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Plot Summary:
A sumptuous dramatic comedy set in late 19th Century France, during the Belle Epoque, a period of social and cultural excess in European upper classes which ended only as the First World War erupted.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sexual, sexy, period piece, romantic, costume drama, sincere, humorous, captivating, erotic, offbeat
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The Tender Hook (2008)
Plot Summary:
The story is about Iris's rise to the apex of a love/power triangle that includes her roguish English lover, McHeath, and Art, an earnest young boxer. Within the flawed moral landscape, each character struggles to establish their sovereignty.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 599
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, captivating, stylized, neo noir, sexual
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Being Julia (2004)
Plot Summary:
Julia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all - including a devoted husband who has mastermined her brilliant career - but after years of shining in the spotlight she begins to suffer from a severe case of boredom and longs for something new and exciting to put the twinkle back in her eye. Julia finds exactly what she's looking for in a handsome young American fan, but it isn't long before the novelty fling adds a few more sparks than she was hoping for. Fortuately for her, this surprise twist in the plot will thrust her back into the greatest role of her life.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA, Hungary, UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: period piece, emotional, entertaining, stylized, sincere, witty, touching, romantic, historical drama, feel good
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The Hairdresser's Husband (1990)
Plot Summary:
The film begins in a flashback from the titular character, Antoine. We are introduced to his fixation with female hairdressers which began at a young age. The film uses flashbacks throughout and there are frequent parallels drawn with the past. We are unsure what Antoine has done with his life, however we know he has fulfilled his childhood ambition, to marry a haidresser.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sexual, sex comedy, epic, anthology, sensual, erotic drama, sentimental, touching
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Ham Ham (1992)
Plot Summary:
Jose Luis is an executive at his parents underwear factory where his girlfriend Sylvia works on the shop floor. When Sylvia becomes pregnant, Jose Luis promises her that he will marry her, most likely against the wishes of his parents. Jose Luis' mother is determined to break her son's engagement to a girl from a lower-class family, and hires Raul, a potential underwear model and would-be bullfighter to seduce Sylvia.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, humorous, dark comedy, sensual, disturbing, talky, touching, sex comedy, sexy, manga
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Valmont (1989)
Plot Summary:
Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that he can seduce her, even though she is an honorable woman. If he wins, he can have his lover to do as he will. However, in the process of seducing the married woman, Valmont falls in love. Based on the same novel as "Dangerous Liaisons.".
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: stylized, period piece, sensual, costume drama, sexy, realistic, erotic, historical drama, independent film, captivating
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My Man (1996)
Plot Summary:
In Lyon, where many are unemployed, Marie is a prostitute who loves her work: she's thoughtful and exuberant toward clients old and young, slim or flabby. One night, a homeless man sleeps in the foyer of her apartment house; she gives him a hot meal, then a place on the floor to sleep by her radiator, then she offers herself. She falls in love, giving him new life, clothes, a place to live. When he grouses that he must bar hop while she uses the flat for her work, she finds them a larger flat. He grows restless, seducing a manicurist and pressing her to prostitution. He's arrested for procuring, so Marie must decide what to do; he, too, must face the consequences of his choices.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sexy, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, cynical, semi serious, biting, sexual
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Cousins in Love (1980)
Plot Summary:
Teenage Julien (Thierry Tevini) loves his teenage cousin Julia (Anja Shute) among flowers in summer of '39 France.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, sexual, sensual, romantic, controversial, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sincere
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Brief Crossing (2001)
Plot Summary:
Desire for a subject that functions like a brief fling with no future as such, yet embellished by that very fact. Because something fleeting and futureless is not necessarrily pathetic or trivial. A brief crossing, perhaps an initiatory trip. Filming a guy's "first time", filming him like a girl. Gut level skin deep... Nostalgia for vast ocean liners, for places "beyond the law" where you can venture outside of life, safe within an interlude. Describing a passion while respecting classical tragedy's unity of time and place, setting the stage for the eternal play of Masculine/Feminine. A hot-blooded Latin temperatment versus an apparently cool English one. A ship - one night - Sudden intimacy between an Englishwoman whose complexion is frosted by bitterness and a teenager whose gaze glows like ardent coals.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, erotic, sexy, slasher, clever, contemplative
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A Good Woman (2004)
Plot Summary:
Fleeing 1930s New York and leaving behind a chequered past, the giltzy divorcee Mrs Stella Erlynne travels to Italy's sun-dappled Amalfi coast. Mrs Erlynne's appearance causes a stir amongst the visiting aristocracy. Based on the Oscar Wilde play Lady Windemere's Fan.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, Spain, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: stylized, light, period piece, semi serious, witty, clever, retro, cult classic, romantic drama, realistic
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Cousin Bette (1998)
Plot Summary:
Cousin Bette is a poor and lonely seamstress, who, after the death of her prominent and wealthy sister, tries to ingratiate herself into lives of her brother-in-law, Baron Hulot, and her niece, Hortense Hulot. Failing to do so, she instead finds solace and company in a handsome young sculptor she saves from starvation. But the aspiring artist soon finds love in the arms of another woman, Hortense, leaving Bette a bitter spinster. Bette plots to take revenge on the family who turned her away and stole her only love. With the help of famed courtesan Jenny Cadine she slowly destroys the lives of those who have scorned her. Written by [email protected].
