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Plot Summary:
This film is about eight individuals facing the most brilliant separations in their lives. The passionate fire fighter, 30 years old, tries to propose to his lover but every time he misses the chance. In the meantime, she becomes anxious whenever she hears a siren. Suk-hyeon intends to break up with her jobless lover, Ha-seok, and he begins an agency that helps other lovers to break up. Juyeong is mad at her son's troubles in school, but she realizes that she has little time to spend with him. Su-eun, with a hearing impairment and a burn on her face, falls in her first love but she doesn't have the courage to come out in his presence.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, captivating, melancholic, sad, romantic comedy, romantic, feel good, depressing, anthology
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A Man Like Me (2002)
Plot Summary:
A postal worker has some lunch in a chinese restaurant and falls in love with the waitress, who happens to be chinese. They start dating and quickly fall in and out of love, the waitress returning to China. The young man looks for comfort in his father, but he's to occupied with winning the Eurovision song contest. After listening to looser friends talk about what Silvester Stallone would do in his situation, the postal worker decides to buy a ticket to China and follow his love to her home.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, Iceland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: multicultural, sincere, romantic, touching, humorous, captivating, independent film
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Very Ordinary Couple (2013)
Plot Summary:
The probability of a couple that had broken up getting back together and having a successful relationship is just 3%. Dong-hee and Young, who had broken up over a minor tiff, later realize their love for each other and end up getting back together. But will they be able to fit into the 3% bracket?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 630
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: affectionate, sentimental, light, touching, melancholic, romantic, romantic comedy
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Windstruck (2004)
Plot Summary:
When police officer Kyungjin met with Myungwoo accidentally in a crime, she found that this responsible teacher was a really nice guy. At that night, Kyungjin got into a fight with a bunch of high school kids and got trouble in a big gun fight between rival drug dealers. Myungwoo tried to help her but then something happened that forces them stayed together all day long. They got closer to each other and Myungwoo was not able to repulse the strange but pure nature. He fell in love with her. One day, when Kyungjin was chasing a notorious criminal, Myungwoo helped her again, however, not knowing that what would happen that day changed their relationship forever.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea, Hong Kong
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, captivating, inspirational, romantic, touching, feel good, sad, light hearted, realistic
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A Millionaire's First Love (2006)
Plot Summary:
"A Millionaire's First Love" focuses on Kang Jae-Kyung's struggle with a clause in his grandfather's will that says he will only get his inheritance if he graduates from a high school in the country. Relocated into the mountains, he finds puppy love with a naive country girl. Can love change the spoiled urbanite and awaken his gentler side?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, sad, feel good, dorama, romantic, romantic comedy, tear jerker, tearjerker
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Heartsong (2022)
Plot Summary:
While serenading a wedding that quickly implodes, a nomadic musician falls for the bride, who runs afoul of her family. Now he has to save her life.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: entertaining, light, sincere, romantic, feel good, captivating
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Finding Mr. Destiny (2010)
Plot Summary:
A man sets up the First Love Agency to help people locate their long-lost first love. But then he ends up falling in love with his first client.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: romantic, funny, light, feel good, humorous, sweet, melancholic, romantic comedy
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...ing (2003)
Plot Summary:
Follows the life of a young woman (Min-ah) who has become reserved and indifferent to the world as a result of her chronic illness/deformed hand and quietly portrays the unconventional, yet endearing relationship between mother and daughter as well as the development of Min-ah as she is befriended by the high spirited and carefree photographer Young-jae who moves into their apartment complex.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: romantic, sincere, captivating, romantic comedy, masterpiece
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One Fine Spring Day (2001)
Plot Summary:
A recording engineer falls for a radio announcer after they work together to capture sounds of the natural world.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sincere, romantic, captivating, romantic comedy
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Love 911 (2012)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Mi-Soo misdiagnoses a patient after she meets the woman's husband, whom she assumes to be abusive. With his wife in grave condition, the man sues the hospital. Kang-Il is a widowed firefighter who overhears the situation and when he attempts to counsel the woman's husband, he is assaulted by him. When Mi-Soo learns about the confrontation, she tries to get Kang-Il to be a character witness for her and realizes that he may also be her true love.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, sincere, humorous, captivating, semi serious, sad, serious, emotional, realistic
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Love, So Divine (2004)
Plot Summary:
Kyu-sik is a seminary student, who one day falls during a church service, dropping a precious, pope-blessed relic. As punishment, he and his comic relief friend Seon-dal are sent away to a small church in rural Korea to work in a sort of priest limbo until they get their act together.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: romantic comedy, sincere, touching, feel good, humorous, sweet, captivating, semi serious, romantic
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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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More Than Blue (2009)
Plot Summary:
A terminally ill man tries to find a suitable husband for the friend he has loved since childhood.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, romantic, sentimental, sad, depressing, romantic comedy
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I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK (2006)
Plot Summary:
Young-goon, mentally deranged and frequently electro-charging herself with a transistor radio, has been admitted into a mental institution. Firmly believing herself to be a cyborg, she refuses to consume like a human being. Il-soon is another patient, who catches the eye of Young-goon and soon becomes a close friend. Il-soon is now confronted with the biggest task - to cure Young-goon’s mental problem and have her eat real food.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: surreal, touching, psychological, emotional, sweet, humorous, semi serious, absurd, cult classic, offbeat
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My Girl and I (2005)
Plot Summary:
Su-ho is a plain high school boy, and Su-eun is a bright and beautiful girl in the same school. For some unknown reason, Su-eun has a crush on the boy, and for equally mysterious reasons she rescues Su-ho in the sea (though he doesn’t know who actually saved him).
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, romantic, touching, romantic drama
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In the Land of Women (2007)
Plot Summary:
After a bad breakup with his girlfriend leaves him heartbroken, Carter Webb moves to Michigan to take care of his ailing grandmother. Once there, he gets mixed up in the lives of the mother and daughters who live across the street.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, romantic, independent film, melancholic, emotional, romantic comedy, sentimental, heartbreaking, sad
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Italian for Beginners (2000)
Plot Summary:
A group of strangers find friendship, family and love within an Italian beginners’ course.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: touching, melancholic, romantic comedy, sentimental, feel good, humorous, romantic, realistic, witty, talky
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Heavenly Forest (2006)
Plot Summary:
The story begins with Makoto Segawa, a freshman at Meikei University. On the day of his university entrance ceremony, Makoto meets a fresh-faced, quirky girl named Shizuru. Makoto has a complex which causes him to shy away from contact with other people, but she succeeds in getting him to open up to her naturally. All Shizuru wants is to be with Makoto, so she takes up a camera too. The two spend their days together taking photos in the forest behind the campus. However, Makoto has feelings for another student named Miyuki. Shizuru decides that if Makoto likes Miyuki, she wants to like her too. She wants to like everything that he does. One day, she tells Makoto that she wants to take a photo of them kissing in the forest as a present for 'her birthday'. He obliges for her sake, and they kiss in the forest.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, romantic, sad, shoujo, romantic drama
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Lion's Heart (2013)
Plot Summary:
Ivana Cornejo is just getting used to being single again after her divorce three years ago. After an exasperating call from her ex-husband, she throws her cell phone away. Fortunately, the man who finds it calls her to return it, and to her amusement they have an instant rapport. The man on the other end of the phone is León Godoy, a renowned architect with a charming voice and a charismatic personality. They schedule a date so that he can return the cell phone. When León arrives, Ivana is surprised: he is everything she had imagined, except for one unexpected and startling detail... he’s only 4'5" tall.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Brazil
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, sincere, romantic, entertaining, romantic comedy, sentimental, realistic
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A Lot Like Love (2005)
Plot Summary:
On a flight from Los Angeles to New York, Oliver and Emily make a connection, only to decide that they are poorly suited to be together. Over the next seven years, however, they are reunited time and time again, they go from being acquaintances to close friends to ... lovers?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 71000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: romantic, romantic comedy, sweet, light, feel good, melancholic, realistic, sexy, touching, humorous
