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Plot Summary:
A young and handsome prison guard falls in love with a beautiful lady-prisoner. She makes him hooked on sex and manipulates him into becoming a gang member. He kills and steals under her control.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: rough, tense, touching, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, exciting
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Nirvana (2008)
Plot Summary:
Young Alisa is fed up with her life in Moscow, and moves to St. Petersburg. Her roommates in the collective flat are two junkies, Vel and her boyfriend Valera the Dead Man. First they fight, but soon the two women form a friendship. Together they even go after the Petersburg underworld when Dead Man is abducted because he can't pay his debts.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 447
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: neo noir, stylized, rough, touching, captivating, serious, realistic, fast, futuristic
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Santa (2014)
Plot Summary:
A trip to Lapland leads to immense changes in the life of a single mother and her seven- year- old son. Love, hope and efforts to save the life of the little boy will change dramatically the lives of the two grown-ups. “Santa” - is a story about human relations and often painful challenges that life poses. In order to overcome these challenges one must believe in the miracle of a fairy-tale and... breath in deeply the fresh air of the North. It’s so fresh, you almost want to drink it. And it’s worth living for. The movie contains breathtaking Lapland views and is peppered with Marius Ivaškevičius specialty humor.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Lithuania, Finland
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, touching, captivating, suspense
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A Mero Hajur 3 (2019)
Plot Summary:
Third installment in A Mero Hajur film series.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Nepal
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspense, suspenseful
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The Gravity of a Rainbow (2019)
Plot Summary:
A story about three modern-day women who make different decisions, how it affects them in the workplace and changes their friendship and how they find love.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspense, suspenseful
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Wife to Be Sacrificed (1974)
Plot Summary:
A wife charges her husband with sexual battery. He escapes from the police and goes into hiding. In three years, she divorces him and tries to put the pieces of her life back in order, when suddenly he returns. Obsessed with rage and hatred, he kidnaps her and brings her to a house in a remote wooded area. There he disciplines her vehemently, subjecting her to increasingly shocking forms of sexual torture, tetherings, suspensions and humiliations. Astonishingly, through the rage and lust, the pair develops a relationship that pushes the boundaries of lurid passions and perverse obsessions.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 610
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: erotic, disturbing, depressing, controversial, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual
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Air Bridge (2015)
Plot Summary:
Bruno and Amanda have to face the difficulties of a long distance relationship after meeting in a flight forced into an emergency landing.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 752
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: touching, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, romantic drama
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Cristo Rey (2013)
Plot Summary:
Set in the Dominican Republic, Leticia Tonos Paniagua’s uniquely Caribbean retelling of Romeo and Juliet chronicles the love between a kind-hearted teenager, ostracized for his mixed Haitian-Dominican descent, and the beautiful sister of a local drug kingpin he’s hired to protect.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: Haiti, France, Dominican Republic
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, touching, realistic
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A Horrible Woman (2017)
Plot Summary:
When Rasmus meets Marie, he is certain that she is the love of his life. However, it doesn't take long before it turns out she is a possessive and manipulative being, that cunningly dissects Rasmus to pieces.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, enigmatic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Dearest Jane (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young girl learn to accept love and change, after being sent to live with her uncle in Indiana.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, tense, suspense, contemplative, independent film, unusual plot structure
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Bless the Woman (2003)
Plot Summary:
Tiny Soviet village by the sea, in the years before the Second World War... A very young girl, Vera, falls madly in love with an older military officer who is visiting from out of town. She leaves her home and family to live with him in various military posts where he serves with the army. Through the difficulties of army life, and years of war, her love for this older man survives, and she gives herself completely without reservation. This film is about friendship, loss, survival, loyalty, and the wonderful gift of unconditional love, which is only given to a few.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 451
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, captivating, disturbing, crying
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Water and Fire (2013)
Plot Summary:
A pretty young girl falls for an enigmatic, shy man who sweeps her off her feet. She becomes pregnant but is not allowed to tell him. His advisers are adamant. Back home, they have set up a wedding with the daughter of an antagonistic family and marriage will put an end to the blood feud between them.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, sentimental, sincere, romantic, captivating, realistic, emotional, beautiful
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Money or Love (2011)
Plot Summary:
A car thief driven by a love of cash finds his priorities shift when he falls for a college student but his conversion has dangerous consequences.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Poongsan (2011)
Plot Summary:
Poongsan has the unenviable - and death-defying - job of delivering messages across the North and South Korean border to separated families. When South Korean government agents ask him to smuggle in In-ok, the lover of a high-ranking North Korean defector, into the South, the damsel and rescuer fall in love instead.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 889
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, tense, romantic, touching, serious
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Lemonade (2018)
Plot Summary:
While working in the US on a temporary visa as a caretaker, Mara, a 30 year-old single mother from Romania, marries Daniel, an American. After the arrival of her son Dragos, everything seems to have fallen perfectly into place. When the process of getting a green card veers unexpectedly off course, however, Mara is faced with abuses of power on every level and forced to answer a dark question about herself – how far would you go to get what you want?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Romania, Canada, Germany, Sweden
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, sentimental, rough, social
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Wilderness: Part Two (2017)
Plot Summary:
Set in the near future around Shinjuku, Tokyo. Shinji got out from a youth detention center. Barikan suffers from stuttering and extreme shyness. These two men meet in a boxing gym. Shinji and Barikan become friends and pursue boxing under a hopeless situation.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 147 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, unusual plot structure, disturbing, contemplative
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Don't Look at Me That Way (2015)
Plot Summary:
Hedi is the new neighbor of Iva, who raises her daughter Sophia by herself. The two women start a relationship and Iva is desperately in love with Hedi. Suddenly Iva’s father appears. Hedi feels strongly attracted to him. It seems that only one world exists for Hedi. Her own.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Mongolia
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, sincere, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, unusual plot structure
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Abzurdah (2015)
Plot Summary:
A disenfranchised 16-year-old girl connects to an older man on the internet and after a brief one-sided affair descends into obsession and anorexia.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, tense, suspense, melancholic, suspenseful, crying
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The Warrior Class (2007)
Plot Summary:
Rookie lawyer Alec Brno has just been assigned the case of his career: exposing a billion-dollar oil scam led by a ruthless mafia boss. When he reluctantly falls for the gangster's beautiful but drug-addicted wife - also his key witness - Alec soon realizes that all the legal savvy in the world can't protect him from the dangerous reality of mob violence. In a system where criminals often walk free, sometimes courtroom warriors must take the battle for justice into their own hands. Written by Echo Bridge Home Entertainment.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 214
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Serenades (2001)
Plot Summary:
A girl is born to an Aboriginal mother and an Afgan father.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: serious, touching, sincere, captivating, tense, realistic, independent film
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Loving (2017)
Plot Summary:
Laura and Carlos love each other as if every day was the last, and perhaps that first love intensity is what will tear them apart a year later.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: romantic, explicit, sexy, erotic, touching, disturbing, hispanic
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Your Lover (2019)
Plot Summary:
Lucio and Enedina are a happily married young Teenek couple that lives in the Huasteca Potosina's jungle with their three children. They love each other and share everything, nevertheless, everything crumbles when the construction of a highway, that their community has been requesting for so long, finally arrives.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 8
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, bleak, suspense, suspenseful
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The Polish Bride (1998)
Plot Summary:
Drama on the dawning love between a Polish woman and a farmer. Anna is forced to work in a brothel, but manages to escape. She's found, exhausted and scared, by Henk (the farmer) who offers her a place to stay, but her past chases her.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological
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Strangers (2007)
Plot Summary:
Six days in the lives of an Israeli living in a kibbutz and a Palestinian living in Paris, which starts with an accidental meeting in the Berlin Subway during the World cup finals, will change them completely.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, serious, realistic, contemplative, independent film
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Once Upon a Time in Rio (2008)
Plot Summary:
Situated just above the awe-inspiring Ipanema beach in Rio is the Cantagalo slum. Every day, floods of Cantagalo residents make their way down the mountain, only to disappear into their surroundings as part of the invisible working-class that cleans apartments, works in restaurants, and sells food along the scenic, sun-drenched shores. Young Dé (Thiago Martins) is just such a man. Dé lives with his mother Bernadette (Cyria Coentro) in a cramped Cantagalo apartment, selling hot dogs on the beach in order to make the rent. His brother Beto was killed when Dé was just a young boy, and his adopted brother Carlão (Rocco Pitanga) has been jailed for a robbery that he didn't commit. One day, while working on the beach, Dé meets Nina (Vitória Frate). Nina is the only child of a successful lawyer named Evandro (Paulo César Grande), who's none to happy to discover that his daughter is dating a member of the lower class. How.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: emotional, touching, realistic, sentimental, serious, bleak
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The Maid (2014)
Plot Summary:
An emotionally troubled teenager gets into a passionate relationship with the older French woman working in his father's house.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, realistic, serious, sexy, romantic drama, independent film
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Dilan 1991 (2019)
Plot Summary:
Dilan & Milea are now dating. But as time goes by, Dilan has to choose between his motorcycle club or Milea.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Lust Stories (2018)
Plot Summary:
An anthology of four stories that sheds light on modern relationships from the viewpoint of the Indian woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: anthology, tense, sincere, touching, captivating, erotic, sexy, offbeat, light
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Cry Me a Sad River (2018)
Plot Summary:
Qi Ming is a handsome boy and he is also a top student at school, but Yi Yao is a so-called bitch on everyone’s lips. Qi and Yi grew up together and they have been maintaining a good relationship. However, everything is interrupted and changed by Tang Xiaomi. Rumors have become a sharp weapon to destroy people. Yi Yao's life falls into darkness, and she suffers all kinds of cruel bullying at school.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, tense, sentimental, thought provoking, touching, unusual plot structure
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The Third Way of Love (2015)
Plot Summary:
"The Third Way of Love" tells the sad love story of Lin Qi Zheng, who is from a rich family, and Zhou Yu who is a smart and beautiful lawyer.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 524
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, romantic drama
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Half Girlfriend (2017)
Plot Summary:
Madhav Jha, a rustic boy from Bihar who is drawn to his college-mate, Riya Somani, an affluent English-speaking girl from Delhi. There’s just one hitch here. Riya is willing to go thus far and no further; Madhav continues being obsessed with her. Will the Bihar boy and the Delhi girl make it past the half-way mark?.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: romantic, psychological, sentimental, uplifting, touching, sweet, disturbing