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Plot Summary:
This is a Spanish Drama-Romance starring Antonio Banderas.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min
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Blinded (1997)
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Featuring plenty of two-fisted action with romantic and political overtones, this intelligent thriller from Spanish director Daniel Calparsoro is set in the Basque region of northernmost Spain and centers on the clash between two Basque terrorists whose relationship becomes strained when the female starts refusing to kill their enemies. Unfortunately, for someone like her, leaving terrorism can be as dangerous as remaining in the fray.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Romance, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min
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Tides of Hope (2011)
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Donald is a Nigerian immigrant who after being expelled from Spain three years ago, has returned to meet again with Teresa, with whom he had a secret love affair. But on arrival he finds that she has married and is mother of a child. However, the return of Donald wakes strong contradictions in her. By chance, Donald starts working in the garage of Carmen, where Antonio also works, who ignores what happened between his wife and his new partner. Francisco, a foreman of the town and Carmen's suitor, cannot stand the situation. The tension between these frustrated passions ends up playing a key role in the outcome of a seemingly impossible love.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min
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Crimea (2017)
Plot Summary:
The film follows a romantic liaison between a young woman from Kiev, who is a supporter of the pro-European Maidan uprising, and a man from Sevastopol who joins the pro-Russian resistance in the aftermath of Maidan’s success in Kiev.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: intercultural, enigmatic, intense, inter cultural
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More Time (1993)
Plot Summary:
Thandi finds out the complexities of love, when David, the schoolboy Mister Charming, coolly sweeps her off her feet.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Zimbabwe
Duration: 90 min
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Scorpion (1986)
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A top counter-intelligence agent thwarts a hijacking and is assigned to protect one of the terrorists who plan to turn evidence over for a plea bargain. Unfortunately, the terrorist organization attacks where the agent is guarding the man, wounding him and killing the agent's best friend. The agent decides to take down the terrorist organization on his own to avenge his friend's death at their hands.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 188
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: road movie, independent film, cult film
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Killing Machine (1984)
Plot Summary:
After a gang of thugs brands a hard working truck driver a traitor and murders his bride, He retaliates by being even more violent than his attackers.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Janbaaz (1986)
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Rana Vikram Singh has two sons, police officer Rajesh and fun-loving playboy Amar. Rajesh has gone through a traumatic experience of losing the girl he loved when she succumbed to drug addiction. He vows to fight this menace.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 760
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 175 min
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Clandestine (2007)
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Three boys escape from a youth prison in Spain, and head for the city of Madrid. Xabi and Joel, both Spanish, and an Arabic boy named Driss, quickly meet up with some eccentric people on the road. Joel, and the very cute and lovable Driss have no trouble hooking up with a couple girls that don't at all mind if the two handsome guys stay with them. The quietly intense Xabi, however, is dealing with some darker demons, and his personal reason for escaping the prison soon becomes apparent.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 604
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, psychological, tense, rough, bleak, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Counselor at Crime (1973)
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When the godson of San Francisco's crime lord asks permission to leave "the business," Don Antonio agrees, but reluctantly. Such behavior by either one is a violation of the code, and a bloody mob war breaks out. It is only through the strong support of his family connections in Sicily that Don Antonio is able to survive the mêlée and come out on top. Aghast at the situation he has caused, the godson becomes his leader's "consigliere," or Counselor at Crime.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Spain, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Rain (2001)
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A tragedy that tells the story of murder, sex and redemption against the backdrop of a dead-end town.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Drama, Action, Romance
Country: Germany, Spain, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, sincere, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, surprise ending, independent film
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I Won't Let You Down (2001)
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"FRIENDS...THREE YEARS LATER" School is finally out. Valle and Quimi, a couple since childhood, decide to celebrate with their gang on a trip to the coast. They feel free and swear that they will always be together. But three years later, everything is quite different. A party at the high school unites them all again. They haven't seen each other for years and the tension is thick. Something unexpected changed the course of their lives. Valle is a dancer at a club and attracted to Ray, the owner, who is also an art dealer under pressure to use his nightspot to peddle drugs.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Drama, Action, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, suspenseful, tense
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Snowland (2005)
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Based on the novel Hohaj by Elisabeth Rynell, it depicts the devastation felt by Elizabeth, a woman who had lost her husband in a car accident and wants to leave her three young children to join him in death by wandering out into the snowy deserts of Lapland. As she wanders through the snow, Elizabeth discovers the story of Aron and Ina, a couple who overcame dark secrets and over-controlling family members to be with each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 386
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, erotic, eros
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Your Name Poisons My Dreams (1996)
Plot Summary:
Angel Barciela and the police inspector Francisco Valduque meets after several years in the funeral of Buendía engineer. Both expect to see Julia, the daughter of the deceased and one of those involved in the investigation.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, non-linear, detective
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Hero (1983)
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Hero is the story of a criminal transforming and evolving as a good person under the influence of love. Jackie is a baddie with a heart of gold though, who has to settle scores with the area's 'Thakur' and his police officer son Sanjeev Kumar. So he opts for kidnapping their soft spot, Radha, Thakur khandaan's only daughter. Radha is given to understand that Jackie and his gang are police people who have taken her away to the safety of jungles because their house has been invaded by dacoits. The rest of the story is about the gang's camaraderie with Radha in sylvan spots and the discovery of truth by Radha.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 945
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 173 min
Plot tags: masala
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Diljale (1996)
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Captain Ranvir is assigned the task of apprehending two terrorists named Shaka and Dara. Upon arrival in the region, he meets with and falls in love with Radhika, the daughter of Rajasaheb, who also is a Mantri. The latter approves of him, and arranges his wedding with his daughter. Before the engagement could take place, Ranvir finds out that he has a rival in Shaka, who was in love with Radhika before, and is all set to prevent this marriage at any and costs. Ranvir decides to postpone his wedding until such time he arrests Shaka and his associates - a decision that will not only pit him against well-armed terrorists, but also result in the abduction of a bus-load of Vaishnodevi devotees - which include Radhika and her Bua.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 159 min
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Hero (2015)
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Sooraj (Sooraj Pancholi) is a gangster of Mumbai who meets Radha (Athiya Shetty). Radha is the daughter of the Chief of Police. One day, Sooraj takes Radha,telling her that he got instructions from the police to take her away from city for some time. But later Radha gets to know that she is kidnapped by Sooraj. After a series of events, Sooraj leaves Radha. But by that time, they are already in love. Thereafter, comes the part where they have to face a lot of problems.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, suspense, entertaining
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What to Do in Case of Fire? (2001)
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What To Do In Case of Fire? tells the humorous and touching story of six former creative anarchists who lived as house squatters in Berlin during its heyday in the 80s when Berlin was still an island in the middle of the former eastern Germany. At the end of the 80s they went their separate ways with the exception of Tim and Hotte, who have remained true to their ideals and continue to fight the issues they did as a group. In 2000, with Berlin as Germany's new capital, an event happens forcing the group out of existential reason to reunite and, ultimately, come to grips with the reason they separated 12 years ago.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: political, compassionate, melancholic, talky, realistic, humorous, semi serious, suspense, breathtaking, clever
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Friends (1993)
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Three female friends, in the end of the eighties, share a house in Johannesburg, South Africa. Each of them has her own way to live the apartheid. Thoko is a black teacher, she practices non-violent passive resistance. The afrikaner Aninka takes refuge in archaeology not to see the reality. Sophie is a white militant, putting bombs in public places... Each of them respect the other two's ideas, but one of Sophie's bombs will change everything.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, South Africa
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: crying, independent film
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Alamo Bay (1985)
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A despondent Vietnam veteran in danger of losing his livelihood is pushed to the edge when he sees Vietnamese immigrants moving into the fishing industry in a Texas bay town.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: political, tense, sincere, bleak, serious, realistic, disturbing, suspense
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Outrage (1993)
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Marco Vallez (Antonio Banderas) is possessed by the beauty of a circus sharp shooter, and from the second they meet he is willing to give up everything to be with her. But one horrifying night sends them both down a road of revenge leaving behind a trail of bodies to the ultimate showdown with justice.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, sensual
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Stay as You Are (1978)
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A May-December romance. Roué Giulio Marengo, a Roman landscape architect unhappy in his marriage, meets Francesca, a young and beautiful Florentine, and then learns she might be his daughter. He resolves to keep his hands off but can't seem to stay away, and she's eager for a lover who's a father figure.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: erotic, art house, naughty
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If They Tell You I Fell (1989)
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In the post Spanish civil war years, Catalan kids would sit in circles among the ruins and tell stories, known as "aventis" (the film's original title in Catalan, its original language). These tales mix war stories, local gossip, comic book characters, fantasy and real events. The "aventis" told in this film are told in flashback. In the mid 80s, 45 or so years after the age of the "aventis," a doctor and a nurse-nun (who grew up together, and now are co-workers in a hospital) identify the corpse of one of the main characters of the "aventis" of their childhood and adolescence. Besides the interesting flashbacks - a chronical of the Civil War in a "typical" Barcelona microcosm itself, the discovery of this body (belonging to someone long presumed dead) leads to other surprises and unresolved doubts, several decades later.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 442
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, tense, suspense, erotic, sexual, sexy
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L'Eclisse (1962)
Plot Summary:
A young woman meets a vital young man, but their love affair is doomed by the man's materialistic nature.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: art house, philosophical, black and white, surreal, neorealism, cerebral, visual, bleak, realistic, contemplative
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Against the Wind (1990)
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Juan flees Madrid and an incestuous relationship with his sister, Ana, working at a mine on the Andalucian coast. When his friendship with Rosario, a local shop girl, becomes romance, Ana shows up wanting to rekindle their affair. He resists at first, but she stays, asserting that Juan is the only man she can ever love. Juan distances himself from Rosario. The mine has problems: high cancer rates in the area caused by poorly stored radioactive waste. A foreign safety engineer, Petersen, tries to connect with Ana, is rebuffed, but lets her stay in his sea-front bungalow. Juan seeks her out to demand she leave, only to argue with Petersen. Death, desire, and longing play out.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: manga
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Earth (1996)
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Angel, an exterminator recently released from a mental hospital, comes to rid a small Spanish town of tiny grubs in the soil. The local wine-making industry has found these pests responsible for giving their product an "earthy" taste that has divided local opinion. While in town, Angel becomes involved with two beautiful and very different women, and impacts their lives on a grand scale. Can either of these women accept the fact that Angel travels with a "ghost" of himself, or that he routinely speaks with the deseased townspeople?.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: erotic, art house, hispanic, humorous, realistic, surreal, contemplative, semi serious, manga, weird
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Germinal (1993)
Plot Summary:
It's mid 19th century, north of France. The story of a coal miner's town. They are exploited by the mine's owner. One day the decide to go on strike, and then the authorities repress them.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Italy
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: political, emotional, realistic, philosophical, anthology, sincere, thought provoking, epic, serious, captivating
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Imagining Argentina (2003)
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Set during the unsettling disappearances in Buenos Aires during the dictatorship of the 1970s, the film involves theater director Carlos Rueda and his wife Cecilia. Shortly after Cecilia writes an editorial commentary questioning the mysterious abductions, she is herself abducted and taken into police custody.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Spain, UK, USA, Argentina
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, serious, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, inspirational, romantic, political, romantic drama
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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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Julieta (2016)
Plot Summary:
The film spans 30 years in Julieta’s life from a nostalgic 1985 where everything seems hopeful, to 2015 where her life appears to be beyond repair and she is on the verge of madness.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Spain, France, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: emotional, melancholic, sentimental, thought provoking, art house, colorful, erotic, epic, hispanic, sexual
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Fanaa (2006)
Plot Summary:
Zooni Ali Beg (Kajol) is a blind Kashmiri girl who travels without her parents for the first time with a dance troupe to Delhi to perform in a ceremony for independence day. On her journey, she meets Rehan Khan (Aamir Khan), a casanova and tour guide who flirts with her. Although her friends warn Zooni about him, she cannot resist falling in love with him and he takes her on a private tour of New Delhi. But there is more to Rehan than meets the eye and Zooni will have to make a heartbreaking decision.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 168 min
Plot tags: touching, uplifting, serious, feel good, emotional, realistic, romantic, inspirational, entertaining, sad