright). But Renee makes it her mission to see that Danny never falls in love again and sets out for attack when he falls for Corey. Who will get the girl when Danny's constantly talking roomie Tim (Stefan Brogren) falls in love with Corey too?.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 724
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: feel good, realistic, humorous, semi serious, independent film