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Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | France |
Duration | 01:28 |
Marianne leaves Abel for Paul, his best friend and the father of her unborn child. Eight years later, Paul dies and Marianne returns to Abel. However, things have changed for the both of them and feelings of jealousy surround their new relationship.
Mark | imdb: 7.6 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | Finland, France, Sweden, Germany |
Duration | 01:40 |
Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable noise.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | France |
Duration | 02:10 |
Pierre, a professional dancer, suffers from a serious heart disease. While he is waiting for a transplant which may (or may not) save his life, he has nothing better to do than look at the people around him, from the balcony of his Paris apartment.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama, crime |
Country | France |
Duration | 02:12 |
Detective Yvonne is the widow of police chief Santi, a local hero in a town on the French Riviera. When she learns he was in fact a crooked cop, she tries to right his wrongs. Crossing paths with Antoine, a victim of Santi, sets off a series of wild events.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | France, Spain, USA, Belgium |
Duration | 01:57 |
Xavier is a 40-year-old father of two who still finds life very complicated. When the mother of his children moves to New York, he can't bear them growing up far away from him and so he decides to move there as well.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | France |
A young woman arrives in Paris where she finds a job as a waitress in bar next on Avenue Montaigne that caters to the surrounding theaters and the wealthy inhabitants of the area. She will meet a pianist, a famous actress and a great art collector, and become acquainted with the "luxurious" world her grandmother has told her about since her childhood.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | France, Belgium |
Rémy and Mélanie are thirty years old and live in the same district in Paris. She multiplies missed appointments on social networks while he struggles to meet. Both victims of this loneliness of the big cities, at the time hyper connected where one thinks however that to meet should be simpler ... Two individuals, two courses. Without knowing it, they take two roads that will lead them in the same direction ... that of a love story?
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | France |
Duration | 01:59 |
Samba migrated to France 10 years ago from Senegal, and has since been plugging away at various lowly jobs. Alice is a senior executive who has recently undergone a burnout. Both struggle to get out of their dead-end lives. Samba's willing to do whatever it takes to get working papers, while Alice tries to get her life back on track until fate draws them together.
Mark | imdb: 5.6 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | France, Spain, Luxembourg |
Duration | 01:38 |
After an injury, Graham suffers from short-term memory loss, which causes him to fall back into the abyss of amnesia every 10 minutes. Those around him both profit and suffer from his condition -- his sex-crazed boss, Sabine, tricks him into regular trysts, while his family tries to come to terms with the situation. But when temp Irene starts working at Graham's company, they fall into an affair that begins to make a mark on his memory.
Mark | imdb: 3.9 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | USA |
Former prom king and college freshman Scott returns home for Thanksgiving break and gets dumped by his long-term girlfriend. With his world turned upside down, Scott strikes an unlikely friendship with former classmate Tori, an ugly duckling who blossomed in her first semester of college, and they embark on an outrageous adventure through their hometown. But when Scott and Tori start falling in love, they realize that a few months away may have changed them more than they realized.
Mark | imdb: 8 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | Hungary |
Duration | 01:24 |
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: The love between man and woman... in an archetypical love story cut from 500 classics from all around the world.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama, sport |
Country | Argentina, Uruguay, Russia, Germany, France |
Duration | 01:40 |
After being expelled for a flagrant foul during a match in Primera C (the fourth division in Argentinian football), Patón Bonasiolle, the captain and midfielder from Talleres de Escalada, realizes his career as a footballer has come to an end. At the age of 35, this means the end of a world he has known since he was a child. Together with Ale - his wife - he looks for a fresh new start.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, France, USA |
Mathias Gold is a down-on-his-luck New Yorker who inherits a Parisian apartment from his estranged father. But when he arrives in France to sell the vast domicile, he's shocked to discover a live-in tenant who is not prepared to budge. His apartment is a viager—an ancient French real estate system with complex rules pertaining to its resale—and the feisty Englishwoman Mathilde Girard, who has lived in the apartment with her daughter Chloé for many years, can by contract collect monthly payments from Mathias until her death.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | India |
Duration | 02:55 |
Ved and Tara meet accidentally meet in Corsica, France and decide to spend the next 7 days together with secretly revealing their true identity or without any promise to meet later, ever. Tara eventually falls in love with Ved and goes to find Ved after 4 years, and helps him to find his true story where he belongs.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | USA, France |
Duration | 01:38 |
When he suddenly finds himself without his long-standing blue-collar job, Larry Crowne enrolls at his local college to start over. There, he becomes part of an eclectic community of students and develops a crush on his teacher.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | India |
Duration | 02:22 |
Hum Tum (Hindi: हम तुम, translation: You and Me, Urdu: ہم تم) is a Bollywood movie, released in India on May 28, 2004, directed by Kunal Kohli and produced by Aditya Chopra and Yash Chopra. The movie stars Saif Ali Khan and Rani Mukerji in the lead roles.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:52 |
A fisheries expert is approached by a consultant to help realize a sheik's vision of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to the desert and embarks on an upstream journey of faith and fish to prove the impossible possible.
Mark | imdb: 5.8 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | Canada |
Duration | 02:29 |
In order to escape her looming post-graduation fate that includes student debt and zero romantic prospects, Blake Conway becomes a sugar baby. As the aspiring journalist and hopeless romantic documents the adventure, she sets out on a quest to figure out if society is right to judge these women and if her own self worth comes with a price.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:06 |
Rose Morgan, who still lives with her mother, is a professor of Romantic Literature who desperately longs for passion in her life. Gregory Larkin, a mathematics professor, has been burned by passionate relationships and longs for a sexless union based on friendship and respect.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | Germany, France |
Duration | 01:41 |
Paolo, an Italian tour bus driver living in Paris, has just summoned up the courage to propose marriage to his German girlfriend Greta. However, a chance encounter with a French woman on a bicycle the very next day turns Paolo's life upside down.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | France |
Duration | 01:41 |
Louise, a widow with two children, almost crushes a stranger with her car. She takes care of him, even if he's not really wounded. It turns out that he has mental disorders and that they can help each other much more than they thought.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | Norway |
Duration | 01:34 |
Some teenagers are ambitiously setting up a famous Jon Fosse-play. They hire a well known actor to be their mentor, unaware that he's going through a life crisis. Their new mentor chooses Vegard, promising footballer and local douchebag, to play the leading role.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | fantastic, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom, Greece, France, Netherlands, USA |
Duration | 01:36 |
In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | Argentina, Brazil |
Ivana Cornejo is just getting used to being single again after her divorce three years ago. After an exasperating call from her ex-husband, she throws her cell phone away. Fortunately, the man who finds it calls her to return it, and to her amusement they have an instant rapport. The man on the other end of the phone is León Godoy, a renowned architect with a charming voice and a charismatic personality. They schedule a date so that he can return the cell phone. When León arrives, Ivana is surprised: he is everything she had imagined, except for one unexpected and startling detail... he’s only 4'5" tall.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | Canada |
Susanna gladly accepts help one day from handsome stranger Nate at her parents’ garden store in small-town Georgia. Sparks between them fly, but when a photo of them gets leaked to the press, Susanna is in for the shock of her life when Nate is called back home by his mother… For his coronation as the King Nathaniel of Cambria!
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama, military |
Country | United Kingdom, Sweden, France |
Duration | 02:21 |
During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter (Gemma Arterton) works on a film celebrating England's resilience as a way to buoy a weary populace's spirits. Her efforts to dramatise the true story of two sisters (Lily Knight and Francesca Knight) who undertook their own maritime mission to rescue wounded soldiers are met with mixed feelings by a dismissive all-male staff.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | France |
Duration | 01:45 |
Alain, a successful Parisian publisher struggling to adapt to the digital revolution, has major doubts about the new manuscript of Léonard, one of his long-time authors - another work of auto-fiction recycling his love affair with a minor celebrity. Selena, Alain’s wife, a famous stage actress, is of the opposite opinion.
Mark | imdb: 8.5 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | Australia |
After breaking up with his girlfriend, Josh comes to the realization that he is homosexual. With the support of his now ex girlfriend Claire, and his best friend and house mate Tom, Josh must help his mother with her battle with depression and the rest of his family embrace his new found lifestyle.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, India |
Duration | 02:20 |
Gautam is an incorrigible flirt, who runs after every girl he sees. Meera is a pretty girl with desi values and attire, who comes to London from Delhi for a fresh start. Veronica is the spoilt bombshell who loves partying and drinking. Though different from each other, these three are perfect friends staying under one roof until friendship becomes confusing, and love becomes complicated.
Mark | imdb: 5.4 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:47 |
Angie lives in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, N.Y. and dreams of a better life than everyone she knows. When she finds that she is pregnant by her boyfriend Vinnie, she decides that she will have the baby, but not Vinnie as a husband. This turns the entire neighborhood upside down and starts her on a journey of self discovery. This journey includes her family, a new lover and her life. Even her best friend Tina has trouble understanding Angie. Written by Tony Fontana