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Plot Summary:
Etsinnässä (Searching for You) is a story about Joni, a young man in his twenties, who returns to his hometown for summer vacation from university. While on his vacation, Joni tries to find himself and happiness.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Beautiful Weather (1996)
Plot Summary:
Daniel, a teenager from Stockholm, spends the summer in Malmö with his mother and her new husband. Daniel gets a job at McDonald's and falls in love with a girl.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 212
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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I Love You Too (2009)
Plot Summary:
Have you ever been tempted to fall in love with your best friend? Well meet Whitney. When she is down on her luck with guys she turns to the one person who understands her, Dawson. His advice wasn't doing nothing but taking her heart. For Whitney finding love is hard but for Charles and Vanessa keeping love is the hardest. Charles and Vanessa is the image of a couple with deep love and wealth. All the time apart from each other leads Charles to devilish temptation. After spending a lot of time with his sexy business partner, Mrs. Denis, and his breathtaking secretary he gives into temptation. His life gets turn upside down when he decides to engage in a sexual encounter with one of the two. Charles quickly sees everything he worked so hard for is about to vanish in the blink of an eye. Will he get himself out of this disarray? This group of Miami's elite will go through all the modern day trial and tribulation. As they are facing obstacles, each of them must use every tactic possible.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, hispanic, student film, post modern
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The Country Years (1992)
Plot Summary:
An adolescent comes of age during a summer in the Rhône valley with his maternal grandparents. Jules seems a little too close to his mother and distant from his father, who wants Jules out of their Parisian house. It's to be a summer of transition, perhaps to a boarding school, and during these weeks in the country, Jules fishes with his grandfather; proves himself to the local youths, a group led by the bullying Red; takes on some tough guys; feels rejected by his mother; and, meets and pursues Evelyne, the village beauty. She's responsive, and Jules doesn't exactly know what to do next. Then, something happens that propels Jules into decisiveness and maturity.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Waiting Alone (2004)
Plot Summary:
An award-winning audience favorite in China since it debuted, Waiting Alone tells the first-person-narrative of Wen (Xia Yu), a shop owner and aspiring author who feels that he's met his dream girl (Li Bingbing). The only problem is, he seems stuck in the friend-zone. Aided by his best friends and the one girl he completely trusts (Gong Beibi), he tries different ways to woo her.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags:
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Bittersweet (1995)
Plot Summary:
Finnish movie.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Summertime (2014)
Plot Summary:
25-year-old Iiris and Karoliina have been best friends since childhood. Karoliina has been travelling and living abroad for some years now, but is coming back home for the summer as Karoliina has gotten them a job as waitresses in Hanko, the best summer city in Finland!.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 950
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, bleak, humorous
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Carry on Jatta 3 (2023)
Plot Summary:
Advocate Dillon's son, Jass, is in love with Meet but her brothers get in a tussle with Adv. Dhillon. As a result, Adv. Dhillon rejects Meet's hand in marriage. Left with no option, Jass weaves a madhouse plan to propose to his friend, Goldy's wife, Diljit. Will the plan work?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags:
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Squinters (2018)
Plot Summary:
This six-part comedy series tracks the trials and tribulations of five car loads of travellers in peak hour morning transit and again on their drive home to find out how the workday turned out.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy
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Love & Gelato (2022)
Plot Summary:
Lina is about to graduate high school and has her sights set on her future at MIT. But when her mom gets sick, she encourages Lina to follow in her footsteps and have “the summer of a lifetime” in Rome. Using her mom’s old diary as a guide, she explores the romantic and magical city, where she just might find love... and gelato, of course.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, semi serious
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How Not to Disappear Completely (2015)
Plot Summary:
'How Not To Disappear Completely' follows a week in the life of a young photographer Tom as he returns to London after spending two years traveling in India. Tom is at a crossroads in his life. A stranger in the cold hard city, he struggles to reconnect with his friends whilst searching for his half sister. Along the way Tom is forced to face up to his past and soon realises that it may not be his life he's been running away from but himself.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, melancholic
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A Tale of Love and Desire (2021)
Plot Summary:
Ahmed, 18, is French of Algerian origin. He grew up in the Parisian suburbs. On the benches of the university, he meets Farah, a young Tunisian full of energy recently arrived from Tunis. While discovering a body of sensual and erotic Arabic literature that he never knew existed, Ahmed falls deeply in love with this girl, and although literally overwhelmed by desire, he will try to resist it.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Tunisia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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A Summer Tale (2000)
Plot Summary:
The summer of '58, the year Sweden almost won the world championship in soccer over Brazil, Yngve Johansson accepts two children to live with him during the summer, as told through the eyes of a young boy. His name is Mårten, and the other child's name is Annika. She is a rough girl, with many problems. The three of them do not get along, and Yngve is a true dictator to the children's eyes. However, when the children discover that their new guardian has a crush on their teacher (Cecilia Nilsson), they do what they can to bring the two together. Soon enough, the three will discover that they have a lot more in common than they previously imagined, and together they can make their lives worth living again. This is a sweet story about life in Sweden in the mid 1900's. It is about family, love, hate, innocent friendship that we all can relate to, and much, much more.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, realistic, semi serious
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Ali's Wedding (2017)
Plot Summary:
After a "white lie" which spirals out of control, a neurotic, naive and musically gifted Muslim cleric's eldest son must follow through with an arranged marriage, except he is madly in love with an Australian born-Lebanese girl.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sweet, sentimental, romantic, uplifting, touching, feel good, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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A Summer's Tale (1996)
Plot Summary:
A shy maths graduate takes a holiday in Dinard before starting his first job. He hopes his sort-of girlfriend will join him, but soon strikes up a friendship with another girl working in town. She in turn introduces him to a further young lady who fancies him. Thus the quiet young lad finds he is having to do some tricky juggling in territory new to him.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: art house, artsy, anthology, cute, sincere, sexy, clever, humorous, realistic, talky
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Love and Fury (2016)
Plot Summary:
In 1980's Helsinki, a city about to burst with young energy and rebellion, two young writers determined to conquer the world fall madly in love. For Inka, the love affair puts everything in motion: she finds her own voice, publishes her first novel - and becomes a sensation. The intensity of their relationship has a different affect on Juhana, who starts to lose his grip on writing and, finally, life. At the height of the love affair Inka starts to suspect that their mad love might actually be real madness.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 533
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Dear David (2023)
Plot Summary:
A secret fantasy blog might jeopardize the promising future of Laras, a talented student, when the blog is revealed to her entire school.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 882
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags:
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Royalteen: Princess Margrethe (2023)
Plot Summary:
In the wake of her prom scandal, Princess Margrethe longs for normalcy as she struggles to maintain her perfect facade while dealing with family drama.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 721
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Norway
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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20th Century Girl (2022)
Plot Summary:
Yeon-du asks her best friend Bora to collect all the information she can about Baek Hyun-jin while she is away in the U.S. for heart surgery. Bora decides to get close to Baek's best friend, Pung Woon-ho first. However, Bora's clumsy plan unfolds in an unexpected direction. In 1999, a year before the new century, Bora, who turns seventeen, falls into the fever of first love.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: dorama, nostalgic
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Through My Window: Across the Sea (2023)
Plot Summary:
After a year of long-distance, Raquel and Ares reunite on a steamy beach trip. Faced with fresh flirtations and insecurities, will their love prevail?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: teen comedy
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Family (2008)
Plot Summary:
After suffering with the dire consequences of being in the closet, a group of lesbian friends forge a pact to deal with the dire consequences of coming out.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags:
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Last Summer (2021)
Plot Summary:
For Deniz, a 16-year-old teenager, this summer is different from the others. Deniz, who goes to his family's summer house every year, falls in love with a young girl named Aslı. Trying to get closer to Aslı, Deniz realizes that a handsome young man, Burak, also likes Aslı.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The Myth of the American Sleepover (2010)
Plot Summary:
Four young people navigate the suburban wonderland of metro-Detroit looking for love and adventure on the last weekend of summer.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sentimental, uplifting, realistic, touching, serious, talky, independent film, sexy, mumblecore, indie film
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Our Lovers (2016)
Plot Summary:
Carlos is a man who goes to a coffee shop-library to take a cup, where Irene is reading a book. Not a reason for it, Irene close to Carlos and talks with him, starting a friendship with a little rules: no pasts, no birth names, no modern ways to contact between them (as Internet or similar), and finally not falling in love each other. Calling themselves Hada Chalada ('Crazy Fairy') and Duende Chiflado ('Mad Goblin'), both pass the days walking around the city engaged with magic, surrealist and funnies conversations about life, love and themselves, at the same time that Carlos tries to end his new script with his friend Cristóbal, and eccentric writer obsessed with Japan.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, light, cute, crying, whimsical
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The Inkwell (1994)
Plot Summary:
The Inkwell is about a 16-year-old boy coming of age on Martha's Vineyard in the summer of 1976.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, sex comedy, black comedy, independent film, sentimental, feel good, realistic, semi serious, sexy
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Now and Then (1995)
Plot Summary:
Waxing nostalgic about the bittersweet passage from childhood to puberty in this tender coming-of-age tale, four childhood girlfriends -- Teeny, Chrissy, Samantha and Roberta -- recall the magical summer of 1970. During their walk down memory lane, they reconcile experiences with boys, secrets, bullies and more.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: feel good, emotional, touching, teen, semi serious, humorous, cult classic, sentimental, retro, epic
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Through My Window (2022)
Plot Summary:
Raquel's longtime crush on her next-door neighbor turns into something more when he starts developing feelings for her, despite his family's objections.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: romantic, entertaining, psychological, sincere, captivating, semi serious, sexy, scenic, teen, beautiful
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Under the Amalfi Sun (2022)
Plot Summary:
A year after their romance began in Riccione, Vincenzo and Camilla reunite for a vacation on the picturesque Amalfi Coast and put their love to the test.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, semi serious
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Along for the Ride (2022)
Plot Summary:
The summer before college, Auden meets the mysterious Eli, a fellow insomniac. While the seaside town of Colby sleeps, the two embark on nightly quests to help Auden experience the fun, carefree teen life she never knew she wanted.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, disturbing, psychological, romantic comedy, teen
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Stuck in Love. (2012)
Plot Summary:
An acclaimed writer, his ex-wife, and their teenaged children come to terms with the complexities of love in all its forms over the course of one tumultuous year.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 91000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: touching, heartbreaking, sweet, emotional, independent film, romantic, teen, sad, romantic comedy, humorous
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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005)
Plot Summary:
Four best friends (Tibby, Lena, Carmen & Bridget) who buy a mysterious pair of pants that fits each of them, despite their differing sizes, and makes whoever wears them feel fabulous. When faced with the prospect of spending their first summer apart, the pals decide they'll swap the pants so that each girl in turn can enjoy the magic.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 64000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, teen, touching, cute, semi serious, humorous, romantic comedy, light, sad