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Plot Summary:
Eun-joo moves out of her house "Il Mare", leaving behind a Christmas card for the eventual new owner of the house in 1999. In it she asks him/her to forward any mail of hers to her new address in the city. It is 1997 and Sung-hyun, the first owner of "Il Mare" is moving in and finds in his mailbox the Christmas card from Eun-joo. Thinking it was a joke, Sung-hyun leaves her a letter telling her so and reminds her that its 1997 not 1999. Eventually the two realize that they are separated by two years of time but can somehow communicate through the mailbox and begin to form a friendship through their letters.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sentimental, serious, mind twisting, psychological thriller, romantic, touching, sincere, mind bending, sweet, dark
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Be with You (2004)
Plot Summary:
When two souls find one another, nothing can tear them apart. Widower Takumi (Shido Nakamura) lives a quiet life with his six-year-old son Yuji (Akashi Takei) after the loss of wife and mother Mio (Yuko Takeuchi). Yuji unfailingly remembers her promise to him: "I'll be with you again in a year's time, when the rains come." On the first anniversary of her passing, Takumi and Yuji are taking a walk in the woods when they come across a woman sheltering from a monsoon downpour. She bears an uncanny resemblance to Mio, but has no recollection of who she is or what she is doing there. Family life resumes from where they left off, while Takumi and Mio's memories of their first encounter in high school come flooding back. However, their new life together is interrupted by the discovery of Mio's old diary, which reveals the secrets of her past and how they must say goodbye once more in six weeks' time.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, romantic, sincere, enigmatic, sad, romantic drama, gloomy
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Because I Love You (2017)
Plot Summary:
Lee Hyeong is a talented songwriter. He happens to connect people who are not good with love. Those include Hyeong-Gyeong who wants to become a singer, but she suffers from stage fright. Scully is a high school student. She helps Lee Hyeong's spirit. Chan-Young is a colleague of Lee Hyeong and he likes Hyeong-Gyeong, but in vain.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 576
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: romantic, humorous, entertaining
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Fetching Cody (2005)
Plot Summary:
Art, a drug-addicted dealer and hustler, arrives at his girlfriend Cody's apartment to find that she has overdosed on heroin. He tries to fix things by traveling back in time in an attempt to prevent her death.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: semi serious, captivating, sentimental, atmospheric, touching, offbeat, humorous, independent film, dark comedy
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Will You Be There? (2016)
Plot Summary:
Soo-hyun comes across magical pills that allow him to go back and forth in time. 30 years to the past, young Soo-hyun meets future Soo-hyun and learns that his girlfriend will soon die because of him. In order to save her, the two Soo-hyuns try to change the past together, but a completely new and unexpected past is formed that leads to a new future.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: romantic, sentimental, sincere, touching, sweet, mind blowing
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Love Letter (1995)
Plot Summary:
When exchanging letters two women discover new things about a deceased man they used to know.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: romantic, retro, feel good, sweet, epic, art house, independent film, anamorphic, romantic drama, psychological
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A Werewolf Boy (2012)
Plot Summary:
Summoned by an unexpected phone call, an elderly woman visits the country cottage she lived in as a child. Memories of an orphan boy she knew 47 years ago come flooding back to her.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: romantic, sentimental, atmospheric, ambiguous ending, touching, sad, surreal, crying, serious, emotional
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The Beauty Inside (2015)
Plot Summary:
Woo-Jin changes into a different person when he wakes up. He falls in love with Yi-Soo.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: romantic, inspirational, dorama, touching, sweet, sincere, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing, heartbreaking
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More Than Blue (2009)
Plot Summary:
A terminally ill man tries to find a suitable husband for the friend he has loved since childhood.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, romantic, sentimental, sad, depressing, romantic comedy
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Christmas in August (1998)
Plot Summary:
In a quiet corner of Seoul, Jung-won runs a small photo studio. A humble shack passed down from his widower father, the studio is a space where Jung-won goes about his daily routine of dealing with fussy customers, enlarging photos of class heartthrobs for the neighborhood kids and photographing pictures to place on funeral altars. For Jung-won, life seems to be a series of peaceful events, but in reality his time on earth is too limited for comfort. Barely in his mid-30's, but perhaps too aware of the meaning of death, Jung-won accepts his fate despite the subtle gestures of concern he gets from his old father and younger sister. Life goes on as usual until one day he meets Darim, an employee at the Traffic Control Division of the local district office. She is a regular customer at the studio who comes everyday to develop snapshots of parking violations.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, emotional, realistic, serious, romantic comedy, crying, feel good
