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Plot Summary:
An exchange student from Finland arrives in Kansas City. He is expecting to spend a year in the city, but ends up living on a farm in a small town. He falls in love with the sheriff’s daughter and soon finds himself in trouble.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 355
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada, Finland
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Beneath a Neon Tide (2014)
Plot Summary:
Andy is a young man on a downward spiral. A sequence of incidents followed by the death of his beloved grandmother trigger Andy's parents to react and send him away from the city. Andy moves in with his uncle David and begins working at the local cinema which David manages in order to pay his way. Fusing addiction, love and tragedy, Beneath a Neon Tide shows there is something just beneath the surface in all of us.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 769
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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Fatal Rescue (2009)
Plot Summary:
A Catastrophe happens on the day before Emilies and Jacobs divorce. Toby their son falls into a hidden well while playing. Jacob must deal with the life threatening situation as well as deal with Mike, a firefighter and old romantic interest of Emilie together they are unsuccessful at rescuing the boy. Time and tragedy are fierce ticking bombs, and amidst Jacob and Mike's faltering ego's, the mystery of the well and the new discovery of a 100 year old tunnel defy any logical explanation.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 301
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Things we do when we fall in love (2007)
Plot Summary:
Second part of the trilogy.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Malaysia
Duration: 89 min
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Mauri (1988)
Plot Summary:
Rewi Rapana returns to the small country town of Te Mata after his family has left the district. His arrival rekindles old tensions as well as renewing family ties. He is seeking an identity and a permanent place to call home yet desperately hiding a secret from his past. Oddly enough there is one person with whom he finds peace of mind. She is an old woman known as Kara. A special relationship develops between Rewi, Kara and Kara’s great granddaughter Awatea.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 101 min
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Waiting in the Dark (2006)
Plot Summary:
Michiru has lost her eyesight, and to make matters worse, her father dies shortly afterwards. She is now all alone and spends most of her day isolated in her home. Akihiro is a Chinese-Japanese immigrant, that has had to deal with racism all throughout his life. He is now tormented at work by one of his older co-workers named Toshio. One day at a train station in front of Michiru's house, Toshio is thrown into the path of an oncoming train. The only person seen at the train stop was Akihiro. Akihiro frantically flees from the scene and manages to enter Michiru's house without her knowledge. After a few days, Michiru starts to sense the presence of another person in her home.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspense, suspenseful, sweet
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Sea Shadow (2011)
Plot Summary:
Mansoor, a 16 year-old teenager, living in a coastal "freej" (an Emirati neighborhood), has strong feelings for 16 year-old girl Kaltham. But culture and tradition, as well as family hardship, make it difficult for him to express his feelings. A conversation with his "know-it-all" friend convinces him that a gift is the best way to express love, and so, he begins to look for ways to save money for the gift without arousing the suspicion of his family and friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: United Arab Emirates
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Murari (2001)
Plot Summary:
Circa 1800's a Jamindar (Prakash Raj) insults Durga Devi by stealing her idol in the temple in a state of intoxication.An enraged Devi kills him and puts a curse on his heirs that she is going to take one family member each every 48 years. And one male heir dies accidentally at the end of every 48 years. And the present year denotes end of another 48 years and now it's the turn of Murari (Mahesh Babu). In another village, there lives Vasundhara (Sonali Bendre). She too lives with a big combined family.Both the families of Murari and Vasundhara are releated by blood, but separated due to the family feuds.They both fall in love and these both families makes the formal arrangement of marriage. But once his grandmother, who returns from her Teerdha Yatra, upon being informed by the family poojari that Murari is the one who would be subjected to death by Devi this year, refuses for the marriage.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags:
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What Are You Looking For (2001)
Plot Summary:
The moving relationship of a man in crisis who would like to be a father, and a fatherless, mentally orphaned young rebel.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min
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Absolution (2015)
Plot Summary:
Kiia and Lauri, speeding toward the hospital overnight. Kiia in pain, holding the wheel with one hand and another in his stomach - the birth has started ahead of schedule. Surprisingly, the vehicle collides with something. Kiia fright and brakes, the car swerves before coming to a stop. Lauri rises to the car to check the situation and says he did not see anything. Kiia give birth to a healthy child in the hospital and befriends Hannah with. Hanna's husband has been in the same region hit by a car and drove onto the driver fled from the scene.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 392
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland, Ireland
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Nowhere to Run (1989)
Plot Summary:
Rural Texas, 1960 -- An age of good times and innocence, when growing up was supposed to be easy. Six high school seniors know the terrible secret that will make the difference in the biggest election in the county's history. Now they must make the most difficult decision of their lives. They must become adults. Written by Concorde - New Horizons.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film
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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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Peyton Place: The Next Generation (1985)
Plot Summary:
Another attempt to bring the 1960s primetime serial back to network television.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: soap opera
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Nora Roberts’ Montana Sky (2007)
Plot Summary:
The wealthy stock dealer bequeaths his Montana farm to the three daughters provided they would live there together at least for a year.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, sentimental, touching, melancholic, exciting, sincere, captivating, sex comedy
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Smooth Talk (1985)
Plot Summary:
Based on the short story, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been", by Joyce Carol Oates, this film chronicles a 15-year-old girl, Connie's, sexual awakening in the Northern California suburbs. Her experimenting begin to get out of hand when the mysterious Arnold Friend takes an interest in her.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, contemplative, surprise ending, suspense
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Watchtower (2001)
Plot Summary:
