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Plot Summary:
David and Anna are a newly wed couple, whose lives together take a turn as Anna becomes diagnosed with a terminal illness.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional
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The Anonymous Venetian (1970)
Plot Summary:
Without mentioning the reason, Venetian musician Enrico invites his ex-wife Valeria to visit him, and her heart is broken again during their last days together.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 911
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, soap opera
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The Girl and Death (2012)
Plot Summary:
The Girl and Death tells us the impossible love story of Nicolai and the courtesan Elise. A love obstructed by materialism, wealth and death threat.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 775
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands, Russia, Germany
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: emotional, realistic, serious, stylized, captivating, psychological, touching
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Belle du Seigneur (2012)
Plot Summary:
English-language adaptation of Albert Cohen's epic Swiss tale of a tortured love affair between a high-ranking Jewish official and the protestant wife of one of his employees.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Luxembourg, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: emotional, inspirational, realistic, touching, serious, weird
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The Promise (1979)
Plot Summary:
A rich student's fiancee has her face destroyed by a car accident, and refuses to return to him fearing the loss of his love.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 812
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic
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For a Handful of Kisses (2014)
Plot Summary:
A girl. A boy. A love story. But also about dreams, fears, life, true love, friendship and how we deal with it. And a secret between them.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: serious, sentimental, emotional, realistic
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Griffin and Phoenix (1976)
Plot Summary:
Geoffrey Griffin who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer in his chest, meets Sarah Phoenix as they both attend a university lecture on the psychology of dying. Sarah Phoenix has got terminal leukemia, but Griffin doesn't know that, and she doesn't know that he is terminally ill. They start spending time together and fall in love, both struggling with their fate. This is the beginning of a beautiful and sad love story!.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sentimental, serious, emotional, realistic
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The Voyage (1974)
Plot Summary:
Adriana De Mauro loves Cesar Braggi, but Cesar, honoring his father's dying wish, allows his brother, Antonio, to marry Adriana. As fate wills, Antonio dies in an automobile accident. Adriana's mourning for Antonio ends when Cesar steps in to rekindle her lust of life. Soon, Adriana begins having dizzy spells. Cesar helps her to a specialist, and the diagnosis is not good. She has an incurable disease. For the rest of their time together, Cesar woos Adriana and eventually proposes to her on a gondola. Yet, for some reason or other, Signora De Mauro, Adriana's mother, is not pleased with the relationship and argues bitterly with Cesar.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 664
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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Milan (2004)
Plot Summary:
Loving husband Lino is on a mission: His wife, who works as a domestic in Milan, is missing and he's determined to find her. To do so, he enters Italy illegally and takes cover as one of the hundreds of Filipino migrant workers wh make their way to Europe.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, tagalog, sexual, sexy
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Intruder (1993)
Plot Summary:
In childhood and youth, the three were "the inseparables." Luisa married Ángel, then two years later, she left him to marry Ramiro. After ten years, Ángel reappears, back from South America, broke and ill. Luisa is overcome with sentimentality and, over Ramiro's objections, takes Ángel into their house. Ángel is bitter, he and Ramiro have shifted from best friends to enemies. Luisa wants to be in love with both. Ramiro hopes he can wait out Ángel's declining health, and Luisa wants to heal Ángel through force of will. What is Ángel's plan? Observing the roiling emotions are Luisa and Ramiro's precocious young children. Who's in danger here?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic
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This Is the Sea (1997)
Plot Summary:
The film is set in Northern Ireland shortly after 1994 cease-fire. Hazel is a Protestant and Malachy a Catholic. Romance between them is threatened by Rohan (leader in militant underground and pal of Malachy's brother Padhar), who wants Malachy to be recruited and fight for the cause and by Hazel's brother Jef, who spies on her meetings.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 380
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, bleak, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, gloomy, independent film
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Dreaming of Joseph Lees (1999)
Plot Summary:
Set in rural England in the 1950s Eva (Samantha Morton) fantasises about her handsome, worldly cousin Joseph Lees (Rupert Graves), with whom she fell in love as a girl. However, stuck in a closed community she becomes the object of someone else's fantasy, Harry (Lee Ross). When Harry learns that Eva is planning to leave the village in order to live with and look after the injured Lees, he devises a gruesome scheme in order to force her to stay and look after him.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 920
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: emotional, sentimental, atmospheric, touching, serious, realistic, gloomy, erotic, psychological, romantic
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Carmen (2003)
Plot Summary:
In director Vicente Aranda's adaptation of the classic opera, a French writer documents the seductive power of the beautiful Gypsy Carmen, who turns her charms on a young soldier, awakening his passions but ultimately leading to tragedy. Jose becomes obsessed with Carmen and finds himself unable to control his jealousy, which forces him to make a deadly decision in this fiery story of love and betrayal.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, UK, Italy
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: sexy, captivating, emotional, erotic, sad, serious, realistic, sexual, historical romance, period drama
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An Italian Romance (2004)
Plot Summary:
Giovanni, a married man with a child, meets on a train Maria, a former lover.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 360
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, captivating, historical drama, sentimental
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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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Under the Protection of Ka'Bah (2011)
Plot Summary:
Growing up in West Sumatra in the 1920s, Hamid and Zainab comes from families from very different social classes. Hamid is poor, while Zainab is wealthy. Hamid receives a scholarship from Zainab’s father and Hamid’s mother works for Zainab’s family. Hamid and Zainab fall in love and dream of finding a way for society to accept their union, and also to make the pilgrimage to Mecca.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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Costas (1979)
Plot Summary:
Drama directed by Paul Cox.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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Desire (2003)
Plot Summary:
A story bout a relationship that's ended. Khwahish traces the sexy, funny and intense relationship of Amar Ranawat(Himanshu Malik) and Lekha Khorzuvekar (Mallika Sherawat) from the time they meet in the last semester of college, their quirky romance, marriage and its ups and downs to the tragic end five years later. Probably the first Bollywood musical about the trials and tribulations of a young Indian urban couple.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Drama, Romance, Musical
Country: India
Duration: 152 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, sexy, sexual
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The Bumblebee Flies Anyway (1999)
Plot Summary:
An amnesiac youth tries to piece together his past, but what he discovers may jeopardize his future.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, independent film
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A Small September Affair (2014)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful girl who has everything. Charming, playful, in her own words: 'too joyful to fall in love.' A sudden car crash, and her heart stops for a few minutes. When she wakes up, everyone assures 'every-thing's alright.' But she knows it isn't. Because she cant remember her final month; a September of her life is missing. Leading a trail of hastily covered clues she finds herself in a remote Aegean island. A weird looking, grubby recluse, comes up-to him and proclaims: 'Don't you remember me? I'm the man you fell in love with.' Everything sensible about her screams 'get out of there' but she follows her memories right onto the tragic end of a miraculous affair.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: emotional, touching, serious, realistic, sincere, captivating, romantic, sentimental
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You're My Home (2012)
Plot Summary:
After returning back to family, Leyla tries to fix everytihng while starting a new life wit Iskender. Everything goes smoothly until troubles find Leyla.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, sentimental, captivating, melancholic
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Bobby Deerfield (1977)
Plot Summary:
Bobby Deerfield, a famous American race car driver on the European circuit, falls in love with the enigmatic Lillian Morelli, who is terminally ill.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, sincere, serious, realistic, sad, crying, stylized
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Most Eligible Bachelor (2021)
Plot Summary:
A well-educated, ‘settled’ NRI falls for a stand-up comedian and wants to marry her. But when she knows what she wants from her husband, will he fit the bill?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, emotional, talky
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Heavenly Forest (2006)
Plot Summary:
The story begins with Makoto Segawa, a freshman at Meikei University. On the day of his university entrance ceremony, Makoto meets a fresh-faced, quirky girl named Shizuru. Makoto has a complex which causes him to shy away from contact with other people, but she succeeds in getting him to open up to her naturally. All Shizuru wants is to be with Makoto, so she takes up a camera too. The two spend their days together taking photos in the forest behind the campus. However, Makoto has feelings for another student named Miyuki. Shizuru decides that if Makoto likes Miyuki, she wants to like her too. She wants to like everything that he does. One day, she tells Makoto that she wants to take a photo of them kissing in the forest as a present for 'her birthday'. He obliges for her sake, and they kiss in the forest.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, romantic, sad, shoujo, romantic drama
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Those Who Love (1998)
Plot Summary:
A secret and deep passion marks the life of a young doctor, and threatens the existence of those around him.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 595
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas (2005)
Plot Summary:
A woman discovers the truth about her former lover from the diary that his first wife wrote to their son, Nicholas.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, realistic, touching, serious, emotional, erotic, tear jerker
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Nuts for Love (2000)
Plot Summary:
En 1975, unos meses antes del comienzo de la dictadura militar argentina, Alicia y Marcelo se conocen en un concierto de Sui Géneris. El amor surge inmediatamente entre ellos, pero el retorno del novio de Alicia provoca la separación. En 1982, en Madrid, sus caminos vuelven a cruzarse. Tras el encuentro, se dan cuenta de que, a pesar de que el amor sigue latente, sus destinos discurren por rumbos separados. Años después, en 1990, tras otro encuentro casual, Marcelo decide hacer frente a sus sentimientos por Alicia: ambos quieren hacer realidad su sueño postergado desde la adolescencia.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 466
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, serious, emotional, sentimental, realistic, contemplative, talky, gloomy
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Lost in Time (2003)
Plot Summary:
Sui Wai lost her fiance Ah Man in a car accident. With the obligations of life sitting heavy on her shoulders, she lives on only to find herself confiding in her beloved through a phone call. Dai Fai. a mini-bus driver who witnessed Ah Man's death, is always there offering her attentive encouragement and support, yet he himself also lives in the shadow of his last relationship. When Siu Wai strives to face the future without the man she loves, Dai Fai finds himself steadily falling in love with her.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, sincere, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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The Affair (1973)
Plot Summary:
A crippled lady songwriter meets an older lawyer, who becomes her first love.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 294
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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Under the Hawthorn Tree (2010)
Plot Summary:
The daughter of a right-winger, schoolgirl Jing Qiu (Zhou Dong-Yu) is sent to the countryside for reeducation, and tasked to help write a textbook. There she meets Lao San (Shawn Dou), a young soldier with a bright future ahead. Despite the class divide and parental disapproval, romance blooms against turbulent times.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, sincere, realistic, romantic, serious, emotional
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Awaken (2012)
Plot Summary:
Alex's dreary life is reignited when he meets Rachel, the woman of his dreams. The only thing that stands in the way of their perfect, serendipitous relationship is that Rachel has recently passed away.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 679
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, psychological, captivating, sentimental, semi serious, independent film