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Plot Summary:
Julien Monnier has a serious problem. Though he's a brilliant couples counselor, he can't keep a woman in his life for more than two weeks. Indeed, ever since his childhood, Julien jinxes every woman who falls in love with him. But it's not just any small jinx. It's the kind that sends you to the hospital several times a week, that destroys your professional life or that turns your friends into enemies. Julien is strictly speaking a true black cat for women. Joanna Sorini will soon learn this at her expense the day she meets him. A career that's just taking off, a love life that finally seems to be taking a good turn, all that may just change.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, romantic, funny, light, sweet, touching, realistic
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A Perfect Match (2007)
Plot Summary:
On the day of his forced retirement, a grumpy school principal decides, together with his neighbour, to search for a wife on the Internet.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 523
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat
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Cupid (2012)
Plot Summary:
With Valentine’s Day approaching, Eve Lovett, a workaholic TV talk show host with a string of failed relationships, is worried she will never find true love. But when a mysterious stranger named Vernon Gart shows up on the set claiming to work for Cupid, Inc., Eve has no idea her love life is about to get an arrow right through the heart.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, light, captivating, realistic, semi serious, independent film, sexual, sexy
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My First Wedding (2006)
Plot Summary:
A young lady about to get married realizes that she has a problem: she fantasizes about every man she sees. She goes to confess at church but unknowingly confesses to a young man who is not a priest. He agrees to help her, but falls in love with her along the way. Unfortunately she still thinks he is a priest.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, sincere, captivating, melancholic, romantic, romantic comedy, exciting
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It Happened in Saint-Tropez (2013)
Plot Summary:
Zef’s stormy relationship with his brother Roni is further aggravated when Roni marries his daughter just as he is attending to his wife’s funeral. The two brothers have never got on with each other. One is faithful to his religion, the other lives only for the present. Between London, Paris, Saint-Tropez and New York, a series of confrontations and betrayals threatens to drive the family further apart, but out of this confusion will come a great love story, perhaps even two.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, romantic comedy, realistic, semi serious
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Gregoire Moulin vs. Humanity (2001)
Plot Summary:
Grégoire Moulin, a shy accountant, sets up a blind date with a dance teacher at a bar. What he needed to do was just to cross the road. But it didn't happen to be as easy as it seems especially because of the final game of French soccer championship the very same night!.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, touching, offbeat, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Every Jack Has a Jill (2009)
Plot Summary:
Jack is encouraged to take the romantic Paris vacation he won, despite just being dumped by his girlfriend. His trip soon devolves into chaos and adventure, when his luggage is swapped for a French businesswoman's belongings who soon takes a liking to his belongings -- especially his shoes -- and sets out to find him.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sex comedy, offbeat
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Almost Charming (2013)
Plot Summary:
A romantic comedy about Jean-Marc who is a convinced bachelor and also very busy. So busy that he almost missed his own daughters wedding ceremony.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 727
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, humorous, light, realistic, semi serious
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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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Caprice (2015)
Plot Summary:
An average guy meets an actress who is more beautiful than he could ever imagine. But then a pesky girl materializes to make his life a living hell. His perfect girlfriend now thinks that he is involved with this Caprice.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, sincere, feel good, sensitive, sentimental, realistic
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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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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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The Best Day of My Life (2004)
Plot Summary:
Not too excited Arthur asks marriage Lola. What should have been a quiet ceremony evolves in something bigger, expensive and overwhelming as family is involved. The organization of the best day of their lives threatens to destroy them.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 286
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, entertaining, funny, light, romantic, feel good, captivating
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Anything for Alice (2014)
Plot Summary:
Slacker Max fell so hard for single mother Alice in college that he developed a website aimed at winning her heart. Years later, after his venture has earned him millions of dollars, Max risks his entire fortune performing an ever more complicated series of social contortions to get close to Alice, now a politically motivated factory worker.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 556
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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The Art of Seduction (2011)
Plot Summary:
Jean-François is a psychoanalyst in love with one of his patients. When she decides to stop therapy, Jean-François at last feels free to seduce the woman. Paralyzed when in front of his object of love, Jean-François accumulates blunders of every kind. He hence turns to Julien, one his patients who is in therapy to overcome his compulsive-obsessive flirting disorder. It's a totally absurd initiative on Jean-François's part. But, even so.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, sincere, sentimental, realistic, semi serious
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The Belgian Job (2012)
Plot Summary:
Willy Vander Brook, a world with Franco-Belgian roots, travels to Paris for an interview. He is welcomed by his childhood friend Serge, an ex pub operator, and his roommate Frank, a fierce supporter of the Walloon independence. When Willy discovers that his candidacy is not accepted because he is Belgian, he and his compatriots decide to take revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, realistic, semi serious
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Bacon on the Side (2010)
Plot Summary:
Djalil Boudaoud and Justine Lacroix are a surgeon and a television reporter who enter a romantic relationship despite the objections of their families to the cultural gap.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 557
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, sentimental, touching, realistic
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Cherry on the Cake (2012)
Plot Summary:
Amanda believes men are too complicated and has lost faith finding the perfect one. Her friend and a psychoanalyst have a plan how to make her fall in love. She insists that Amanda not stay home alone on New Year's Eve, and only gets her way after swearing that all the other guests will be couples, except for Maxime, a gay colleague. But Maxime leaves at the last minute to join his lover in Amsterdam, and Antoine, recently separated from his wife, arrives alone at the party.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 393
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, feel good, captivating, funny, light, realistic, semi serious
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Happiness Never Comes Alone (2012)
Plot Summary:
Sacha is a real seducer, a man with no ties or emotional or professional. Charlotte is a modern and independent woman, but barely has time to care for their three children. While Sacha and Charlotte are, at first glance, two incompatible beings, when they meet soon discover that they are quite complementary and need each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: romantic, sentimental, realistic, humorous, semi serious, touching, offbeat, feel good
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I Hate Valentine's Day (2009)
Plot Summary:
A love story set in Manhattan, where a florist who abides by a strict five-date-limit with any man finds herself wanting more with the new restaurateur in town.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, semi serious, humorous, realistic, sincere, sweet, touching, romantic comedy, exciting
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A Perfect Plan (2012)
Plot Summary:
Successful woman in love tries to break her family curse of every first marriage ending in divorce, by dashing to the alter with a random stranger before marrying her boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, romantic, funny, humorous, semi serious, sweet, exciting, realistic, crying
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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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Darling Trap (2014)
Plot Summary:
Clémence is pathologically jealous. Gabriel has asked her to marry him. To test whether he is faithful, unbeknownst to him she arranges that he crosses paths with beautiful Olivia.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, romantic comedy, realistic, semi serious
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My Fake Fiance (2009)
Plot Summary:
Jennifer and Vince, virtual strangers, find themselves strapped for cash and decide to stage a fake engagement and wedding just for the gifts.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, romantic, feel good, heartbreaking, teen, light
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A Couch in New York (1996)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Henry Harriston is a successful psychoanalyst in New York City. When he is near a nervous breakdown, he arranges to change his flat with Beatrice Saulnier from France for a while. Both don't know each other and both find themselves deeply involved into the social settings of the other, because the decision to change their flats is made overnight. Could be the perfect amusement, but suddenly Henry finds himself beaten up by Beatrice' lover and Beatrice is considered to be Dr. Harriston's substitute by his clients.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sweet, melancholic, light, feel good, humorous, clever, witty, offbeat, realistic, semi serious
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When in Rome (2010)
Plot Summary:
After fishing out coins from a water fountain in Italy, cynical New Yorker Beth Harper finds herself being wooed by several ardent suitors. As she deals with the attention, Beth tries to figure out whether a charming reporter really loves her.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 64000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: romantic, romantic comedy, funny, cute, humorous, feel good, semi serious, light, teen, hilarious
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Beautiful Lies (2010)
Plot Summary:
A hairdresser forwards a passionate love letter to her widowed mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, entertaining, sentimental, sincere, touching, realistic, neurotic
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Heartbreaker (2010)
Plot Summary:
Alex and his sister run a business designed to break up relationships. They are hired by a rich man to break up the wedding of his daughter. The only problem is that they only have one week to do so.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Monaco, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: feel good, romantic, sentimental, sexy, sweet, heartbreaking, light, unusual plot structure, not serious, entertaining
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The Wedding Date (2005)
Plot Summary:
With the wedding of her younger sister fast approaching, Kat Ellis faces the undesirable prospect of traveling alone to London for the ceremony. While this is bad enough, Jeffrey, the man who left her as they moved closer to marriage, happens to be the groom's best man. Determined to show everyone -- most of all Jeffrey -- that her romantic life is as full and thrilling as ever, Kat hires a charming male escort as her date.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, sweet, light, sexy, sentimental, funny, romantic comedy, realistic, witty
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Serendipity (2001)
Plot Summary:
Although strangers Sara and Jonathan are both already in relationships, they realize they have genuine chemistry after a chance encounter – but part company soon after. Years later, they each yearn to reunite, despite being destined for the altar. But to give true love a chance, they have to find one another again.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 119000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, touching, sentimental, sweet, light, witty, romantic comedy, cute, teen