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Plot Summary:
A mysterious woman frequents tea shops and other places looking for the right man. A cup of green tea will show you the way to find your true love.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 753
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 83 min
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Beyond the Dream (2019)
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Lok is a recovering schizophrenic who yearns for love. One day, he encounters the young and beautiful Yan and quickly falls in love with her. The pair develops a relationship that is beyond their wildest dreams.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 944
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: banned
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Dazzling (2002)
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A beautifully-made film about two love-seeking angels and a lonely theater usher longing to return to the light.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 84 min
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Trilogy (1969)
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Trilogy is an anthology film of three adaptations of Truman Capote short stories: Miriam, Among the Paths to Eden and A Christmas Memory. It was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was cancelled due to the events of May 1968 in France.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: anthology, independent film
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Beauties in the Closet (2018)
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A yellow weasel and a nine-tailed fox take on human forms as beautiful ladies in order to seduce the king and persuade him to stop the killings against their kind. Towards the end of the Tang Dynasty, the imperial family's love for hunting has disrupted the lives of the fox spirit tribe that resides at the foot of Ma Li Mountain. Unwilling to bear it any longer, the tribe sends Qing Feng and Fei Yuan as envoys of peace. Unbeknownst to everyone, Qing Feng has received a secret mission to assassinate the emperor.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration:
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Amor (2010)
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Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 96 min
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Parachute (2023)
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Riley has recently been discharged from rehab after struggling with food and body image issues. She soon meets Ethan and finds herself navigating the line between unconditional love and a new addiction.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
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Milk and Fashion (2007)
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Milk and Fashion centers on a young foreigner, Tyler Ralstin, as he travels from rural Yunnan to Shanghai to live with his uncle Jack. As caretaker for Tyler, Jack must balance his life between the high demand of his profession and the role of a mentor as he guides his nephew through the tough life-decisions that come with growing up. Jack is the president of a cultural investment company that is sponsoring an international fashion contest, and one of the competing designers is Yao Yao, a former ballerina who has decided to pursue her dream of becoming a professional designer. The stories of Tyler and Yao Yao intertwine in Tyler's coming-of-age tale and Yao Yao's journey as she strives to accomplish her dreams. Though her journey at times seems complicated and even hopeless, Yao Yao finds a friend and mentor in Anna, an international fashion magazine editor who helps Yao Yao stay true to her goals.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 95 min
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Shanghai Panic (2002)
Plot Summary:
A glimpse into the lives of 4 Shanghai teenagers.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 87 min
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My Country, My Parents (2021)
Plot Summary:
Actress Zhang Ziyi, actor-and-director Wu Jing, comedian Shen Teng, and actor-and-director Xu Zheng come together to direct four short films as part of a new anthology drama paying tribute to China’s families.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 526
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 157 min
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Spring Subway (2002)
Plot Summary:
A stylish urban romance about the silent suffering of a modern Chinese couple.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 452
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: dramatic, serious, touching, lyrical, independent film
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La petite amie d'Antonio (1992)
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It's a simple love story. Antonio likes Claudie. But Claudie is not so simple ... Claudie is a young woman who stumbles into reality. Little by little, we discover the life of her and those around her. Her friends, her family, her past ... And Antonio, who loves her and takes her by the hand and does not want to let go. He would certainly like to succeed in understanding her. And it's important to understand when you love. Claudie has her whole life in front of her, what is she afraid of?.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
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Your Black Hair and My Hand (1996)
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This Hong Kong drama parallels the stories of two young couples, splicing them with dream sequences and a framing story set at a coffee bar where friends have gathered to talk.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 98 min
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Myth of Love (2021)
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A divorced, retired painting teacher from Shanghai falls in love with a woman who is also divorced. The involvement of his ex-wife and a student of his makes the whole thing complicated.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 112 min
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El invierno de las anjanas (2000)
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A young worker enjoying an affair with an upper class beauty, Adelaida, is drafted by the Spanish Army to fight in the Cuban War of Independence. After Adelaida receives an unusual announcement regarding her lover's death in combat, she refuses to believe the loss of her lover. Her class-conscious family, led by her jealous sister Maria, believes that Adelaida has lost her mind and places Adelaida in an insane asylum. However, Adelaida continues to to live according to her beliefs of passion and freedom. Fellow "inmates" tell her about the wood-nymphs which inhabit the adjacent forest. Adelaida is convinced these nymphs will lead her to her lover and to happiness.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min
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Take Care (1991)
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A young man just released from the army is making great dreams for his life. Finally he gets a job in a butcher's shop and gains the confidence of the owner. After the butcher's death he falls in love with his daughter but also has an affair with the widow and cannot decide between them.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 93 min
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The Strait Story (2005)
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The year is 1943 and Taiwan is under Japanese colonization. After finishing his studies in Japan, famous Taiwanese sculptor and painter Ching-Cheng Huang receives an offer to teach in Beiping Art School. He decides to visit friends and family back home before leaving for China. He boards the passenger liner "Takachiho Maru" in Kobe, Japan, with his girlfriend, a pianist. Tragically, the luxurious liner is torpedoed by an American submarine and sinks off the coast of Keelung, Taiwan. Decades later, Shou-shou, a fine art restorer with a crippling illness, finds one of Huang's paintings in an exhibition. As she restores the painting, Shou-shou learns about the artist, the stories behind his work and his death at sea. She recreates the story of the painting "Woman in Black", and romantically imagines the ways the artist painted his girlfriend. The more she studies, the more she was inspired by Huang's value of art and of life. Restoring Huang's painting thus becomes Shou-shou's way of.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, captivating
