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Plot Summary:
A well-bred young woman who prizes the virtue of fidelity remains faithful to the doctor who deflowers her, even after he marries her invalid sister.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Chile, Switzerland, France, Spain
Duration: 95 min
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Confessions of a Prostitute (1980)
Plot Summary:
A woman suffering from amnesia reconstructs her life from audiotapes and discovers that she has had a sordid past, involved in prostitution, and unusual romantic relationships.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sensual, sexploitation film
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Winter of Our Dreams (1981)
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When a womanizing bookshop owner hears about the suicide of his former girlfriend, he tries to find out more and meats her friend, a prostitute. They hook up, but when she finds her friends diary, she discovers she's repeating her mistakes.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 356
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, beautiful
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Malady of Love (1987)
Plot Summary:
Two physicians, one old and one young, fall in love with the same woman, Juliette, a quixotic hairdresser. First, she is with Raoul, the older one; then passion for Clément, the younger doctor, takes over. Raoul fights back, playing on Clément's guilt and Juliette's lack of self-assurance; then, Clément makes his case to Juliette, abandons his fiancée, and takes her to the provinces where he sets up practice and asks her to have a baby. She panics and abruptly leaves Clément, taking up with Raoul again. When she contracts Hodgkin's disease and the treatment does no good, Raoul believes she has the malady of love. Is there a cure?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 122 min
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The Braves (2021)
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Best friends Alma and Margot are inseparable, whether it’s terrorizing cheating lovers or crashing wedding parties. The two women also share the same dream of a successful career on the stage. They get one step closer when they are cast as lead and understudy in a high-profile play in Paris. Alma is keeping a secret that puts her role in jeopardy, but with the unwavering support of Margot, they will try their best to ensure that the show goes on.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
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The Red Lanterns (1963)
Plot Summary:
The story of 6 or 7 prostitutes, at Pireas harbor.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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Impossibly Yours (2006)
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Mit seiner pedantischen und verklemmten Art trieb Leonhard (Tobias Moretti) einst seine Gattin Marlene (Barbara Auer) geradewegs in die Arme seines besten Freundes Jan (Ulrich Thomsen). Nur mit Mühe gelang es dem Trio danach, die gemeinsame Freundschaft aufrecht zu erhalten. Inzwischen ist die Situation wieder einigermaßen stabil. Da heiratet Leonhard eine sehr viel jüngere Studentin. Und auch Anja (Jessica Schwarz) wird es in der Obhut Leonhards bald zu kalt und eng. Starke Darsteller in einer dramatischen Beziehungsgeschichte. Torsten C. Fischer inszenierte nach dem gleichnamigen Roman von Dieter Wellershoff.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 112 min
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Sweet William (1980)
Plot Summary:
William McClusky (Sam Waterston) is a dashing and eccentric Scotsman whose charms rapidly overwhelm the sweet and naive Ann Walton (Jenny Agutter), but she nearly as quickly begins to comprehend that her new beau is anything but a one-woman man. In addition to his two ex-wives, with whom he remains remarkably close, William exhibits a disturbing attraction for nearly any female who crosses his path -- Ann's friends among them.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Well Kept Secrets: Athanassia (2008)
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ATHANASIA A young American woman returns to her Greek roots in search of her real father. Accompanied by her stepfather, she shatters the very myths designed to protect her. She uncovers an unlikely relationship between those who raised her, a globe-trotting photojournalist and Athanasia. Athanasia, a girl with no right in life. A choice of nature, but not of her community. Angela finds her father and discovers her mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece, USA, Belgium, Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: disclosure
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Affair in the Snow (1968)
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In an isolated mountain resort, a woman gets involved in a love triangle between herself, her volatile lover and her ex-boyfriend, for whom she had platonic feelings.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 316
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min
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Karla (1965)
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An idealistic teacher is shocked to discover her pupils are already cynical and opportunistic. Her colleague soon grows resentful when she uses new and challenging techniques to help her students overcome obstacles.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: East Germany
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: banned, banned film
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Mouvements du désir (1994)
Plot Summary:
During the long train ride from Montreal to Vancouver, a man and woman find themselves increasingly attracted to each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, France, Switzerland
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: avant garde
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Victory March (1976)
Plot Summary:
The drawbacks and difficulties of military life are explored in this film. Paolo Passeri is a college graduate, somewhat spoiled, somewhat effete, who finds himself in an officer training program under the stern martinet, Captain Asciutto. He gradually becomes acclimated to the military mind-set, and when the Captain's wife decides to take a romantic interest in him, he does not report her dangerous peculiarities to anyone.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 314
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: grotesque
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We Are the Children (1987)
Plot Summary:
A doctor and a photo-journalist try to help famine victims in Africa.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Everlasting Love (1984)
Plot Summary:
An intern doctor falls in love with a 19-year-old girl, not knowing that she is a hostess at a night club and a single mother.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: soap opera
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Naked Tango (1990)
Plot Summary:
When a young European woman assumes a false identity in 1920s Argentina, she gets more than she bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 703
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Switzerland, Argentina, Japan, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: cult classic, neo noir, independent film
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Take Care (1991)
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A young man just released from the army is making great dreams for his life. Finally he gets a job in a butcher's shop and gains the confidence of the owner. After the butcher's death he falls in love with his daughter but also has an affair with the widow and cannot decide between them.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Walk on the Wild Side (1962)
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At the Doll House, a 1930’s New Orleans bordello, Hallie is the main attraction both for clients and for Jo, the madame. Her comfortable if tedious life is disrupted by the arrival in town of Dove Linkhorn, her true love of three years before who is now searching for her. When Linkhorn learns the truth of her profession he triggers a chain of events involving a number of people, including the young Kitty with whom he travelled from Texas and who is now the Doll House newest recruit.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, realistic, gloomy, sexual, sexy
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Chastity (1969)
Plot Summary:
Go on a cross country adventure with Cher in her first dramatic film, Chastity. Chastity ('Cher') is a lonely young girl who is hitchhiking across the country in hopes of finding someone to love her and make her forget her disturbed past. She does find love with a man whom she calls Andre ('Stephen Whittaker'). Chastity feels that the relationship is getting too serious so she decides to run. She goes to Mexico where she starts working at a whorehouse, there she befriends the strange lesbian owner (Barbara London). Chastity is looking for a mother figure in the woman, but the woman has different feelings for Chastity. She soon realizes that this is not the life for her and decides to return to Andre and try to start a new normal life. Things are good, but not for long as Chastity's dark disturbed past will never let her feel loved by anyone.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 562
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: road movie, independent film, realistic, semi serious, cult film
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La bambola (1991)
Plot Summary:
A man without scruples mistreats his lover and her daughter, a teenager. also in his mind a diabolical plan to force the girl into prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: erotic, sex comedy
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A Report (1964)
Plot Summary:
1964 Finnish drama.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 88 min
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Downfall (1997)
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The story revolves around an orphan girl who became a prostitute to survive and finds love with one of her clients. A young woman is tricked into prostitution, thinking she's going to sell beverages at a village store. She soon learns about the dark world of Korea's red-light districts, where a prostitute is exploited by johns, their pimps and society. She befriends one of her johns, a country bumpkin, who keeps in touch with her over the years. The film is a look at Korea's prostitution from the 1970s to the 1990s told through her story.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Stockholm (2013)
Plot Summary:
The story of the encounter between a boy and a girl. He confesses that he fell in love with her at first sight, but she does not believe him. However, as they walk through the night in Madrid, they share their desires, secrets, and maybe a few little lies. But soon the film brings us back to the harsh reality of power struggles, psychological games and conflicts between the sexes. Stockholm thus offers an incredible reading of the relations between young people today.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, talky, captivating, sexy, heartbreaking, aesthetic, tense
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Mazhayethum Munpe (1995)
Plot Summary:
Nandakumar is a college professor who wants to get the best treatment for his paralyzed fiancee, Uma Maheshwari. Trouble starts brewing when Shruthi, Nandakumar's student falls in love with him. Will Shruti let Uma unite with Nandakumar weaves the rest of the story.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 691
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags:
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Moondram Pirai (1982)
Plot Summary:
Moondram Pirai starring by kamal haasan and sridevi kappor. he movie begins with a young girl Bhagyalakshmi (Sridevi) who meets with an accident thus succumbing to amnesia. This condition makes her lose her memory of her entire teenage and adulthood leaving her as a physically grown up woman but with the memory and intelligence of a seven year old. Circumstances cheat her into Prostitution, where in the brothel, she meets Srinivas (Kamal Haasan) who understands that she has been tricked into the trade.He rescues her to take her to his home in Ooty and begins to lead life with.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: sad, tragic ending, tragic, cult film
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Two A Penny (1967)
Plot Summary:
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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The Girl (1987)
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Pat Carlsson is a 14-year-old Swedish schoolgirl who though very young is very streetwise as she offers sex, for a price, to middle-aged attorney John Berg who can not resist the young girl. What starts as an immoral sexual escape, becomes a nightmare of tragedy and deception involving blackmail, kidnapping and murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, Sweden
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, detective
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Three Times (2005)
Plot Summary:
There are three stories of women and men: in "A Time for Love" set in 1966, a soldier searches for a young woman he met one afternoon playing pool; "A Time for Freedom," set in a bordello in 1911, revolves around a singer's longing to escape her surroundings; in "A Time for Youth" set in 2005 Taipei, a triangle in which a singer has an affair with a photographer while her partner suffers is dramatized. In the first two stories, letters are crucial to the outcome; in the third, it's cell-phone calls, text messages, and a computer file. Over the years between the tales, as sexual intimacy becomes more likely and words more free, communication recedes.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Taiwan
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: anthology, sentimental, atmospheric, thought provoking, touching, realistic, contemplative, sexy, art house, slow cinema
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The Immigrant (2013)
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In 1921 New York. an immigrant woman is tricked into a life of burlesque and vaudeville until a dazzling magician tries to save her and reunite her with her sister who is being held in the confines of Ellis Island.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, harsh, emotional, suspenseful, serious, captivating, period piece, costume drama, stylized, romantic
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Chinese Box (1997)
Plot Summary:
The story of Hong Kong, from New Year's Day to June 30th, 1997, when the British left their colony and turned it over to the People's Republic of China.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Japan, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, independent film, sentimental, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, philosophical, sexy, thought provoking
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Looking for Cheyenne (2005)
Plot Summary:
Cheyenne, a journalist, decides to leave Paris after being laid off and to settle down in the middle of nowhere, far from the society she hates.The trouble is that she leaves Sonia, her true love, behind. The latter, a teacher who loves her job, refuses to give up everything -including her comfort- to follow her. Sonia makes all the efforts in the world to forget Cheyenne, whether in the arms of Pierre, a charming anarchist, or in those of Béatrice, a gay woman who soon proves perverse and dangerous, only to realize that her heart belongs to Cheyenne and nobody else. If Cheyenne does not come back, Sonia feels life is not worth living any longer... Written by Guy Bellingerew found.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 370
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, sexy, realistic, gloomy, sexual, allegory, queer cinema