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Plot Summary:
A high-powered attorney duct tapes her adulterous husband to the toilet ... right before their home is invaded by burglars.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: not serious, witty, humorous, realistic, cynical, black comedy, dark comedy, surprise ending, crying, independent film
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The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
Plot Summary:
Three days into his Miami honeymoon, Lenny meets tall, blonde Kelly. This confirms him in his opinion that he has made a serious mistake and he decides he wants Kelly instead.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: funny, clever, humorous, witty, talky, scary, cynical, sex comedy, independent film, feel good
Similar in 76%
Divorce Italian Style (1961)
Plot Summary:
A married Sicilian baron falls in love with his cousin and vows to wed her, but with divorce illegal he must concoct a crime of passion to do away with his wife.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: black comedy, humorous, witty, light, atmospheric, talky, captivating, feel good, semi serious, dark comedy
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Faithful (1996)
Plot Summary:
A depressed housewife whose husband is having an affair contemplates suicide, but changes her mind when she faces death by a killer hired to do her in.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: talky, melancholic, semi serious, black comedy, clever, dark comedy, hilarious, independent film, humorous, realistic
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I'll Take You There (1999)
Plot Summary:
A woman forces a man to move forward with his life after his wife dumps him.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 455
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Feeling Minnesota (1996)
Plot Summary:
Sam Clayton's (Vincent D'Onofrio) marriage to ex-stripper Freddie (Cameron Diaz) comes about when she's strong-armed into the match by Red (Delroy Lindo), a club proprietor who once did her a favor. But Freddie falls in love with Jiaks (Keanu Reeves), Sam's brother, and the pair tries to escape the situation together. It isn't long before both Sam and Red catch up with them, resulting in threats against the two of them -- although tension also starts to build between Sam and Red.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, independent film, black comedy, clever, talky, retro, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty
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Commandments (1997)
Plot Summary:
Seth Warner has reached the end of his rope. Ever since his wife died two years earlier, his world has been in turmoil. He is despondent, his career has fallen apart, even his house has been destroyed. There seems to be nothing left for him to live for. Confused and angry after two years of suffering, he finally directs his wrath at God from the rooftop of his apartment building in New York City. In the midst of a wild thunderstorm he demands to know why he has been betrayed by the god he has believed in and honored his whole life. God's answer is to strike down Seth's dog in a bolt of lightning. Pushed beyond his limits, Seth decides to respond to his years of torment by breaking each of the biblical Ten Commandments.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, black comedy, dark comedy, offbeat, witty, cynical, semi serious, detective, light, romantic
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Addicted to Love (1997)
Plot Summary:
Good-natured astronomer Sam is devastated when the love of his life, Linda, leaves him for a suave Frenchman named Anton. He therefore does what every other normal dumpee would do; go to New York and set up home in the abandoned building opposite his ex-girlfriend's apartment, intent on winning her back and waiting until she decides to leave her current lover.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: clever, romantic, melancholic, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, black comedy, cynical, sentimental
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Autumn Marathon (1979)
Plot Summary:
Andrey Pavlovich Buzykin, who makes a living by teaching at an institute and translating English literature, is cheating on his wife. Buzykin's main problem is that he's a kind man with a weak character. The lies he is telling his wife all the time are inconvincing, but he never has the courage to tell her the truth. His lover, Alla, is aware of his family life, but gets offended when, for example, he cannot meet her so that he doesn't come home late, or when he doesn't want to go home in a new jacket she gives him to avoid having to explain to his wife. Alla and Nina, Andrei's wife, both leave him, forgive him, and return to him at the same time, and Andrei continues with this kind of life, full of suffering and deceit. Finally, both women are so fed up with his lies that they don't believe him even when he is telling the truth.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Plaza Suite (1971)
Plot Summary:
Film version of the Neil Simon play has three separate acts set in the same hotel suite in New York's Plaza Hotel with Walter Matthau in a triple role. In the first, Karen Nash tries to get her inattentive husband Sam's attention to spruce up their failing marriage. In the second, brash film producer Jesse Kiplinger tries to get his former one-time flame Muriel to see him for what he stands for. In the third, Roy Hubley and his wife Norma try and try to get their uncertain-of-herself daughter out of the bathroom before her approaching wedding.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, witty, anthology, realistic, semi serious, sketch comedy, funny, light, surprise ending
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Denial (1998)
Plot Summary:
Couples split up after a comment at an LA dinner party sets up arguments about how truthful partners are in their relationships.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, witty, semi serious, independent film, talky, sexual, sex comedy, sexy
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The Only Game in Town (1970)
Plot Summary:
Fran walks into a piano bar for pizza. She comes back home with Joe, the piano player. Joe plans on winning $5,000 and leave Las Vegas. Fran waits for something else. Meanwhile, he moves in with her.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, gloomy, semi serious
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Sleep with Me (1994)
Plot Summary:
Six different writers wrote a scene each of this romantic comedy featuring the marriage and turbulent relationship of Joseph and Sarah, with Joseph's best friend Frank trying hard to cope with letting the love of his life marry his best friend. Featuring Quentin Tarantino in a cameo as Sid, a movie-bore party goer.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sexy, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, semi serious, sex comedy, hot
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The Oh in Ohio (2006)
Plot Summary:
Priscilla and Jack appear to be the perfect couple, but they have a secret: She is sexually frustrated. They separate in the hope of resolving the situation. While Jack moves into a bachelor pad and begins an affair with a student, Priscilla discovers the joys of self-pleasuring and finds an unusual bed-mate.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: light, stylized, sex comedy, feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty, talky, clever
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Nurse Betty (2000)
Plot Summary:
What happens when a person decides that life is merely a state of mind? If you're Betty, a small-town waitress and soap opera fan from Fair Oaks, Kansas, you refuse to believe that you can't be with the love of your life just because he doesn't really exist. After all, life is no excuse for not living. Traumatized by a savage event, Betty enters into a fugue state that allows -- even encourages -- her to keep functioning... in a kind of alternate reality.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, black comedy, light, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, dark, clever, road movie
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The Man from Elysian Fields (2001)
Plot Summary:
A failed novelist's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife and leads him to work at an escort service where he becomes entwined with a wealthy woman whose husband is a successful writer.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: witty, melancholic, clever, touching, sexy, entertaining, independent film, art house, humorous, realistic
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Blume in Love (1973)
Plot Summary:
Lawyer Stephen Blume, specialized in divorces, lives a paradoxical situation when, having his own marriage break up, is still in love with his ex-wife. Gedorge Segal plays a divorce lawyer who is divorced himself after his wife (Susan Anspach) catches him cheating on her. She, in turn, moves on and falls into an easy-going relationship with an even more easy-going musician (Kris Kristofferson in one of his first film roles). But Blume chooses this moment to fall back in love with his ex-wife (Marsha Mason) and begins to woo her anew.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: funny, romantic comedy, sentimental, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, stylized, semi serious
Similar in 81%
Change of Plans (2009)
Plot Summary:
So called friends at a dinner party end up acting like a dysfunctional family.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, biting, suspense
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Waitress (2007)
Plot Summary:
Jenna is a pregnant, unhappily married waitress in the deep south. She meets a newcomer to her town and falls into an unlikely relationship as a last attempt at happiness.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, romantic, feel good, witty, romantic comedy, sweet, humorous, sexy, culinary
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Love in the Time of Money (2002)
Plot Summary:
New York serves as a backdrop for a cast of characters in search of love, lust or lucre including a woman who makes awkward moves on the man renovating her SoHo loft, an embezzler, a sleazy artist and a phone psychic.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 733
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: talky, humorous, sexy, captivating, clever, serious, realistic, sexual
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Town & Country (2001)
Plot Summary:
Porter Stoddard is a well-known New York architect who is at a crossroads... a nexus where twists and turns lead to myriad missteps some with his wife Ellie, others with longtime friends Mona and her husband Griffin. Deciding which direction to take often leads to unexpected encounters with hilarious consequences.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, melancholic, light, semi serious, realistic, clever, witty, talky, sexual, parody
