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Plot Summary:
Captain Alexander Blinov goes on vacation and has to give a package to Lena. Lena is freelance photo journalist who runs from job to job. She also has a long conflicting relationship with her retired neighbor who thinks that people like her shouldn't live. Somehow, Blinov get's involved in that conflict and all other Lena's crazy adventures, and falls in love.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Hung Like a Horse (1997)
Plot Summary:
He was already different even before he was born. His eccentric mother took fancy on horses during her conception, and this led to his being born with animal appeal. As he grew up, he became the object of people's curiosity. But the moment he became a full grown man, his strange physical endowment turned him into an object of desire. Girls and even gays fell under his incredibly wild sex appeal, and he got himself the reputation of being a ladies' man. Until he met the woman who would change his life forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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Londre (1966)
Plot Summary:
the movie about Londre.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: fairy tale
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How Dark the Nights Are on the Black Sea (1989)
Plot Summary:
In this farcical dark comedy/melodrama, Lena (Natalya Negoda) manages to lose her place at college by virtue of throwing a minor hissy-fit when she catches her erstwhile boyfriend in bed with another girl. Instead of penalizing the boy for his behavior, Lena gets stuck with a court appearance and must pay a small fine, in addition to losing a boyfriend, her college career, and an apartment. Lena belongs to a film club which occasionally hands out awards, and the membership of it decides to send her into the Russian hinterlands to hand out an award to an obscure filmmaker. Once there, she is the object of many (married) men's attentions, which leads to one of the funnier moments in the film. Throughout the film, Lena has been associated with a bizarre con man named Stepanich (Alexei Zharkov) who, when his cons fall through, comes to her in the distant town she has gone to seeking her help in committing suicide.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union, Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags:
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Flirt (2005)
Plot Summary:
This movie is about a group of young people struggling with what 'true love' means. Main character is a boy who doesn't want to commit himself to one woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: semi documentary
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Fiance Was Not Good Enough (1961)
Plot Summary:
Bichiko experiencing strong mother that her son throughout the village serves as a care-free claims. Bichiko studies and do not care about his girlfriend Nani prefers. Nani's father, did not want to hear vardens udiplomo fiancée, the daughter of suitable bridegrooms agronomist Nicholas presumption. Nani decides Bichiko abduction, but by the hands of his father will be forgiven. The case in favor of Bichiko is up, as it turns out it was a misunderstanding under vardenis sole protector. Varden will understand that people are Bichiko Charming and grooms will not reject.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: crying
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The Girl in the Picture (1985)
Plot Summary:
Alan and Mary are pretty miserable together and split up. As an very presentable Glaswegian photographer Alan soon has chances to find consolation elsewhere, but more and more thinks of Mary. She however seems a lot less keen to try again.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Everything's the Wrong Way (1982)
Plot Summary:
A story about a guy and a girl who decided to get married.They want to have their own place and live without parents. They search for apartment to live together because they can't live without each other, they're seriously falling in love, but parents are getting tougher to deal with and they forbid her to see him. He comes up with a plan to sneak into her house pretending to be her English girl-teacher named Olga with two long braids and funny voice.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: teen comedy
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Abgeschminkt! (1993)
Plot Summary:
An original satire about women of the 90s in search of the men of their dreams. Franzy believes she's through with men, but desperately needs new amorous story lines for the comic strip she writes for a newspaper. So she observes her friend Maischa struggling to satisfy her need for love -- and someone who knows how to install her new shelf. Since joiner Klaus demands too much attention, she sets her eyes on the good-looking footballer Rene.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 596
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags:
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Teli and Toli (2016)
Plot Summary:
This down-to-earth story that takes place in the mountains of North Caucasus, between two adjacent villages – Ossetian Toli and Georgian Teli – tells us about simple and naïve people that governments try to divide today by an official state border. These people wish to live in peace and harmony, in spite of ethnic differences, as their ancestors lived for hundreds of years. They are accustomed to solve all the conflicts peacefully, following Caucasian customs – around a great table, with wine and songs….
