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Cinderella Man (2005)
Plot Summary:
The true story of boxer, Jim Braddock who, in the 1920’s after his retirement, has a surprise comeback in order to get him and his family out of a socially poor state
Duration: 144 min
IMDB Rating: 8.0/10
IMDB Votes: 196000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Plot tags: boxing, underdog, human spirit, great depression, biopic, boxer, athlete's life, poverty, depression, motivation, financial problem, family bonds, fight, rise to the top, prizefighter, lifestyle, comeback, boxing champion, follow your dream, career, life is a bitch, vengeance, inspiration, redemption, family drama
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
Duration: 129 min
IMDB Rating: 7.8/10
IMDB Votes: 322000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK, USA
Plot tags: prejudice, love, happy ending, fall in love, love and romance, opposites attract, aristocracy, strong female character, initially antagonists, wooing, unlikely couple, social differences, pride, gentleman, pride and honor, sisters, male female relationship, couples, society, family relations, couple relations, eligible bachelor, rich and poor, looking for love, verbal byplay
Walk the Line (2005)
Plot Summary:
A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins
Duration: 136 min
IMDB Rating: 7.8/10
IMDB Votes: 262000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Plot tags: music, rock and roll, country music, musician's life, musician, addiction, marriage, biopic, accident, prison, drug, rise and fall, singer, concert, rags to riches, drug abuse, drug addiction, rock, love story, music business, profanity, childhood, rising to stardom, destiny, redemption
Merry Christmas (2005)
Plot Summary:
In 1914, World War I, the bloodiest war ever at that time in human history, was well under way. However on Christmas Eve, numerous sections of the Western Front called an informal, and unauthorized, truce where the various front-line soldiers of the conflict peacefully met each other in No Man's Land to share a precious pause in the carnage with a fleeting brotherhood
Duration: 116 min
IMDB Rating: 7.7/10
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Drama, History, Music, Romance, War
Country: France, Germany, UK, Belgium, Romania, Japan
Plot tags: christmas, world war one, truce, war, soldier, holiday, human spirit, idealism, christmas eve, friendship, trench warfare, prejudice, initially antagonists, winter, great war, military, anti war, battles, soccer, hopes, german army, new year, military life, behind enemy lines, battle zone
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Plot Summary:
Two modern-day cowboys meet on a shepherding job in the summer of '63, the two share a raw and powerful summer together that turns into a lifelong relationship conflicting with the lives they are supposed to live
Duration: 134 min
IMDB Rating: 7.7/10
IMDB Votes: 376000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Plot tags: gay, homosexuality, gay romance, homosexual, gay relationship, lgbt, forbidden love, love story, closeted homosexual, gays and lesbians, gay slur, first gay sexual experience, gay love, gay interest, gay husband, cowboy, glbt, sex scene, tragic love, male nudity, loneliness, gay teenager, love, lgbtq, gay sex
Match Point (2005)
Plot Summary:
Match Point is Woody Allen’s satire of the British High Society and the ambition of a young tennis instructor to enter into it. Yet when he must decide between two women - one assuring him his place in high society, and the other that would bring him far from it - palms start to sweat and a dark psychological match in his head begins
Duration: 124 min
IMDB Rating: 7.6/10
IMDB Votes: 226000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Luxembourg
Plot tags: infidelity, love triangle, couples, lust, adultery, seduction, destructive relationship, passionate interest, love and romance, fatal attraction, tennis, passion, sexy woman, sex, husband wife relationship, manipulation, murder, twists and turns, sexual attraction, social differences, marriage, society, character study, instructor, blind ambition
Ghajini (2005)
Plot Summary:
The film's story is around a rich business entrepreneur falling in love with an ad film actress. The entrepreneur and the actress fall in love, though she does not know that he is an entrepreneur. When she successfully saves a bunch of children who were in danger, she is brutally murdered by a gang leader and the entrepreneur himself gets hit hard on the head when he tries to save his lover, eventually leading him into a state of short term memory loss. He is later studied about and helped by a psychology student to take revenge on the one who murdered his lover
Duration: 175 min
IMDB Rating: 7.5/10
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Plot tags: murder, memory loss, revenge, injustice, tragic event, life is a bitch, fall in love, danger, disorder, haunted by the past, obsessive quest, uncover truth, tragic love, love and romance, escapades, vengeance, dishonesty, kidnapping, amnesia, exploitation, mental health, model, chases and races, love affair, rivalry
Corpse Bride (2005)
Plot Summary:
Set in a 19th-century european village, this stop-motion animation feature follows the story of Victor, a young man whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious corpse bride, while his real bride Victoria waits bereft in the land of the living
Duration: 77 min
IMDB Rating: 7.4/10
IMDB Votes: 294000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Plot tags: afterlife, corpse, supernatural, goth, stop motion, wedding, marriage, death, disagreement, fear, love, loneliness, escape attempt, hopes, fall in love, couples, shyness, dark humor, love and romance, supernatural romance, fiance fiancee relationship, halloween, getting home, unrequited love, children
The Constant Gardener (2005)
Plot Summary:
Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not causing any problems. But after his radical wife Tessa is killed he becomes determined to find out why, thrusting himself into the middle of a very dangerous conspiracy
Duration: 129 min
IMDB Rating: 7.4/10
IMDB Votes: 147000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Kenya, France, USA, Switzerland
Plot tags: spy, conspiracy, investigation, corruption, murder, cover up, death, aids, politics, marriage, idealism, politician, obsession, espionage, political corruption, grief, uncover truth, diplomacy, garden, fighting the system, baby, airplane, pregnancy, female nudity, funeral
Little Manhattan (2005)
Plot Summary:
Ten-year-old Gabe was just a normal kid growing up in Manhattan until Rosemary Telesco walked into his life, actually into his karate class. But before Gabe can tell Rosemary how he feels, she tells him she will not be going to public school any more. Gabe has a lot more to learn about life, love, and girls
Duration: 84 min
IMDB Rating: 7.4/10
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Plot tags: first love, friendship, children, child's point of view, coming of age, school, love story, jealousy, bully, love, couples, child, divorce, relationships, fall in love, boy, friends, teenager, parents and children, human nature, american football, puppy love, passion, childhood, bittersweet
The Secret Life of Words (2005)
Plot Summary:
A touching story of a deaf girl who is sent to an oil rig to take care of a man who has been blinded in a terrible accident. The girl has a special ability to communicate with the men on board and especially with her patient as they share intimate moments together that will change their lives forever
Duration: 115 min
IMDB Rating: 7.4/10
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, Ireland
Plot tags: blind character, haunted by the past, disability, loneliness, nurse patient relationship, accident, burn victim, love, friendship, blind man, trauma, depression, blindness, relationships, factory, love story, happy ending, character study, complex characters, father son relationship, deaf, understanding, human nature, couple relations, pain
The Child (2005)
Plot Summary:
Bruno and Sonia, a young couple living off her benefit and the thefts committed by his gang, have a new source of money: their newborn son
Duration: 95 min
IMDB Rating: 7.4/10
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, France
Plot tags: homeless, poverty, youth, dysfunctional family, baby, black market, social decay, going straight, life is a bitch, society, family problems, petty criminal, regret, human nature, street kid, change of heart, adolescence vs adulthood, money, social realism, loser, european, realism, money problems, theft, adoption
Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
Plot Summary:
A sweeping romantic epic set in Japan in the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house
Duration: 145 min
IMDB Rating: 7.3/10
IMDB Votes: 158000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Japan, France
Plot tags: love story, women, geisha, age difference, japanese culture, older man younger woman relationship, brothel, beauty, love and romance, young woman, orphan, secret love, mentor, femininity, jealousy, world war two, rivalry, training, loss of sister, female protagonist, uninhibited rivalry, loneliness, unfulfilled love, brutality, loss of virginity
King Kong (2005)
Plot Summary:
In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to mysterious Skull Island, where they encounter Kong, a giant ape who is immediately smitten with the leading lady
Duration: 187 min
IMDB Rating: 7.2/10
IMDB Votes: 441000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Romance
Country: USA, New Zealand, Germany
Plot tags: creature, jungle, dinosaur, king kong, beast, monster, gorilla, giant ape, island, rescue, giant animal, monkey, dangerous animal, lost world, human animal relationship, survival, filmmaking, giant spider, giant, adventurer, expedition, escape, danger, creature feature, human sacrifice
A Married Woman (2005)
Plot Summary:
They fall in love before they know its meaning, Lolita, orphaned at an early age & Shekhar, who reaches out & gives her the security she craves.They share joys & sorrows through childhood & adolescence,unknown to them the relationship of an unspoken right they hold over eachother metamorphs into an intense love, they don't even sense coming. It Takes and outsider for them to realize their love
Duration: 130 min
IMDB Rating: 7.2/10
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Plot tags: love triangle, childhood sweetheart, friendship, family relations, fall in love, couples, couple relations, parents and children, love affair, social differences, family problems, family in crisis, erotica, prejudice, love story, indian woman, rock, friends, love and romance, society, bittersweet, true love, love, sex, sexual jealousy
The Bow (2005)
Plot Summary:
On a fishing boat at sea, a 60-year old man has been raising a girl since she was a child. It is agreed that they will get married on her 17th birthday. They live a quiet and secluded life, renting the boat to day fishermen and practicing strange divination rites. Their life changes when a teenage student comes aboard
Duration: 90 min
IMDB Rating: 7.1/10
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea, Japan
Plot tags: older man younger woman relationship, isolation, love affair, confined, age difference, love triangle, fall in love, couples, couple relations, sailing, boat, sea, survival, nature, moving, outcast, enlightenment, old age, mission, sea voyage, minimal dialogue, hidden treasure, asian prostitute, little girl, ocean
Barefoot (2005)
Plot Summary:
A hedonistic bachelor, falls for an escaped mental patient. Til Schweiger comes up with a slickly-made off-the-wall romantic comedy drama "Barfuss" (Barefoot), his first solo directing effort in nearly a decade. Punchy, anti-establishment tone, with Schweiger playing a hedonistic bachelor - he is his rich family's black sheep - who falls for a suicidal mental patient (Johanna Wokalek). An offbeat, strangely tender love story develops as Nick struggles with responsibility for the first time in his life
Duration: 118 min
IMDB Rating: 7.1/10
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Plot tags: social misfits, opposites attract, mental illness, family relations, starting over, love affair, psychiatry, runaway, mental health, fall in love, couples, hopes, monkey, illness, happiness, mental institution, destruction, love story, feeling, relationships, dysfunctional family, changing lives, suffering, pretense, life turned upside down
Broken Flowers (2005)
Plot Summary:
As the devoutly single Don Johnston is dumped by his latest girlfriend, he receives an anonymous pink letter informing him that he has a son who may be looking for him
Duration: 106 min
IMDB Rating: 7.1/10
IMDB Votes: 106000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, USA
