Best movies like Hope Eternal
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Plot Summary:
After the violent death of her Welsh rugby-loving doctor boyfriend in the country's civil war, a Malagasy nurse working at a child hospice in Congo makes a pilgrimage to Wales to sprinkle his ashes on the turf of the Millennium Stadium.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min
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False Alarm (2006)
Plot Summary:
Summer in an Athenian neighborhood, the alarm of a car does not leave their neighbors in peace. But every one has its own problems. Infidelity, robbery, jealousy, flirtation, and family reconciliation on corpses, all pour forth into five intertwined stories.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 86 min
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The Lion Standing in the Wind (2015)
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Koichiro Shimada is sent to a research facility in Kenya, Africa by a teaching hospital in Japan. He encounters a desperate situation and decides to work there as a doctor, treating patients hurt in battles. He struggles with nurses and colleagues at the hospital. Koichiro Shimada then encounters a boy soldier severely wounded mentally. This changes Koichiro Shimada’s fate.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min
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Kabala (2002)
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When an elderly man reveals that his son Hammala (Modibo Traore) is the illegitimate son of a purported witch, the ugly side of social customs rears its head. Shunned by the community, an ashamed Hammala leaves the village, only to return four years later, despite his outcast status. The conflict between ancient customs and progress comes to a head when when Hammala's attempts to clean up the well of holy water, which is contaminated with cholera, are met with staunch opposition from the villages' official shaman (Sory Ibrahima Koita). Simultaneously, the woman he loves (Djeneba Kone) is being married off to a corrupt local named Seriba (Fily Traore). Magic does manage to play a significant role, however, when forces beyond logical explanation push the villagers into Hammala's home.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mali, France
Duration: 112 min
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I'm Still Here (2013)
Plot Summary:
Suffering from a terminal illness, a young loner makes plans for the little time he has left while coping with the five stages of death: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, serious, suspenseful, disturbing
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Malady of Love (1987)
Plot Summary:
Two physicians, one old and one young, fall in love with the same woman, Juliette, a quixotic hairdresser. First, she is with Raoul, the older one; then passion for Clément, the younger doctor, takes over. Raoul fights back, playing on Clément's guilt and Juliette's lack of self-assurance; then, Clément makes his case to Juliette, abandons his fiancée, and takes her to the provinces where he sets up practice and asks her to have a baby. She panics and abruptly leaves Clément, taking up with Raoul again. When she contracts Hodgkin's disease and the treatment does no good, Raoul believes she has the malady of love. Is there a cure?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 122 min
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Blue Moon (2005)
Plot Summary:
Corazon (Boots Anson Roa), an old Filipina who lives in Boston, wrote to each Manuel Pineda in her home a letter. She hopes to find her love again. In the Philippines experiences of the old Manuel Pineda (Eddie Garcia), meanwhile, that he has cancer and has only months to live. He goes in search of his Corazon.There were two Corazons in his life: before the Second World War, he spent (Mark Herras) and his buddy Domingo (Polo Ravales) a lot of time with the shy "Cora" (Jennylyn Mercado) and the lively " Azon "(Pauline Luna).
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 108 min
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Twenty-Four Hours in a Woman's Life (1961)
Plot Summary:
Helen Lester is in love with a man she has known just 24 hours, a playboy who spent time in jail for passing bad checks. Though the man has promised to change, most of her straitlaced relatives are up in arms. But Clare Lester, Helen's grandmother, says the girl is free to join the man she loves. On one condition, that she listen to the story of a day in Clare's own life and of a man she tried to change.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 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
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Hollow City (2004)
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A group of children, fleeing the war, is taken to Luanda accompanied by a nun. When they reach the aeroplane, 12-year-old N'Dala decides to leave the group and to reconnoitre the city. The nun then starts her unceasing quest for the missing boy. N'Dala, only carrying a textile bag and a doll made of wire, walks through the busy streets filled with people and traffic. Later he finds the tranquility of the island off the coast, where he meets the old fisherman Antonio, with whom he becomes friends. Not much later, he meets the lively, whimsical Zé, who is a little older than he is. N'Dala starts to experience the city and its inhabitants as increasingly forbidding and he would most like to return to the countryside from whence he came. Then he meets Joka, a fringe figure who persuades him to help with a robbery in exchange for money. With this film, Maria Joao Ganga wanted to provide a realistic sketch of the bitter political situation in Angola. One of her most important motivations.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 279
Genere: Drama
Country: Angola, Portugal
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: social
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Grandmother (1989)
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A small African village. The story focuses on Bila, a ten year old boy who befriends an old woman, Sana. Everybody calls her 'Witch' but Bila himself calls her 'Yaaba' (grandmother). When Bila's cousin Nopoko gets sick it is Sana's medicine that saves her.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 739
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Burkina Faso, Switzerland, France, West Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, black cinema
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Sally Pacholok (2015)
Plot Summary:
Feisty ER nurse takes on the medical establishment when she uncovers an epidemic of misdiagnosis.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
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We Are the Children (1987)
Plot Summary:
A doctor and a photo-journalist try to help famine victims in Africa.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
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An Umbrella for Lovers (1986)
Plot Summary:
Kraskov and Vera have long loved each other. They are unable to part, however, and connect their destinies can not and have already accepted the circumstances of life: he has a family, three children. A chance meeting in Moscow with a young couple, familiar with the rest in the South, pushes them to a decisive step….
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 89 min
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In Your Eyes (2010)
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Ciara (Claudine Barretto) is a senior physical therapist who works for a rehabilitation center in the United States. She has devoted her entire life to her younger sister Julia (Anne Curtis) who was left in her care after the untimely demise of their parents. After 8 years of separation, Ciara and Julia reunite when the latter acquires her student visa. Storm (Richard Gutierrez), Julia's boyfriend who earns a living as a freelance photographer, joins Julia despite the lack of a definite plan. In a desperate move for Storm to gain immigrant status, Julia asks Storm to enter into an arranged marriage with Ciara, who is already an American citizen. As Storm struggles to find his place in a foreign land, Julia works hard to chase after her own dream of finishing school, causing the two of them to drift apart.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, serious, captivating, realistic, tagalog
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Bride of Fire (2000)
Plot Summary:
A tragedy in which a young woman from an Arab tribe, prevented from marrying her non-Arab Persian lover is forced against her wishes to marry her cousin.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 573
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags:
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Only Love (1998)
Plot Summary:
Two young lovers whose romantic dreams were shattered, are reunited years later in this sweeping story of fobidden love.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 584
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 215 min
Plot tags: sentimental, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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Tabu (2012)
Plot Summary:
When Pilar's befriended neighbour Aurora dies, Pilar starts to dig into Aurora's past and learns about Aurora's very tragic love story.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Portugal, Germany, Brazil, France, Spain
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: clever, silent, serious, surreal, black and white, captivating, psychological thriller, cerebral, offbeat, realistic
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The Law (1990)
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Set in a pre-colonial African past, Tilai is about an illicit love affair and its consequences. Saga returns to his village after an extended absence to discover that his father has taken Nogma, Saga's promised bride, for himself. Still in love with each other, the two begin an affair, although it would be considered incestuous. When the liaison is discovered, Saga's brother, Koudri, pretends to kill Saga for the honor of the family and village. Saga and Nogma flee to another village, but when Nogma's birth mother dies, he returns home. Having brought ruin on the family, Saga is shot by Koudri, who walks off into exile and probable death.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 660
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Burkina Faso, France, UK, Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, saga
