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Plot Summary:
The movie deals with the trials and tribulations of multiple disconnected characters trying to find meaning in the spiritual and super natural experiences they have. The intertwining story threads include a baker (Kunchako) going to meet his pregnant wife (Bhama), a moneylender (Manoj K Jayan) with an imaginary friend (Saiju Kurup), an atheist policeman (Kalabhavan Mani) who is unfaithful to his wife, an old man (Janardhanan) whose daughter (Anju Aravind) gets into a road accident, a photographer (Joy Mathew) and a college girl (Sarayu) trying to prank her room mates.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 119 min
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Tale of the Tribe (2009)
Plot Summary:
A modern sorceress crosses the line and contacts a force from beyond, disrupting the fabric of time; two lovers are threatened by forces unknown; eight souls draw together mysteriously.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: independent film, postmodern, post modern
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Anandabhadram (2005)
Plot Summary:
In the ancient village of Shivapuram, little Ananthan hears a tale from his mother, Gayathri (Revathi). She tells him that his family comes from a line of powerful magicians, and they are responsible for protecting nagamanikyam, a jewel on a serpent's head. The jewel, she narrates, lies in a secret place in the house guarded by snakes, including a tiny snake called Kunjootan. Years later, obeying the wishes of his dead mother, Ananthan (Prithviraj Sukumaran) returns to his ancestral village to light the lamps at Shivakavu, a dark and mysterious temple of Shiva.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, suspense, suspenseful
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Baby Blues (2002)
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After the birth of her first baby turn's her husband's well-ordered existence upside down and forces him to act in response to the unexpected twists and turns of life.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Sandcastles (1972)
Plot Summary:
A young man who dies in an auto accident returns from the dead to meet up with the young woman who tried to save him.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
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Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk (2017)
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A young Jehovah's Witness believes the ultimate punishment will be inflicted upon him for typical teenage activity. His life is rather grim until infatuation with a friend's older sister opens his eyes.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 748
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
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Barbarian Light (2019)
Plot Summary:
THE WAKE OF LIGHT is a romantic drama about a young woman grappling between a deep-felt responsibility in caring for her ailing father and her newfound love for a young man passing through her small town on the way to see the one place his father never could. In confronting the heart-rending choice to leave her father, Barbarian Light explores the desire to connect with life's deeper meaning and questions the existence of faith.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
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Fatima (1997)
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1917, a beautiful apparition of Our Lady forever alters the lives of three children: Lucinda, Jacita and Francisco who lived in Villa Fatima in Portugal.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Portugal, Italy
Duration: 104 min
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Mayakkam Enna (2011)
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The plot revolves round the life of Karthik (Dhanush) a struggling freelance photographer in Chennai who does portfolios, weddings and other functions. Karthik has a keen interest in wild life photography and friends call him a genius, though he is bit of a loner. His role model is Madhesh Krishnaswamy (Ravi Prakash), a world renowned wildlife photographer and his dream is to be an assistant to this arrogant man. Karthik hangs out with his friends and is extremely close to Sundar (Sundar) who introduces his girlfriend Yamini (Richa) to the gang. Initially Karthik and Yamini can't stand each other but there lies the twist, when opposites attract.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, feel good, epic
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The Spirit of Christmas (2015)
Plot Summary:
A woman falls in love with a man who is somewhat unavailable.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, emotional
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Heaven in the Dark (2016)
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Michelle and Marco Tol, a former pastor, meet at a party. They discuss what happened five years ago, when a scandal involving the pair erupted and disgraced Tol.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min
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The Young Nun (1964)
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The life of Antonio suddenly changes when she meets Serena, a young nun who took the veil to escape the hard life of the country and has chosen the provision of assistance to the sick to get out of the convent, which falls in love, moving from the role of seducer to that of seduced.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
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The Wilding (2016)
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Set in suburban North Carolina, “The Wilding” follows the fractured Hayes family as they attempt to rebuild their lives amidst sinister, supernatural forces. Looking to leave their troubled past behind, George and Margaret try to help their daughter Kayla, a 17-year-old haunted since childhood by strange visions of the dead. Seeking answers for their daughter’s recurring hallucinations, they begin to suspect that she may be a Wilding... possessing untold supernatural abilities.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 555
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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For the Very First Time (1991)
Plot Summary:
A teen-aged Catholic girl carries on a secret relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
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The Christ of Nanjing (1995)
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Tony Au directed this Hong Kong-Japanese co-production lovingly adapted for the screen by Joyce Chan. Tony Leung stars as Ryuichi Okagawa, a Japanese writer who worked as a reporter in China and has been sick ever since his return home. While in China, Okagawa had met a devoutly religious girl named Jin-hua. Okagawa was born with a predisposition to agonizing recurrent migraines, but found happiness with Jin-hua and married her. Unfortunately, he already had a wife in Japan, and this revelation crushed Jin-hua. When Okagawa returned home, leaving Jin-hua behind, she was forced to work as a prostitute, catching both a severe case of the flu and a rather less socially acceptable condition. Meanwhile, Okagawa's guilt has torn him apart enough for him to return to China in an attempt to bring Jin-hua home with him to get medical attention, but the girl is already too far gone for his help.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, Japan
Duration: 99 min
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Koto Shopno Koto Asha (2017)
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Pori Moni playing as Pori Banarjee in the movie belongs to a Hindu family, where her family disapproves her relationship with a Muslim boy. After going through a rough phase, it's a happy ending when Pori Moni's family ultimately approves her relationship with Bappy.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Romance
Country: Bangladesh
Duration: 140 min
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Amen (2013)
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Solomon, who belongs to a band, is in love with Soshanna, who hails from an upper class family. The story spells how Solomon manages to win over all the obstacles to marry Soshanna.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 165 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, feel good, entertaining
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Solomon & Sheba (1995)
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In the land of Israel, Solomon (Jimmy Smits) is trying to figure out a way to become the world’s supplier of frankincense. He sends an envoy to the tiny country of Sheba to announce his intentions. The Queen of Sheba, Nikaule (Halle Berry), is outraged by Solomon’s greedy plan.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 240
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: biblical, sexy
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City Lovers (1982)
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This socially conscious film, set in South Africa, presents an interracial love story between a German geologist and a young black woman. The German is only visiting South Africa. He meets his new love in a shop where he hires her as his housekeeper. She soon becomes his lover and this infuriates their nosy neighbors who report them to the police.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Africa
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Town Whore (2001)
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Syota ng Bayan is Tanya Marquez, a bold star who quits showbiz and goes back to her hometown. Finding out that a cement factory is causing a lot of havoc in the environment and in the lives of her town mates, she challenges the incumbent of Mayor Golano to have it closed. When denied, Tanya rallies the people in protest but is silenced. The mayor's opponents prevail upon Tnays to run for mayor in the coming elections against Golano's son, Peter Lee. During the campaign period Tanya and Peter Lee meet and fall in love.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: political drama
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The Origin of Violence (2016)
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A French teacher makes a startling discovery while on a trip to Buchenwald.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, romantic, touching, captivating, disturbing
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The Free World (2016)
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Following his release from a brutal stretch in prison for crimes he didn't commit, Mo is struggling to adapt to life on the outside. When his world collides with Doris, a mysterious woman with a violent past, he decides to risk his newfound freedom to keep her in his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, thought provoking, realistic, contemplative, romantic drama
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The Secret (2007)
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Husband, wife, and daughter have moved from Boston to Williamstown. At 16, Samantha treats her mother shabbily, but when the two of them are in a horrific car crash, the mother wills Sam to live, somehow losing her own life while her spirit enters Sam.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, serious, suspenseful, motivational, scary, psychotronic
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Paul and Michelle (1974)
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Taking place approximately three years after the events in Friends, Paul and Michelle follows the family of Paul Harrison and Michelle Latour-Harrison after they have been reunited. Paul has to cope with the difficulties he faces balancing work, college, and trying to maintain their family as well as a new love interest for Michelle.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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December Kisses (2001)
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Drama - Freddy, an injured man on the run, is taken in by Thomas, a kindhearted priest, and nursed back to health in the bell tower of the church by the priest's beautiful and innocent daughter, Anna. It doesn't take long for a romance to bloom between Freddy and Anna, leaving Thomas to choose between his religious commitment to help the vulnerable and his love for his daughter. - Achim Amme, Frauke Bartels, Sarah Blohm.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, captivating, realistic
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Gunaa (1991)
Plot Summary:
Guna (Kamal Hasan) is a mentally affected person and gets treatment in a mental asylum, and another mental person in the asylum tells him the story of a fictitious character named Abirami and registers in his mind that she is an angel and she is going to marry you on full moon day.After coming out of the asylum, he believes the story to be true and searches for his Abirami. One day he mistakes a rich girl (Roshini), in a temple as Abirami and kidnaps her and takes her to a lonely damaged house situated at the top of the hill resort called Kodaikanal. Though, the girl first hates.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 167 min
Plot tags: sad, tragic ending
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Guddu (1995)
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Guddu Bahadur is only child in the Bahadur family, consisting of Advocate Vikram, and his wife, Kavita. While Kavita is a devout and a religous Hindu, Vikram is not. Guddu and Salina Gupta are in love. One day, while driving, they meet with an accident, and Salina loses her sight. Guddu blames himself, and so do Salina's parents, and he is asked to keep away from Salina. Salina herself knows that the accident was not Guddu's fault, but would not like to meet Guddu and be a burden on him. Then Guddu overhears a conversation between their family doctor and his dad, and he comes to know that he has brain tumor, and has only a few more months to live. He wants to donate his eyes to the hospital so that Salina can benefit from them, but his dad will not even consider this. Things take a turn for the worse, when Guddu decides to go to court to assert his right to donate his eyes, not knowing that his decision will change everyone's lives.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 160 min
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Tomato (1990)
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Kwaku, a young African medical student, arrives in Italy where he is to meet his brother Job (nicknamed Pummarò.) This one is a tomato picker in the Naples region and works in extreme conditions to be able to pay his brother's studies. But to Kwaku's dismay, Job has disappeared. The young student then decides to do everything he can to trace missing Pummarò.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
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Two A Penny (1967)
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Set in London's Swiinging Sixties, Cliff Richard plays Jamie Hopkins, an art student whose desperate need for money leads him to dabble in the underworld of drug dealing. Cliff has stated that Two A Penny, his most dramatically challenging movie role ever, is the film he is proudest of. He has stated, "if I did want to send a fiolm as a CV, I would send that one". It is certainly his most demanding and controversial role; cynical, self centered and highly manipulative, Jamie Hopkins lies, steals and double-crosses his mother (Dora Bryan), forces himself on his girlfriend (Ann Holloway) and gets involved in fist fights with criminals. Through the influence of his girlfriend, a born again Christian, is the possibility that he may reform, yet in the mystery of the film's by-line "He promised to love her forever….today" lies the possibility that he may well not.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: christian film, independent film
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Max and Me (2020)
Plot Summary:
A coming of age story about an awkward teenage boy who falls in love with the girl next door, who he soon discovers passed away the year before from Cystic Fibrosis, and he's in love...with a ghost.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, romantic, touching, emotional, melancholic, talky
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I See You (2006)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Shivani Dutt lives a wealthy lifestyle in London, England, along with her widowed mom, and a dog named Kaali. She works at the Thomwell Hospital. One day she notices that some of her fellow doctors indulge in organ trafficking, and decides to expose them. Before she could do anything, her car has an accident, and she ends up in the very same hospital as a comatose patient. Her condition remains serious, and she continues to be on life-support systems, without any chance of future recovery. The doctors recommend to her mother that the life support systems be turned off. Unable to speak for herself Shivani's troubled spirit arises and attempts to find someone to convince them about her situation. The only one who can understand her is egoistical 'British Raj' TV host, Raj Jaiswal, who believes that he is irresistible to women.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious