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Plot Summary:
What seems to be a chance encounter one day at a coffee shop leads to a full-fledged romance, but the couple must fight for their relationship to survive the craziness that is show business.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 765
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, sentimental, touching, suspenseful, realistic, semi serious
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Eat, Play, Love (2017)
Plot Summary:
Veterinarian Dr. Carly Monroe makes it a habit to stop by the local dog shelter as often as possible because she loves dogs and secretly loves the shelter’s owner, Dan. Unfortunately, he has agreed to marry his glamorous TV personality girlfriend and move to the Big Apple. With Dan’s big move looming, his sister decides to take matters into her own hands.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: sentimental, romantic, emotional, realistic, talky, touching, sweet
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Enemies of Laughter (2000)
Plot Summary:
Nerdy-looking Paul (David Paymer) is a neurotic, failed sitcom writer with a lackluster love life. But his best pal (Judge Reinhold) has an idea that might turn things around when he decides to film Paul's life and turn his romantic disasters into a comedic documentary. When a beautiful young director (Rosalind Chao) decides to produce the real-life romantic comedy, Paul realizes that Cupid may be poised with his bow and arrow.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic, sitcom, independent film
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All You Need Is Love (2018)
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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Muffin Top: A Love Story (2014)
Plot Summary:
"Muffin Top: A Love Story" is the story of Suzanne (Cathryn Michon) a Women's Studies Pop Culture professor at Malibu University, who studies images of women in the media for a living, and yet is made insecure by the constant parade of female perfection that is our airbrushed culture. She has been going through IVF treatments to get pregnant by her network executive husband (Diedrich Bader), but discovers on her birthday, that her husband has knocked up his younger, skinnier, co-worker (Haylie Duff) and wants a divorce. Happy Birthday! She goes on to find a more authentic version of who she really is, despite the delights of being suddenly single in Los Angeles, where low self-esteem for women is our number one export to the world.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 754
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, independent film
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I Hear You (2019)
Plot Summary:
Bei Er Duo, a girl from an ordinary family, dreams about studying in Japan to be a professional voice actor. However, her mother wants her to marry rich whilst she is young, leading to continuous blind dates which irritate Bei Er Duo. In her desperation to raise funds for studying overseas as well as helping her best friend Tang Li out of a crisis, Bei Er Duo joins a couple reality program, encountering top violin maker Ye Shu Wei.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 828
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, captivating, suspenseful, romantic
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Love, American Style (1969)
Plot Summary:
Love, American Style is a comedic television anthology, which was produced by Paramount Television and originally aired between 1969 and 1974. For the 1971 and 1972 seasons it was a part of an ABC Friday prime-time lineup that also included The Brady Bunch, The Partridge Family, Room 222, and The Odd Couple.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: anthology, realistic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, sitcom
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The Shrink Is In (2001)
Plot Summary:
A young woman impersonates a shrink to win over her Prince Charming.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, independent film, realistic
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Dry Spell (2013)
Plot Summary:
Sasha tries to get her soon-to-be ex husband Kyle laid so she can move on with her sex life guilt-free.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, humorous, realistic, light, feel good, semi serious
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Herman U.S.A. (2001)
Plot Summary:
In this quirky romantic comedy inspired by a true story, an influx of women invade the small town of Herman, Minn., to get their hands on a surplus of bachelors yearning for female companionship. When the persuasive "cry from the heart" of Herman's lonely men becomes a big-time news story, it unwittingly attracts a swarm of single women from 38 states and four different foreign countries, adding 1,500 residents to the tiny hamlet of 485.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, independent film, offbeat, realistic
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This Is Not a Film (2003)
Plot Summary:
New Yorker Michael Connor attempts to find the woman who left him by making a film about her, hoping that someone (maybe you?) will recognize his ex and convince her to get back together with him. To help the viewer understand who he is and why his girlfriend left, Michael opts to re-enact his failed relationship for the camera. He hires an actress to portray his ex-girlfriend, and during the process of filming she quickly and mercilessly points out all of his mistakes, blunders and inadequacies as a boyfriend. "This Is Not a Film" is a romantic comedy about making mistakes and recognizing them in the most painful way possible--by making them over and over again.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 305
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sentimental, realistic, talky, semi serious, humorous, witty, independent film, offbeat
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Amanda (2009)
Plot Summary:
A successful businessman meets the woman of his dreams, Amanda, only to discover she harbors a shocking little secret about her past.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, independent film, sentimental, touching, offbeat, realistic, witty
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The Irony of Fate. The Sequel (2007)
Plot Summary:
Zhenya and Nadya go their separate ways. Nadya stuck with her bureaucrat boyfriend, married him and had a daughter, also called Nadya. Zhenya married and had a son, Konstantin. Both later divorced. More than 30 years later, Konstantin ends up drunk in the flat where the younger Nadya finds him. He is there as part of a convoluted ruse by his father's friends to get Zhenya back into the arms of the woman with whom he shared a magical night. The waylaid son is the bait to get Zhenya back to Leningrad, now called St. Petersburg. One romance is rekindled and another between the son and daughter is struck up.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, offbeat, realistic, atmospheric
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Rum and Coke (1999)
Plot Summary:
A young, independent Latina has a safe relationship with her Anglo boyfriend until she is rescued and romanced by an aggressive Latino firefighter.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, touching, humorous, emotional, realistic, semi serious, sexual, hispanic, sexy
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The Art of Love (2011)
Plot Summary:
The Art of Love is composed of several chapters, which follows several Parisian couples.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sentimental, realistic, witty, humorous, romantic, satirical, talky, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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With This Ring (2015)
Plot Summary:
After attending their friend Elise's (Sudano) wedding to Nate (Bishop) on New Year's Eve, Trista (Hall), a career-driven talent agent, Viviane (Scott), a successful gossip columnist, and Amaya (Cooper), a struggling actress, make a pact to get married within the year to either a new love or a man waiting in the wings. But the close friends face their own set of challenges - Trista has not gotten over her commitment-phobic ex-boyfriend Damon (White), Viviane is secretly in love with Sean (George), the father of her son, and Amaya is desperate to break up her boyfriend Keith's (Sanders) unhappy marriage so they can live happily ever after. Each woman starts the year with high hopes and dreams of what will happen over the next 12 months... but will they all make it to the altar?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, sentimental, realistic, semi serious
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Slightly Single in L.A. (2013)
Plot Summary:
Dale Squire is a hip, quirky, independent single gal living in the glossy city of Los Angeles. After several failed attempts in quasi-relationships, Dale concludes that finding a meaningful relationship in L.A. is impossible. But being anti-social is tough for any young girl in Hollywood. With Jill's frantic wedding right around the corner, Dale finds herself reflecting on the significance of marriage, and the mutual respect needed for a successful relationship. When Zach, a successful heartthrob rock star and old friend of Dale's finds his way back into her life, Dale slowly starts to think that maybe finding love in L.A. is possible - the only problem is that her realization might have come too late, leaving Dale in a silent love triangle, with no way out. Written by Will, Christie.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, sentimental, feel good, semi serious, realistic, independent film
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The Perfect Date (2010)
Plot Summary:
Michel dreams of a perfect meeting with the woman of his dreams, entirely due to chance, as his parents and grandparents experienced. Vincent, Michel's contrast, is completely different. He is more the man of the direct approach and he follows his...! The two childhood friends Michel and Vincent, with completely opposite views when it comes to women, soon discover the limits of their respective techniques when they meet Angèle and Nathalie.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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On the Edge (2008)
Plot Summary:
A young game designer falls in love with an older woman and suddenly his whole life turns upside down.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 727
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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If You Are the One 2 (2010)
Plot Summary:
A sequel to one of China's biggest box office hits, the wry romantic comedy "Fei Cheng Wu Rao 2" ("If You Are the One 2") — the first Chinese release to open in its homeland and North America on the same day — continues the odd-couple courtship saga of wealthy, middle-aged retiree Qin Fen (Ge You) and serious-minded young air hostess Xiaoxiao (Shu Qi).After an amusing prelude in which Qin presides over a lavish divorce ceremony for an amicably splitting married couple, he and Xiaoxiao decide to address their own relationship barriers — her youth and beauty, his cynical, childish sense of humor — by entering into a trial marriage while on a trip to the country's tropical southeast.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: touching, stylized, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Love, Wedding, Marriage (2011)
