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Plot Summary:
Tsuneo is a university student working part-time in a mah-jong parlour. Lately the customers have been talking about an old lady who pushes a baby carriage through the streets. They say she is carrying something for a crime syndicate, and they wonder what it is she has in the carriage... Money? Drugs? One day, the owner of the mah-jong parlour sends Tsuneo out to walk his dog. A baby carriage comes rolling down a hill and crashes into a guard rail. The old lady asks him to look into the carriage, where he finds a young woman clutching a knife. This is how Tsuneo first meets the girl who calls herself Josée.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: sweet, inspirational, touching, lyrical, romantic, sexy
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Plot Summary:
Based on the first novel, Spring Snow, of Mishima Yukio's Sea of Fertility tetralogy, it follows the troubled and illicit affair between two youngsters amongst the aristocracy and rich of early twentieth century Japan.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing, romantic, sweet
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Taking place during the full-moon night of traditional dances in August and set on the Japanese island of Amami-Oshima, the drama centers on a 14-year-old boy who finds a dead body floating in the sea. The young man enlists the help of his girlfriend to solve the mystery. The pair “will learn to become adults by experiencing the interwoven cycles of life, death and love.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Japan, Spain
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, touching, serious, light, sincere, romantic, uplifting, art house, realistic
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A delivery Boy falls for a young girl who is hearing impaired. Comparing themselves with "water birds" and trees, together they are going to break the barrier and pursuit their dreams and take their relationship to the next level.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
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Duration: 109 min
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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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A 7 year love story between Ryota Hayama and Koharu Uemura from their first date to eventual marriage. Ryota and Koharu are high school students. Ryota is indifferent to people and says very little. Koharu is not afraid of to speak her mind and she has a bright personality. Since a game of rice bag jump, they begin to date. They date at a fast-food restaurant, realize they love each other at a family restaurant and finally swear their love on a dining table with white rice.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 378
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, sincere, feel good, sweet, melancholic, realistic
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Plot Summary:
During her freshman year in high school, Mika Tahara (Yui Aragaki) loses her cellular phone, but later finds it in the school library with the help of an unknown caller. Throughout the summer, Mika and the mysterious caller continue to communicate, and agree to meet each other once school starts again. The caller turns out to be Hiro (Haruma Miura), a delinquent-like boy Mika is initially afraid of, who shows proof of his identity as the caller with a photo of the sky on his cellular phone.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
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Serenades (2001)
Plot Summary:
A girl is born to an Aboriginal mother and an Afgan father.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: serious, touching, sincere, captivating, tense, realistic, independent film
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Plot Summary:
Laura and Carlos love each other as if every day was the last, and perhaps that first love intensity is what will tear them apart a year later.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: romantic, explicit, sexy, erotic, touching, disturbing, hispanic
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min
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Plot Summary:
A powerful and emotional coming of age story, this remarkable tale is told with honesty and originality that will leave audiences moved. In the film, two outsiders, both shaped by the circumstances that have brought them together, forge a deep and lasting love. Directed by Gus Van Sant, one of the most astute observers of people living life on the edge, comes a take on friendship and young love as engaging and true as it is provocative and stirring.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, offbeat, psychological, touching, atmospheric, depressing, social, sad, sentimental, romantic
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Go (2001)
Plot Summary:
Isao Yukisada spins this gritty coming-of-age tale about Sugihara, a Japanese-born, third-generation Korean who struggles to find a place in a society that will not accept him. The film begins with Sugihara studying at a Korean junior high school that is dedicated to memory of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. His father is a grizzled ex-boxer who recently changed his citizenship from North to South Korea so he and his wife – Sugihara's mom – could visit Hawaii. Though his father regularly gets drunk and thrashes him, he also taught Sugihara the finer point of the sweet science. At one point in the film, Sugihara takes out an entire basketball team that was bent on taking him out. Upon graduation, Sugihara enters a normal Japanese high school where he meets and soon falls for Sakurai – a loose-sock copper-haired damsel who is attracted to Sugihara's restless spirit. As the film progresses, Sugihara struggles to throw off the stigma of his ethnicity and live a quiet, successful life.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, sweet, realistic
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, realistic, serious, sexy, romantic drama, independent film
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More Than Blue (2009)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 133 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, romantic, sad, shoujo, romantic drama
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 783
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Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sincere, uplifting, touching, emotional, realistic, serious
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 15000
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 35000
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Country: UK, France, USA
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
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Country: UK, Germany, USA
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 27000
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Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 17000
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Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 396000
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Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 199000
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 279000
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IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 605000
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Country: USA
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Plot Summary:
A sweeping romantic epic set in Japan in the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 158000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Japan, France
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