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Plot Summary:
Yoo Ji Na is a budding career woman who has absolutely no issues with lying to get what she wants. But when she falls for the innocent and naive Yoon Tae Woon, who is truthful to a fault, their budding romance becomes a liability for Ji Na's cutthroat corporate job. Can these unlikely lovers stay true to themselves and manage to stay together?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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My First Love (2018)
Plot Summary:
Aprak has built a colorful world of four men who are far away from the girls' world since childhood, beside them. One day this world changes in the mysterious way. Because Baris is enter her life. This change brings her to a discovery towards herself and the world of girls. Now she has to make a choice.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 483
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, entertaining, light, romantic, captivating
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Love Around (2013)
Plot Summary:
After a chance meeting at a ballpark, the kind son of a former gangster tries to help an outgoing radio DJ get over her recent heartbreak.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, dorama, romantic drama
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Please Love the Useless Me (2016)
Plot Summary:
Michio is 30 years old. She keeps looking for a job after her previous employer went bankrupt, but she is unable to find work. Michio still supports her younger boyfriend and her savings are almost gone. Then, Michio meets her ex-boss, Ayumu. She was scared of Ayumu when they worked together. Ayumu now runs a tea room which his grandmother ran. Michio decides to work part-time at Ayumu's tea room. There, she encounters various troubles everyday. Ayumu helps Michio, which allows her to see a different side of him that she never noticed before.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 316
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, dorama, romantic drama
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Love Buffet (2010)
Plot Summary:
Love Buffet is a 2010 Taiwanese drama starring Aaron Yan and Calvin Chen of Fahrenheit and Reen Yu. It was based on the shōjo manga Parfait Tic!, written by Nagamu Nanaji. The drama was co-produced by Gala Television and Comic Productions and directed by Wu Jian Xin. It was first broadcast in Taiwan on free-to-air Formosa TV from 19 December 2010 to 13 March 2011, on Sundays at 22:00 to 23:30 and cable TV Gala Television Variety Show/CH 28 on 25 December 2010 to 19 March 2011, every Saturday at 22:00 to 23:30. This show was also broadcast in Singapore and Malaysia.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, dorama
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Vacation of Love (2021)
Plot Summary:
Around the age of 30, celebrity agent Xu Keyi fights her way in the entertainment industry and gained solid reputation. The day before new year, she brought her artist Gao Junyu to a vacation resort to perform and thinking that her 10-year relationship would reap in a happy ending but sadly it didn't. When she drinks down sorrow at the seaside, Hou Hao, who has been watching and worrying her breaks into her life accidentally. It seems that only Hou Hao, who has a the slow-lived lifestyle, can bring her a new beginning in this unexpected vacation that thwarted her career and love.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Romance
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Her Lovely Heels (2014)
Plot Summary:
The story about secret office love affair between Shin Ji Hoo, a 24 year-old woman who’s afraid of love and Oh Tae Soo, a 28 year-old man who has lots of dating experience and is rather cynical about love, but slowly transforms as he meets Ji Hoo.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Hi My Sweetheart (2009)
Plot Summary:
Hi My Sweetheart is a 2009 Taiwanese Drama starring Show Luo, Rainie Yang and Lee Wei. It was produced by Comic Ritz International Production and Chai Zhi Ping as producer and directed by Lin He Long. It started filming on 26 July 2009 and wrapped in 23 November 2009. It was filmed on location in Kaohsiung, Taiwan and Hangzhou, China. The series was first broadcast in Taiwan on free-to-air Chinese Television System from 1 November 2009 to 31 January 2010, every Sunday at 22:00 to 23:30 and cable TV Gala Television Variety Show/CH 28 on 8 November 2009 to 7 February 2010, every Sunday at 20:00 to 21:30. The 14 episode series follows the romance between Xue Hai and Chen Bao Zhu, beginning from their college days until their late 20's. Hi My Sweetheart was nominated in 2010 in five categories at the 45th Golden Bell Awards,including Best Television Series and Best Leading Actor in a Television Series for Show Luo. Rainie Yang who portrayed Chen Bao Zhu in the drama, won Best Leading Actress in a Television Series at the award ceremony in October.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 240
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, captivating, entertaining
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Sweet Dreams (2018)
Plot Summary:
A caring but apprehensive woman is transported into her crush's dreams. She feels she can finally express her love, but some dreams end in a rude awakening.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 350
Genere: Fantasy, Romance
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Waiting for Love (2013)
Plot Summary:
A drama about love and relationships, centers on a college student Joo Yeon Ae (BoA) who has both good looks and personality, but she′s actually a novice in relationships, and always fails at getting her man. Meanwhile, Cha Ki Dae (Choi Daniel) is a skilled dating coach who expert at reading women′s minds. He comes to coach Yeon Ae over SNS, but despite the experience he boasts about, however, he also always fails at getting his own girl. The drama also depicts what happens when four youths with completely different views toward love start dating each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Love Actually (2017)
Plot Summary:
It’s a story about the eras of the 70s, 80s and 90s; about the rapid development of the great era of love and how to deal with the success and failure of life, self-growth and self-transformation. It’s a drama genre of modern day city life; about singles’ rigid pursuit of love; about the lives of a group of ordinary people. It avoids dramatic negative energy. Instead, it’ll bring forth positive energy to encourage men and women to move positively forward in life and love.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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When a Man Falls in Love (2013)
Plot Summary:
Han Tae-Sang is a former gangster, but now a successful business man. He has a cold-blooded decisiveness and incredible drive. This helped him to attain his current status, as he started with nothing. He then meets a younger woman named Seo Mi-Do. Her personality reminds him of himself when he was that age. Han Tae-Sang begins to feel love for the first time in his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, novela
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Lovers of Haeundae (2012)
Plot Summary:
Haeundae Lovers is a 2012 South Korean television series about a prosecutor who goes undercover to infiltrate a crime family in Haeundae, Busan, then gets into an accident and loses his memory. Thinking he's a gangster, he falls in love with the mob boss's daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Why Why Love (2007)
Plot Summary:
Tong Jia Di needs a life besides work, paying down family debt, and more work. So her best friend Jiang Xiao Nan sneaks in a "Love" coupon in Jia Di's raffle box praying that the lucky guy who draws it will sweep Jia Di off her feet. As it so happens, Huo Yan, the compassionate manager Jia Di has secret crush on, is the lucky guy. But, tho' the prince can exchange the coupon for Cinderella's love, it doesn't mean he will, especially when his devilish younger brother is determined to exchange his "Master/Angel" coupon for her servitude.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 198
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Love, Inevitably (2019)
Plot Summary:
A Flamenco dancer from Seville and a businessman from Rome can't stop having visions of each other after they accidentally bump into each other at the Prague Airport.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Love Contractually (2017)
Plot Summary:
A strict female CEO of an insurance company has already given up on love and believes that only the love towards a child is true and eternal. Thus, she decides to have her own child so she "borrows" sperm from a delivery man whom she hired, but things start to get out of hand when the two starts to fall in love with each other.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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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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Something About Love (2021)
Plot Summary:
Opposites Isa and Ruben are totally in love and over the moon with each other. Until Mr. Perfect steps into Isa's life.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Discovery of Love (2014)
Plot Summary:
Han Yeo-reum is a furniture designer who owns a workshop space that she shares with other designers. For the past three years, she's been dating Nam Ha-jin, a plastic surgeon with a sweet and gentle personality. But Yeo-reum's peaceful existence is shaken when her ex-boyfriend Kang Tae-ha suddenly reappears in her life. The CEO of an interior design company, Tae-ha is a smart, confident man with a strong competitive edge who always gets what he wants. Meanwhile, Ha-jin's childhood friend Ahn Ah-rim has secretly been carrying a torch for him all these years. As she begins working with Tae-ha, Yeo-reum is forced to reevaluate her romantic history, which sets her off on a search for true love.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 331
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Love Fiction (2012)
Plot Summary:
A writer looking for inspiration finds a perfect muse in a girl. After much work, he makes her his girlfriend. But then he starts to get tired of her.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 451
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Can Love Become Money? (2012)
Plot Summary:
