Best movies like Sweet & Sour
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Plot Summary:
Faced with real-world opportunities and challenges, a couple endures the highs and lows of trying to make a long-distance relationship survive.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining, romantic
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Mr. Pride vs. Miss Prejudice (2017)
Plot Summary:
Online writer Tang Nan Nan crosses path with Zhu Hou, a second-generation rich boy “sea turtle”, resulting in hilarious situations and face-offs.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 443
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Usotsuki Paradox (2013)
Plot Summary:
Shunsuke has fallen for his colleague Hinako, but she is engaged albeit in a long-distance relationship. She and her boyfriend meet on the odd weekends. She feels lonely at times. When one evening they are both working late and still in the office Shunsuke throws caution to the win, reveals his feelings, makes a pass and plants a kiss on Hinako. Things should make their natural progression from there if nature takes its course, but then again they chart a different course.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, seinen
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Don't Dare to Dream (2016)
Plot Summary:
Depicts the fierce competition at a broadcasting station and the love between anchor Lee Hwa-Shin and weather caster Pyo Na-Ri.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, dorama, romantic comedy
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My Little Big Man (2018)
Plot Summary:
A successful and somewhat vain lawyer loses her mobile phone and is contacted by a stranger who wants to give it back. Charming and interesting, their instant connection blossoms but everything changes when they meet and she discovers a tiny little detail about him: he's rather short.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining
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Good on Paper (2021)
Plot Summary:
After years of putting her career ahead of love, stand-up comic Andrea Singer has stumbled upon the perfect guy. On paper, he checks all the boxes but is he everything he appears to be?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, humorous, captivating, romantic, smart, clever
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Mylove Lost (2018)
Plot Summary:
Mario (Dani Rovira) and Olivia (Michelle Jenner) fall madly in love. One afternoon, considering that every relationship ends, they end up breaking up. During the big fight, Miamor, the street cat adopted by both and who only attends if they call him "Miamor" and speak to him in Valencian, escapes and disappears, like the love that united them. For a time Olivia will give him for dead, love and the cat, while Mario keeps him alive in secret. Like Schrodingüer's cat, the love between the two remains alive and dead at the same time until, one day when she seems to have finally risen, Olivia feels victimized by a deception and decides to declare to Mario the war, one in the that, as in the love that still breathes, everything can be worth.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 702
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Love Fiction (2012)
Plot Summary:
A writer looking for inspiration finds a perfect muse in a girl. After much work, he makes her his girlfriend. But then he starts to get tired of her.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 451
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Love Guide for Dumpees (2015)
Plot Summary:
About a man and a woman who make a 'one-night' coupon book after they both get dumped.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, captivating, entertaining
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Warm and Cozy (2015)
Plot Summary:
A workaholic with a rage problem and a laid-back guy from a wealthy family meet at a restaurant named "Warm and Cozy" on the beautiful island of Jeju.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 528
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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What's Wrong With Secretary Kim (2018)
Plot Summary:
Lee Young-Joon's family runs a large company and he works as the vice-president of the company. He is smart, rich and handsome, but he is arrogant. His secretary is Kim Mi-So. She has worked for him for years and she is perfect for him, but Kim Mi-So decides to quit her job.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: affectionate, light, sweet, romantic, funny, feel good, entertaining, captivating, romantic drama, dorama
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El tamaño sí importa (2016)
Plot Summary:
A typical next door mexican girl –away from the beauty standards-, will try to conquer her old boss, a very handsome and charismatic socialite, who is now broken and alone.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: funny, entertaining, light, feel good, humorous, captivating
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Love in the First Degree (2004)
Plot Summary:
An actor takes a temporary job working as a secretary at a law firm, and is attracted to a female attorney. She is reluctant to start a relationship out of fear of her fellow attorneys believing that she is dating below her position.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, independent film
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Love & Coffee (2016)
Plot Summary:
Zoe Walker is a food scientist who's been sent to Colombia to design a coffee flavor that appeals to millennials. In the village of Salento, Zoe meets Diego Valdez, a local plantation owner who is reluctant to work with her at first, but allows Zoe to use his coffee beans so long as she helps him with the final harvest. As Zoe spends time working the land with Diego, romance begins to brew despite their very different roots.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 798
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Colombia, USA, UK, Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, captivating, entertaining
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A Date with Miss Fortune (2015)
Plot Summary:
When a struggling writer meets a superstitious Portuguese beauty, he has no idea that his life and luck are both about to change. A romantic comedy about cross-cultural relationships.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Go Lala Go 2 (2015)
Plot Summary:
To chase promotion or to chase marriage? Young career-woman Lala returns after five years as a recently engaged young woman, but faces challenges when third parties tries to break up her relationship.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 261
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, semi serious
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Life's an Itch (2012)
Plot Summary:
