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Plot Summary:
Reprising the television series roles which first made them household names, Richard Beckinsale and Paula Wilcox star as Geoffrey Scrimshaw and Beryl Battersby, a hesitant, inexperienced, young couple attempting to negotiate the sexual minefield of the ‘permissive’ society. This big-screen transfer of Jack Rosenthal’s hugely likeable sitcom sees old-fashioned girl Beryl continuing to slap down the advances of her frustrated boyfriend, whose clumsy attempts to initiate ‘Percy Filth’ suggest he’s not quite up to speed himself! Like everyone else, Geoffrey and Beryl want to fall in love – or they think they do; like everyone else, since Adam and Eve. But Adam and Eve didn’t live in Manchester in 1972….
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: offbeat, sex comedy, sitcom, independent film
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Popcorn (2007)
Plot Summary:
Too insecure to approach the girl of his dreams, Danny takes a job at the local multiplex where she works.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, realistic, manga, neo screwball comedy, comic
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The Young Bride (1976)
Plot Summary:
A shop assistant in a record shop falls in love with a young writer, who loves classical music but can not find a publisher who publishes his first novel.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Casanova (1987)
Plot Summary:
TV Movie version of the story of Giacomo Casanova, the famous eighteenth century womanizer.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 350
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, West Germany, USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, fairy tale
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For The Love Of Ada (1972)
Plot Summary:
Walter and Ada Bingley are celebrating their first wedding anniversary unaware that their friends and family are planning a surprise party for them.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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The Frog Prince (1986)
Plot Summary:
A young British girl journeys to Paris to go to college, and is determined to find the man of her dreams and fall madly in love. However, things don't work out quite the way she planned.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Bless This House (1972)
Plot Summary:
The legendary Sid James stars as the head of a chaotic household in this movie spin-off from the hit ITV sitcom. Sid Abbott and his best mate Trevor (Peter Butterworth) enjoy home-brewing. Plans to turn their hobby into a profitable, if illicit, sideline come unstuck when a Customs and Excise officer (Terry Scott) moves in next door! What’s more, Sid’s outspoken and madcap family hinder neighbourly relations even further.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, independent film
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Crazy Navy (1982)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful young woman shows up at a naval base full of lonely and horny sailors.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Dany the Ravager (1972)
Plot Summary:
Candide adventurous, seductive Dany goes astray despite herself in dark and comical adventures of a sexual nature via moult meetings hitchhiking. A butterfly hunter, a couple libertine fan of the whip, a sex maniac hearse driver, a dangerous madman that confuses women and sheep, a gangster duo, a transvestite singer, none resist the beauty and innocence Dany the wheel model.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, sex comedy
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Rising Damp (1980)
Plot Summary:
Stingy English landlord Rigsby manages to scam his lodgers Cooper, an arts student, and Philip, an African jock, making both pay for a room they must share. However Rigsby's favorite lodger, miss Jones, now flirts with both boys rather then the old goat, despite his pitiful attempts to be generous. Crossed by her still overprotective dad, she actually prefers an affair with slick veteran Seymour, who is really only interested in her money.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, not serious, sitcom, independent film
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Carry on Girls (1973)
Plot Summary:
Local councillor Sidney Fiddler persuades the Mayor to help improve the image of their rundown seaside town by holding a beauty contest. But formidable Councillor Prodworthy, head of the local women's liberation movement, has other ideas. It's open warfare as the women's lib attempt to sabotage the contest.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, slapstick comedy, double entendre, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, sexy, independent film, spoof
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Carry on Loving (1970)
Plot Summary:
The Wedded Bliss computer dating agency aims to bring together the lonely hearts of Much-Snoggin-in-the-Green. Its owner, Sidney Bliss, has enough complications in his own love life, but still produces a pamphlet called "The Wit to Woo". The strange collection of hopefuls lead to some outlandish matches, and jealousies are bound to lead to trouble.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, double entendre, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, sexy, spoof, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Carry on Henry VIII (1971)
Plot Summary:
Henry VIII has just married Marie of Normandy, and is eager to consummate their marriage. Unfortunately for Henry, she is always eating garlic, and refuses to stop. Deciding to get rid of her in his usual manner, Henry has to find some way of doing it without provoking war with Marie's cousin, the King of France. Perhaps if she had an affair.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, spoof, double entendre, parody, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, independent film
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Percy (1971)
Plot Summary:
Edwin Antony (Hywel Bennett) is emasculated in an accident which kills a young philanderer. Doctors successfully replace his member with that of the dead man, but refuse to tell him the full story of the organ's origin. So Edwin begins a search which takes him to the philanderer's wife - and also to his many, many girlfriends.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 455
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, psychotronic, sexy
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Steptoe and Son (1972)
Plot Summary:
Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are junk dealers, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood. They also live amicably together at the junk yard. But Harold, who likes the bright lights in the West End of London, meets a stripper, marries her and takes her home. Albert, of course, is furious and tries every trick he knows to drive the new bride from his household.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sitcom, independent film
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Man About the House (1974)
Plot Summary:
An unscrupulous property developer wants to flatten the street to make way for new buildings.Householder George Roper is happy to take the offered money and run but his wife Mildred and their lodgers join with other residents to take a stand and keep things as they are, finally winning the day.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 684
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film
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Let It Snow (1999)
