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Plot Summary:
Mahgoub Abdel Dayem a young nihilistic college student, having his father crippled with no other source of income, he finds himself in an urgent need of a job after graduation to support himself and his parents. Having a hard time getting a job, he starts putting his values into actual application only to find them already being applied by much greater authorities. Set in Cairo in the 30s.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 638
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Egypt
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: social
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The Other (1999)
Plot Summary:
Adam is the son of a wealthy Egyptian-American family who is studying at UCLA and returns home for a brief vacation. Upon his arrival he meets beautiful reporter Hanane, with whom he begins an intense love affair, and eventually they marry. Trouble arises when Hanane' s journalistic interests lead her to the corrupt business affairs of Adam's parents, who are interested in building an American tourist compound that would allow Americans further control of Egypt's tourist industry, and make them a whole lot richer.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Egypt
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sincere, thought provoking, serious, realistic, disturbing, biting, suspense
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A New Day in Old Sana'a (2005)
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Tariq's aristocratic family has arranged for him to marry Bilquis, the daughter of a rich judge. However, while out in the city one night, he catches sight of a woman he believes to be Bilquis, and falls in love with her. The woman turns out to be an orphan from the lower class - a henna artist named Ines.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Yemen
Duration: 83 min
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The Land (1970)
Plot Summary:
Adapted from Abdel Rahman Al-Sharqawi's well-known novel of the same name, this classic film by Egyptian master Youssef Chahine was eight years in the making. Chronicling a small peasant village's struggles against the careless inroads of the large local landowner, The Land shows why political oppression does not necessarily lead to a sense of solidarity among the disinherited.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags:
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Verses of Love (2008)
Plot Summary:
Ayat-Ayat Cinta is a beautifully portrayed Islamic love story – a tale of a virtuous Muslim protagonist who overcomes all obstacles of life maintaining pure ideals.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: psychological, philosophical, mind bending, thought provoking
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The Sparrow (1972)
Plot Summary:
Set shortly before and during the Six Day War in June of 1967, The Sparrow follows a young police officer stationed in a small village in Upper Egypt whose inhabitants suffer from the harassment of a corrupt businessman.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 380
Genere: Drama
Country: Egypt, Algeria
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: mondo
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As a Man Grows Older (1962)
Plot Summary:
The place is Trieste and the time is 1927. Emilio Brentani leads a peaceful and uneventful life with his older sister Amalia. At least until the day he meets Angiolina Zarri, a beautiful young woman. But the lady is also fickle, wayward and coquettish. Unfortunately for him, Emilio falls madly in love with her.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags:
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Dunia (2005)
Plot Summary:
After studying literature at Cairo University, Dunia, 23 years old, wants to become a professional dancer. She attends audition for an oriental dance contest where she recites Arabian poetry without any body movement. She explain to the perplexed jury that a woman can't move her body or evoke act of love when society ask women to hide their femininity. She is selected and meet Beshir, an intellectual and activist who will supervise her thesis on ecstasy in Sufi love poetry. Their attraction is mutual. This could be liberation for Dunia but the constraints on women in Egyptian society goes deeper than she suspects.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Egypt, Lebanon, France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, realistic, disturbing
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Kit Kat (1991)
Plot Summary:
In the Egyptian Kit Kat suburb, Sheikh Hosni's character as an observer of the daily lives of El Kit Kat's residents seems to transcend above it. Even with the loss of his eyesight, his wife, his job, and the fact that he lives with his mother and his frustrated young son, did make him give up on hope, smile and laughter.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Egypt
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: iconic
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Adrift on the Nile (1971)
Plot Summary:
Set against the backdrop of the 1967 Six-Day War, the movie adaptation of Naguib Mahfouz's novel follows the escapist, drug-fuelled riverboat meetings of a group of frustrated Egyptians from various walks of life.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 750
Genere: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: iconic
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The Second Wife (1967)
Plot Summary:
A story in the Egyptian countryside about an unjust mayor who controls everything in the village with his power.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 935
Genere: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 105 min
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Something in Between (1982)
Plot Summary:
An American woman comes to Belgrade to visit an old friend. There, on the exotic boundary between West and East, she becomes entangled in a love triangle.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 105 min
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The Year of the Wolf (2007)
Plot Summary:
Sari is a young, beautiful and intelligent girl who is busy studying at university,but she suffers from epilepsy and has to face death on a daily basis. Mikko is hersomewhat older university teacher, who is tired of life, and who one day decides toabandon his wife, children and idea of a perfect life. Both characters have been tooscared to live their lives to the brim for too long. But they meet, and in spite oftheir prejudices and reserved natures, they manage to create a dramatic and movingmodern romance which confronts numerous taboos. While the imagery explores theboundary between life and death in a most poetic way, the odd couple's romance istold with both bite and humour. Society - be it in the shape of angry ex-wives,overprotective parents, conservative aunts or embittered colleagues - is doing whatit can to put a spanner in the works.".
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 802
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sincere, romantic, touching, serious, captivating
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Wife of an Important Man (1987)
Plot Summary:
The story of the rise and fall of an Egyptian police officer, during the regime of President Anwar El Sadat.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 115 min
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Sleepless Nights (2003)
Plot Summary:
A strong controversial adult drama about troubles facing young married and non-married couples. The old friends are invited at Khaled's and Perry's daughter birthday. Moushira is married to Ali, Amr to Farah , and Sameh is having an affair with Inas. After the party all the problems explodes when Moushira tells Ali that he doesn't satisfy her sexually, Perry tells Amr about her discovery of his infidelity, Amr is jealous of Ali as Farah's ex-boyfriend and she is faces him with the fact that her rich family improved his standard. While Inas gives the choice to Sameh of either marrying or separating. Then everyone faces his problem trying to make decisions with the help of his/her friends.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Egypt
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: islamic
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All My Life (2008)
Plot Summary:
For Rami, all is for the best in this best of all possible worlds, as long as he keeps to himself. But when his longtime lover leaves him to marry a woman and his best friends drift away, he comes face to face with the harsh realities of life as a gay man in Egypt. Against the backdrop of the choreographed crackdown on gay men and the notorious Queen Boat arrests of 2001, he plunges into a world of loveless friendships and spirals downwards to his ultimate downfall.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Egypt, France, Israel, Lebanon
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, independent film
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I Want to Go on Living (1995)
Plot Summary:
A woman stops waiting for her med student boyfriend and marries a rich man so she can pay her grandmother's medical bills.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min
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Falling Leaves (1966)
Plot Summary:
A young idealist takes a job at a local state run winery only to discover and become disillusioned by the corruption of the Soviet State.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 955
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: spiritual
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Kreutzer Sonata (1987)
Plot Summary:
A revelatory discussion on a train. Based on Leo Tolstoy's novel of the same name.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 158 min
Plot tags: spiritual
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Those People of the Nile (1972)
Plot Summary:
The construction of the Aswan dam as seen by those who took part in it: engineers and workers, Egyptians and Soviets. Beginning with the day the waters of the Nile were diverted, Chahine shows how individual concerns sometimes outweigh the myth surrounding a collective undertaking. The first Egyptian-Soviet co-production was shown to its two sponsor governments in 1968, inspiring considerable displeasure. Re-editing was demanded; along with newly shot sequences using actors. Consequently, the film was not shown until 1972.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Drama
Country: Egypt, Soviet Union
Duration: 105 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
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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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Bride of Fire (2000)
Plot Summary:
A tragedy in which a young woman from an Arab tribe, prevented from marrying her non-Arab Persian lover is forced against her wishes to marry her cousin.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 573
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags:
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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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The Strawberry Statement (1970)
Plot Summary:
Simon (Bruce Davison), a student at a fictional university in San Francisco (based on San Francisco State College) is indifferent to the student protests around him, until walking in on a naked woman (Kristina Holland) in his dormitory roommate's bed. While she quickly runs over to the toilets to dress, Simon protests to his roommate that their time should only be devoted to studying, so they can get good jobs and lots of money. Coming back clothed, the woman refuses setting another date with the roommate because she'll be busy protesting. She explains the university's plan to construct a gymnasium in an African-American neighborhood, thus causing conflict with the local African American population. She tells him that she and others plan to take over one of the university's buildings.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: political, social, serious, realistic, cult film
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Messages from the Sea (2010)
Plot Summary:
A man witnesses the drastic changes in society as he goes back to the Alexandria of his youth.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Egypt
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, sentimental, captivating, islamic, sincere, serious
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Two Women (1999)
Plot Summary:
A sensation when released in 1999 in Iran, Two Women charts the lives of two promising architecture students over the course of the first turbulent years of the Islamic Republic. Tahimine Milani creates this scathing portrait of those traditions - aided by official indifference - which conspire to trap women and stop them from realizing their full potential; the inclusion of frank depictions of domestic violence was hailed by many as a breakthrough in dealing with a long taboo subject.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, sentimental, sincere, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Wings of the Dove (1997)
Plot Summary:
Kate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt Maude will never approve of the match, since Kate's deceased mother has lost all her money in a marriage to a degenerate opium addict. When Kate meets a terminally ill American heiress named Millie traveling through Europe, she comes up with a conniving plan to have both love and wealth.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sexy, atmospheric, period piece, serious, costume drama, romantic, visual, visually stunning, stylized, retro
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The Golden Bowl (2000)
Plot Summary:
An intricately plotted tale of thwarted love and betrayal, "The Golden Bowl" tells the story of an extravagantly rich American widower and his sheltered daughter, both of whom marry only to discover that their respective mates, a beautiful American expatriate and an impoverished Italian aristocrat, are entangled with one another in a romantic intrigue of seduction and deceit.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France, UK
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: period piece, serious, stylized, realistic, costume drama, suspense, romantic drama, historical drama, clever, biting
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Martin Eden (2019)
Plot Summary:
The tale of an individualist proletarian in a time marked by the rise of mass political movements. In early 20th-century Italy, illiterate sailor Martin Eden seeks fame as a writer while torn between the love of a bourgeois girl and allegiance to his social class.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, social, sentimental, sweet, realistic, philosophical, political, sad, cerebral
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Cairo Time (2009)
Plot Summary:
In Cairo on her own as she waits for her husband, Juliette finds herself caught in a whirlwind romance with his friend Tareq, a retired cop. As Tareq escorts Juliette around the city, they find themselves in the middle of a brief affair that catches them both unawares.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, Ireland, Egypt
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, romantic, heartbreaking, emotional, serious, captivating, sentimental, atmospheric, realistic, inspirational