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Plot Summary:
An incomplete family. A house without a man. A daughter without a father. Twenty years of waiting, full of childlike pure love for a man she never saw. The desire to understand the reason for father's indifference to her becomes obtrusive. So before her wedding, young college student Ania (Marina Alexandra) who lives with her mother (Jelena Korienieva) decides to find her father (Aleksandr Zbruje), who has never been interested in the fate of his daughter. She goes to Moscow by St. Petersburg-Moscow express train to complete the plan.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 93 min
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Sea Shadow (2011)
Plot Summary:
Mansoor, a 16 year-old teenager, living in a coastal "freej" (an Emirati neighborhood), has strong feelings for 16 year-old girl Kaltham. But culture and tradition, as well as family hardship, make it difficult for him to express his feelings. A conversation with his "know-it-all" friend convinces him that a gift is the best way to express love, and so, he begins to look for ways to save money for the gift without arousing the suspicion of his family and friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: United Arab Emirates
Duration: 98 min
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Vanechka (2007)
Plot Summary:
A young girl dreaming to become an actress goes through hell with an orphan baby on her hands. The whole world seems to be against her. She meets the love of her life when there is no one to stand by her.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, crying
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Honey Baby (2004)
Plot Summary:
A road movie based on the Greek story of Orpheus and Eurydice.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 377
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, Germany, Latvia, Russia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Accidente 703 (1962)
Plot Summary:
Hector travels with Luisa by the road linking Madrid with Barcelona. When another car suddenly crosses his path, his vehicle leaves the road and plunges into a tree. Hector dies and she is seriously injured. The other car was occupied by Jorge and Paula, her lover. Several vehicles cross before the car crash and do not stop, each for a different reason. Among them is Julio, a truck driver who does not stop in order to reach his destination on time, not knowing that at the wrecked car travels his old girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 84 min
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Don Juan in Hell (1991)
Plot Summary:
While the last remnants of the Empire are extinguishing and King Philip II (1559-1598) is dying in the shadow of lost splendor, a man, defying the divine and human justice, turns his passions into fate and his will into law. His fame is as great as his pride. His conviction, eternal. His name, a legend: Don Juan. Free adaptation of "Don Juan" by Moliere.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min
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Cassiopeia (2022)
Plot Summary:
Su-jin who tries to pursue a perfect life as a successful lawyer, single mother and daughter, plans to send her daughter Gina to study abroad in the United States, where her ex-husband lives. When Su-jin gets busier with work, Su-jin's dad, In-woo moves in to help Su-jin take care of Gina. The three live together for some time, until one day, Su-jin gets into a car accident and receives an unexpected diagnosis.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 101 min
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Surviving Family (2012)
Plot Summary:
Terry hasn't seen or spoken with her family in 2 years. When she shows up unannounced on her father's doorstep - with her fiancé and a plan to get married in 5 days - she learns that she's not the only one with secrets.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, captivating, suspenseful, crying
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Great Love (2006)
Plot Summary:
Начало шестидесятых годов. Грядёт сокращение вооружённых сил. Бравый генерал, убежденный холостяк и отчаянный бабник Антон Улыбабов получает приказ жениться в течение двух недель — в противном случае ему грозит увольнение из армии. Отправляясь на поиски невесты, генерал летит в Москву. Еще в самолете генерал предотвращает террористический акт, спасая всех пассажиров. Придя к профессиональной свахе, генерал находит невесту: случается так, что эта невеста — стюардесса, с которой Улыбабов познакомился в самолёте. С детства у девушки предубеждение — не выходить замуж за военных. Первый ее муж, военный летчик-испытатель, погиб, а гадалка еще до этого нагадала вообще с военными не связываться. Увидев генерала рядом со свахой, девушка просто убегает. Генерал заходит в гости к своему московскому другу. Но так случается, что друга нет дома, а ему открывает дверь его соседка по коммунальной квартире — та самая бортпроводница.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 94 min
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Time of Desires (1984)
Plot Summary:
A woman focused on career and achievement alienates her husband.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 103 min
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Snap (2015)
Plot Summary:
Pueng, daughter of a military Colonel, has planned to spend her married life with Mann, a young Lieutenant with a promising future. On the day Martial Law was announced, she received a wedding invitation from a high school friend back in her hometown. Upon her return to Chanthaburi, Pueng is reunited with her old friends and encounters Boy who came back to work at the promising event as a wedding photographer. The unresolved feelings between Pueng and Boy resurface as they relive the old memories of their youthful days.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 97 min
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One More Time (2023)
Plot Summary:
On her 40th birthday, Amelia makes a fateful wish to be 18 again back in 2002 but soon regrets it when she's stuck reliving the day over and over again.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 85 min
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North Star (2023)
Plot Summary:
Three sisters return to their home for the third wedding of their twice-widowed mother. But the mother and daughters are forced to revisit the past and confront the future, with help from a colorful group of unexpected wedding guests.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
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Jenny (1970)
Plot Summary:
An unwed mother-to-be marries a total stranger avoiding the draft. She now has a father for her child and he doesn't have to go to the Army. But this marriage-of-convenience leads to a romance between the two.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Heaven None Missed 3 (2021)
Plot Summary:
Meirose strives to create heaven in her family, with her husband and their two children. One day, Ray, a man from her past, returns and wants to build his lost paradise with Meirose and Akbar.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 120 min
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Plagio (1969)
Plot Summary:
During the student movement in Bologna, Italy. 1968. Angela and Massimo are friends, lovers and college students. They get to know Guido, the heir of a wealthy family who has never known love pure. Impressed by the feeling that binds the two lovers, Guido invites them to move into his house. Soon, in a series of betrayals, confessions, departures and returns, it will create a conscious threesome bound to result in tragedy.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 88 min
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Close Friends (1992)
Plot Summary:
Fifteen-year-old Sabrina has lived with her father since he split with her mother. As the film unfolds it gradually becomes clear that Sabrina is a victim of incest.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: erotic
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One Perfect Wedding (2021)
Plot Summary:
With Cara leaving on an international book tour in two weeks and Ben’s business expansion keeping him busy, the couple decides they won’t let work commitments postpone their nuptials any longer. With the help of their best friends Megan and Sean, Cara and Ben feel nothing can stop them from having the perfect wedding.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 782
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing
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The Envy of Gods (2000)
Plot Summary:
Sonia is a television editor, she is married to successful Soviet writer Sergey and they have a son in a high school. Their life was almost perfect... until the moment they meet Bernard from France and his translator André.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 354
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: touching, captivating, suspenseful, exciting
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I'll Come Running (2008)
Plot Summary:
A young Danish man traveling through Texas hooks up with an Austin girl, and even though they're not planning to see each other again, tragic circumstances lead her to his doorstep in Denmark.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 370
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, romantic drama, gloomy, independent film
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Voyager (1991)
Plot Summary:
Walter Faber has survived a crash with an airplane. His next trip is by ship. On board this ship he meets the enchanting Sabeth and they have a passionate love affair. Together they travel to her home in Greece, but the rational Faber doesn't know what fate has in mind for him for past doings.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, France, Greece
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: road movie, sad, manga, sincere, atmospheric, touching, bleak, serious, emotional, realistic
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After Everything (2023)
Plot Summary:
Besieged by writer’s block and the crushing breakup with Tessa, Hardin travels to Portugal in search of a woman he wronged in the past – and to find himself. Hoping to win back Tessa, he realizes he needs to change his ways before he can make the ultimate commitment.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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The Vows We Keep (2021)
Plot Summary:
An event planner must organize the perfect wedding for her sister in less than a month when she finds out that the Rosewood, a historic inn and beloved wedding venue, is being sold.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 534
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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The Promise (1979)
Plot Summary:
A rich student's fiancee has her face destroyed by a car accident, and refuses to return to him fearing the loss of his love.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 812
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic
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Wide Sargasso Sea (2006)
Plot Summary:
Dramatisation of Jean Rhys's novel set in 19th-century Jamaica. The tragic story of the first Mrs Rochester from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre centres on an arranged marriage between a white Creole heiress and a brooding Englishman, who fall in love only to be torn apart by rumours, paranoia and a cultural divide.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 727
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: erotic, period piece, period drama
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The Christmas Train (2017)
Plot Summary:
Forced to take the intercontinental trip to Los Angeles by train, and determined to chronicle his adventure, disillusioned journalist Tom Langdon finds himself westbound with a variety of characters. While all passengers on the Christmas train appear to be headed for the same destination, Tom has no idea that the rugged locomotives taking him across America will instead detour straight into his heart.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sweet, entertaining, disturbing, road movie
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Love at Look Lodge (2020)
Plot Summary:
Lily dreams of being a hotel event coordinator and is thrilled when she's given the chance to do so by helping Noah, a hotel guest, finish planning his sister Justine's wedding at a remote lodge.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 834
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, feel good, humorous, entertaining
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Not Here to Be Loved (2005)
Plot Summary:
Jean-Claude Delsart, a 50 years-old bailiff, with his worn-out smile and heart, abandoned a long time ago the idea that life could give him pleasures. Until the day, he dares to push the doors of a tango lesson.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, serious, captivating
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Last Chance Harvey (2008)
Plot Summary:
In London for his daughter's wedding, a struggling jingle-writer, Harvey Shine, misses his plane to New York, and thus loses his job. While drowning his sorrows in the airport pub, Harvey meets Kate, a British government worker stuck in an endless cycle of work, phone calls from her mother, and blind dates. A connection forms between the unhappy pair, who soon find themselves falling in love.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, sincere, sweet, uplifting, feel good, light, witty, serious, realistic
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Father of the Bride (2022)
Plot Summary:
A father coming to grips with his daughter’s upcoming wedding through the prism of multiple relationships within a big, sprawling Cuban-American family.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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A Muse (2012)
Plot Summary:
Renowned 70-year-old poet Lee Jeok-yo falls for a 17-year-old girl named Eun-gyo. Upon realizing his love for the teenager, the poet goes through emotional turmoil and self-destruction, while willing to give up his fame as one of the nation’s most respected literary figures. Involved in the love triangle is Lee's student Seo Ji-woo, a novelist in his 30s who also becomes obsessed with the girl.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: psychological, melancholic, disturbing, controversial, erotic, sexy, dark, naughty