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Plot Summary:
Directed by Raafat El-Mihi.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Egypt
Duration: 108 min
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Italiani (1996)
Plot Summary:
1965, a train with a variety of passengers is heading north when it makes an unexpected stop. On the other track, heading south, a train passes with the same passengers 20 years later.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min
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A Husband, a Wife and a Lover (1996)
Plot Summary:
When her cheating husband has a debilitating stroke, a woman invites her lover to move in with them.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
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It Rains in My Village (1968)
Plot Summary:
A bizarre and tragic love story involving swineherd, village fool, teacher and an agricultural pilot. The story unfolds in a remote village in the communist ruled Yugoslavia at the down of Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 671
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia, France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: black and white, serious, realistic
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The Personals (1982)
Plot Summary:
A touching yet humorous tale of a divorced man searching for love in the personals column and finding out about life in the process. Directed by Peter Markle.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Time of Love (1995)
Plot Summary:
Three episodes, all with relatively similar plots about a love triangle between a woman and two men.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran, Turkey
Duration: 75 min
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Bamse (1968)
Plot Summary:
Christer Berg dies in a car crash and is found with a teddy bear named "Bamse". His son, also named Christer finds out that Bamse belongs to his father's lover Barbro Persson. He tries to humiliate her, introducing her to his mother as his new fiancée. But he ends up falling in love with her, and she sees in him the memories of her dead lover. When she finds herself pregnant, they have to decide about their love affair.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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Angel of Mercy (1993)
Plot Summary:
The love story between a young widow and an austrian-hungarian army officer during the First World War.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Romance, War, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 95 min
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Spring Subway (2002)
Plot Summary:
A stylish urban romance about the silent suffering of a modern Chinese couple.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 452
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: dramatic, serious, touching, lyrical, independent film
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The Inheritance (1980)
Plot Summary:
In this standard Hungarian drama, the effects of sterility and jealousy on a marriage are played out against a backdrop of World War II and the rising Nazi persecution of Jews. Director Marta Meszaros usually focuses on issues like pregnancy, middle-age, and other topics without questioning the broader picture. In this drama, Sylvia (Lili Monori) cannot have children, and she convinces married Jewish woman Irene (Isabelle Huppert) to have a child and then give the child to her for adoption. The plan works but it also backfires. The way in which the child was adopted causes friction between Sylvia and her husband, and to make matters worse, Sylvia's husband falls in love with Irene. A crisis looms when he asks his jealous wife to give Irene her identity papers because Jews are being deported and Irene will die without their help.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, Hungary
Duration: 105 min
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Gandharvam (1993)
Plot Summary:
A romantic film packed with fun and adventure Gandharavam tells the story of an auto mechanic who falls in love with the daughter of a crime mob family.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 155 min
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Le Garcu (1995)
Plot Summary:
A self-centered man (Gérard Depardieu) with many diversions occasionally visits his 4-year-old son (Antoine Pialat) and the boy's mother (Géraldine Pailhas).
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 628
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
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Orpheus Descending (1990)
Plot Summary:
Val Xavier is a drifter in 1940's Mississippi who brings new life to an Italian immigrant woman trapped in a loveless marriage.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 355
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: southern gothic
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Shape of Red (2020)
Plot Summary:
Tōko Muranushi is married and they have a lovely daughter. She doesn't have any major problems in her life. One day, Tōko meets her former lover, Akihiko Kurata, at a friend's wedding. They haven't seen each other in ten years. Tōko indulges in a sexual relationship with Kurata.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: psychological, sexy, tense, sentimental, unusual plot structure, lgbt cinema, melancholic, contemplative, gay cinema
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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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Anna Karenina (1967)
Plot Summary:
The film is based on the novel of the same name by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. “All happy families resemble each other, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, ” goes the novel’s opening sentence. The melodrama centers around a tragic story of love and infidelity, the destiny of a woman who irrevocably changes her life for the sake of a passion. Anna Karenina finds it impossible to renounce her feelings for the loved one. She rejects the morals of society and tries to defend her right to love. Her husband bars Anna from her son, her acquaintances turn their backs on her… Starring in the title role was the famous Russian actress Tatiana Samoilova (“The Cranes Are Flying”).
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 991
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: spiritual
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Little Angel (1996)
Plot Summary:
Ramona lives her lonely life in Berlin working in a lipstick factory. One day she accidentally runs into Andrzei, a Polish mechanic illegally selling cigarettes in Germany during the weekend. One thing leads to another, and soon she finds herself pregnant. Then her life starts falling apart, when Andrzei tells her he already has a wife back in Poland and her baby dies shortly after its premature birth.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min
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Dearest Jane (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young girl learn to accept love and change, after being sent to live with her uncle in Indiana.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, tense, suspense, contemplative, independent film, unusual plot structure
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Silsiilay (2005)
Plot Summary:
A group of women find solidarity with each other as they negotiate their complicated love-lives.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 762
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 134 min
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Over the Dark Water (1993)
Plot Summary:
Leningrad; 60th years; white nights. Walking on Neva Embankment, the charming provincial has met three friends: poet, artist and film director. And each of young people has suggested to marry him.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, psychological, melancholic
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The Lover (2002)
Plot Summary:
This is a remarkably subtle film–a character study that focuses on Mitya’s attempts to cope with each new startling phase of discovery. At first he mourns for his dead wife, but then he discovers that he didn’t really know her.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 675
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, spiritual
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Tomato (1990)
Plot Summary:
Kwaku, a young African medical student, arrives in Italy where he is to meet his brother Job (nicknamed Pummarò.) This one is a tomato picker in the Naples region and works in extreme conditions to be able to pay his brother's studies. But to Kwaku's dismay, Job has disappeared. The young student then decides to do everything he can to trace missing Pummarò.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
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Grind (1997)
Plot Summary:
When a drag-racing, hard-luck parolee moves in with his brother in hopes of that ever-elusive fresh start in life, he's sure to be warm for the form of his brother's bored young wife. Things only get worse when he tries to turn a quick buck in a one-time insurance fraud operation.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 453
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic
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Deserter (1992)
Plot Summary:
During the Yugoslav break-up, Federal Army officer is fed up with war and takes some leave in Belgrade. However, it turns out that he is less haunted by war horrors than with some sentimental skeletons in the closet. He meets his former comrade and best friend who is AWOL, but can't report him because he had an affair with his wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Duration: 109 min
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Love After Love (1992)
Plot Summary:
Lola is an independent woman, a professional writer with 2 men on a string. Both men are married with children. When the men, and Lola, face having to make choices, Lola's comfortable life becomes less appealing.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 409
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, thought provoking, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, semi autobiographical
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Ardor (2002)
Plot Summary:
In revenge for her husband's infidelity, a young beautiful housewife, Mi-heun, starts an affair with an attractive young doctor, In-gyu. Despite her husband's efforts to regain her love and the disapproval by the conservative little town, Mi-huen gradually finds happiness and satisfaction in the affair and decides to turn her back on her quiet life.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: touching, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, erotic
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Maria's Lovers (1984)
Plot Summary:
Ivan Bibic returns to his Pittsburgh PA suburb after surviving a Japanse POW camp, causing regular nightmares. All the time he remained faithfully devoted to his childhood love, fellow ethnic Yugoslavian virgin Maria Bosic. She dates him again, thus ruining a virtual engagement to captain Al Griselli. Against Ivan's dad's advice, they get married. But Ivan became psychologically impotent, feels unworthy of her and starts wondering, even looking for another girl. Meanwhile slick guitar-and-song-busker Clarence Butts moves in to South-Western PA, and seduces Maria.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: sincere, emotional, erotic, sentimental, captivating, controversial, grindhouse, sexual, psychological, serious
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Alexandria... Why? (1979)
Plot Summary:
Set against the panoramic backdrop of war-torn Egypt, director Youssef Chahine tells a highly personal tale of love and determination. Amid the poverty, death and suffering caused by World War II, 18 year-old Yehia, retreats into a private world of fantasy and longing. Obsessed with Hollywood, he dreams of one day studying filmmaking in America, but after falling in love and discovering the lies of European occupation, Yehia profoundly reevaluates his identity and allegiances.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Egypt, Algeria
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: semi autobiographical, psychological, serious, captivating, realistic, crying
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Never Forever (2007)
Plot Summary:
When an American woman begins a dangerous relationship with an attractive immigrant worker, in order to save her marriage, she finds her true self.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: erotic, emotional, realistic, psychological, serious, romantic, sensual, gloomy, sexual, independent film
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The Only Thrill (1997)
Plot Summary:
A small-town store owner with a comatose wife shares a long-term relationship with his seamstress.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 780
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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Steam: The Turkish Bath (1997)
Plot Summary:
Francesco and Marta run a husband-and-wife design company in Rome. When Francesco's aunt dies in Instanbul he travels there to sort out the hamam turkish steam bath that she left him. He finds a love and warmth in his realtives' Instanbul home that is missing from his life in Italy.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, Turkey, Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, erotic, surprise ending, atmospheric, sexy, enigmatic, feel good