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Plot Summary:
A down-and-out restaurateur and his neighbor hatch a plan to lure luminaries to their small Newfoundland town.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: stylized, touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, clever, offbeat, realistic, erotic, funny
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Rio, I Love You (2014)
Plot Summary:
The third episode of the Cities of Love franchise, Rio, I Love You is an anthology, created by 10 visionary directors from across the globe. The story line of each segment focuses on an encounter of love in a different neighborhood of the city, demonstrating the distinctive qualities and character of that location. The film serves to bridge gaps between cultures, educating and entertaining the audience, while celebrating unique and universal expressions of love.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Brazil, USA, France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sexy, touching, semi serious, uplifting, feel good, humorous, captivating, witty, anthology, atmospheric
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A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop (2009)
Plot Summary:
Wang is a gloomy, cunning and avaricious noodle shop owner in a desert town in China. His neglected, sharp-tongued wife is involved in a secret affair with Li, one of Wang’s employees. A timid man, Li reluctantly keeps the gun his lover has bought to kill her husband. But Wang is watching their every move. He bribes patrol officer Zhang to murder the illicit couple. It seems like a perfect plan: the affair will come to a cruel, bloody but satisfying end… or so he thinks. The equally wicked Zhang has an agenda of his own. As the plot twists, more blood will flow, and ever greater violence will erupt….
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, semi serious, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, dark comedy, exciting, stylized, detective, remake of american film
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Lightbulb (2009)
Plot Summary:
A rags-to-riches story of two friends, a small-time inventor and a sharky salesman, who hit rock bottom before coming up with a gizmo that becomes a worldwide phenomenon.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: semi serious, touching, realistic, light, motivational, clever, offbeat, humorous
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The Dogwalker (1999)
Plot Summary:
Jerry Cooper is The Dogwalker, a Tom Sawyer grown up for the nineties, who having fallen on hard times, is struggling with the reality of having to sleep in his car. When he quite literally stumbles upon an old lady and her dog, he suddenly finds himself caught up in her life and over her head in a twisted mix of class, race, age, sex, drugs, dog leashes, inheritances and contract bridge.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Happy Times (2000)
Plot Summary:
Zhao is an old laid-off worker who's dreaming of getting married. After trying unsuccessful proposals, he finally pair off with a gargantuan divorcée with two children. She, however, demands a lavish wedding and that Zhao finds a job and another place to stay for her blind step-daughter. Pretending he's the General Manager of a non-existent posh hotel "Happy Times", Zhao had to find ways and means of keeping both mother and stepdaughter happy.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, stylized, cult classic, sincere, feel good, realistic, black comedy
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Roseanna's Grave (1997)
Plot Summary:
Roseanna is dying of a heart condition, and all she wants is to be buried next to her daughter, in a cemetery that is getting full fast. The cemetery can't expand because Capestro, the man who owns the land next to the cemetery, won't sell. While Marcello is doing good deeds to make sure no one dies, Roseanna thinks of Marcello's future.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, sentimental, romantic, sweet, melancholic, talky, semi serious, humorous, realistic
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The Love Letter (1999)
Plot Summary:
A romantic comedy about a mysterious love letter that turns a sleepy New England town upside down.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, romantic, sexy, clever, entertaining, sentimental, touching, realistic
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Lovemakers (2011)
Plot Summary:
Small time Hungarian matchmakers get the job to make a Hollywood star fall in love with a Russian businessman's spoiled brat sister. They get one million dollars if they succeed, but if they fail, they will have to pay with their lives.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hungary, USA, UK, Russia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, offbeat, realistic, not serious
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Love on the Side (2004)
Plot Summary:
Small town waitress Eve Stuckley is stuck. She has spent years pining for testosterone saturate local hunk Jeff Sweeney and yearns to escape from the Hog-Chow Diner she runs. Just when Eve finally decides to pursue her man, drop dead gorgeous Linda Avery blows into town on the hottest day of the year. The heat wave is nothing in comparison with the heat that's on as Jeff and Eve's dimwitted brother Chuck decide to face off for Linda's affections. It's a priceless contest: Linda wants Eve. Eve's confidante Alma Kerns is a sex expert trained by mortician beau Red Bishop. She encourages Eve to use Linda's interest in her to win Jeff's affection but the situation becomes even more complicated when Linda advises Jeff she prefers Eve. Now determined to "save" Eve, the narcissistically injured Jeff elicits Chuck's aid but Chuck, thinking it's part of the game, refuses to believe him. Ultimately, Jeff and Linda square off over Eve's future.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 969
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, surreal
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Phileine Says Sorry (2003)
Plot Summary:
