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Plot Summary:
Italian immigrant kidnaps a wealthy British woman, and they fall in love.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: independent film, erotic, experimental
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Interval (1973)
Plot Summary:
An emotionally fragile older woman (Merle Oberon) embarks on an ill-fated love affair with a handsome young artist (Robert Wolders) while traveling through Mexico's Yucatan peninsula.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Romance, Drama
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film, soap opera
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Sally (2000)
Plot Summary:
Jack is driving aimlessly on a road to nowhere with his imaginary girlfriend, Sally, when he meets Beth. The duo becomes a trio when escaped mental patient Bugs, also fixated on an imaginary woman named Sally, finds himself along for the ride with Jack and Beth. Disagreements between the new acquaintances coincide with a series of violent and criminal confrontations.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, light, sincere, captivating, melancholic, suspenseful, independent film, exciting, cult film
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Erotic Diary of an Office Lady (1977)
Plot Summary:
Asami Ogawa in his first leading role as an office worker with an extremely kinky private life. She not only has an affair with her boss and others in the company but also organizes women to her widower to father.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Soft Shell Man (2001)
Plot Summary:
An emotionally immature underwater photographer returns home to an affair with his best friend's deaf girlfriend and unresolved issues with the wife he left six months before.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 854
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, semi serious, realistic, offbeat, humorous, contemplative, independent film
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Close Friends (1992)
Plot Summary:
Fifteen-year-old Sabrina has lived with her father since he split with her mother. As the film unfolds it gradually becomes clear that Sabrina is a victim of incest.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: erotic
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El man del porno (2018)
Plot Summary:
When Carlos Andrés decides that the best way to contribute to his family is to become a porn actor, the only problem is that his girlfriend does not know about his successful career.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Colombia
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Bambina (1974)
Plot Summary:
In order to convince Raimonda, a wealthy noble woman, to finance his project for a holiday resort, Saverio gets engaged to Clotilde, her mentally-disturbed and sex-obsessed adolescent daughter. He plans to have her kidnapped and raped by an accomplice so she won't be a virgin anymore and he'll have an excuse to get out of the impending marriage. But what he doesn't plan is to fall in love with the girl.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 377
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: erotic, depressing
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The Lacemaker (1977)
Plot Summary:
The internationally produced The Lacemaker (La Dentelliere) stars Isabelle Huppert as Pomme, a meek and mild French beautician whose life takes a fateful turn during a vacation to Normandy. Here Huppert becomes the lover of middle-class literature-student Francois (Yves Beneyton). The relationship sours when Francois takes her home to meet his parents, thanks in no small part to their differing social backgrounds. The Lacemaker was the film that solidified the stardom of Isabelle Huppert; she was showered with awards, most notably the British Film Academy.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Switzerland, France, West Germany
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sad, art house, psychological, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, intellectual
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Christmas in Rome (2019)
Plot Summary:
An independent-minded American tour guide is fired from her job in Rome just before Christmas. She crosses paths with an American executive named Oliver, who wants to buy a high-end Italian ceramics company. Oliver hires Angela to be his tour guide around the Eternal City, as the owner of the ceramics company won’t sell it to him until he learns “the heart and soul of Rome.” But is there another heart and soul that he may win?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, sentimental, melancholic, sweet, emotional
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Love and Fury (2016)
Plot Summary:
In 1980's Helsinki, a city about to burst with young energy and rebellion, two young writers determined to conquer the world fall madly in love. For Inka, the love affair puts everything in motion: she finds her own voice, publishes her first novel - and becomes a sensation. The intensity of their relationship has a different affect on Juhana, who starts to lose his grip on writing and, finally, life. At the height of the love affair Inka starts to suspect that their mad love might actually be real madness.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 533
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Affair (2014)
Plot Summary:
Yoon-hee is one of the best curators who has everything. She meets a celebrated photographer named Hyeong-seok while preparing for an exhibit. She feels attracted towards him at first sight and suggests 100 days of sex games. The Korean version of "Nine and A Half Weeks", only instincts control their love! No rules exist between them.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, dramatic, emotional, intense
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Action (1980)
Plot Summary:
Bruno is an idealistic hero who questions the meaning of life in this confusing and sometimes hallucinatory erotic drama. After a night in jail, he is gang-raped by punk rockers in a garbage dump. He later saves an old man who believes he is Garibaldi and a woman he believes is Ophelia. Bruno watches helplessly as she later jumps from a window.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 385
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, surreal, cult film
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The Star Maker (1995)
Plot Summary:
The adventures and deceptions of a photographer who travels through the small villages of Sicily pretending that he is working for the big film studios in Rome.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, uplifting, serious, atmospheric, touching, captivating, realistic, anamorphic, erotic
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Forever Out of My League (2021)
Plot Summary:
Marta may be an orphan, and she may be affected by a lethal illness, yet she is the most positive person one can meet. She wants a boy to fall for her. Not any boy - the most handsome of them all. One day, she may have found her match.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 637
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, satirical, disturbing
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The Virgin and the Gypsy (1970)
Plot Summary:
Film adaptation from the novel by D.H. Lawrence, discovered after the celebrated author's death in 1930, a romantic love story tells of a prim young English girl who is sexually attracted to a seductively virile gypsy. The climatic dam burst is linked with the consummation of her desire.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 376
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: historical romance, independent film, erotic, sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy, sexual
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Venetian Caprice (2002)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful American music teacher arrives in Venice and encounters a licentious artist who leads her into the squalid underbelly of the ancient city into a dangerous world of sexual promiscuity. Their experimentation becomes more and more dangerous and our heroine must decide whether to continue down this path or break away before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, disturbing
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Husbands and Lovers (1991)
Plot Summary:
Stefan finds that he can no longer tolerate the arrangement of his cheating wife ... he, the husband, gets her during the week and her lover gets her on the weekends. At the same time the wife finds herself increasingly drawn to the violence of her lover versus the adoration of her husband.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy
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Déjà Vu (1997)
Plot Summary:
L.A. shop owner Dana and Englishman Sean meet and fall in love at first sight, but Sean is married and Dana is to marry her business partner Alex.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 952
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: romantic, romantic drama, independent film, sentimental, serious, realistic, light, philosophical, sexy, thought provoking
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The Heart of the Bear (2001)
Plot Summary:
A young Estonian goes to the Siberian Taiga to live as a hunter in a remote forest hut. He hopes to find his true self far from civilisation. The natives he meets introduce him to the myths of the north. The first is a young village teacher who wants to be a good wife to him. The second is a wild and untameable native who becomes his mythical bear-woman. When he accidentally kills a great black bear, his own shadow-creature, he burdens himself with guilt. However, he is given a chance of finding his inner balance. A romantic drama with mythical elements and breathtaking landscapes.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 316
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Estonia, Czech Republic, Germany, Russia
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Devil in the Flesh (1986)
Plot Summary:
She was a married woman, tone apart from her husband. He was an innocent schoolboy on the verge of manhood. While the world was at war, they found comfort in each others arms and shared an impossible love that couldn't possibly continue... and an uncontrollable passion that they could not resist.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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The Other Woman (2002)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy lady can't find a satisfying physical relationship with her husband and she starts acting in porn films using a different identity supplied by a close friend. Soon things goes out of control as it turns out that she is driven by the uninhibited sex and can't control her compulsion.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, captivating, disturbing, hot
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Mammal (2016)
Plot Summary:
After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a violent gang and the escalation of her ex-husband's grieving rage.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 871
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, Netherlands, Luxembourg
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, erotic, bleak, tragic
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Veronika Decides to Die (2009)
Plot Summary:
After a frantic suicide attempt, Veronika awakens inside a mysterious mental asylum. Under the supervision of an unorthodox psychiatrist who specializes in controversial treatment, Veronika learns that she has only weeks to live.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, melancholic, emotional, intense, sincere, controversial, erotic, surreal, neurotic
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Evening (2007)
Plot Summary:
As Constance (Natasha Richardson) and Nina (Toni Collette) gather at the deathbed of their mother, Ann (Vanessa Redgrave), they learn for the first time that their mother lived an entire other lifetime during one evening 50 years ago. In vivid flashbacks, the young Ann (Claire Daines) spends one night with a man named Harris (Patrick Wilson), who was the love of her life.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, sentimental, romantic, intense, realistic, heartbreaking, tear jerker, epic, cult classic
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Endless Love (1981)
Plot Summary:
Two young kids fall in love with each other. But the passion is too consuming for the parents of Jade. The parents try to stop them from seeing each other. But when this doesn't work, David burns down the house and is sent away. This doesn't stop him from seeing her. When he gets out he goes to look for her. But the passion for his first love is too strong and she has to leave.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: intense, erotic, sentimental, touching, emotional, romantic, sexual, dark, sensual, romantic drama
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Capriccio (1987)
Plot Summary:
After the renewed flings with their former lovers prove to be disastrously unlike the romantic memories, an unfaithful couple returns to each other.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, Netherlands Antilles
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, romantic, manga, sex comedy
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Private (2003)
Plot Summary:
Tinto Brass - The maestro of Italian erotica is back! Lies, subterfuge, betrayal and mischief. Fallo! is a collection of six stories based on the joys of sexuality and the eroticism of a new generation of women.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, sexy, psychological, captivating, romantic, anthology
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The Key (1983)
Plot Summary:
After twenty years of marriage, art professor Nino Rolfe attempts to break down his wife Teresa's conventional modesty. Noticing her affection for their daughter's fiancé, Nino instigates her sexual interest in him as well. This sets off a chain of unexpected events and emotional complications, as Nino and his unpredictable fascist daughter find that they both enjoy being jealous.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, realistic, sensual, serious, stylized, romantic, sex comedy, sexual, sexploitation film
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Howards End (1992)
Plot Summary:
A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and his wife Ruth, and the downwardly mobile working-class Leonard Bast and his mistress Jackie.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Japan, USA
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: romantic, costume drama, emotional, period piece, stylized, light, melancholic, talky, compassionate, realistic
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The Voyeur (1994)
Plot Summary:
At a college in Rome, a professor, nicknamed "Dodo" is in a deep depression. His stunningly beautiful wife has just left him for another man. Dodo wants her back very badly and has erotic daydreams about her. A beautiful young student in his class asks him for a ride home and seduces the lucky man, but still he wonders about his wife and her lover.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexual, sensual, gloomy, romantic, disturbing, controversial, eros, erotic drama, sexy