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Plot Summary:
Bruce (Rod Taylor), the owner of a aerospace company, is infatuated with Jennifer (Doris Day) and hires her to be his biographer so that he can be near her and win her affections. Is she actually a Russian spy trying to obtain aerospace secrets?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, spy comedy, romantic comedy, retro, exciting, feel good, semi serious, sitcom, parody, funny
Best tv shows and movies like The Glass Bottom Boat (1966):
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What a Way to Go! (1964)
Plot Summary:
This black comedy opens with Louisa Foster donating a multimillion dollar check to the IRS. The tax department thinks she's crazy and sends her to a psychiatrist. She then discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, retro, black comedy, offbeat, feel good, humorous, witty, semi serious, entertaining, silent
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Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title (1966)
Plot Summary:
A man is mistaken by foreign agents for a defecting cosmonaut and must prove his identity while evading capture.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slapstick, exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, sitcom, semi serious, spoof, slapstick comedy, parody
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Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962)
Plot Summary:
The daughter of a circus owner fights to save her father from a takeover spearheaded by the man she loves.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: retro, feel good, humorous, stylized, semi serious, crying, romantic comedy
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Sunday in New York (1963)
Plot Summary:
Eileen is 22 and is smarting from her breakup with Russ. She comes to New York to visit her brother, Adam, who is an airline pilot. Eileen confides to her brother that she thinks she may be the only 22 year old virgin left in the world. Adam assures her that sex is not what all men look for and insists he hasn't slept around. Of course, Adam is lying and is in hot pursuit of a tryst with his occasional girlfriend Mona. However, Adam's date with Mona has a series of job related interruptions. Meanwhile, Eileen decides to see if she can have some fun for herself in New York, and seems to find the perfect candidate in Mike, a man she meets on the bus. But things get complicated when Russ pops in with a proposal and a mistaken assumption.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: retro, heartfelt, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sex comedy, vintage
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That Funny Feeling (1965)
Plot Summary:
Joan Howell, a young and pretty maid-for-hire, meets and begins dating wealthy New York City businessman Tom Milford. Embarrassed about bringing him back to her tiny apartment that she shares with her roommate Audrey, Joan brings Tom over to a fancy apartment that she cleans on a daily basis not knowing that it's his place. Tom plays along with the charade despite not knowing who Joan really is, while she tries to tidy up Tom's place not knowing who he really is. Written by Matthew Patay.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 989
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: retro, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Sex and the Single Girl (1964)
Plot Summary:
A womanizing reporter for a sleazy tabloid magazine impersonates his hen-pecked neighbor in order to get an expose on renowned psychologist Helen Gurley Brown.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, retro, romantic comedy, cute, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Marriage on the Rocks (1965)
Plot Summary:
Ad-agency president Dan Edwards who, when he goes to Mexico to celebrate his nineteenth wedding anniversary, winds up getting divorced by mistake - whereupon his wife Valerie marries his best friend Ernie Brewer by mistake. Frank's future pop star daughter Nancy Sinatra has a featured role.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: retro, romantic comedy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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The Thrill of It All (1963)
Plot Summary:
The story of the film centres around urban housewife Beverly Boyer (Doris Day) and her husband, a successful gynaecologist and devoted family man, Gerald (James Garner). Beverly is offered the opportunity to star for a television commercial advertising soap. After a shaky start, she gets a contract for $80,000 per year to appear on the weekly TV commercials.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: cute, humorous, witty, independent film, family comedy, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, funny
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Send Me No Flowers (1964)
Plot Summary:
At one of his many visits to his doctor, hypochondriac George Kimball mistakes a dying man's diagnosis for his own and believes he only has about two more weeks to live. Wanting to take care of his wife Judy, he doesn't tell her and tries to find her a new husband. When he finally does tell her, she quickly finds out he's not dying at all (while he doesn't) and she believes it's just a lame excuse to hide an affair, so she decides to leave him.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, retro, sad, feel good, realistic, semi serious, exciting, funny, light, romantic
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Lover Come Back (1961)
Plot Summary:
Rock Hudson and Doris Day are together again! Jerry Webster (Hudson) and Carol Templeton (Day) are rival Madison Avenue advertising executives who each dislike each other’s methods. After he steals a client out from under her cute little nose, revenge prompts her to infiltrate his secret "VIP" campaign in order to persuade the mystery product’s scientist to switch to her firm.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, funny, sexy, retro, feel good, witty, black and white, heartfelt, humorous, realistic
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Move Over, Darling (1963)
Plot Summary:
Three years into their loving marriage, with two infant daughters at home in Los Angeles, Nicholas Arden and Ellen Wagstaff Arden are on a plane that goes down in the South Pacific. Although most passengers manage to survive the incident, Ellen presumably perishes when swept off her lifeboat, her body never recovered. Fast forward five years. Nicky, wanting to move on with his life, has Ellen declared legally dead. Part of that moving on includes getting remarried, this time to a young woman named Bianca Steele, who, for their honeymoon, he plans to take to the same Monterrey resort where he and Ellen spent their honeymoon. On that very same day, Ellen is dropped off in Los Angeles by the Navy, who rescued her from the South Pacific island where she was stranded for the past five years. She asks the Navy not to publicize her rescue nor notify Nicky as she wants to do so herself.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: technicolor, slapstick comedy, clever, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, romantic comedy
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Caprice (1967)
Plot Summary:
Doris Day stars as Patricia Foster, an industrial designer, when see sells a secret cosmetics formula to a competitor the troubles never stop.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: spy comedy, esoteric, exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Paris When It Sizzles (1964)
Plot Summary:
Hollywood producer Alexander Meyerheimer has hired drunken writer Richard Benson to write his latest movie. Benson has been holed up in a Paris apartment supposedly working on the script for months, but instead has spent the time living it up. Benson now has just two days to the deadline and thus hires a temporary secretary, Gabrielle Simpson, to help him complete it in time.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: romantic comedy, clever, witty, retro, absurd, feel good, humorous, semi serious, spoof, parody
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Man's Favorite Sport? (1964)
Plot Summary:
Rock Hudson is Roger Willoughby, a renowned fishing expert, who, unbeknownst to his friends, co-workers, or boss, has never cast a line in his life. One day, he crosses paths with Abigail Paige (Paula Prentiss), a sweetly annoying girl who has just badgered his boss into signing Roger up for an annual fishing tournament.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: slapstick, retro, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, slapstick comedy, funny, light
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A Case of You (2013)
Plot Summary:
Young writer Sam has a crush on Birdie, the cute and quirky barista at his local coffee shop. When his conventional attempts to woo her crash and burn, he takes his efforts online, creating an Internet profile embellished with all of the details that would make him Birdie’s dream guy. When the harebrained scheme is a surprise success and Birdie falls for his exaggerated alter ego, Sam must keep up the act or lose his dream girl forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, semi serious, romantic, romantic comedy, thought provoking, feel good, happy, humorous, independent film
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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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Do Not Disturb (1965)
Plot Summary:
"Doris Day continues her reign as America's sweetheart" (Motion Picture Herald) in this "bright, colorful comedy of marital misunderstanding" (The Film Daily). Co-starring Rod Taylor (The Glass Bottom Boat) and featuring whip-smart dialogue, a hilarious plot, sumptuous locales and costumes and the song "Au Revoir Is Goodbye With a Smile," Do Not Disturb is a delightful romp from start to finish! What's a devoted wife to do when her husband spends more time "working" with his sexy secretary than helping her with their new home? For Janet Taylor (Day), an American who has relocated to England with her executive husband Mike (Taylor), there's only one solution - make him jealous by inventing an admirer. But as soon as Janet creates her make-believe Romeo, a real suitor arrives, whisks Janet off to Paris, wines and dines her...and comes face-to-face with an insanely irate Mike!.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: retro, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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That Touch of Mink (1962)
Plot Summary:
A rich businessman and a young woman are attracted to each other, but he only wants an affair while she wants to save her virginity for marriage.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: witty, romantic comedy, retro, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, exciting, sentimental
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How to Fall in Love (2012)
Plot Summary:
An accountant, who never quite grew out of his awkward teenage years, finds himself with a dating coach - she happens to be his high school crush as well. Thanks to his coach, he gets a pretty woman he has his sights on for some time, but realizes they are incompatible. Meanwhile, his dating lessons with his teenage crush reawaken old feelings. Not realizing the feelings are mutual, he finds himself unable to act on them due to his fear of being rejected by the one he truly loves.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, semi serious, realistic, heartfelt, humorous
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Seems Like Old Times (1980)
Plot Summary:
Writer Nick Gardenia is kidnapped from his California cliffhouse and forced to rob a bank. Now a fugitive, he seeks help from his ex, Glenda. She is a public defender remarried to a prosecutor, and we get a houseful of hijinks.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, sweet, entertaining, melancholic, feel good, realistic, semi serious, romantic, witty, funny
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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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Down with Love (2003)
Plot Summary:
In 1962 New York City, love blossoms between a playboy journalist and a feminist advice author.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, period piece, humorous, parody, semi serious, funny, sweet, sex comedy, offbeat
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What's Up, Doc? (1972)
Plot Summary:
Two researchers have come to San Francisco to compete for a research grant in Music. One seems a bit distracted, and that was before he meets her. A strange woman seems to have devoted her life to confusing and embarrassing him. At the same time a woman has her jewels stolen and a government whistle blower arrives with his stolen top secret papers. All, of course have the same style and color overnight bag.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: hilarious, funny, romantic, fast paced, feel good, humorous, witty, romantic comedy, buddy comedy, family comedy
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Just Write (1997)
Plot Summary:
A Hollywood tour bus driver poses as a screenwriter to romance an up-and-coming young actress.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: feel good, witty, humorous, semi serious, inspirational, art house, independent film, realistic
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Three to Tango (1999)
Plot Summary:
Oscar and Peter land a career-making opportunity when a Chicago tycoon chooses them to compete for the design of a cultural center. The tycoon mistakenly believes that Oscar is gay and has him spy on his mistress Amy. Oscar goes along with it and ends up falling in love with Amy.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, sexy, light, feel good, romantic comedy, romantic, realistic, semi serious, funny, clever
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Pipe Dream (2002)
Plot Summary:
A lonely plumber poses as a movie director to meet women, and the writer whose script he's stolen builds on his ruse to get her movie made.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, clever, semi serious, independent film
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Beauty & the Briefcase (2010)
Plot Summary:
A freelance writer looking for romance sells a story to Cosmopolitan magazine about finding love in the workplace and goes undercover at a Finance Company.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, teen, romantic comedy, romantic drama, romantic, sentimental, realistic
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Set It Up (2018)
Plot Summary:
Two overworked assistants with nasty bosses try to get their supervisors out of their hair.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, feel good, humorous, entertaining, romantic comedy, realistic, sweet, teen
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Overboard (1987)
Plot Summary:
Heiress, Joanna Stayton hires carpenter, Dean Proffitt to build a closet on her yacht -- and refuses to pay him for the project when it's done. But after Joanna accidentally falls overboard and loses her memory, Dean sees an opportunity to get even.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 66000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, sentimental, funny, realistic, hilarious, entertaining, romantic, romantic comedy, cute
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The Truth About Cats & Dogs (1996)
Plot Summary:
A successful veterinarian and radio show host with low self-esteem asks her model friend to impersonate her when a handsome man wants to see her.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: entertaining, touching, romantic, funny, light, sweet, romantic comedy, sentimental, feel good, humorous
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