Plot Summary:
A happy newlywed marriage counselor's views on wedded bliss get thrown for a loop when she finds out her parents are getting divorced.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, realistic, sexy, teen, independent film, feel good
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Para Para Sakura (2001)
Plot Summary:
Phillip (Aaron Kwok) is a dance instructor who holds a class devoted to the latest dance craze, Para Para. While in Shanghai, he meets Yee (Cecilia Cheung), a spoiled rich girl who is running away from her impending arranged marriage. Soon, Yee begins using Phillip's dance studio as a sanctuary from her responsibilities, and an attraction begins to form between the two. However, Yee is called back to Japan to be married before long, and Phillip must use more than his dance skills and charisma to prevent her from taking her vows.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 404
Genere: Musical, Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration:
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, surprise ending
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Perfect Combination (2010)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of a fairly successful young black man, just shy of 30 years old, who decided he needs to be less of a workaholic and meet and date women, with marriage and family as a goal.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, touching, realistic, sexual
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Bridal Fever (2008)
Plot Summary:
It’s a race to the altar when a steamy romance novelist with a long line of torrid romances – and ex-husbands – sets out to help a single woman ditch her bridesmaid dresses once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 566
Genere: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: feel good, semi serious, sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic
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French Film (2008)
Plot Summary:
Jed prepares to interview French cineaste and self-appointed expert on the nature of love - Thierry Grimandi. The worldly and somewhat jaded Jed is dead-set on dismissing the auteur's musings as pompous and, well French, until his own relationship with Cheryl starts to fall apart and he is forced to re-evaluate the illusive subject. Soon everyone is talking about love: his relationship counsellor, drinking buddy Marcus and Marcus' girlfriend Sophie Beginnings, endings, tricks...could the French be on to something?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 796
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic, clever
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My Boyfriends' Dogs (2014)
Plot Summary:
The owners of a small diner are surprised one rainy evening when, just after close, a young woman wearing a wedding dress with three dogs in tow begs to come into their restaurant. What follows is the young woman's retelling of how she arrived at this curious junction in her life and how, through the search for the right man, she ended up as a runaway bride with three new dogs.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, touching, semi serious, light, captivating, realistic
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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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Cyrano Agency (2010)
Plot Summary:
The Cyrano Agency is a dating agency which helps people who can't date to have a love life. The agency staff try helping their clients without being noticed. The agency's representatives Byeong-hoon and Min-yeong are giving their best to pair up their client, Sang-yong, with his love interest named Hee-joong. But when Byeong-hun sees Hee-joong's profile, he begins to doubt their abilities. Will "Cyrano Agency" succeed in their mission?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: sincere, romantic, humorous, captivating, entertaining, sad, romantic comedy
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Lust for Love (2014)
Plot Summary:
Winning your childhood sweetheart can create more problems than it solves.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: romantic, humorous, semi serious, touching, funny, light, captivating, entertaining, romantic comedy, realistic
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Friendzone (2021)
Plot Summary:
Hopeful romantic Thibault believes his luck could change when sparks fly between him and Rose. But can he go from bestie to boyfriend?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, romantic
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Orange (2010)
Plot Summary:
Orange is a 2010 Telugu romantic comedy film directed by Bhaskar, in his third venture after Bommarillu and Parugu. The film features Ram Charan Teja and Genelia D'Souza with Shazahn Padamsee playing a pivotal role. The film, which has music composed by Harris Jayaraj began the first schedule in February 2010,[1] and released on November 26, 2010. Set on the backdrop of Australia, the film opens with an angry Ram (Ram Charan Teja), who just broke up with his girlfriend, narrating the story of his love life to a police officer, Abhishek Verma (Prakash Raj) as he defaces a graffiti of his lover while her father (Prabhu Ganesan) listens.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 162 min
Plot tags: feel good, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, realistic, romantic