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Plot Summary:
Again the film centres on a decidedly ordinary young woman – here, thirtysomething single Simone – caught up in an extraordinary situation: finding she’s pregnant after an anonymous (and evidently rare) one-night stand, she visits the hospital and unexpectedly bumps into the man in question. Still more surprisingly, this young doctor reveals he’d hoped to see her again and, told of the pregnancy, confesses he wouldn’t mind their becoming a couple. Nor would Simone – but is it all too good to be true? Few films have explored the psychological effects of pregnancy, planned or otherwise, and as with Gisela’s account of an extramarital affair, Stever steps into the fray bravely but wisely; steering clear of moral commentary, she allows actions to speak for themselves, while colour, lighting, landscape and architecture are deployed to evoke Simone’s swings between enchantment and alienation, desire and despair. Kuhl’s understated but eloquent lead performance fits the bill perfectly.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
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The Waiting Game (1998)
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The two friends Sarah and Amy runs an art gallery in a small town in New England. They share not only the art gallery, but also the longing for true love. Sarah's Uncle Lowell from Mexico pays a unexpected visit. This will be the start of an adventure that will take Sarah and Amy through the drug cartels and the CIA spies, to a passionate encounter with two seductive, also dangerous men.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 329
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: twisted
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The Neighbor (2007)
Plot Summary:
A businessman (Modine) watches as his life begins to unravel after learning his ex-wife is going to marry his best friend. A distracting battle of wills with a real estate developer, however, might just be the thing that turns his life around.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
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Lunch Box (2004)
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The film tells the story of Aiko, a 35-year-old mute woman who works in a bowling alley, and her brief romance with Yoshioka, a younger man who works as a postal carrier. The two meet when Aiko accidentally knocks Yoshioka off his bicycle, and they have a sexual encounter soon after. Aiko begins preparing lunchboxes and giving them to Yoshioka at his workplace as a way of expressing affection, which she cannot do verbally.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: erotic drama
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The Romance of Aniceto and Francisca (1967)
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Aniceto is used to being lonely. When Francisca offers him her love, his personal limitations and little miseries arise.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 419
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags: crying
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Class of '74 (1972)
Plot Summary:
Inhibited college student Gabriella slowly learns about how awesome sex and '70s-style free love is, with the help of her three significantly more experienced roommates.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
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Kama Sutra '71 (1970)
Plot Summary:
Fake documentary exploring sex practices.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: fake documentary
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A Girl on the Shore (2021)
Plot Summary:
In a seaside town where very little happens, middle school students Keisuke Isobe and Koume Satou live a rather dull life. But when Koume's crush breaks her heart, their situation becomes quite unordinary. She starts a "no-strings-attached" relationship with Keisuke, whom she had previously rejected, both finding solace in the other in order to fill the emotional voids in their lives. However, being "friends with benefits" becomes complicated when real feelings begin to develop, as the consequences of their relationship start to take their toll on those around them and themselves. A Girl on the Shore takes a harsh look at love, relationships, and the emotional price that will be paid as the result of a decision made between two teenagers.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Mit Burnout durch den Wald (2014)
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Six wildly different people have no clue what's install for them on 'pioneering' burnout therapist Hannah's forest hike to a desolate hotel in Märkischen Schweiz, with some tricks to force them out of their comfort zones in completely different circumstances then those which gave them regular stress. Workaholic restructuring management consultant Johann Meininger was tricked to take the course as his PA convinced his boss to dump him due to expensive seniority, but finds a new challenge when sparks flow between him and equally cocky teacher Silvia Rautenberg, a disorganized single mother of two who has tinnitus. Editing lecturer Alfred is desperate after 500 failed job applications and hamburger jobs. Yuppie designer Rosa is stuck in short-term apprenticeships. Fresh pensioner Herbert wants adventure after 40 years of patient care, but his wife Gudrun fears any risk. Therapist Hannah looses control.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min
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Shadows of Time (2004)
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Ravi and Masha are just children when they were sold into labour by their parents. When they meet, friendship blossoms between them but when the factory manager threatens to sell Masha, possibly into sex slavery, Ravi gives up his hard earned savings to buy her freedom. They agree on a way to find each other once Ravi has earned enough money to buy his freedom but a series of misunderstandings and fear tear them apart. Though they now have their freedom in life, they have to find their way in love.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: touching, captivating, serious, realistic
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Love Trap (2004)
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Law student Thijs shares a house in which every room is the HQ of constant cruising for one night stands, relationships are considered a waste of lives. Suddenly Ben, his best mate since childhood, announces he passed on his room to Susan, who brings her studly boyfriend Stef, because Ben is- getting married to heiress Talita Bekooy. Thijs now remembers his old ambition to start his own restaurant, but can't get a bank loan- until Ben recommends Thijs, the till then reluctant best man, to his in-laws-to-be as MC for the society wedding of the year, Sir is pleased to hear the extravaganza budget 'reduced' to 150,000 Euros. Then Cupid's arrow hits Thijs himself and Susan, but when the banker tells dad Bekooy he's totally inexperienced and poor, it all crumbles down. Yet the boy bravely perseveres.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 434
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: juvenile
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Ein Sommer auf Lanzarote (2016)
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German careerist headhunter Juliane Paul, engaged to bureau CEO Kai Lenz, must recruit local engineer Juan Garcia for a Moroccan coast oil project during his home 'finca' holiday on Lanzarote (Canaries), so she goes visit her mother Eva, who runs a pastry bakery there in between environmentalist and naive campaigns. Eva makes her mind the shop but employed baker Diego has a family emergency, so she must find another for a wedding order. Juan, who dropped by to exchange airport-misplaced luggage, generously helps out and gets a crush on her, but she fails to identify herself and disclose her purpose. Private and professional interest seems incompatible, truth time promises to be bitter.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
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Another Year (2014)
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He's an unemployed guy who earns some money by giving lifts to strangers. She's a graphic designer who just got her first job. The film tracks their relationship - and the way it gradually melts away - throughout a year. A subtle, moving portrait of an immature love that breaks down easily.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sincere, atmospheric, captivating, emotional
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The Weather Inside (2015)
Plot Summary:
A luxury hotel in a conflict zone. Development aid worker Dorothea begins an affair with a young drifter, Alec, but what starts as sweet distraction brings her dangerously close to losing control.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Bitter-Sweet (1996)
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Mateusz, Igor, Marlon i Paulina chodzą do jednego liceum. Po powrocie z Budapesztu Mateusz dowiaduje się, że jeden z kolegów, niejaki Bąbel, powiesił się na szkolnym boisku. Przejmując się tragedią znajomego chłopaka, postanawia na własną rękę przeprowadzić śledztwo w sprawie jego śmierci. Igor, który znalazł ciało Bąbla, wie co się stało, ale boi się mówić. Podobnie jest z innymi uczniami, nawet nauczycielami, którzy zajęci są głównie swoimi prywatnymi problemami. Ostatnią szansę widzi w rozmowie z zakochaną w nim Pauliną, ale dziewczyna pozostawia go samego w walce o poznanie prawdy.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min
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The Nature of Love (2023)
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Sophia is a philosophy professor in Montreal and has lived as a couple with Xavier for 10 years. Sylvain is a carpenter in the Laurentians and must renovate their country house. When Sophia meets Sylvain for the first time, it’s love at first sight. Opposites attract, but can it last?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 735
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 110 min
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Blue Rodeo (1996)
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Maggie Yearwood moves to a new town to be near her son, Peter, who has gone deaf as the result of an accident and is now attending a special school. She moves into a small house next door to Owen Whister and soon falls in love with the cowboy, who harbors a dark secret.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
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The Christ of Nanjing (1995)
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Tony Au directed this Hong Kong-Japanese co-production lovingly adapted for the screen by Joyce Chan. Tony Leung stars as Ryuichi Okagawa, a Japanese writer who worked as a reporter in China and has been sick ever since his return home. While in China, Okagawa had met a devoutly religious girl named Jin-hua. Okagawa was born with a predisposition to agonizing recurrent migraines, but found happiness with Jin-hua and married her. Unfortunately, he already had a wife in Japan, and this revelation crushed Jin-hua. When Okagawa returned home, leaving Jin-hua behind, she was forced to work as a prostitute, catching both a severe case of the flu and a rather less socially acceptable condition. Meanwhile, Okagawa's guilt has torn him apart enough for him to return to China in an attempt to bring Jin-hua home with him to get medical attention, but the girl is already too far gone for his help.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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Blue Beach (1982)
Plot Summary:
A mature lady and her friends of holidays in Spain are seducing young boys.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, Switzerland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexploitation film
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Trouble with Sex (2005)
Plot Summary:
A sexy romantic drama in which, at the outset, the characters are leading their own lives in very different worlds, though each is beset by niggling discontentment. Michelle (Renée Weldon - IFTA Best Actress) is a fast-rising young Dublin lawyer with a smart apartment overlooking the Liffey, but dissatisfied in her relationship with a doctor (Declan Conlon). Conor (Aidan Gillen) is lonely and unattached, dutifully running the traditional Dublin pub owned by his hard drinking father (Eamon Morrissey). Late one night, Michelle bursts into the bar and orders a triple vodka. The consequences are explored and developed with an honesty and credibility as these disparate characters tentatively draw closer to each other. They become lovers. There is a strong sexual attraction. But there are complications along the way and the path to love can be rocky. Something's got to give. And what's the trouble with sex? You'll see.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland
Duration: 88 min
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Emilie Richards: Spuren der Vergangenheit (2012)
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Hunky local surgeon Alex is every girl's dream on a tiny New Zealand Island. The exception - but not for long - is newcomer Jessica, an aimless professional pianist, who keeps bumping into him while searching for her biological parents using her late adoptive parents's only legacy clue. To pay the bills, she becomes the local keyboard teacher and discover the rugby hero's heir Oliver has talent of national conservatory level. The island being virtually one family, all surfaces in time.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Love Is a Four Letter Word (2007)
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Margaret and Martin Harper, both sixty years old, are filing for divorce, but plan to keep everything as civilized as possible. Complications arise when their respective attorneys, the equally cynical Emily Bennett and Kenton Rhodes, unexpectedly fall in love, throwing an extra kink into the proceedings both in and out of the courtroom.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 466
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
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My Brother's Wife (1966)
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MY BROTHER'S WIFE, Wishman-heads are back in safe territory with plenty of cutaways to paintings, chairs, and shoes and awkward dubbing. But more than a roughie, this film is Wishman's take on the 40s film noir genre, with a doomed love triangle, scheming criminals, hard-boiled dialogue and a number of far-fetched plot twists amidst the typical Wishman trappings.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 61 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Passionate Intentions (2015)
Plot Summary:
A happily married couple falls prey to the devious schemes of a greedy seductress and her sleazy boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, hot
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Bad Romance (2011)
Plot Summary:
7 young men and women and their three stories involved with heterosexual, homosexual and bisexual affairs that happened in Beijing. A single mom meets a young student; A city boy meets a guy of his dream; A girl falls into a love game of a male and a female fellows in her French class.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, captivating, realistic, crying
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Candy Regentag (1989)
Plot Summary:
Flesh and fantasy fill the nights of the call girls at Bambi’s, a flashy back street brothel. Join Bambi, Candy and the girls for an evening or two and find out what happens in the violent world of sex for sale. Candy is new to the business. She follows all of the rules of the house - she arrives on time, doesn’t take drugs, is polite to customers, and numb to all the men who used her. Then she meets Reg and breaks the most important rule - don’t fall in love with one of your customers. Their first encounter leaves her longing to see him again. She fantasizes about the love they share and how idyllic their life together would be. But the facts are clear. Candy is a hooker and she will never be a real part of his world … she’s one of Bambi’s girls. She has seen his life and felt his love, a brief glimpse is all she’ll ever have, KISS THE NIGHT!.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Summer Affair (1971)
Plot Summary:
A very young Ornella Muti plays a rich girl who falls for an older hippie boy. Her parents don't approve and try to stop her from seeing him so they run away to a villa (Her parents') by the sea. Later they are shipwrecked on a deserted island. The plot focuses on the efforts of the police to figure out where the girl is, which is set against the developing relationship between the two young people.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, ambiguous ending, freeze frame
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Make Your Move (2013)
Plot Summary:
A pair of star-crossed dancers in New York find themselves at the center of a bitter rivalry between their brothers' underground dance clubs.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: South Korea, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sexy, serious, captivating, realistic, funny, touching, romantic drama, exciting
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The Dive from Clausen's Pier (2005)
Plot Summary:
Good boy Mike Mayer is looking at a fine future and enjoys life with Wisconsin small town friends and steady girlfriend Carrie Beal. Then a stupid accident, diving from the local pier when the water is too low, leaves him quadriplegic. As if that weren't bad enough, Carrie does what none of the gang could imagine: she dumps him, as soon as best friend Rooster realizes she wasn't even honest. Carrie leaves for New York to pursue an undefined 'ambition', moving in with Simon Rhodes she vaguely knows. She starts a love affair with Paul Elliot 'Kilroy' Fraser. However he has his own nagging tragic secret, and her past needs dealing with.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 775
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, realistic
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Nie mehr wie es war (2016)
Plot Summary:
Tomas is happy as family father, raising teen son Milan (as his knavish buddy) and running-especially gastronomically- a club with his mother Nike, whose absences to take course aiming for career progress causes tension. Covering for Milan's systematic class dodging to pursue a musical ambition, Tomas discovers going trough Nike's stuff the knave isn't biologically his son, feels utterly cheated by wife Nike, and feels like wrecking their relationship, family and livelihood musical bar. Former common study friend Clemens, a divorced MD, confides he wasn't interested in Nike, being gay, and advises 'getting laid' without commitment, but finding that out hurts utterly confused Milan even more. The spouses must pull together when son Milan (16) decides to seek his genetic father, a former GDR literature professor Dr. Karoly Gaál, who is now in a home for demented seniors.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: captivating
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Gisela (2005)
Plot Summary:
Gisela is a young wife and mother, living in a working class German Housing Scheme. She is a supermarket cashier, her husband a delivery driver. The marriage is stale but together they are working their way up into the middle class. George and Gisela evidently knew each other as teenagers. They live on the same scheme and George introduces her to his friend Paul. There is instant mutual attraction. Gisela spontaneously goes to a party that they invite her to that evening, where she and Paul begin a sexual relationship.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing