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Plot Summary:
Certamente, o personagem de Budapeste, José Costa responderia ironicamente "nada". José Costa, um angustiado ghost-writer (escritor fantasma) e também amante da linguagem e da escrita, aos seus 30 anos, é o eu-lírico dessa narrativa que viaja do Rio de Janeiro à Budapeste.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 547
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Hungary, Brazil, Portugal
Duration: 113 min
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Ursula (1978)
Plot Summary:
Switzerland 1523. The mercenary Jackie Geer returns with his soldiers from Iatly to his home in the Oberland. They have fought for the Pope and now find a religious upheaval i Switzerland.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: East Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 110 min
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Black Field (2009)
Plot Summary:
1654, Ottoman Empire, Greece. A Turkish Warrior arrives heavily wounded at a remote Christian female monastery and is nursed by Anthi, a young nun under the oath of silence. They fall in love against all odds. But Anthi is tormented by a dark secret. The two lovers escape in the nearby forest, where Anthi's secret is revealed: She is, in fact, a boy.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 708
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: baroque
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Longing (2003)
Plot Summary:
Cyrus, Tim and Erik were high school buddies and meet again ten years later. They spend the summer together in Brazil. All of them are occupied in dealing with experiences from their past but new developments make them face their inner conflicts and their friendship with each other.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 257
Genere: Romance, Drama, Adventure
Country: Germany
Duration: 80 min
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Locked Up (2006)
Plot Summary:
In a German town, teacher Irene leads an inconspicuous, boring, lonely life. One day, a man rings at her door and slips in. It's an armed convict from the prison next door, escaped with a leg wound. He now makes her a prisoner in her own home. Almost without a word, as if she secretly enjoys the excitement or just mesmerized, she obeys Vassily, every single command, even sexual services, submissively or after a symbolic struggle. Somehow that seems to change, but can force initiate love?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
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True and Tender is the North (2008)
Plot Summary:
Adaptation of a 1987 novel by Agustina Bessa Luis, a multi-generation exploration of a wealthy family with a mysterious past and a house on the island of Madeira.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Portugal
Duration: 122 min
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Up Against Them All (2004)
Plot Summary:
A story about the lies, treachery and vengeance of a middle-class family living on the outskirts of São Paulo. Four characters try desperately to change their lives, but are unable to escape their destiny.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 95 min
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The Christ of Nanjing (1995)
Plot Summary:
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
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Stille Nacht (1996)
Plot Summary:
Sensing their relationship is crumbling, Christian avoids celebrating Christmas with his girlfriend Julia and heads for Paris.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 83 min
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Erika's Hot Summer (1971)
Plot Summary:
Sleazeball photographer Steve is busy taking pictures of beautiful young women, bedding them, and then dumping them. One day he meets the woman of his dreams on the beach: Erika. Once he's frolicked on the beach and taken her to bed, the other women in his life become unsatisfactory, and he suffers a playboy's crisis. One of his other women proves to be a bit more persistent than he expects.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: independent film, grindhouse, sexploitation film
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The Emperor's Wife (2003)
Plot Summary:
In an undisclosed location and time, in the land of 1001 nights, the law dictates that the Emperor must take a new wife if his current Empress does not bear a son within seven years of marriage. At the celebration Ball of their sixth wedding anniversary, the Emperor (MAX BEESLEY - Torque) and his faithful manservant, Chamberlain (JONATHAN RHYS-MEYERS - Vanity Fair, Bend It Like Beckham, I'll Sleep When I'm Dead) begin the covert operation to find and prepare a virgin candidate to become the new Empress.A suitable young woman, Sabah (LETICIA DOLERA) is secretly transported into an isolated wing in the Imperial Palace. In this prison of fairytale rooms, she is tutored by the Masters and spied upon by the Emperor and Chamberlain. Should the current Empress (ROSANA PASTOR) conceive, everyone in the secret wing will be executed.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 620
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 100 min
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The Leap (2005)
Plot Summary:
Tobias Jacobsen is 42. When the doctors tell him he is fatally ill, the earth opens up beneath him and he finds himself plunging into the abyss. It makes him think of the time he was 13 and his girlfriend got him to jump off the balcony of her father's house with a sun umbrella for a parachute. Two stories separated by 29 years are told in parallel, but gradually intertwine into one drama. Both stories have moments of joy and tragedy, as fates wondrously separate and are brought back together again. It is a story about making a leap of faith, trusting in yourself and realizing that, ultimately, life is no good without humour, even of the darker variety.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 95 min
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Lina's Wedding (1973)
Plot Summary:
Lina is in her best age, mid-30s. She is strong-willed, resilient and self-conscious. There has never been a man in her life, on the contrary, she even had to play the man's role on the small farm to sustain herself and the parents. But the quest for true love and longing for a man is still strong. She has never had the opportunity to realize this dream in the confined environment she lives in. Her obstinacy has also scared off the men. But one day Gilbert returned to the village after being in America for 20 years.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Norway, Denmark
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags:
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Dandelions (1974)
Plot Summary:
no overview.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 92 min
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Lover's Leap (1995)
Plot Summary:
An architect is struggling to get over his wife's death. He meets a young woman who brings him happiness only to find out she is his son's girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, hot
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The Seduction of Angela (1986)
