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Plot Summary:
A Czech journalist joins a Prague radio station what broadcasts Nazi propaganda in order to protect his Jewish wife. However, as the Nazi rule over Czechoslovakia calls for more and more collaboration, his relationship with his wife spirals downward.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 896
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic, Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: realistic, atmospheric, serious, stylized
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Paradjanov: Lover of Beauty (2013)
Plot Summary:
A film director Sergey Paradjanov creates brilliant films. His nonconformist behavior conflicts with Soviet System. He is committed to prison for being eccentric.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 314
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Ukraine, France, Georgia, Armenia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, stylized
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The Island (2011)
Plot Summary:
In Paris, Sophie and Daneel make a solid couple. Nothing, it seems, can separate them - until the day when Sophie tells her partner she has organised a surprise trip to Bulgaria. Daneel refuses to go, but Sophie insists and soon discovers just why her soul mate was so reluctant to set foot in the country.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 814
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Bulgaria, Sweden
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, serious, realistic
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Cherry Blossoms (2008)
Plot Summary:
After finding out that her husband, Rudi, has a fatal illness, Trudi Angermeier arranges a trip to Berlin so they can see their children. Of course, the kids don't know the real reason they're visiting -- and the catch is, neither does Rudi.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, serious, stylized, realistic, funny, existential, gloomy, crying, extraordinary
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A Gentle Woman (1969)
Plot Summary:
When his young wife commits suicide, leaving no explanation for her act, an introspective pawnbroker looks back on their life together and tries to understand why she had to kill herself.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: spiritual, anthology, art house, powerful, psychological, atmospheric, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic
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Prague Duet (1998)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Lauren is staying in Prague for a conference and falls in love with Czech writer Jiri Kolmar.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 393
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Czech Republic, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, sincere, serious, realistic, disturbing, sexual, sexy
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In Real Life (2008)
Plot Summary:
In his new film a young director puts his girlfriend through a love test. By doing so he risks his real life relationship with her.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, captivating, emotional, clever, offbeat, realistic, semi serious
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Yvonne's Perfume (1994)
Plot Summary:
It is the summer of 1958 in wealthy Lake Geneva, where an enigmatic young Frenchman begins an affair with a beautiful starlet under the watchful eye of her flamboyant elderly mentor. But in a season full of secrets, is truth the most elusive passion of all?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sexy, romantic drama, sentimental, atmospheric, serious, emotional, realistic, sexual
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Angst (2003)
Plot Summary:
Oskar Roehler's drama Der Alte Affe Angst (Angst) is about the dissolution of a couple. Robert (Andre Hennicke) and Marie (Marie Baumer) have little in common other than their sex life. Since Robert is going through a bout with impotency, they are having a very rocky time. Robert learns that his father, whom he is estranged from, has died. This disturbs Robert so much that he visits a prostitute, and is able to engage in sex with her. Marie discovers the infidelity, and the prostitute has a surprise of her own. Angst was screened at the 2003 Berlin Film Festival.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 502
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, sexual, sexy
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A Married Woman (1964)
Plot Summary:
A superficial woman has conflict between choosing her abusive husband and her vain lover.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: art house, black and white, sensual, psychological, atmospheric, serious, captivating, realistic, contemplative, stylized
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Arch of Triumph (1984)
Plot Summary:
Arch of Triumph is a 1985 British made-for-television film based on the novel Arch of Triumph by Erich Maria Remarque, which was previously adapted in 1948 for a film of the same name with Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer. Dr. Ravic (Anthony Hopkins) is an Austrian doctor who helps Jews escape from the Nazis. In 1939, he meets Joan Madou (Lesley-Anne Down), a woman he saves from suicide, and their relationship flourishes until he is arrested as a refugee without documentation and realizes he has some unfinished business with the Nazis. After a prolonged separation, without explanation, the two are finally reunited and struggle to put their relationship back on the right course as mayhem breaks out all around them.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 610
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: noir, sincere, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy, eighties
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Paper Soldier (2008)
Plot Summary:
In 1961, a Soviet medical officer is conflicted about his position overseeing the health of future cosmonauts.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 934
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Russia, Netherlands
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, serious, captivating, atmospheric, realistic, art house, contemplative, talky
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The Last Metro (1980)
Plot Summary:
In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: sincere, art house, thought provoking, manga, anthology, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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The Last Tycoon (1976)
Plot Summary:
F.Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: realistic, stylized, captivating, sentimental, retro, psychotronic, metafiction, cult classic, serious, gloomy
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A French Woman (1995)
Plot Summary:
Wed just as war breaks out, Jeanne hardly gets to know her military husband, Louis, before the debacle of 1940. While waiting for his return from a POW camp, Jeanne journeys through countless affairs with Louis' comrades- in-arms. Hoping to forget these wartime betrayls, Louis takes his wife and the infant twins he didn't father to Berlin, where she falls for Matthais, a sensitive German industrialist. When the Indochinese war sends Louis to Vietnam, Matthais follows Jeanne back to France. A subsequent move to Damascus where Louis is posted as military attache, fails to break their bond.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, serious, realistic, gloomy, sexual, semi autobiographical, sexy
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Kiss Me Again (2010)
Plot Summary:
A look at the lives of Carlo, Giulia, and their friends some 10 years after the events of L'Ultimo bacio.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, touching, captivating, melancholic
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Strangers (2007)
Plot Summary:
Six days in the lives of an Israeli living in a kibbutz and a Palestinian living in Paris, which starts with an accidental meeting in the Berlin Subway during the World cup finals, will change them completely.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, serious, realistic, contemplative, independent film
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Faithless (2000)
Plot Summary:
Scripted by Ingmar Bergman, this very personal film is about a destructive affair which wrecks the marriage of an actress (Marianne) and musician (Markus). Wanting to continue the affair, Marianne moves in with her lover. But she is tormented by Markus' decision not to let her have custody of their daughter. Finally Markus announces he may have a solution to the stalemate, but this leads to deception, lies and ultimately, tragedy.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Italy, Germany, Finland, Norway
Duration: 154 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, atmospheric, lyrical, tense, contemplative, stylized, gloomy, depressing, erotic
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Alexander the Last (2009)
Plot Summary:
An ensemble drama about a married actress, her sister and their myriad sexual and creative temptations.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 902
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, heartfelt, contemplative, independent film, sexual, sexy
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Bride Flight (2008)
Plot Summary:
The story of the women on the KLM flight that won the 1953 Air Race from London to Christchurch, New Zealand.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands, Luxembourg
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: captivating, emotional, realistic, sentimental, serious, costume drama, epic, stylized, tear jerker, tearjerker
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Desire (2002)
Plot Summary:
In 1945 Spain a young man with Nazi contacts fell in love with a left wing family woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sentimental, serious, captivating, stylized, realistic
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Lili Marleen (1981)
Plot Summary:
Lili Marleen is the story of a German singer named Wilkie who while working in Switzerland falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert who’s family is helping people to flee from the Nazis. Roberts family is skeptical of Walkie thinking she could be a Nazi as she becomes famous for singing Lili Marleen.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: clever, witty, stylized, art house, romantic drama, sincere, serious, realistic, cynical, light
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November Moon (1985)
Plot Summary:
"November Moon" is a timeless and compelling love story set against the backdrop of Nazi-occupied France. On the brink of war and in the face of escalating anti-Jewish activity, November has fled her native Germany for the relative safety of Paris. There, she meets and falls in love with Ferial, a fiercely patriotic young French woman. Amid a series of life-changing wartime events, they are challenged by their extraordinary circumstances to realize their truest selves and to live - or die - by those choices.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sincere, rough, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic
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Closing the Ring (2007)
Plot Summary:
During the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann, who is in love with one of them, Teddy. In modern-day Belfast, a man named Jimmy endeavors to return a ring found in the wreckage of a crashed plane. He travels to Michigan, where the grown Ethel Ann, who married another man after Teddy was killed in battle, now lives. Ethel Ann must decide whether to go with Jimmy to meet the soldier who last saw Teddy alive.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, suspenseful, realistic, romantic, period piece, romantic drama, independent film, feel good
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Spring of Life (2000)
Plot Summary:
The film, 'The Spring Of Life', brings to light a little-known operation of the Nazi SS, started just before the outbreak of World War II. Through the careful selection and re-education of young women, it was the Nazi's mad dream to create an Aryan 'master race'.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 355
Genere: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, disturbing, bleak, rough
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War Bride (2001)
Plot Summary:
Anna Friel stars in classy wartime drama The War Bride. She plays Lily, an orphan who suddenly finds herself married, with child and living with hostile in-laws in the wilds of Canada.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, romantic, erotic, period piece, realistic, period drama
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A Soldier's Tale (1989)
Plot Summary:
In the days following the D-Day invasion in Normandy, France, a British platoon leader named Saul (Gabriel Byrne) and his corporal (Paul Wyett) reach an isolated farmhouse and encounter a beautiful French girl named Belle (Marianne Basler). Love blooms between Saul and Belle, but the grim realities of war catch up with them when a French Resistance trio claims that Belle is a Nazi collaborator. Judge Reinhold appears briefly as the token Yank.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: realistic, tense, serious, emotional
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Every Time We Say Goodbye (1986)
Plot Summary:
An American flyer who joined the RAF before his country was in the war is recovering from a leg injury in Jerusalem. Through an English friend he meets a quiet Jewish girl whose close-knit family originally came from Spain. The two are attracted to each other but she is convinced their diverse backgrounds mean it could never work.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, romantic, entertaining, cult classic
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1939 (1989)
Plot Summary:
When the war breaks out, Annika lives with her parents in Värmland, close to the border to Norway. Her cousin Harald is a dealer in the black market but has to escape from the police to Norway. Annika moves to Stockholm and gets a job as a waitress. She meets the happy-go-lucky Berit and together they have a wonderful time. She also meets a young man, Bengt, whom she marries. But almost immediately she discovers that her husband is different from the man who was courting her. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 929
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Sweden
Duration: 193 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, realistic
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Olga (2004)
Plot Summary:
Based upon the true story of Olga Benário, the German-born wife of Brazilian communist leader Luís Carlos Prestes. During the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas (1930-1945) she was arrested and sent to Nazi Germany, where she was put to death in a concentration camp. After World War II began, Vargas decided to uphold the Allies.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Brazil
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, bleak, contemplative, period piece
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Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012)
Plot Summary:
Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: serious, stylized, psychological, captivating, intellectual, heartbreaking, political, sex comedy, grindhouse, period piece