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Plot Summary:
Simon has Asperger's syndrome and doesn't like changes in his life. He lives with his big brother Sam and Sam's girlfriend Frida. When Frida can't stand having to adapt to Simon's peculiarities anymore she takes off, leaving Simon with having to find a new, perfect, girlfriend for his brother.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, realistic, semi serious, offbeat, beautiful
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My Brother Chases Dinosaurs (2019)
Plot Summary:
As a child, Jack believed the tender lie his parents told him, that Gio was a special being with superpowers, as in a comic book. Now that he is about to go to high school, however, Jack no longer believes that his brother is a superhero, in fact, he is almost ashamed of him, especially since he met Arianna, the first love of his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 929
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, realistic, semi serious
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Ciao Bella (2007)
Plot Summary:
Mustafa Moradi is aching to find a girlfriend. On the other end of the city, Linnea is desperately searching for a guy with style, courage and a burning passion.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 949
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, romantic, thought provoking, realistic
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Sandor & Ida (2005)
Plot Summary:
Ida lives hard and fast with too much drinking and a string of boyfriends, Sandor has very few friends and his mother insists that he practices ballet. They meet in a chat room and despite appearances they discover they have much in common. Sandor and Ida lives in different cities and when Sandor unexpectedly visits her it ends with disaster.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tragicomedy, touching, serious, realistic
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Miffo (2003)
Plot Summary:
Tobias is the new, idealistic priest in a suburb but he soon learns that his flock is quite uninterested in Christianity. However, he befriends Carolina, a chain smoking woman his age, wheelchair-bound since birth. It is opposites attract although their backgrounds are different.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, emotional, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, sexual
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Anja & Viktor (2001)
Plot Summary:
Highschool sweethearts Anja and Viktor find themselves in a lesser state of love when Anja graduates and gets a job in the city.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, sentimental, offbeat, realistic, sexual, sexy
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The Dog Trick (2002)
Plot Summary:
A shy but very romantic young man tries to meet a girl by walking a borrowed dog. The trick works unbelievably well. They fall in love.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic
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A Foreign Affair (2003)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers need household help after their Ma passes away. They decide to join a romance tour to Russia to find and bring home a traditionally minded wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, social
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Happy Times (2000)
Plot Summary:
Zhao is an old laid-off worker who's dreaming of getting married. After trying unsuccessful proposals, he finally pair off with a gargantuan divorcée with two children. She, however, demands a lavish wedding and that Zhao finds a job and another place to stay for her blind step-daughter. Pretending he's the General Manager of a non-existent posh hotel "Happy Times", Zhao had to find ways and means of keeping both mother and stepdaughter happy.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, stylized, cult classic, sincere, feel good, realistic, black comedy
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The Sense of Wonder (2015)
Plot Summary:
Louise, a widow with two children, almost crushes a stranger with her car. She takes care of him, even if he's not really wounded. It turns out that he has mental disorders and that they can help each other much more than they thought.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sincere, light, touching, humorous, captivating, romantic drama
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Numb (2007)
Plot Summary:
Hudson Milbank is a successful Hollywood screenwriter who suddenly and strangely finds himself without any emotional feelings. He tries doctor after doctor and shrink after shrink, but nothing works. The Golf Channel, lesbian exercise classes and a dizzying variety of pills get him through the day, but don't quite solve his problem. His writing partner tries everything to get him back to normal, but it's not until Hudson meets Sara that he finds a real motivation to get better and to actually start feeling again. From the writer of Deuce Bigalow, comes NUMB, a romantic comedy following an unusual man looking for strange love.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, realistic, captivating, semi serious, independent film, sincere
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I, Cesar (2003)
Plot Summary:
Cesar is a young schoolboy living in Paris with his family. Their life is ordinary, but Cesar wants more excitement (which he creates, in one instance, by claiming to his teachers that his father has been arrested). During the school holidays, Cesar and his friend Sarah decide to help their mutual friend, Morgan, find his father who supposedly lives in London. Each one tells their parents that they're staying with the other two, and together they sneak out to begin their search.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Similar in 79%
White Frog (2012)
Plot Summary:
Story of a neglected teen with mild Asperger’s syndrome whose life is changed forever when tragedy hits his family.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, independent film, feel good, queer cinema
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Molly (1999)
Plot Summary:
Molly McKay is a profoundly autistic twenty-something woman who has lived in an institution from a young age following her parents' death in a car accident. When the institution must close due budget cuts, Molly is left in the charge of her neurotypical, older brother, Buck McKay, an advertising executive and perennial bachelor. Buck allows her to undergo an experimental medical treatment, with unexpectedly drastic results.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, humorous, emotional, sincere, uplifting, feel good, realistic, experimental, semi serious
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Every Other Week (2006)
Plot Summary:
Pontus is divorced and has custody of his children every other week while living life as a bachelor the rest of the time. His older brother, Jens, is married since 20 years and has three children. When Jens' marriage collapses, he moves in with his younger brother - a move which will change both of their lives radically.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 899
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, psychological, emotional, captivating, humorous, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Hello Carter (2013)
Plot Summary:
Down-on-his-luck Carter has recently become homeless, single and unemployed. Desperate to win back his ex-girlfriend, he goes off on an adventure throughout London to find her, picking up some odd helpers along the way.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 407
