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Plot Summary:
Christer Berg dies in a car crash and is found with a teddy bear named "Bamse". His son, also named Christer finds out that Bamse belongs to his father's lover Barbro Persson. He tries to humiliate her, introducing her to his mother as his new fiancée. But he ends up falling in love with her, and she sees in him the memories of her dead lover. When she finds herself pregnant, they have to decide about their love affair.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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Italiani (1996)
Plot Summary:
1965, a train with a variety of passengers is heading north when it makes an unexpected stop. On the other track, heading south, a train passes with the same passengers 20 years later.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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Little Mother (1973)
Plot Summary:
Marina Pinares, the wife of the president of a South American country, insists on being his vice-presidential running mate in the next election. She's no stranger to assassination to get what she wants, so some suspect she'll kill her own husband after the election to become president. In a series of flashbacks we see her rise to power: a party girl willing to sacrifice a friend's virtue to gain favor; the lover of a soldier she later tortures; the mistress of the military man she soon marries.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany, Yugoslavia, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, grindhouse
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It Rains in My Village (1968)
Plot Summary:
A bizarre and tragic love story involving swineherd, village fool, teacher and an agricultural pilot. The story unfolds in a remote village in the communist ruled Yugoslavia at the down of Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 671
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia, France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: black and white, serious, realistic
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Open Eyes (1982)
Plot Summary:
Directed by Raafat El-Mihi.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Egypt
Duration: 108 min
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Time of Love (1995)
Plot Summary:
Three episodes, all with relatively similar plots about a love triangle between a woman and two men.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran, Turkey
Duration: 75 min
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The Inheritance (1980)
Plot Summary:
In this standard Hungarian drama, the effects of sterility and jealousy on a marriage are played out against a backdrop of World War II and the rising Nazi persecution of Jews. Director Marta Meszaros usually focuses on issues like pregnancy, middle-age, and other topics without questioning the broader picture. In this drama, Sylvia (Lili Monori) cannot have children, and she convinces married Jewish woman Irene (Isabelle Huppert) to have a child and then give the child to her for adoption. The plan works but it also backfires. The way in which the child was adopted causes friction between Sylvia and her husband, and to make matters worse, Sylvia's husband falls in love with Irene. A crisis looms when he asks his jealous wife to give Irene her identity papers because Jews are being deported and Irene will die without their help.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, Hungary
Duration: 105 min
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Summer Solstice (1981)
Plot Summary:
An old man lives out the final years of his half-century marriage by living and remembering.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 279
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
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A Love Story (2007)
Plot Summary:
What if you met the woman you wanted to make your wife after you married someone else? Ian Montes is a picture of success. Despite being a son of a shipping tycoon, Ian refused to just ride in his father's empire. He built his own real estate company and earned his first million at a very young age. He never looked back since then. Driven by his ambition to become better, if not as good as his father, Ian managed to make it on his own. But behind all the glory is a man yearning for love and recognition.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: tagalog, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Le Garcu (1995)
Plot Summary:
A self-centered man (Gérard Depardieu) with many diversions occasionally visits his 4-year-old son (Antoine Pialat) and the boy's mother (Géraldine Pailhas).
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 628
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
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Sentimental Romance (1976)
Plot Summary:
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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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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Orpheus Descending (1990)
Plot Summary:
Val Xavier is a drifter in 1940's Mississippi who brings new life to an Italian immigrant woman trapped in a loveless marriage.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 355
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: southern gothic
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The Weather in the Streets (1983)
Plot Summary:
Passion comes calling when a man suffering through an unhappy marriage in 1920s England runs into first love.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 133 min
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Anna Karenina (1967)
Plot Summary:
The film is based on the novel of the same name by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. “All happy families resemble each other, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, ” goes the novel’s opening sentence. The melodrama centers around a tragic story of love and infidelity, the destiny of a woman who irrevocably changes her life for the sake of a passion. Anna Karenina finds it impossible to renounce her feelings for the loved one. She rejects the morals of society and tries to defend her right to love. Her husband bars Anna from her son, her acquaintances turn their backs on her… Starring in the title role was the famous Russian actress Tatiana Samoilova (“The Cranes Are Flying”).
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 991
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: spiritual
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Little Angel (1996)
Plot Summary:
Ramona lives her lonely life in Berlin working in a lipstick factory. One day she accidentally runs into Andrzei, a Polish mechanic illegally selling cigarettes in Germany during the weekend. One thing leads to another, and soon she finds herself pregnant. Then her life starts falling apart, when Andrzei tells her he already has a wife back in Poland and her baby dies shortly after its premature birth.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min
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Silsiilay (2005)
Plot Summary:
A group of women find solidarity with each other as they negotiate their complicated love-lives.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 762
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 134 min
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Over the Dark Water (1993)
Plot Summary:
Leningrad; 60th years; white nights. Walking on Neva Embankment, the charming provincial has met three friends: poet, artist and film director. And each of young people has suggested to marry him.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, psychological, melancholic
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The Lover (2002)
Plot Summary:
This is a remarkably subtle film–a character study that focuses on Mitya’s attempts to cope with each new startling phase of discovery. At first he mourns for his dead wife, but then he discovers that he didn’t really know her.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 675
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, spiritual
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A Flower Aflame (2016)
Plot Summary:
When Sonoko enters a traditional Japanese arranged marriage with Amamiya facilitated by her parents the resulting union is loveless including the functional and goal-oriented sex.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining
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The Love Affair (2015)
Plot Summary:
Often in the backseat and a second priority to her partner, a lawyer decides to end her relationship and focuses on herself with a help of a man out of her league.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 293
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: romantic, atmospheric, emotional, realistic
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Loving Couples (1964)
Plot Summary:
Three expectant mothers think back over their sex lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 758
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: social, crying
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Deserter (1992)
Plot Summary:
During the Yugoslav break-up, Federal Army officer is fed up with war and takes some leave in Belgrade. However, it turns out that he is less haunted by war horrors than with some sentimental skeletons in the closet. He meets his former comrade and best friend who is AWOL, but can't report him because he had an affair with his wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Duration: 109 min
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Summer in Portugal (2013)
Plot Summary:
Workaholic hotel architect effectively drifted apart from his family. He interrupts the latest, Moroocan project to spend a holiday with his wife Liane in Lisbon, but is delayed. Friendly local interior decorator João, a widower, enjoys hosting her. learning she's lonely to, he successfully seduces her with his personality and the estate he never moved into due to his late wife's cancer death. By the time Ben finally and senses the tension, it becomes clear already has a long affair with João's sister Antilla.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Portugal
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating
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Obsessed with a Married Woman (1985)
Plot Summary:
Jane Seymour makes a six-course meal of her starring role as a magazine editor in Obsessed With a Married Woman--indeed, her performance is the only tangible reason for sitting through this artistically bankrupt TV movie. The story contrives to have Seymour, happily married and the mother of a wise-lipped son, fall into the sack with her star reporter Tim Matheson. It seems that Jane has assigned Matheson to do a series of articles on mistresses. He does his homework so well that Jane takes him on as her own "male mistress.".
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
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Love and Other Catastrophes (2016)
Plot Summary:
Rosa is a psychologist. She is married to Frederik and they have two children. Frederik has an affair with the photographer Sonja, who gets pregnant. But Sonja's psychologist is Rosa, and when she finds out who Sonja's lover is, all hell breaks lose.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Open Hearts (2002)
Plot Summary:
Cecilie and Joachim are about to get married when a freak car accident leaves Joachim disabled, throwing their lives into a spin. The driver of the other car, Marie, and her family don’t get off lightly, either. Her husband Niels works in the hospital where he meets Cecilie and falls madly in love with her.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, independent film, touching, realistic, romantic, captivating, sentimental, art house, psychological, sincere
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The Man from Elysian Fields (2001)
Plot Summary:
A failed novelist's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife and leads him to work at an escort service where he becomes entwined with a wealthy woman whose husband is a successful writer.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: witty, melancholic, clever, touching, sexy, entertaining, independent film, art house, humorous, realistic
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Basil (1998)
Plot Summary:
A lonely young aristocrat in turn-of the century England struggles to meet the approval of his over-bearing, class-conscious father while trying to please the selfish woman he loves.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sentimental, serious, realistic, light, sincere, period piece, gothic, crying, independent film, period drama
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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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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