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, talky, realistic, semi serious, witty, stylized, black comedy, erotic, gothic
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Personal Effects (2009)
Plot Summary:
Walter is a rising star in the NCAA wrestling world until his life is ripped apart by the brutal murder of his sister. Returning home to console his mother Gloria he seeks vengeance on the man who is accused of the crime. A chance meeting with a beautiful mature woman gives him solace to the situation. Will this unlikely pairing bloom into a romance and heal a wound the world cannot see or will the loss of his sister push him over the edge?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, psychological, touching, depressing, feel good, twisted, inspirational
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I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007)
Plot Summary:
This movie follows a mother who falls for a younger man while her daughter falls in love for the first time. Mother Nature messes with their fates.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: satirical, feel good, humorous, sentimental, light, romantic, cute, witty, stylized, intense
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Bel Ami (2012)
Plot Summary:
Georges Duroy travels through 1890s Paris, from cockroach ridden garrets to opulent salons, using his wits and powers of seduction to rise from poverty to wealth, from a prostitute’s embrace to passionate trysts with wealthy beauties, in a world where politics and media jostle for influence, where sex is power and celebrity an obsession.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Crime, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: stylized, realistic, serious, captivating, period piece, costume drama, romantic, gothic, sexual, romantic drama
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The Mother (2003)
Plot Summary:
A grandmother has a passionate affair with a man half her age, who is also sleeping with her daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, erotic, sincere, independent film, realistic, romantic, captivating, clever, contemplative
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Water for Elephants (2011)
Plot Summary:
In this captivating Depression-era melodrama, impetuous veterinary student Jacob Jankowski joins a celebrated circus as an animal caretaker but faces a wrenching dilemma when he's transfixed by angelic married performer Marlena.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 120000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: romantic, emotional, sexy, touching, stylized, scenic, melancholic, intense, realistic, inspirational
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Mansfield Park (1999)
Plot Summary:
This fun and sexy comedy tells a timelessly entertaining story where wealthy, secret passions and mischievous women put love to the test.. When a spirited young woman, Fanny Price, is sent away to live on the great country estate of her rich cousins, she's meant to learn the ways of proper society. But while Fanny learns "their" ways, she also enlightens them with a wit and sparkle all her own!.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: period piece, witty, costume drama, romantic, sexy, atmospheric, breathtaking, educational, happy, romantic drama
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The Age of Innocence (1993)
Plot Summary:
Tale of 19th century New York high society in which a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 66000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: touching, costume drama, atmospheric, stylized, period piece, sexy, romantic, emotional, talky, intense
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The Governess (1998)
Plot Summary:
When the father of privileged Rosina da Silva violently dies, she decides to pass herself off as a gentile and finds employment with a family in faraway Scotland. Soon she and the family father, Charles, start a passionate secret affair.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, emotional, colorful, period piece, costume drama, atmospheric, scenic, serious, historical drama, realistic
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Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978)
Plot Summary:
Solange is depressed: she's stopped smiling, she eats little, she says less. She has fainting fits. Her husband Raoul seeks to save her by enlisting Stephane, a stranger, to be her lover. Although he listens to Mozart and has every Pocket Book arranged in alphabetical order, Stephane fails to cheer Solange. She knits. She does housework. Everyone, including their neighbor a vegetable vendor, agrees that she needs a child, yet she fails to get pregnant by either lover. The three take a job running a kids' summer camp where they meet Christian, the precocious 13-year-old son of the local factory manager. It is Christian who restores Solange to laughter.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy, erotic, sexual, romantic, manga, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Malicious (1973)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful housekeeper becomes a romantic attraction to a widower and his three sons.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexual, sexy, sensual, humorous, sex comedy, romantic, eros, naughty, semi serious
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Spread (2009)
Plot Summary:
In Los Angeles, Nikki is homeless, car-less and closing in on 30, but he's amoral, good-looking, and adept in the sack, moving from one wealthy woman of 35 or 40 to another, a kept boy-toy. His newest gig, with Samantha, an attorney whose house overlooks L.A., is sweet, although it's unclear how long she'll put up with him. Then Nikki meets Heather, a waitress. Is the player being played, or might this be love? What will Nikki discover?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, romantic, sentimental, teen, psychological, captivating, cynical, sex comedy, light
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Venus Beauty (1999)
Plot Summary:
Madam Nadine manages with pride the "Vénus Beauté" Salon which offers relaxation, massage and make-up services. The owner and her three beauticians: Samantha, Marianne and Angèle are pros. Contrary to her friend Marianne, who still dreams of the big day, Angèle no longer believes in love. Marie, the youngest of the three employees, discovers love in the hands of a sixty year-old former pilot, who risks everything.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sexy, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, cult film
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2 Days in Paris (2007)
Plot Summary:
Adam Goldberg delivers "an uproarious study in transatlantic culture panic" as Jack, an anxious, hypochondriac-prone New Yorker vacationing throughout Europe with his breezy, free-spirited Parisian girlfriend, Marion. But when they make a two-day stop in Marion's hometown, the couple's romantic trip takes a turn as Jack is exposed to Marion's sexually perverse and emotionally unstable family.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, romantic, artsy, funny, melancholic, witty, contemplative, romantic comedy, realistic, talky
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Prime (2005)
Plot Summary:
A career driven professional from Manhattan is wooed by a young painter, who also happens to be the son of her psychoanalyst.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sweet, light, sentimental, romantic, funny, melancholic, humorous, semi serious, romantic comedy, witty
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5 to 7 (2014)
Plot Summary:
A young writer begins an affair with an older woman from France whose open marriage to a diplomat dictates that they can meet only between the hours of 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, independent film, captivating, romantic, romantic comedy, cute, teen, humorous, semi serious
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Damage (1992)
Plot Summary:
The life of a respected British politician at the height of his career crumbles when he becomes obsessed with his son's lover.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: sexy, sexual, erotic, melancholic, psychological, sensual, emotional, realistic, non-linear, romantic
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Dangerous Beauty (1998)
Plot Summary:
Veronica is brilliant, gifted and beautiful, but the handsome aristocrat she loves, Marco Venier, cannot marry her because she is penniless and of questionable family. So Veronica's mother, Paola, teaches her to become a courtesan, one of the exotic companions favored by the richest and most powerful Venetian men. Veronica courageously uses her charms to change destiny -- and to give herself a chance at true love.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: romantic, sexual, period piece, witty, sexy, costume drama, light, emotional, erotic, dramatic
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Adore (2013)
Plot Summary:
Lil and Roz are two lifelong friends, having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults, their sons have developed a friendship as strong as that which binds their mothers. One summer, all four are confronted by simmering emotions that have been mounting between them, and each find unexpected happiness in relationships that cross the bounds of convention.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: sexy, emotional, romantic, erotic, disturbing, sexual, sensual, captivating, controversial, independent film
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Pride & Prejudice (2005)
Plot Summary:
Pride & Prejudice is a humorous story of love and life among English gentility during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters. If Mr. Bennet dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 322000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK, USA
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: romantic, costume drama, sweet, dramatic, captivating, witty, touching, emotional, cute, period piece
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The Lover (1992)
Plot Summary:
A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon. For the first time in her young life she has control, and she wields it deftly over her besotted lover throughout a series of clandestine meetings and torrid encounters.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, sexual, psychological, sensual, sentimental, controversial, serious, romantic, visually stunning