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Plot Summary:
The story of the tumultuous relationship between a Jewish girl called Noemi and a Polish art student named Kamil is set at the outbreak of World War II.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: neurotic, pre war
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The Impostor (1997)
Plot Summary:
This drama is based on a novel and incomplete screenplay by the late Maria Luis Bemberg. In 1930s Argentina, wealthy Sebastian (Antonio Birabent) leaves his Buenos Aires home for the family estate on the pampas. His family, concerned for his physical and mental health, arranges for Sebastian's childhood friend Juan (Walter Quiroz) to check on Sebastian's situation. Juan finds the highly erratic Sebastian caught in a doomed relationship with the Danish daughter of religious sect members. Unfortunately, Juan also becomes obsessed with the young woman, and Sebastian's suspicions increase.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 99 min
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Cruise (2018)
Plot Summary:
Set in the 1980s, a young Italian-American from the wrong side of the tracks falls for a Jewish girl from Long Island.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, touching, disturbing, sentimental
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A Leap in the Dark (1980)
Plot Summary:
Mauro, a judge, is worried about his older sister Marta, who took care of him since he was a boy, and is now affected by psychic problems and suicide fantasies. She seems to recover from her depression when Mauro acquaints her with Giovanni, a brilliant actor at the edge of legality. Mauro become unconsciously jealous of this relationship, and try to get Giovanni arrested... Written by Francesco Benzi.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 466
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Witching of Ben Wagner (1987)
Plot Summary:
A new family moves into town and their son, Ben, meets a mysterious girl named Regina, who is rumoured to be a witch.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
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The Sinking of Van Der Wijck (2013)
Plot Summary:
When a young man leaves home to fulfill the wishes of his late father, he meets and falls in love with a woman from a very different background.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 164 min
Plot tags: social
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Her Own Rules (1998)
Plot Summary:
Melissa Gilbert stars as Marygold/Meredith. A sad and lonely writer returning to her home town in England for the first time since she was about 6 or 7 years old,after being adopted and raised in America. While there she decides to look for her mother's grave,and finds out her memories are not exactly what she thought they were,her mother is alive. She then sets out to find her mother and some answers and finds both. She also falls in love, of course, but has a problem with long term commitments.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
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Journey to Another Town (1980)
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By chance, two middle-aged people met - the telephone operator of the hotel Lina and the chief engineer of the construction department Kirillov, who had arrived on official business from Leningrad in one of the provincial cities of the country. Behind everyone has setbacks in family life. A sincere feeling that brought two lonely people closer together helped to see those around them in a new way. They are already over forty. Both are lonely. Having met by chance and fell in love with each other, they never became happy.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 93 min
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Childish Questions (1981)
Plot Summary:
A story of an architectural student asking questions on problems during a housing project development. Arrested for parading with a sign asking for a difficult and responsible job, he tells his story to a cellmate.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 97 min
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Penguin (1965)
Plot Summary:
A shy student falls in love and is involved in a kidnapping plot.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 93 min
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Hot Cat? (1968)
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This love story finds a lonely teacher resisting the advances of an interested co-worker. She is fearful of affection and relationships due to a previous romance that did not work out. The small-town school marm tries to help a male student who has been suspended for drunkenness. She tutors the young man, and soon the two engage in a tender and passionate love affair in which both people reach out and touch each other physically and emotionally.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 78 min
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L'afrance (2001)
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El Hadj is studying in Paris. He is one of the young Senegalese men who have come to Paris since the French colony became independent to get a good education so that he can serve his fatherland on his return. Unexpectedly he is suddenly confronted by a problem with his residence papers, just because he has arranged an extension too late. His pleasant life filled with good prospects has gone in one fell swoop. He faces a dilemma. He can stay illegally in France, the country where he feels at home, where he has his friends, has fallen in love and can drink water from the tap. Or he can return (without graduating) to the 3rd-world country of Senegal to use the knowledge he has acquired. It is not only a practical choice. It comes down to the question of who he is, who he thought he could be.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Senegal
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: existential
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Bye Bye Love (1993)
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Two women, a friendship. Two parallel love stories. Marianne has a passionate affair with Nino while the relationship of Lea and David is falling apart. While a couple is forming, another's becoming undone. Yet, the choice of the two friends remains the same: break up with the past and plunge into the unknown.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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A Mero Hajur 3 (2019)
Plot Summary:
Third installment in A Mero Hajur film series.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Nepal
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspense, suspenseful
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Felix and Lola (2001)
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Félix, operator of dodgem cars in a fairground, becomes obsessed by one of his customers, a mysterious young woman named Lola. Félix soon discovers that Lola is running away from her former boyfriend, a singer who continues to taunt her. Lola asks Félix to prove his love for her by murdering a man he does not know.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 447
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The Weather in the Streets (1983)
Plot Summary:
Passion comes calling when a man suffering through an unhappy marriage in 1920s England runs into first love.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 133 min
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Young Love (2001)
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Jukka, 13, is coached in photography by his openly gay art teacher. With his dead father's old camera, Jukka sees Johanna, a beautiful girl in her early twenties being physically abused by her stepfather. With the help of the local fire department, Jukka comes to her rescue. He quickly befriends the girl who works in a nearby supermarket, claims to become her manager and enters her in a beauty contest.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 686
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating
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Friends of Friends (2002)
Plot Summary:
Dominik Graf relocates the story of the same name by Henry James from the 19th century to the year 2001.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Bayo (1985)
Plot Summary:
Sharon and her ten year old son Bayo live in Tickle Cove on the shores of Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland like generations of their family have before them. Sharon hates her life there. She dreams of moving to Toronto - where her now deceased mother was from - to eke out a better life for her and Bayo. She even leaves her big black packed trunk in the middle of the foyer as a symbolic gesture that that move will soon be happening. She equally hates her fisher father, Phillip Longlan, for subjecting her and her mother to life there. Phillip, who spends most of his time on a commercial fishing boat, only provides Sharon enough money to survive but not to achieve that dream of leaving. Bayo, however, doesn't want to leave, especially leave his grandfather behind. He wants to live and die by the sea, much like his deceased father, who he never knew.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Two A Penny (1967)
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Set in London's Swiinging Sixties, Cliff Richard plays Jamie Hopkins, an art student whose desperate need for money leads him to dabble in the underworld of drug dealing. Cliff has stated that Two A Penny, his most dramatically challenging movie role ever, is the film he is proudest of. He has stated, "if I did want to send a fiolm as a CV, I would send that one". It is certainly his most demanding and controversial role; cynical, self centered and highly manipulative, Jamie Hopkins lies, steals and double-crosses his mother (Dora Bryan), forces himself on his girlfriend (Ann Holloway) and gets involved in fist fights with criminals. Through the influence of his girlfriend, a born again Christian, is the possibility that he may reform, yet in the mystery of the film's by-line "He promised to love her forever….today" lies the possibility that he may well not.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: christian film, independent film
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Wide Sargasso Sea (2006)
Plot Summary:
Dramatisation of Jean Rhys's novel set in 19th-century Jamaica. The tragic story of the first Mrs Rochester from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre centres on an arranged marriage between a white Creole heiress and a brooding Englishman, who fall in love only to be torn apart by rumours, paranoia and a cultural divide.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 727
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: erotic, period piece, period drama
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What's Up with Cinta? (2002)
Plot Summary:
A popular high school girl strains her relationship with her close-knit clique when she begins falling for a reclusive, lower-class schoolmate.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, teen, entertaining
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You Can't Save Yourself Alone (2015)
Plot Summary:
Gaetano and Delia, a separated couple, try to pick up the pieces of their broken love, recalling all the faults and the mistakes which led them to where they are now.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Loverboy (2005)
Plot Summary:
A neglected daughter becomes a possessive mother in an emotional journey into the heart and mind of a woman who loved too much.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, touching, serious, erotic, offbeat, realistic, contemplative
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That Night (1992)
Plot Summary:
A coming-of-age story about an eleven-year-old girl who idolizes her troubled sixteen-year-old neighbor.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sexy, sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, romantic drama
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The Heart of the Bear (2001)
Plot Summary:
A young Estonian goes to the Siberian Taiga to live as a hunter in a remote forest hut. He hopes to find his true self far from civilisation. The natives he meets introduce him to the myths of the north. The first is a young village teacher who wants to be a good wife to him. The second is a wild and untameable native who becomes his mythical bear-woman. When he accidentally kills a great black bear, his own shadow-creature, he burdens himself with guilt. However, he is given a chance of finding his inner balance. A romantic drama with mythical elements and breathtaking landscapes.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 316
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Estonia, Czech Republic, Germany, Russia
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining
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JJ+E (2021)
Plot Summary:
Elisabeth and John-John live in the same city, but they inhabit different worlds.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, teen
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After Ever Happy (2022)
Plot Summary:
As a shocking truth about a couple's families emerges, the two lovers discover they are not so different from each other. Tessa is no longer the sweet, simple, good girl she was when she met Hardin — any more than he is the cruel, moody boy she fell so hard for.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, suspense, disturbing, saga
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Half Girlfriend (2017)
Plot Summary:
Madhav Jha, a rustic boy from Bihar who is drawn to his college-mate, Riya Somani, an affluent English-speaking girl from Delhi. There’s just one hitch here. Riya is willing to go thus far and no further; Madhav continues being obsessed with her. Will the Bihar boy and the Delhi girl make it past the half-way mark?.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: romantic, psychological, sentimental, uplifting, touching, sweet, disturbing
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Endless Love (1981)
Plot Summary:
Two young kids fall in love with each other. But the passion is too consuming for the parents of Jade. The parents try to stop them from seeing each other. But when this doesn't work, David burns down the house and is sent away. This doesn't stop him from seeing her. When he gets out he goes to look for her. But the passion for his first love is too strong and she has to leave.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: intense, erotic, sentimental, touching, emotional, romantic, sexual, dark, sensual, romantic drama
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Dirty Sexy Saint (2019)
Plot Summary:
Clay Kincaid hates the nickname 'Saint', he got for being too kind to stray animals and desperate people. Especially when it comes to women. With a rough and damaged past that has left him jaded, he doesn't do committed relationships. This is before he meets Samantha Jamieson, an heiress turned runaway in need of help. When she starts to work as a waitress at his bar, he discovers that she is someone truly special and amazing… someone that could warm his damaged heart.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, sexy, emotional, sensual, erotic