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Strapless (1989)
Plot Summary:
An expatriate American doctor in London allows herself to lighten up when her freewheeling younger sister and a mysterious man enter her life. Her inhibitions released, the beautiful doctor learns that freedom has its own price.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, serious, realistic, disturbing, independent film, contemplative, gloomy
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Fifty (2015)
Plot Summary:
FIFTY captures a few pivotal days in the lives of four Nigeria women at the pinnacle of their careers. Meet Tola, Elizabeth, Maria and Kate four friends forced at midlife to take inventory of their personal lives, while juggling careers and family against the sprawling backdrops of the upper middle-class neighbourhoods of Ikoyi and Victoria Island in Lagos. They live and work in the resurgent, ever-bustling, 24-hour megacity of Lagos, the commercial capital of Africa's biggest and most vibrant economy.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Nigeria
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Two A Penny (1967)
Plot Summary:
Set in London's Swiinging Sixties, Cliff Richard plays Jamie Hopkins, an art student whose desperate need for money leads him to dabble in the underworld of drug dealing. Cliff has stated that Two A Penny, his most dramatically challenging movie role ever, is the film he is proudest of. He has stated, "if I did want to send a fiolm as a CV, I would send that one". It is certainly his most demanding and controversial role; cynical, self centered and highly manipulative, Jamie Hopkins lies, steals and double-crosses his mother (Dora Bryan), forces himself on his girlfriend (Ann Holloway) and gets involved in fist fights with criminals. Through the influence of his girlfriend, a born again Christian, is the possibility that he may reform, yet in the mystery of the film's by-line "He promised to love her forever….today" lies the possibility that he may well not.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: christian film, independent film
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Rafiki (2018)
Plot Summary:
Kena and Ziki long for something more. Despite the political rivalry between their families, the girls resist and remain close friends, supporting each other to pursue their dreams in a conservative society. When love blossoms between them, the two girls will be forced to choose between happiness and safety.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Kenya, South Africa, Germany, Netherlands, France, Norway, Lebanon, UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: captivating, sincere, touching, social, disturbing, emotional, sensitive, queer cinema
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A Warm December (1973)
Plot Summary:
Widower Dr. Matt Younger and his daughter go to London for a month of dirt-bike racing. While there, Dr. Younger is surprised by finding himself attracted to Catherine, a charming but elusive woman who seems to have some mysterious men following her. A romance slowly develops between the doctor and Catherine, but there are complications to their happiness.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 772
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, surprise ending
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Burning Man (2011)
Plot Summary:
An English chef with a chic restaurant on Bondi Beach trying to put his life and his relationship with his son back on track while surrounded by women.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, sexy, crying
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The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987)
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A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. She makes a sad last bid for love with a fellow resident of her rundown boarding house, who imagines she has the money to bankroll the business he hopes to open.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy, crying, independent film
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Solomon & Gaenor (1999)
Plot Summary:
A young Jew in 1911 Wales tries to make his living by selling fabrics door to door, but to do so he must hide his nationality. On one of his sales he meets and falls in love with a demure young woman with a strong-willed father and a Jew-hating brother. The two fall in love and she becomes pregnant, but only then does she learn of his ethnic background. When anti-Jewish riots break out, the two are forced to flee and become separated.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sad, independent film, historical drama, sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, period drama
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In a Better World (2010)
Plot Summary:
The lives of two Danish families cross each other, and an extraordinary but risky friendship comes into bud. But loneliness, frailty and sorrow lie in wait.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, touching, emotional, bleak, harsh, gloomy, disturbing, depressing, sincere, realistic
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The White Massai (2005)
Plot Summary:
A girl, Carola, whose vacation in Kenya takes an interesting turn when she becomes infatuated with a Masai. Carola decides to leave her boyfriend to stay with her lover. There, she has to adapt to the Masai's way of life and get used to their food which includes milk mixed with blood. She also has to face her husband's attitude towards women and what he expects from a wife. Nonetheless, Carola is welcomed warmly into the tribe she has chosen to join.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: captivating, emotional, serious, realistic, erotic, sad
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Heat and Dust (1983)
Plot Summary:
The parallel story of Anne and her grand-aunt Olivia in their experiences in India.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: realistic, costume drama, romantic drama, historical drama, serious, contemplative, crying, independent film, baroque, period drama
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Half of a Yellow Sun (2013)
Plot Summary:
An epic love story: Olanna and Kainene are glamorous twins, living a privileged city life in newly independent 1960s Nigeria. The two women make very different choices of lovers, but rivalry and betrayal must be set aside as their lives are swept up in the turbulence of war.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Nigeria, UK
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing