Best movies like Soldier in the Rain
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Plot Summary:
Sentemental military comedy revolves around two contemporary army buddies, Master Sergeant Maxwell Slaughter (Jackie Gleason), a smooth operator, who supply Sergeant Eustis Clay (Steve McQueen) idolizes and hopes will join him as a civilian in a private business enterprise. Clay endeavors to be a player in the military, just like Slaughter, but it seems as though Clay still has a lot to learn from his mentor. They are joined by Tuesday Weld as a shrill dizzy blonde teenager named Bobby Jo Pepperdine and Tony Bill as bumbling Private First Class Jerry Meltzer, McQueen's screwball sidekick.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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The Honeymoon Machine (1961)
Plot Summary:
Lieutenant Fergie Howard, Ensign Beau Gilliam and navy scientist Jason Elderidge use their ships computer, designed to calculate missile trajectories, to calculate a roulette ball's trajectory and hit the Venice Casino. Things get complex when Admiral Fitch arrives at the same Casino.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: retro, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Stuck Between Stations (2011)
Plot Summary:
A decade after they graduated from high school and went their separate ways, Casper (Sam Rosen), a soldier haunted by the horrors of war, and Rebecca (Zoe Lister Jones), a whip-smart graduate student with a shaky future, reunite by chance and get to know each other over the course of an accidental tour of the little-known underbelly of Minneapolis. The evening's odyssey includes a bar fight, a house party, a punk-rock circus, a spontaneous burglary, a home Casper did not know he had, and a cast of strange characters, unexpected allies and disappointing friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sentimental, serious, realistic, melancholic, romantic, sexy, sweet, romantic comedy, indie film, independent film
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Love with the Proper Stranger (1963)
Plot Summary:
When a one-night stand results in pregnancy, a musician and a young girl try to resolve the issue together.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, retro, offbeat, depressing, black and white, sincere, humorous, realistic, witty, contemplative
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Private Popsicle (1982)
Plot Summary:
Three young Israeli men join the army, and it soon turns out that they're more interested in chasing skirts than following orders.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, West Germany
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, vintage
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My Words, My Lies - My Love (2009)
Plot Summary:
David, a waiter, finds an unpublished manuscript in a dresser drawer. To impress a girl, he claims to be the author. When the novel becomes a best-seller the real author introduces himself in his life and begins to take-over David's life.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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The Treatment (2006)
Plot Summary:
Jake Singer is at loose ends in NYC, and neck deep in psychoanalysis with the outrageous Dr. Morales when he meets the enigmatic and beautiful widow Allegra Marshall.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic comedy, romantic
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Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979)
Plot Summary:
A man falls for a separated woman but can't cope when she returns to her husband.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: romantic, sentimental, sincere, touching, realistic, semi serious, romantic comedy, comedy drama, cult film
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Full Moon in Blue Water (1988)
Plot Summary:
Floyd, the owner of a bar on the Texas coast, has been depressed for a year after his wife disappeared in a swimming accident. He lives with his senile father-in-law "The General" and is helped by Jimmy, a former asylum inmate, and the good-natured Louise. The bar is rapidly losing money and Charlie wants to buy it cheaply before it becomes publicly known that a nearby bridge is to be built. Louise offers her savings to go into partnership with Floyd, but Floyd decides to sell when he is forced to pay his back taxes.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 809
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, psychological, emotional
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Heartbeat (1993)
Plot Summary:
The beautiful and talented Adrian is a writer for one of America's most popular TV soap operas. She is also pregnant, and when she refuses to abort her baby, Adrian's selfish husband deserts her. It falls to one of the soap opera's producers, the recently divorced Bill, to convince Adrian to give romance a second chance.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 407
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, realistic, humorous, serious, soap opera
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Lord Love a Duck (1966)
Plot Summary:
From his prison cell, young Alan Musgrave (Roddy McDowell) relates his experiences of the previous year dedicated to fulfilling every whim of beautiful and self-absorbed high school senior Barbara Ann Greene played by Tuesday Weld.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, satirical, surreal, grindhouse, period piece, independent film, black comedy, clever, humorous, realistic
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Stay Cool (2009)
Plot Summary:
