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Plot Summary:
Terry hasn't seen or spoken with her family in 2 years. When she shows up unannounced on her father's doorstep - with her fiancé and a plan to get married in 5 days - she learns that she's not the only one with secrets.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, captivating, suspenseful, crying
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Close-Ups (2014)
Plot Summary:
37-year-old Marta gets married and wants to have a baby. But her toxic relationship with overbearing mother complicates her life in many ways.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, serious, captivating
Similar in 89%
Martha... Martha (2001)
Plot Summary:
Having received a frosty reception when visiting her parents, Martha drags her husband Reymond and infant daughter Lise to Spain, to renew her acquaintance with her estranged sister Marie. After a quarrel, Marthe and her family return to France, where the young mother shows signs of increasing mental instability. Abandoning her family, Marthe goes to town to get drunk and ends up being raped. With Marthe in a psychiatric hospital, Reymond is left to take care of Lise alone whilst struggling to make a living selling second hand clothes in an open-air market. When Marthe leaves hospital, Reymond takes her and Lise to a holiday home in the country. But Martha’s illness is far from cured….
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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My Zinc Bed (2008)
Plot Summary:
A recovering alcoholic becomes involved with his boss's wife, a former cocaine addict.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 960
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Carving a Life (2017)
Plot Summary:
Mitch must confront the haunting memories of his mother's tragic death and overcome his alcohol abuse, or lose all that is most precious to him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, serious, captivating, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, inspirational
Similar in 87%
The Woman Who Drinks (2001)
Plot Summary:
À la veille de ses derniers instants, une femme se remémore son passé d'alcoolique. Elle revoit toute sa jeunesse dont une cuite qui, à 46 ans, lui a coûté tout ce qu'elle avait. «La solitude, le vieillissement sont des thèmes qui s'imposent à moi, sous une forme ou l'autre. Quant à l'alcoolisme, il me fascine à cause de la révolte qu'il sous-tend, et me révolte par le malheur qu'il crée autour de lui.» (Bernard Émond).
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sentimental, serious, realistic, sincere, non-linear, gloomy
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Runaways (2003)
Plot Summary:
Steve Moore is sixteen and lives with his younger sister, mother Cheryl and her boyfriend John, in a modest house in Bakersfield, California. An abusive and often intoxicated man, John rules the household, and though his attacks on Steve result in emergency hospital visits, Cheryl's loyalty is to her boyfriend. To protect her relationship with John, she "ditches" her son, having him arrested and locked in a correctional "mental" facility, before coercing her older brother Burt, who lives in Hollywood, to take him. Steve quickly discovers that Burt cannot even provide temporary lodging, but an administrator at his new high school directs him to a shelter for runaway kids where he soon learns to navigate his way.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, independent film, psychological, sincere, humorous
Similar in 78%
Hard Sun (2014)
Plot Summary:
After the death of her parents, a young woman assumes primary guardianship of her special needs brother. But as she attempts to balance her new life with her brother and her own blossoming romance, it becomes painfully clear that life will only make room for one.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, touching, independent film
Similar in 81%
Love, Again (2015)
Plot Summary:
A couple on the brink of divorce decides to keep their marital woes a secret as they help their daughter plan her wedding. As the two work together on the happy occasion, they soon discover that their own marriage might just be worth saving.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 708
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, emotional, entertaining
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Stella (1990)
Plot Summary:
Barmaid Stella Claire and blueblood Stephen Dallas have very little in common -- except they've fallen in love. When their relationship fails, Stella decides to raise the child they had, Jenny, alone. But Jenny and Stella are far from the perfect mother-daughter pair.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, sentimental, captivating, sad, touching, realistic, sexual, erotic, romantic
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Unanswered Prayers (2010)
Plot Summary:
After his football career, Ben Beck returned to his Virginia small town and joined the family building firm. His family happiness with wife Lorrie and adolescent son Jessie is suddenly tested by the return of Ben's first high-school love, Ava Andersson, who visits from Chicago, after a failed marriage, to bury her ma. Ava seduces Ben into reliving their courtship, which she traumatically broke off without a goodbye. Jesse reacts furiously, even backseats his own football scholarship bid, rather pa's projected ambition, in favor of a writing summer course.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 443
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, touching, serious, sexual, sexy
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Delibal (2015)
Plot Summary:
A love story following two young people battling with their emotions and dreams, the pressures of career, family and not knowing what the future holds. Füsun is a brilliant student, destined for a successful career but can't help from falling for Baris, a musician who struggles with a psychological disorder. As the two grow closer they start to adopt each other's traits, but becoming increasingly dependent on one another proves damaging for their relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: romantic, neurotic, emotional, captivating, touching, romantic drama, crying
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Harry + Max (2004)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers, 23 and 16, who are both teen idols, come to terms with their dysfunctional family past and deep affection for each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, emotional, erotic, sexy, sincere, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
Similar in 84%
The Reception (2005)
Plot Summary:
The complex relationship between a wealthy French woman and her best friend a, gay black American, is thrown into turmoil when her estranged daughter comes to visit them with her new husband for the weekend in upstate New York. Through a series of drunken evenings and daytime squabbles it becomes apparent that no one involved is what they seem.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, captivating, sentimental, sexy, psychological, sincere, clever, serious, contemplative
Similar in 87%
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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Crutch (2004)
Plot Summary:
An autobiographical film taken from the experiences of writer-director Rob Moretti, CRUTCH is a coming-of-age tale about a young man's struggle with family problems and substance abuse. Behind a facade of suburban middle class perfection, David's home life is falling apart. As he tries to cope with the impossible situation, the troubled and impressionable teenager falls under the spell of Kenny, a georgous, thirty-something, has-been actor turned theatre coach. When Kenny's "support" escalates into seduction, David slowly decends into an abyss of drinking and drug addition from which he must escape if he is to survive. CRUTCH is a dramatic tale of the confusion of youth and the difficulties in finding oneself.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 712
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, emotional, realistic, bleak, contemplative, gloomy, crying, queer cinema
Similar in 82%
A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
Plot Summary:
Mabel, a mother and wife, is on the brink of insanity as her blue-collar husband Nick attempts to understand her plight.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: independent film, art house, psychological, depressing, intense, tense, bleak, emotional, realistic, talky
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The Prince of Tides (1991)
Plot Summary:
A troubled man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her in the process.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, emotional, sad, inspirational, thought provoking, stylized, romantic drama, therapeutic, sentimental
Similar in 86%
Four Sheets to the Wind (2007)
Plot Summary:
After his father's untimely suicide, Cufe leaves his home in a Native American reservation in search of a more fulfilling life.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 633
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, romantic, romantic comedy, gloomy, crying
Similar in 76%
The Hanging Garden (1997)
Plot Summary:
William, a once obese and troubled teen, goes back to his family's home after being gone, without word, for ten years and finds it (and his family) haunted with his past. He had moved to the city and become a fit, well-adjusted gay man, but during his visit home, he becomes unhinged as the newly remembered reasons for his miserable adolescence come to life in each of their presents.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, stylized, sincere, atmospheric, touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, gloomy
Similar in 77%
Moonlight Mile (2002)
Plot Summary:
As he copes with the death of his fiancee along with her parents, a young man must figure out what he wants out of life.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: sentimental, emotional, realistic, clever, romantic, art film, romantic drama, serious, gloomy, crying
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Opium: Diary of a Madwoman (2007)
Plot Summary:
A drug-addicted doctor who works in an asylum discovers that one of his patients is a gifted writer.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Hungary, Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, captivating
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She's So Lovely (1997)
Plot Summary:
Maureen is pregnant and her husband Eddie is missing. Nervous, Maureen shares a couple of drinks with neighbor Kiefer, who tries to rape her and then beats her. When Eddie returns and finds his wife bruised, he goes ballistic, shoots a paramedic and is put in a psychiatric institution. Ten years later, Eddie is released and finds that Maureen has divorced him and is remarried with three children, one of whom is his little girl Jeanie. Eddie goes to reclaim his wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: melancholic, psychological, serious, realistic, talky, romantic drama, independent film, gloomy, biting, road movie
Similar in 76%
Touched with Fire (2015)
Plot Summary:
Carla and Marco are manic-depressive poets whose art is fueled by their emotional extremes. When they go off their meds, they end up in the same psychiatric hospital. As the chemistry between them stirs up their emotions, it intensifies their mania. Despite doctors' and parents' attempts to separate them, they pursue their beautiful but destructive romance which swings them from fantastical manic highs to suicidal depressive lows, until they have to choose between sanity and love.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sincere, realistic, touching, captivating, emotional, psychological, spiritual, factual
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In My Pocket (2011)
Plot Summary:
A harrowing journey down the dark spiral of drug addiction. As Stephen Jameson's carefully constructed life slowly falls apart, his belief system is shattered when he discovers that he's no longer the functioning addict that he once was.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, independent film
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Personal Velocity (2002)
Plot Summary:
Three women's escapes from their afflicted lives. Each struggles to flee from the men who confine their personal freedom.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: talky, stylized, intense, touching, psychological, sincere, serious, realistic, anthology, erotic
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Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
Plot Summary:
An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: sexy, poignant, realistic, depressing, black and white, bleak, emotional, social, offbeat, spiritual
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When a Man Loves a Woman (1994)
Plot Summary:
An airline pilot and his wife are forced to face the consequences of her alcoholism when her addictions threaten her life and their daughter's safety. While the woman enters detox, her husband must face the truth of his enabling behavior.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: sentimental, emotional, romantic, intense, psychological, touching, sad, retro, spiritual, romantic drama
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The Hours (2002)
Plot Summary:
"The Hours" is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 137000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK, France, Canada, Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, depressing, intellectual, touching, captivating, serious, emotional, poignant, enigmatic, heartbreaking
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Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
Plot Summary:
Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 132000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: depressing, melancholic, disturbing, sexual, sad, emotional, heartbreaking, touching, bleak, talky
Similar in 76%
Rachel Getting Married (2008)
Plot Summary:
A young woman who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: independent film, emotional, serious, talky, sincere, romantic, philosophical, thought provoking, offbeat, intellectual