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Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:46 |
Characters | Friends |
Plot | Friendship |
Place | New York |
Time | New Year |
Style | Romantic, Light, To cry, Cute, Soulful |
During shopping for Christmas, Frank and Molly run into each other. This fleeting short moment will start to change their lives, when they recognize each other months later in the train home and have a good time together. Although both are married and Frank has two little kids, they meet more and more often, their friendship becoming the most precious thing in their lives.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:49 |
Characters | Friends, Celebrities |
Plot | Love, Relationship, Fate |
Place | USA, New York |
Style | Romantic, To cry, Cute, Touching |
Reunited after 15 years, famous chef Sasha and hometown musician Marcus feel the old sparks of attraction but struggle to adapt to each other's worlds.
Mark | imdb: 7.9 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | France, Belgium |
Duration | 01:36 |
Characters | Dogs, Actors, Stars |
Plot | Love, Fate |
Place | USA |
Style | Light, To cry, Cute, Oscars, Smart |
Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break.
Mark | imdb: 5.3 |
Genre | drama |
Country | Finland |
Duration | 01:48 |
Characters | Gay, Womanizers |
Plot | Love, Passion, Friendship, Love triangle, Swimming |
Place | USA, Night Clubs, Los Angeles |
Time | Summer |
Style | Romantic, Light, To cry, Fascinating, Touching |
Summer begins, Aku graduates high school and faces a great emptiness. As his girlfriend, parents and friends all leave the city, it looks to be the dullest summer ever. Everything changes at Midsummer when Aku meets Juli, a beautiful, strange and wild girl. Juli asks Aku for a ride to eastern Finland. Aku agrees – without any idea what he's getting himself into.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:26 |
Characters | Family, Old man, Interns |
Plot | Friendship, Loneliness, Fate |
Place | Hotels, USA, Office, New York |
Style | Light, To cry, Cute, Inspirational, Soulful |
70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:47 |
Characters | Teachers, Friends, Actors |
Plot | Love, Friendship, Loneliness, Seduction, Fate |
Place | Village, Aircraft, USSR, USA, Small cities |
Style | Romantic, Light, Cute, Touching |
On a flight from Los Angeles to New York, Oliver and Emily make a connection, only to decide that they are poorly suited to be together. Over the next seven years, however, they are reunited time and time again, they go from being acquaintances to close friends to ... lovers?
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama, musical, music |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:40 |
Characters | Artists |
Plot | Dancing, Friendship, Love triangle, Holidays |
Place | Germany, Hotels, USA, Night Clubs |
Time | New Year |
Style | Romantic, To cry, Touching |
Lovely Linda Mason has crooner Jim Hardy head over heels, but suave stepper Ted Hanover wants her for his new dance partner after femme fatale Lila Dixon gives him the brush. Jim's supper club—Holiday Inn—is the setting for the chase by Hanover and manager Danny Reed. The music's the thing.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:51 |
Characters | Orphans, Artists |
Plot | Art, Inheritance, Seduction, Fate |
Place | New York |
Time | 19th century |
Style | Romantic, Light, By books, Atmospheric, Fascinating |
Loosely based on the Charles Dickens' classic novel, "Great Expectations" is a sensual tale of a young man's unforgettable passage into manhood, and the three individuals who will undeniably change his life forever. Through the surprising interactions of these vivid characters, "Great Expectations" takes a unique and contemporary look at life's great coincidences.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:42 |
Characters | Family |
Plot | Passion, Wedding, Love triangle |
Place | New York |
Style | Romantic, Light, To cry, Cute, Smart |
No sooner does Italian-American widow Loretta accept a marriage proposal from her doltish boyfriend, Johnny, than she finds herself falling for his younger brother, Ronny. She tries to resist, but Ronny lost his hand in an accident he blames on his brother, and has no scruples about aggressively pursuing her while Johnny is out of the country. As Loretta falls deeper in love, she comes to learn that she's not the only one in her family with a secret romance.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | fantasy, melodrama, drama, detective |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:58 |
Characters | Horses, Angels, Thieves |
Plot | Love, Adventure, Superpowers, Supernatural, True love |
Place | New York |
Style | Romantic, Light, To cry, Cute, Fascinating |
A burglar falls for an heiress as she dies in his arms. When he learns that he has the gift of reincarnation, he sets out to save her.
Mark | imdb: 7.8 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | India, France, Germany, USA, Canada |
Duration | 01:44 |
Characters | Accountant, Housewives |
Plot | Love, Depression, Love with age difference, Seduction |
Place | India |
Style | Romantic, Light, To cry, Cute, Vital signs |
A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system (Mumbai's Dabbawallahs) connects a young housewife to a stranger in the dusk of his life. They build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. Gradually, this fantasy threatens to overwhelm their reality.
Mark | imdb: 5.8 |
Genre | drama, music |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:26 |
Characters | Musicians, Archaeologists |
Place | USA, New York |
Style | Romantic, Exciting, To cry, Gloomy, Touching |
Estranged from her family, Franny returns home when an accident leaves her brother comatose. Retracing his life as an aspiring musician, she tracks down his favorite musician, James Forester. Against the backdrop of Brooklyn’s music scene, Franny and James develop an unexpected relationship and face the realities of their lives.
Mark | imdb: 4.7 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | USA |
Plot | Love triangle |
Place | USA, New York |
Style | Romantic, Light, To cry |
Jennifer Carpenter, Kristen Connolly and Alexander Poe star in a comedy about three New Yorkers struggling to uncover the truth behind their romantic entanglements. Disheartened by his latest relationship catastrophe, Graham (Poe) attempts to rekindle the spark with his ex-girlfriend, Laura (Connolly). In the attempt to win her back Graham discovers he has a unique problem: Laura and another one his ex-girlfriends (Carpenter) are dating the same guy.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | fantasy, melodrama, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:43 |
Plot | Time travel, Travel, Obsession, Supernatural, Shipwreck |
Place | College, Hotels |
Style | Romantic, Light, To cry, Cute, Atmospheric |
Young writer Richard Collier is met on the opening night of his first play by an old lady who begs him to "Come back to me". Mystified, he tries to find out about her, and learns that she is a famous stage actress from the early 1900s. Becoming more and more obsessed with her, by self-hypnosis he manages to travel back in time—where he meets her.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | drama, music |
Country | France, USA |
Duration | 01:44 |
Characters | Demons, Friends, Artists |
Plot | Music, Death, Love triangle, True love, Curses |
Place | Night Clubs, New York |
Style | Romantic, To cry, Fascinating, Touching, Serious |
The Mambo Kings tells the story of César and Nestor Castillo, brothers and aspiring musicians who flee from Cuba to America in search of the American Dream.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:50 |
Characters | Gangsters, Jews, Neighbors |
Plot | Love, Relationship, Obsession, Love triangle |
Place | Party, Beach, USA, Night Clubs, New York |
Time | New Year |
Style | Exciting, Light, Cute, Atmospheric |
The story of a young man who arrives in Hollywood during the 1930s hoping to work in the film industry, falls in love, and finds himself swept up in the vibrant café society that defined the spirit of the age.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | drama, short |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:16 |
Characters | Gay, Babysitting, Writers, Girlfriends, Housewives |
Plot | Money, Friendship, Loneliness |
Place | Metro, Hospitals, Hotels, USA, New York |
Style | To cry, Smart, Tense, Touching |
Desperate to be rid of her toddler, a dissatisfied Beverly Hills housewife hires a stranger to babysit and ends up getting much more than she bargained for.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:34 |
Characters | Nurses |
Plot | Love, Friendship, Death, Love triangle, True love |
Place | Islands, Hospitals, Small cities |
Style | Romantic, To cry, Cute, Touching, Serious |
Travis and Gabby first meet as neighbors in a small coastal town and wind up in a relationship that is tested by life's most defining events.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:49 |
Characters | Pregnant, Losers |
Plot | Love |
Place | Night Clubs, New York |
Style | Romantic, Light, To cry, Cute, Touching |
Alex Whitman (Matthew Perry) is a designer from New York City who is sent to Las Vegas to supervise the construction of a nightclub that his firm has been hired to build. Alex is a straight-laced WASP-ish type who, while enjoying a night on the town, meets Isabel Fuentes (Salma Hayek), a free-spirited Mexican-American photographer. Alex and Isabel are overtaken by lust at first sight and end up sp
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:39 |
Characters | Lawyers, Artists |
Plot | Love triangle |
Place | USA, New York |
Time | Honeymoon |
Style | Romantic, To cry, By books, Touching, Serious |
Daisy Kenyon is a Manhattan commercial artist having an affair with an arrogant and overbearing but successful lawyer named Dan O'Mara. O'Mara is married and has children. Daisy meets a single man, a war veteran named Peter Lapham, and after a brief and hesitant courtship decides to marry him, although she is still in love with Dan.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:49 |
Characters | Friends |
Plot | Love, Life, Friendship, Family life |
Place | USA |
Style | Light, To cry, Cute, Soulful, Touching |
Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheating on her. In order to clear her head, Finn visits her grandmother, Hy, and great aunt, Glady Joe Cleary, in Grasse, Calif. There, Finn learns that Hy and Glady Joe are members of a group of passionate quilters, and over the course of her visit she is regaled with tales of love and life by women who have collected rich experiences and much wisdom.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | France, Japan, USA |
Duration | 01:33 |
Characters | Friends |
Plot | Passion, Friendship, Loneliness |
Place | France, New York |
Style | Romantic, Light, To cry, Cute, Smart |
Nora Wilder (Parker Posey), a single, career woman works at a Manhattan boutique hotel where her excellent skills in guest relations lack in the romantic department. If it is not her loving and dominant mother (Gena Rowlands) attempting to set her up that consistently fail, she has her friend’s (Drea de Matteo) disastrous blind dates to rely on as a backup for further dismay. She's surrounded by friends who are all happily engaged or romantically involved and somehow, love escapes Nora -- until she meets an unusual Frenchman (Melvil Poupaud) who helps her discover life beyond her self-imposed boundaries.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:30 |
Characters | Girlfriends, Parents |
Plot | Love, Depression, Customs |
Place | USA |
Style | Romantic, To cry, Cute, Soulful, Touching |
A British college student falls for an American student, only to be separated from him when she's banned from the U.S. after overstaying her visa.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama, crime |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:24 |
Characters | Teens, CIA, Hired assassins, Killers, Friends |
Plot | Friendship, Loneliness, Death, Fate, Moving |
Place | USA |
Style | Interesting, Romantic, Light, Cute, Smart |
When new kid in town Ed Wallis is given an assignment to interview an older person, he turns to his mysterious neighbor, Ashby Holt for help. That new connection leads to unexpected journeys for both of them, as Ashby – who turns out to be a retired CIA assassin – deals with a terminal prognosis, and Ed deals with adjusting to life with his newly single mom and developing relationship with a brainy classmate, Eloise.
Mark | imdb: 8.1 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | India |
Duration | 02:31 |
Characters | Autistic, Disabled people |
Plot | Love, Wedding, Loneliness, Love triangle, True love |
Place | India, Asia |
Style | Romantic, Light, To cry, Cute, Touching |
He is cute. He's shrewd. The girls love him. The cops hate him. He can't speak but is always talked about. His naughty antics will make you scream, but he will never listen. Cos he can't! Next summer ride a rollercoaster of emotions with Barfii - the Chalu Chaplin!
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | USA, Spain |
Duration | 02:28 |
Characters | Dogs, Writers, Terminally ill, Orphans, Actors |
Plot | Love, Dancing, Relationship, Supernatural, Weapon |
Place | College, USA, New York |
Style | Romantic, Psychological problems, Soulful, Fascinating, Tense |
As a young New York couple goes from college romance to marriage and the birth of their first child, the unexpected twists of their journey create reverberations that echo over continents and through lifetimes.
Mark | imdb: 5.1 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | USA |
Characters | Family |
Plot | Obsession, Love triangle, Fidelity |
Place | Texas, USA, New York |
Style | Romantic, To cry, Fancy, Touching |
After her husband, Carl, suddenly leaves, Joline travels from New York to Texas to track him down. Although Joline tries to remain upbeat, she is discouraged when she discovers that Carl already has a new girlfriend, the lovely Carmen. Familiarizing herself with Carl's new home and friends, Joline gets company in the form of her brother, Jay. Will Joline win Carl back, or are there other romantic possibilities on her horizon?
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:27 |
Characters | Friends, Wizards |
Plot | Love, Adventure, Relationship, Friendship, True love |
Place | USA, New York |
Time | New Year, Winter |
Style | To cry, Cute, Deep Meaning, Smart, Touching |
Although strangers Sara and Jonathan are both already in relationships, they realize they have genuine chemistry after a chance encounter – but part company soon after. Years later, they each yearn to reunite, despite being destined for the altar. But to give true love a chance, they have to find one another again.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | USA |
Characters | Doctors, Friends, Parents |
Plot | Love, Relationship |
Place | Hospitals, USA, New York |
Style | Romantic, Light, To cry, Cute, Touching |
When Elliot, a brash 23-year-old living carefree in New York City, meets the sensible Mia and receives a damning diagnosis all in the same week, his world is turned completely upside down. But as their love blossoms amidst the chaos of his treatment, they discover that Elliot's illness is not the real test of their relationship – it's everything else.