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Plot Summary:
A young woman is bitten by the acting bug after seeing Marilyn Monroe in "Some Like It Hot". She patterns herself after MM and after finishing high school goes for screen tests to the Film Academy. Rejected because of her crooked teeth she takes a job of selling beer on a train and starts writing to Billy Wilder, trying to be casted in his next movie. At the trains station she meets a would-be cinematographer who is color blind. They become friends sharing their dreams of going to Hollywood. One day she finds a goldfish trapped in a beer bottle: she sets her free and makes three wishes, not for herself but for her friends. To her surprise all of them come true. As a reward she gets a long awaited call from Billy Wilder. Written by Polish Cinema Database.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 97 min
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Food of Love (1997)
Plot Summary:
A group of ex-university students reunite to perform a Shakespeare play in a quaint English village.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Angel in Love (2005)
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Giordano, an angel assigned to an orphan in Krakow, is two years into the job when his celestial overseers, citing budget cuts, initiate "Phase Two" without telling him. Some changes are good - they send him a nanny, the enterprising Irena; some are bad - his phone number to Heaven no longer works nor do his special powers; and some dismay him - he grows a penis. His closest friend tells him to get a woman, and Irena advises him on hygiene. He visits a therapist, Roma, and falls in love with her. She tells him its transference. Meanwhile, Giordano's celestial friends conspire to rid Roma of her boyfriend, clearing the way for Giordano to be his naive and engaging self.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min
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Dancing Queen is a 1993 British romantic comedy film starring Rik Mayall and Helena Bonham Carter. It follows the misfortune of Neil (Mayall), a bridegroom trying to get back to his bride with the help of his newfound friend Pandora/Julie (Bonham Carter) the stripper. It was the third episode of the first series of the Granada Television series Rik Mayall Presents.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 667
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 51 min
Plot tags: cult classic
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A romantic comedy.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
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The Ideal Man (1996)
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Marie, incapable of choosing between three marriage proposals, decides to give up. Circumstances mean that the three men meet. Far from being hostile, Stéphane, Fabrice and Paul console each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 322
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: intellectual, slapstick comedy
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We Need to Talk About Kieran (2011)
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Turning down an offer from Harvard, bumbling genius Kieran Edwards opts to follow his true love Juliet to The University of Nottingham. Within days of arriving, he finds her in bed with a muscular sportsman. Heartbroken and vulnerable, Kieran finds himself as the unlikely student of a pick up guru. Using an array of unorthodox techniques, Kieran immerses himself in a new area of study with geeky enthusiasm. To the surprise of his teacher and his contemporaries, Kieran becomes a phenomenon on the Nottingham dating scene. As his success levels soar out of control, Kieran's studies and morals begin to suffer. Can the friendship of an unusual course tutor tempt him out of the late night bars and back into the library?.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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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
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Sequence of Feelings (1993)
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A renowned actor, Rafal Nawrot, is invited to play the main part in a theatre production of "Romeo and Juliet" in a backwater town. Upon arriving he realizes his mistake and is packing to leave when Julia, a beautiful blonde teenager appears at his hotel room door, the starstruck emissary from a local fan club. The encounter triggers a host of erotic fantasies and dreams for Nawrot, who decides to stay in town after all. Although his dreams more or less come true when Julia becomes sexually involved with him, his growing obsession with the young woman is paralleled by her emotional growth in a simultaneous relationship with a lover her own age.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 105 min
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IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 760
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 87 min
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Yesterday (1985)
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Set in the 60's in a provincial town: four high school teenagers approach graduation, but all they think about are The Beatles.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 87 min
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The Spinning Wheel of Time (1995)
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A filmmaker and his actress wife move into the filmmaker’s cabin in the woods, where they haven’t been for ten years. He sets about filming whatever he can in the area, including an alluring blonde who lives nearby.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 101 min
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After a quarrel Henry leaves the apartment. New fellow-lodger of Robby and Kalle becomes Paul. The three guys couldn't be more different, but nevertheless all of them have the same problem: women. When the mysterious Malu appears, each of them wonders if she may be their dream-woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany, Switzerland
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The story of male friendship, vitality and the joy of living, even after turning 60 years old. When one of the three friends is taken to hospital, the others are there for him.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 89 min
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David Kolowitz, a nice young man living with his parents in New York City in 1938, works at a machine repair shop. His parents want David to study to become a pharmacist. But what he really wants is to be an actor like his idol, Ronald Colman. One day, at his friend Marvin's suggestion, David tries out for a part in a play, and gets it, despite his obvious lack of acting experience (not to mention ability). True, it's a rather small part in a low-rent production. Leading the troupe is a washed-up, alcoholic actor who hires David at the urging of his actress-daughter, who finds David "cute." To play his part, David must come up with his own costume - a tuxedo - and pay the house five dollars a week, ostensibly for tuition. But it is David's first acting job, one which calls for him to "enter laughing." And if it doesn't work out - well, there's always pharmacy school.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 705
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: semi autobiographical
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IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 603
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 93 min
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IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 94 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Australia
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IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Romance, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
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(Girl)Friend (2018)
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Vincent and Nefeli just moved in together. They're best friends and swore to never fall in love again. That is until Vincent meets Julie.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 836
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 82 min
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Marilyn owns a bed and breakfast were some adult things go down.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 123
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Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 689
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
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Plot Summary:
Minimalistic frieze fifteen episodes about human behavior (desire, submission, love, jealousy, wisdom, honesty, sincerity, passion, faith, ...) located between two fantastic stories about the will and doubt.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: anthology, manga, clever, humorous, realistic, talky, cynical, semi serious, biting, sexual
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A set of nine stories whose central theme is eroticism. The different directors of the film deal from philosophical aspects to others that are almost pornographic, but always with a common denominator: sensuality. Segments: 1- Small Planet, 2 - The Tilita, 3 - The Vile Metal, 4 - Broken Times, 5 - Koñensonaten, 6 - Peppermint, 7 - Frac, 8 - Everyday Life, 9 - Love is a Wonderful Thing.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: anthology
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IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Malibu Hot Summer (1981)
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John Logan is a poor little rich boy. He learns to love from three nubile L.A. newcomers that will do anything to be introduced into the sizzling nightlife of the City of Angels. Portraying the Malibu beach life by day, and the L.A. club life by night, Sizzle Beach U.S.A. is a stunning insiders critique on the sex and drug lifestyle of the West Coast swinger scene in the early 80s.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 850
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, witty, realistic, semi serious, sexy, offbeat, sexual, sex comedy, hot
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Plot Summary:
Two sets of two college guys spend a spring break together in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. There they have lots of fun in and out of the sun.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: teen sex comedy, cult classic, sex comedy, erotic, humorous, realistic, not serious, sexual, parody, funny
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Plot Summary:
A high school senior drives cross-country with his best friends to hook up with a babe he met online.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 91000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 181000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
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