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Plot Summary:
Leader of a traveling gypsy band from the steppes of Bessarabia (now Moldova), Toma Alistar is a skilled violinist whose fame takes him on tours around European capitals and royal courts. He remains obsessed with his first love, beautiful Leanca who was married elsewhere while Toma was traveling, and spends his life and fortune trying to find her.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 286
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: road movie, family saga
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I Come (2000)
Plot Summary:
Caco is a proud, handsome man, head of a family, and very powerful in the local community. Yet he has been torn to pieces by the death of his beloved daughter. He constantly visits her grave, weeps silently at her photo and has transferred all his wildly protective love and attention onto his mentally challenged nephew, Diego. It seems that Diego's father, Caco's brother, is in hiding after having killed a man from the Caravaca family, who are equally powerful in the community. They are looking for vengeance and have come to Caco for justice. When he refuses to betray his brother, the Caravacas grow impatient. When they realize they are getting nowhere, they threaten to kill Diego. Despite his fierce pride, Caco eventually realizes that the cycle of killing and revenge must be broken. But how can he achieve this and protect everyone he loves?.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Musical, Mystery, Romance
Country: Spain, France, Germany, Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, rough, touching, emotional, mind blowing, tense, serious, realistic, contemplative, stylized
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Prima Primavera (2009)
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A retarded 55 year old man loses his mother, his only support and care. A Gypsy girl with questionable past joins him on his desperate cross border journey during which they develop a friendship and "come of age" - each their very own way.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Bulgaria, Hungary, UK, Netherlands
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Songfest (1964)
Plot Summary:
Musical about the love story of a tea-picking girl and a fisherman.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Musical, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 77 min
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Temptations (2002)
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Directed, written, and co-produced by Zoltan Kamondi), Kisertesek ("Temptations") illustrates the struggle between ancient traditions and the modern world of restless young Marci (Marcell Miklos), a fatherless young man who is considered somewhat of an outcast within the community.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Hungary
Duration: 85 min
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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 Birch Tree (1967)
Plot Summary:
Beautiful but ailing girl is married to a harsh man who doesn't care for her. Only after she dies does he realize that he actually loves her.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 842
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: depressing
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Dear Emma, Sweet Böbe (1992)
Plot Summary:
The story shows Emma's and Böbe's fight for survival, for keeping their position in society which they achieved with hard work in the previous regime. They don't want to lose their place and become village girls again.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 635
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Hungary, Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Honey Baby (2004)
Plot Summary:
A road movie based on the Greek story of Orpheus and Eurydice.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 377
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, Germany, Latvia, Russia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Courthouse on Horseback (2006)
Plot Summary:
The film follows three characters on a tour of the remote Yunman province of China where they travel with a horse to deal with legal disputes in mountain villages. Government policy is forcing the retirement of "Auntie" Yang (Yang Yaning) and she will have to separate after years of professional partnership from Feng (Li Baotian). They are accompanied by her replacement, recent law school graduate Ah-Luo (Lu Yulai).
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 101 min
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Mi Socio (1983)
Plot Summary:
The story of an improbable friendship and a social comment on life in Bolivia in the eighties.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Drama
Country: Bolivia
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Barbarian Light (2019)
Plot Summary:
THE WAKE OF LIGHT is a romantic drama about a young woman grappling between a deep-felt responsibility in caring for her ailing father and her newfound love for a young man passing through her small town on the way to see the one place his father never could. In confronting the heart-rending choice to leave her father, Barbarian Light explores the desire to connect with life's deeper meaning and questions the existence of faith.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
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Alma gitana (1996)
Plot Summary:
A young man who wants to become a professional dancer falls in love with a gypsy girl and gets in conflict with her totally different cultural background. But love can overcome these differences.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: multicultural, intercultural, inter cultural
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Henna (1991)
Plot Summary:
Beautiful Henna Khan lives the life of a gypsy near the river, Jhelum, in Pakistan with her widowed dad, Khan Baba; three brothers, Ashraf, Razzak, and Zaman; and Razzak's wife, Najma. One day she comes across a male body that has been washed ashore. Khan Baba, Bibi Gul, and Henna take this male in, nurse him back to health, only to find out that he has lost his memory. The male in his sleep cries out the name of "Chand", and everyone starts calling him by that name.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 752
Genere: Drama, Romance, Musical
Country: India
Duration: 184 min
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Thillana Mohanambal (1968)
Plot Summary:
A classical bharathanatyam dancer and a nathaswaram player fall in love against the wishes of her family.This movie is about how they try to work things out and that hardships that they have to endure. Dance and music are used as an integral part of the story rather than a pastime.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 175 min
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There Lived a Doctor (1985)
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A young doctor Nikolai Alexandrovich Zaostrovtsev, a fourth generation medical professional, found himself in the Gladuny village directly after the Institute. Neither he himself, nor his father, a town surgeon, expected that he would linger long their. But having become a real doctor in this working village community, he remains true to his profession without any dreams of glory or city life….
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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It Rains in My Village (1968)
Plot Summary:
A bizarre and tragic love story involving swineherd, village fool, teacher and an agricultural pilot. The story unfolds in a remote village in the communist ruled Yugoslavia at the down of Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 671
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia, France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: black and white, serious, realistic
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The Dust Storm (2016)
Plot Summary:
On a business trip to Nashville, Brennan finds himself reunited with the "Girl" who had previously broken his heart. Now, for one weekend in the city's music scene, a past and present romance will be reborn and challenged.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 555
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, independent film
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Gypsy Girl (1966)
Plot Summary:
A young, lonely, mentaly retarded teenage girl finds solace in burying dead animals after the sudden death of a friend of hers.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 805
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, serious, realistic, vintage
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Amen (2013)
Plot Summary:
Solomon, who belongs to a band, is in love with Soshanna, who hails from an upper class family. The story spells how Solomon manages to win over all the obstacles to marry Soshanna.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 165 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, feel good, entertaining
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Pastorale (1975)
Plot Summary:
In the mountain village comes a group of young musicians in Tbilisi. Here they are going to relax and rehearse. Sad story about the final rupture occurred, the peasants do not sing beautiful old songs, the musicians play music incomprehensible to them ... Far from the idyllic image of rural life.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 543
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: spiritual
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Queen of the Gypsies (1976)
Plot Summary:
This colourful, music-filled and sensual melodrama based on early stories by Maxim Gorky tells the fatal love story between the beautiful and rebellious girl Rada and the handsome horse thief Zobar. The story is set in early 20th century Bessarabia, now part of Moldova, then belonging to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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Pokrov Gates (1983)
Plot Summary:
Stories from the lives of the tenants of the Moscow's communal apartment: Kostik, who is a college student, lives with his aunt while studying; Arkady Velyurov who is a performing artist; Khobotovs, who are a divorced couple; and Sava, who is Margarita Khobotov's new fiancé. All these people live in one apartment and their lives constantly touch each other's.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: tragicomedy, humorous, entertaining
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Aashiqui (1990)
Plot Summary:
Rahul and Anu Verghese meet on the same day, while both are held by the police on charges of creating a disturbance, and running away respectively. They meet again, and love happens. Rahul helps Anu to be independent, and seek a job. Then Anu is discovered by a talent agent to be a model, which she accepts. Rahul wants to marry Anu, but first must establish himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Musical, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 152 min
Plot tags: romantic
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Bombay Talkie (1970)
Plot Summary:
An English novelist travels to Bombay to watch one of her novels translated to film. She chases after the Movie's leading man while the Screenwriter chases after her.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 494
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: romantic drama, atmospheric, serious, realistic, contemplative, talky, stylized, sexual, sexy
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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965)
Plot Summary:
In a Carpathian village, Ivan falls in love with Marichka, the daughter of his father's killer. When tragedy befalls her, his grief lasts months; finally he rejoins the colorful life around him, marrying Palagna. She wants children but his mind stays on his lost love. To recapture his attention, Palagna tries sorcery, and in the process comes under the spell of the sorcerer, publicly humiliating Ivan, who then fights the sorcerer. The lively rhythms of village life, the work and the holidays, the pageant and revelry of weddings and funerals, the change of seasons, and nature's beauty give proportion to Ivan's tragedy.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, emotional, realistic, stylized, psychedelic, contemplative, surreal, scenic, art house, poetic
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The Music Man (2007)
Plot Summary:
Ali is son of a well-off family who plays the santoor (an Iranian instrument) and has earned some reputation through his concerts and teaching music but is rejected by his family because of this profession, which they despise. He falls for one of his music students but after a short blissful period, life doesn't treat him as well as before and also his addiction agonizes him in his numbered days before redemption.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, islamic, serious, gloomy, interesting
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Moonlight Serenade (2009)
Plot Summary:
A jazz musician performs alongside a coat check girl with a beautiful voice in this musical drama from director Giancarlo Tallarico. By day Nate earns his living as a financial manager, but when night falls, he helps the girl with her singing career at the jazz club, where she performs one night a week. In time both realize they share something special other than the music.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 716
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sexy, serious, sentimental, realistic, stylized, independent film
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Backroads (1997)
Plot Summary:
Spain, 1974. A teenager and his father are traveling in a car that is the only property they have. Their life is a continuous move by desolate coastal apartments in the tourism low season. When forced to change route and get away from sea, their lives will change dramatically.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: road movie, manga, touching, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Supernova (2020)
Plot Summary:
Sam and Tusker, partners of 20 years, are traveling across England in their old RV visiting friends, family and places from their past. Since Tusker was diagnosed with early-onset dementia two years ago, their time together is the most important thing they have. As the trip progresses, however, their ideas for the future clash, secrets come out, and their love for each other is tested as never before. Ultimately, they must confront the question of what it means to love one another in the face of Tusker’s illness.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: road movie, touching, heartbreaking, depressing, tear jerker, psychological, queer cinema, gay cinema
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The Wedding (1998)
Plot Summary:
Shelby Coles (Halle Berry) is engaged to marry talented white jazz musician Meade Howell, but the pair face opposition from both Meade's family, who object to an inter-racial marriage, and Shelby's parents, who want her to marry a professional. As Shelby is afflicted by pre-marital doubts, handsome Lute McNeil arrives on the scene, determined to make Shelby his at any cost.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 546
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min
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