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Plot Summary:
A privileged young male Arab at odds with his cultural identity and his less fortunate street smart friend; a disillusioned Indian taxi driver who bears an uncanny resemblance to a famous Bollywood star; and a former Romanian ballet dancer now working as a flight attendant and searching for love and companionship ... these individuals all live in Dubai and their lives are about to collide for better or for worse in a city where ambition, growth and opportunity are encouraged and dreams can still manifest. "City of Life" is an urban drama that tracks the various intersections of a multi-ethnic cast, examining how random interactions and their consequences can irrevocably impact another's life.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: United Arab Emirates
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, touching, serious, realistic, romantic, captivating, anthology, multicultural, islamic, independent film
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Reply with Photo (1999)
Plot Summary:
The shy scientist Lars decides to publish a small ad in order to find a girlfriend. From the 218 replies, he selects Brigita, an attractive Latvian woman and invites her to Stockholm. But what actually happens after Brigita's arrival is far more complicated than Lars could ever have imagined.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Latvia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic
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Last Resort (2000)
Plot Summary:
When a young Russian woman and her son leave Moscow to meet her fiancé, who fails to show up, she declares political asylum.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, realistic, serious, independent film
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Nine Chronicles for a Screaming Heart (2012)
Plot Summary:
In a mosaic of human relationships and day-to-day situations, men and women of different ages feel a pressing need to reinvent themselves. As they cross each other's paths, they all are at a turning point in their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, semi serious, captivating, romantic, humorous, contemplative, talky, independent film, entertaining
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Flowers of Evil (2010)
Plot Summary:
Paris-Tehran. A rootless love story between Gecko, young and free, and Anahita, an Iranian woman in exile - tangled up in History and steeped in Internet, unique and spontaneous.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, sincere, offbeat, serious
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Carving a Life (2017)
Plot Summary:
Mitch must confront the haunting memories of his mother's tragic death and overcome his alcohol abuse, or lose all that is most precious to him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, serious, captivating, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, inspirational
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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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Autumn Fairy Tale (2019)
Plot Summary:
The film tells a story of 2 girls who were born on the same day and unintentionally switched at birth. Their lives are completed changed due to the misplacement when they are returned to their respective families.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Desperados on the Block (2009)
Plot Summary:
Their paths cross in the elevator of an anonymous student block in Munich: Clara, Motek, and Sin are three strangers in Germany, longing for acceptance and warmth, searching for a spark of the feeling we call "home". DESPERADOS ON THE BLOCK is an award-winning independent feature written & directed by Tomasz E. Rudzik.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, touching, serious, realistic, offbeat, surprise ending, independent film
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I Named Her Feriha (2011)
Plot Summary:
Adını Feriha Koydum is a Turkish television drama series produced by Med Yapım. The series broadcast on Show TV and it is written by duo Melis Civelek and Sırma Yanık.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, serious, lyrical, captivating, realistic, surprise ending, soap opera, bad ending
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Generation Now (2008)
Plot Summary:
A multi-cultural celebration of young people triumphing in the face of adversity, societal pressures and difficult familial situations.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, realistic, independent film, gloomy
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The Magnificent Ambersons (2002)
Plot Summary:
The spoiled rotten and utterly unlikable rich kid George Amberson becomes horrified when his recently widowed mother rekindles her relationship with the wealthy Eugene Morgan, who she left decades earlier in order to marry George's father. As George struggles to sabotage his mother's new romance, he must deal with his own romantic feelings for Morgan's daughter and the consequences of his meddling as his once great family falls into ruin due to his machinations.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 911
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, touching, captivating, emotional, serious, realistic, tension, suspense, period drama
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A Hidden Life (2001)
Plot Summary:
Young girl, born and raised in an isolated farm, is brought to a small town to live with her cousins, her only relatives. Once in town, she encounters great difficulty adapting to city life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, sincere, captivating, realistic
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...ing (2003)
Plot Summary:
Follows the life of a young woman (Min-ah) who has become reserved and indifferent to the world as a result of her chronic illness/deformed hand and quietly portrays the unconventional, yet endearing relationship between mother and daughter as well as the development of Min-ah as she is befriended by the high spirited and carefree photographer Young-jae who moves into their apartment complex.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: romantic, sincere, captivating, romantic comedy, masterpiece
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Unanswered Prayers (2010)
Plot Summary:
After his football career, Ben Beck returned to his Virginia small town and joined the family building firm. His family happiness with wife Lorrie and adolescent son Jessie is suddenly tested by the return of Ben's first high-school love, Ava Andersson, who visits from Chicago, after a failed marriage, to bury her ma. Ava seduces Ben into reliving their courtship, which she traumatically broke off without a goodbye. Jesse reacts furiously, even backseats his own football scholarship bid, rather pa's projected ambition, in favor of a writing summer course.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 443
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, touching, serious, sexual, sexy
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My Australia (2011)
Plot Summary:
City of Lodz in Poland, after the Second World War. Two brothers, Tadek and Andrzej, grow up without a father, and their mother, so busy at work, does not notice when the boys join a rowdy and anti-Semitic organization.Only when during a fight one of the boys gets hurt, she realizes what is going on. Then she decides to leave Poland together with her family and go to... Australia. At the end of the trip it comes out that the goal was not to reach Australia but Israel. Boys become aware of their and their family roots.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel, Poland