Plot Summary:
Naive, orphaned maiden Angela leaves her small town for 19th- century London, where she quickly learns the ways of the world. She begins work at a brothel, where she gets a quick education in life. On her first "job," she is rescued by Rocco, a traveling thief who happens to be going from room to room, robbing the patrons. Rocco and Angela fall in love, but Rocco must flee the inn at which they have taken residence, when the police arrive at the door.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Adventure, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexploitation film, period drama
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The Stolen Years (1998)
Plot Summary:
Two students are arrested for painting revolutionary graffiti on the university walls. They escape from the camp and flee with two American girls, disguised as rich young men who are showing Spain to two tourists.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 562
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Surfacing (1981)
Plot Summary:
Based on Margaret Atwood's best seller, Surfacing plunges you into the mysterious depths of the hostile Northern wilderness. Following her father's puzzling disappearance, Kate (Kathleen Beller), and her city-bred companions brave the untamed backwoods in a desperate search for him. However, the harsh environment becomes a dangerous catalyst for their explosive mix of personalities, propelling them into a world of raw emotion and unbridled passion. Directed by Claude Jutra, screenplay by Bernard Gordon.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, art house, weird
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James Joyce's Women (1985)
Plot Summary:
In this tribute to James Joyce, Fionnula Flanagan gives a tour-de-force performance as a half-dozen or so women in Joyce's real and fictional worlds. When she portrays his wife Nora remembering their time together, Flanagan captures the era and the author in lyrical detail. As Sylvia Beach, the woman who first published Ulysses, new dimensions concerning the importance of Nora in Joyce's literary visions of women emerge, and when Flanagan interprets Joyce characters like Molly Bloom or a washerwoman from Finnegan's Wake, the beauty of Joyce's language shines through the melodious words.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Game of Seduction (1976)
Plot Summary:
In this modern retelling of the classic Dangerous Liaisons, a virtuous young woman becomes the target of the schemes of an amoral womanizer who is in the habit of wooing women and killing their lovers and husbands in duels. When she finally succumbs to him, she discovers his true nature, and her newly awakened joy in passion turns to dust.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Erotic Stories (1980)
Plot Summary:
A set of nine stories whose central theme is eroticism. The different directors of the film deal from philosophical aspects to others that are almost pornographic, but always with a common denominator: sensuality. Segments: 1- Small Planet, 2 - The Tilita, 3 - The Vile Metal, 4 - Broken Times, 5 - Koñensonaten, 6 - Peppermint, 7 - Frac, 8 - Everyday Life, 9 - Love is a Wonderful Thing.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Lost Illusions (2021)
Plot Summary:
Taking place between the years 1837 and 1843, Balzac’s classic novel focuses on the young poet Lucien de Rubempré, who leaves Angouleme for Paris in the pursuit of becoming an author.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 149 min
Plot tags: art house
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The Bitches (1973)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy bourgeois, bored in her immense property, to pass the time engages a gigolo to answer all her wishes, from the most unfulfilled to the most hidden ... But when the young man takes an interest in the sister of his boss, the latter becomes very jealous.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Laura: A Sexual Object (1987)
Plot Summary:
Laura is a sex educator hired to teach sex in exchange for money. A rich family hires her to give sex education to their asocial son.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sexploitation film
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A Fit of Rage (1999)
Plot Summary:
The torrid love affair between a 40-year-old man who lives isolated from the world, in his small farm nearby São Paulo and a politically engaged 30-year-old journalist. One morning, after a night of wild lovemaking, he notices a hole made by sauba ants in his fence. This simple fact raises accusations and discord between the two lovers.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 555
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: sexual, erotic, sexy, weird
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Monsoon (1999)
Plot Summary:
A man finds his pledge of fidelity put to the test and his disbelief stretched to the breaking point is this romantic drama. Kenneth Blake (Richard Tyson) is joined by his soon-to-be wife Sally Stephens (Jenny McShane) as he takes a well-earned vacation in Goa, a beautiful town on the western coast of India. While in Goa, Kenneth meets Leela (Helen Brodie), a beautiful woman, and he finds himself drawn into an affair. As Kenneth tries to decide if he should throw away his relationship with Sally in favor of Leela, Leela confronts him with some surprising news -- she is convinced they are the reincarnation of two lovers who died together in a double suicide five centuries before.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 418
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sensual, erotic, independent film
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Dark Secrets (2012)
Plot Summary:
A woman convinces her boyfriend to go to couple therapy with her friend's and things go downhill from there.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Gabriela (1983)
Plot Summary:
In 1925, Gabriela becomes cook, mistress, and then wife of Nacib, a bar owner in a small Brazilian coastal town runs by the local colonels. Nacib becomes tired of Gabriela's uneducated ways, and annuls the marriage when he finds her in bed with his friend Tonico. The political ways of the town modernize slightly and Gabriela returns as Nacib's mistress.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, sexy, pornochanchada, humorous, semi serious
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Talk Sex (2001)
Plot Summary:
An attractive radio hot line worker becomes romantically involved with callers.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, sexploitation film
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The Diary 2 (1999)
Plot Summary:
A sequel movie to The Diary (1999). The movie succeed to replicate the 30's, between the two world war, between Paris and London. Anna (Lila Baumann) arranges Dr. Cristina Inger, a female physician for her paralyzed husband's treatment and she joins the shows at nightclubs as a stripteaser and prostitute to pay her. Husband is cured but fell in love with Dr. Cristina.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Night Calls: The Movie (1999)
Plot Summary:
A pair of Playboy TV stars take their show on the road and encounter erotic adventures.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic