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Plot Summary:
Aspiring New York City artist, John Hollar returns to his Middle America hometown on the eve of his mother’s brain surgery. Joined by his girlfriend, eight months pregnant with their first child, John is forced to navigate the crazy world he left behind.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, humorous, disturbing, cute, tear jerker, moody, tearjerker
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Fatso (1980)
Plot Summary:
Dominick has always been a big kid who loved eating. It was his favourite thing. Then his cousin dies from health complications due to a lack of exercise and improper diet. Antoinette, Dominick's sister, makes him promise to see a diet doctor and lose some weight. This is very hard for Dominick, but he tries. He also finds motivation when he meets Lydia, and he discovers a love that is more intense than his love of food. He spends so much time kissing and walking around with Lydia that he no longer eats as many unhealthy things, and he loses weight without even trying.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, biting, crying, freeze frame, erotic, psychological, parody, funny, light
Similar in 89%
After Everything (2018)
Plot Summary:
When Elliot, a brash 23-year-old living carefree in New York City, meets the sensible Mia and receives a damning diagnosis all in the same week, his world is turned completely upside down. But as their love blossoms amidst the chaos of his treatment, they discover that Elliot's illness is not the real test of their relationship – it's everything else.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, light, humorous, sweet
Similar in 78%
The Leisure Seeker (2017)
Plot Summary:
A runaway couple go on an unforgettable journey from Boston to Key West, recapturing their passion for life and their love for each other on a road trip that provides revelation and surprise right up to the very end.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: road movie, tense, captivating, melancholic, inspirational, sad, novela
Similar in 79%
People Places Things (2015)
Plot Summary:
Will Henry is a newly single graphic novelist balancing being a parent to his young twin daughters and teaching a classroom full of college students, all the while trying to navigate the rich complexities of new love and letting go of the woman who left him.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, funny, sweet, semi serious, realistic, feel good, cute, independent film, sentimental
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Meet the Browns (2008)
Plot Summary:
A single mother living in inner city Chicago, Brenda has been struggling for years to make ends meet and keep her three kids off the street.But when she's laid off with no warning, she starts losing hope for the first time - until a letter arrives announcing the death of a father she's never met.Desperate for any kind of help, Brenda takes her family to Georgia for the funeral. But nothing could have prepared her for the Browns, her father's fun-loving, crass Southern clan. In a small-town world full of long afternoons and country fairs, Brenda struggles to get to know the family she never knew existed...and finds a brand new romance that just might change her life.The story is adapted by Tyler Perry from his stage play "Meet the Browns." Perry will portray Madea and Uncle Joe in the film.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, not serious, uplifting, black comedy, romantic comedy, independent film, black cinema, adaptation directed by original author
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The Comedian (2016)
Plot Summary:
A look at the life of an aging insult comic.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: captivating, light, melancholic, romantic, entertaining, experimental, romantic comedy, independent film, comic
Similar in 86%
Sleepwalk with Me (2012)
Plot Summary:
A burgeoning stand-up comedian struggles with the stress of a stalled career, a stale relationship, and the wild spurts of severe sleepwalking he is desperate to ignore.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, talky, surreal, semi serious, realistic, sexy, emotional, entertaining, intense
Similar in 87%
Dean (2016)
Plot Summary:
A freelance illustrator in New York suffers a quarter-life crisis and leaves his home for the west coast.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: romantic, humorous, disturbing, semi autobiographical, independent film
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I'm Reed Fish (2006)
Plot Summary:
When an old high school crush returns to his small hometown, Reed Fish's once simple, calculated life begins to unravel. A drunken incident prompts Reed's fiancee (Alexis Bledel) and the entire town to turn against him. This one-of-a-kind hilariously clever comedy features an up and coming ensemble cast and an unforgettably captivating original soundtrack.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sentimental, light, independent film, realistic
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Cape of Good Hope (2004)
Plot Summary:
Mark Bamford's thought-provoking comedy explores the ever-present friction between class, race and faith in modern-day South Africa, tracing the intersection of multiple lives. A Drama revolving around 3 women's lives and how they are intertwined.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, realistic, semi serious, humorous, contemplative, crying
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Waiting for Forever (2010)
Plot Summary:
A Hollywood-set romantic tale of a guy who is content to live his life without a job yet with the love of his life, a young actress.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, sentimental, sincere, realistic, contemplative, semi serious, romantic, heartbreaking, erotic
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Polish Wedding (1998)
Plot Summary:
The film centers on a big Polish family. Jadzia is the mother and the ruler of the Pzoniak family (she has five children). Though she's happily married to Bolek, she is also having a long-time affair with Roman. Her young daughter Hala is having an affair with neighbour cop Russell and becomes pregnant by him. Russell is pressed hard to marry Hala.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: light, melancholic, sentimental, touching, semi serious, realistic, talky, stylized, independent film, clever
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The Cake Eaters (2007)
Plot Summary:
The death of the Kimbrough family matriarch affects the three male survivors of the clan. Widower Easy (Bruce Dern) tries to reconnect with his old flame, Marg (Elizabeth Ashley). Eldest son and struggling musician Guy (Jayce Bartok) moves back to town, feeling guilty that he missed the funeral. His brother, Beagle (Aaron Stanford), who was his mother's caretaker, falls for Marg's granddaughter, Georgia (Kristen Stewart), a chronically ill girl who fears her time is growing short.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: emotional, sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, romantic, gloomy
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Playing by Heart (1998)
Plot Summary:
Eleven articulate people work through affairs of the heart in L.A. Paul produces Hannah's TV cooking show. Mark is dying of AIDS. Men have scalded Meredith so she rebuffs Trent's charm, but he persists. The trendy, prolix Joan tries to pull the solitary Keenan into her orbit. An adulterous couple meet at hotels for evening sex. Hugh tells tall tales, usually tragic, to women in bars.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: sincere, light, romantic, sweet, independent film, sentimental, touching, realistic, talky, anthology
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Table 19 (2017)
Plot Summary:
Eloise, having been relieved of maid of honor duties after being unceremoniously dumped by the best man via text, decides to attend the wedding anyway – only to find herself seated with five fellow-unwanted guests at the dreaded Table 19.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, sad, happy
Similar in 85%
Tiptoes (2002)
Plot Summary:
A man is reluctant to tell his fiancee that his parents, uncle and brother are dwarfs.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, realistic, humorous, semi serious, offbeat
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Music from Another Room (1998)
Plot Summary:
Music From Another Room is a romantic comedy that follows the exploits of Danny, a young man who grew up believing he was destined to marry the girl he helped deliver as a five year old boy when his neighbor went into emergency labor. Twenty-five years later, Danny returns to his hometown and finds the irresistible Anna Swann but she finds it easy to resist him since she is already engaged to dreamboat Eric, a very practical match. In pursuit of Anna, Danny finds himself entangled with each of the eccentric Swanns including blind, sheltered Nina, cynical sister Karen, big brother Bill and dramatic mother Grace as he fights to prove that fate should never be messed with and passion should never be practical.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, sweet, light, semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, talky, crying
Similar in 89%
Rumor Has It... (2005)
Plot Summary:
Sarah Huttinger's return home with her fiance convinces her that the sedate, proper, country-club lifestyle of her family isn't for her – and that maybe the Huttinger family isn't even hers – as she uncovers secrets that suggest the Huttingers are neither sedate nor proper.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Australia, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, sentimental, semi serious, humorous, realistic, predictable, entertaining, philosophical, uplifting
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Elizabethtown (2005)
Plot Summary:
Drew Baylor is fired after causing his shoe company to lose hundreds of millions of dollars. To make matters worse, he's also dumped by his girlfriend. On the verge of ending it all, Drew gets a new lease on life when he returns to his family's small Kentucky hometown after his father dies. Along the way, he meets a flight attendant with whom he falls in love.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 72000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: emotional, sweet, feel good, melancholic, road movie, sentimental, romantic, light, touching, sincere
Similar in 82%
Jersey Girl (2004)
Plot Summary:
Ollie Trinke is a young, suave music publicist who seems to have it all, with a new wife and a baby on the way. But life deals him a bum hand when he's suddenly faced with single fatherhood, a defunct career and having to move in with his father. To bounce back, it takes a new love and the courage instilled in him by his daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 69000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: romantic, sweet, feel good, sentimental, touching, sexy, sincere, humorous, entertaining, anamorphic
Similar in 86%
The Meddler (2015)
Plot Summary:
An aging widow from New York City follows her daughter to Los Angeles in hopes of starting a new life after her husband passes away.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: romantic, melancholic, sentimental, sincere, captivating, funny, light, feel good, social, romantic comedy
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The Big Wedding (2013)
Plot Summary:
To the amusement of their adult children and friends, long divorced couple Don and Ellie Griffin are once again forced to play the happy couple for the sake of their adopted son's wedding after his ultra conservative biological mother unexpectedly decides to fly halfway across the world to attend. With all of the wedding guests looking on, the Griffins are hilariously forced to confront their past, present and future - and hopefully avoid killing each other in the process.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 52000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: entertaining, feel good, funny, not serious, humorous, light, romantic, hilarious, sweet, teen
Similar in 88%
It Runs in the Family (2003)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of a dysfunctional New York family, and their attempts to reconcile.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, semi serious, sentimental, touching, talky, epic, realistic, crying, romantic
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The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)
Plot Summary:
Six Californians start a club to discuss the works of Jane Austen. As they delve into Austen's literature, the club members find themselves dealing with life experiences that parallel the themes of the books they are reading.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, romantic, sweet, light, entertaining, witty, touching, sentimental, semi serious
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Beginners (2010)
Plot Summary:
A young man is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father: that he has terminal cancer, and that he has a young male lover.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 94000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, sad, emotional, sentimental, sincere, heartbreaking, romantic, visually appealing, indie film, feel good
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Definitely, Maybe (2008)
Plot Summary:
When Will decides to tell his daughter the story of how he met her mother, he discovers that a second look at the past might also give him a second chance at the future.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 172000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: romantic, sentimental, feel good, sweet, romantic comedy, touching, cute, funny, light, teen
Similar in 81%
Dan in Real Life (2007)
Plot Summary:
Advice columnist, Dan Burns is an expert on relationships, but somehow struggles to succeed as a brother, a son and a single parent to three precocious daughters. Things get even more complicated when Dan finds out that the woman he falls in love with is actually his brother's new girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 106000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, humorous, feel good, funny, sweet, entertaining, semi serious, light, emotional
Similar in 82%
The Nanny Diaries (2007)
Plot Summary:
A college graduate goes to work as a nanny for a rich New York family. Ensconced in their home, she has to juggle their dysfunction, a new romance, and the spoiled brat in her charge.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: romantic, sentimental, sweet, emotional, light, entertaining, cute, realistic, funny, feel good
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Terms of Endearment (1983)
Plot Summary:
Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma's marriage, Aurora shows how difficult and loving she can be. The movie covers several years of their lives as each finds different reasons to go on living and find joy. Aurora's interludes with Garrett Breedlove, retired astronaut and next door neighbor are quite striking.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 64000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: tear jerker, touching, emotional, sad, heartbreaking, sentimental, compassionate, romantic, crying, realistic
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The Family Stone (2005)
Plot Summary:
An uptight, conservative, businesswoman accompanies her boyfriend to his eccentric and outgoing family's annual Christmas celebration and finds that she's a fish out of water in their free-spirited way of life.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 73000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, touching, entertaining, humorous, funny, light, romantic, sweet, romantic comedy