Single By Contract (2010) poster
2010 · romance · comedy

Single By Contract

Directed by Marc Rothemund1h 43m2010
ElsewhereIMDb6.52k
  • cosy
  • brisk
  • gentle
  • redemptive
  • tender
  • intimate
Movie DNA

Cosy, kinetic, gentle romance / comedy, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A love connection clicks for Lila when she moves back to Berlin and meets Christopher -- never realizing that she's fallen for a rock star who's signed a contract to remain single for life.

Our read · Single By Contract (2010) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded romance · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want a light German rom-com where a rock star's no-relationship contract meets real feelings.

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Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
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Skip it tonightSkip if predictable rom-com beats or German-language subtitles sound like work.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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