A married man reaches the point where he questions everything: career, creativity and even his marriage. Hilarious complications and temptations arise when his wife invites her open-minded (and very sexy) yoga instructor to stay in the guest house while she’s away on vacation with the kids.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, romantic, captivating, light, feel good, entertaining, sexy, realistic, not serious
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Cyrano Agency (2010)
Plot Summary:
The Cyrano Agency is a dating agency which helps people who can't date to have a love life. The agency staff try helping their clients without being noticed. The agency's representatives Byeong-hoon and Min-yeong are giving their best to pair up their client, Sang-yong, with his love interest named Hee-joong. But when Byeong-hun sees Hee-joong's profile, he begins to doubt their abilities. Will "Cyrano Agency" succeed in their mission?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: sincere, romantic, humorous, captivating, entertaining, sad, romantic comedy
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Lust for Love (2014)
Plot Summary:
Winning your childhood sweetheart can create more problems than it solves.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: romantic, humorous, semi serious, touching, funny, light, captivating, entertaining, romantic comedy, realistic
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Crazy Romance (2019)
Plot Summary:
Jae-hoon recently breaks up with his girlfriend and he still cannot give her up. Whenever he gets drunk, it has become a daily routine to call her and act out of drunkenness. On the other hand, Sun-young also decides to break up with his boyfriend. But she holds a grudge against him. For them, it seems that the beginning and the end of a love affair are both difficult. Can they overcome from the previous romance and start the new one?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 740
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: funny, light, captivating, sincere, humorous, romantic
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Cute and Dangerous (2015)
Plot Summary:
Directed by Özcan Deniz.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, emotional, romantic, fable
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Mood of the Day (2016)
Plot Summary:
By chance, a man and a woman meet on the KTX train and spend 24 hours in the unfamiliar city of Busan, South Korea.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: dorama, romantic, light, touching, humorous, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, romantic comedy, romantic drama
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Committed (2014)
Plot Summary:
An accidental meeting between a man being pressured to propose to his girlfriend and a runaway bride.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Cyprus
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: road movie, sincere, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, psychological, romantic, romantic comedy
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Friendzone (2021)
Plot Summary:
Hopeful romantic Thibault believes his luck could change when sparks fly between him and Rose. But can he go from bestie to boyfriend?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, romantic
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My New Sassy Girl (2016)
Plot Summary:
Gyun-woo is having difficulty forgetting the sassy girl. He then reunites with his childhood sweetheart, an elementary school classmate from China who was often teased about her broken Korean. They marry despite family opposition, and Gyun-woo has no idea what marriage has in store for him.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 413
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea, China
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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My Tutor Friend 2 (2007)
Plot Summary:
Junko, a Japanese of Korean ancestry, comes to Korea to find her sweetheart. She finds lodging at a guest house that provides room and board. Unfortunately, the room that she is supposed to stay in belongs to the owner’s son, Jong-man. On her first night in Seoul, Junko is forced to share the room with Jong-man. Junko wants to find another place, but the owner desires to keep Junko as a guest and offers Junko free Korean lessons from Jong-man. It is going to be some adventure for Junko in Seoul!.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, romantic comedy
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Love, Game, Match (2022)
Plot Summary:
When economics teacher and new-in-town Liz challenges her high school students to create business plans, she has no idea that the class winners will actually start their own matchmaking service! Asked to set up her own profile to help them kickstart their careers, as well as team up with handsome tennis coach Ted to organize the school carnival, Liz must navigate the dynamics of this new school, as well as the algorithms of her own heart.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, disturbing, semi serious
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Temps (2016)
Plot Summary:
Jefferson is a lovable ski-bum temp worker whose singular joy comes from an annual excursion to the slopes with fellow vagabond/best friend, Curtis. When Jefferson falls for fellow temp worker, Stephanie, an ambitious go-getter, he is forced to re-evaluate his minimum wage, minimum commitment lifestyle.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, funny, fun
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Accidentally in Love (2021)
Plot Summary:
Edie finds true love in London just days before she is to return to the US. They are separated, but as fate would have it, they reunite 6 years later in the US.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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On Your Wedding Day (2018)
Plot Summary:
Through the course of their lives, a man and his first love are repeatedly separated from each other because of circumstances out of their control.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: romantic, emotional, sentimental, sincere, captivating, realistic, disturbing, anime
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ATM (2012)
Plot Summary:
Sua and Jib are like any other couple in this world except for one exception: for the past 5 years they have kept their relationship a secret since the bank where they are employed has a strict No Fraternization policy. It's not a big deal until they decide to get married. The only problem? Which one of these two Type-A overachievers will put marriage before a career and resign? With neither willing to take the leap of faith they both turn incident into opportunity when an ATM glitch in Chonburi province cashes out over $130,000 baht.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: romantic comedy, funny, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, art film, hilarious