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, realistic
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Choking Man (2006)
Plot Summary:
The social anxiety of a morbidly shy Ecuadorian dishwasher working in a Queens diner provides the psychological engine that powers this blend of drama and magical realism.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 597
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: realistic, atmospheric, touching, captivating, psychological, sentimental, serious, gloomy
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Don't Let Me Drown (2009)
Plot Summary:
In a post-September 11th world overflowing with fear and hate, two Latino teens discover that sometimes the only thing that can keep them from drowning is love.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 428
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, sentimental, captivating, touching, serious, gloomy, independent film
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An Italian Romance (2004)
Plot Summary:
Giovanni, a married man with a child, meets on a train Maria, a former lover.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 360
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, captivating, historical drama, sentimental
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The Waiting City (2009)
Plot Summary:
An outwardly happy Australian couple journey to Calcutta to collect their adopted baby, but on arrival find that the arrangements have yet to be finalized. Soon, the intoxicating mystic power of the Indian city pulls them in separate and unexpected directions, and the vulnerability of their marriage begins to reveal itself.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 947
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: emotional, touching, captivating, realistic, tense, serious, gloomy, spiritual
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Costas (1979)
Plot Summary:
Drama directed by Paul Cox.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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American Wake (2004)
Plot Summary:
A musician and a fireman work against certain expectations in order to pursue their respective dreams.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, touching, serious, realistic
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One Night (2007)
Plot Summary:
Fifteen New Yorkers go into a Friday night unaware of the fact that their lives are about to change.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sentimental, atmospheric, touching, serious, realistic, independent film
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Love (2012)
Plot Summary:
Eight people try to end their loneliness by searching for that one person to love, who can make their life complete.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan, China
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, emotional, captivating, romantic, romantic comedy, sentimental, serious
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The God of Wood (2010)
Plot Summary:
Yao (Madi Diocou) and Moroccan Rachid (Soufiane Ouaarab) arrive illegally in Valencia, Spain, and separate. Yao sells pirated DVDs in the street and wanders disconsolately around the barrio until he glimpses divorcee Maria Luisa (Marisa Paredes) working in her boutique. High-strung and irritable, Maria lives with her gay son, Rober (Nao Albet), who, like many other things in life, is a disappointment to her. Rachid, meanwhile, is doing just fine working as a hairstylist in a beauty salon; Rober is hopelessly in love with him. When Yao starts sleeping in Rober's flat, a confrontation between him and Maria suddenly becomes inevitable, and when it comes, what could have been an embarrassment is actually handled with grace.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: realistic, emotional, sentimental, psychological, captivating, touching, serious, sexual, sexy
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Partition (2007)
Plot Summary:
Determined to leave the ravages of war behind, 38 year old Gian Singh resigns from the British Indian Army to a quiet life. His world is soon thrown in turmoil, when he suddenly finds himself responsible for the life of a 17 year old girl, traumatized by the events that separated her from her family.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Canada, South Africa, India, Pakistan
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, inspirational, political, informative, atmospheric, epic
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Tbilisi, I Love You (2014)
Plot Summary:
Following "Paris, Je t'aime" "New York,I Love You" and "Rio, Eu Te Amo" “Tbilisi, I Love You” has become the next film in the “Cities of Love” franchise.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Georgia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, sexy, touching, captivating, uplifting, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, anthology
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The Green Chariot (2005)
Plot Summary:
Emigration to Israel challenges Sasha's Jewish identity. Will love help him to go over this crisis?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, serious, emotional, realistic
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30 Years to Life (2001)
Plot Summary:
First of all, the title does not refer to someone sentenced to jail. It is a movie about 6 lifetime friends who are all hitting the big `3-0' together during the same year. Each one looks inside themselves to see where has my life gone and what am I going to do with my future. Actually, what I saw was a black Seinfeld comedy. Tracy Morgan, who is one of the main characters, is a struggling comedian just like Jerry Seinfeld. He gives his opinion of what women want in a man in one of his comedy routines. Melissa De Sousa is looking for a man before time runs out. She is just like Elaine in Seinfeld. I don't remember the big problem with turning thirty, however, all the characters in this movie can show you what they are, such as not having fame, riches, a husband, a thin body, and staying young. Their life stories are probably repeated many times around the world.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, humorous, witty, psychological, romantic, captivating, clever, offbeat, realistic
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Three Sisters (1970)
Plot Summary:
Laurence Olivier's film of Chekhov's play.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 486
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 165 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, rough, captivating, sincere, touching, gloomy, independent film, period drama
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The Playboys (1992)
Plot Summary:
A young woman, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) scandalizes her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of a wedlock, and refusing to name the father. She has a rare beauty and every man in town desires her, especially Sergeant Hegarty (Albert Finney). The arrival of a dramatic troupe stirs things up even more, especially when she falls in love with one f the "Playboys", Tom Casey (Aidan Quinn).
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Ireland
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, sentimental, sincere, captivating, independent film