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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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The Dramatics: A Comedy (2015)
Plot Summary:
When an out of work actress unexpectedly lands a starring role in the sexually explicit mini-series adaptation of a best selling erotic novel, her aimless, stoner boyfriend does his best to be supportive. But when her volatile, Oscar winning co-lead takes "rehearsals" too far, her dream job becomes her boyfriend’s worst nightmare and the couple is forced to decide whether or not their relationship is worth fighting for.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 553
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, light, independent film
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Olive Juice (2001)
Plot Summary:
Comedy - Leighanne Littrell, James Berlau, Michael Hartson.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, offbeat
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Let Them Chirp Awhile (2007)
Plot Summary:
The basic storyline of the film follows Bobby and Scott, two young men in their late twenties who are struggling to make careers out of their artistic dreams but their competitiveness with each other gets in the way.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, offbeat, independent film
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Free Enterprise (1998)
Plot Summary:
Young filmmakers trying to hawk a movie titled "Bradykillers" about a serial killer who goes after victims Marcia, Jan, and Cindy meet their screen idol, William Shatner. The two young men, who idolize him and in their fantasies have seen him as a shadowy fairy godfather figure, are alarmed at the reality of the middle-aged non-Captain Kirk man that they meet.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, independent film, clever, talky, realistic, cynical, ironic, parody
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Nice Guy Johnny (2010)
Plot Summary:
Johnny Rizzo, is about to trade his dream job in talk radio for some snooze-ville gig that'll pay enough to please his fiance. Enter Uncle Terry, a rascally womanizer set on turning a weekend in the Hamptons into an eye-opening fling for his nephew. Nice guy Johnny's not interested, of course, but then he meets the lovely Brooke, who challenges Johnny to make the toughest decision of is life.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, entertaining, romantic, romantic comedy, realistic, talky, independent film
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Kettle of Fish (2006)
Plot Summary:
A lifelong bachelor confronts his intimacy issues when he sublets his apartment to a fetching biologist. His heartsick fish and his wise best buddy are on hand to provide perspective.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 724
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: witty, humorous, semi serious, captivating, clever, offbeat, realistic, talky, sexual, sexy
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Smiling Fish & Goat on Fire (1999)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers share a house in LA's Fairfax district: Tony's a feckless actor, Chris is an accountant. Both are in relationships on rocky ground. As these emotions swirl, Tony meets his US Postal Service letter carrier, a single mom named Kathy who's come to LA from Wyoming with her daughter, a budding actress. Chris meets Anna, an Italian beauty working in the States for a few months wrangling animals on movie sets. Chris also befriends Clive, an aging and crusty man whose longing for his recently-deceased wife is a portrait of true love. Can Clive's example help Chris sort out his love life, and can Tony grow up enough to see the possibilities with Kathy and her daughter?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, crying, light, thought provoking
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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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The Lonely Guy (1984)
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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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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Nearlyweds (2013)
Plot Summary:
Revolves around three friends who have dream weddings only to find out that the pastor who married them failed to complete the key paperwork required to make them official.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, cute
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Confessions of an American Bride (2005)
Plot Summary:
Young career woman Samantha 'Sam' Hoyt gets swept off her feet by Benjamin 'Ben' Rosen, who romances her better then anyone before, so she jumps at the offer of becoming his fiancée. If Ben thought a girls typical obsession with the perfect wedding was testing, she soon proves a particularly bad case, and before he gets used to that meeting each-others parents complicates things gravely, as Jewish and church wedding traditions don't exactly mix easily. They take their time preparing while living together. Then fate strikes again: the key man from the client of her firms advertising campaign is Luke Stinson, the perfect gay at college whom she could never date because of a rather serious fall just when they could have kissed. Luke proves still as irresistible, gorgeous, charming, easy-going and simply too sexy for any female not to lust for at first sight, and.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, feel good, semi serious
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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 Man On Her Mind (2014)
Plot Summary:
Nellie is a seemingly prim young woman who is conducting a clandestine affair with Jack, a super-suave, fast-talking lawyer. It doesn't matter that the pair seems mismatched because Jack doesn't really exist; he is a figment of Nellie’s imagination--someone she dreamed up out of bits and pieces of Leonard, a somewhat bland man with whom she had a blind date months earlier. Meanwhile, we meet Leonard, and learn that he too has an imaginary lover, whom he has fashioned after the attractive attributes of Nellie. When the two characters come together again, they are forced to compare and contrast their ideal—but, sadly, nonexistent--partners, with their flesh and blood counterparts. The question is, will Nellie choose the man on her mind over the man in her arms?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, entertaining, offbeat, independent film
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Random Encounters (2013)
Plot Summary:
What seems to be a chance encounter one day at a coffee shop leads to a full-fledged romance, but the couple must fight for their relationship to survive the craziness that is show business.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 765
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, sentimental, touching, suspenseful, realistic, semi serious
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Divorce Invitation (2012)
Plot Summary:
'Divorce Invitation' centers on Mike Christian, a happily married man who runs into his high school sweetheart Alex, and after all these years, sparks still fly. When Mike is determined Alex is his true soul mate, he realizes he has a huge problem-he signed an iron-clad pre-nuptial agreement and his wife will not let him out of the marriage.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, relaxing, sentimental, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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It's Not You, It's Me (2010)
Plot Summary:
Javier se ha casado con María, el amor de su vida, y ahora lo único que desea es estar feliz con ella el resto de su vida, pero el destino se la quita poco después de la boda. Ahora Javier está enredado en sus emociones: ¿cómo aceptará la muerte de su mujer para encontrar nuevamente el amor?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, not serious, realistic, talky
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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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See You in September (2010)
Plot Summary:
Feeling abandoned by her therapist who's gone on an extended vacation, beautiful Lindsay (Estella Warren) gets help with her fear of commitment from an ad hoc support group formed by other New Yorkers also left high and dry by their shrinks. But when her pals dare her to date fellow group member A.J. (Justin Kirk), Lindsay begins to wonder if she's finally found her match. Tamara Tunie directs this charming romantic comedy.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 812
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sentimental, semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, sex comedy, independent film, sexual, sexy
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Supporting Characters (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two New York film editors balance their personal relationships while reworking a movie in crisis.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 993
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, witty, talky, semi serious, mumblecore, independent film
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Pittsburgh (2006)
Plot Summary:
Jeff Goldblum put his Hollywood actor life on hold to star alongside his new girlfriend in a Pittsburgh regional theater production of The Music Man. Co-directors Bradley and LaBrache tread a surprisingly elegant line between genuine documentary and outright self-parody improv in this deliciously deadpan comedy.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 517
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: realistic, witty, semi serious, humorous, mockumentary, clever, talky
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Mona (2008)
Plot Summary:
Two 35 year old men going backwards in life meet a vibrant 23 year woman, bounding unselfconsciously forward.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, emotional, independent film, touching, realistic
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Breaking Up Is Hard to Do (2010)
Plot Summary:
Vince and Shonda have come to the proverbial end of their ropes with one another. Set in Atlanta during the 2008 Presidential Election season, Breaking Up Is Hard To Do is the touching story of what happens when two people feel they have nothing more to give to a relationship. A funny and intimate look at how people fall in love and what it takes to stay there, Breaking Up Is Hard To Do touches on the reality of the outside forces that can make or break a relationship. They say the truth will set you free, but when Shonda and Vince are armed with the truth, will they use it to set themselves free for once and for all?.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, psychological, sentimental, captivating, touching, serious
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In the Weeds (2000)
Plot Summary:
It's Martha's first night as a waitress in an upscale New York restaurant. Veteran Chloe shows her the ropes and introduces her to the lives of the restaurant staff. Adam, a hopeful playwright, suffers for his art while dealing with a very indecisive (ex-?)girlfriend. Marlon is a cocky young actor, certain that his big break is just around the corner. When the restaurant's obnoxious owner, Simon, brings a special client in for dinner, pressures mount until an explosion seems inevitable.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 441
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, witty, semi serious, sex comedy, independent film, offbeat, realistic
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Just a Kiss (2002)
Plot Summary:
A group of thirtysomethings having problems with fidelity gets an opportunity to turn back the clock.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, clever, offbeat, talky, independent film
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All Relative (2014)
Plot Summary:
Things couldn't be going better for Harry and Grace, a young New York City couple in love, until Grace's mother turns Harry's world upside down.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty, romantic, romantic comedy, independent film
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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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The Break-Up Artist (2009)
Plot Summary:
A woman who gets paid to break people up is forced to become a matchmaker when some new competition muscles her out of the break-up business. Now, in order to save her company (and keep her high-priced wardrobe) she'll have to rely on her old nemesis: love.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic, romantic comedy, teen, romantic drama
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Relationship Status: It's Complicated (2014)
Plot Summary:
Thirty-year-old Ben is about to marry Juliette. His quiet, ordered life will fall to pieces when he meets up again with the person he secretly wants to see the most: Vanessa, the high school bombshell who never so much as looked in his direction. She's back in Paris, and the only person she now knows is him….
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 957
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: feel good, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, realistic
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Anything Else (2003)
Plot Summary:
Jerry Falk, an aspiring writer in New York, falls in love at first sight with a free-spirited young woman named Amanda He has heard the phrase that life is like "anything else," but soon he finds that life with the unpredictable Amanda isn't like anything else at all.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, France, UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: melancholic, witty, sentimental, touching, semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, romantic, clever