Plot Summary:
Our two young lovers meet on a series of snowy days in high school. Years later they reconnect in Manhattan, but life is more complicated. Sarah sleeps with her beeper. James goes to "open-mike therapy". As Sarah plans her wedding to someone else, James prays for snow and a second chance at first love.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 640
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, sincere, clever, touching, offbeat, humorous, realistic, contemplative, talky
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Such a Small Thing (1976)
Plot Summary:
Arun (Amol Palekar) is a shy accountant in Bombay who dreams of romancing Prabha (Vidya Sinha), but never gets past following her around without managing to actually speak up. While Arun twiddles his thumbs, suave Nagesh (Asrani) steps into the picture and turns on the heat, prompting Arun to take "love coaching" from "romance specialist" Julius Nagendranath (Ashok Kumar) to win Prabha back. One of the funniest Hindi films of the 70s - is a nostalgic favourite for its quirky take on pre-hypercongestion Bombay. The film established Amol Palekar as having an uncommon comic talent for playing mousy characters, a role he would repeat several times in his career.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, offbeat, intellectual, cult classic, sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic, not serious
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Paperback Romance (1994)
Plot Summary:
Sophie, a writer of racy romance novels, is working on one of her stories in the library, when Eddie overhears her. Sophie, embarrassed by her paralyzed leg from childhood polio, spurns his advances, but when Sophie breaks her leg, she has the perfect way of hiding her disability from Eddie. As Sophie struggles to win over Eddie and hide her disability, Eddie's jealous fiance and a police officer investigating a jewel heist threaten their relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, sentimental, touching, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick
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Sex and the Other Woman (1972)
Plot Summary:
A series of vignettes exposing how women manipulate their men into submission.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: erotic, sex comedy, anthology, sexy, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious
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Sex, Lies and Renaissance (1983)
Plot Summary:
Happily engaged to her handsome fiance, Charles, Fanny is soon hit with one misfortune after another until she is forced to become a prostitute to survive. This is the story, with many erotic asides, of her struggle to regain her pride in herself and find happiness in life once again.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, manga, touching, serious, realistic, sexual, independent film, erotic, sexy, hot
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Among Giants (1998)
Plot Summary:
A manager hires Ray, off the books, to paint all the power towers in a 15-mile stretch of high-tension wires outside Sheffield. Ray's crew of men are friends, especially Ray with Steve, a young Romeo. Into the mix comes Gerry, an Australian with a spirit of adventure and mountain climbing skills. She wants a job, and against the others' advice, who don't want a woman on the job, Ray hires her. Then she and Ray fall in love. He asks her to marry him, gives her a ring. Steve's jealous; Ray's ex-wife complains that he spends on Gerry, not his own kids, and she predicts that Gerry won't stay around. Plus, there's pressure to finish the job fast. Economics, romance, and wanderlust spark the end.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 969
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: melancholic, intense, sincere, emotional, social, bleak, humorous, realistic, semi serious, erotic
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The Chain (1984)
Plot Summary:
Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 433
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, biting, suspense
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Take a Girl Like You (1970)
Plot Summary:
Young Jenny heads to the South of England to start a new career as a school teacher. Even before she has had a chance to settle in she meets Patrick, one of the local "lads". Within a short time she has her hands full when a number of the local boys take a liking to her. But who will be the lucky one who wins her affections?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 779
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, romantic comedy, sexy, independent film, touching, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual
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Cold Comfort Farm (1995)
Plot Summary:
In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste, a plucky London society girl orphaned at age 19, finds a new home with some rough relatives, the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm. With a take-charge attitude and some encouragement from her mischievous friend, Mary, Flora changes the Starkadders' lives forever when she settles into their rustic estate, bringing the backward clan up to date and finding inspiration for her novel in the process.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: period piece, offbeat, humorous, talky, avant garde, cult classic, historical drama, sentimental, touching, feel good
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Piccadilly Jim (2004)
Plot Summary:
Set in the 1930s, an American with a scandalous reputation on both sides of the Atlantic must do an about-face in order to win back the woman of his dreams.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, tragicomedy, social, ironic, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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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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Every Jack Has a Jill (2009)
Plot Summary:
Jack is encouraged to take the romantic Paris vacation he won, despite just being dumped by his girlfriend. His trip soon devolves into chaos and adventure, when his luggage is swapped for a French businesswoman's belongings who soon takes a liking to his belongings -- especially his shoes -- and sets out to find him.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sex comedy, offbeat
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Swinging with the Finkels (2011)
Plot Summary:
A suburban couple decide to spice up their lives by swinging with another couple.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty, sex comedy, clever, offbeat, sexual, sexy
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In a Day (2006)
Plot Summary:
A young woman spends a curiously unpredictable day with a stranger.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic, talky, offbeat, romantic comedy, independent film
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Born Romantic (2000)
Plot Summary:
In modern-day London, three men (Craig Ferguson, Jimi Mistry and David Morrissey) and three women (Olivia Williams, Jane Horrocks and Catherine McCormack) fall in and out of love and back again, to the Greek-chorus accompaniment of two cab drivers, who engage in an ongoing conversation about sex. A winning romantic comedy, Born Romantic is the second feature by British writer-director David Kane of This Year's Love fame.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, romantic, sentimental, touching, feel good, romantic comedy, realistic, talky, sex comedy, semi serious