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Plot Summary:
Determined not to turn into her parents, or be drawn into any relationship longer than a one night stand, Zoe constantly struggles with her failing business and love life. Then she falls in love for the first time with Paul. But there's one problem: Paul is married.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, funny, light, sincere, independent film
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Mr. Roosevelt (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young woman returns home and must confront her ex-boyfriend when an unexpected tragedy occurs.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, sensual, independent film
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Love Is Love (2012)
Plot Summary:
The Czech romantic comedy hit “Love is Love” tells the story of Maruska, a blind girl and student at the Conservatory of Music who dreams of love and having a family despite her blindness. Her dream guy has curly blonde hair and blue eyes but she ends up falling in love with the dark eyed, swarthy Marek. Maruska lives with her overly protective grandfather whom is preocupied with his long-lost love. Maruska’s neighbor and best friend is constantly struggling with his headstrong mother as she refuses to accept that her son is gay. She blames everyone else - even her husband - for her son's "deviation." The fate of all main characters is unexpectedly intertwined and told through humorous and touching situations laced with subtle irony and hyperbole. Just as in life, with its funny situations and difficult tests, unexpected revelations and surprising twists, all characters will experience times when they behave blindly and forget to listen to their hearts.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sincere, unusual plot structure, humorous, captivating, melancholic, contemplative
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Happy Anniversary (2018)
Plot Summary:
A quirky couple spends their three-year dating anniversary looking back at their relationship and contemplating whether they should break up.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, sweet, romantic, romantic comedy, independent film
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Falling in Love with the Girl Next Door (2006)
Plot Summary:
Mark Lucas and Theresa Connolly fall in love but their overbearing mothers ruin their wedding plans and possibly their future together.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 702
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining
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From 180 & Taller (2005)
Plot Summary:
Administrator of a Fitness-Club Kostya thinks that having a woman taller than 180sm by a man's side is a symbol of his prosperity and success. But he can only dream of having a 180sm beauty by his side. One day he decides to go on a date with one of his 180sm tall Fitness-Club members, after calling almost all the women he doesn't get a single acceptation : each of them has her own problems with men. However, accidentally it happens that way that he happens to be on a date with all of his dream ladies.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 556
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, entertaining, sincere
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Me, You, He, She (2018)
Plot Summary:
A married couple decides to divorce, but things don't quite go the way they planned.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 542
Genere: Comedy
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, captivating, entertaining, light, feel good
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How to Train Your Husband (2018)
Plot Summary:
A marriage therapist attempts to fix her own marriage by focusing on how to change her husband.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 924
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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If I Were You (2018)
Plot Summary:
Claudia and Antonio have been married for 15 years. After so many years of marriage they have lost track of each other. One night, after a strong argument, the unusual alignment of the planets Venus, Earth and Mars causes a magical transformation: Antonio's soul is trapped in the body of Claudia and Claudia's in Antonio's body.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, humorous, entertaining, urban fantasy
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Night Shift (2018)
Plot Summary:
Max loses his job at the plant and to feed his family, is forced to accept an unexpected offer former classmate to work as a stripper. Hiding the new profession from his wife, Ani, Max gets into a lot of amazing and ridiculous situations and end up losing the trust of the woman he loved. In an effort to return peace and harmony to the family, he appealed for help to colleagues from the strip club, that all leads to fun chaos.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, humorous, funny, sincere, light
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Brother Nature (2016)
Plot Summary:
Roger, a straight-laced politician has big plans to propose to his dream girl at her family's lake house. But everything goes awry when he meets his potential brother-in-law Todd: a full-time camp counselor with a heart of gold and a wild sense of fun, pining to be Roger's best friend, and ultimately catapulting him into a series of unfortunate events. As Roger tries to take a stand amidst outrageous fishing excursions, propulsive water jetpacks and American history-themed musicals, he realizes that being a part of a new family may be more difficult than he'd thought.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Shy of Normal: Tales of New Life Experiences (2011)
Plot Summary:
An author (Brinke Stevens) cures her struggle with writer's block by making up funny short stories about random people she sees in public.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, independent film, cult film
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Mom or Dad? (2017)
Plot Summary:
A divorced couple fights for the custody of their three children: neither of them wants it. Mom wants to leave them to dad, and vice versa.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: funny, sincere, feel good, humorous, serious, realistic, light, captivating
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Joint Custody (2017)
Plot Summary:
A wife finds out her husband has a mistress. She decides to propose her to share her life with her husband, alternating every two weeks.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, happy, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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The Countryside (2019)
Plot Summary:
A group of urbanites flee the city for different reasons: existential, economic crisis, need for fresh air, search for peace, inspiration to compose ... The intention of these strangers is to settle in an abandoned town and start their lives from scratch, but when they arrive they discover that there are still some neighbors: rural people with a very different way of seeing life.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 914
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration:
Plot tags: sincere, entertaining, light, captivating
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Sandy Wexler (2017)
Plot Summary:
When a hapless but dedicated talent manager signs his first client who actually has talent, his career finally starts to take off.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, uplifting, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, happy
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Where's the Money (2017)
Plot Summary:
A quick witted young man from the streets of South Central must rush a lily-white USC fraternity to recover a stash of stolen money.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Take the 10 (2017)
Plot Summary:
A day in the life of two best friends, a drug dealer, and a store manager collide at a hip-hop concert in the Inland Empire.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, dark comedy, buddy comedy
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The Week Of (2018)
Plot Summary:
The parents of a soon-to-be married couple make the final preparations for the wedding ceremony.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, funny, feel good, sincere, buddy comedy
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Finding Momo (2017)
Plot Summary:
One evening, when they come home, Mr. and Mrs. Prioux are astounded to find that a certain Patrick has moved into their place. This strange young man has returned home to his parents in order to introduce his wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating
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Bride Wars (2015)
Plot Summary:
Mary and Jing are childhood best friends. When they were kids, they dreamed about their ideal weddings. Ten years later, on the day of their weddings, however, a mistake by the wedding planner pits them against each other, in a battle of wits.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Comedy
Country: China, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, remake of american film
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S.O.S.: Women to the Sea 2 (2015)
Plot Summary:
Afraid her husband will fall back with his ex girlfriend after they're assigned to work together, Adriana and her sister set sail to the U.S. to go after him to stop this from happening.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 366
Genere: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, humorous, sweet, captivating, romantic comedy
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Life's a Beach (2012)
Plot Summary:
Darren gets stood up on the day of his wedding and uses his vacation tickets with his best friend, RJ, to spend his "honeymoon" at a Club Med-style resort.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, light, funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, sexy, realistic, independent film
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4 Wedding Planners (2011)
Plot Summary:
Romantic comedy taking a lighthearted look at a wedding planning business run by a Honolulu mom and three daughters from three different dads. Triple-divorcee Miriam is having her own lack of luck in love, her eldest daughter Lily heads home after rejecting her boyfriend's marriage proposal and her two half-sisters are running the business into the ground.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 359
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, sincere, feel good, sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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A Beer Tale (2012)
Plot Summary:
A coming of age romantic comedy centered around the lives of twin brothers Luke and Corey Frankenstein in the pivotal months following college graduation. Orphaned at the age of five, the brothers inherited their family brewery and were left in the care of their uncle, a well-meaning but less than ideal paternal figure. Raised on beer, with the assumption they're all grown up, Luke and Corey decide it's time to finish their family beer; a beer their parents started but were never able to finish twenty years ago. But when the idealistic Luke meets a girl whose family shows him the home life he's always wanted, he abandons Corey and their family beer in pursuit of this budding relationship. Corey, however, refuses to go down without a fight, and the ensuing mayhem that follows pits brother against brother and forces the Colorado wild boys to finally grow up and decide what kind of men they really want to be.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Traffic Light (2011)
Plot Summary:
"Traffic Light" is a story about three childhood friends. They are slightly over 30. They are men in their prime. One is married, another is busy, the third is free as the wind. The characters are absolutely not similar, but they are united by friendship and a different, but still sincere love for women.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 26 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, humorous, sincere, captivating
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Little Italy (2018)
Plot Summary:
Former childhood pals Leo and Nikki are attracted to each other as adults—but will their feuding parents' rival pizzerias put a chill on their sizzling romance?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, atmospheric, touching, humorous, captivating, sincere, funny, sentimental
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A Beautiful Wife (2007)
Plot Summary:
Miranda is a beautiful Italian girl, she is married to Mariano. They live in a village called Anghiari.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: funny, light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Like a Cat on a Highway (2017)
Plot Summary:
The story of an encounter between a bourgeois man and a poor woman, because their teenage children fall in love.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, humorous, funny, light, thought provoking, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Ignorance Is Bliss (2017)
Plot Summary:
Ernesto and Filippo, two high school teachers, couldn’t be more different: Filippo is a cheerful liberal who is constantly online. Handsome and youthful, he is a serial seducer on the social networks. Ernesto, instead is a stern conservative, rigorously computerless. He is probably the last person around who still has a first-generation cell phone and his teaching methods are very traditional. They used to be best friends but an unresolved fight kept them far apart, until the day fate intervened and they found themselves teaching at the same school. Their opposite viewpoints will soon and inevitably lead to a new clash. The internet will force them to deal with their past, which resurfaces in the shape of Nina, a young woman who conducts an experiment on them: Filippo must try to leave the world of Internet and Ernesto must try to enter it.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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It's All About Karma (2017)
Plot Summary:
Giacomo befriends a man, believing that he is the reincarnation of his dead father.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 908
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining