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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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The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
Plot Summary:
Three days into his Miami honeymoon, Lenny meets tall, blonde Kelly. This confirms him in his opinion that he has made a serious mistake and he decides he wants Kelly instead.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: funny, clever, humorous, witty, talky, scary, cynical, sex comedy, independent film, feel good
Similar in 79%
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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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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Starting Over (1979)
Plot Summary:
A divorced man falls in love, but somehow he can't get over his ex-wife. This effects his love life in comic ways. Based on Dan Wakefield's novel. Burt Reynolds is an attractive middle-aged man who suffers a crisis of confidence when ditched by his ambitious singer wife (Candice Bergen), until he begins to forge a new new relationship with an equally insecure teacher (Jill Clayburgh). But when the wife attempts a reconciliation - seduction followed by a truly excruciating song she has composed for him - he realizes where his loyalty lies.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, humorous, witty, semi serious, romantic comedy, clever, contemplative, talky, neo screwball comedy
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Three Many Weddings (2013)
Plot Summary:
A woman attends wedding of successive men in her life, though she gets to find a soul mate.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, sentimental, semi serious, romantic comedy, realistic
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Ed's Next Move (1996)
Plot Summary:
Ed lives in Wisconsin. He's just been dumped by his girlfriend, so he moves to New York City for a big change...but will he ever find love again? He loves his new job studying the genetics of different strains of rice. Then Ed meets Lee, a quirky singer. She's just what Ed thinks he's looking for, and she's available...or is she?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 474
Genere: Romance, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, talky, sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, inspirational, romantic
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Maybe Baby (2000)
Plot Summary:
Hugh Laurie (Sam) and Joely Richardson (Lucy) star as an irresistible couple who seem to have everything - good looks, successful careers, matching motorbikes and an enthusiastic love life. The only thing they lack is the one thing that they really want - a baby. Sam sets his sights on writing a successful screenplay, a comedy about a couple trying for a baby. The only problem is that Lucy is horrified at the idea and forbids him to do it. Creative fulfillment is too much for Sam to resist and meanwhile an increasingly hormonal Lucy is distracted by the attentions of the handsome Carl Phipps (James Purefoy). Sam and Lucy's love for one another, the most important thing they have, will now truly be put to the test.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, melancholic, feel good, realistic, sentimental, talky, semi serious, clever
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Dog Park (1998)
Plot Summary:
Sex comedy takes a look at contemporary dating mores and hypothesizes that the new dating location may be the dog walk in the park. A mild-mannered man loses his present girl friend to another man. His attraction to a kid's TV show hostess goes nowhere because of her obsession with her dog, Peanut. He then gets hooked up with an overly exuberant blonde who overwhelms him. He even lost his collie, Mogley, when his girl friend moved out. In a funny sub-plot, the collie is going to a doggie psychiatrist who determines the dog is being traumatized by his mistress' sexual antics. Jeri and Jeff are best friends whose constant smooching simply makes the leads life less comfortable.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, clever, feel good, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious, crying, sex comedy
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Roxanne (1987)
Plot Summary:
Based on the play "Cyrano de Bergerac", large nosed C.D. Bales falls for the beautiful Roxanne while she falls for his personality but another man's looks.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, funny, romantic comedy, sexy, sentimental, romantic, entertaining, clever, offbeat
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This Is Not a Film (2003)
Plot Summary:
New Yorker Michael Connor attempts to find the woman who left him by making a film about her, hoping that someone (maybe you?) will recognize his ex and convince her to get back together with him. To help the viewer understand who he is and why his girlfriend left, Michael opts to re-enact his failed relationship for the camera. He hires an actress to portray his ex-girlfriend, and during the process of filming she quickly and mercilessly points out all of his mistakes, blunders and inadequacies as a boyfriend. "This Is Not a Film" is a romantic comedy about making mistakes and recognizing them in the most painful way possible--by making them over and over again.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 305
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sentimental, realistic, talky, semi serious, humorous, witty, independent film, offbeat
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Modern Romance (1981)
Plot Summary:
A film editor breaks up with his girlfriend, unsure if he is in love.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, melancholic, funny, disturbing, intense, realistic, semi serious, clever, witty, talky
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'Til There Was You (1997)
Plot Summary:
Two strangers, whose paths are always crossing, finally meet when fate steps in. It took them twenty years to fall in love at first sight.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Romance, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, sweet, melancholic, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic
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Worth Winning (1989)
Plot Summary:
Taylor is a man who has no problems with women. So confident is he that he accepts a challenge from his friends: he has to secure proposals of marriage from three women of their choice.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: light, melancholic, talky, feel good, semi serious, humorous, witty, romantic comedy, realistic, sex comedy
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Mr. Jealousy (1997)
Plot Summary:
After his first date at age 15 ended with the girl making out with another man at a party, aspiring writer Lester Grimm has treated all his girlfriends with jealousy and suspicion. While dating Ramona Ray, paranoia gets the best of him when he discovers that her most recent ex is successful novelist Dashiell Frank. Lester begins attending the same group therapy sessions as Dashiell to learn about Ramona's past with him.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: independent film, clever, humorous, witty, talky, realistic, semi serious, funny, romantic, sexy
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If Lucy Fell (1996)
Plot Summary:
Joe and Lucy are roommates and best friends. Lucy, whose love life is embarrassingly dull, convinces Joe, who is infatuated with a neighbor he's never met, that if they don't have stable romances within a month, they must jump off the Brooklyn Bridge.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sentimental, romantic, sweet, melancholic, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, offbeat, funny
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Forget Paris (1995)
Plot Summary:
Mickey Gordon is a basketball referee who travels to France to bury his father. Ellen Andrews is an American living in Paris who works for the airline he flies on. They meet and fall in love, but their relationship goes through many difficult patches. The story is told in flashback by their friends at a restaurant waiting for them to arrive.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, light, sweet, intense, touching, realistic, clever, witty, non fiction
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The Night We Never Met (1993)
Plot Summary:
Sam has a problem with his roommates: they are disgusting, and don't seem to share his views on responsibility, privacy, and basic hygine. Such is his discomfort with his living arrangements that he agrees to share the occupancy of another flat: he gets two nights a week, the owner (a sleazy frat-boy yuppie named Brian, soon to be married) and Ellen (a would-be painter seeking relief from her boring marriage) each get their seperate nights in the flat. Things go extremely well until Sam and Brian swap nights without telling Ellen, who attributes the "nice" things that happen around the place to the slob Brian, while berating the responsible Sam for his hedonistic lifestyle.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: offbeat, clever, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film
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Betsy's Wedding (1990)
Plot Summary:
Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper and her straight-laced investment-banker fiancé, Dylan Walsh, just want an intimate little wedding reception, but Betsy's father, Eddie, a Long Island construction contractor, feels so threatened by Jake's rich WASP parents that he blows the ceremony up into a bank-breaking showpiece, sending his wife, Lola, into a financial panic.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, talky, funny, melancholic, light, sentimental, feel good, semi serious, romantic, entertaining
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Never Again (2001)
Plot Summary:
A man and a woman who have pledged never to fall in love again meet in a gay bar.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 967
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, witty, semi serious, romantic, independent film, romantic comedy, realistic
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Glory Daze (1995)
Plot Summary:
It's punk rock meets Animal House in this campus comedy that stars Ben Affleck as Jack, a soon-to-be graduate who finds he's having a difficult time letting go of the college life -- and decides maybe he doesn't have to. Also questioning whether there's life after college are Jack's roommates: Rob, who fears domestication; comic-strip artist Mickey, who's shy around girls; intellectual party animal Slosh; and perpetual student Dennis.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: light, sentimental, talky, humorous, semi serious, realistic, erotic, funny, clever, feel good
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Crossing Delancey (1988)
Plot Summary:
Isabelle's life revolves around the New York bookshop she works in and the intellectual friends of both sexes she meets there. Her grandmother remains less than impressed and decides to hire a good old-fashioned Jewish matchmaker to help Isabelle's love-life along. Enter pickle-maker Sam who immediately takes to Isabelle. She however is irritated by the whole business, at least to start with.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, realistic, feel good, humorous, semi serious, clever, offbeat, contemplative, light
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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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Trading Places (1983)
Plot Summary:
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 162000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: funny, hilarious, feel good, light, dark comedy, humorous, thought provoking, black comedy, parody, retro
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Breakin' All the Rules (2004)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by his fiancée (who dumped him), a man publishes a break-up handbook for men, becoming a bestselling author in the process.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: romantic comedy, romantic, entertaining, melancholic, talky, stylized, semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic
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Sidewalks of New York (2001)
Plot Summary:
The film follows the marital and dating lives of three men and three women who unknowingly form a tangled web of relationships. Interspersing "man on the street" interviews with scenes from the six characters' lives, the film weaves a humorous and biting commentary on the game of love -- easy to start, hard to finish.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: witty, stylized, sexy, humorous, semi serious, independent film, clever, realistic, talky, erotic
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HouseSitter (1992)
Plot Summary:
After building his dream house, architect Newton Davis proposes marriage to his girlfriend, only to be summarily rejected. He seeks solace in a one-night stand with a waitress, never imagining that a woman he slept with once would end up posing as his wife. Gwen's ruse is so effective that by the time Newton learns of his "marriage," the entire town feels like they know him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, feel good, humorous, funny, clever, absurd, romantic comedy, uplifting, entertaining
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A Couch in New York (1996)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Henry Harriston is a successful psychoanalyst in New York City. When he is near a nervous breakdown, he arranges to change his flat with Beatrice Saulnier from France for a while. Both don't know each other and both find themselves deeply involved into the social settings of the other, because the decision to change their flats is made overnight. Could be the perfect amusement, but suddenly Henry finds himself beaten up by Beatrice' lover and Beatrice is considered to be Dr. Harriston's substitute by his clients.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sweet, melancholic, light, feel good, humorous, clever, witty, offbeat, realistic, semi serious
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Hope Springs (2003)
Plot Summary:
British artist Colin Ware discovers that his fiancée, Vera, is going to marry another man. Distraught and despondent, he gets on a plane for America and ends up in the tiny town of Hope in New England. At first, Colin is depressed, but he soon finds more than a shoulder to cry on when his innkeepers introduce him to Mandy, a beautiful nurse. All's going well and Colin has almost forgotten his old flame until Vera shows up with a surprise of her own.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, sweet, funny, feel good, humorous, sentimental, touching, romantic comedy, offbeat
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Pursuit of Happiness (2001)
Plot Summary:
An advertising executive fails to realize that the woman of his dreams is his best friend since first grade, now married to his cheating co-worker.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 466
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sentimental, realistic, touching, romantic, emotional, suspense, melancholic, talky, humorous, semi serious
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That Awkward Moment (2014)
Plot Summary:
Best pals Jason and Daniel indulge in casual flings and revel in their carefree, unattached lives. After learning that the marriage of their friend Mikey is over, they gladly welcome him back into their circle. The three young men make a pact to have fun and avoid commitment. However, when all three find themselves involved in serious relationships, they must keep their romances secret from one another.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 107000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: romantic, not serious, humorous, teen, sexy, funny, light, feel good, entertaining, sex comedy