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Plot Summary:
Τwo sisters from the island of Andros, dubbed Little England because of its affluence, are both in love with the same man. Set in the Greek Civil War period and ending in the 1950s, the movie is based on the homonymous novel by Ioanna Karystiani.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, stylized, romantic, romantic drama, period drama
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Beverly Hills Wedding (2021)
Plot Summary:
A woman wins her sister a Beverly Hills wedding and gets a surprise of her own.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 875
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: emotional, psychological, romantic, touching, talky
Similar in 75%
What If... (2012)
Plot Summary:
Athens - Greece - The age of Economic crisis Demetris is a highly independent man who lives a normal life. A confirmed bachelor at the age of 33! When a moment arrives, his choice at that point in time will change everything. His roommate is a female German Shepherd called Lonesome. One night, after supper, Lonesome wants to be taken out. Demetris tries to change her mind but Lonesome insists Its at this moment that he comes to a decision. This decision will change his entire life. If Demetris goes out he will meet Christina, the love of his life. If he stays in, he will not meet her. Does true love exist? What is the impact of a severe economic crisis on people and how can the crisis destroy a couple? One story shown from two different angles.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, romantic, clever, breathtaking, heartbreaking, cerebral, mind blowing, romantic drama
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Brides (2004)
Plot Summary:
A young female character, Nikki Douka, from Samothraki, is sailing to the U.S. to fulfill a marriage contract and save her family honor. Her skills as a seamstress keep her busily sewing throughout the voyage to alter wedding dresses for the third-class voyagers. But along the way, she meets a young American photographer who is returning from the Middle East where he was snapping shots of the war in Smyrna, 1922. Her honesty, pride, and beauty attract the attention of the American who falls in love with her. Tribulations abound during the voyage, following the dramas of several unfortunate young women upon whom nasty characters preyed, as Nikki struggles with her feelings for the photographer.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece, USA, France
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, depressing, sexy, romantic, road movie, sexual, romantic drama, period drama
Similar in 81%
Belle du Seigneur (2012)
Plot Summary:
English-language adaptation of Albert Cohen's epic Swiss tale of a tortured love affair between a high-ranking Jewish official and the protestant wife of one of his employees.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Luxembourg, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: emotional, inspirational, realistic, touching, serious, weird
Similar in 82%
Milan (2004)
Plot Summary:
Loving husband Lino is on a mission: His wife, who works as a domestic in Milan, is missing and he's determined to find her. To do so, he enters Italy illegally and takes cover as one of the hundreds of Filipino migrant workers wh make their way to Europe.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, tagalog, sexual, sexy
Similar in 84%
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
Similar in 78%
Dreaming of Joseph Lees (1999)
Plot Summary:
Set in rural England in the 1950s Eva (Samantha Morton) fantasises about her handsome, worldly cousin Joseph Lees (Rupert Graves), with whom she fell in love as a girl. However, stuck in a closed community she becomes the object of someone else's fantasy, Harry (Lee Ross). When Harry learns that Eva is planning to leave the village in order to live with and look after the injured Lees, he devises a gruesome scheme in order to force her to stay and look after him.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 920
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: emotional, sentimental, atmospheric, touching, serious, realistic, gloomy, erotic, psychological, romantic
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A French Woman (1995)
Plot Summary:
Wed just as war breaks out, Jeanne hardly gets to know her military husband, Louis, before the debacle of 1940. While waiting for his return from a POW camp, Jeanne journeys through countless affairs with Louis' comrades- in-arms. Hoping to forget these wartime betrayls, Louis takes his wife and the infant twins he didn't father to Berlin, where she falls for Matthais, a sensitive German industrialist. When the Indochinese war sends Louis to Vietnam, Matthais follows Jeanne back to France. A subsequent move to Damascus where Louis is posted as military attache, fails to break their bond.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, serious, realistic, gloomy, sexual, semi autobiographical, sexy
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What the Day Owes the Night (2012)
Plot Summary:
Algeria, the 1930s. Younes is nine years old when he is put in his uncle's care in Oran. Rebaptized Jonas, he grows up among the Rio Salado youths, with whom he becomes friends. Emilie is one of the gang; everyone is in love with her. A great love story develops between Jonas and Emilie, which is soon unsettled by the conflicts troubling the country.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 162 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, captivating, emotional, serious, realistic, family saga, saga, iconic
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An Italian Romance (2004)
Plot Summary:
Giovanni, a married man with a child, meets on a train Maria, a former lover.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 360
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, captivating, historical drama, sentimental
Similar in 85%
Love Street (2002)
Plot Summary:
A handyman in a 1940s Paris brothel tries to help the prostitute he loves with her singing career and romantic life.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 799
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, sentimental, melancholic, light, feel good, captivating, sexual, erotic
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Under the Protection of Ka'Bah (2011)
Plot Summary:
Growing up in West Sumatra in the 1920s, Hamid and Zainab comes from families from very different social classes. Hamid is poor, while Zainab is wealthy. Hamid receives a scholarship from Zainab’s father and Hamid’s mother works for Zainab’s family. Hamid and Zainab fall in love and dream of finding a way for society to accept their union, and also to make the pilgrimage to Mecca.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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Costas (1979)
Plot Summary:
Drama directed by Paul Cox.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
Similar in 86%
Once Upon a Time in Rio (2008)
Plot Summary:
Situated just above the awe-inspiring Ipanema beach in Rio is the Cantagalo slum. Every day, floods of Cantagalo residents make their way down the mountain, only to disappear into their surroundings as part of the invisible working-class that cleans apartments, works in restaurants, and sells food along the scenic, sun-drenched shores. Young Dé (Thiago Martins) is just such a man. Dé lives with his mother Bernadette (Cyria Coentro) in a cramped Cantagalo apartment, selling hot dogs on the beach in order to make the rent. His brother Beto was killed when Dé was just a young boy, and his adopted brother Carlão (Rocco Pitanga) has been jailed for a robbery that he didn't commit. One day, while working on the beach, Dé meets Nina (Vitória Frate). Nina is the only child of a successful lawyer named Evandro (Paulo César Grande), who's none to happy to discover that his daughter is dating a member of the lower class. How.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: emotional, touching, realistic, sentimental, serious, bleak
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Reconstruction (2003)
Plot Summary:
Late one evening Alex suddenly abandons his girlfriend, Simone, to pursue the beautiful Aimee. In his encounter with Aimee time and place dissolve for him and he becomes a stranger to Simone, to whom he cannot return.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, mind bending, non-linear, romantic, philosophical, enigmatic, emotional, melancholic, serious
Similar in 87%
Tempted (2003)
Plot Summary:
The strain of juggling her responsibilities as wife, mother, and successful paralegal have worn Emma Burke (Virginia Madsen) out. Thus it is that Emma welcomes the opportunity to briefly take leave of her Boston home and head for sunny Hawaii. It is not, however, a pleasure trip: Having promised to honor the dying wishes of her Hawaiian-born surrogate mother, Emma had agreed to transport the woman's ashes to the Islands for a traditional burial ceremony. Leaving her husband, Mike (Andrew McFarlane), behind to care for their two children, Emma arrives in Hawaii for the first time since childhood, where she is reunited with her childhood friend Kala (Jason Momoa), the handsome son of her late surrogate parent. Against her better judgment, Emma falls in love with Kala, and he with her. Complications arise when Mike and the kids show up in the Islands, a the obligatory evil land developer rears his ugly head, and Emma learns the shocking truth about her biological mother.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 503
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: emotional, touching, serious, realistic, romantic drama, sexual, sexy
Similar in 79%
April Snow (2005)
Plot Summary:
A man and a woman meet in the hospital after their respective partners are involved in a car accident and learn that they've been having an affair.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, sexy, romantic, romantic comedy, contemplative, gloomy
Similar in 82%
Alexander the Last (2009)
Plot Summary:
An ensemble drama about a married actress, her sister and their myriad sexual and creative temptations.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 902
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, heartfelt, contemplative, independent film, sexual, sexy
Similar in 85%
Partition (2007)
Plot Summary:
Determined to leave the ravages of war behind, 38 year old Gian Singh resigns from the British Indian Army to a quiet life. His world is soon thrown in turmoil, when he suddenly finds himself responsible for the life of a 17 year old girl, traumatized by the events that separated her from her family.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Canada, South Africa, India, Pakistan
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, inspirational, political, informative, atmospheric, epic
Similar in 81%
Most Eligible Bachelor (2021)
Plot Summary:
A well-educated, ‘settled’ NRI falls for a stand-up comedian and wants to marry her. But when she knows what she wants from her husband, will he fit the bill?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, emotional, talky
Similar in 90%
My Heart Is Yours (2002)
Plot Summary:
Some twenty years ago Sarita promised to raise her husband's love child (Shalu) together with their own daughter (Nimmi). The girls grow up as the best of friends but Sarita has never been able to forgive Shalu her background. It doesn't make it better when she sees Shalu getting close to the man Nimmi is also in love with.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 210 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, touching, captivating, romantic drama
Similar in 89%
Heavenly Forest (2006)
Plot Summary:
The story begins with Makoto Segawa, a freshman at Meikei University. On the day of his university entrance ceremony, Makoto meets a fresh-faced, quirky girl named Shizuru. Makoto has a complex which causes him to shy away from contact with other people, but she succeeds in getting him to open up to her naturally. All Shizuru wants is to be with Makoto, so she takes up a camera too. The two spend their days together taking photos in the forest behind the campus. However, Makoto has feelings for another student named Miyuki. Shizuru decides that if Makoto likes Miyuki, she wants to like her too. She wants to like everything that he does. One day, she tells Makoto that she wants to take a photo of them kissing in the forest as a present for 'her birthday'. He obliges for her sake, and they kiss in the forest.
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
Similar in 90%
Desire (2002)
Plot Summary:
In 1945 Spain a young man with Nazi contacts fell in love with a left wing family woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sentimental, serious, captivating, stylized, realistic
Similar in 79%
Closing the Ring (2007)
Plot Summary:
During the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann, who is in love with one of them, Teddy. In modern-day Belfast, a man named Jimmy endeavors to return a ring found in the wreckage of a crashed plane. He travels to Michigan, where the grown Ethel Ann, who married another man after Teddy was killed in battle, now lives. Ethel Ann must decide whether to go with Jimmy to meet the soldier who last saw Teddy alive.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, suspenseful, realistic, romantic, period piece, romantic drama, independent film, feel good
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Wallis & Edward (2005)
Plot Summary:
In 1936, Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry the woman he loved, Wallis Simpson, a twice divorced American. These events caused a scandal around the world and Wallis has since been demonised as the woman who stole the King of England. Wallis and Edward is the first time that the events have been considered from Wallis's point of view. The drama follows the beginning of their affair whilst Edward was Prince of Wales and Wallis was still married to Ernest Simpson.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 511
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, romantic, realistic, period piece, costume drama, period drama
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The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)
Plot Summary:
In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective characters, Sarah and Charles. Both actors are involved in serious relationships, but the passionate nature of the script leads to an off-camera love affair as well. While attempting to maintain their composure and professionalism, Anna and Mike struggle to come to terms with their infidelity.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: romantic, emotional, costume drama, scenic, stylized, atmospheric, clever, postmodern, erotic, retro
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Lovin' Molly (1974)
Plot Summary:
Spanning nearly 40 years from 1925 to 1964, two Texas farm boys; straight-arrow Gid and laid-back Johnny fight over the affections of the beautiful and headstrong Molly Taylor, who consistently refuses to marry either of them.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 590
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic
Similar in 78%
The End of the Affair (1999)
Plot Summary:
On a rainy London night in 1946, novelist Maurice Bendrix has a chance meeting with Henry Miles, husband of his ex-mistress Sarah, who abruptly ended their affair two years before. Bendrix's obsession with Sarah is rekindled; he succumbs to his own jealousy and arranges to have her followed.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: romantic, erotic, intellectual, heartbreaking, enigmatic, melancholic, period piece, atmospheric, sexy, romantic drama
Similar in 83%
Endless Love (2014)
Plot Summary:
A privileged girl and a charismatic boy's instant desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, emotional, teen, sexual, unusual plot structure, melancholic, absurd, harsh, realistic
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The Vow (2012)
Plot Summary:
Happy young married couple Paige and Leo are, well, happy. Then a car accident puts Paige into a life-threatening coma. Upon awakening she has lost the previous five years of memories, including those of her beloved Leo, her wedding, a confusing relationship with her parents, or the ending of her relationship with her ex-fiance. Despite these complications, Leo endeavors to win her heart again and rebuild their marriage.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 202000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Australia, France, Canada, Germany, Brazil, UK, China
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: touching, romantic, sentimental, emotional, inspirational, melancholic, romantic drama, sweet, serious, exciting