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Mischievous Kiss the Movie Part 2: Campus (2017)
Plot Summary:
Based on a popular manga series of the same name, this Japanese romantic comedy sequel continues the story of Kotoko, a bubbly and cheerful girl and her crush, the handsome and aloof Naoki, as they enter the same university. Although they are in separate majors, Kotoko is determined to spend as much time with Naoki as possible and joins the tennis club with him, but all that awaits her is severe training and a love rival.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, romantic comedy
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Pretend We're Kissing (2014)
Plot Summary:
All Benny wants to do is be more confident, stop thinking so much and fall in love. When he has a chance encounter with Jordan, a woman obsessed with the notion of fate and a magical kind of love, he may finally have the opportunity. That is, if he can get out of his own way and out of his head. Pretend We're Kissing is a film for all of those who don't think their love life resembles a romantic comedy.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 371
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, captivating, entertaining, romantic comedy
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Two Faces of My Girlfriend (2007)
Plot Summary:
From failing at job interviews, to being a 30-year-old virgin, Gu Chang seriously can’t catch a break. But that all changes when he meets Ah Ni, a lovely and innocent woman who makes Gu Chang think his luck has finally turned for the better — until her split personality Ha Ni rudely emerges during their first kiss. Between Ah Ni's sweet nothings and Ha Ni's abusive high kicks, can Gu Chang handle two girlfriends at once?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 637
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, captivating, entertaining, romantic comedy
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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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Lover's Concerto (2002)
Plot Summary:
Lee Ji-hwan receives photographs in the mail that reminds him of how he met two girls, Shim Su-in and Kim Gyeong-heui, one summer five years ago. He shares his memories with his friend Cheol-hyeon. He recalls initially being in love with Su-in, but she rejects him. Throughout the summer, the three remain friends. Ji-hwan and Gyeong-heui develop feelings for each other but are reluctant to admit it. Ji-hwan recalls the complex relationship between the three to Cheol-hyeon.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, romantic, captivating, romantic comedy, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative
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Crazy Romance (2019)
Plot Summary:
Jae-hoon recently breaks up with his girlfriend and he still cannot give her up. Whenever he gets drunk, it has become a daily routine to call her and act out of drunkenness. On the other hand, Sun-young also decides to break up with his boyfriend. But she holds a grudge against him. For them, it seems that the beginning and the end of a love affair are both difficult. Can they overcome from the previous romance and start the new one?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 740
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: funny, light, captivating, sincere, humorous, romantic
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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
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: romantic, humorous, feel good, touching, sweet, captivating
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Someone Special (2004)
Plot Summary:
A baseball player learns he has three months to live and drowns his sorrows at a bar, where the female bartender turns out to be a longtime admirer.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, humorous, captivating, disturbing, romantic, sad, romantic comedy
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P.S. I Love You (2007)
Plot Summary:
A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 217000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: touching, romantic, emotional, sentimental, sad, uplifting, sweet, tear jerker, romantic comedy, cute
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A Moment to Remember (2004)
Plot Summary:
A young couple's love is tested when Sun-jin is diagnosed with a rare form of Alzheimer's disease.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, realistic, romantic, sincere, sad, serious, contemplative, heartbreaking, inspirational
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Happythankyoumoreplease (2010)
Plot Summary:
Captures a generational moment - young people on the cusp of truly growing up, tiring of their reflexive cynicism, each in their own ways struggling to connect and define what it means to love and be loved. Six New Yorkers juggle love, friendship, and the keenly challenging specter of adulthood. Sam Wexler is a struggling writer who's having a particularly bad day. When a young boy gets separated from his family on the subway, Sam makes the questionable decision to bring the child back to his apartment and thus begins a rewarding, yet complicated, friendship. Sam's life revolves around his friends — Annie, whose self-image keeps her from commitment; Charlie and Mary Catherine, a couple whose possible move to Los Angeles tests their relationship; and Mississippi, a cabaret singer who catches Sam's eye.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: melancholic, touching, independent film, emotional, feel good, romantic, semi serious, sweet, romantic comedy, entertaining