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You're My Home (2012)
Plot Summary:
After returning back to family, Leyla tries to fix everytihng while starting a new life wit Iskender. Everything goes smoothly until troubles find Leyla.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, sentimental, captivating, melancholic
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For Both of Us (2016)
Plot Summary:
Çiçek is a girl who grew up in a small village. She has so many questions about her own life with no answers. And then her life is changed by Dogan, her literature teacher.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, sincere, romantic, uplifting, touching, sweet
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Tune in for Love (2019)
Plot Summary:
In 1994, on the first day that Yoo Yeul went on air as the new DJ of the popular radio show ‘Music Album,' a college girl Mi-su meets Hyun-woo who happens to drop by the bakery she works at. Like the music streaming from the radio, their frequencies slowly come in sync; even when they're apart, the show brings them together through ebbs and flows of events arising from both pure coincidence and inevitability, until the bitter reality sets in and drives them apart.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: romantic, sentimental, sincere, uplifting, touching, sweet, captivating, romantic drama
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My Sassy Girl (2001)
Plot Summary:
Based on a series of true stories posted by Ho-sik Kim on the Internet describing his relationship with his girlfriend. These were later transformed into a best-selling book and the movie follows the book closely. It describes the meeting of Kyun-woo and an unnamed girl. Kyun-woo is shamed into assisting the girl because the other passengers mistakenly think she is his girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 50000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, heartbreaking, melancholic, romantic comedy, sweet, humorous, funny, touching, inspirational
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The Love Letter (1998)
Plot Summary:
20th century computer games designer Scott exchanges love letters with 19th century poet Elizabeth Whitcomb through an antique desk that can make letters travel through time.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: heartbreaking, sentimental, touching, heartfelt, semi serious, sexy, period drama, hot
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Somewhere in Time (1980)
Plot Summary:
Young writer, Richard Collier is met on the opening night of his first play by an old lady who begs him to, "Come back to me." Mystified, he tries to find out about her, and learns that she is a famous stage actress from the early 1900s. Becoming more and more obsessed with her, he manages – by self-hypnosis – to travel back in time where he meets her. They fall in love, a matching that is not appreciated by her manager. Can their love outlast the immense problems caused by their 'time" difference, and can Richard remain in a time that is not his?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, sentimental, atmospheric, heartbreaking, period piece, sweet, light, emotional, stylized
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Untamed Heart (1993)
Plot Summary:
Caroline, a young waitress who seems to have bad taste in men, is on her way home one night when thugs attempt to rape her. Adam, the mysterious busboy who works at the same diner, helps fight off the assailants, and she begins a relationship with him -- but not all their fellow Minnesotans are happy for them. Meanwhile, the couple face their own difficulties when Caroline finds about Adam's past, including his unique health condition.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: romantic, sentimental, touching, feel good, sad, sweet, crying, heartbreaking, inspirational, uplifting
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Lover's Concerto (2002)
Plot Summary:
Lee Ji-hwan receives photographs in the mail that reminds him of how he met two girls, Shim Su-in and Kim Gyeong-heui, one summer five years ago. He shares his memories with his friend Cheol-hyeon. He recalls initially being in love with Su-in, but she rejects him. Throughout the summer, the three remain friends. Ji-hwan and Gyeong-heui develop feelings for each other but are reluctant to admit it. Ji-hwan recalls the complex relationship between the three to Cheol-hyeon.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, romantic, captivating, romantic comedy, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative
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Sliding Doors (1998)
Plot Summary:
Gwyneth Paltrow plays London publicist Helen, effortlessly sliding between parallel storylines that show what happens if she does or does not catch a train back to her apartment. Love. Romantic entanglements. Deception. Trust. Friendship. Comedy. All come into focus as the two stories shift back and forth, overlap and surprisingly converge.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 71000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, clever, sentimental, sweet, touching, semi serious, entertaining, cute, mind twisting
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If Only (2004)
Plot Summary:
After his impetuous musician girlfriend, Samantha, dies in an accident shortly after they had a fight (and nearly broke up), a grief-stricken British businessman, Ian Wyndham, living in London gets a chance to relive the day all over again, in the hope of changing the events that led up to her getting killed.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: romantic, sentimental, touching, emotional, sad, sincere, feel good, heartbreaking, thought provoking, captivating
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Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Plot Summary:
A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 516000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: gothic, fairy tale, surreal, touching, sentimental, atmospheric, dark fantasy, sad, visually stunning, visual
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Charlie St. Cloud (2010)
Plot Summary:
Accomplished sailor Charlie St. Cloud has the adoration of his mother Claire and his little brother Sam, as well as a college scholarship that will lead him far from his sleepy Pacific Northwest hometown. But his bright future is cut short when a tragedy strikes and takes his dreams with it. After his high-school classmate Tess returns home unexpectedly, Charlie grows torn between honoring a promise he made four years earlier and moving forward with newfound love. And as he finds the courage to let go of the past for good, Charlie discovers the soul most worth saving is his own.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 64000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: emotional, touching, romantic, sentimental, teen, tear jerker, sweet, melancholic, sad, romantic drama
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Endless (2020)
Plot Summary:
When madly in love high school graduates Riley and Chris are separated by a tragic car accident, Riley blames herself for her boyfriend's death while Chris is stranded in limbo. Miraculously, the two find a way to connect. In a love story that transcends life and death, both Riley and Chris are forced to learn the hardest lesson of all: letting go.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: romantic, sincere, touching, sad, tear jerker, sentimental, light, sweet, captivating, uplifting
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Ghost (1990)
Plot Summary:
Sam Wheat is a banker, Molly Jensen is an artist, and the two are madly in love. However, when Sam is murdered by his friend and corrupt business partner Carl Bruner over a shady business deal, he is left to roam the earth as a powerless spirit. When he learns of Carl's betrayal, Sam must seek the help of psychic Oda Mae Brown to set things right and protect Molly from Carl and his goons.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 231000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: sentimental, romantic, touching, sweet, tear jerker, emotional, sexy, sad, inspirational, spiritual
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The Age of Adaline (2015)
Plot Summary:
After 29-year-old Adaline recovers from a nearly lethal accident, she inexplicably stops growing older. As the years stretch on and on, Adaline keeps her secret to herself until she meets a man who changes her life.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 198000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, emotional, dramatic, fairy tale, feel good, serious, romantic drama, stylized, sweet
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Twilight (2008)
Plot Summary:
When Bella Swan moves to a small town in the Pacific Northwest to live with her father, she starts school and meets the reclusive Edward Cullen, a mysterious classmate who reveals himself to be a 108-year-old vampire. Despite Edward's repeated cautions, Bella can't help but fall in love with him, a fatal move that endangers her own life when a coven of bloodsuckers try to challenge the Cullen clan.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 481000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: romantic, sexy, touching, sentimental, teen, saga, fairy tale, gothic, heartbreaking, gloomy
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Meet Joe Black (1998)
Plot Summary:
When the grim reaper comes to collect the soul of megamogul Bill Parrish, he arrives with a proposition: Host him for a "vacation" among the living in trade for a few more days of existence. Parrish agrees, and using the pseudonym Joe Black, Death begins taking part in Parrish's daily agenda and falls in love with the man's daughter. Yet when Black's holiday is over, so is Parrish's life.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 259000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 178 min
Plot tags: touching, romantic, sentimental, philosophical, emotional, feel good, clever, tear jerker, serious, surprise ending
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A Moment to Remember (2004)
Plot Summary:
A young couple's love is tested when Sun-jin is diagnosed with a rare form of Alzheimer's disease.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, realistic, romantic, sincere, sad, serious, contemplative, heartbreaking, inspirational
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About Time (2013)
Plot Summary:
The night after another unsatisfactory New Year party, Tim's father tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. Tim can't change history, but he can change what happens and has happened in his own life – so he decides to make his world a better place... by getting a girlfriend. Sadly, that turns out not to be as easy as he thinks.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 377000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, sincere, sentimental, reflective, melancholic, emotional, romantic, cute, humorous
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
Plot Summary:
Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 684000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 166 min
Plot tags: touching, philosophical, sentimental, dramatic, melancholic, atmospheric, cerebral, captivating, emotional, sad
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The Lake House (2006)
Plot Summary:
A lonely doctor who once occupied an unusual lakeside home begins exchanging love letters with its former resident, a frustrated architect. They must try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 156000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: romantic, sentimental, sweet, sincere, touching, feel good, romantic drama, light, romantic comedy, cute