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Plot Summary:
A Christmas story, almost a fairy tale. An ordinary Russian girl brought up without a father could not even think that one fine day she would find him. And who could suppose that three "fathers" at once would pretend to the role?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 627
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, sincere, compassionate
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Come Look at Me (2001)
Plot Summary:
The movie is about an old disabled lady who lives with her spinster daughter. The lady desperately wants her daughter to marry, and the daughter, driven by the supposed imminent death of her mother, invites a total stranger home and introduces him as her boyfriend. The man and the prospective mother-in-law eventually start to like each other, and he makes every effort to be liked by the daughter. With the intervention of a fantasy granddaughter, quasi-miraculous healing, and a lot of hilarious repartee in between, the movie has a happy ending.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 700
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: emotional, touching, semi serious, captivating
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Our Sister Mambo (2015)
Plot Summary:
Loosely based on 1957's "Our Sister Hedy" and 1961's "The Greatest Civil War on Earth", this romantic comedy follows the Wong household, where the father acts as the glue that holds everyone together while Mambo, the protagonist and third daughter, tries to get her other sisters hitched.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Singapore
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, realistic, entertaining, nostalgic
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This Is Christmas (2022)
Plot Summary:
Follow Adam and Emma on their daily commute from the village of Langton to London, where they meet the same passengers every day. One morning, Adam breaks the unspoken taboo of talking to strangers on a train and invites the entire carriage to hold their own Christmas party together.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags:
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Christmas on Mistletoe Lake (2022)
Plot Summary:
Interior designer Reilly finds herself this Christmas in the town of Mistletoe Lake with no place to stay. She accepts an offer from Ray to stay in his boat, helping him renovate the boat for the town's Christmas Harbor Festival.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 354
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: romantic drama
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Letters to Santa 3 (2017)
Plot Summary:
Centered around a group of individuals, who come to experience magical moments over the course of one day. Full of the power of family, love and the spirit of forgiveness. Each individual comes to realize that Christmas, more than any other time of the year, is full of wonder and surprises.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 973
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, romantic, feel good, sweet, captivating, disturbing, romantic comedy
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Letters to Santa (2011)
Plot Summary:
A romantic comedy set on Christmas Eve in Warsaw and centered around a series of characters.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sincere, sentimental, captivating, disturbing, feel good, humorous, entertaining
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Christmas Together (2020)
Plot Summary:
A brokenhearted New York painter, Ava, and a West Coast widower, Mason, have their lives collide when Mason’s young daughter, Mia, rents out his guest house to Ava for Christmas, without her dad's knowledge, in an attempt to convince her dad she is responsible enough to earn a dog for Christmas.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 599
Genere: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: romantic, atmospheric, sweet, entertaining
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Operation Christmas (2016)
Plot Summary:
As her new romance blossoms, a single mother, Olivia, is dismayed when her boyfriend, Scott, a military sergeant, is deployed right before Christmas. Determined to not let it ruin the holidays for her and her children they decide to give back to the struggling military families on his base and, as their efforts go viral, they are rewarded in ways they never imagined.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, sweet, disturbing, emotional
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A Night Before Christmas (1961)
Plot Summary:
Funny story about how on Christmas Eve in the Ukrainian village of beguiled the devil and how mighty Vakula managed to overcome evil spirits, and to take his bride to the king's slippers. A screen adaptation of Nikolai Gogol "The Night Before Christmas.".
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, romantic, touching
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The New Year's Rate Plan (2008)
Plot Summary:
Performing the traditional New Year's call on the unknown phone number Andrey didn't even suspected, that just after his return to Moscow, he had bought a magic starting pack of cellular communications operator. Getting through to the deserted in New Year's eve Alyona, Andrey almost falls in love with her, but there exists a temporal problem. Alyona is celebrating coming 2008 year and Andrey is going to meet 2009. Trying "to set a contact" with Alyona's «future variant» he comes to know the terrible truth about the events, that appended in the end of 2008. Now the main goal of Andrey and all his friends - to prevent the awful tragedy and to turn into reality the meeting of Alyona and Andrey.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 797
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, sentimental, sincere, humorous, captivating, emotional, entertaining, disturbing, surprise ending
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Christmas at Grand Valley (2018)
Plot Summary:
Burned out from the hubbub of the Chicago gallery world, artist Kelly returns home to the picturesque Grand Valley just in time for Christmas. Leo, businessman and all-star dad to his children, struggles to balance his time this holiday season. When he is assigned to review a hotel in Grand Valley for its value, he sees this as the perfect opportunity for a Christmas family vacation. It isn’t long until Kelly and Leo’s worlds collide.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: light, emotional, sincere, feel good, captivating
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My Christmas Dream (2016)
Plot Summary:
Christina Masters, the manager of McDougal’s flagship department store, is determined to land the manager position for their new Paris location. She sets out to impress Victoria, the store’s owner, by creating the best holiday display in McDougal’s history. Fresh out of inspiration despite assuring Victoria otherwise, Christina turns to a recently-fired store employee who also happens to be a talented artist and single dad to his young son. As they work side-by-side, the business relationship becomes personal and she finds herself falling in love. Will the allure of her dream be too strong or will she choose to follow her heart?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, feel good, sweet
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Love Under the Stars (2015)
Plot Summary:
Young at heart graduate student Becca strikes up an unlikely friendship with Emily, a quiet girl who recently lost her mother. With every passing play date chaperoned by Emily's father, Becca helps Emily come out of her shell and cope with her loss, and Emily teaches Becca to take on adult responsibilities. When a romance develops between Becca and Nate, though, the two must learn to balance their new relationship with Nate's responsibility to Emily, and with Becca's responsibility to finish her education.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, humorous, captivating, disturbing
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Angel of Christmas (2015)
Plot Summary:
Susan is a newspaper staffer who decides to generate some Christmas spirit by writing an article about her family’s storied 100-year-old, hand-carved, heirloom Christmas angel. This leads her to accidentally meet Brady, a cute, upbeat artist who insists that he and Susan become fast friends (at least). It turns out that this angel also has the spiritual power to bring people together – as it seems to be doing with Susan and Brady. What’s behind this enchanted ornament? As time moves on, more about this captivating artifact is revealed.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, sweet, captivating, entertaining
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Penny Pincher! (2016)
Plot Summary:
François Gautier is stingy! Saving puts the joy, it causes pay sweats. His life is set for the sole purpose of never spend anything. A life that will switch in one day: he falls in love and discovers he has a daughter he did not know existed. Forced to lie in order to hide his terrible default, this will be the beginning for François problems. Because lie can sometimes be expensive. Very expensive….
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, sincere, sweet, humorous
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Christmas in the Air (2017)
Plot Summary:
Lydia, a successful professional organizer, is constantly trying to grow her business, but even her ambition takes a back seat to love when she meets Robert, a frazzled widower with two young children. A toy inventor, Robert is asked to present his new Christmas toy line to a superstore. His challenge is he only has 12 days to get his life and his business in order. Talk about a Christmas rush! Lydia shows Robert that this task goes way deeper than messy junk drawers and encompasses every aspect of his life. While she’s intent on helping him straighten out details he had long ignored, Robert teaches the buttoned-up Lydia that messiness can be a delightful part of life.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, feel good, humorous, sweet, entertaining, emotional, romantic comedy
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Christmas Is Canceled (2021)
Plot Summary:
Emma's father and her high school frenemy start dating so she embarks on a mission to break up the happy couple.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, sitcom, romantic comedy, romantic drama
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Madly in Love (2013)
Plot Summary:
The film focuses on the tumultuous romance in the lives of four women in The Hague. Teenage daughter Eva, her mother Judith, aunt Barbara and older sister Anna make it under one roof Hague together a nice game of. They are beautiful, courageous and sensible, but sometimes they just do not know in a world full of tender love, serial dating, slaked lust, affairs, children's desires and indestructible old loves.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sexy, realistic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious
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Love Jacked (2018)
Plot Summary:
Maya, a headstrong 28-year-old with artistic ambitions – a strong contrast to what her father Ed wants: a dutiful daughter to run the family store. Ed is shocked when Maya takes her assertions of independence a step further and decides to travel to Africa for inspiration and returns with a fiancé who is not quite what he seems.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, South Africa
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, romantic comedy
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The Irony of Fate. The Sequel (2007)
Plot Summary:
Zhenya and Nadya go their separate ways. Nadya stuck with her bureaucrat boyfriend, married him and had a daughter, also called Nadya. Zhenya married and had a son, Konstantin. Both later divorced. More than 30 years later, Konstantin ends up drunk in the flat where the younger Nadya finds him. He is there as part of a convoluted ruse by his father's friends to get Zhenya back into the arms of the woman with whom he shared a magical night. The waylaid son is the bait to get Zhenya back to Leningrad, now called St. Petersburg. One romance is rekindled and another between the son and daughter is struck up.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, offbeat, realistic, atmospheric
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No Kids (2015)
Plot Summary:
Gabriel has been separated for four years now. Since then his 8 year old daughter is the center of his life. Completely avoiding getting involved in a new romantic relationship, Gabriel focus all his energy in his daughter and work. This plan gets spoiled when Vicky, a platonic love from his adolescence, now a beautiful and independent woman appears in his life. When romance is about to start, she puts one condition: She would never get involved with a man with children. She just does not want children in her life. When Gabriel is confronted with this, he says he has no children. From that moment on his life becomes a torment, playing every trick at hand in order to hide his child and belongings from Vicky in every date.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, neo screwball comedy
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Nothing Like the Holidays (2008)
Plot Summary:
It’s Christmastime and the far-flung members of the Rodriguez family are converging at their parents’ home in Chicago to celebrate the season and rejoice in their youngest brother’s safe return from combat overseas.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, sincere, realistic, independent film
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Father Christmas Is Back (2021)
Plot Summary:
Four sisters – Caroline, Joanna, Paulina, and Vicky – reunite for the Christmas Holiday in a Yorkshire mansion. However, their estranged father, James, joins in for the first time since he left the family behind decades prior. The group attempts to get through the holiday despite comedic misunderstandings, while also uncovering the long-buried secret that tore their family apart, so many years ago.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, happy, christmas comedy
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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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Clash of the Families (2011)
Plot Summary:
When cartoonist Hyun-joon falls in love with Da-hong, one of his fans, it sets up the archetypal battle between their two families, who are from rival regions. Hyun-joon comes from the politically liberal Honam region (North and South Jeolla) while Da-hong comes from the conservative Yeongnam region (North and South Gyeongsang). When the two declare their intention to marry, they are confronted with a seemingly endless number of barriers that threaten their happiness.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, disturbing
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One Small Problem (2020)
Plot Summary:
The love of his life hates kids. So when his 9-year-old daughter suggests she pretend to be his sister... what could go wrong?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 581
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, satirical
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Let It Snow (2019)
Plot Summary:
When a huge blizzard (that doesn't show signs of stopping) hits, Gracetown is completely snowed in. But even though it's cold outside, things are heating up inside, proving that Christmas is magical when it comes to love.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, teen, sincere, romantic, romantic comedy, feel good, queer cinema
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Surviving Christmas (2004)
Plot Summary:
Drew Latham is an executive leading an empty, shallow life with only wealth on his side. Facing another lonely Christmas ahead, he revisit his old childhood home in the hope of reliving some old holiday memories – but he finds that the house in which he was raised is no longer the home in which he grew up.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, funny, entertaining, hilarious, light, captivating, black comedy, teen, happy
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Blended (2014)
Plot Summary:
After a bad blind date, a man and woman find themselves stuck together at a resort for families, where their attractions grows as their respective kids benefit from the burgeoning relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 141000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, romantic, light, sweet, humorous, romantic comedy, hilarious, entertaining, cute
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Beautiful Lies (2010)
Plot Summary:
A hairdresser forwards a passionate love letter to her widowed mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, entertaining, sentimental, sincere, touching, realistic, neurotic