A romantic drama about what happens when young and successful CEO Ma In Tak offers to pass on a 10 billion won inheritance to his future wife. Young CEO, Ma In Tak (Yun Jung Hoon) considers money as the most important thing in his life. He calculates everything in terms of money, and his success has also earned him the reputation of being a tyrant. The CEO then finds himself entangled in a strange conspiracy due to his obsession with riches, but along the way, will he be able to admit that something else has become more important than money?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Love Guide for Dumpees (2015)
Plot Summary:
About a man and a woman who make a 'one-night' coupon book after they both get dumped.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, captivating, entertaining
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Singielka (2015)
Plot Summary:
The story of Ela, who decides to find love in 274 days.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, soap opera
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Warm and Cozy (2015)
Plot Summary:
A workaholic with a rage problem and a laid-back guy from a wealthy family meet at a restaurant named "Warm and Cozy" on the beautiful island of Jeju.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 528
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Wonderful Life (2005)
Plot Summary:
Han Seung Wan and Jung Se Jin bumps into each other at the airport and accidentally take each other's passports. They meet again and Seung Wan and Se Jin end up spending the day together. Both having to deal with love complications, they end up drunk and having a one night stand. Back in Korea, Se Jin discovers she is pregnant and leaves to have the baby alone. A year later, Se Jin's clueless sister ends up spilling the secret to Seung-Wan at his engagement party, showing up with his baby daughter. Seung-wan and Se Jin are then forced to marry by their respective families. Complicated love takes place between Do Hyun, Se Jin, Chae Young and Seung-Wan. The rest of the story revolves around the family's journey in learning to take responsibility, and learning to love each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: funny, romantic, entertaining, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, dorama, novela
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Heart to Heart (2015)
Plot Summary:
Cha Hong Do suffers from social phobia and has a problem with severe blushing. She does have a strong sense of curiosity and learns from books and the internet. One day, Cha Hong Do's grandmother dies. Her grandmother was her only contact to the outside world. Cha Hong Do then begins doing housework as a maid, but disguises herself as an elderly woman. Through an incident, she meets a psychiatrist, Ko Yi Suk.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: dorama, funny, light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Lovers of Music (2014)
Plot Summary:
When she's not making ends meet, Choi Choon Hee hones her skills in trot music, an old-fashioned, but heartfelt genre. Her luck turns when she pairs up with Jang Joon Hyun, an arrogant songwriter who excels in pop hits, as well as Jo Geun Woo, a shrewd talent CEO. Choon Hee's star burns hot, but between work and love, can she overcome the haters and trot her way into success?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Daydreamer (2018)
Plot Summary:
Sanem is young girl who hadn't succeeded in landing a permanent job yet, and chooses to work at her father's grocery store in hopes to become a famous writer one day. When her parents give her a choice to either get a proper job or an arranged marriage, Sanem rushes to a job in the advertising agency her sister works in. There her adventure with the two boss, Jan, begins, starting a chain of events that end up with her falling in love with Jan. But could she manage to get out of that hole of troubles she fell into with her heart still intact?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, sentimental, sweet, funny, light, entertaining
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Starting Up Love (2019)
Plot Summary:
A young finance executive inherits her uncle's mountain cabin only to discover that he also left half of it to the ruggedly handsome handyman that had been caring for it.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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My Romantic Some Recipe (2016)
Plot Summary:
A 21-years-old college student who as one-sided love for a customer at a shop and she meets an Idol star.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 11 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Me too, Flower! (2011)
Plot Summary:
A tough female police officer who suffers from depression falls in love with a young multimillionaire whom she initially believed was a parking attendant. Instead of counting her lucky stars, she is taken aback by how rich he is. Officer Cha Bong-sun is a peculiar woman who defies the rigid social hierarchy and rails against it. And Seo Jae-hee, the millionaire boyfriend, is a peculiar man who falls in love with this quirky police officer. They fall passionately in love with each other. A crazy sort of love. A story about people, relationships and love.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, semi serious