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Plot Summary:
Wed just as war breaks out, Jeanne hardly gets to know her military husband, Louis, before the debacle of 1940. While waiting for his return from a POW camp, Jeanne journeys through countless affairs with Louis' comrades- in-arms. Hoping to forget these wartime betrayls, Louis takes his wife and the infant twins he didn't father to Berlin, where she falls for Matthais, a sensitive German industrialist. When the Indochinese war sends Louis to Vietnam, Matthais follows Jeanne back to France. A subsequent move to Damascus where Louis is posted as military attache, fails to break their bond.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, serious, realistic, gloomy, sexual, semi autobiographical, sexy
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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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3 Hearts (2014)
Plot Summary:
A twist of fate leaves a hapless accountant romantically torn between two sisters.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sentimental, serious, atmospheric, touching, realistic, psychosexual thriller
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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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Little England (2013)
Plot Summary:
Τwo sisters from the island of Andros, dubbed Little England because of its affluence, are both in love with the same man. Set in the Greek Civil War period and ending in the 1950s, the movie is based on the homonymous novel by Ioanna Karystiani.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, stylized, romantic, romantic drama, period drama
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A Married Woman (1964)
Plot Summary:
A superficial woman has conflict between choosing her abusive husband and her vain lover.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: art house, black and white, sensual, psychological, atmospheric, serious, captivating, realistic, contemplative, stylized
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A Promise (2013)
Plot Summary:
A romantic drama set in Germany just before WWI and centered on a married woman who falls in love with her husband's teacher. Separated by the war, they pledge their devotion to one another.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, emotional, period piece, sincere, romantic drama, historical drama, costume drama, serious, realistic
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The Soft Skin (1964)
Plot Summary:
Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married with Franca and father of Sabine, around 10. He meets an air hostess, Nicole. They start a love affair, which Pierre is hiding, but he cannot stand staying away from her.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: depressing, neo noir, anthology, art house, black and white, psychological, atmospheric, serious, realistic, contemplative
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The Bridge (1999)
Plot Summary:
Actor Gerard Depardieu co-directed this drama about a married woman who falls in love with another man. Mina is a movie buff with a husband, Georges, who's out of work, and a 15-year-old son, Tommy. While Mina works part-time as a domestic for Claire Daboval, the family is terribly short on money, so when Georges is offered construction work on a massive bridge project, he immediately accepts, even though the job site is far enough away that he'll only be able to come home on weekends. One day, while taking in a matinee screening of West Side Story, Mina meets a man named Matthias, an engineer associated with the bridge project. It's love at first sight for the both of them, and while Mina has no desire to hurt Georges, who is a good and decent man, she has found another good and decent man whom she loves even more. Tommy, on the other hand, has to deal with this crisis in his parents' marriage while he's sorting out his own infatuation with Ms. Daboval's daughter, Lisbeth.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 635
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy, semi autobiographical
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Manon of the Spring (1986)
Plot Summary:
In this, the sequel to Jean de Florette, Manon (Beart) has grown into a beautiful young shepherdess living in the idyllic Provencal countryside. She plots vengeance on the men whose greedy conspiracy to acquire her father's land caused his death years earlier.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Switzerland, France, Italy
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, atmospheric, touching, sincere, thought provoking, depressing, educational, family saga, saga, anthology
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Sentimental Destinies (2000)
Plot Summary:
In late nineteenth century Charante, Protestant minister Jean Barnery causes local disquiet when he arranges a separation from his obsessive wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, touching, captivating, gloomy, period drama
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Circle of Love (1964)
Plot Summary:
In a chain reaction of romantic adventures, various people play musical beds in a remake of Max Ophul's "La Ronde.".
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 639
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: art house, sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, sexual, sexy, confusing
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La séparation (1994)
Plot Summary:
In Paris, Pierre and Anne have been living together for a couple of years and they have the eighteen months son Loulou, who stays with the nanny Laurence during the day while they work. Their best friends are the couple Victor and Claire, who also is not married but live together. Out of the blue, Pierre feels Anne estranged with him and sooner she discloses that she is in love with another man. Pierre seems to accept her affair but their relationship rapidly deteriorates, and Pierre becomes violent with her.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, serious, realistic, light, sexy, thought provoking, enigmatic, bleak, unusual plot structure
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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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Nathalie... (2003)
Plot Summary:
Paris doctor Catherine starts to think her husband, Bernard, is having an affair when she hears an unfamiliar woman's message on his voice mail. Hoping to learn more about his extramarital activities, Catherine heads to a strip club, where she hires call girl Nathalie to have a fling with Gerard. As the affair progresses, Nathalie gives Catherine regular status reports, and the relationship between the women evolves from business to personal.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sexy, atmospheric, serious, psychological, realistic, anthology, surprise ending, sexual, erotic
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Feelings (2003)
Plot Summary:
Two seemingly happily married French couples are forced to contend with a number of issues.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, erotic, sensitive, sexy
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Gloomy Sunday (1999)
Plot Summary:
Budapest in the thirties. The restaurant owner Laszlo hires the pianist András to play in his restaurant. Both men fall in love with the beautiful waitress Ilona who inspires András to his only composition. His song of Gloomy Sunday is, at first, loved and then feared, for its melancholic melody triggers off a chain of suicides. The fragile balance of the erotic ménage à trois is sent off kilter when the German Hans goes and falls in love with Ilona as well.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Romance, Drama
Country: Germany, Hungary
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sexy, harsh, sincere, emotional, surprise ending, sad, reflective, sensual, visual
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Marie-Jo and Her 2 Lovers (2002)
Plot Summary:
Marie-Jo and Her Two Lovers (French: Marie-Jo et ses deux amours) is a 2002 French drama film directed by Robert Guédiguian. It was entered into the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 824
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: emotional, psychological, sincere, serious, realistic, contemplative
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An Italian Romance (2004)
Plot Summary:
Giovanni, a married man with a child, meets on a train Maria, a former lover.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 360
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, captivating, historical drama, sentimental
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Strangers (2007)
Plot Summary:
Six days in the lives of an Israeli living in a kibbutz and a Palestinian living in Paris, which starts with an accidental meeting in the Berlin Subway during the World cup finals, will change them completely.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, serious, realistic, contemplative, independent film
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Five Times Two (2004)
Plot Summary:
As young French couple Gilles and Marion officially separate, we see, in reverse order, the milestone moments in their relationship: Gilles revealing his unfaithfulness at a tense dinner party; Marion giving birth to their premature son while Gilles is elsewhere; Gilles and Marion's joyous wedding; and, finally, the fateful moment when they meet as acquaintances at an Italian beach resort, and their love affair begins.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, enigmatic, non-linear, sensual, stylized, sincere, inspirational, disturbing, tense
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Strayed (2003)
Plot Summary:
Fleeing the June 1940 arrival of Hitler's army in Paris, a young war widow and her two children are rescued from dive-bombing German fighters by a cocky, reckless teenager. He finds them refuge in an abandoned house, but despite the fact that the family quickly comes to be depending much on his cunning and survival abilities, their cohabitation proves uneasy.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, suspenseful, erotic, road movie, thought provoking, intelligent, romantic drama, tense
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Faithless (2000)
Plot Summary:
Scripted by Ingmar Bergman, this very personal film is about a destructive affair which wrecks the marriage of an actress (Marianne) and musician (Markus). Wanting to continue the affair, Marianne moves in with her lover. But she is tormented by Markus' decision not to let her have custody of their daughter. Finally Markus announces he may have a solution to the stalemate, but this leads to deception, lies and ultimately, tragedy.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Italy, Germany, Finland, Norway
Duration: 154 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, atmospheric, lyrical, tense, contemplative, stylized, gloomy, depressing, erotic
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Happiness (1965)
Plot Summary:
Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse, young husband and father François finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal worker.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: art house, anthology, psychological, sentimental, atmospheric, serious, realistic, gloomy, fairy tale, erotic
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Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud (1995)
Plot Summary:
Nelly leaves her lazy, unemployed husband to work for retired judge Mr Arnaud, forty years her senior, after he offers to clear her bills for her. While she types his memoirs the two develop a close friendship, but Arnaud becomes jealous when Nelly begins dating his good-looking young publisher.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, sexual, light, atmospheric, sexy
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Desire (2002)
Plot Summary:
In 1945 Spain a young man with Nazi contacts fell in love with a left wing family woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sentimental, serious, captivating, stylized, realistic
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Nuts for Love (2000)
Plot Summary:
En 1975, unos meses antes del comienzo de la dictadura militar argentina, Alicia y Marcelo se conocen en un concierto de Sui Géneris. El amor surge inmediatamente entre ellos, pero el retorno del novio de Alicia provoca la separación. En 1982, en Madrid, sus caminos vuelven a cruzarse. Tras el encuentro, se dan cuenta de que, a pesar de que el amor sigue latente, sus destinos discurren por rumbos separados. Años después, en 1990, tras otro encuentro casual, Marcelo decide hacer frente a sus sentimientos por Alicia: ambos quieren hacer realidad su sueño postergado desde la adolescencia.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 466
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, serious, emotional, sentimental, realistic, contemplative, talky, gloomy
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Lovin' Molly (1974)
Plot Summary:
Spanning nearly 40 years from 1925 to 1964, two Texas farm boys; straight-arrow Gid and laid-back Johnny fight over the affections of the beautiful and headstrong Molly Taylor, who consistently refuses to marry either of them.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 590
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic
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A Soldier's Tale (1989)
Plot Summary:
In the days following the D-Day invasion in Normandy, France, a British platoon leader named Saul (Gabriel Byrne) and his corporal (Paul Wyett) reach an isolated farmhouse and encounter a beautiful French girl named Belle (Marianne Basler). Love blooms between Saul and Belle, but the grim realities of war catch up with them when a French Resistance trio claims that Belle is a Nazi collaborator. Judge Reinhold appears briefly as the token Yank.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: realistic, tense, serious, emotional
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Come Undone (2010)
Plot Summary:
Anna is an accountant for an important insurance firm and lives with her longterm lover Alessio - a man who longs for a stable longterm relationship with children, home, etc. Anna, feeling as though the fire has fizzled in that relationship takes up with co-worker Domenico and the two begin a passionate affair.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, Switzerland, France
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, sincere, touching, sexy, serious, realistic, sexual, art house, explicit
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The Heart of Me (2002)
Plot Summary:
Drama set in 1930s London with two sisters, Madeleine married to Rickie, and Dinah, who falls in love with him. Rickie and Dinah begin an affair which is to have repercussions throughout all their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, romantic drama, clever, erotic, romantic, spiritual, cult classic