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Plot Summary:
Maverick pilot must learn to live with disability.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Winter Flight (1984)
Plot Summary:
British drama about a young member of the RAF who finds that his new girlfriend is pregnant.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Secrets of Bella Vista (2022)
Plot Summary:
Tess Delaney gets the surprising news by estate executor Damhnaic McAuley that she has inherited half of an apple orchard from the father she never knew and has a half-sister she didn’t know about. When she visits the orchard and connects with her new-found family, she learns that the orchard is deep in debt. Using her knowledge as an antiques expert, Tess and her half-sister work to unravel the mystery of their grandmother’s “treasure” that could hold the key to saving the orchard. And, in the process, Tess ultimately finds a new understanding of herself.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 715
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: romantic drama
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Jawan Muhabat (1971)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Sarin lives with his wife, Sunita, young daughter, Rekha, and his brother, Rajesh. Rajesh is an eligible bachelor, and on the lookout for a life-partner with a view of marriage.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration:
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Dance Me to My Song (1998)
Plot Summary:
Julia (Heather Rose) is crippled with cerebral palsy, lives in a wheelchair, waits for her carer to come and clean her, feed her, in a daily cycle. Her latest carer, Madelaine (Joey Kennedy) is a strung up and lonely young woman whose love life is in disarray. The two women are interdependent; Julia needs her carer, Madelaine needs her job. But they don’t exactly hit it off. Along comes Eddie (John Brumpton), a handsome young chap who appeals to both women. But Julia is behind the eight ball in this love battle, what with her wheelchair – she even needs a voice synthesiser to speak. Her body is small and frail and twisted …. But she is not totally helpless, as Madelaine discovers.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 460
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film
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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
Plot tags:
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Ice House (1989)
Plot Summary:
Pake has left a good paying job working in the oil fields of Texas in order to give the music business a try. Eventually he finds himself alone and with no money in a hotel room in Los Angeles. He sets up a meeting with his old girlfriend Kay. When he meets her, she is with her fiancee. He is a Greek immigrant who desperately needs to marry Kay in order to become a permanent resident in this country. However his plans are in trouble because of Pake trying to convince Kay to go back to Texas with him and get married.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film
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There Lived a Doctor (1985)
Plot Summary:
A young doctor Nikolai Alexandrovich Zaostrovtsev, a fourth generation medical professional, found himself in the Gladuny village directly after the Institute. Neither he himself, nor his father, a town surgeon, expected that he would linger long their. But having become a real doctor in this working village community, he remains true to his profession without any dreams of glory or city life….
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Turning to Love (1975)
Plot Summary:
A love story between a simple guy and a music star fails, but suddenly he notices somebody else.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 7
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags:
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Anatolian Eagles (2011)
Plot Summary:
Onur, Ayşe, Mustafa, Tunç ve Fatih. Onlar, gökyüzüne hakim birer pilot olma hayaliyle yaşayan genç havacılar. Hayalleri yükseklerde fakat hedefe giderken yaşadıkları bin türlü zorluk, aile, sevgili hasreti, dostlukları, havada olmak için yaptıkları fedakarlıklar ve birbirleriyle rekabetleri ne kadar çetin bir yola çıktıklarının da göstergesi olacak. Binbaşı Kemal Tanaçan'ın deneyimi ve desteği sayesinde eğitimden geçen beş genç için Uluslararası Anadolu Kartalı Tatbikatı, hayatlarını tamamen değiştirecek çok büyük bir deneyim olacaktır.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating
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The 8-Year Engagement (2017)
Plot Summary:
Hisashi and Mai are a happy couple in their 20s who are engaged to be married. But three months before their wedding, Mai becomes seriously ill. Her heart stops momentarily, and she falls into a deep coma. Hisashi visits Mai at the hospital every day before work. With no idea if or when she will ever awake, Mai’s parents encourage Hisashi to find someone else, but he refuses to give up and continues to pray for her recovery. As if his prayers are answered, Mai begins to regain consciousness several years later, and even utters a few words. But tragically, she has suffered brain damage and has no memory of Hisashi.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, sincere, serious, romantic drama, crying, humorous, fun
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Perfect World (2018)
Plot Summary:
Tsugumi Kawana (Hana Sugisaki) works at an interior design company. She happens to meet her first love Itsuki Ayukawa (Takanori Iwata) from her high school days. He is now an architect and in a wheelchair because of an accident. --asianwiki.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, crying
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Blue Away to America (1999)
Plot Summary:
The victim of a serious accident, Camille finds himself in a strange, huge, rehabilitation centre run by Professor Helpos. He soon teams up with a group calling themselves "the wreckers" and who make their own rules, ignoring those of the medical establishment.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Sally Pacholok (2015)
Plot Summary:
Feisty ER nurse takes on the medical establishment when she uncovers an epidemic of misdiagnosis.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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I Want to Go on Living (1995)
Plot Summary:
A woman stops waiting for her med student boyfriend and marries a rich man so she can pay her grandmother's medical bills.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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God Willing (2006)
Plot Summary:
After a couple of chance encounters the nightly meetings with Juli become the most important thing in Juan's life. God willing, fantasy can become reality.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Take Care (1991)
Plot Summary:
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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Josee, the Tiger and the Fish (2003)
Plot Summary:
Tsuneo is a university student working part-time in a mah-jong parlour. Lately the customers have been talking about an old lady who pushes a baby carriage through the streets. They say she is carrying something for a crime syndicate, and they wonder what it is she has in the carriage... Money? Drugs? One day, the owner of the mah-jong parlour sends Tsuneo out to walk his dog. A baby carriage comes rolling down a hill and crashes into a guard rail. The old lady asks him to look into the carriage, where he finds a young woman clutching a knife. This is how Tsuneo first meets the girl who calls herself Josée.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: sweet, inspirational, touching, lyrical, romantic, sexy
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Touched (2005)
Plot Summary:
A romantic drama about a man who awakes from a coma without his sense of touch and the nurse who comes to his aid.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 574
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, touching, captivating
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Miffo (2003)
Plot Summary:
Tobias is the new, idealistic priest in a suburb but he soon learns that his flock is quite uninterested in Christianity. However, he befriends Carolina, a chain smoking woman his age, wheelchair-bound since birth. It is opposites attract although their backgrounds are different.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, emotional, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, sexual
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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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Regarding Henry (1991)
Plot Summary:
Henry is a lawyer who survives a shooting only to find he cannot remember anything. If that weren't enough, Henry also has to recover his speech and mobility, in a life he no longer fits into. Fortunately, Henry has a loving wife and daughter to help him.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: touching, inspirational, intense, emotional, sincere, serious, realistic, entertaining, scary, feel good
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Life on Liberty Street (2004)
Plot Summary:
A nurse, trying to salvage her life after her husband and job are gone, winds up working in a halfway house full of mildly brain-damaged patients and receives help from those she helps.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: uplifting, touching, sentimental, serious, emotional, romantic, captivating, realistic
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After the Deluge (2003)
Plot Summary:
Follows the stories of the four men of the Kirby family. As Alex's marriage breaks apart, Toby tries desperately to start a family, and Marty tries to kick-start his faded music career as well as find a meaningful relationship with someone his own age, all three must come to terms with their father's mental state. Cliff, suffering from Alzheimer's disease, is reliving his disturbing memories of the war and his first love, as a part of his experiences of the present . Through all four stories, we uncover a families troubled past, and their struggle towards a reconciled future.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 194 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, gloomy, crying
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Hoovey (2015)
Plot Summary:
HOOVEY is the true and inspiring story of the Elliott family, who refused to surrender, instead turning to one another and their faith in the worst of circumstances, to rebuild their lives, their boy, and their dreams... together. Step by grueling step, with faith, love, and the tireless work of a mother and father to save their family, their farm, their dream, Hoovey learns to walk again. To read again. To dribble and shoot a basketball again. And yes, to dream again himself. Then stepping out in his faith, back onto the hard court, to live that dream of playing this game once more.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: christian film
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Snow Cake (2006)
Plot Summary:
A drama focused on the friendship between a high-functioning autistic woman and a man who is traumatized after a fatal car accident.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: touching, psychological, melancholic, sincere, sentimental, inspirational, independent film, romantic drama, tense, serious
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Long Ago, Tomorrow (1971)
Plot Summary:
Bruce Pritchard is paralysed in a soccer game and is confined to a wheelchair in a convalescence home. But this doesn't slow his lust for life. Then he meets Jill and has to think about the effects of disability.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 648
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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Musical Chairs (2011)
Plot Summary:
When his dancer partner, Mia, lands in the hospital after an accident, Armando persuades her to train for an upcoming wheelchair ballroom dancing contest.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: emotional, sentimental, realistic, captivating, sincere, romantic, romantic drama, serious, hispanic
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The Other Side of the Mountain (1975)
Plot Summary:
A female skiing champion is paralyzed in a tragic skiing accident. Her girlfriend is taken out of competition when she contracts polio.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: independent film, sincere, uplifting, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, sentimental
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The Waterdance (1992)
Plot Summary:
An oft overlooked film about struggling to deal with paralysis. Author Joel Garcia breaks his neck while hiking, and finds himself in a rehab center with Raymond, an exaggerating ladies man, and Bloss, a racist biker. Considerable tension builds as each character tries to deal with his new found handicap and the problems that go with it, especially Joel, whose lover Anna is having as difficult a time as he is.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, emotional, talky, psychological, sincere, uplifting, thought provoking, independent film, erotic
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Me Before You (2016)
Plot Summary:
A small town girl is caught between dead-end jobs. A high-profile, successful man becomes wheelchair bound following an accident. The man decides his life is not worth living until the girl is hired for six months to be his new caretaker. Worlds apart and trapped together by circumstance, the two get off to a rocky start. But the girl becomes determined to prove to the man that life is worth living and as they embark on a series of adventures together, each finds their world changing in ways neither of them could begin to imagine.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 279000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: touching, romantic, emotional, tear jerker, sentimental, sad, compassionate, serious, melancholic, stylized