The film centers on a successful author who is forced to confront an unrequited high school crush when he returns home to deliver a commencement address to graduating seniors. Shasta O'Neil, a sexy high school senior flirts with the visiting author and invites him to the prom.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: feel good, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, independent film
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Going All the Way (1997)
Plot Summary:
Korean War--era veterans and ex-classmates "Gunner" Casselman and "Sonny" Burns reunite upon their return home. Gunner, who spent the war years abroad, is trying to convince his mother that his gal Marty is good enough for him, while Sonny, who was stationed stateside, is torn between loyal Buddy and tempting Gale Ann. As they commiserate, the men realize that they're outgrowing the lives they lived before the war.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious, erotic, independent film
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Keeping the Faith (2000)
Plot Summary:
Best friends since they were kids, Rabbi Jacob Schram and Father Brian Finn are dynamic and popular young men living and working on New York's Upper West Side. When Anna Reilly, once their childhood friend and now grown into a beautiful corporate executive, suddenly returns to the city, she reenters Jake and Brian's lives and hearts with a vengeance. Sparks fly and an unusual and complicated love triangle ensues.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 53000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: romantic, humorous, touching, funny, feel good, realistic, talky, semi serious, light, romantic comedy
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Matters of Life & Dating (2007)
Plot Summary:
Linda Dackman has been diagnosed with breast cancer, but this does not prevent she from seeing the positive side of life and continue their quest for Prince Charming.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Aloha (2015)
Plot Summary:
A celebrated military contractor returns to the site of his greatest career triumphs and re-connects with a long-ago love while unexpectedly falling for the hard-charging Air Force watchdog assigned to him.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 70000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: feel good, romantic, clever, realistic, semi serious, depressing, sweet, sad, scenic, controversial
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You're a Big Boy Now (1966)
Plot Summary:
Bernard Chanticleer's father gives him two simple words of advice: "Grow up." Bernard knows that his first step is to find a girl who's "willing," but he passes up a sure thing, Amy Partlett, for a more elusive goal. Her name is Barbara Darling, an inscrutable go-go dancer. More than a few obstacles keep Bernard from his dream world. There's his doting mother, who mails him locks of her hair and weeps at the thought of her baby as a man; there's a malicious rooster, trained to attack pretty girls, patrolling the halls of his New York City rooming house; and most of all, there's Barbara herself. She turns out to be a man hater, emotionally scarred by the lecherous wooden-legged hypnotherapist who "counseled" her in high school. All in all, Bernard finds himself in an improbable universe with a calculated clumsiness designed to evoke his confusing coming-of-age.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, sex comedy, cult film
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Baby Mama's Club (2010)
Plot Summary:
James, a consummate womanizer, and Randall, a devoted husband, are unlikely best friends. But when Randall becomes a father for the first time and James for the 17th time, they both seek out an unconventional form of counseling to aid them in their relationships. Hilarious events ensue as Randall tries to gain the respect of his wife and James attempts to control his sexual addiction while fending off his baby mamas.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, independent film
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Making Mr. Right (2008)
Plot Summary:
Eddie, a poor street conman, has his 'guess in which briefcase' trick ruined by Manhattan lifestyle magazine deputy editor Hallie Galloway. Due to a bet with her boss, she must transform Eddie into a dashingly eligible bachelor for a charity auction. In order to pay back his generous benefactor, restaurateur Angelo, Eddie accepts. He not only proves a quick learner and born charmer, the gentleman in him awakes and so does love in their harts. But their true pasts catch up.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 563
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, humorous, sexy, feel good, captivating, light, sexual
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Worst Friends (2014)
Plot Summary:
WORST FRIENDS is the story of two childhood friends who are forced to re-think their friendship as adults. When Jake (Richard Tanne) is injured in a car accident, the only person willing to take care of him is his childhood friend Sam (Noah Barrow). With the aid of a tough-as-nails physical therapist (Cody Horn), Sam helps Jake recuperate, but when Sam's high school crush (Kristen Connolly) enters the picture, old habits and bitter rivalries resurface, threatening to tear their friendship apart.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, emotional, captivating, touching, independent film
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Quarter Life Crisis (2006)
Plot Summary:
A Hindu, and a believer in Astrology, Neil Desai is a second-generation East Indian-American, who is 27 years of age, works for an ad company, and has been in a relationship for over 6 years with Angel Matthews, and lives with her in a small apartment in New York. Before that could happen, misunderstandings crop up, and Neil moves out. He gets a ride from Limo driver, Dilip Kumar, who tells him that since he is his 100th customer, he will get a week of free rides. Neil and his friends decide to take good use of Dilip's offer, and Neil, desperate to get into another relationship, dates a wide assortment of girls, and takes them to a variety of destinations in the limo. A week later, he still misses Angel, and returns to her, little knowing that Dilip is a the producer of a TV serial 'Love In The Backseat' and has a hidden camera that has been recording Neil, his interactions with various women, and is all set to telecast this on TV.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic
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Falling Up (2009)
Plot Summary:
A nursing student forced to quit school for family reasons winds up taking a job as a doorman in an elite apartment building in New York City, where he sparks to one of his residents.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic, romantic comedy, independent film
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The Buddy System (1984)
Plot Summary:
A quiet school truant officer, Joe, uncovers a young boy's attempt to fake a residential address, and subsequently gets involved romantically with the boy's mother. The truant officer waffles between a sadistic relationship with his on-again, off-again girlfriend and the mother. When one of the officer's inventions takes off, he chooses the girl and shatters the friendship with the boy and his mother. Only at the last possible moment does he figure out what he's sacrificed, and attempts to get it back.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Author! Author! (1982)
Plot Summary:
A broadway playwright is burning the candle at both ends. He is dealing with pressure from a production nearing premiere, a wife who is leaving him, and 5 children 4 of which belong to her.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, sentimental, touching, romantic, intense, light, feel good, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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Window Theory (2005)
Plot Summary:
An aimless playboy returns to his hometown for his best friend's wedding, only to find that the bride is his high school sweetheart.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 657
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sexy, sentimental, feel good, realistic, humorous, semi serious, sex comedy, hot
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The Last International Playboy (2008)
Plot Summary:
When playboy and one-hit-wonder novelist Jack Frost (Jason Behr) learns that his childhood sweetheart is getting married, he tries to drown his sorrows by dramatically escalating his self-destructive drinking and womanizing. Frost's pals try to coax him back from the brink, but only a precocious youngster (India Ennenga) in his apartment building finds a way around his defenses. Monet Mazur co-stars in this drama from director Steve Clark.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 599
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexy, sex comedy
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Amar Akbar & Tony (2015)
Plot Summary:
Amar, Akbar & Tony follows the lives and loves of three childhood friends through twists and turns as the characters face sudden and unforeseen changes to their idealistic and trouble-free young lives. With hilarious and sometimes tragic consequences, the brotherly bond shared by the trio is forced to come to terms with some unexpected challenges. Interracial marriage, near fatal accidents and stints in prison will test old friendships and family values. A coming of age comedy drama showing the absurdities of life can also be the most amusing.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty
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Angie (1994)
Plot Summary:
Angie lives in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, N.Y. and dreams of a better life than everyone she knows. When she finds that she is pregnant by her boyfriend Vinnie, she decides that she will have the baby, but not Vinnie as a husband. This turns the entire neighborhood upside down and starts her on a journey of self discovery. This journey includes her family, a new lover and her life. Even her best friend Tina has trouble understanding Angie. Written by Tony Fontana.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: intense, sentimental, touching, entertaining, anamorphic, humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, inspirational
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Burning Annie (2004)
Plot Summary:
The story of a college student with an "Annie Hall" addiction trying to make his new relationship work.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 286
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, witty, semi serious, clever, offbeat, realistic, talky, independent film
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A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (1988)
Plot Summary:
A recent high school graduate is faced with two options, either go to a business school where his father wants him to go to, or get a full time job. However he decides to defy his father and go to Hawaii. Trouble is he has no money. Along the way he comes to understand his parents and eventually bonds with his father.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, touching, entertaining, sex comedy, realistic, erotic, romantic, sexy
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Watching TV with the Red Chinese (2012)
Plot Summary:
In New York City in 1980, Dexter Mitchell plays half-willing big brother to his neighbors, a trio of exchange students from the People's Republic of China.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat, non-linear, independent film