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Plot Summary:
A unique anthology of six short vignettes on the subject of love, all of them written, directed and produced by women.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: anthology, independent film
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White Room (1990)
Plot Summary:
Norm, a confused young man, lives two lives, one in and one out of reality. One night, he witnesses the murder of rock video star Madelaine X and feels guilty, as he did nothing to prevent it. At Madelaine’s funeral, he meets a mysterious woman in black. Norm then gets a job at a news stand through a Cindy Lauper like girl called Zelda. They discuss the mystery around Madelaine’s death.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Souvenirs intimes (1999)
Plot Summary:
In this French Canadian drama, the life of a paraplegic painter implodes when an old girlfriend comes back into his life and accuses him of raping her 15 years earlier.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags:
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Toronto Stories (2008)
Plot Summary:
Various lives intersect over the course of 48 hours in Canada's largest and most culturally diverse city.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 353
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: anthology, serious, realistic, sentimental, sincere
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Three Stories of Love (2015)
Plot Summary:
A depressed widower, a bored housewife, and a gay lawyer all intersect in this triptych of love lost.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: captivating, anthology, crying
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Dragonflies (2022)
Plot Summary:
Álex and Cata, two young women who live on the outskirts of the city, a desolate place full of empty stores and ramshackle bars where dreams end up fading, have been preparing their escape all their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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The Birdwatcher (1988)
Plot Summary:
A young fanatic bird-watcher spends a summer on an islet in the Nortern-Sea with his assistant. Rough nature, hidden feelings.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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If You Were Me (2003)
Plot Summary:
Anthology film of six shorts by leading Korean directors. Park Chan-Wook, tackles racial prejudice and the economic exploitation of immigrant workers through the real-life story of a Nepalese woman in Korea. Jeong Jae-Eun, tackles the plight of a paedophile released into the community. Yeo Gyun-Dong, invites disabled actor Kim Moon-Joo to re-enact his most famous protest. Im Soon-Rye, goes for the engrained sexism of Korean men with superb wit and, Park Jin-Pyo, confronts the horror of children forced into oral surgery to improve their English-speaking ability.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 656
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Terror Tales of the Crimson Creeper (2019)
Plot Summary:
Three Macabre tales told by the Crimson Creeper that opens up the mind to Madness and Fear. Horror Anthology that will leave you Screaming for More.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: anthology
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The Pension (2018)
Plot Summary:
The four stories that possibly or impossibly can be happened in the pension; The parents who lost their child go to the pension with poison where the killer stays with his family; The husband and wife on a trip who are growing tired of their married life and the wife’s hidden secret reveals when they reach the pension; A woman who demands to stay a night at a particular suite to save her kidnapped child; A man who is asked to manage the pension for a night, he organizes fantastic night with his girlfriend, but things go wrong….
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Slipstream (1973)
Plot Summary:
A reclusive Albertan DJ runs his popular pirate radio station in a remote farmhouse but begins to feel pressure from his romantic relationship with a fan and his producer who wants more mainstream content.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Like Night and Day (1969)
Plot Summary:
Television hostess Susanne has an affair with Rikard, who is a doctor at a hospital. But after meeting the man who Rikard works for, Professor Erland Roos, she leaves Rikard and eventually marries the professor. Susanne's sister comes to Stockholm, desperately in need of money. Perhaps Susanne, now married to a rich professor, can help her?.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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A Handful of Time (1989)
Plot Summary:
Gothic thriller about Old Martin who heeds the voice of Anna, who calls him back to the mountain cabin where he left her to die while she gave birth to their surviving son.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Proxy (2015)
Plot Summary:
On a Sunday afternoon in July, eight people's lives become connected and forever changed by the choices one man makes. As these characters' lives intertwine within the film we discover one of them is HIV positive and how their individual choices affect more than just those closest to them but, by proxy, so many others.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags:
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Love and Anger (1969)
Plot Summary:
Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front of an apartment building, and to a couple injured in a car crash. A man, stripped of his identity, dies in bed with actors expressing his agony. A cheerful, innocent young man walking a city street in a time of war pays a price for this innocence. A couple talks about cinema while it watches another couple talk of love and truth on the eve of one character's return to Cuba. Striking students take over a university classroom; an argument follows about revolution or incremental change.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 827
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: anthology, spiritual, art house
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Anjos da Noite (1987)
Plot Summary:
Many exotic characters meet in São Paulo night, looking for love and adventure: Malu, a model; Mauro, the drag queen; Teddy, the hustler; Guto, the gay reporter; and Marta, an actress.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Amir (2016)
Plot Summary:
Amir, a young musician retired from the scene, must face a tough decision: To stay by Ely's side, his girlfriend, during an unwanted pregnancy or Jeanette, cute lead singer of a band that will restore not only his passion for music, also for love.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Tattoo Bar (2000)
Plot Summary:
Although she's still hung up on the man who broke her heart (Miguel Molina), club dancer Simona (Mercedes Ortega) pledges to eradicate all memories of him by removing the tattoos he put on her body. Complicating matters is Mariel (Alexis Valdes), the owner of a Barcelona tattoo shop whose obsession with Simona's undulating form leads him to steal the money to help her pay for the necessary laser treatments.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Secrets of Love: Three Rakish Tales (1986)
Plot Summary:
Three erotic stories from classic writers Marguerite de Navarre, Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne and Guy de Maupassant.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: anthology, erotic
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Driving with My Wife's Lover (2006)
Plot Summary:
After realizing that his wife has been cheating on him, mild-mannered stamp maker Tae-han leaves his small seaside town of Naksan determined to track down his wife's lover, a taxicab driver from Seoul named Joong-sik. During one of the most intense heat waves on record, he travels to the city, where he successfully finds his target and hires him for a long-distance cab ride back to Naksan. As they drive down the highway, Tae-han refrains from revealing his secret to his new rival, and an unlikely bond develops between the two men. When they are faced with a series of unexpected detours along the way, Tae-han finds ample time to reassess his devious plans as the similarities and differences between the two men begin to surface.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: road movie, captivating, erotic, entertaining
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Black and White (1968)
Plot Summary:
Juha is a sales manager of a refrigerator company. His perfect-looking family and glittering array of modern kitchen appliances have just been featured in a magazine article, but in reality Juha is a womanising chauvinist more at home on the road than with his family.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 293
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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That Day (2007)
Plot Summary:
Jacob Berger’s film shows a day in the life of a family. People meet and leave, and wonder, will they find themselves again? At daybreak, Serge believes he has committed a crime. Pietra realises that she has been betrayed around midday. At one o’clock 8-year-old Vlad feels lovesick for the first time. The day is spent observing, looking, avoiding and meeting each other. One day, three different perspectives: the same evening twilight, the same loneliness. And there is always the stranger who crosses their path. How will Serge, Pietra and Vlad find each other?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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The Last Woman (1976)
Plot Summary:
Gerard and his 9-month-old son have been left by his wife for feminist reasons. The custody of his son is being threatened by his next romance.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: erotic, disturbing, controversial
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Jackie Boy (2015)
Plot Summary:
A self-destructive womanizer falls for a girl with mysterious intentions.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: disturbing
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My Rabbit is the Best (1982)
Plot Summary:
A young girl interned in reformatory lives the lesbian relationship with another partner, which makes her an object of desire.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Night and Day (1991)
Plot Summary:
Jack and Julie live in a bare flat in Paris. At night, Jack drives a taxi while Julie wanders around the city, and in the day they make love. One day Julie meets Joseph, the daytime driver of the taxi, and soon Julie is spending her nights with Joseph and her days with Jack.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Switzerland
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Heart (2001)
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining
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Nie mehr wie es war (2016)
Plot Summary:
Tomas is happy as family father, raising teen son Milan (as his knavish buddy) and running-especially gastronomically- a club with his mother Nike, whose absences to take course aiming for career progress causes tension. Covering for Milan's systematic class dodging to pursue a musical ambition, Tomas discovers going trough Nike's stuff the knave isn't biologically his son, feels utterly cheated by wife Nike, and feels like wrecking their relationship, family and livelihood musical bar. Former common study friend Clemens, a divorced MD, confides he wasn't interested in Nike, being gay, and advises 'getting laid' without commitment, but finding that out hurts utterly confused Milan even more. The spouses must pull together when son Milan (16) decides to seek his genetic father, a former GDR literature professor Dr. Karoly Gaál, who is now in a home for demented seniors.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: captivating
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Swingers (2007)
Plot Summary:
Nicolas (Sébastien Boivin) lives a rather harmonious relationship with Valérie (Natasha M. Leroux), punctuated visits to a swinger club of the city. During a supper with two couples of friends, the audacious Valerie reveals her desire to introduce them to this sexual practice. The idea pleases Charles (Erwin Weche) and Luc (Sylvain Latendresse), but much less to their respective spouses, Veronique (Kina Beauchemin and Lisa (Diana Lewis). Nevertheless, the six friends agree to go to the club, where Veronique, who was already secretly unfaithful to Charles, takes a liking to experience. But Charles could not bear to see her in the arms of another man. On the other hand, the shy and submissive Lisa takes no pleasure in sharing, contrary to the scornful Luc, who finds there a way to satisfy his voyeur fantasies.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: captivating
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Libido (1973)
Plot Summary:
Scripted by four of Australia’s greatest authors (David Williamson, Thomas Keneally, Hal Porter and Craig McGregor), this quartet of carnal desires explores adultery and jealous fantasies, the end of innocence, the moral and spiritual conflicts of a priest and a nun in love. The stories define the exploration of women and the cultural upheaval of the early 70s.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: anthology, erotic, independent film
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Love Birds (2017)
Plot Summary:
A man and a woman meet eachother in a hotel suite for a day full of fantasy, they are celebrating their 10th wedding anniversary and this is their routine celebration. But this year is different. Through this day secrets, lies, will coming out while they are both living their sexual fantasy.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, erotic