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Heartbreakers (2001)
Plot Summary:
Max and Page are a brilliant mother/daughter con team who have their grift down to a fine science. Max targets wealthy, willing men and marries them. Page then seduces them, and Max catches her husband in the act. Then it's off to palimony city and the next easy mark.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: romantic, funny, light, hilarious, humorous, sweet, cute, clever, witty, sexy
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The Big Wedding (2013)
Plot Summary:
To the amusement of their adult children and friends, long divorced couple Don and Ellie Griffin are once again forced to play the happy couple for the sake of their adopted son's wedding after his ultra conservative biological mother unexpectedly decides to fly halfway across the world to attend. With all of the wedding guests looking on, the Griffins are hilariously forced to confront their past, present and future - and hopefully avoid killing each other in the process.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 52000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: entertaining, feel good, funny, not serious, humorous, light, romantic, hilarious, sweet, teen
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French Kiss (1995)
Plot Summary:
French Kiss is director Kasdan’s best film since the Bodyguard. The plot involves a couple in love and one woman’s attempt to fly to Paris to get her lover back from a business trip and marry him. On the way she unknowingly smuggles something of value that has a petty thief chasing her across France as she chases after her future husband.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 52000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: feel good, romantic, romantic comedy, humorous, sweet, light, entertaining, philosophical, uplifting, emotional
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Too Beautiful for You (1989)
Plot Summary:
A car dealer, well-to-do and with a beautiful wife, finds himself attracted to his rather plain new temporary secretary. Despite her own commitments she feels the same and the two soon embark on an affair. Though it would seem it has happened before his wife finds this particular entanglement of her husband's very difficult to accept.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: talky, cynical, clever, humorous, realistic, semi serious, crying, erotic, psychological, atmospheric
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Intermission (2003)
Plot Summary:
A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. An ill-timed and poorly executed couple's break-up sets off a chain of events affecting everyone in town.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, humorous, touching, melancholic, witty, black comedy, semi serious, cult classic, realistic, intense
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Friends with Money (2006)
Plot Summary:
After she quits her lucrative job, Olivia finds herself unsure about her future and her relationships with her successful and wealthy friends.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sexy, melancholic, stylized, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, independent film, realistic, talky, light
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Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
Plot Summary:
When Sarah Marshall dumps aspiring musician Peter Bretter for rock star Aldous Snow, Peter's world comes crashing down. His best friend suggests that Peter should get away from everything and to fly off to Hawaii to escape all his problems. After arriving in Hawaii and meeting the beautiful Rachel Jansen, Peter is shocked to see not only Aldous Snow in Hawaii, but also Sarah Marshall.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 299000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: feel good, sexy, funny, romantic, sex comedy, humorous, romantic comedy, hilarious, light, teen
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He's Just Not That Into You (2009)
Plot Summary:
Remember that really cute guy who said he'd call – and didn't? Maybe he lost your number. Maybe he's in the hospital. Maybe he's awed by your beauty, brains or success. Or maybe... he's just not that into you.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 180000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: romantic, sexy, funny, sweet, romantic comedy, entertaining, feel good, light, humorous, cute
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The Women (2008)
Plot Summary:
The story centers on a group of gossipy, high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon and haunting fashion shows. The sweet, happily-wedded Mary Haines finds her marriage in trouble when shop girl Crystal Allen gets her hooks into Mary's man.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: entertaining, witty, humorous, light, realistic, emotional, sexy, semi serious, erotic, clever
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It's Complicated (2009)
Plot Summary:
Ten years after their divorce, Jane and Jake Adler unite for their son's college graduation and unexpectedly end up sleeping together. But Jake is married, and Jane is embarking on a new romance with her architect. Now, she has to sort out her life – just when she thought she had it all figured out.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 97000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: feel good, realistic, light, romantic, humorous, witty, funny, entertaining, romantic comedy, sex comedy