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Plot Summary:
It's night on a Paris bridge. A girl leans over Seine River with tears in her eyes and a violent yearning to drown her sorrows. Out of nowhere someone takes an interest in her. He is Gabor, a knife thrower who needs a human target for his show. The girl, Adele, has never been lucky and nowhere else to go. So she follows him. They travel along the northern bank of the Mediterranean to perform.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: black and white, psychological, touching, humorous, sentimental, stylized, heartbreaking, serious, anthology, postmodern
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The Well-Digger's Daughter (2011)
Plot Summary:
It's the beginning of the WWII. South of France. Patricia, 18, is the oldest daughter of a well-digger, Pascal, who considers her a princess because of her moral qualities. She's kind, devoted. One day, she briefly meets a young man, Jacques, the son of Mazel, owner of the shop where her father buy his material. He's handsome and teasing. Her father's friend, Felipe, would love to marry her, and he invites her to an aviation show. She accepts his invitation only because she knows Jacques is a pilot and will be there. Soon, she'll carry his child, and he'll be gone, and the family will have to deal with this out-of-wedlock pregnancy.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, romantic, surprise ending, sentimental, serious, realistic, tragic, period drama
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For Lovers Only (2011)
Plot Summary:
FOR LOVERS ONLY is a story of a MAN and a WOMAN in love. After seeing each other for the first time in years while on separate work assignments in Paris, the LOVERS flee together and travel by train, car and motorcycle, as their love affair takes them across France-from Normandy to St. Tropez. Throughout their trip, both characters experience long periods of carefree bliss and unrepentant joy punctuated by brief moments of guilt and confusion. The final outcome of the affair is left open to interpretation.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, realistic, black and white, captivating, light, humorous, sexy, offbeat, independent film, sentimental
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Someone I Loved (2009)
Plot Summary:
One night, Pierre decides to reveal his painful secret to his daughter-in-law, who's just been abandoned by her husband. Pierre's secret is about his secret love to Mathilde, the woman he left to instead follow an easier path in life.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, Belgium, Hong Kong
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: serious, touching, realistic, captivating, melancholic, contemplative, gloomy, crying
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The Lovers on the Bridge (1991)
Plot Summary:
Set against Paris' oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, while it was closed for repairs, this film is a love story between two young vagrants: Alex, a would be circus performer addicted to alcohol and sedatives and Michele, a painter driven to a life on the streets because of a failed relationship and an affliction which is slowly turning her blind.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: romantic, atmospheric, enigmatic, art house, touching, feel good, disturbing, stylized, offbeat, heartbreaking
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Paris, 13th District (2021)
Plot Summary:
Émilie meets Camille who is attracted to Nora, who crosses paths with Amber. Three girls and a boy – They’re friends, sometimes lovers and often both.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sexy, black and white, romantic, touching, emotional, psychological, erotic, stylized, comedy drama, humorous
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Full Moon in Paris (1984)
Plot Summary:
"He who has two women loses his soul, he who has two houses loses his mind." So it goes with Louise played by Pascale Ogier who is dissatisfied with her mundane life in a bleak Parisian new-town. She rents a pied-à-terre in the city so she can experience independence.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: anthology, clever, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious, eighties
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Mr. Morgan's Last Love (2013)
Plot Summary:
The film centres on a retired, widowed professor living in Paris who develops a special relationship with a younger French woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Belgium, USA, France
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: romantic, sentimental, touching, heartbreaking, sad, realistic, inspirational, crying, indie film, serious
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Chloe in the Afternoon (1972)
Plot Summary:
The last of Rohmer's Six Moral Tales. Frederic leads a bourgeois life; he is a partner in a small Paris office and is happily married to Helene, a teacher expecting her second child. In the afternoons, Frederic daydreams about other women, but has no intention of taking any action. One day, Chloe, who had been a mistress of an old friend, begins dropping by his office. They meet as friends, irregularly in the afternoons, till eventually Chloe decides to seduce Frederic, causing him a moral dilemma.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: clever, anthology, art house, psychological, serious, realistic, contemplative, talky, stylized, sexual
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After You (2003)
Plot Summary:
Antoine is a maitre d' in a Paris brasserie, Chez Jean, and is so full of being of service to others that he can't say 'no'. Late for dinner with his girlfriend, Christine, he takes a shortcut home through the park but finds a stranger, Louis, in the act of committing suicide by hanging. Louis is distraught by the loss of his girlfriend, Blanche, and is so grateful that he attaches himself to Antoine. Antoine arranges a job for Louis - as a sommelier at Chez Jean and sets about trying to repair Louis' life.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: romantic, compassionate, light, humorous, clever, realistic, witty, semi serious, inspirational, road movie
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Orchestra Seats (2006)
Plot Summary:
A young woman arrives in Paris where she finds a job as a waitress in bar next on Avenue Montaigne that caters to the surrounding theaters and the wealthy inhabitants of the area. She will meet a pianist, a famous actress and a great art collector, and become acquainted with the "luxurious" world her grandmother has told her about since her childhood.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, clever, realistic
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Happenstance (2000)
Plot Summary:
How, thanks to what's known as the "Butterfly theory" (a random series of unlinked events), can a young woman and a young man meet?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: melancholic, stylized, touching, feel good, humorous, romantic, thought provoking, offbeat, sweet, realistic
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A Heart of Stone (1992)
Plot Summary:
Beautiful violin virtuoso Camille has two obsessions: the music of Ravel, and a friend of her husband's who crafts violins. But his heart seems to be as cold as her playing is passionate.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, heartbreaking, sincere, thought provoking, touching, anthology, art house, serious, realistic, contemplative
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The Man Who Loved Women (1977)
Plot Summary:
At Bertrand Morane's burial there are many of the women that the 40-year-old engineer loved. In flashback Bertrand's life and love affairs are told by himself while writing an autobiographical novel.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: erotic, controversial, anthology, art house, sex comedy, sexual, sexy, clever, touching, humorous
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Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2002)
Plot Summary:
The strange comedy film of two close brothers; one, Wilbur, who wants to kill himself, and the other, Harbour, who tries to prevent this. When their father dies leaving them his bookstore they meet a woman who makes their lives a bit better yet with a bit more trouble as well.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, UK, Sweden, France
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, black comedy, dark comedy, independent film, offbeat, clever, realistic, semi serious
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Alice and Martin (1998)
Plot Summary:
At the age of 20, Martin leaves his home town and comes to Paris, where he fortunately becomes a model by chance. He meets Alice, his brother's friend, and falls in love with her. They start a passionate relationship, although Martin remains very mysterious about his past and the reasons why he left his family. But when Alice tells him she's pregnant, he is suddenly almost driven to madness, as his past comes back to his mind. Alice will now do anything she can to help him.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: melancholic, enigmatic, emotional, psychological, romantic, erotic, sentimental, touching, serious, realistic
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My Wife Is an Actress (2001)
Plot Summary:
My Wife is an Actress is a French Romantic Comedy/Drama film starring real life couple Yvan Attal and Charlotte Gainsbourg. Attal plays a journalist who becomes obsessively jealous when his actress wife gets a part in a movie with an attractive co-star. Attal also wrote and directed the film.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: melancholic, disturbing, stylized, touching, semi serious, humorous, witty, erotic, romantic comedy, clever
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The Housekeeper (2002)
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After his wife leaves him for another man, Jacques hires a housekeeper, Laura, to keep his Paris apartment in order. As he starts increasing her hours and spending more time with her on her days off, Jacques is torn between the pleasure of Laura's company, and the headache that such an intrusion brings to his new domain of singlehood.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sentimental, harsh, semi serious, touching, realistic, talky, sensitive, humorous, sexual, road movie
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Autumn Tale (1998)
Plot Summary:
Magali (Béatrice Romand), forty-something, is a winemaker and a widow: she loves her work but feels lonely. Her friends Rosine (Alexia Portal) and Isabelle (Marie Rivière) both want secretly to find a husband for Magali.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: melancholic, meditative, witty, art house, touching, semi serious, realistic, talky, anthology, clever
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Italian for Beginners (2000)
Plot Summary:
A group of strangers find friendship, family and love within an Italian beginners’ course.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: touching, melancholic, romantic comedy, sentimental, feel good, humorous, romantic, realistic, witty, talky
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Le Week-End (2013)
Plot Summary:
Nick and Meg Burrows return to Paris, the city where they honeymooned, to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary and rediscover some romance in their long-lived marriage. The film follows the couple as long-established tensions in their marriage break out in humorous and often painful ways.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, humorous, happy, powerful, clever, realistic, witty, contemplative, talky
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Lawless Heart (2001)
Plot Summary:
In a British seaside resort, several lives intertwine following the funeral of a gay restaurant owner.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: melancholic, sentimental, touching, semi serious, talky, romantic, captivating, entertaining, humorous, realistic
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Frankie and Johnny (1991)
Plot Summary:
When Johnny is released from prison following a forgery charge, he quickly lands a job as a short-order cook at a New York diner. Following a brief fling with waitress Cora, Frankie develops an attraction for Cora's friend and fellow waitress Frankie. While Frankie resists Johnny's charms initially, she eventually relents when her best friend, Tim, persuades her to give Johnny a chance.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, light, sweet, feel good, humorous, romantic comedy, talky, captivating, retro
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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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Paris, I Love You (2006)
Plot Summary:
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to chose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 74000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Germany, USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: anthology, stylized, romantic, intellectual, talky, emotional, sentimental, atmospheric, art film, clever
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That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
Plot Summary:
After dumping a bucket of water on a beautiful young woman from the window of a train car, wealthy Frenchman Mathieu, regales his fellow passengers with the story of the dysfunctional relationship between himself and the young woman in question, a fiery 19-year-old flamenco dancer named Conchita. What follows is a tale of cruelty, depravity and lies -- the very building blocks of love.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, art house, sexy, clever, witty, cynical, stylized, psychedelic, sexual
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Delicacy (2011)
Plot Summary:
A French woman mourning over the death of her husband three years prior is courted by a Swedish co-worker.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, romantic, sincere, art house, sensual, happy, realistic
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Angel-A (2005)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful and mysterious woman helps an inept scam artist get his game together...but is their meeting purely coincidence?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: reflective, philosophical, black and white, melancholic, emotional, semi serious, offbeat, sincere, atmospheric, depressing
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Before Sunset (2004)
Plot Summary:
Nine years ago two strangers met by chance and spent a night in Vienna that ended before sunrise. They are about to meet for the first time since. Now they have one afternoon to find out if they belong together.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 282000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: philosophical, emotional, sentimental, romantic, independent film, touching, feel good, realistic, sincere, contemplative
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Amelie (2001)
Plot Summary:
At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie (Audrey Tautou) accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. Soon Amelie is spending her days as a matchmaker, guardian angel, and all-around do-gooder. But when she bumps into a handsome stranger, will she find the courage to become the star of her very own love story?.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 784000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: feel good, inspirational, touching, sweet, stylized, sentimental, romantic, visually stunning, surreal, colorful