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Plot Summary:
Spanish-German TV movie based on a story about immigration. The youth drama directed and written by Sören Voigt arrival by canoe account of a group of African immigrants.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Si-o-se Pol (2013)
Plot Summary:
Released from prison and terminally ill, Parvis Karimpour is determined to be reunited with his daughter, Nasrin, who fled Iran for Europe many years before. Crossing the Mediterranean only to be unceremoniously dumped on the Spanish coast, Karimpour makes for Madrid in search of his erstwhile only child. Along the way he meets failed Italian pianist Fabrizio and spoilt German dreamer Almut – fellow migrants struggling to make their way in a Europe beset by economic turmoil. The search for Nasrin lends Karimpour’s new friends a sense of purpose, and the unlikely threesome take up her trail.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Eclipse (1994)
Plot Summary:
A round of unerotic sexual couplings in Toronto, interspersed with interviews about an impending total eclipse.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 212
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, documentary filmmaking
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A Girl on the Shore (2021)
Plot Summary:
In a seaside town where very little happens, middle school students Keisuke Isobe and Koume Satou live a rather dull life. But when Koume's crush breaks her heart, their situation becomes quite unordinary. She starts a "no-strings-attached" relationship with Keisuke, whom she had previously rejected, both finding solace in the other in order to fill the emotional voids in their lives. However, being "friends with benefits" becomes complicated when real feelings begin to develop, as the consequences of their relationship start to take their toll on those around them and themselves. A Girl on the Shore takes a harsh look at love, relationships, and the emotional price that will be paid as the result of a decision made between two teenagers.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Vergiss Amerika (2000)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 416
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Liubi (2005)
Plot Summary:
An engagement party is interrupted by the arrival of the Russian girl, hired to help an old woman. Liubi is the girl who is going to keep company to and help the sick mother of out protagonist. Dimitris, the son of the family and Liubi eventually fall in love. Their love will be tested by the social racism that surounds the origins of the girl.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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We 3 (2011)
Plot Summary:
Three young people arrive from different parts of the country to go to college in Sao Paulo. On their first day there, a strange and intense attraction unites them. Together, they rent an apartment and begin living together, in close quarters. Sharing kisses and fond embraces. They exchange words of endearment with the naturalness of ordering a sandwich at a diner. They threaten to break up and the next moment they are all laughing together again. College days however soon come to an end and, with each having different paths to trail, separation is imminent. And consequently, their gestures, words and attitudes take on a new weight. Touching each other now takes on a new significance. Words of love are weighed down by consequences.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 739
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, disturbing, queer cinema
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Ibiza Blue (2023)
Plot Summary:
August 2020. The lives of three young professionals intersect in the post-pandemic lock-down Ibiza where they will try to overcome their personal tragedies, rediscover themselves and move on.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Trouble with Sex (2005)
Plot Summary:
A sexy romantic drama in which, at the outset, the characters are leading their own lives in very different worlds, though each is beset by niggling discontentment. Michelle (Renée Weldon - IFTA Best Actress) is a fast-rising young Dublin lawyer with a smart apartment overlooking the Liffey, but dissatisfied in her relationship with a doctor (Declan Conlon). Conor (Aidan Gillen) is lonely and unattached, dutifully running the traditional Dublin pub owned by his hard drinking father (Eamon Morrissey). Late one night, Michelle bursts into the bar and orders a triple vodka. The consequences are explored and developed with an honesty and credibility as these disparate characters tentatively draw closer to each other. They become lovers. There is a strong sexual attraction. But there are complications along the way and the path to love can be rocky. Something's got to give. And what's the trouble with sex? You'll see.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland
Duration: 88 min
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Otel·lo (2012)
Plot Summary:
OTHELLO is a cinematographic essay about power, desire, jealousy and deceit; a thought on the boundaries between fiction and real life.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 69 min
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Soulmate (2023)
Plot Summary:
A movie about two friends who first met at the age of 13, looking back on the nature of their relationship through 14 years of meeting and separation, friendship and love, yearning and jealousy.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags:
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God Willing (2006)
Plot Summary:
After a couple of chance encounters the nightly meetings with Juli become the most important thing in Juan's life. God willing, fantasy can become reality.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Blue Movie (1969)
Plot Summary:
Viva (playing herself) and Louis Waldon (playing himself) spend an idyllic afternoon together in an apartment in New York City.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 434
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sexy, independent film, erotic, weird, no music
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Mary Marie (2011)
Plot Summary:
After the death of their mother, two sisters are forced to question and redefine their love for each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema
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Eastfrisian for Beginners (2016)
Plot Summary:
A heart warming comedy about a grumpy old man, who is confronted with a group of migrant workers and has to challenge his prejudices.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Last Resort (2000)
Plot Summary:
When a young Russian woman and her son leave Moscow to meet her fiancé, who fails to show up, she declares political asylum.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, realistic, serious, independent film
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Turn Left at the End of the World (2004)
Plot Summary:
The year is 1968. To a small town in the south of Israel, mostly inhabited by Moroccan immigrants, a few families from India arrive, searching for a better life in the west. The instinct driven Moroccans patronize the "black" Indians, while the quiet Indians see the Moroccans as Ignorant and coarse. In this cultural war two girls, Moroccan and Indian, discover the sexual revolution of the 60's.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, realistic, semi serious, erotic, sweet, emotional, gloomy
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Our Happy Lives (1999)
Plot Summary:
Six people whose lives are intertwined struggle to find happiness amid broken relationships and painful life changes.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 147 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic
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It Doesn't Hurt Me (2006)
Plot Summary:
Three friends are in the entrance of a luxury home in the heart of the city. They are young, full of strength and energy, they have the talent, skill and thirst for life and ... - well, they have all but one. But money.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, psychological, sweet, captivating, independent film
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Friends of Friends (2002)
Plot Summary:
Dominik Graf relocates the story of the same name by Henry James from the 19th century to the year 2001.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Nordrand (1999)
Plot Summary:
Vienna, 1995. Jasmin, Tamara, Valentin, Senad and Roman live near the northern border of Austria. Their lives repeatedly intersect and drift apart. The characters involved are young migrants from the former Yugoslavia, Romania, Poland and Austria itself. Strangers in a strange land, they feel a sense of loss in their new, temporary environment. The five-some meet and get close to each other, hopelessly clinging to friendships and relationships with no future. They frequent cafés and train stations dreaming of a better tomorrow. Often, they just fall back on the prospect of short-term affection in yet another doomed romantic or sexual encounter. Trying hard to suppress the memories of war and alienation, they try to find moral strength and warmth through one another.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 591
Genere: Drama
Country: Austria, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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Satellite of Love (2012)
Plot Summary:
Catherine and Blake just tied the knot. Samuel and Catherine have a long and intimate history which is significant to the fact that Samuel and Blake are best friends. When Samuel decides not to attend their wedding under some pretense that no one believes, he invites the newlyweds to Nadi Vineyards for a week-long party in paradise to make up for his absence. Records spin, wine flows, and bottles pile up. What unfolds over the course of this week will rearrange the geometry of Samuel, Catherine, and Blake's relationships and test the boundaries of their complicated, revolving love for one another.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating
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Dusk (2010)
Plot Summary:
After a group of teenagers discover one of their friends lying dead on a river bank on one of the hottest days of summer, a story of jealousy, insecurity and peer pressure gradually unfolds. Group leader Caesar is able to magnify - out of all proportion - the small grievances that each of Jessie's friends bear towards her and transforms them into a general and pervasive hatred that leads ultimately to her horrible, senseless killing.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, disturbing, psychological, captivating, sincere, bleak, realistic, non-linear
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Intruder (1993)
Plot Summary:
In childhood and youth, the three were "the inseparables." Luisa married Ángel, then two years later, she left him to marry Ramiro. After ten years, Ángel reappears, back from South America, broke and ill. Luisa is overcome with sentimentality and, over Ramiro's objections, takes Ángel into their house. Ángel is bitter, he and Ramiro have shifted from best friends to enemies. Luisa wants to be in love with both. Ramiro hopes he can wait out Ángel's declining health, and Luisa wants to heal Ángel through force of will. What is Ángel's plan? Observing the roiling emotions are Luisa and Ramiro's precocious young children. Who's in danger here?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic
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All For Lust (2003)
Plot Summary:
An engaged bachelor and his friends go out for a night of action. After seeing all of the nudity on the sunset strip, they decide to compete to see who can get the most action.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic, captivating, sex comedy, hot, sexploitation film
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Ae Fond Kiss... (2004)
Plot Summary:
A young man upsets his Punjabi family when he falls in love with an Irish schoolteacher.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, Germany, Spain, Belgium
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: realistic, emotional, sentimental, touching, romantic, offbeat, serious, crying, erotic, sexy
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Fureur (2003)
Plot Summary:
Raphael is an ex-boxing champ who now trains his young brother Manu. Tony, Raphael's ex-rival, returns to town to wed his reluctant fiance Chinh. As soon as Chinh and Raphael meet, sparks fly, and soon the two are sneaking out together.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspense, realistic
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42plus (2007)
Plot Summary:
When the beautiful, efficient and successful Christine, 42, arrives at their summer beach home with her husband and teenage daughter, a young hitchhiker catches her eye. What follows is the story of a woman who frees herself, tears her life into pieces and puts it back together in a different order.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Austria
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, romantic, sexy, realistic, intense, semi serious
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Dilan 1991 (2019)
Plot Summary:
Dilan & Milea are now dating. But as time goes by, Dilan has to choose between his motorcycle club or Milea.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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No Hard Feelings (2020)
Plot Summary:
Parvis, the son of exiled Iranians, copes with life in his small hometown by indulging himself with pop culture, Grindr dates, and raves. After being caught shoplifting, he is sentenced to community service at a refugee shelter where he meets siblings Banafshe and Amon, who have fled Iran. As a romantic attraction between Parvis and Amon grows, the fragile relationship between the three is put to a test.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, sentimental, sexy, touching, melancholic, contemplative, queer cinema, gay cinema
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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Plot Summary:
Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night she goes to a bar frequented by Arab immigrants and strikes up a friendship with middle-aged mechanic Ali. Their relationship soon develops into something more, and Emmi's family and neighbors criticize their spontaneous marriage. Soon Emmi and Ali are forced to confront their own insecurities about their future.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: art house, atmospheric, political, emotional, stylized, serious, realistic, black and white, bleak, contemplative