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Plot Summary:
TV-movie version of the Victor Hugo novel.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, psychotronic
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Forget Paris (2011)
Plot Summary:
A romantic new year's getaway to Paris descends into a nightmare when the couple's relationship implodes prior to their departure.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Temptations (2002)
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Directed, written, and co-produced by Zoltan Kamondi), Kisertesek ("Temptations") illustrates the struggle between ancient traditions and the modern world of restless young Marci (Marcell Miklos), a fatherless young man who is considered somewhat of an outcast within the community.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Hungary
Duration: 85 min
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Beder Meye Josna (1989)
Plot Summary:
A love story centered around a community of snake charmers.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 382
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Bangladesh
Duration: 157 min
Plot tags:
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The Education of Fairies (2006)
Plot Summary:
A man's life is turned upside down after he is abandoned by the woman he loves.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 889
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, France, Portugal, Spain
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: fairy tale
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In The French Style (1963)
Plot Summary:
A young American art student must decide whether to stay in Paris with her boyfriend or go back to the U.S. when her wealthy father arrives to bring her back.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The American (1998)
Plot Summary:
After the horror of the Civil War, 'ignorant' Christopher Newman made his fortune. He travels to France is search of cultural treasures. He won't get past the Paris nightlife. After an affair with a haughty painter, he falls in love with the daughter of the late marquis de Bellegarde. She was married off and traumatized by her abusive late husband for the family's sake. Her elder brother supports their ruthless mother, but junior Valentin is besotted with the artist and strikes a partnership with Christopher.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Ireland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sad, independent film, period drama
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A Few Hours of Sunlight (1971)
Plot Summary:
Gilles Lantier, a young reporter on the AFP newspaper, is suffering from a nervous breakdown. Realising that neither his friend Jean nor his girlfriend Eloïse can help him, he decides to stay with his sister Odile, who lives near Limoges. At a party one evening he meets a wealthy bourgeois woman named Nathalie Sylvener. It is love at first sight, and on his return to Paris, Gilles tells Eloïse that he is now devotedly attached to another woman. Although Nathalie agrees to live with him in Paris, she rejects Gilles' offer of marriage. It is not long before the couple have settled into a routine and their passion begins to cool. Then Nathalie suddenly disappears from Gilles' life.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min
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Twenty-Four Hours in a Woman's Life (1961)
Plot Summary:
Helen Lester is in love with a man she has known just 24 hours, a playboy who spent time in jail for passing bad checks. Though the man has promised to change, most of her straitlaced relatives are up in arms. But Clare Lester, Helen's grandmother, says the girl is free to join the man she loves. On one condition, that she listen to the story of a day in Clare's own life and of a man she tried to change.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min
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The Buttercup Chain (1970)
Plot Summary:
Born to twin sisters on the same day in London, France and Margaret are more like brother and sister than cousins. The close relationship between the cousins is suspended when Margaret is sent abroad for schooling. Now a young woman, Margaret returns to London and resumes her intimate connection with France.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Alma gitana (1996)
Plot Summary:
A young man who wants to become a professional dancer falls in love with a gypsy girl and gets in conflict with her totally different cultural background. But love can overcome these differences.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: multicultural, intercultural, inter cultural
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Camille (1984)
Plot Summary:
Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hope of a career and position by marrying Armand, she acquiesces and leaves her lover. However, when poverty and terminal illness overwhelm her, Camille discovers that Armand has not lost his love for her.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 580
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: period drama, beautiful
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Notre-Dame de Paris (1998)
Plot Summary:
A musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel "Notre Dame de Paris" which follows the gypsy dancer Esmeralda and the three men who vie for her love: the kind hunchback Quadimodo, the twisted priest Frollo, and the unfaithful soldier Phoebus.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, stylized, captivating, compassionate, philosophical, mesmerizing, serious, realistic, tragic ending, freeze frame
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The Big Grasshopper (1967)
Plot Summary:
While he is trying to escape from a hit man, Carl is setting up a kidnapping in Beirut. He gets lost on his way, falling in love with Salène, a.k.a. "La grande sauterelle".
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic
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Notre Dame de Paris - Live Arena di Verona (2002)
Plot Summary:
A musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel "Notre Dame de Paris" which follows the gypsy dancer Esmeralda and the three men who vie for her love: the kind hunchback Quadimodo, the twisted priest Frollo, and the unfaithful soldier Phoebus.
IMDB Rating: 9.0
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Musical, Music, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 130 min
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Carmen (1989)
Plot Summary:
Filmed production of Bizet’s Carmen at Earls Court in London, June 1989.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 166 min
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1982)
Plot Summary:
Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer of Notre Dame's cathedral meets a beautiful gypsy dancer, Esmeralda, and falls in love with her. So does Quasimodo's guardian, the archdeacon of the cathedral, and a poor street poet. But Esmeralda's in love with a handsome soldier. But when a mob mistakes her for a witch, it's up to Quasimodo to rescue her and claim sanctuary for her in the cathedral.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, fairy tale, gothic, psychological, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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The Sailor from Gibraltar (1967)
Plot Summary:
Alan, after quarreling with his girlfriend Sheila, becomes intrigued by Anna, a mysterious widow who's searching for a sailor she had known many years before. Alan and Anna begin the search on board a yacht bound for Greece, but they don't find the sailor. After a stop in Africa, Louis de Mozambique joins the party and suggests that the sailor may never have existed other than in Anna's mind.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 433
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Perfect Education: 40 Days of Love (2001)
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A young girl, who lost her father at her early age, is kidnapped by a school teacher. He strips, binds and attempts to rape her. For the next few days she tries to escape but in vain. Later, she becomes used to the life with him. Even when she has a chance to run, she chooses to stay. Slowly, their relationship becomes a creepy half-paternal, half-romantic liaison.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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A Ghost in Monte Carlo (1990)
Plot Summary:
A chance meeting between British nobleman and lovely young Mistral foils a plot by her manipulating Aunt Emilie to avenge the death of her sister, Mistral's mother, who died in childbirth. But when an unscrupulous blackmailer and a rapacious Rajah enter the plot, the growing attraction between Lord and convent girl becomes yet more fraught with Danger.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 767
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Austria, Italy, USA, West Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: gothic, costume drama, period drama
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A Helpless Love Song (2018)
Plot Summary:
After experiencing failure in business and his marriage, Mitsutoshi Yashiro (Shinsuke Kato) walks around looking for a place to die. He decides to stop at a red light district shop to have sex for one last time. He meets Hina (Rina Fujisaki) who changes his life. - AsianWiki.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 8
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min
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Paul and Michelle (1974)
Plot Summary:
Taking place approximately three years after the events in Friends, Paul and Michelle follows the family of Paul Harrison and Michelle Latour-Harrison after they have been reunited. Paul has to cope with the difficulties he faces balancing work, college, and trying to maintain their family as well as a new love interest for Michelle.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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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
Plot tags:
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The Hunchback (1997)
Plot Summary:
Based on the novel, a young gypsy becomes a Minister's obsession in 1483. Only the bell ringer and her husband and the court of miracles can save her.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Hungary, Canada, Czech Republic
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: gothic, serious, emotional, psychological, suspense, fairy tale, realistic, gloomy, psychotronic, weird
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Lost Illusions (2021)
Plot Summary:
Taking place between the years 1837 and 1843, Balzac’s classic novel focuses on the young poet Lucien de Rubempré, who leaves Angouleme for Paris in the pursuit of becoming an author.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 149 min
Plot tags: art house
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Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid (1981)
Plot Summary:
Set within the super-rich jet-set society of Paris, Richard Harris portrays a man whose life is gradually being destroyed. From sexual trauma to financial disaster, he slowly descends into a world of insanity, perversion and finally the bottomless pit!.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Quartet (1981)
Plot Summary:
Quartet is the story of a girl who, adrift with her feckless husband amidst the literati of glittering Paris in the 1920s, becomes entrapped by a rich and sybaritic English couple. Adapted from the wistful, melancholy autobiographical novel by Jean Rhys, Quartet is full of intense confrontations dazzlingly acted by Alan Bates, Maggie Smith, Anthony Higgins, and Isabelle Adjani. This is one of the Merchant Ivory team’s darkest and most compelling dramas of dangerously intertwined relationships.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: costume drama, romantic drama, independent film, atmospheric, clever, serious, realistic, talky, stylized, gloomy
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Sentimental Destinies (2000)
Plot Summary:
In late nineteenth century Charante, Protestant minister Jean Barnery causes local disquiet when he arranges a separation from his obsessive wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, touching, captivating, gloomy, period drama
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The Virgin and the Gypsy (1970)
Plot Summary:
Film adaptation from the novel by D.H. Lawrence, discovered after the celebrated author's death in 1930, a romantic love story tells of a prim young English girl who is sexually attracted to a seductively virile gypsy. The climatic dam burst is linked with the consummation of her desire.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 376
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: historical romance, independent film, erotic, sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy, sexual
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La séparation (1994)
Plot Summary:
In Paris, Pierre and Anne have been living together for a couple of years and they have the eighteen months son Loulou, who stays with the nanny Laurence during the day while they work. Their best friends are the couple Victor and Claire, who also is not married but live together. Out of the blue, Pierre feels Anne estranged with him and sooner she discloses that she is in love with another man. Pierre seems to accept her affair but their relationship rapidly deteriorates, and Pierre becomes violent with her.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, serious, realistic, light, sexy, thought provoking, enigmatic, bleak, unusual plot structure
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Les Misérables (1998)
Plot Summary:
Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a police officer named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: touching, costume drama, sincere, dramatic, epic, period piece, emotional, clever, fairy tale, social