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Plot Summary:
After a mysterious, beautiful Latin woman named Miranda makes a dramatic appearance at the funeral of a man, shocking his affluent Southern California family, Victor, the man's son, heads to Mexico to find out the truth about the nature of her relationship with his dead father. He finds Miranda in the city of Guanajuato living with another man, Tobias. When Victor confronts Miranda, she denies meeting his father and says they will never hear from her again. If Miranda is telling the truth, what exactly was she doing at Victor's father's funeral? Who is the man that she is living with now? Their confrontation is the beginning of a chain of events where the protagonists will have to solve the dilemma that happens when true love comes twice at the same time.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 556
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, sexual, interesting
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Only God Knows (2006)
Plot Summary:
On a lark in Tijuana, a carefree Brazilian art student crosses paths with a brooding Mexican journalist, sparking a cascade of events across both Mexico and Brazil. As Dolores and Damián discover an intimate love and a mysterious spiritual heritage, they struggle with ever more costly choices.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 853
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Mexico, Brazil
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: semi serious, atmospheric, humorous, serious, realistic, clever, sexual, sexy
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Engeyum Kadhal (2011)
Plot Summary:
Kamal, a young billionaire, doesn't believe in love; his philosophy is simple: No love, no commitments = no disappointments. He works hard for 11 months and takes a month's break from all the work related commitments. Cute violinist Kayalvizhi alias Kayal believes in true love and is highly fascinated with Indian culture. Kayal's father Rajasekhar runs a small detective agency in France and Kayal often reads her father's case files for interesting stories. One day, Rajasekhar gets a new client who wants to know about his girlfriend's mystery man. After a brief investigation, Rajasekhar finds that his client's girlfriend is dating Kamal. Sonu gets angry and decides to kill his girlfriend and Kamal.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 881
Genere: Romance
Country: India
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, psychological, sincere, romantic
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Changing Hearts (2012)
Plot Summary:
A modern Prodigal Son story starring Brian McNamara, Daphne Zuniga, and Brad Johnson. James Reed, quite content with his current life, reluctantly returns home to the family business, a sick father, and a brother with whom he's always at odds.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, psychological, thought provoking, captivating, christian film, serious, independent film, entertaining
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Sons & Lovers (2003)
Plot Summary:
Filmmaker Stephen Whittaker adapts author D.H. Lawrence's simmering tale of sex, love, and family. In the years leading up to World War I, the problems faced by many families were uncannily similar to the issues that mankind would still be struggling with nearly a century later. Human relationships remain as fragile as ever, and the only constant in life seems to be a humbling sense of uncertainty. Sarah Lancashire stars in a drama detailing the anguish of first love, and the awkward confusion of first sex.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 192 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sincere, romantic, period drama
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For the Love of Grace (2008)
Plot Summary:
With a great career, close friends, and an upwardly mobile fiancé, ‘How To’ book writer Grace (Chandra West) appears to have the perfect life. Meanwhile, local firefighter Steve (Mark Consuelos), having just been suspended for his reckless, yet heroic style, seems to be heading in the opposite direction That is, until a fateful fire rescue fans the flames of attraction and gives them both a new perspective on life.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 582
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: emotional, psychological, sentimental, captivating, touching, realistic, semi serious
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Civil Love (2012)
Plot Summary:
Rachel is a widow during the Civil War who holds the South responsible for her husband's death. When a wounded enemy soldier takes refuge in her barn, Rachel reluctantly helps him. As she gets to know him more, she realizes she must protect him from the dangerous men pursuing him, and discovers a courage she didn't know she had - the courage to love again.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, realistic, independent film
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Milan (2004)
Plot Summary:
Loving husband Lino is on a mission: His wife, who works as a domestic in Milan, is missing and he's determined to find her. To do so, he enters Italy illegally and takes cover as one of the hundreds of Filipino migrant workers wh make their way to Europe.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, tagalog, sexual, sexy
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The One Who Couldn't Love (2011)
Plot Summary:
La que no podía amar is a Mexican telenovela produced by José Alberto Castro for Televisa. Ximena Suarez wrote the script based on the original story by Delia Fiallo. The cast was headed by Ana Brenda Contreras, Jorge Salinas, and Jose Ron, while Susana González, Julián Gil, Mar Contreras and Ana Bertha Espin portrayed the villains.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: emotional, sentimental, realistic, captivating, novela, psychological, soap opera, serious, telenovela
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Abyss of Passion (2012)
Plot Summary:
Rosendo Arango, the owner of Grupo La Anita, is married to Alfonsina. They have one son, Damian. Estefanía Bouvier is married to Augusto Castanon and they have one daughter, Elisa. Rosendo cheats on his wife with Carmina Bouvier, Estefanía's sister. Damian and Elisa become friends because Augusto and Rosendo were best friends. But one day, Rosendo and Carmina try to go away from La Ermita, the pueblo in which they live in. But, Estefanía, who had found out about their plans, wants to prevent this, shuts Carmina in her room and then goes with Rosendo in his car, trying to convince him not to run away with Carmina. They have an accident and die and everyone thinks they were lovers.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, sentimental, captivating, psychological, soap opera, novela, telenovela
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Valiant Love (2012)
Plot Summary:
Camila Monterde is a beautiful veterinarian whose life has been torn apart by a tragic accident in which her fiancé, Luis, was killed. Hoping to ease her depression, her uncle, Daniel Monterde, invites her to live at his ranch, where she can rest and recover while caring for the many animals he keeps there. Meanwhile, in Chile, Daniel Diaz suddenly receives a letter stating that he has come into a substantial inheritance and must travel to Mexico to claim it. Surprised and curious, he’s about to make the trip when a vicious lie disrupts his plans and lands him in prison, causing him to lose the inheritance and his family. Deeply bitter and hungry for revenge, Daniel travels to Mexico determined to destroy the Monterde family, which he blames for his terrible misfortune. He takes a job at the Monterde ranch to be close to his prey. His vengeance is perfectly planned except for one unexpected development: he and Camila fall passionately in love and that changes everything.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, romantic, captivating, disturbing, soap opera, telenovela
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Year of the Nail (2007)
Plot Summary:
A love story between a Mexican teenager and an American woman who meet one summer in Mexico.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 487
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: emotional, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, touching, serious, experimental, sexual
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The Pier (2011)
Plot Summary:
After 20 years of no contact with his father, Jack McCarthy (played by Hurley) travels from New York to his father Larry's death bed in Cork. Upon arrival he is furious to find his father alive and well and even more so when he then discovers he can't leave. Soon, father and son are forced to deal with a painful history. At the core of their conflict is Larry's denial about the death of his wife, Jack's mother. The story explores the difficult and painful, but often very hilarious ways they try to communicate. Forging a begrudging peace, the reality of life sets in when Larry discloses to Jack another truth that leads to a final reconciliation.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: realistic, sentimental, contemplative, captivating, psychological, sincere, serious
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The One That Got Away (2008)
Plot Summary:
Joanna, recently divorced, decided to return with her daughter to the town where she was born. There, she confronts the memories of the past when he meets his former lover, now married.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: captivating, sentimental, psychological, emotional, touching, serious, realistic
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The American Standards (2008)
Plot Summary:
At a crossroads in his life, Doc Jennings goes home to celebrate his mother's birthday and uncovers dramatic family secrets. Lies, affairs and afflictions bubble to the surface of his seemingly perfect family. Can they come back together or is it too late?.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 654
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating
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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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The Reception (2005)
Plot Summary:
The complex relationship between a wealthy French woman and her best friend a, gay black American, is thrown into turmoil when her estranged daughter comes to visit them with her new husband for the weekend in upstate New York. Through a series of drunken evenings and daytime squabbles it becomes apparent that no one involved is what they seem.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, captivating, sentimental, sexy, psychological, sincere, clever, serious, contemplative
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Not Here to Be Loved (2005)
Plot Summary:
Jean-Claude Delsart, a 50 years-old bailiff, with his worn-out smile and heart, abandoned a long time ago the idea that life could give him pleasures. Until the day, he dares to push the doors of a tango lesson.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, serious, captivating
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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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Once Upon a Time in Rio (2008)
Plot Summary:
Situated just above the awe-inspiring Ipanema beach in Rio is the Cantagalo slum. Every day, floods of Cantagalo residents make their way down the mountain, only to disappear into their surroundings as part of the invisible working-class that cleans apartments, works in restaurants, and sells food along the scenic, sun-drenched shores. Young Dé (Thiago Martins) is just such a man. Dé lives with his mother Bernadette (Cyria Coentro) in a cramped Cantagalo apartment, selling hot dogs on the beach in order to make the rent. His brother Beto was killed when Dé was just a young boy, and his adopted brother Carlão (Rocco Pitanga) has been jailed for a robbery that he didn't commit. One day, while working on the beach, Dé meets Nina (Vitória Frate). Nina is the only child of a successful lawyer named Evandro (Paulo César Grande), who's none to happy to discover that his daughter is dating a member of the lower class. How.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: emotional, touching, realistic, sentimental, serious, bleak
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Beautiful Fall (2004)
Plot Summary:
Ninni is sixteen and she lives in a beautiful mansion in the swedish countryside with her family.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, captivating, freeze frame
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A Small September Affair (2014)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful girl who has everything. Charming, playful, in her own words: 'too joyful to fall in love.' A sudden car crash, and her heart stops for a few minutes. When she wakes up, everyone assures 'every-thing's alright.' But she knows it isn't. Because she cant remember her final month; a September of her life is missing. Leading a trail of hastily covered clues she finds herself in a remote Aegean island. A weird looking, grubby recluse, comes up-to him and proclaims: 'Don't you remember me? I'm the man you fell in love with.' Everything sensible about her screams 'get out of there' but she follows her memories right onto the tragic end of a miraculous affair.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: emotional, touching, serious, realistic, sincere, captivating, romantic, sentimental
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Tempted (2003)
Plot Summary:
The strain of juggling her responsibilities as wife, mother, and successful paralegal have worn Emma Burke (Virginia Madsen) out. Thus it is that Emma welcomes the opportunity to briefly take leave of her Boston home and head for sunny Hawaii. It is not, however, a pleasure trip: Having promised to honor the dying wishes of her Hawaiian-born surrogate mother, Emma had agreed to transport the woman's ashes to the Islands for a traditional burial ceremony. Leaving her husband, Mike (Andrew McFarlane), behind to care for their two children, Emma arrives in Hawaii for the first time since childhood, where she is reunited with her childhood friend Kala (Jason Momoa), the handsome son of her late surrogate parent. Against her better judgment, Emma falls in love with Kala, and he with her. Complications arise when Mike and the kids show up in the Islands, a the obligatory evil land developer rears his ugly head, and Emma learns the shocking truth about her biological mother.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 503
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: emotional, touching, serious, realistic, romantic drama, sexual, sexy
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Wake (2009)
Plot Summary:
When things get tough for offbeat Carys Reitman, she does what any emotionally isolated, modern girl would do - she goes to strangers' funerals.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, psychological, atmospheric, romantic, indie film, realistic, semi serious
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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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The Impostor (2014)
Plot Summary:
La Impostora, is a Spanish-language telenovela presumably to be produced by United States-based television network Telemundo Studios, Miami.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration:
Plot tags: emotional, realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, serious, telenovela
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Mademoiselle Chambon (2009)
Plot Summary:
Véronique Chambon (Sandrine Kiberlain), a single schoolteacher and Jean (Vincent Lindon), discover an unexpected bond that causes them to question the direction of their lives. They move in different social circles but their relationship develops and their lives begin gradually to unravel.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, sentimental, captivating, sincere, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas (2005)
Plot Summary:
A woman discovers the truth about her former lover from the diary that his first wife wrote to their son, Nicholas.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, realistic, touching, serious, emotional, erotic, tear jerker
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Loving Leah (2009)
Plot Summary:
A handsome Washington, D.C. doctor and a young New York woman fall in love at an unusual time...after they get married. Leah Lever is married to an Orthodox rabbi, Benjamin Lever, whose brother, Jake is a successful cardiologist and a non-practicing Jew. Jake is stunned when Benjamin dies suddenly, but not as stunned as when he is told that, under an ancient Jewish Law, he is expected to marry the childless Leah to carry on Benjamin's name.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, emotional, captivating, romantic, romantic comedy, touching, romantic drama
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Alpha Male (2006)
Plot Summary:
Drama about a family torn apart after the death of its patriarch. Haunted by their father's death, Jack and Elyssa have a fraught relationship with their remarried mother even now they have come of age.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: emotional, touching, realistic, contemplative, psychological, sentimental, sincere, serious
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I Do...Knot (2009)
Plot Summary:
Sebastian is very lucky with women, going to parties and getting drunk every night. His mother asks him to change his way of life but he refuses to stop partying and meeting new women. One day, after one night of serious partying he wakes up with a beautiful woman named Alexa. He realizes he got married to her, but he can't remember anything about it. And being married is a serious problem for a man like him.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 690
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: semi serious, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, sentimental, realistic, witty