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30 films tagged dating

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  • 2025 · Mystery

    A widowed therapist goes on her first date in years, at a restaurant on the top floor of a tower, and starts getting anonymous messages from someone who has to be in the room. Nearly all of it is that one table, over one evening.

    • Strongly intimate

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Drop

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2025 · Comedy

    Bridget Jones is widowed with two young children, and everyone around her is saying it is time to start dating again. She goes back to work and gets chased by a man in his twenties.

    • Clearly realistic
    • Clearly character-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2023 · Comedy

    Two people whose first date ended badly turn up at the same wedding in Sydney and agree to fake being a couple to get everyone off their backs. Sunny, loud, and light all the way through.

    • Strongly light
    • Clearly simple

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Anyone but You

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2025 · Comedy

    An American student arrives at Oxford for a year of Victorian poetry and falls for the man who splashed her with his car and then turns up teaching her class. Netflix romance, old colleges, big feelings.

    • Clearly realistic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: My Oxford Year

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2025 · Horror

    A man takes his girlfriend to a cabin in the woods for their first anniversary, and by the next morning she is seeing things she cannot explain and he has been called away. It is nearly all one house.

    • Strongly intimate

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Keeper

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2025 · Comedy

    In 2040 nearly everyone finds a partner through an app that promises a match without heartbreak, and a man who thinks love should be unpredictable falls for a woman who trusts it completely. It is a broad comedy with a science fiction city around it.

    Sits near the middle on every axis.

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Love Insurance Corporation

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • The Wrong Paris

    Little-known

    2025 · Comedy

    Short of money for art school in Paris, a Texan signs up for a dating show she is told films there, and lands in Paris, Texas. She sets out to get eliminated fast, which goes about as well as you would expect.

    • Clearly light
    • Clearly simple

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Wrong Paris

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • Swiped

    Little-known

    2025 · Drama

    A young graduate talks her way into a tech startup, suggests the name Tinder for its dating app, and learns what the industry thinks of women. It is a founder story, told fast.

    • Strongly realistic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Swiped

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • The Threesome

    Little-known

    2025 · Comedy

    A sound engineer in love with a friend who does not do feelings ends up in bed with her and a woman he met that evening. What follows is the three of them working out what it meant.

    • Strongly realistic
    • Clearly intimate
    • Clearly character-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Threesome

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • Kinda Pregnant

    Little-known

    2025 · Comedy

    A forty-year-old teacher, worn out by watching everyone around her get pregnant, buys a fake pregnancy belly and finds she likes the way strangers treat her when she wears it. It is broad and quick, and the lie needs another lie every day.

    • Clearly light
    • Clearly intimate
    • Clearly simple

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Kinda Pregnant

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • Oh, Hi!

    Little-known

    2025 · Comedy

    Four months into dating, a couple go away for a weekend in the country, and after he says he is not looking for anything serious she leaves him cuffed to the bed. Two people arguing in one farmhouse.

    • Strongly intimate
    • Clearly character-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Oh, Hi!

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2011 · Comedy

    A woman whose bakery and love life have both fallen apart is made maid of honour, and ends up competing with a richer, smoother bridesmaid. Broad jokes and long scenes that look improvised.

    • Clearly simple
    • Clearly realistic
    • Clearly intimate

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Bridesmaids

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • Wish You Were Here

    Little-known

    2025 · Romance

    A woman looking for a spark in her life spends one whirlwind night with a man she has just met, then learns he is dying and decides to spend what time he has left with him. A romantic drama that takes its time.

    • Strongly realistic
    • Strongly intimate
    • Clearly simple

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Wish You Were Here

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • Chasing Summer

    Little-known

    2026 · Comedy

    After losing her boyfriend and her job in the same stretch, a woman goes back to her Texas hometown and runs into everyone she used to know. Warm and chatty, with old friends and old flames.

    • Strongly realistic
    • Clearly character-driven
    • Clearly intimate

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Chasing Summer

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2020 · Comedy

    A rich young woman in a Regency village amuses herself arranging matches for everyone around her, whether or not they want the help. Bright and mannered, and mostly about who is talking to whom.

    • Clearly light
    • Clearly intimate

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Emma

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2025 · Romance

    A New York matchmaker who treats dating as a numbers game ends up choosing between a rich client and the broke ex she never got over. Mostly conversation, about money as much as love.

    • Strongly realistic
    • Clearly character-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Materialists

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2010 · Comedy

    A slacker bass player in Toronto falls for a girl on rollerblades and learns he has to fight her seven evil exes to date her. Video game rules, comic book panels, and it never slows down.

    • Strongly fast
    • Strongly fantastic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2004 · Comedy

    Two old friends spend a week driving round California wine country before one of them gets married, one talking about wine and the other chasing women. Mostly conversation, and it wanders.

    • Strongly realistic
    • Strongly character-driven
    • Strongly intimate

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Sideways

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2005 · Comedy

    A shy man who works in an electronics shop lets slip to his workmates that he has never slept with anyone, and they take it on as a project. Long, loose, and a lot of men talking rubbish.

    • Strongly simple
    • Clearly light
    • Clearly intimate

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The 40-Year-Old Virgin

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2017 · Comedy

    A Pakistani-American stand-up comic is seeing a white grad student while his parents line up matches for him, and then she falls seriously ill. A lot of it is him in a hospital waiting room with her parents, who have only just met him.

    • Strongly realistic
    • Strongly character-driven
    • Clearly intimate

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Big Sick

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2015 · Science fiction

    In a world where single people are sent to a hotel and given forty-five days to pair off or be turned into an animal of their choosing, a newly dumped man checks in. Everybody speaks flatly, on purpose, and the rules are followed to the letter.

    • Clearly fantastic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Lobster

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2021 · Comedy

    A woman in Oslo coming up on thirty keeps changing what she wants to be and who she wants to be with, told in twelve chapters. Funny and sad in the same scene, moving at the speed of a conversation.

    • Strongly character-driven
    • Strongly intimate
    • Clearly realistic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Worst Person in the World

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 1999 · Horror

    A widower's friend helps him hold a fake film audition to find a new wife, and he picks a quiet former dancer. It plays as a gentle romance for a long time.

    • Strongly heavy
    • Clearly intimate

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Audition

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • Enough Said

    Little-known

    2013 · Comedy

    A divorced masseuse starts seeing a man she likes and befriends a woman who turns out to be his ex-wife. Small, adult, and mostly conversation.

    • Strongly realistic
    • Strongly character-driven
    • Strongly intimate

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Enough Said

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2020 · Drama

    A woman drives through a snowstorm with her new boyfriend to meet his parents on their farm, planning to end it. The rules slip, and it is mostly conversation in a car.

    • Strongly complicated
    • Strongly heavy
    • Strongly intimate

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: I'm Thinking of Ending Things

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2009 · Comedy

    A man who writes greeting cards for a living falls hard for the new girl at the office, and the film jumps around their year and a half out of order. Chatty, quick, and told from his side.

    • Clearly intimate

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: (500) Days of Summer

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • Obvious Child

    Little-known

    2014 · Comedy

    A stand-up in Brooklyn is dumped, loses her job, and finds out she is pregnant after a one-night stand. Short, frank and funny about it.

    • Strongly realistic
    • Strongly character-driven
    • Strongly intimate

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Obvious Child

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2013 · Romance

    A young man learns from his father that the men in the family can travel back to moments in their own lives, and starts by using it to get a girlfriend. Gentle and mostly about family, with the time travel kept small.

    • Clearly intimate

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: About Time

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2009 · Drama

    A man who flies around America firing people for a living is told the job is moving online. Slick, quick, and colder than it first looks.

    • Strongly realistic
    • Strongly character-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Up in the Air

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 1989 · Comedy

    Two people who dislike each other on a drive out of Chicago keep meeting over twelve years, arguing about whether men and women can be friends. Almost entirely conversation.

    • Strongly realistic
    • Strongly character-driven
    • Clearly intimate

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: When Harry Met Sally

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.