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Plot Summary:
As incomparable in swordplay and wordplay as he is, the gallant soldier, philosopher, and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is as timid as a schoolboy before the fair Roxanne. Derek Jacobi delivers an electrifying award-winning portrayal of Rostand's legendary log-nosed swordsman in this highly acclaimed production from the world's premier theatre troupe, The Royal Shakespeare Company. The bold Cyrano boasts he can defeat a hundred men in a swordfight, but because of his grotesque nose lacks the confidence to court the woman he loves. Yet so entranced with Roxanne is Cyrano that he uses the eloquence of his poetry to woo her for a rival.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 176 min
Plot tags:
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Amour (1970)
Plot Summary:
This three-part movie begins with a young woman married to an older, cold-hearted man in the year 1200. Two rivals have a swordfight over the affections of the woman. Part two takes place in 1910 and finds an amorously unfaithful wife taking on her many lovers while her unsuspecting husband lurks nearby. The final part finds a count and countess engaging in extramarital affairs in France during the 1840s.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark, France
Duration: 94 min
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Blues (2012)
Plot Summary:
A modern adaptation of Cocteau's classic play "The Human Voice": A woman is waiting for her ex-boyfriend's last call.
IMDB Rating: 9.3
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Cyrano (2021)
Plot Summary:
A man ahead of his time, Cyrano de Bergerac dazzles whether with ferocious wordplay at a verbal joust or with brilliant swordplay in a duel. But, convinced that his appearance renders him unworthy of the love of a devoted friend, the luminous Roxanne, Cyrano has yet to declare his feelings for her—and Roxanne has fallen in love, at first sight, with Christian.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, captivating, costume drama, inspirational, satirical, period drama
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Another Life (1992)
Plot Summary:
Saverio, a dentist, comes out as naive as usual while he falls in love with Alia, a russian immigrant he met in Rome. He must now deal with issues a guy like him would never have thought to come across.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
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Superfluous (1962)
Plot Summary:
Young farmer Mikajlo while on youth labour action falls in love with a student Nada and infatuated with her, he leaves the peasant brigade and Malena, a girl who as if she were overabundant, followed him to work the labour action. Mikajlo's courtship of Nada provokes laughter and ridicule, so ambitious 'Don Juan' returns to his brigade and the girl.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 94 min
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Notre histoire (1984)
Plot Summary:
Robert Avranche, a middle-aged, alcoholic garage owner, is sitting on a train, reflecting on the emptiness of his life. An attractive young woman, Donatienne, suddenly enters the compartment and offers to make love to him. Robert accepts but, when the woman leaves the train afterwards, he decides to follow her.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: surreal, disturbing, anthology
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Now (2006)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious accident has separated Jaap from his beloved Rose, but they continue to talk to each other in their minds and dreams. As Jaap struggles to come to terms with what happened, his best friend JP suggests they travel to France to visit Rose and unravel the mystery. During their journey JP unveils a secret which forces Jaap to face the truth about Rose.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: road movie
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The Perfect Husband (1993)
Plot Summary:
Dostoevsky-inspired drama set in 1900s Prague about a bored arrogant playboy who spends time seducing other men's wives and dueling. He begins an affair with his friend's wife, but falls in love with her.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina, UK, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: historical drama
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Flight of a Bird (1988)
Plot Summary:
Polyot Ptitsy has been given the gift of seeing his deceased brother, but when a new love interest is in trouble he must choose between saving a life or continuing to see his brother everyday.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags:
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Terror Tales of the Crimson Creeper (2019)
Plot Summary:
Three Macabre tales told by the Crimson Creeper that opens up the mind to Madness and Fear. Horror Anthology that will leave you Screaming for More.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: anthology
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The Big Ceremonial (1969)
Plot Summary:
Fantasy is a favourite theme for directors, since it enables them to give vent to diabolical situations with unlimited licence. This film is of this category. It is the story of a jealous and protective mother who allows her son only home-made dolls to satisfy his sick fantasy. But as in all fairy stories, there comes a day when a real, warm girl enters the sheltered life of the son. His natural and innate thirsts for oddities soon make him repeat on the girl what, until then, he has been doing with the dolls. The story then evolves into a fight of wills between the mother and the girl.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 24
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
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Regina (1990)
Plot Summary:
The beautiful, educated and independent Regina hears from her partner Tiit that he has decided to marry a young pregnant girl. Then, she gets an inheritance - a house in a small borough. There's both a reason and an opportunity for a life-change so Regina moves away from the capital. She cannot handle the house and garden on her own and while looking for help, finds Ants, a skilled handyman, yet also a drunkard. Because he's the best she could find in the borough, she decides to marry him, but have children with abstinent and healthy men. Her plan works until something she didn't take into account appears.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 108 min
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The Flowers of Kirkuk (2010)
Plot Summary:
Cruel politics and intensive love. Najla (N) has just finished her medical studies in Rome. Sherko (S) conceals sick and injured partisans. Mokhtar (M) belongs to the dictator's police. S and M love N, N loves S. When she gets a letter from S that she must forget him, she returns to Kirkuk. As a doctor she can help S. Mokhtar follows her trail and S and N are arrested. S is tortured. N is beaten up and then offered the job as a police doctor, a reward for leading the police to S. She accepts because then she can collect and pass on the names of people murdered or tortured. She will attend many mass murders of women and children. Once she can save them by fabricating that a child has cholera, with greater risk of contamination if she is dead. – When M understands that he cannot win N's love, he smuggles both N and S out of the country. Fully aware of the consequences he distracts the border guards and is shot by them. Max Scharnberg, Stockholm, Sweden.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Switzerland, Iraq
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: islamic
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Time of Indifference (1964)
Plot Summary:
A penniless countess falls in love with a cad, unaware that he is also involved on the side with her beautiful daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 433
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: dread
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Tales from the Vienna Woods (1979)
Plot Summary:
Based on a popular 1931 play, the film tells the fate of a naive young woman named Marianne, who breaks off her reluctant engagement with Oskar the butcher after falling in love with a fop named Alfred who, however, has no serious interest in returning her love. For this error, she must pay bitterly.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany, Austria
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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The Hasty Heart (1983)
Plot Summary:
In Burma on the penultimate day of World War II, Cameron Highlander Lachlan 'Lachie' MacLachlan is seriously wounded and transported to a local military hospital. He seems to have recovered from his wounds but appearances can be deceiving. The hospital commander asks nursing Sister Margaret Parker and the five remaining soldiers in her ward to befriend Lachie as he is dying and has only a few weeks to live. Lachie, who is not aware of his prognosis, is a proud man who wants no help from anyone. Slowly however, relationships are formed and Lachie begins to appreciate friendship, something he has never had with anyone.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Story of a Love Story (1973)
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Harry is a married writer who has an affair with a woman whose husband knows that she is unfaithful. As a result of his work, Harry has trouble distinguishing between fantasy and reality leaving us to wonder whether the affair is real or just a figment of Harry's imagination.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Mirrors (1985)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring Midwestern ballerina (Marguerite Hickey) struggles in New York as the only jobs she can get are as chorus performers. Her personal life is equally dismal.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Nargess (1992)
Plot Summary:
A sharp-edged look at people who live outside the constraints of Islamic law.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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The Most Distant Course (2007)
Plot Summary:
Tang (Muo) goes on a trip to Taitung to record the sounds of nature, hoping the tape may save his relationship with his girlfriend who is leaving him. What he does not know, is that she has already moved away and another girl, Yun (Kwai), has moved into that apartment. Yun is trapped in a hopeless love triangle, and troubled by all the issues she faces in life. After listening to the tape that Tang sent, she feels as if the kindness of nature is calling her, and travels to Taitung to find the mysterious man who sends her the tape. On the other hand, Tsai (Chia), a psychiatrist struggling in a failed marriage, suddenly realizes that he needs to let things go after helping a patient with extramarital affairs. He leaves everything behind and goes to Taitung to search for his ex-lover. The three young souls, with different purposes, comes to the coast and search for the meaning of their life, a journey considerably longer than any of them has taken before.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 677
Genere: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, touching, gloomy
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Uncle Vanya (1970)
Plot Summary:
Andrei Konchalovsky’s Uncle Vanya surely has the greatest claim as the best screen adaptation of a Chekhov play. Featuring brooding and articulate performances, especially from Sergei Bondarchuk as Doctor Astrov and gorgeous cinematography that shifts from sepia to autumnal colours, the film has an elegaic and bittersweet atmosphere. The setting is a crumbling country estate which supports the chic urban lifestyle of the elderly Professor Serebryakov who visits with his young and glamorous new wife, Elena.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 799
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: spiritual, art house, tension, suspense
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Spaces and Reservations (2014)
Plot Summary:
Spaces and Reservations is an intimate and unsparingly realistic relationship drama that tells the story of a young couple being torn apart by malaise and infidelity, and the way the trauma of their breakup brings them back together. Jamie and Kacie have been dating for four years, and are separately beginning to feel the affects of malaise and disconnect. As they drift apart from one another and struggle to bridge the gaps growing between them, Jamie begins to develop feelings for another woman. After precariously flirting with infidelity, Jamie abandons this new pursuit and attempts to salvage his relationship with Kacie, only to discover that she too has fallen for someone else.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: captivating, mumblecore
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Lola (2006)
Plot Summary:
The film is a French-Spanish production and most of the dialog is in French. 'Lo que se de Lola' - in English 'What I know about Lola' - is about a lonely guy, living an uneventful life in Paris. He takes care of his mother. One day, a girl with a more exciting life moves in his apartment building.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags:
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Tambourine, Drum (2009)
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Forty-five year old Yekaterina Artemovna has a hard life. She lives in a small mining town where she works as a librarian and, like her only friend and colleague, rents a little room in a project. Yekaterina has difficulties making ends meet and sells off some of the library's books illegally in a nearby station. One day, a man with a strong sense of civic duty, wearing a naval uniform, returns one of these books to the library, apparently without recognizing it was Yekaterina who had actually sold him the book. She falls in love with this newcomer and, when he moves in with her, the monotony of her daily life seems over. When her father hands over an apartment to her, it seems the fates are smiling down on her. But this happiness is suddenly brought to an end when her lover discovers her illicit trade in books and leaves her for her friend. Yekaterina can bear it and decides to pursue vengeance.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, sincere, contemplative
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Brotherly Love (1970)
Plot Summary:
In this British tragi-comedy taking place among emotionally bankrupt upper-class Scottish countrymen, Peter O'Toole plays Sir Charles Henry Arbuthnot Pinkerton Ferguson, a mentally disturbed Scotsman, living on his uncared-for farm, who also harbors an incestuous yearning for his sister Hilary (Susannah York), who is staying with Sir Charles after a fight with her husband Douglas (Michael Craig). An adaptation of James Kennaway's novel Household Ghosts.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 376
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags:
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Night and Day (1991)
Plot Summary:
Jack and Julie live in a bare flat in Paris. At night, Jack drives a taxi while Julie wanders around the city, and in the day they make love. One day Julie meets Joseph, the daytime driver of the taxi, and soon Julie is spending her nights with Joseph and her days with Jack.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Switzerland
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Endings, Beginnings (2019)
Plot Summary:
An artist dumps her longtime boyfriend, but her attempt to take a break from dating ends when she quickly finds herself in two passionate romances.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, South Korea
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: romantic, clever, realistic, semi serious, erotic, romantic drama, independent film
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The Glass Menagerie (1973)
Plot Summary:
Amanda Wingfield dominates her children with her faded gentility and exaggerated tales of her Southern belle past. Her son plans escape; her daughter withdraws into a dream world. When a "gentleman caller" appears, things move to crisis point.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: novela, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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A Doll's House (1973)
Plot Summary:
Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed lives in fear of her husband's finding out and of the shame such a revelation would bring to his career. But when the truth comes out, Nora is shocked to learn where she really stands in her husband's esteem.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, talky, sincere, clever, independent film, period drama
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Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
Plot Summary:
Embarrassed by his large nose, a romantic poet/soldier romances his cousin by proxy.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, witty, costume drama, atmospheric, entertaining, sentimental, captivating, realistic, romantic