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Plot Summary:
When his lawyer wife, Sofia, becomes pregnant, chronic underachiever Tom Reilly must take a job at his father-in-law's advertising firm. Tom has to adjust to the demands of a very high-powered job, and he finds himself in an increasingly hostile office rivalry with Chip, Sofia's paraplegic former lover.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, intense, entertaining, realistic, not serious, road movie, sexy, clever
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Mr. Woodcock (2007)
Plot Summary:
Taken aback by his mother's wedding announcement, a young man returns home in an effort to stop her from marrying his old high school gym teacher, a man who made high school hell for generations of students.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, slapstick, light, not serious, hilarious, teen, sentimental, black comedy, realistic
Similar in 88%
Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector (2006)
Plot Summary:
A slovenly cable repairman becomes a big-city health inspector and is tasked with uncovering the source of a food poisoning epidemic.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, melancholic, absurd, feel good, realistic, light, exciting, not serious, parody
Similar in 82%
The Sweeter Side of Life (2013)
Plot Summary:
Pampered Manhattan housewife Desiree Harper has it all. That is until her husband unexpectedly dumps her for his acupuncturist. Faced with an airtight prenup, Desiree reluctantly lands a job making cupcakes at her father's bakery in Flemington, NJ. She soon discovers there's more to life than 5th Avenue and true love can be even sweeter in small town America.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: humorous, romantic, sincere, captivating, funny, light, feel good, entertaining, touching, offbeat
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Kitchen in Paris (2014)
Plot Summary:
The employees of the famous Russian "Claude Monet" restaurant are forced to move their business to Paris.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, sentimental, light, touching, melancholic
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16 to Life (2009)
Plot Summary:
Romantic comedy. A small town teenager's angst about sexual inexperience drives a comic quest for love and understanding on a birthday to end all birthdays.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 503
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, funny, romantic, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining
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Be My Baby (2007)
Plot Summary:
After dating several cheating husbands who pretended to be single, Rylee devises a scheme for revenge. She gets a married man drunk, convinces him that they slept together, then shows up a year later with a baby and demands money. Her blackmail plan is successful, but then she meets a single man, Max, who wants to be with her and keep the baby.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Peeples (2013)
Plot Summary:
The story follows what happens when a child psychologist surprises his girlfriend by showing up at her political family's annual get-together at their Sag Harbor vacation home only to find them desperately in need of therapy.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, feel good, entertaining, black comedy, realistic
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Norbit (2007)
Plot Summary:
A mild-mannered guy who is engaged to a monstrous woman meets the woman of his dreams, and schemes to find a way to be with her.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 78000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, slapstick, parody, feel good, not serious, hilarious, romantic, sentimental, light
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A Dash of Love (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young woman who dreams of opening her own restaurant lands a job at a prominent restaurant whose head chef becomes her unlikely ally when the restaurant's unscrupulous owner, a Master Chef herself, plots to return the place to its former glory by presenting her new assistant's recipes as her own.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, sweet, captivating, entertaining
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The Woman in Red (1984)
Plot Summary:
When a happily married family man, who would never consider an affair, meets a beautiful woman in red, he is totally infatuated and desperate to make her acquaintance. However, as he tries out various schemes to sneak out to meet her, he realizes that adultery is not quite as easy as it looks.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, light, entertaining, intense, semi serious, feel good, talky, sex comedy, sexy
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Whipped (2000)
Plot Summary:
Three to one may sound like fairly good odds, but it depends on the game. When the "one" is one very irresistible woman and the "three" are three hopelessly smitten guys, the deck is pretty stacked. In the battle of the sexes, the first rule is to never underestimate the power of a woman.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: sexy, humorous, funny, talky, semi serious, sexual, independent film, realistic, witty, surprise ending
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The Lonely Guy (1984)
Plot Summary:
A writer for a greeting card company learns the true meaning of loneliness when he comes home to find his girlfriend in bed with another man.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, talky, melancholic, light, sentimental, realistic, feel good, funny, witty, romantic comedy
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License to Wed (2007)
Plot Summary:
Newly engaged, Ben and Sadie can't wait to start their life together and live happily ever after. However Sadie's family church's Reverend Frank won't bless their union until they pass his patented, "foolproof" marriage prep course consisting of outrageous classes, outlandish homework assignments and some outright invasion of privacy.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: romantic, romantic comedy, light, funny, realistic, cute, hilarious, teen, humorous, stylized
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Labor Pains (2009)
Plot Summary:
A young woman pretends to be pregnant in order to avoid being fired from her job. When that gets her a bunch of special treatment by everyone involved in her life, she tries to keep up the lie for nine months.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: romantic, funny, humorous, cute, light, romantic comedy, teen, realistic, semi serious, teen comedy
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The Secret of My Succe$s (1987)
Plot Summary:
Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York, but once in New York, he learns that jobs - and girls - are hard to get. When Brantley visits his uncle, Howard Prescott, who runs a multi-million-dollar company, he is given a job in the company's mail room.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious, funny, entertaining, cult classic, retro
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Confessions of an American Bride (2005)
Plot Summary:
Young career woman Samantha 'Sam' Hoyt gets swept off her feet by Benjamin 'Ben' Rosen, who romances her better then anyone before, so she jumps at the offer of becoming his fiancée. If Ben thought a girls typical obsession with the perfect wedding was testing, she soon proves a particularly bad case, and before he gets used to that meeting each-others parents complicates things gravely, as Jewish and church wedding traditions don't exactly mix easily. They take their time preparing while living together. Then fate strikes again: the key man from the client of her firms advertising campaign is Luke Stinson, the perfect gay at college whom she could never date because of a rather serious fall just when they could have kissed. Luke proves still as irresistible, gorgeous, charming, easy-going and simply too sexy for any female not to lust for at first sight, and.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, feel good, semi serious
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Divorce Invitation (2012)
Plot Summary:
'Divorce Invitation' centers on Mike Christian, a happily married man who runs into his high school sweetheart Alex, and after all these years, sparks still fly. When Mike is determined Alex is his true soul mate, he realizes he has a huge problem-he signed an iron-clad pre-nuptial agreement and his wife will not let him out of the marriage.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, relaxing, sentimental, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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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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Baby on Board (2009)
Plot Summary:
The story of Angela -an ambitious, image-conscious businesswoman working for over-demanding boss Mary. When Angela becomes unexpectedly pregnant at the peak of her career, her life with her divorce attorney husband, Curtis, is turned upside-down.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, entertaining, cute, sexy, sentimental, realistic, independent film
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It's Not You, It's Me (2010)
Plot Summary:
Javier se ha casado con María, el amor de su vida, y ahora lo único que desea es estar feliz con ella el resto de su vida, pero el destino se la quita poco después de la boda. Ahora Javier está enredado en sus emociones: ¿cómo aceptará la muerte de su mujer para encontrar nuevamente el amor?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, not serious, realistic, talky
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Lost & Found (1999)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about finding your true love at any price. Dylan Ramsey resorts to snatching his beautiful neighbor's dog so he can spend time with her while they go on a phantom dog hunt. Succeeding in his plan, Dylan goes to return the pooch, only to discover that it has hidden Dylan's best friend's diamond ring. Written by WARNER BROS.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, romantic, sweet, entertaining, funny, light, sexy, sentimental, feel good, witty
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A Guy Thing (2003)
Plot Summary:
Paul Morse is a good guy. When his friends throw him a wild bachelor party, he just wants to keep his conscience clean -- which is why he's shocked when he wakes up in bed with a beautiful girl named Becky and can't remember the night before. Desperate to keep his fiancée, Karen, from finding out what may or may not be the truth, he tells her a teensy lie. Soon his lies are spiraling out of control and his life is a series of comical misunderstandings.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: romantic comedy, light, entertaining, romantic, not serious, realistic, teen, humorous, sex comedy, feel good
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You, Me and Dupree (2006)
Plot Summary:
After standing in as best man for his longtime friend Carl Petersen, Randy Dupree loses his job, becomes a barfly and attaches himself to the newlywed couple almost permanently -- as their houseguest. But the longer Dupree camps out on their couch, the closer he gets to Carl's bride, Molly, leaving the frustrated groom wondering when his pal will be moving out.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 84000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: funny, romantic, entertaining, humorous, light, romantic comedy, hilarious, slapstick, scary, philosophical
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Soup of the Day (2006)
Plot Summary:
Brandon Craig is a regular guy who loves split pea soup and happens to be in monogamous relationships with three amazing women: Monique, his photo editor boss; Wendy, an undercover cop; and Franki, host of the popular Internet show Missleblast. Brandon knows he must eventually choose between them, but when all three women wind up in the same place at the same time to sample Brandon's favorite soup, his love life boils over. Even though there are lots of flavors to choose from - you just can't have 'em all!.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, light, feel good
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Monster-in-Law (2005)
Plot Summary:
Office temp Charlotte Cantilini thinks she's found Mr. Right when she starts dating gorgeous surgeon Dr. Kevin Fields. But there's a problem standing in the way of everlasting bliss: Kevin's overbearing and controlling mother, Viola. Fearing she'll lose her son's affections forever, Viola decides to break up the happy couple by becoming the world's worst mother-in-law.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 65000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: romantic, funny, entertaining, romantic comedy, light, humorous, feel good, teen, philosophical, emotional
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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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America's Sweethearts (2001)
Plot Summary:
In the midst of a nasty public breakup of married movie stars, a studio publicist scrambles to put a cap on the escalating situation as the couple's latest film has found it's only print kidnapped by the director.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 60000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, romantic, light, satirical, humorous, romantic comedy, clever, witty, realistic
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Meet the Fockers (2004)
Plot Summary:
Hard-to-crack ex-CIA man, Jack Byrnes and his wife, Dina head for the warmer climes of Florida to meet son-in-law-to-be, Greg Focker's parents. Unlike their happily matched offspring, the future in-laws find themselves in a situation of opposites that definitely do not attract.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 283000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, entertaining, hilarious, not serious, parody, predictable, romantic, sexy, feel good
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Nine Months (1995)
Plot Summary:
When he finds out his longtime girlfriend is pregnant, a commitment-phobe realizes he might have to change his lifestyle for better or much, much worse.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: light, touching, humorous, romantic, melancholic, sentimental, sweet, semi serious, funny, hilarious
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I Don't Know How She Does It (2011)
Plot Summary:
A comedy centered on the life of Kate Reddy, a finance executive who is the breadwinner for her husband and two kids.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: funny, entertaining, light, romantic, humorous, witty, romantic comedy, inspirational, feel good, teen