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Patrik, Age 1.5 (2008)
Plot Summary:
Göran and Sven have been cleared for adoption and they have a possibility to adopt a swedish orphan, Patrik 1,5. But when Patrik arrives he turns out to be someone else, not the little boy they were expecting. A comma had been misplaced, and in comes a 15-year-old homophobic with a criminal past.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, thought provoking, semi serious, humorous, realistic, lgbt cinema, sexual, crying, independent film
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The Black Balloon (2008)
Plot Summary:
Thomas is turning 16. His dad's in the army and they've just moved to a town in New South Wales; his mom is pregnant; his older brother, Charlie, who's autistic, has his own adolescent sexual issues. Thomas finds Charlie an embarrassment in public, so when Thomas is attracted to Jackie, a girl in his swim class, Charlie presents any number of obstacles when she drops by their house, when the three of them go for a walk, and during a family birthday dinner. Can Thomas find a way to enter the world of teen romance and still be his brother's keeper, or is Charlie's disability going to prove more than Thomas can handle?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, emotional, educational, sad, independent film, dark comedy, indie film, psychological
Similar in 77%
My Brother the Vampire (2001)
Plot Summary:
Josh is about to turn 30; he's mentally retarded, and likes to play at being a vampire. His sister Nicole is 15, and dealing with her impending womanhood; middle brother Mike is the "normal" one, but in some ways the most childish - his latest conquest is Nadine, who runs the dog kennel at his security guard job. Nic is fixated on getting laid, and watches Mike and Nadine through the skylight with Josh. Josh also gets fixated on sex, though he has no clear idea what it's all about, and in particular on Nadine; to Mike's chagrin, she seems more interested in Josh than in him.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 520
Genere: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, funny, romantic, captivating, entertaining, offbeat, homoerotic
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Dirty Filthy Love (2004)
Plot Summary:
A man's life falls apart as a result of his affliction with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Tourette's Syndrome in this touching and funny tale.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sentimental, psychological, touching, realistic, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, independent film
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The Story of Luke (2012)
Plot Summary:
Sheltered by his grandparents, Luke, a young man with autism, is thrust into a world that doesn't expect anything from him. But Luke is on a quest for a job and true love. And he isn't taking no for an answer.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, mumblecore, indie film, independent film
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Bart Got a Room (2008)
Plot Summary:
Everyone is searching for love in director Brian Hecker's semi-autobiographical story. Danny Stein, a high school senior at the bottom of the social food chain, needs a prom date. As a cause of anxiety for Danny, Bart Beeber, the nerdiest guy in school, has already found a date -- and booked a hotel room. At the same time, Danny's divorced parents are both looking for relationships again.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, touching, realistic, teen, offbeat, semi serious, independent film
Similar in 75%
Passionada (2002)
Plot Summary:
The film is a romantic comedy about a Portuguese widow whose husband had been a fisherman who died at sea. The widow's teenage daughter wants to be a professional gambler and she convinces her mother to date a British man whose new in town. The widow falls for the Brit, who pretends to be in the fishing business but is actually a professional gambler. The naive daughter gets into some trouble.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: feel good, sentimental, touching, semi serious, humorous, realistic
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Old, New, Borrowed and Blue (2003)
Plot Summary:
Katrine is to be married. Her fiancé is gorgeous, their appartment is luxurious and her future in-laws are wealthy. Katrine only has one problem: she sometimes finds it difficult to tell the truth, and this sends her on a round-about jaunt with an old friend, Thomsen, who has just barged in unannounced from Kenya and who wants to return a favour and help Katrine with her wedding preparations. A labyrinthal excursion takes place. Tomorrow is another day, the wedding day!.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 960
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, sincere, feel good, semi serious, touching, offbeat, realistic
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Let's Ruin It with Babies (2014)
Plot Summary:
Channing has it all: a beautiful home, a rock star lifestyle, and a loving husband intent on ruining it all by knocking her up.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, independent film, sexy
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Mozart and the Whale (2005)
Plot Summary:
A love story between two savants with Asperger's syndrome, a kind of autism, whose conditions sabotage their budding relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: touching, inspirational, sweet, emotional, romantic, sincere, spiritual, romantic comedy, indie film, feel good
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Benny & Joon (1993)
Plot Summary:
A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: touching, melancholic, sweet, cult classic, feel good, compassionate, offbeat, realistic, humorous, romantic
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The Italian Key (2011)
Plot Summary:
A romantic fairy tale about a 19-year old orphan girl who, as her sole inheritance, gets an antique key that unlocks both an old Italian villa and the secrets of her family history.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, USA, Italy, UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, sentimental, feel good, realistic, stylized, romantic, fairy tale
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Dorian Blues (2004)
Plot Summary:
Dorian realizes he is gay in his final year of high school. He meets another gay youth locally, but remains confused. He starts therapy, then resorts to confession in the Church, and finally comes out to his brother. Dorian then decides to come out to his father; he gets kicked out of the house.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, independent film, queer cinema
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Adam (2009)
Plot Summary:
Adam, a lonely man with Asperger's Syndrome, develops a relationship with his upstairs neighbor, Beth.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, sincere, realistic, independent film, romantic, light, inspirational, sweet, heartbreaking
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It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010)
Plot Summary:
A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 147000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, independent film, funny, feel good, humorous, teen, sweet, visually appealing, semi serious