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Plot Summary:
A single mother from LA marries an Australian cattle rancher following a whirlwind courtship. He returns to Australia ahead of her and her two children, and dies before they arrive. His widow is left with a debt-ridden ranch during one of the worst droughts in Australian history. In addition, she has land-grabbing neighbors to contend with.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 180 min
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The Irishman (1978)
Plot Summary:
Paddy Doolan is a man who refuses to accept change. In a new century where the motor car is changing the way things are done, the stubborn Irishman, the last of the draught-horse teamsters, continues to haul timber the old way.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: independent film, uplifting, touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic
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The Wild McCullochs (1975)
Plot Summary:
A story about the rich McCulloch Family, their overbearing father and the children's misguided blaming him for everything that doesn't go right.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: saga, independent film
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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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Lucy (2006)
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 93 min
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Love Finds You in Valentine (2016)
Plot Summary:
Kennedy Blaine, a Californian girl, inherits a ranch in the small town of Valentine in Nebraska. Before she sells the property, she decides to spend the summer in her house and learn more about her family.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, entertaining, realistic
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My Two Loves (1986)
Plot Summary:
A widow emerges from her mourning after a year. She moves into a new apartment, gets a new job, and a gains a 'gentleman caller' her late husband's partner and former best friend. Her daughter opposes the relationship and causes considerable confusion. As she tries to work out her problems, she confides in a fellow worker. The friend offers her a shoulder to cry on and ultimately suggests that they have a relationship. Surprised and more confused than ever, she does find herself drawn to her friend. Sada Thompson also appears as the woman's mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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What a Sun (1984)
Plot Summary:
Veronica is a high school student studying to be a glazier, although she dreams of being a theatre actress. The only thing that she finds joy in at school is the company of her friend, Klemen and writing the script for a theatre play in her spare time together with a retired actress whom she has befriended. Her parents find it difficult to understand her acting ambitions - or rather, they would probably find it difficult, if they would bother to take the time off their busy schedules to try. Nor does anyone else understand Veronica. When all her plans go awry, she ends up in a home for juvenile delinquents. When she is released into the custody of her parents again, she eludes their vigilant guard and runs away to the country, to Klemen. Only Klemen's father makes it abundantly clear to her when she gets there that Klemen will not stand by her side either. Veronica finds herself out on the street again, where everything is possible and the future is open to her.
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Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
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Sentimental Romance (1976)
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Near the close of the Russian Civil War, in 1923, a young man begins studying journalism at a worker newspaper and has a series of romantic adventures which cause him to mature swiftly. He rescues a beautiful girl from an abusive family situation, only to lose her to a smooth-talking sharpster the first time he has to leave town on assignment. Another much nicer and more principled girl is really in love with him, but he doesn't know it. This bittersweet coming-of-age story was based on a novel by Vera Panova.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 93 min
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Our Town (1977)
Plot Summary:
3-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
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The Tree (2010)
Plot Summary:
The O'Neills lived happily in their house in the Australian countryside. That was until one day fate struck blindly, taking the life of Peter, the father, leaving his grief-stricken wife Dawn alone with their four children. Among them, eight-year-old Simone denies this reality. She is persuaded that her father still lives in the giant fig tree growing near their house and speaks to her through its leaves. But the tree becomes more and more invasive and threatens the house. It must be felled. Of course, Simone won't allow it.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Australia, Germany, Italy, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: realistic, atmospheric, touching, emotional, romantic, stylized, romantic drama, sincere, serious, gloomy
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Over the Hill (1992)
Plot Summary:
Alma can't stand to have one more birthday without seeing her estranged daughter, Elizabeth, who lives in Sydney, Australia.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Dearest Jane (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young girl learn to accept love and change, after being sent to live with her uncle in Indiana.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, tense, suspense, contemplative, independent film, unusual plot structure
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Keeper (2015)
Plot Summary:
Maxime and Mélanie are a typical teenage couple. Like most lovestruck fifteen-year-olds, they can't get enough of each other and they think they'll be together forever. But when Mélanie becomes pregnant, their worlds are rocked.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 481
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, Switzerland, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, psychological, tense, sentimental, captivating, contemplative, unusual plot structure
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Chhoti Si Mulaqat (1967)
Plot Summary:
Shanker Choudhury's (Tarun Bose) mother (Pratima Devi), at the pleas of her dying husband, marries off his (Shanker's) daughter to a youth. Both the children are under-age and do not know nor understand that they have been married.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 175 min
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What I Did for Love (2006)
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Call him a city slicker. Call him a tenderfoot. But don't call him a member of the family--yet. Rising L.A. lawyer James White is going home for the holidays with his fiancée, Sadie Ryder, to finally meet her family in rural Pine Gap. After blundering through a bad first impression, James attempts to win over Sadie's lawyer-loathing father Karl by pretending to be a horse-riding, hay-baling, game-hunting, seasoned square dancer. But a pair of worn jeans and a ten-gallon hat don't make a cowboy, and it's going to take more than mere posturing to charm Mr. Ryder...in fact, it just may take a miracle.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 596
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, sentimental, emotional, psychological, captivating, sex comedy, touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Foxfire Light (1983)
Plot Summary:
A spoiled rich girl used to getting her way comes up against a rancher who won't be intimidated by her.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, captivating, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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A Girl Like Grace (2015)
Plot Summary:
Raised by a single mother, a bullied 17 year-old girl seeks guidance from her best friend and the girl's older sister.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 679
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: captivating
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Hidden Places (2006)
Plot Summary:
A drama about a young widow who finds a guardian angel in the form of a hobo who comes to her rural community looking for work.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 595
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sincere, touching, crying
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McLeod's Daughters (2001)
Plot Summary:
McLeod's Daughters is an Australian television series that began airing on the Nine Network on 8 August 2001. This Logie award winning drama series follows the lives of half sisters Claire and Tess McLeod as they embark on a mission: to run Drovers Run, a farm that has been in the McLeod family for generations. After being passed down from father to son, Drover's has now reunited Claire and Tess after 20 years. They now have to run a farm while balancing their lives, loves and losses.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: realistic, witty, sentimental, touching, serious, captivating, exciting, idiotic, telenovela
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Square Dance (1987)
Plot Summary:
An awkward 13-year-old (Winona Ryder) leaves her cranky grandfather (Jason Robards) in rural Texas, to live with her mother (Jane Alexander) in Fort Worth.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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Comes a Horseman (1978)
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Ella Connors is a single woman who gets pressured to sell her failing cattle farm to her corrupt ex suitor, Jacob Ewing. She asks for help from her neighbor, Frank Athearn. As Ella and Frank fight back through stampedes, jealousy, betrayal, and sabotage...they eventually find love.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, realistic
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Summer Games (2011)
Plot Summary:
The story of an adult and a teenage couple during a brief summer holiday by the sea. While Nic's parents remain trapped in a precarious mutual dependency despite repeated attempts at reconciliation, their 12-year-old son tries to come to terms with his father's traumatizing violent outbursts in games with other children. He tries to teach Marie, who is of his age and suffers from her own relationship with her father, to feel nothing. In fact, both of them are transformed by their experience of the joys and pains of first love.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 430
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, serious, touching, realistic, sad
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The Only Thrill (1997)
Plot Summary:
A small-town store owner with a comatose wife shares a long-term relationship with his seamstress.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 780
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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The Good Mother (1988)
Plot Summary:
After finding a sexually liberated boyfriend, a divorced woman gets sued over daughter's custody, by her ex, who claims that her lover has a bad influence on the kid.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, sincere, thought provoking, serious, realistic, gloomy, erotic, sentimental, light
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The Lost Husband (2020)
Plot Summary:
Trying to put her life back together after the death of her husband, Libby and her children move to her estranged Aunt's goat farm in central Texas.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, sincere, touching, captivating
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Friends (2000)
Plot Summary:
A story about a girl named Priya (Preity Zinta) who is the apple of her parents' eyes. She defied the Indian culture when she got pregnant out of marriage by Saif Ali Khan.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: emotional, touching, serious, realistic, crying
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Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
Plot Summary:
A recently widowed woman on the road with her precocious young son is determined to make a new life for herself as a singer.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: road movie, emotional, touching, realistic, romantic, thought provoking, entertaining, psychological, sincere, serious
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My Brilliant Career (1979)
Plot Summary:
A young woman who is determined to maintain her independence finds herself at odds with her family who wants her to tame her wild side and get married.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, period piece, romantic, historical drama, sentimental, uplifting, touching, feel good, serious, realistic
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December Boys (2007)
Plot Summary:
For many years, four teenage orphans at an Australian outback convent have watched their younger comrades find new parents, and realize that they may never be adopted. The Reverend Mother sends the four boys away on a seaside vacation, where they meet Teresa and Fearless, a couple who would make perfect parents. The youths compete with one another to be the one Teresa and Fearless decide to adopt.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, Germany, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, emotional, sad, realistic, harsh, stylized, erotic, novela, teen
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Somersault (2004)
Plot Summary:
Australian teenager Heidi is left with little choice but to leave home after she's caught red-handed with her mother's boyfriend. With few options, Heidi ends up in Jindabyne, a tourist community. Upon meeting Joe at a bar, she pursues a relationship with him and tries to find something resembling a normal home life. Heidi makes small strides by getting a job and finding a place to stay, but her relationship with Joe must overcome more than its share of hurdles.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, realistic, sexy, psychological, depressing, melancholic, lyrical, art house, erotic