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Love and Rage (2009)
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Daniel is a very talented piano student and loves Sofie, but he is terrified by the thought of losing her and accuses her of seeing another man. Everybody says he is wrong, but the suspicion grows as does an uncontrollable side of Daniel.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 371
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, atmospheric, captivating, suspense, serious, realistic, gloomy
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Bad Romance (2011)
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7 young men and women and their three stories involved with heterosexual, homosexual and bisexual affairs that happened in Beijing. A single mom meets a young student; A city boy meets a guy of his dream; A girl falls into a love game of a male and a female fellows in her French class.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, captivating, realistic, crying
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Summer Palace (2006)
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Country girl Yu Hong leaves her village, her family and her lover to study in Beijing. At university, she discovers an intense world of sexual freedom and forbidden pleasure. Enraptured, compulsive, she falls madly in love with fellow student Zhou Wei. Driven by obsessive passions they can neither understand nor control, their relationship becomes one of dangerous games - betrayals, recriminations, provocations - as all around them, their fellow students begin to demonstrate, demanding democracy and freedom. Was the only Asian film selected to compete for the Palme d'Or in 2006. In September of 2006, director Lou Ye was barred from making movies for five years because the film incorporated footage of the Tiananmen Square demonstrations and wasn't screened for Chinese officials. The Chinese government also demanded that all copies of the film be confiscated.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China, France
Duration: 158 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, touching, serious, emotional, bleak, realistic, contemplative, sexual, controversial, sexy
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Love for Life (2011)
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Set in a small Chinese village where HIV virus is spreading rapidly as a result of illicit blood trade, Mo shu wai zhuan revolves around De Yi and Qinqin are both estranged from their respective family because of their disease and unexpectedly find love with each other by their misfortunes.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 661
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Coming Home (2014)
Plot Summary:
Lu and Feng are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner during the Cultural Revolution. He finally returns home only to find that his beloved wife no longer remembers him.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, atmospheric, touching, realistic, social
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Touched with Fire (2015)
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Carla and Marco are manic-depressive poets whose art is fueled by their emotional extremes. When they go off their meds, they end up in the same psychiatric hospital. As the chemistry between them stirs up their emotions, it intensifies their mania. Despite doctors' and parents' attempts to separate them, they pursue their beautiful but destructive romance which swings them from fantastical manic highs to suicidal depressive lows, until they have to choose between sanity and love.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sincere, realistic, touching, captivating, emotional, psychological, spiritual, factual
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Beijing Love Story (2014)
Plot Summary:
A cross-generational look at how denizens of China's largest city deal with romance and commitment.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 438
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: sentimental, semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic
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Suzhou River (2000)
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A tragic love story set in contemporary Shanghai. The film stars Zhou Xun in a dual role as two different women and Jia Hongsheng as a man obsessed with finding a woman from his past.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, China
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, atmospheric, serious, stylized, sad, clever, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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Love The Way You Are (2019)
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Opposites clash when spunky girl next door Lin Lin meets eccentric nerd Yuke. Despite being neighbors and schoolmates since childhood, Lin Lin and Yuke barely know each other. When the pair are both admitted into the same university, Lin Lin discovers that Yuke harbors a secret crush for campus beauty, Ruting. Ever the busybody, Lin Lin decides to matchmake Yuke and Ruting, only to find herself gradually falling for Yuke.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: uplifting, sentimental, romantic, touching, sweet
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Zhou Yu's Train (2002)
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Zhou Yu, a ceramic artisan in China's rural Northwest, has a deep rapport with Chen Qing, a shy sensitive poet. Taking a long train ride every weekend just to make mad passionate love with him, her longing seems insatiable. Until one day, she meets the hedonistic vet Zhang Qiang and begins a torrid affair, which takes her to another train station, and another level of lust. Driven by the locomotive of love and desire, she hustles through a dark tunnel of no return.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sentimental, atmospheric, touching, serious, contemplative, realistic, surprise ending, non-linear
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Love O2O (2016)
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What is it that makes a man fall in love with a woman at first sight? Appearance? Aura? Wealth? NO, when campus prince and gaming expert, student Xiao Nai first saw Bei Wei Wei, what made him fall in love was not her extraordinary beauty, but her slim and slender fingers that were flying across the keyboard and her calm and composed manner!!! Embarrassing, no? At the same time, gaming expert Bei Wei Wei, at this time and place is on the computer, methodically commanding a guild war, and won a perfect and glorious victory despite being at a disadvantage, and was completely unaware that cupid is nearby. Soon after basketball player, swimmer, all-around excellent student, and game company president, Xiao Nai, uses both tactics on and off-line to take this beauty’s heart. Therefore this romance slowly bloomed. ~~ Movie adapted from the novel by Gu Man.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sentimental, romantic, uplifting, touching, feel good, sweet, scenic, romantic drama
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Cry Me a Sad River (2018)
Plot Summary:
Qi Ming is a handsome boy and he is also a top student at school, but Yi Yao is a so-called bitch on everyone’s lips. Qi and Yi grew up together and they have been maintaining a good relationship. However, everything is interrupted and changed by Tang Xiaomi. Rumors have become a sharp weapon to destroy people. Yi Yao's life falls into darkness, and she suffers all kinds of cruel bullying at school.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, tense, sentimental, thought provoking, touching, unusual plot structure
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Breakup Buddies (2014)
Plot Summary:
Recently cuckolded and reeling from a messy divorce, a hapless former singer hits the road - and the bar - with his all-too-helpful best bud, in this hilarious romantic comedy.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, light, feel good, realistic, not serious
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Comrades: Almost a Love Story (1996)
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Jun arrives in Hong Kong from mainland China, hoping to be able to earn enough money to marry his girlfriend back home. He meets the streetwise Qiao and they become friends. As friendship turns into love, problems develop, and although they seem meant for each other they somehow keep missing out.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: realistic, emotional, art house, sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, captivating, semi serious