Orphan Mike O'Conner was abused from age three by his own dad, fled to Chicago to start a rock band but got dragged in bad mates' crime and convicted under probation. Mike's sister, Kate, managed to get him released and employed as assistant lighthouse guard under Adam Terrell, an author on sabbatical. However, Adam is murdered by serial killer Art Stoner, who takes Adam's place and identity. Art himself is the traumatized son of a prostitute, abandoned by the father, who had to watch his mother 'working' and got beaten, as if responsible, whenever her 'clients' hit her. 'Adam' seems to work out as Mike's substitute father, smacking him at worst, but their past starts catching up and Art being seen in action as Kate's lover poisons the triangle dramatically.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 812
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, tense, captivating, independent film, psychological thriller, psycho film
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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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I'll Come Running (2008)
Plot Summary:
A young Danish man traveling through Texas hooks up with an Austin girl, and even though they're not planning to see each other again, tragic circumstances lead her to his doorstep in Denmark.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 370
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, romantic drama, gloomy, independent film
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Your Name Poisons My Dreams (1996)
Plot Summary:
Angel Barciela and the police inspector Francisco Valduque meets after several years in the funeral of Buendía engineer. Both expect to see Julia, the daughter of the deceased and one of those involved in the investigation.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, non-linear, detective
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Lottery (2018)
Plot Summary:
Two Iranian teenagers in love want to get married, travel to the US to get a green card and live there, but their parents object. With not enough money saved, they pin their hopes on winning the state lottery to fund their trip, but tragedy derails their plans, leading to an international prostitution ring to being exposed.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Iran
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, sentimental, touching, suspense, disturbing
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N.O.I.R. (2015)
Plot Summary:
NOIR chronicles the lives of four people living in a neighborhood plagues by poverty and violence, aspiring to freedom and happiness. Kadhafi, a 26 year old aspiring rapper and ex-member of a street gang, just out of prison, wants to steer clear of troubles. Fleur, a 17 year old Haitian mother in an abusive and passionate relationship with her daughter's father, dreams of leaving the ghetto and becoming a nurse. Suzie, a 20 year old stripper who falls for a gang member. Dickens, 16 year old Haitian wants to be part of the street gang controlled by his older brother.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, tense, sentimental, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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An Organized Killer (2021)
Plot Summary:
Grace's life begins to unravel when a woman with sinister intentions moves into her guest house.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating
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Down in the Valley (2005)
Plot Summary:
On a trip to the beach, a teenage girl named Tobe meets a charismatic stranger named Harlan, who dresses like a cowboy and claims to be a former ranch hand. The pair feel an instant attraction and begin a relationship, but her father, a lawman, is suspicious of her lover.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, stylized, serious, captivating, neo western, funny, romantic, sex comedy, anamorphic
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Kansas (1988)
Plot Summary:
A drifter becomes both a bank robber and a hero in this crime thriller. Andrew McCarthy stars as Wade Corey, who hitches a ride on a freight train already occupied by Doyle Kennedy (Matt Dillon), a charming ex-con who convinces Wade to accompany him to his hometown. Once there, Wade realizes too late that Doyle is intent on robbing the local bank. After they are separated following the crime, Wade hides the money. Happening upon a drowning in progress, he saves a young girl who just happens to be the daughter of the state governor, and he becomes an unlikely hero. Finding work at a nearby farm, the meandering Wade becomes a hired hand, falls for the beautiful daughter (Leslie Hope) of his boss, and dreads the return of Doyle, who is sure to come looking for his money.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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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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Restless (2000)
Plot Summary:
An old dog has a hard time learning new tricks in this drama set in Turku. Ari, a paramedic, is a chronic womanizer; he makes it a point of pride to never sleep with the same woman twice, and his nights are a long series of brazen one-night stands. But when Ari meets Tiina (Laura Malmivaara), something unexpected happens - he falls in love. For the first time, Ari finds himself pursuing a long-term relationship, and he makes a genuine effort to remain faithful to her. But old habits die hard; Tiina introduces Ari to her circle of friends and temptation arises as he encounters Hanna-Riikka, a theology student, and Ilona, who is soon to be married. Despite Ari's feelings for Tiina, he begins having affairs with both Hanna-Riikka and Ilona, leading to an unpleasant revelation on the day of Ilona's nuptials. ~ Mark Deming, Allrovi.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: melancholic, sexual, touching, humorous, sexy, erotic, romantic, realistic, semi serious, feel good
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Crime + Punishment in Suburbia (2000)
Plot Summary:
This is a contemporary fable loosely based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment". Roseanne is outwardly a perfect and popular teen. However, her image is hiding the abuse at her stepfather's hands, and she decides to take revenge. The events that follow are a mix of dark humor and an exploration of modern morality as Roseanne faces not only a fellow suburbanite who knows, but her own conscience as well.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, serious, clever, teen, independent film, realistic, cynical, gloomy, sexy
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Witness (1985)
Plot Summary:
A sheltered Amish child is the sole witness of a brutal murder in a restroom at a Philadelphia train station, and he must be protected. The assignment falls to a taciturn detective who goes undercover in a Pennsylvania Dutch community. On the farm, he slowly assimilates despite his urban grit and forges a romantic bond with the child's beautiful mother.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 103000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, sexy, captivating, suspense, intense, serious, realistic, exciting, romantic
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The Deserter (1970)
Plot Summary:
A soldier runs away from the horrors of war, finds love with a virgin farm girl and a mistreated housewife, and will find that it is difficult to survive the battles of sex and love.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, Greece
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: mondo, crying, freeze frame
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Loverboy (2017)
Plot Summary:
15-year-old Caro is one of the inconspicuous students in her school. One day she get noted by a handsome, wealthy Turkish guy who is 5 years older than her. Since they start seeing each other she turns into a totally different person.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, sentimental, sexy, captivating, disturbing
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Safe Haven (2013)
Plot Summary:
A young woman with a mysterious past lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 115000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, teen, emotional, sentimental, suspenseful, sweet, cute, romantic drama, serious