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Plot Summary:
An emotionally fragile older woman (Merle Oberon) embarks on an ill-fated love affair with a handsome young artist (Robert Wolders) while traveling through Mexico's Yucatan peninsula.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Romance, Drama
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film, soap opera
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Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing (1973)
Plot Summary:
Filmed in 1971 under the title The Widower, Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing finally reached the screen in 1973. Set in Spain, the film stars Timothy Bottoms as the aimless son of doctor Charles Baxter. While bicycling through the Spanish countryside, Charles makes the acquaintance of much-older Lila (Maggie Smith.) He falls in love with her, but she is resistant. Eventually touched by Charles' clumsy sincerity, Lila invites him to bed. The film then wanders into Love Story territory when Lila is afflicted by a terminal illness. Director Alan J. Pakula completed Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing during the "cooling off" period between his more famous Klute (1971) and The Parallax View (1974).
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 931
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: freeze frame
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Fall... in Love (2005)
Plot Summary:
Several residents of a Taipei apartment complex try to sort out their tangled romances in this Taiwanese drama helmed by Ming-Tai Wang. Hair stylist Angel (Kang-i Lee) can't get her aloof beau, Alan (Cheng-Lung Lan), to commit to their relationship -- a problem that escalates when Alan's first love (Fang Wan) moves in next door. Meanwhile, he's also having a fling with a middle-aged Mafia mistress (Kuei-Ying Hsu) who lives in the building.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Mundo Mágico (1983)
Plot Summary:
Anthology movie that presents 3 stories about romance.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anthology
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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
Plot tags:
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Leela (2002)
Plot Summary:
Leela is the story of Leela, an aware, liberal woman who struggles with the true meaning of independence. It is also the story of Krishna, born of Indian parents in America but uncomfortable with his hyphenated existence. Leela then is a universal story of two paths that cross each other and pause a moment before moving on.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, independent film
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Sally (2000)
Plot Summary:
Jack is driving aimlessly on a road to nowhere with his imaginary girlfriend, Sally, when he meets Beth. The duo becomes a trio when escaped mental patient Bugs, also fixated on an imaginary woman named Sally, finds himself along for the ride with Jack and Beth. Disagreements between the new acquaintances coincide with a series of violent and criminal confrontations.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, light, sincere, captivating, melancholic, suspenseful, independent film, exciting, cult film
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Surviving Family (2012)
Plot Summary:
Terry hasn't seen or spoken with her family in 2 years. When she shows up unannounced on her father's doorstep - with her fiancé and a plan to get married in 5 days - she learns that she's not the only one with secrets.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, captivating, suspenseful, crying
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Thalavattam (1986)
Plot Summary:
Vinod/Vinu (played by Mohanlal) is mentally ill and is hospitalized in the institution run by Dr. Ravindran ( M G Soman). Story progresses as Vinod recovers with the help of Dr. Savithri, Dr. Ravindran's daughter (Karthika) and Dr. Unnikrishnan (Nedumudi Venu) who finds that Vinu fell ill after the accidental death of his fiancée Anitha (Lizy). Later Vinu and Savithri fall in love but Savithri is already engaged to be married to her cousin, Hari(Mukesh). Plot progresses as Dr. Ravindran opposes the romance between the doctor and the recovered patient.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 147 min
Plot tags: touching
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Downfalls High (2021)
Plot Summary:
When reserved and lonely teenager Fenix meets popular high school girl Scarlett, the two form a bond that shapes the rest of his life.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: teen
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The Wicket Gate (1974)
Plot Summary:
Wiktor Zawadzki is a playwright who flies to Gdansk to have a look at the rehearsals of his new avantgarde play. Although the play asks serious existential questions, the stage director and the actors have no artistic idea for it. Unable to find a room in a hotel, he ends up in a private house inhabited by an old woman and her young attractive daughter Krystyna. Wiktor becomes briefly involved in their lives - he has a love affair with the daughter and discovers the truth about the mother's difficult mental condition.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tension, suspense
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Distance (1975)
Plot Summary:
’Distance’ is an award-winning, independent feature film exploring the distance between men and women through the intertwined stories of two couples. Made by the filmmaker while he was still in his 20s, ‘Distance’ features Oscar-nominee James Woods in his first leading role.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Unconditional Love (1995)
Plot Summary:
Arthur Egeli directs this multifaceted romance set on the beaches of Cape Cod, the story of young painter Steven Buchanan (Pablo Bryant) and his interactions with three beautiful women vying to be his muse. There's Melissa (Isabelle Dahlin), the student who admires him; Theresa (Jessica Brytn Flannery), the model who inspires him; and Mary (Aleksandra Kaniak), the fellow artist who transforms him.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film
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On the Edge (1995)
Plot Summary:
A man. A woman. A single night in Paris. Such is the basic framework of this French romance that begins when middle-aged middle-class housewife Clara, happily drives to the airport to meet her husband who was supposed to come in on the evening flight and is devastated to learn that he has remained at his hotel and is having an affair. Clara sees a younger man eating a sandwich and asks him to have a drink. Later, she and he, an amiable baggage handler, spend the evening talking and exploring the nightlife on the outskirts of Paris. There they meet many people from other countries who come to Paris and work as laborers.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags:
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In the Presence of a Clown (1997)
Plot Summary:
Inventor Carl Åkerblom is a rosy-cheeked 54 year-old admirer of Franz Schubert - and a patient in the psychiatric ward of Akademiska Hospital in Uppsala, after having attempted to beat to death his fiancée, Pauline Thibault. Together with another patient, Professor Osvald Vogler, they set up a film project: the living talkie. Before long, they set off on a frantic tour with their film, "The Joy of the Joyous Girl"... Written by Fredrik Klasson.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Italy, Germany
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: art house
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Down the Ancient Stairs (1975)
Plot Summary:
A mental hospital somewhere in Tuscany during the thirties. Far away from fascism, this closed world is rules over by Dr. Bonaccorsi, a passionate benevolent psychiatrist whose dream is to isolate the germ of madness. He is also a very active ladies'man and makes three women benefit from his sexual itch: Francesca the hospital manager's wife, Bianca, his devoted nurse and Carla, a nymphomaniac doctor's wife. His well-ordered universe starts being challenged with the coming of Anna, a trainee psychiatrist, who disapproves of his theory on the origin of madness. Worse, she resists his advances. As Bonaccorsi is more insecure than he looks, what will become of him.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Secrets, Objects (2011)
Plot Summary:
40-year-old Sociology professor Hye-jung falls for a 21-year-old Usang, a male student who helps her project research on women's extramarital affair. Their prohibited love and secrets are watched and told by two secretive observers. They are her copy machine and his digital camera.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, unusual plot structure
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The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961)
Plot Summary:
Critics and the public say Karen Stone is too old -- as she approaches 50 -- for her role in a play she is about to take to Broadway. Her businessman husband, 20 years her senior, has been the angel for the play and gives her a way out: They are off to a holiday in Rome for his health. He suffers a fatal heart attack on the plane. Mrs. Stone stays in Rome. She leases a magnificent apartment with a view of the seven hills from the terrace. Then the contessa comes calling to introduce a young man named Paola to her. The contessa knows many presentable young men and lonely American widows.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sexual, sincere, touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, gloomy, ambiguous ending, sexy
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Woman Wanted (1999)
Plot Summary:
A new woman comes between a widower and his adult son.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 798
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: erotic, sex comedy, sentimental, atmospheric, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy, independent film
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Goodbye Again (1961)
Plot Summary:
Stranded by her lover, a 40-ish interior decorator in Paris turns to a U.S. client's playboy son.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: emotional, sentimental, touching, serious, captivating, realistic
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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 Empty Hours (2013)
Plot Summary:
The second film from Aarón Fernández is a Spain-Mexico-France co-production already screened as part of Films in Progress at the 60th edition of the Festival. On the desolate coast of Veracruz, young Sebastián, 17, has to run his uncle's motel single-handed, renting rooms by the hour. That's how he meets Miranda, a regular customer who goes there to wait for a lover who often arrives late, sparking a fleeting game of seduction between the two.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 820
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, France, Mexico
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: realistic, sentimental, touching, serious, emotional
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Devil in the Flesh (1986)
Plot Summary:
She was a married woman, tone apart from her husband. He was an innocent schoolboy on the verge of manhood. While the world was at war, they found comfort in each others arms and shared an impossible love that couldn't possibly continue... and an uncontrollable passion that they could not resist.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Opium: Diary of a Madwoman (2007)
Plot Summary:
A drug-addicted doctor who works in an asylum discovers that one of his patients is a gifted writer.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Hungary, Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, captivating
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Veronika Decides to Die (2009)
Plot Summary:
After a frantic suicide attempt, Veronika awakens inside a mysterious mental asylum. Under the supervision of an unorthodox psychiatrist who specializes in controversial treatment, Veronika learns that she has only weeks to live.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, melancholic, emotional, intense, sincere, controversial, erotic, surreal, neurotic
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Touched with Fire (2015)
Plot Summary:
Carla and Marco are manic-depressive poets whose art is fueled by their emotional extremes. When they go off their meds, they end up in the same psychiatric hospital. As the chemistry between them stirs up their emotions, it intensifies their mania. Despite doctors' and parents' attempts to separate them, they pursue their beautiful but destructive romance which swings them from fantastical manic highs to suicidal depressive lows, until they have to choose between sanity and love.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sincere, realistic, touching, captivating, emotional, psychological, spiritual, factual
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The Good Girl (2002)
Plot Summary:
A discount store clerk strikes up an affair with a stock boy who considers himself the incarnation of Holden Caulfield.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, realistic, sincere, independent film, melancholic, disturbing, intense, humorous, semi serious, cult classic
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The Secret Scripture (2016)
Plot Summary:
The hidden memoir of an elderly woman confined to a mental hospital reveals the history of her passionate yet tortured life, and of the religious and political upheavals in Ireland during the 1920s and 30s.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, compassionate, psychological, novela, twisted, emotional
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Endless Love (1981)
Plot Summary:
Two young kids fall in love with each other. But the passion is too consuming for the parents of Jade. The parents try to stop them from seeing each other. But when this doesn't work, David burns down the house and is sent away. This doesn't stop him from seeing her. When he gets out he goes to look for her. But the passion for his first love is too strong and she has to leave.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: intense, erotic, sentimental, touching, emotional, romantic, sexual, dark, sensual, romantic drama
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Neo Ned (2005)
Plot Summary:
Like most kids, Ned idolized his father and dreamed of following in his footsteps. Unfortunately, his father was a two-bit crook who spent most of his life in jail. Without a family of his own, Ned falls in with the Aryan Brotherhood. Soon after, Ned is placed in a mental hospital where he is mesmerized by a young black girl who believes Adolf Hitler was reincarnated in her.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, atmospheric, touching, multicultural, serious, realistic, gloomy, independent film
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Clement (2001)
Plot Summary:
Benoit turns 13 and develops an intense crush on his godmother, Marion. As they lie on beaches in the summer, she humors him by talking about the mysteries of women.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 555
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: erotic, sentimental, psychological, sexy, disturbing, hot