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Plot Summary:
After losing his brick laying job, Christian begins to work at a supermarket.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, melancholic, thought provoking, clever, bleak, weird, interesting
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The Christmas Ring (2020)
Plot Summary:
A reporter searches for the love story behind an antique engagement ring. With the help of the ring’s owner’s grandson, they learn the legacy his grandparent’s left behind.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, romantic, touching, melancholic, talky
Similar in 86%
Off Beat (2004)
Plot Summary:
Traumatised paramedic looks for the woman of his dreams.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, sincere, sad, psychological, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, beautiful
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The Christmas Edition (2020)
Plot Summary:
It’s Christmas time and Jackie, an up-and- coming journalist, finds that her life is at a crossroads until she finds an unexpected opportunity – to run a small-town newspaper in Alaska. Jackie decides to give it a try and relocates to the small picture-perfect small town. Using a series of Christmas articles, she’s able to quickly return the newspaper to profitability, and soon falls in love… both with her new home and the handsome son of the paper’s former owner. However, when her old boss announces plans to take over the paper for herself, Jackie will need a Christmas miracle to save it.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 698
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, touching, emotional, melancholic, talky
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The Perfect Christmas Present (2017)
Plot Summary:
Tom Jacobs is Mr Christmas! He's built an entire business around helping clients find the perfect gift. But what happens when he falls for one lucky recipient?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: sincere, sweet, captivating, disturbing
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Unforgettable (2016)
Plot Summary:
On a live music radio show, a letter arrives from the 23 years in the past. Through the letter, the first love and friendships of five friends are revealed.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: touching, inspirational, sincere, sad, semi serious, romantic, crying
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You Shine in the Moonlight (2019)
Plot Summary:
Takuya Okada (Takumi Kitamura) is a high school student. He visits his classmate Mamizu Watarase (Mei Nagano) in the hospital. Mamizu Watarase suffers from the mysterious ailment “Luminescence disease.” People who have the disease show a faint sparkle under the moonlight and the sparkle gets brighter as their death gets closer. Mamizu Watarase is not allowed out of the hospital and she will not live long enough to become an adult. Takuya Okada offers to help her carry out her wishes before she passes away. He also tells her how he feels about her, but Mamizu Watarase’s death is approaching. --asianwiki.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 339
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, tense, sincere, thought provoking, contemplative, unusual plot structure
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Over the Dark Water (1993)
Plot Summary:
Leningrad; 60th years; white nights. Walking on Neva Embankment, the charming provincial has met three friends: poet, artist and film director. And each of young people has suggested to marry him.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, psychological, melancholic
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Adam & Evelyn (2018)
Plot Summary:
Summer 1989, East Germany. Adam works as a tailor, Evelyn as a waitress. They are planning a vacation together when Evelyn finds out that Adam is cheating on her and decides to leave for the holiday on her own.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, touching, emotional, melancholic, talky
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Elvis and Anabelle (2007)
Plot Summary:
A small-town beauty queen and an unlicensed mortician set out across the Texas plains on a journey of self-discovery.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, serious, psychological, fairy tale, romantic, thought provoking, spiritual, melancholic, sex comedy
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Ricordi? (2018)
Plot Summary:
A long love story, seen through the memories of one young couple. The journey through the years of two individuals, united, divided, happy, unhappy, deeply in love, or in love with others, in a single stream of emotions and shades of feeling. Over the course of the film, he learns that love can indeed last, while she learns to live with nostalgia.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, sexy, touching, emotional
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Eye on Juliet (2017)
Plot Summary:
The story of an unlikely encounter between Gordon, a hexapod operator, and Ayusha, a young woman from the Middle East. Gordon, guardian of a pipeline in this desert region, becomes fascinated by Ayusha, while piloting his robotic spider from the other side of the world, in America. Ayusha is promised to an older man she doesn't love. Despite the distance, their mutual fear and their imperfect interaction, he will do everything in his power to help her escape her fate.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 556
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, France, Morocco
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, futuristic, melancholic, whimsical, weird
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Empty Days (1999)
Plot Summary:
An executive and a dowdy working-class woman, both unemployed, married and parents meet at a supermarket. They become friends but find it hard to accept that they may be in love with each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 343
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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Great Freedom (2021)
Plot Summary:
In post-war Germany, liberation by the Allies does not mean freedom for everyone. Hans Hoffmann is repeatedly imprisoned under Paragraph 175, which criminalizes homosexuality. Nevertheless, over the decades, he continues his quest for freedom and love, even if he finds it in the most unusual places.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, touching, unusual plot structure, emotional, talky, lgbt cinema, queer cinema, gay cinema, cult film
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Theatre: A Love Story (2020)
Plot Summary:
Nagata works as a writer and director for theater company Oroka. His work has not received positive responses and ticket sales has not increased. Making things worse, his relationship with the theatrical troupe is not good. Nagata feels lonely. One day, he sees a woman named Saki on the street. She is wearing the same sneakers as he is. Nagata talks to her. Saki is a university student and she dreams of becoming an actress. Nagata and Saki fall in love.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 734
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, touching, talky, romantic drama
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Summer (1986)
Plot Summary:
A lonely Parisian woman comes to terms with her isolation and anxieties during a long summer vacation.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: realistic, talky, anthology, cute, aesthetic, psychological, sincere, clever, touching, humorous
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Strangers (2007)
Plot Summary:
Six days in the lives of an Israeli living in a kibbutz and a Palestinian living in Paris, which starts with an accidental meeting in the Berlin Subway during the World cup finals, will change them completely.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, serious, realistic, contemplative, independent film
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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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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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Westerland (2012)
Plot Summary:
In the midst of a freezing winter on the island of Sylt, Cem comes across Jesús, who is on the verge of committing suicide. The two young men become fast friends, with their friendship unexpectedly threatening to develop into something more. Cem and Jesús - laconic, alienated loners - find their previously uneventful lives starting to spin out of control now that each has someone who means something to him.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, touching, psychological, sexy, melancholic, romantic, unusual plot structure, gay cinema, queer cinema
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Oasis (2002)
Plot Summary:
Oasis is a love story of two young people abandoned by families. A young man released from prison visits the widow of the man he killed drunk-driving. There he meets her daughter, wheelchair bound with cerebral palsy. Will these two lost people find a way to make their relationship work?.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: touching, psychological, sincere, emotional, realistic, depressing, erotic, disturbing, independent film, romantic comedy
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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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Your Life in 65 (2006)
Plot Summary:
A Sunday, three young friends read the obituary of a schoolmate with whom long ago they lost contact. They go to the morgue and realize that they are wrong: that burial is not that of their fellow student. From this, the confusion and random weave a story of friendship, love and death.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 703
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, realistic, semi serious, romantic, captivating, heartbreaking, offbeat, feel good, complex
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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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Falling in Love (1984)
Plot Summary:
During shopping for Christmas, Frank and Molly run into each other. This fleeting short moment will start to change their lives, when they recognize each other months later in the train home and have a good time together. Although both are married and Frank has two little kids, they meet more and more often, their friendship becoming the most precious thing in their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: romantic, sentimental, light, sweet, melancholic, emotional, touching, sincere, realistic, semi serious
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Close to the Horizon (2019)
Plot Summary:
Jessica knows exactly what her life is supposed to look like and where it takes her. But then she meets Danny. He has a complicated past and could confuse all their plans. Jessica has to decide.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, sentimental, romantic, sincere, heartbreaking, tear jerker, crying, tearjerker
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My Blueberry Nights (2007)
Plot Summary:
Elizabeth has just been through a particularly nasty breakup, and now she's ready to leave her friends and memories behind as she chases her dreams across the country. In order to support herself on her journey, Elizabeth picks up a series of waitress jobs along the way. As Elizabeth crosses paths with a series of lost souls whose yearnings are even greater than her own, their emotional turmoil ultimately helps her gain a greater understanding of her own problems.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China, France, USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: road movie, sentimental, atmospheric, psychological, touching, romantic, melancholic, heartbreaking, sincere, feel good
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Happy End?! (2014)
Plot Summary:
Lucca is in the middle of her A-level exams, heading for a career as a high-flying lawyer when she is mistakenly accused of criminal damage and sentenced to community service in a hospice. There she meets Valerie who is determined to carry out the last wishes of her friend Herma, despite Hermas son who is only interested in his inheritance. Lucca helps Valerie to kidnap Hermas ashes and they begin a journey which turns Luccas ideas and values upside down.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, romantic, sexy, touching, melancholic, unusual plot structure, queer cinema
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The Luzhin Defence (2000)
Plot Summary:
Based upon the novel by Vladimir Nabokov, a chess grandmaster travels to Italy in the 1920s to play in a tournament and falls in love.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, intellectual, melancholic, bad ending, sincere, touching, serious, independent film, art house, offbeat
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Buffalo '66 (1998)
Plot Summary:
Billy is released after five years in prison. In the next moment, he kidnaps teenage student Layla and visits his parents with her, pretending she is his girlfriend and they will soon marry.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: black comedy, psychological, dark comedy, art house, cult classic, tense, touching, humorous, depressing, melancholic
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Love Story (1970)
Plot Summary:
Harvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV and music student Jennifer Cavilleri share a chemistry they cannot deny - and a love they cannot ignore. Despite their opposite backgrounds, the young couple put their hearts on the line for each other. When they marry, Oliver's wealthy father threatens to disown him. Jenny tries to reconcile the Barrett men, but to no avail.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, sentimental, romantic, sad, serious, tear jerker, sweet, melancholic, romantic drama