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Plot Summary:
Salem dreams of being an actor but is still working in a gas station, only his love for Nada can make things easier for him.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Syria
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: banned
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Gotta Run! (1982)
Plot Summary:
Juuso, Late, and Pyry return from military service to their small village in the Finnish countryside. Finding work is difficult there, so Juuso decides to take a job on a Norwegian oil drilling platform. Late could start working on his family's chicken farm but wants to break free from his father who has a new wife. Looking for work in Gothenburg, Sweden, he only runs into more problems and is deported back to Finland. Pyry would like to take over his late father's farm but family quarrels over the estate make him quit his agricultural studies and, together with drifter Late, take a job in a steel mill in southern Finland.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags:
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Bittersweet (1995)
Plot Summary:
Finnish movie.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Holiday (1999)
Plot Summary:
During a family reunion in 2000, guests decide to read out laud their "where i see myself in 10 years" wish lists which they wrote down during their 1990 family reunion.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Canada
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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A Tale of Love (1986)
Plot Summary:
This drama about a young girl's struggle to overcome the dehumanization of poverty depicts the steady, corrosive effects of her life on her psyche. Bruna (Valeria Golino) has had to work since the age of 13 to help support her father and brothers. She gets up at 3 A.M. to catch the bus to go clean offices, and when she is home, she cleans and cooks for her siblings and father. In spite of this existence, she is spunky and optimistic. As she gets older, she falls in love with Sergio (Bals Roca-Rey), and he moves in with her and her family. But that relationship ends when she meets another young man, Mario (Livio Panieri). This new romance leads her away from her siblings and father and although there is no inkling of any trouble, the drudgery of her past existence catches up with her.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 109 min
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Prime of Your Life (2010)
Plot Summary:
A 20-something slacker girl meets a handsome rebel at her best friend's funeral. She partners up with him and through a series of cons, finds her path to independence and love.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating
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Starting Over (2013)
Plot Summary:
Sarah has dated Ben since freshman year of high school. The two went off to college together, where they stayed in their committed relationship, and following college moved together across the country. Shortly thereafter, Ben decided to break up with Sarah to live "the single life." In his logic, he got to keep their apartment and furniture and she had to move out that day. Still not really knowing anyone in this new city, Sarah must find a place to live. She does find a place and finds friends in her new roommates, Andrea and Natalie. While Sarah is trying to discover what it means to be single, Andrea is trying to help her find a new man, whether Sarah wants to or not. Natalie, having had a similar situation to Sarah in the past, acts as her encouragement to help her deal with the minefield of emotions following her break-up and trouble adapting to being single. Having had her entire life planned out, Sarah discovers how difficult it can be to meet that special someone through a.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, entertaining, romantic, romantic comedy, exciting, tense
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Doing Therapy (2006)
Plot Summary:
"Doing Therapy" is a lighthearted romantic comedy set in modern-day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Humorous, silly, and even suspenseful at times, it is a heartwarming tale with the sincerity and simplicity of a black-and-white 1950s melodrama.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Searching for You (2016)
Plot Summary:
Etsinnässä (Searching for You) is a story about Joni, a young man in his twenties, who returns to his hometown for summer vacation from university. While on his vacation, Joni tries to find himself and happiness.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Carry on Jatta 3 (2023)
Plot Summary:
Advocate Dillon's son, Jass, is in love with Meet but her brothers get in a tussle with Adv. Dhillon. As a result, Adv. Dhillon rejects Meet's hand in marriage. Left with no option, Jass weaves a madhouse plan to propose to his friend, Goldy's wife, Diljit. Will the plan work?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags:
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Squinters (2018)
Plot Summary:
This six-part comedy series tracks the trials and tribulations of five car loads of travellers in peak hour morning transit and again on their drive home to find out how the workday turned out.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy
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Where the Heart Is (1998)
Plot Summary:
From the director of Marius et Jeannette, this story of two working-class families is a fable with an optimist streak. A young black man, Francois, is wrongly accused of rape by a racist policeman. The story is told in voiceover by his childhood friend, neighbor, and the mother of his future child, Clementine, who is white. The city is Marseilles as in the previous film, symbolic with its churches, prisons and ruins. Except in this film, director Robert Guediguian also ventures outside, taking the story to Sarajevo; two different cities, one devastated by war, the other by a bad economy and unemployment. A la Place du coeur won a Special Jury Prize at the 1998 San Sebastian Film Festival and was also shown at the 1998 Toronto Film Festival and the 1998 Montreal Film Festival.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 382
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags:
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Leo and Loree (1980)
Plot Summary:
Ralph Malph from Philly moves to Hollywood with dreams of making it big, amazingly hooks up with starlet-to-be, loses starlet-to-be, gets back starlet-to-be, and becomes someone.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Romance, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Confessions of a Crap Artist (1992)
Plot Summary:
The narrator, "Barjo" (nutcase, crap artist), is an obsessive simpleton, given to filling his notebook with verbatim dialog, observed trivia, and oddball speculation on human behavior and the end of the world. When his house burns, he moves in with his twin sister, Fanfan -- an impulsive, quixotic egoist -- and her husband, Charles, the Aluminum King. Charles becomes the focus of the film, as his wife and brother-in-law bewilder him.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, sexual, crying, sexy
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Dummy (2002)
Plot Summary:
An ex-office worker becomes a ventriloquist, leading to a date with his unemployment counselor; but his quirky family and a gauche female friend may thwart his new career and love life.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, dark comedy, sentimental, independent film, witty, art house, black comedy, realistic, semi serious
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Ali's Wedding (2017)
Plot Summary:
After a "white lie" which spirals out of control, a neurotic, naive and musically gifted Muslim cleric's eldest son must follow through with an arranged marriage, except he is madly in love with an Australian born-Lebanese girl.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sweet, sentimental, romantic, uplifting, touching, feel good, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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Thenmavin Kombath (1994)
Plot Summary:
The story revolves around Manikyan (Mohanlal), Sreekrishnan(Nedumudi Venu) and Karthumbi (Shobana) and the love triangle between them. Manikyan works for Sreekrishnan and Sreekrishnan sees him like a brother. Once when they both are returning from a Mela after shopping, Sreekrishnan sees Karthumbi and gets attracted.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 164 min
Plot tags:
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Godfather (1991)
Plot Summary:
The story of Anjooran, and his four sons Balaraman, Swaminathan, Premachandran and Ramabhadran are in severe enmity with the Anappara family.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags:
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Home Sweet Home (2020)
Plot Summary:
Bored with her social butterfly lifestyle, Victoria Tremont longs to find that special someone. Naturally, when a handsome stranger walks into the coffee shop where she works, she turns on the charm. But when he fails to respond to her flirting the way men usually do, she’s perplexed. She finds out that he runs a ministry that builds affordable housing, and sees that if she wants to get his attention, all she has to do is volunteer.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 830
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: christian film, light, sincere, captivating, realistic
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Crazy Kind of Love (2013)
Plot Summary:
A broken family finds their relationships to one another changed by a new arrival in the household.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, realistic, independent film, captivating, indie film, serious
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Etiquette for Mistresses (2015)
Plot Summary:
A story and friendship of five wealthy and successful women Georgia, Chloe, Stella, Charley, and the newest in the group Ina. The four older women take Ina under their wing as they teach her the "rules" in their "secret" world. Most importantly, they teach Ina on how to go about their secrets.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, light, feel good, humorous, entertaining, crying, black comedy, learning
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Through My Window: Across the Sea (2023)
Plot Summary:
After a year of long-distance, Raquel and Ares reunite on a steamy beach trip. Faced with fresh flirtations and insecurities, will their love prevail?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: teen comedy
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Marius and Jeannette (1997)
Plot Summary:
Marius is the keeper of an abandoned cement works staying high above the quarter of l'Estaque in Marseilles. Jeannette is bringing up her two children alone with her poor checkout operator salary. Their meeting won't be without trouble, since besides material difficulties, both of them are wounded by life. They have to learn how to be happy again.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1987)
Plot Summary:
Middle-class Parisian suburbs: Blanche and Lea, office worker and student, meet and become friends. Lea is going out with Fabien, but is thinking of leaving him. Blanche falls for Lea's handsome and witty friend Alexandre, but is tongue-tied whenever she meets him. Lea goes on holiday and Blanche, still smitten with the dashing Alexandre, begins to get to get know Fabien. A classic Rohmer moral tale.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, aesthetic, clever, feel good, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious, crying, eighties
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Am I OK? (2022)
Plot Summary:
Lucy and Jane have been best friends for most of their lives and think they know everything there is to know about each other. But when Jane announces she's moving to London, Lucy reveals a long-held secret. As Jane tries to help Lucy, their friendship is thrown into chaos.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 443
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: romantic, sexy, touching, humorous, emotional, talky, cult classic, independent film, queer cinema
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Fish Without a Bicycle (2003)
Plot Summary:
Comedy - Julianna (Jenna Mattison) is a struggling actress in a dead end relationship with Danny (Brad Rowe), a fireman who no longer lights her fire. When she decides to leave him and go "find herself" she ends up falling in love with an egotistical director, Michael (Bryan Callen), who can barely fit her in between Pilates classes.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, emotional, clever, realistic, witty, talky, semi serious, sexual
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X's & O's (2007)
Plot Summary:
Relationship issues arise between a researcher with a theory to explain away all his failed dating experiments, a player who wants out of the game, a deejay whose head spins with thoughts of God, a hoodrat with no street cred, a poet not-so-well-versed in the art of love, and a womanipulator of men.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 301
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, sexual, sexy
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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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My Mother Frank (2000)
Plot Summary:
When a meddlesome mother enrolls in university with her son, old and new worlds collide with awesome consequences.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 579
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, independent film, emotional
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Cocktail (2012)
Plot Summary:
Gautam is an incorrigible flirt, who runs after every girl he sees. Meera is a pretty girl with desi values and attire, who comes to London from Delhi for a fresh start. Veronica is the spoilt bombshell who loves partying and drinking. Though different from each other, these three are perfect friends staying under one roof until friendship becomes confusing, and love becomes complicated.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, India
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic, romantic comedy
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Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na (2008)
Plot Summary:
Two best friends being convinced that they are not in love search for each other's love.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, touching, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious, romantic, funny, light