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Out of the City (2000)
Plot Summary:
A computer programmer and his son are going out of the city for vacation.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 491
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Me, Grandma, Iliko and Ilarion (1962)
Plot Summary:
Film is based on one of the most popular novels of N. Dumbadze.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: crying
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Snakes and Ladders (1996)
Plot Summary:
A wry story of female friendship: Jean and Kate, two "nearing-thirty" street performers, find the ups and downs of life and love amid the pubs and music scene of modern day Dublin.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Ireland, Germany, UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Finding Sofia (2016)
Plot Summary:
A conflicted animation filmmaker travels to Argentina chasing after a girl he met online, only to end up living with her and her intimidating boyfriend on an isolated island on the outskirts of Buenos Aires.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 303
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Argentina
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags:
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Love Stories Only Last 90 minutes (2009)
Plot Summary:
In Lapa, Rio de Janeiro, the idle aspirant writer Zeca has been living with Arts Professor Júlia for five years. He is stuck on page 50 of his novel for a long time and Zeca claims lack of inspiration to conclude the plot. He leads a comfortable life from inheritance left by his mother and administrated by his father Humberto. When Zeca sees Júlia alone with her best friend Carol in his flat, he believes that they are having a love affair and becomes obsessed with Carol, following her. Júlia travels to São Paulo with work giving Zeca the perfect opportunity to have an affair with Carol. So begins his complicated life: while Júlia works and studies for her doctorate, Zeca has sex with Carol during the days and with Júlia during the nights. Zeca plots a scheme to stay with either Carol or Júlia but his plan does not go as he hoped.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 603
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Girls Unbutton (1994)
Plot Summary:
A film about the ups and downs of a beautiful young lass named Jenny and her never ending pursuit of a boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy, erotic
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Leo and Loree (1980)
Plot Summary:
Ralph Malph from Philly moves to Hollywood with dreams of making it big, amazingly hooks up with starlet-to-be, loses starlet-to-be, gets back starlet-to-be, and becomes someone.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Romance, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Rice on White (2017)
Plot Summary:
'Rice on White' is a crass yet heartfelt romantic comedy with an un-PC take on how Asian-American men are perceived in today's dating scene. In the film, a group of disillusioned Asian guys try to master the art of seduction with results that are often hilarious, but sometimes unexpectedly sweet. Think of it as 'American Pie' meets 'Swingers' with an Asian twist.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, sexy, contemplative, independent film, unusual plot structure
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Kiss Of Life (2007)
Plot Summary:
Life is beautiful, but I get married on Sunday!.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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While You Were Dating (2017)
Plot Summary:
A long-divorced couple are reunited on a blind date and agree to fix each other up with friends and colleagues. While fix-up after fix-up fails to work out for either of them, they begin to wonder if perhaps they aren't the right match for one another after all.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 660
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, touching, feel good, emotional
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Little Book of Love 2 (2015)
Plot Summary:
Gabriel and Luiza have been separated for 16 years. Luiza is now married to Alex, with whom she had the dreamed son. Gabriel dates Jaqueline, a younger and energetic woman. Although apparently happy in their relationships, the interest between the two is revived after an unexpected encounter.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Tyrannical Love (2005)
Plot Summary:
Tyrannical Love is a film about the quirkiness of life and love when you are no longer a kid but not quite an adult. There is something for everyone in this ensemble piece about a close knit group of friends and the events that take place on New Years 1999. Most people believe that finding love is the greatest thing than can ever hapen to you, but some believe it is nothing but a fascist dictator that rules over your life.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Taste of You (2014)
Plot Summary:
It depicts the lives of several groups of characters interacting at the beach of Forte dei Marmi during the mid-1980s.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, captivating, entertaining, happy
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Love, Surreal and Odd (2017)
Plot Summary:
If four couples meet at the same party, and a honey-sweet relationship begins between them, a surreal love out of nowhere... If every phase of the relationship is a situation comedy, where the sides get along well for a moment, only to quarrel the next... Can we then ask the question: Dear lovers, don’t you have anything to do with love?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, sincere, touching, captivating
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Valentina's Wedding (2018)
Plot Summary:
Valentina seems to have the perfect life in New York, with a perfect job and a perfect boyfriend, Jason Tate—far, far away from her scandalous political family in Mexico. When Jason proposes to her and wants to go to home to meet the family she has been keeping a secret, her two worlds clash. Adding to the hilarious chaos, her family brings her ex, Angel, into the picture and convinces Valentina to go along with a sham marriage to him in an effort to stop further negative press as her father runs for re-election. In the end, Valentina must choose where her heart belongs.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 740
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating
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Mylove Lost (2018)
Plot Summary:
Mario (Dani Rovira) and Olivia (Michelle Jenner) fall madly in love. One afternoon, considering that every relationship ends, they end up breaking up. During the big fight, Miamor, the street cat adopted by both and who only attends if they call him "Miamor" and speak to him in Valencian, escapes and disappears, like the love that united them. For a time Olivia will give him for dead, love and the cat, while Mario keeps him alive in secret. Like Schrodingüer's cat, the love between the two remains alive and dead at the same time until, one day when she seems to have finally risen, Olivia feels victimized by a deception and decides to declare to Mario the war, one in the that, as in the love that still breathes, everything can be worth.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 702
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Soup of the Day (2006)
Plot Summary:
Brandon Craig is a regular guy who loves split pea soup and happens to be in monogamous relationships with three amazing women: Monique, his photo editor boss; Wendy, an undercover cop; and Franki, host of the popular Internet show Missleblast. Brandon knows he must eventually choose between them, but when all three women wind up in the same place at the same time to sample Brandon's favorite soup, his love life boils over. Even though there are lots of flavors to choose from - you just can't have 'em all!.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, light, feel good
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Love Is Eternal While It Lasts (2004)
Plot Summary:
Gilberto, 50enne, si fa coinvolgere in una cosiddetta speed-date, una gara in cui i protagonisti devono trovare un partner in 3 minuti. Arrestato, deve confessare tutto in presenza della moglie che lo sbatte fuori di casa. Rifugiatosi da amici scopre che il suo migliore amico è amante della moglie e comincia a tentare di avviare nuove relazioni che falliscono tutte.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Don't Blame Karma! (2022)
Plot Summary:
The travails of Sara, a frustrated fashion designer who blames karma for her bad luck. Fate will put her face to face with her sister, Lucy, who enjoys very different luck, and in a series of events and reunions that will lead her to make a radical decision.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 872
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, semi serious
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And Then I Met You (2018)
Plot Summary:
Diego, just a few weeks after his wedding with Julia, the perfect girlfriend, is forced by his father to remodel a hotel that he destroyed in his uncontrolled bachelor party. There he meets Lu, the hotel manager, a free, audacious and beautiful woman; the kind of woman that makes you turn your life upside down. Lu will make Diego confront himself and take control of his life for the first time.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 406
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Tell Me I Love You (2019)
Plot Summary:
A modern romantic comedy about 3 Malibu best friends, roommates and bandmates discovering their dreams and discovering love with a crazy plot to make some cash on the way.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, captivating, entertaining