Plot tags: midlife crisis, loneliness, travel, on the road, single parent, illegitimate son, road trip, flowers, quest, divorce, haunted by the past, anonymous letter, letter, teenage girl, sexuality, voyeur, complex characters, depression, melancholy, character study, old love, couples, lost, human nature, sex
The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005)
Plot Summary:
Andy Stitzer has a pleasant life with a nice apartment and a job stamping invoices at an electronics store. But at age 40, there's one thing Andy hasn't done, and it's really bothering his sex-obsessed male co-workers: Andy is still a virgin. Determined to help Andy get laid, the guys make it their mission to de-virginize him. But it all seems hopeless until Andy meets small business owner Trish, a single mom
Duration: 116 min
IMDB Rating: 7.1/10
IMDB Votes: 459000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Plot tags: virginity, shyness, dating, nerd, male virgin, loss of virginity, 40 year old, friendship, adult virgin, naivete, mentor, masturbation, relationships, teenage sex, love, sex scene, single mother, flirting, first time, couples, silly humor, teaching the ways of the world, sex, sexuality, friendship between men
Russian Dolls (2005)
Plot Summary:
Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle reunite
Duration: 125 min
IMDB Rating: 7.0/10
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK
Plot tags: friendship, lesbian, male nudity, writers, relationships, love triangle, looking for love, lifestyle, writer's life, understanding, old love, culture clash, storytelling, drinking, travel, ballet, wedding, ballerina, seduction, railway, screenwriter, european, nudity, feeling, model
An Unfinished Life (2005)
Plot Summary:
Stoic and heartbroken, Einar Gilkyson quietly lives in the rugged Wyoming ranchlands alongside his only trusted friend, Mitch Bradley. Then, suddenly, the woman he blames for the death of his only son arrives at his door broke, desperate, and with a granddaughter he's never known. But even as buried anger and accusations resurface, the way is opened for unexpected connection, adventure, and forgiveness
Duration: 108 min
IMDB Rating: 7.0/10
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Plot tags: starting over, beautiful scenery, farm, countryside, hopes, relationships, small town, family relations, family problems, single parent, family in crisis, reconciliation, old friend, change of heart, grandparent grandchild relationship, parents and children, changing lives, acceptance, loss of son, haunted by the past, estrangement, human nature, loss of family member, cold relationship, father daughter relationship
Wedding Crashers (2005)
Plot Summary:
John and his buddy, Jeremy are emotional criminals who know how to use a woman's hopes and dreams for their own carnal gain. Their modus operandi: crashing weddings. Normally, they meet guests who want to toast the romantic day with a random hook-up. But when John meets Claire, he discovers what true love – and heartache – feels like
Duration: 119 min
IMDB Rating: 7.0/10
IMDB Votes: 371000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Plot tags: wedding, seduction, wedding party, fiance fiancee relationship, love and romance, looking for sex, marriage, love story, stereotypes, party, friends, eccentric family, sex, flirting, twists and turns, love at first sight, friendship, girl, fall in love, prostitute, bridesmaid, bride and groom, female rapist, lap dance, buddy
The Tiger and the Snow (2005)
Plot Summary:
Love and injury in time of war. Attilio de Giovanni teaches poetry in Italy. He has a romantic soul, and women love him. But he is in love with Vittoria, and the love is unrequited. Every night he dreams of marrying her, in his boxer shorts and t-shirt, as Tom Waits sings. Vittoria travels to Iraq with her friend, Fuad, a poet; they are there with the second Gulf War breaks out. Vittoria is injured. Attilio must get to her side, and then, as war rages around him, he must find her the medical care she needs. In war, does love conquer all?
Duration: 114 min
IMDB Rating: 7.0/10
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy
Plot tags: true love, poet, war, against the odds, human spirit, ambition, power of love, cure, woman in danger, wooing, goodhearted, love, wartime, love story, war on terror, european, hospital, camel, writers, terrorism, lovers, plot twist, unconventional romance, amor, circus
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?
Duration: 91 min
IMDB Rating: 7.0/10
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France
Plot tags: angel, love story, life philosophy, loneliness, gangster, disorder, relationships, redemption, transformation, twists and turns, destiny, existentialism, pimp, supernatural romance, love, dialogue, suicide attempt, love and romance, church, low self esteem, sex, alien, time travel, life after death, heaven and hell
Conversations with Other Women (2005)
Plot Summary:
Reunited at a wedding after many years, former lovers again feel the pull of a mutual attraction neither is willing to admit. Escaping the reception for the privacy of a hotel room, the unnamed pair explore the choices of the past that led them to the present
Duration: 84 min
IMDB Rating: 6.9/10
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Plot tags: wedding, couples, infidelity, love story, love and romance, unfulfilled love, couple relations, introspection, hopes, sex, dialogue, adultery, bittersweet, conversation, hotel, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, love, night, porn, flirting, partner, ex girlfriend, social satire, vicious
Shinobi: Heart Under Blade (2005)
Plot Summary:
Even though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an annual conference with the Lord, it is dictated that a competition--a fight to the death--will take place between the five best shinobi from each village. Gennosuke and Oboro's love is made even more impossible when they each got picked as the leader of the five to represent their respective villages
Duration: 107 min
IMDB Rating: 6.8/10
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Plot tags: samurai, ninja, master warrior, tragic love, martial arts, supernatural ability, state affairs, forbidden love, heroes, battles, uninhibited rivalry, supernatural, dishonesty, medieval, love and romance, tribe, elimination, imaginary, japanese history, asian history, superhero, fight, karate, ballet, assassin
Rent (2005)
Plot Summary:
This rock opera tells the story of one year in the life of a group of bohemians struggling in modern day East Village, New York, USA. The story centers around Mark and Roger, two roommates. While a former tragedy has made Roger numb to life, Mark tries to capture it through his attempts to make a film. In the year that follows, the group deals with love, loss, HIV/AIDS, and modern day life
Duration: 135 min
IMDB Rating: 6.8/10
IMDB Votes: 55000
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Plot tags: aids, lesbian, bohemian life, gay, drug abuse, friendship, broadway, addiction, music, christmas, drug addiction, hiv, dancing, glbt, dance, lgbtq, musician, eviction, poverty, protest, roommate, coping, lifestyle, life is a bitch, actor's life
Just Like Heaven (2005)
Plot Summary:
Shortly after David Abbott moves into his new San Francisco digs, he has an unwelcome visitor on his hands: winsome Elizabeth Martinson, who asserts that the apartment is hers -- and promptly vanishes. When she starts appearing and disappearing at will, David thinks she's a ghost, while Elizabeth is convinced she's alive
Duration: 95 min
IMDB Rating: 6.7/10
IMDB Votes: 116000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Plot tags: ghost, afterlife, love story, unlikely couple, impossible love, coma, initially antagonists, supernatural romance, supernatural, doctor, happy ending, opposites attract, psychic, waking up from a coma, love, life after death, heaven, female ghost, magic, destiny, women, life & death, fall in love, hospital, love and romance
Goal! (2005)
Plot Summary:
Like millions of kids around the world, Santiago harbors the dream of being a professional footballer...However, living in the Barrios section of Los Angeles, he thinks it is only that--a dream. Until one day an extraordinary turn of events has him trying out for Premiership club Newcastle United
Duration: 118 min
IMDB Rating: 6.7/10
IMDB Votes: 65000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: UK, USA
Plot tags: soccer, football, coach, sport team, athlete's life, human spirit, follow your dream, ambition, lifestyle, dream come true, against the odds, career, rivalry, contests and competitions, talented, rising to stardom, cheerleader, poverty, unsupportive parent, motivation, underdog, cia, restaurant, lego, faith
Imagine Me & You (2005)
Plot Summary:
During her wedding ceremony, Rachel notices Luce in the audience and feels instantly drawn to her. The two women become close friends, and when Rachel learns that Luce is a lesbian, she realizes that despite her happy marriage to Heck, she is falling for Luce. As she questions her sexual orientation, Rachel must decide between her stable relationship with Heck and her exhilarating new romance with Luce
Duration: 90 min
IMDB Rating: 6.7/10
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Plot tags: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian love, lesbian relationship, wedding, lesbian couple, lesbian romance, love triangle, love affair, couple relations, lgbtq, gays and lesbians, love story, fish out of water, power of love, friendship, gay, sapphic, lesbian teen, couples, infidelity, glbt, fall in love, love and romance, adultery