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Plot Summary:
A normal married couple trying to be criminals; all for the sake of their one wish to have a family. As they face the all too familiar struggle for many couples - trying to fall pregnant - the pair embark on the IVF process, but the twists and turns of the stolen £50K funds (in the form of Bitcoin) means their everyday life is anything but ordinary. .
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 567
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 23 min
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Two Thousand Acres of Sky (2001)
Plot Summary:
Two Thousand Acres of Sky was a TV drama which aired on BBC Television from 2001 to 2003. It is also syndicated in the United States on PBS. It was created and written by Timothy Prager. The Executive Producer was Adrian Bate. The show takes place on the fictional island of Ronansay off the coast of Skye. The actual filming location was the sea-side village of Port Logan. In 2008, the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation created a remake of the series called Himmelblå taking place on the island of Ylvingen, which is the island's actual name, in the county of Nordland in northern Norway. The show has been a formidable success in Norway with 1.2 million viewers at the start of the second season, 57.2% of the total amount of viewers in Norway. The first season of Himmelblå was aired by the Swedish public broadcaster SVT and by the Icelandic public broadcaster RUV during the autumn 2009.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
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Plot Summary:
Three people experience tragedies they feel they will never overcome. They attempt to find hope and love again in the future, but worry that the past always hold them back.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 648
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
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The Flatshare (2022)
Plot Summary:
Tiffany and Leon are two cash-strapped twenty somethings who share a bed, but have never met. The question is, can you fall in love with someone you've never set eyes on?.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: cute
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Plot Summary:
Jonathan's life revolves around his nine year-old son Spencer, and he's always deferred the big and small decisions to his partner Claire. So when Claire asks him to leave, Jonathan realises he has no home, no friends and no ambition. Except one: to try to preserve his son's happiness in the face of his parents' break-up.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 693
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 28 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 44 min
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Plot Summary:
Four of Shakespeare's plays are dramatically relocated to the modern day.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 360 min
Plot tags: humorous, stylized, semi serious, funny, anthology, realistic, modern day adaptation, weird
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Plot Summary:
All Nikki and Jason want is a baby—the one thing they can’t have. So they decide to adopt. With their dysfunctional friends, screwball families, and chaotic lives, will the adoption panel agree that they’re ready to be parents?.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: realistic, light, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, sitcom
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Between The Sheets (2003)
Plot Summary:
This dramedy depicts the romantic and sexual challenges of several different couples who are all linked in some way.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 295 min
Plot tags: period drama
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Plot Summary:
Adult drama that delves inside the porn industry from the perspective of poster girl Jolene Dollar, who juggles her on-set persona with motherhood and home life.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 198 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, humorous, captivating, entertaining, erotic
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Plot Summary:
In her filthy cell in Newgate prison Moll Flanders, dubbed 'the wickedest woman in England' tells her story. Born in the gaol, after her mother is transported Moll is raised by the kindly mayor of Colchester and his wife, whose two sons lust after her. She enjoys sex with handsome Rowland, who teaches her that money talks, but, realizing he only wants her as a mistress, she marries his duller brother Robin, who conveniently dies after five years, leaving her wealthy. She goes to London, briefly meeting highwayman Jemmy Seagrove, and marries parvenu draper Daniel Dawkins, but he has huge debts and must flee to France, leaving Moll alone and poor. Moll meets handsome young American sea captain Lemuel Golightly, who marries her and takes her to Virginia and a good life style, along with his mother. They have two children and are blissfully happy until Moll discovers her mother-in-law is also her birth mother. She has married her own brother. She returns to England and poses as wealthy.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 195 min
Plot tags: costume drama, touching, historical drama, historical romance, sexy, serious, realistic, period drama, baroque
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William and Mary (2003)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 930
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: witty, clever, sincere, cynical, humorous, funny, sitcom, crime drama, hilarious, medical drama
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As If (2001)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 906
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: light, entertaining, melancholic, sentimental, sincere, feel good, humorous
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Gavin & Stacey (2007)
Plot Summary:
Gavin is an ordinary boy from Billericay, Essex. Stacey is an ordinary girl from Barry Island, South Wales. They’ve spoken on the phone every day at work for months but they’ve never actually met… until now.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 29 min
Plot tags: sitcom, sentimental, feel good, semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, captivating, dark comedy, clever
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration:
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IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
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IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
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Plot Summary:
Bittersweet comedy about a 61-year-old former model trying to cope with life in London.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
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Plot Summary:
Comedy series examining the life of a woman who dates both men and women.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 40 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: sincere, clever, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 513
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
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Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Plot Summary:
Bittersweet comedy drama about the eternal search for the perfect partner.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 565
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, captivating, sincere, feel good, semi serious, sitcom
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IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 530
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
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Plot Summary:
Inexperienced Otis channels his sex therapist mom when he teams up with rebellious Maeve to set up an underground sex therapy clinic at school.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 339000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 1755 min
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Emma Woodhouse seems to be perfectly content, a loving father whom she cares for, friends, and a home. But Emma has a terrible habit - matchmaking. She cannot resist finding suitors for her friends, most of all Harriet Smith. Emma is desperate for Harriet to find happiness, but every suitor she finds for her friend ends up attracted to Emma herself. But is Emma so focused on Harriet's happiness that she is not considering her own happiness in love?.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 240 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
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Plot Summary:
Set in 1996 in Lincolnshire, the show tells the tragic and humorous story of a very troubled young girl Rae, who has just left a psychiatric hospital, where she has spent four months after attempting suicide, begins to reconnect with her best friend Chloe and her group, who are unaware of Rae's mental health and body image problems, believing she was in France for the past four months.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, sentimental, emotional, semi serious, dark comedy, funny, controversial, sitcom, light hearted