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Plot Summary:
Centred around Ronnie, a struggling restaurateur who is mired in debt and the fallout from her previous short-lived romance with British actor Henry. Ronnie’s now living with laidback, loyal Jeff, but her world is turned upside down when Henry returns to Australia with his French lover Sophie in tow.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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They're a Weird Mob (1966)
Plot Summary:
Nino Culotta is an Italian immigrant, newly arrived in Australia. Much of the story is taken up with Nino's attempts to understand the aspirational values and social rituals of everyday urban Australians of the 1950's and 60's, and assimilate.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Someone Borrowed (2022)
Plot Summary:
To fulfill his mother’s dying wish and avoid being removed from her will, an inflexible bachelor hires an actress to play his fiancée.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags:
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The Sex Therapist (1973)
Plot Summary:
Alvin is your average guy, except for the fact women find him irresistible and chase him everywhere. He tries to avoid them and get psychiatric help but gets used by the psychiatrists as a gigolo to treat other patients instead.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 635
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, slapstick, interesting
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Fiance Was Not Good Enough (1961)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: crying
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What's Love Got to Do with It? (2022)
Plot Summary:
Two childhood friends now in their thirties must decide whether to follow their heads or their hearts once the man decides to follow his parents' advice and enter into an arranged marriage in Pakistan.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: romantic
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Together Forever Tea (2021)
Plot Summary:
Marketing whiz Lara Thompson is living a fast-paced life in the big city when she's summoned to the sleepy town of Kissing Falls to settle the affairs of her late Aunt Vivienne who owned a tea shop. Lara originally plans to sell the shop quickly, but switches course to fulfill her aunt's last wish - to have one of her teas awarded by the prestigious International Council of Tea Sommeliers. With the help of handsome local flower expert Matt, Lara sets out to recreate a long lost "love potion" tea. One problem - the tea's secret ingredient is the extinct Kissing Falls rose. As Lara and Matt work together, she finds herself not only falling for Matt but for the town itself.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, New Zealand
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Dags (1998)
Plot Summary:
"Dag" is an Australian term for filthy wool on the hindquarters of a sheep. It also is a slang term for an uncouth person. Therefore this film is a look at several uncouth individuals. The men are all beer drinkers and dopers who wear Hawaiian shirts, long socks, and sandals. The women are all in tank tops and hot pants and constantly after sex, but never enjoy it. One of the men gets a wild idea to get in the Guiness Book of Records by having one of his mates rob his video store every night. During one of these robberies, the robber "kidnaps" a customer and begins a romance. Meanwhile all of the other "dags" are sleeping with one another behind each other's backs.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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Not Suitable for Children (2012)
Plot Summary:
A young playboy who learns he has one month until he becomes infertile sets out to procreate as much as possible.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, melancholic, touching, funny, indie film, sexual, exciting, sexy
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Jewtopia (2012)
Plot Summary:
Smitten with a Jewish woman, a gentile asks his Jewish pal to advise him on how to act like a member of the community.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, feel good, captivating
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South Kensington (2001)
Plot Summary:
The movie's about some Italian men living in London and having their lives sweetened by having wealthy parents and meeting many attractive women and one whale of a woman.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 683
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy, UK, France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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Paperback Hero (1999)
Plot Summary:
Jack Willis is a handsome roadtrain driver with a secret - he has just become a top-selling romance novelist. However, being a 'man's man' in the Australian outlook, to avoid embarrassment, he needs a name, a woman's name - and he chooses that of his best friend, Ruby Vale. He must do some fancy footwork to continue the charade when the glamorous city publisher, Ziggy, arrives in dusty outback Lucktown to sign 'Ruby Vale' to a major book deal. Ruby agrees to help Jack though it's for her own gain as well - the publisher will pay for her coming wedding (with Hamish, Jack's buddy). Accompanied by Jack, Ruby goes to Sydney to meet the media, appear on TV and cocktail parties, etc. Gradually, Jack realizes that he has fallen in love with Ruby, while Ruby is also touched by Jack's novel. However, Hamish arrives in Sydney a few days later and asks both of them to stop all these foolish things.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: romantic, romantic comedy, happy, independent film, sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Seasoned With Love (2021)
Plot Summary:
Winona Applegate is on the fast track to becoming a celebrity chef, already running a very successful bistro in Pittsburgh. With nerves building, she leaves for New York to audition for her own show in front of television executives. Unfortunately, her car breaks down near New Holland, a small, quirky town where Winona rents a room at a local inn run by Adam, a widower. With the local Spring Festival coming up and the resident cook unavailable to manage the menu, Winona agrees to get her car fixed in time for her audition in exchange for her much needed help in the Inn's kitchen. As she prepares for the festival with Adam, Winona begins to fall in love with New Holland and one of its residents as well.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, touching, humorous, emotional
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Love Possibly (2018)
Plot Summary:
A fly-on-the-wall documentary film crew follow Alex, a hopelessly romantic, rom-com obsessed virgin on a quest to find love. Alex quickly finds himself out of his depth when Lana, a Moldovan mail-order bride he met online makes the bold decision of moving to London to marry him.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, mockumentary
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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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The Naked Wanderer (2019)
Plot Summary:
A heartbroken young man decides to walk 4000km up the coast of Western Australia naked, for charity, with the secret goal of making his ex-girlfriend jealous.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 809
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, disturbing
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Top End Wedding (2019)
Plot Summary:
Lauren and Ned are engaged, they are in love, and they have just 10 days to find Lauren's mother (who has gone AWOL somewhere in the remote far north of Australia), reunite her parents, and pull off their dream wedding.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sweet, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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My Friends, My Love (2008)
