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Plot Summary:
A japanese remake of the South Korean film of the same name.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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You Are My Sunshine (2005)
Plot Summary:
Simple, sweet-natured farmhand Seok-Jung (Hwang Jung-Min) longs for a wife. He is certain that he has found her the instant he catches sight of lovely Eun-Ha (Jeon Do-Youn). She is far more experienced and sophisticated than he is, a difference made starkly clear by her job at a sleazy café where she delivers intimacy and coffee to the guests at the aptly named Beast Motel. No one is more surprised than she is when his unquestioning devotion wins her over, and she falls for her impassioned suitor. Seok-Jung thinks he has found the perfect love, but Eun-Ha is a woman with a past that has resulted in an HIV infection, and her former life casts a shadow that threatens not just their marriage but also his place within his family and community.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 891
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, captivating, suspense
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A Leap in the Dark (1980)
Plot Summary:
Mauro, a judge, is worried about his older sister Marta, who took care of him since he was a boy, and is now affected by psychic problems and suicide fantasies. She seems to recover from her depression when Mauro acquaints her with Giovanni, a brilliant actor at the edge of legality. Mauro become unconsciously jealous of this relationship, and try to get Giovanni arrested... Written by Francesco Benzi.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 466
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: independent film
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I Have To Buy New Shoes (2012)
Plot Summary:
Freelance writer Aoi Teshigahara (Miho Nakayama) lives in Paris, France. Sen Yagami (Osamu Mukai) is a photographer who came to Paris, France due to his younger sister Suzume's (Mirei Kiritani) insistance. Over the next 3 days, Aoi Teshigahara and Sen Yagami fall in love. Meanwhile, Suzume meets her boyfriend Kango (Gou Ayano), whom they have been in a long distance relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 365
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: romantic, romantic comedy
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Zoom Up: The Beaver Book Girl (1981)
Plot Summary:
A sexually perverse mystery set within the adult magazine industry. A woman is brutally assaulted in an abandoned factory, and her assailant escapes into the darkness after dropping a wad of money. A few years later, a photographer specializing in schoolgirl panty shots meets his match when a mysterious femme fatale volunteers to be his new model. This woman used to be the “queen” of the skin magazines, but she is also hiding a terrible secret and may be a wanted fugitive. Will the photographer escape her sexual grasp?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags: sensual
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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
Plot tags:
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Anything (2017)
Plot Summary:
After the death of his wife, a man moves from Mississippi to a run-down Hollywood apartment, where he meets someone new.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 798
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Dotonbori River (1982)
Plot Summary:
A poignant love story between a 29-year-old woman, who has once been a prostitute but is now the mistress of a wealthy jewelry merchant, and a 19-year-old college student.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags:
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Nostalgia for the Countryside (1995)
Plot Summary:
Set in a small village in North Vietnam, a tale of awakening which traces a growing love triangle between Nham, an earnest and responsible 17-year-old country boy; the charming Ngu, his lonely and naive sister-in-law with whom he works closely in the fields; and Quyen, a stylishly vivacious expatriate who has just returned from the city, curious about life in the village where she spent her childhood. While all three characters are too reticent to unleash their feelings, the romance turns on the realization that this web of emotions is largely symbolic. Nham represents for Quyen an innocence and a past that she can’t recapture, just as she represents for Nham an urbanity and future prospects that he may never attain; and caught between the two is the delicate Ngu, left in the most desolate postion of positions.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Vietnam, Japan
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags:
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Journey to Another Town (1980)
Plot Summary:
By chance, two middle-aged people met - the telephone operator of the hotel Lina and the chief engineer of the construction department Kirillov, who had arrived on official business from Leningrad in one of the provincial cities of the country. Behind everyone has setbacks in family life. A sincere feeling that brought two lonely people closer together helped to see those around them in a new way. They are already over forty. Both are lonely. Having met by chance and fell in love with each other, they never became happy.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Julietta (2001)
Plot Summary:
A dramatic teenage love story set against the backdrop of the Berlin Love Parade.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 380
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, realistic
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Nanami: The Inferno of First Love (1968)
Plot Summary:
A teenage goldsmith with a dark past tragically falls in love with a young nude model.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 906
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: romantic drama, experimental, avant garde, independent film, freeze frame, weird, student film
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With Beauty and Sorrow (1965)
Plot Summary:
When the man who seduced the famous painter Otoko as a teenager--and then wrote a bestselling novel about it--reappears in her life, her pupil--and lesbian lover--hatches a plot to destroy the man and his family.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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Everlasting Love (1984)
Plot Summary:
An intern doctor falls in love with a 19-year-old girl, not knowing that she is a hostess at a night club and a single mother.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: soap opera
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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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Mary Marie (2011)
Plot Summary:
After the death of their mother, two sisters are forced to question and redefine their love for each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema
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Our Town (1977)
Plot Summary:
3-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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A Kind of Loving (1962)
Plot Summary:
After his girlfriend's pregnancy forces him to marry her, a young man must adjust to his new life and contend with his domineering mother-in-law.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: social, experimental, sincere, serious, emotional, realistic, independent film, vintage
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An Unlikely Romance (2013)
Plot Summary:
Luisa and Erika are prototypes of young women who plunge into relationships with the "wrong" men. Luisa (Berenika Kohoutová) wants to become an actress, which upsets her husband Igor to no end. Erika (Alzbeta Pazoutová) is trying to work as much as possible so that she can afford to study and thereby achieve a better outlook on life, but she unfortunately runs up against a boss who doesn't have the best intentions with her. Ultimately Luisa's husband demonstratively commits suicide. Erika accidentally kills her boss in self-defense... The women blame themselves for all these failures, and that has got to change. Both have to grow up and start living again. Perhaps even together.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: lgbt cinema, psychological, romantic, compassionate, crying, gay cinema
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Waves (2015)
Plot Summary:
Waves is a romantic drama about the intimate relationship between Ross & Sofia - two old friends passionately in love yet life's cultural, geographical, and emotional obstacles get in the way.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, psychological, sexy, contemplative, independent film, unusual plot structure
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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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Guddu (1995)
Plot Summary:
Guddu Bahadur is only child in the Bahadur family, consisting of Advocate Vikram, and his wife, Kavita. While Kavita is a devout and a religous Hindu, Vikram is not. Guddu and Salina Gupta are in love. One day, while driving, they meet with an accident, and Salina loses her sight. Guddu blames himself, and so do Salina's parents, and he is asked to keep away from Salina. Salina herself knows that the accident was not Guddu's fault, but would not like to meet Guddu and be a burden on him. Then Guddu overhears a conversation between their family doctor and his dad, and he comes to know that he has brain tumor, and has only a few more months to live. He wants to donate his eyes to the hospital so that Salina can benefit from them, but his dad will not even consider this. Things take a turn for the worse, when Guddu decides to go to court to assert his right to donate his eyes, not knowing that his decision will change everyone's lives.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags:
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Dogtown (1997)
Plot Summary:
Philip Van Horn, who left his small town a long time ago to become a Hollywood actor and hasn't had any success at that, returns to the town for a visit. There he is uniformally met like some kind of celebrity and movie star. He uses it to impress his (and everybody's) school love Dorothy, her life now a grey boring experience.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 481
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, crying
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My King (2015)
Plot Summary:
Tony is admitted to a rehabilitation center after a serious ski accident. Dependent on the medical staff and pain relievers, she takes time to look back on a turbulent relationship that she experienced with Georgio.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, rough, thought provoking, social, educational, romantic drama, interesting, weird
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Lovely, Still (2008)
Plot Summary:
A holiday fable that tells the story of an elderly man discovering love for the first time.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, realistic, semi serious, sad, psychological, emotional, humorous, independent film, fable
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Failan (2001)
Plot Summary:
After losing both her parents, Failan emmigrates to Korea to seek her only remaining relatives. Once she reaches Korea, she finds out that her relatives have moved to Canada well over a year ago. Desperate to stay and make a living in Korea, Failan is forced to have an arranged marriage through a match-making agency.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, depressing, captivating, thought provoking, sad, romantic comedy, twisted, realistic, semi serious
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The American Standards (2008)
Plot Summary:
At a crossroads in his life, Doc Jennings goes home to celebrate his mother's birthday and uncovers dramatic family secrets. Lies, affairs and afflictions bubble to the surface of his seemingly perfect family. Can they come back together or is it too late?.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 654
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating
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Boomerang (2015)
Plot Summary:
Antoine Rey looks for a special gift for his sister Melanie on her 40th birthday. He decides to surprise her with a trip to the French Island of Noirmoutier, where they spent many summers as children until their mother's death. On the drive back to Paris, Melanie is seriously injured in a car accident.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, serious, realistic
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Independence Day (1983)
Plot Summary:
Mary Ann Taylor loves the comforts of her hometown in Mercury, Texas. She has a steady job as a waitress in her father's diner, yet she can't help but feel unfulfilled by a life of pouring coffee and grilling hamburgers. Mary Ann's real passion is photography, but pursuing her dream of becoming a photographer means leaving Mercury behind.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, crying
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Private Fears in Public Places (2006)
Plot Summary:
In Paris, six people all look for love, despite typically having their romantic aspirations dashed at every turn.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, sincere, clever, touching, semi serious, anthology, sensitive, gloomy
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Yi Yi: A One and a Two... (2000)
Plot Summary:
Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan, Japan
Duration: 173 min
Plot tags: touching, art house, philosophical, depressing, emotional, harsh, lyrical, sentimental, realistic, poignant