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Plot Summary:
Levante lives in a small city near Florence (Tuscany, Italy) and his life is plain and a bit boring, until the day the twister arrives: a bus with six Spanish flamenco dancers that will twist Levante and his family life.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Fireworks (1997)
Plot Summary:
Ottone is a shopkeeper in a pet-shop. During a trip to the Maldives, he tells a psychoanalyst his history with women. Mara had left him for a butcher; Barbara, his best friend, betrays her man and leaves him; Luna, beautiful and rich, wants him just for sex; Lorenza, the owner of the shop, would like to run away with him.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Promise Me This (2007)
Plot Summary:
An old man named Zivojin Markovic, living in a remote village prays for his grandson Cane to go to the city, sell his cow and bring back a wife. In the city he is supposed to meet up with his grandfather's stepbrother, but this man is dead. Instead, he meets this man's two grandsons, two good-natured brothers who are nevertheless small-time criminals and experts in demolition. Cane soon clicks with these men, and also falls in love with a schoolgirl (Jasna), who he wants to marry as part of his testament with his grandfather. He gets involved in this girl's family affairs, rescuing both her and her mother from prostitution and gangsters headed by a man called Bajo, and the new group of people return to the small village in time to celebrate Zivojin's wedding to his neighbor, despite the gangsters' best efforts to stop the celebration, which results in a double wedding.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Serbia, France
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Undertaking Betty (2002)
Plot Summary:
A politician's wife and the mortician who has secretly loved her for years plan to fake her death so they can run away together.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, dark comedy, romantic, cynical, feel good, black comedy, hilarious, realistic, witty
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The Graduates (1995)
Plot Summary:
Four thirtyish university students share the same flat in Florence. Leonardo fantasizes about Letizia, a very beautiful girl; Rocco works as a night watchman, Bruno tries to get his degree to please his father in law and Pino dreams of becoming a stand up comedian.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Baptists at Our Barbecue (2004)
Plot Summary:
"Baptists at Our Barbecue" is the comedic story of the small town of Longwinded, USA, a divided, feuding town of 262 Mormons and 262 Baptists. It's also a love story, about one man who will try anything to end the ridiculous feud, bring the town together, and keep the peace-loving girl of his dreams from leaving town.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, semi serious, humorous, realistic, offbeat, contemplative
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A Previous Engagement (2008)
Plot Summary:
When Julia Reynolds talks her husband into a family vacation in Malta she has a secret agenda: a date made twenty-five years earlier with her first love.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, Malta, UK
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, realistic, humorous, witty, semi serious
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Enemies of Laughter (2000)
Plot Summary:
Nerdy-looking Paul (David Paymer) is a neurotic, failed sitcom writer with a lackluster love life. But his best pal (Judge Reinhold) has an idea that might turn things around when he decides to film Paul's life and turn his romantic disasters into a comedic documentary. When a beautiful young director (Rosalind Chao) decides to produce the real-life romantic comedy, Paul realizes that Cupid may be poised with his bow and arrow.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic, sitcom, independent film
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Guess Who's Coming to Christmas (2013)
Plot Summary:
Jaded rock star Dax is found by New York paparazzi passed out in his car with a frozen holiday turkey in the passenger seat. In order to repair his tarnished image, Dax publicly agrees to grant a fan’s “Dear Santa” Christmas wish. To his dismay, his manager Jason drops Dax off in Cedar Grove, a Midwest small town, where he’s committed to spend a week and perform in a local holiday Christmas concert.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 850
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, feel good, captivating, light, realistic, semi serious
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The Prince and the Pirate (2001)
Plot Summary:
After his father's death, elementary school teacher Leopoldo discovers he has to share the inheritance with a half-brother he didn't know existed: hustler and small-time crook Melchiorre, currently in jail.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 807
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: road movie, funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Suddenly Paradise (2003)
Plot Summary:
Lorenzo, owner of a firm that makes atmospheric effects for film and television, is a happy bachelor. His beliefs begin to falter after the arrival of Amaranta, a beautiful and rich Colombian girl that, as a surprise to her boyfriend, has commissioned a fake snow in his luxurious villa overlooking the sea.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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The Closer You Get (2000)
Plot Summary:
Irish bachelors take out an ad in the Miami Herald, looking for love.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, sex comedy
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I Love You in Every Language in the World (2005)
Plot Summary:
Gilberto, a teacher in Pistoia, falls in love with Margherita.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Hairshirt (1998)
Plot Summary:
Danny Reilly (Dean Paras) is a self-obsessed man who, after dumping Renee Weber (Neve Campbell), falls in love again with Corey Wells (Katie Wright). But Renee makes it her mission to see that Danny never falls in love again and sets out for attack when he falls for Corey. Who will get the girl when Danny's constantly talking roomie Tim (Stefan Brogren) falls in love with Corey too?.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 724
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: feel good, realistic, humorous, semi serious, independent film
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Herman U.S.A. (2001)
Plot Summary:
In this quirky romantic comedy inspired by a true story, an influx of women invade the small town of Herman, Minn., to get their hands on a surplus of bachelors yearning for female companionship. When the persuasive "cry from the heart" of Herman's lonely men becomes a big-time news story, it unwittingly attracts a swarm of single women from 38 states and four different foreign countries, adding 1,500 residents to the tiny hamlet of 485.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, independent film, offbeat, realistic
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The MatchMaker (1997)
Plot Summary:
Marcy, a worker in the reelection campaign of bumbling Senator John McGlory, is sent to Ireland on a quest to find the Irish ancestry of Sen. McGlory, to help him win the Irish vote. But when Marcy arrives in the small village of Ballinagra, she finds herself in the middle of a matchmaking festival, and the local matchmaker is determined to pair her off with one of the local bachelors.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, witty, feel good, black and white, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, independent film, fairy tale
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Romeo and Juliet Get Married (2005)
Plot Summary:
The tomboyish, outgoing Julieta is the daughter of a member of the Palmeiras soccer club board. She is constantly frustrated by what she sees as institutional bias against women in soccer. One day while watching her beloved Palmeiras, she is struck by a handsome man, Romeu, that she sees rooting for the Palmeiras' chief rivals, the Corinthians. After meeting the same man again in the middle of eye exam, Julieta and Romeu quickly become a couple. However, in order to avoid incurring the wrath of her parents, Romeu is forced to pretend to be an adoring Palmeiras fan, an increasingly difficult task for the die-hard Corinthiano.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Smiling Fish & Goat on Fire (1999)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers share a house in LA's Fairfax district: Tony's a feckless actor, Chris is an accountant. Both are in relationships on rocky ground. As these emotions swirl, Tony meets his US Postal Service letter carrier, a single mom named Kathy who's come to LA from Wyoming with her daughter, a budding actress. Chris meets Anna, an Italian beauty working in the States for a few months wrangling animals on movie sets. Chris also befriends Clive, an aging and crusty man whose longing for his recently-deceased wife is a portrait of true love. Can Clive's example help Chris sort out his love life, and can Tony grow up enough to see the possibilities with Kathy and her daughter?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, crying, light, thought provoking
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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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Gregoire Moulin vs. Humanity (2001)
Plot Summary:
Grégoire Moulin, a shy accountant, sets up a blind date with a dance teacher at a bar. What he needed to do was just to cross the road. But it didn't happen to be as easy as it seems especially because of the final game of French soccer championship the very same night!.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, touching, offbeat, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Roseanna's Grave (1997)
Plot Summary:
Roseanna is dying of a heart condition, and all she wants is to be buried next to her daughter, in a cemetery that is getting full fast. The cemetery can't expand because Capestro, the man who owns the land next to the cemetery, won't sell. While Marcello is doing good deeds to make sure no one dies, Roseanna thinks of Marcello's future.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, sentimental, romantic, sweet, melancholic, talky, semi serious, humorous, realistic
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The Ages of Love (2011)
Plot Summary:
Roberto is a young and ambitious lawyer who is going to marry Sara. His whole life is perfectly planned out. During a expropriation which he is in charge of, he meets Micol, a gorgeous and provocative young woman from a small village in Tuscany. This is when things start to get complicated... Fabio, a famous anchorman, has been the perfect husband for twenty five years. At a party one night, he meets Eliana, a femme fatale full of surprises. This one-night stand proves to be more than what he bargained for when she refuses to leave... Adrian is an American art history professor who moved to Rome after his divorce. He is friends with Augusto, the building's concierge, whose ebullient daughter Viola is about to disrupt his peaceful existence and relight his fire.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sexy, touching, humorous, semi serious, social, realistic, contemplative, sexual, anthology
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Remember Me? (2014)
Plot Summary:
Sharing the same psychologist, a kleptomaniac (Robert) that writes stories a bit too realistic and scary for kids, and a narcoleptic (Beatrice) that documents everything in her life, begin to see that love can be a cure for their ailments. But nothing comes easy to either of them, and, just like in Robert's stories, the happy ending really needs to be sought after. Will they find their own?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 844
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, sentimental, touching, romantic comedy, offbeat, realistic, semi serious
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The Best Day of My Life (2004)
Plot Summary:
Not too excited Arthur asks marriage Lola. What should have been a quiet ceremony evolves in something bigger, expensive and overwhelming as family is involved. The organization of the best day of their lives threatens to destroy them.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 286
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, entertaining, funny, light, romantic, feel good, captivating
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Shadows in the Sun (2005)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring young writer (Jackson) tracks a literary titan (Keitel) suffering from writers block to his refuge in rural Italy and learns about life and love from the irascible genius and his daughters.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, realistic, sincere, romantic, light, philosophical, sentimental, humorous, semi serious
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Many Kisses Later (2009)
Plot Summary:
Ex is a 2009 film directed and co-written by Fausto Brizzi and interpreted by a rich and large cast of characters. The film, produced by Italian International Film, in co-production with the French company and Mes Films in collaboration with RAI Cinema. It was released February 6, 2009 in Italian cinema and has been recognized as "national cultural interest" by the Directorate General for Cinema of the Ministry of Heritage and Culture.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: humorous, emotional, light, captivating, sentimental, touching, feel good, realistic, semi serious
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Bacon on the Side (2010)
Plot Summary:
Djalil Boudaoud and Justine Lacroix are a surgeon and a television reporter who enter a romantic relationship despite the objections of their families to the cultural gap.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 557
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, sentimental, touching, realistic
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Tea & Sangria (2014)
Plot Summary:
Jilted in Madrid, a bewildered Englishman must learn to live and love again - the Spanish way.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 188
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Bitter/Sweet (2009)
Plot Summary:
American businessman Brian Chandler has a perfect life with a great job and beautiful fiancée. When his boss, renegade coffee mogul Calvert Jenkins sends him to Thailand to inspect a crop for purchase, Brian meets Ticha, a beautiful Bangkok executive who has long-since given up on the prospects of finding love.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Thailand, USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, touching, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Manual of Love (2005)
Plot Summary:
Four intertwined episodes on the joys and sorrows of love.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, sexy, saga, realistic, anthology
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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