Plot Summary:
Two divorced fathers Mathias and Antoine, decide to raise their children together in London. Their lives consist of Sophie the pretty florist secretly in love with Antoine, Yvonne who runs the 'bistrot français' and has a very maternal outlook on life and Mac Enzie, the boss of Antoine's agency who is completley in love with Yvonne despite the big age difference.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 699
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic
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An Ideal Husband (1999)
Plot Summary:
Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: entertaining, period piece, humorous, talky, realistic, semi serious, costume drama, romantic comedy, spiritual, clever
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The Knot (2012)
Plot Summary:
A couple endures a series of mishaps right before their wedding day.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 963
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, light, feel good, captivating, realistic, semi serious, buddy comedy
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A Touch of Class (1973)
Plot Summary:
Steve, a happily married American man living in London meets Vicki, an English divorcée and run off to Marbella for a rollicking week of sex. They then return to London to set up a cozy menage, despite the fact that he loves his wife and children, and now realize that he and Vicki have also fallen in love.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: clever, witty, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, erotic, light, romantic
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A Business Affair (1994)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of the lovely Kate Swallow and the loves of her life. At the start she is with Alec Bolton, a noted author, who discourages her when she wants to write a novel. Later she is swept off her feet by Alecs publisher, Vanni Corso, and leaves Alec for Vanni. She writes another novel and Vanni tells her he doesn't think the book will sell. Both of their actions are an indication of their vanity and fear of losing her.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany, Spain, USA, Romania
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, sentimental, thought provoking, captivating, entertaining, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film
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The Butterfly Effect (1995)
Plot Summary:
Luis, a Spanish student,goes to London to get a course in Economics. He lives at a house the neighbour of her aunt, but when she broke up with her husband, Luis goes to live with her.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 433
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain, France, UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: manga, sexy, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, biting, sexual
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Strange Planet (1999)
Plot Summary:
Alice, Judy and Sally are three Australian roommates who are unlucky in love. Over the course of a year, they endure numerous personal ups and downs. Meanwhile, Ewan, Joel and Neil are friends and coworkers with similar problems, and gradually their lives intersect with the trio of women to varying degrees. Will any of these young people finally find a satisfying relationship?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 983
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sentimental, clever, touching, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, semi serious, crying, independent film
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The Very Thought of You (1998)
Plot Summary:
Laurence recounts to his neighbour how his life long friendship with Frank and Daniel has been overturned in just three days by their each independently meeting, and falling for, Martha, who has no idea of their connection. Slowly the tale unfolds, the narrative moving backwards and forwards gradually filling in the gaps until we see the whole picture.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sexy, romantic, sweet, sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, clever, witty
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All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane (2007)
Plot Summary:
Anthea is 25, single, hates her job – and all her friends are leaving Brisbane. Should she follow the herd to Sydney or London? Is there anything worth staying for now that her best friend Michael finally has a girlfriend? This film tells a universal story about finding your place and yourself.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 351
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic, offbeat, sexual, sexy
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So This Is Romance? (1997)
Plot Summary:
Mike is a composer who dreams of creating symphonies but instead, dashes off jingles for TV commercials -- all the while pining over ex-girlfriend Helen. But Mike's life takes several unexpected turns when he meets Sara. After the two depart for an idyllic vacation together, Mike locates his mother (Susannah York), who, 35 years previous, had left his father. Writer-director Kevin W. Smith's feature-film directorial debut.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Bakery in Brooklyn (2016)
Plot Summary:
Two young women do their best to try and save their dead aunt's bakery.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, psychological, semi serious
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Danny Deckchair (2003)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story, the tale of a cement truck driver named Danny, whose long awaited vacation is cancelled thanks to his scheming girlfriend, Trudy. Danny escapes his grim life in suburban Australia and blasts into the skies in a chair tied with helium balloons. A mighty thunderstorm blows him clean off the map, and spits him out far away over the lush green town of Clarence. In this new town, he rockets into the world of Glenda, the town's only parking cop. While the media back home becomes obsessed with the story of his disappearance, Danny gets to reinvent himself in this new town, and in his great adventure, he discovers a true soul mate in Glenda. Fate catches up with him eventually, as Danny's true identity is revealed and Trudy--now a tabloid celebrity--comes to the idyllic town to claim Danny and drag him back to Sydney. Danny, however, is a changed man; he's discovered what it means to be happy and has found a new self-worth.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, sweet, feel good, humorous, romantic, realistic, semi serious, fairy tale, light
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What Rats Won't Do (1998)
Plot Summary:
Soon to be married lawyer Kate Beckenham has landed the case of a lifetime. Her courtroom opponent turns out to be the charming Jack Sullivan, who has never lost a single case.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 794
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sweet, romantic comedy, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film
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The Holiday (2006)
Plot Summary:
Two women, one (Cameron Diaz) from America and one (Kate Winslet) from Britain, swap homes at Christmastime after bad breakups with their boyfriends. Each woman finds romance with a local man (Jude Law, Jack Black) but realizes that the imminent return home may end the relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 311000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, sweet, sentimental, light, touching, humorous, romantic comedy, cute, funny