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Plot Summary:
A wealthy businessman risks his fortune to test the love of his beautiful girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Diary of a Fleeting Affair (2022)
Plot Summary:
A single mother and a married man enter into an affair with the understanding that their relationship is purely sexual. Though they agree the relationship has no future, they find themselves increasingly drawn into each other's company.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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May Wine (1990)
Plot Summary:
A middle-aged woman and her daughter unknowingly become romantically involved with the same man while vacationing in France.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Applesauce (2015)
Plot Summary:
Every Tuesday night, radio talk show host Stevie Bricks invites his listeners to call in and share their stories. When one night he asks people to share the worst thing they’ve ever done, high school teacher Ron Welz can't resist. Big mistake—what he reveals sets off a chain of hilariously uncontrollable events adversely affecting his marriage and another couple. And when someone starts sending him body parts, his life really begins to fall apart. Who is tormenting him? An insolent high school student? His best friend? His wife? There are over eight million people in the Naked City, and everyone's a suspect.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: romantic, grim, romantic comedy, horror comedy
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We'll Never Have Paris (2014)
Plot Summary:
We'll Never Have Paris is a clumsy and at once human account of screwing up on a transcontinental level in a noble effort to win back "the one.".
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, touching, humorous, sex comedy, semi autobiographical, interesting
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Don't Do It (1994)
Plot Summary:
Story about three youthful couples in contemporary Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Great Love (1969)
Plot Summary:
Pierre married Florence, the only daughter of a small industrialist. 15 years later, he is the boss, but his middle-class life worries him a lot. When a new young and lovely secretary comes, he starts dreaming.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: mind bending, psychedelic, surreal
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What a Way to Go! (1964)
Plot Summary:
This black comedy opens with Louisa Foster donating a multimillion dollar check to the IRS. The tax department thinks she's crazy and sends her to a psychiatrist. She then discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, retro, black comedy, offbeat, feel good, humorous, witty, semi serious, entertaining, silent
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A Daughter Just Like You (2015)
Plot Summary:
Hong Ae-Ja works as a host at a home shopping channel. She has three accomplished daughters: Ji-Sung, In-Sung and Hee-Sung. Hong Ae-Ja's family interconnects with So Pan-Seok's family and Heo Eun-Sook's as in-laws.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags:
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Au Pair II (2001)
Plot Summary:
A father and the former nanny to his children prepare a merger between his company and a European conglomerate.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 947
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: rough, humorous, captivating, entertaining, teen
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Come September (1961)
Plot Summary:
Robert Talbot, an American millionaire, arrives early for his annual vacation at his luxurious Italian villa. His long-time girlfriend Lisa has given up waiting for him and has decided to marry another man. Meanwhile, his sneaky business associate Maurice secretly misappropriates the villa as a hotel while Talbot is away. The current guests of the "hotel" are a group of young American girls.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: retro, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic comedy
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A Paris Proposal (2023)
Plot Summary:
Emily and Sebastian travel to his hometown of Paris to land the Ad account of famed Durand Diamonds and end up in a tricky situation when the client mistakes them for a happy couple.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 739
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: romantic comedy
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The Treat (1998)
Plot Summary:
The lives of four strange prostitutes will change forever when they go to the Mayor's birthday party.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sexy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sex comedy
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Marriage on the Rocks (1965)
Plot Summary:
Ad-agency president Dan Edwards who, when he goes to Mexico to celebrate his nineteenth wedding anniversary, winds up getting divorced by mistake - whereupon his wife Valerie marries his best friend Ernie Brewer by mistake. Frank's future pop star daughter Nancy Sinatra has a featured role.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: retro, romantic comedy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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May Fools (1990)
Plot Summary:
An eccentric family is re-united during the 1968 general strike in France, after the death of the grandmother.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, talky, black comedy, period piece, dark comedy
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What Happens Next (2011)
Plot Summary:
After rich businessman Paul Greco (popular daytime star Jon Lindstrom) retires early, his imperious sister Elise (two-time Emmy Award® nominee Wendie Malick) tries to get him to settle down with the woman of her choosing. But Paul seems more interested in developing his friendship with Andy (cutie Chris Murrah), a charming gay man he meets at a dog park.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 872
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, captivating, light, independent film, realistic, crying, queer cinema
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Up in the Cellar (1970)
Plot Summary:
A student poet seduces his college president's wife, daughter, and girlfriend over lost financial aid.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 201
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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XXL (1997)
Plot Summary:
Alain Berrebi directs with his sister Lorène, a company of ready-to-wear in the Path. Their business is booming to the point to consider acquiring a nearby shop. Fortunately, it belongs to David Stern, the father of his fiancée Arlette.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Ambitious (2006)
Plot Summary:
On the one hand you have Judith Zahn, an arrogant, snobbish, bitchy Parisian editor. On the other hand meet Julien Demarsay: an insecure, timid, young bookseller from the East of France who has just written his first autobiographic novel, with what it takes of navel-contemplating and soul-searching. What do they have in common? Nothing much, except that sex will unite them, ambition part them before true love is born between them at last.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 391
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Paris When It Sizzles (1964)
Plot Summary:
Hollywood producer Alexander Meyerheimer has hired drunken writer Richard Benson to write his latest movie. Benson has been holed up in a Paris apartment supposedly working on the script for months, but instead has spent the time living it up. Benson now has just two days to the deadline and thus hires a temporary secretary, Gabrielle Simpson, to help him complete it in time.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: romantic comedy, clever, witty, retro, absurd, feel good, humorous, semi serious, spoof, parody
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Come Fly with Me (1963)
Plot Summary:
Three air-hostesses combine their work crossing the Atlantic with searching for a rich handsome man to marry.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 765
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: detective
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Under the Eiffel Tower (2018)
Plot Summary:
Stuart is a having a mid-life crisis. Desperate for something more in life, he tags along on his best friend's family vacation to Paris - then proposes to his friend's 24-year-old daughter, Rosalind, while standing under the Eiffel Tower.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, semi serious, romantic
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I Love You, Don't Touch Me! (1997)
Plot Summary:
The story of a 25 year old virgin girl, looking for the right boyfriend, not realizing that "the one" has been next to her for many years.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 511
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sexy, witty, sexual, independent film, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, erotic
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With Love... from the Age of Reason (2010)
Plot Summary:
The day she turns 40, Marguerite Flora, a successful rep for a nuclear power company, begins receiving letters she'd sent to herself at age seven. The letters tell her what to do if her life hasn't turned out the way she thought it should, when she was living in poverty with her mother and brother in a small village in southern France. She decides to go back to her birthplace to get the lawyer to stop the letters, but also to visit her childhood sweetheart and her long-forgotten brother, in order to find peace within herself.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: semi serious, light, captivating, entertaining, sentimental, inspirational, thought provoking, touching, humorous, realistic
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Paris-Manhattan (2012)
Plot Summary:
In Paris, the pharmacist Alice has been an obsessed Woody Allen fan since she was fifteen and has seen all his movies and talks to him alone in her room. When she meets Pierre in a night-club, she finds that he loves jazz and she believes he is her prince charming. But when Pierre sees Alice's sister Hélène, they immediately fall in love with each other and marry each other. Years later, Alice is a spinster that administrates the pharmacy that belonged to her father and believes that movies can heal many diseases. However her father insistently tries to find a husband for her. When the alarm technician Victor meets Alice, she does not see any future relationship with him. But one day, Victor brings Alice to meet Woody Allen in Paris and the director gives an advice to Alice. [Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil].
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, romantic, light, witty, romantic comedy, realistic, talky, semi serious
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Stop Calling Me Baby! (1977)
Plot Summary:
A man hires a P.I. to find a sexy woman he fell in love with. The woman lives with her underage teen sister who dreams about having sex for the first time, but wants a real man. That's when the P.I. shows up and stirs up the household.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Would I Lie to You? (1997)
Plot Summary:
The sentimental and comedic adventures of Eddie, a non-Jew trying to pass as Jewish though totally ignorant of Jewish traditions, as he works in a Jewish community.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, cult film
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Jet Lag (2002)
Plot Summary:
At Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, a beautician on her way to a new job in Mexico accidentally meets a cook who is on his way back from America. Labor strikes, bad weather, and pure luck cause the two of them to share a room overnight at the airport Hilton hotel. Will their initial mutual indifference and downright hostility turn into a one night stand or perhaps something more?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sweet, sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, romantic comedy, clever, talky, realistic, semi serious
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I Do (2006)
Plot Summary:
Life is easy for 43-year-old Luis, a happy single guy, fulfilled in his job of star nose with a perfume creation company, cosseted by his mother and five sisters. It could have lasted for a whole life, but fed up with mollycoddling and helping him, his mother and sisters decide it's time he got married, and the sooner the better!.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, tense, light, touching, feel good, melancholic, sweet, exciting
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When the Cat's Away (1996)
Plot Summary:
When Chloe (Garance Clavel), a young Parisian, decides to take a long-overdue vacation, she has to find someone to look after Gris-Gris, her beloved cat. Everyone, including her gay male roommate, refuses to help her, but she finally makes an arrangement with the elderly Madame Renée (Renée Le Calm), who often watches over other peoples' cats and dogs. However, when Chloe comes back, Madame Renée tells her that unfortunately the cat has been lost, and the unlucky owner goes on a search for her dear animal friend. While looking for the cat, she meets many colorful characters who populate the neighborhood.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: realistic, sentimental, clever, touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, crying, light, philosophical
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Pretty Woman (1990)
Plot Summary:
When a millionaire wheeler-dealer enters a business contract with a Hollywood sex worker Vivian Ward, he loses his heart in the bargain.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 348000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: feel good, romantic, sweet, sentimental, romantic comedy, inspirational, cute, teen, funny, light