Gorgeous Dutch youngster Max has two passions, acting and girls. The first becomes his brilliant career, which takes off so well he gets invited to a prestigious New York theatre course for a year. But since he met fickle bitch Phileine in an Utrecht park, his flirting life is cut short while she cruelly plays with his feelings rather then his horny body. After refusing to follow him, she turns up uninvited later and still acts jealous and possessive. Grief follows for everyone, working up to a convoluted finale.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: Netherlands, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, erotic, sexy, clever, offbeat, realistic
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Melvin Goes to Dinner (2003)
Plot Summary:
Marital infidelity, religion, a guy in heaven wearing a Wizards jersey, anal fetishes, cigarettes and schizophrenia, ghosts, and how it's going to get worse before it gets better.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, intellectual, witty, melancholic, philosophical, cult classic, clever, realistic, talky, touching
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Postmark Paradise (2000)
Plot Summary:
The Dirty Shame is the only bar in the small town of Paradise, Michigan. A burnt out, chain-smoking fortyish bar maid is the only waitress at The Dirty Shame. A group of local red necks conspiring to bring a mail order bride to their Midwest town for their ne'er-do-well leader set the story in motion.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, independent film, realistic
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Making Mr. Right (2008)
Plot Summary:
Eddie, a poor street conman, has his 'guess in which briefcase' trick ruined by Manhattan lifestyle magazine deputy editor Hallie Galloway. Due to a bet with her boss, she must transform Eddie into a dashingly eligible bachelor for a charity auction. In order to pay back his generous benefactor, restaurateur Angelo, Eddie accepts. He not only proves a quick learner and born charmer, the gentleman in him awakes and so does love in their harts. But their true pasts catch up.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 563
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, humorous, sexy, feel good, captivating, light, sexual
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Faith, Fraud, & Minimum Wage (2010)
Plot Summary:
A rebellious teenage girl wrestles with the true nature of miracles when her father begins to believe in a religious hoax which she has secretly created.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, semi serious, humorous
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Vaayai Moodi Pesavum (2014)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious illness declared as dumb flu spreads in a quaint hill station forcing the town's residents from speaking. Will the problems in the place increase due to this or will it lead to better communication?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, semi serious, light, offbeat
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Gooische Vrouwen (2011)
Plot Summary:
Gooische Vrouwen (Vipers Nest) is based on a very popular Dutch TV series and can be described as a Dutch variation of Sex and the City and Desperate Housewives. The film tells the story of four girlfriends who live in the bourgeois area ‘t Gooi, where life always seems to run smoothly, but dark clouds are gathering on the horizon. A flight seems the only way out….
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, sexy, humorous, realistic, witty, offbeat, biting, sexual, suspense
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Gaby Baby Doll (2014)
Plot Summary:
Gaby cannot stay alone ; she's afraid of the dark ,of everything .When her boyfriend leaves her (he wants to have sex with her and she gets on his nerves,because she only needs a protector),she's completely on her own .She's afraid of the daylight ,in these peaceful forests ,where danger might wait for her behind a bush ;at night when she gets back home, it's worse :may an intruder have sneaked into her place?As the men in the cafe do not want to spend the night with her as bodyguards,she sets her heart on the warden of a castle ;sadly ,he is a misanthropic hermit.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic
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Watermelon (2003)
Plot Summary:
A tangled web of deciet pitches three lovers together with the added proposition of a baby.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 391
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic
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Old, New, Borrowed and Blue (2003)
Plot Summary:
Katrine is to be married. Her fiancé is gorgeous, their appartment is luxurious and her future in-laws are wealthy. Katrine only has one problem: she sometimes finds it difficult to tell the truth, and this sends her on a round-about jaunt with an old friend, Thomsen, who has just barged in unannounced from Kenya and who wants to return a favour and help Katrine with her wedding preparations. A labyrinthal excursion takes place. Tomorrow is another day, the wedding day!.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 960
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, sincere, feel good, semi serious, touching, offbeat, realistic
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Two Family House (2000)
Plot Summary:
Buddy Visalo (Michael Rispoli) is a factory worker, a frustrated crooner who once had a shot at the big time. Buddy's dreams of greatness have been reduced to an endless series of failed moneymaking schemes. His latest is buying a two-family house for him and his wife, Estelle (Katherine Narducci) and converting the ground floor into a neighborhood bar where he can perform. The wrench in the works is that he also inherits the upstairs tenants, Mary,a pregnant Irish girl fresh off the boat (Kelly Macdonald) and her abusive, alcoholic husband, Jim (Kevin Conway). As Buddy's gang of Italians tries to handle the situation, the girl goes into labor, and a baby is born, forcing them all to confront the limits of their tolerance and compassion.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, independent film, scary, fairy tale, sentimental
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I Do (2004)
Plot Summary:
Denise Richards plays Lauren, a divorced wedding-planner who falls for the groom-to-be (Dean Cain).
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic, feel good, relaxing
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Let's Ruin It with Babies (2014)
Plot Summary:
Channing has it all: a beautiful home, a rock star lifestyle, and a loving husband intent on ruining it all by knocking her up.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, independent film, sexy
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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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The Mystery of Happiness (2014)
Plot Summary:
Life-long business partners Santiago and Eugenio understand each other without words, care for each other, and need each other. When Eugenio vanishes without a clue, Santiago and Laura, Eugenio’s wife, join forces to solve the mystery of his disappearance. What they discover is neither what they set out to find nor what you would expect, and their shared journey becomes a surprising and lighthearted meditation on friendship, love, and loyalty.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Brazil
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, talky
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My Sassy Girl (2008)
Plot Summary:
A guy (Jesse Bradford) has his life planned out, until he is wooed, groomed and then dumped by an elusive woman (Elisha Cuthbert).
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic comedy, touching, depressing, independent film
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This Year's Love (1999)
Plot Summary:
The big-screen debut from Scottish stage director David Kane, This Year's Love is a comedy about the romantic misadventures of six young people in Camden, North London. The marriage of tattoo artist Danny (Douglas Hanshall) and dressmaker Hannah (Catherine McCormack) gets off to a less-than-inspiring start when Danny finds out Hannah has already been fooling around with a friend's husband, so Danny takes a walk and Hannah splits with a friend to get drunk. At the airport, where the newly-weds were supposed to leave for a honeymoon, Danny meets a cleaning woman named Mary (Kathy Burke) and is immediately infatuated, while Hannah is picked up by a scruffy artist named Cameron (Dougray Scott). Elsewhere, Liam (Ian Hart), a geeky comic-art enthusiast who shares an apartment with Cameron, finds romance with Sophie (Jennifer Ehle), a single mother and full-time neurotic.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, clever, touching, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, semi serious, sexual
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Happily Ever After (2007)
Plot Summary:
Director Yukihiko Tsutsumi wrings laughs out of an unlikely topic -- domestic violence -- in this dark comedy about noodle-shop waitress Yukie Morita (Miki Nakatani), who puts up with the fiery temper, gambling and cruelty of her shiftless, ex-gangster boyfriend (Hiroshi Abe). But as flashbacks reveal, there's a reason behind Yukie's unconditional love for her man. Yûko Natori and Mayumi Sada also star.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 353
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: stylized, humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat
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Love is Not Blind (2011)
Plot Summary:
Xiaoxian’s life is right on track. She has a steady job at an upscale wedding planning company, a cute apartment, and most importantly, a loving boyfriend of 7 years. Any day now, Xiaoxian is sure that he’ll pop the question. But everything comes crashing down when she discovers that he’s actually cheating on her— with her best friend. How could things go so wrong? Dumped and heartbroken, Xiaoxian is a total mess. It doesn’t help that she has to face perky brides every day. Things go from bad to worse until her sassy, but jaded, co-worker Jian intervenes. It’s not that Jian really cares. It’s more that he’s sick of witnessing her pathetic decline. Xiaoxian seriously needs to get a grip. 33 days into her breakup, Jian’s brand of tough love is working, but Xiaoxian still can’t help wondering: will she ever get a chance at love again?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, light, captivating, sentimental, semi serious
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Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. (2007)
Plot Summary:
Six newly-married, diverse, honeymooning couples face marital bliss and discord, finding out more about themselves, their significant others and life in this happy-go-lucky, quirky drama.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic, offbeat
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Aisha (2010)
Plot Summary:
Aisha is a girl with a simple diktat - everyone's business is her business. Arjun is a boy with even a simpler set of beliefs - Aisha should mind her own business. Caught in the Delhi upper class world with its own set of social rules, Aisha navigates her world with a great sense of style and even greater optimism. Caught in her web are her best friend Pinky, the small town girl Shefali, the west Delhi boy Randhir and the hunk Dhruv. Aisha will make sure everyone dances to her tune. And all Arjun wants to do is disentangle that web and get Aisha out of an impending sticky mess. Who will succeed and who will succumb? Welcome to Aisha's fabulous world where playing cupid is as easy as 123...if only that Arjun would stay out of her way!.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, romantic, entertaining, light, captivating, touching, realistic