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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 93 min
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Happy as One (2006)
Plot Summary:
Drama "in the improvisational style of Andreas Dresen or Mike Leigh" about three drifted apart sisters (Meret Becker, Stephanie Stappenbeck and Heidrun Bartholomäus) finding back together after the death of their mother.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min
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Sugar Orange (2004)
Plot Summary:
Lukas is Sugar, Clemens is Orange. Together, they are two ten-year-old boys who are inseparable. More than just playmates, they share a unique bond which seems predestined to last a lifetime. Until, that is, powerful emotions come to the fore and a misunderstanding leads to a rift which tears both them and their world apart. Twenty years later, Lukas is still terrified of being abandoned. He survives by forming loose relationships which don't threaten him. Then one day he meets Lena who turns his feelings upside down and awakens his inner child, the one still searching for unconditional friendship. While there is never a guarantee of security, there is a bond of trust, and through Lena, Lukas again makes contact with Clemens. After years of silence, they are finally able to exorcise their ghosts in an explosion of emotion.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Tiger Milk (2017)
Plot Summary:
Best friends Nini and Jameelah are both 14 years old and live in the same housing complex in Berlin. Jameelah's family is from Iraq and might be deported if their application for citizenship isn't approved, but right now, the girls try not to worry about these existential problems. They look forward to the Berlin summer and the school holidays.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 654
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, light, realistic, not serious, sexy
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More Time (1993)
Plot Summary:
Thandi finds out the complexities of love, when David, the schoolboy Mister Charming, coolly sweeps her off her feet.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Zimbabwe
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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What a Sun (1984)
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Veronica is a high school student studying to be a glazier, although she dreams of being a theatre actress. The only thing that she finds joy in at school is the company of her friend, Klemen and writing the script for a theatre play in her spare time together with a retired actress whom she has befriended. Her parents find it difficult to understand her acting ambitions - or rather, they would probably find it difficult, if they would bother to take the time off their busy schedules to try. Nor does anyone else understand Veronica. When all her plans go awry, she ends up in a home for juvenile delinquents. When she is released into the custody of her parents again, she eludes their vigilant guard and runs away to the country, to Klemen. Only Klemen's father makes it abundantly clear to her when she gets there that Klemen will not stand by her side either. Veronica finds herself out on the street again, where everything is possible and the future is open to her.
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Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
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Julietta (2001)
Plot Summary:
A dramatic teenage love story set against the backdrop of the Berlin Love Parade.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 380
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, realistic
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Vivere (2007)
Plot Summary:
On Christmas Eve, Francesca sets out for Rotterdam in order to find her little sister, who has run off with her musician boyfriend. On the way, she picks up Gerlinde, a heartbroken older woman at the end of her rope.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, road movie
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Everlasting Love (1984)
Plot Summary:
An intern doctor falls in love with a 19-year-old girl, not knowing that she is a hostess at a night club and a single mother.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: soap opera
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April's Daughter (2017)
Plot Summary:
Valeria is 17 and pregnant. She lives in Puerto Vallarta with Clara, her half sister. Valeria has not wanted her long-absent mother, April, to find out about her pregnancy, but due to the economic strain and the overwhelming responsibility of having a baby in the house, Clara decides to call their mother. April arrives, willing to her daughters, but we soon understand why Valeria had wanted her to stay away.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, captivating, melancholic, cult classic
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Chloé (1996)
Plot Summary:
After a violent dispute with her mother, sixteen-years old Chloé ends up in the streets with nowhere to go. Then she finds Jean-Michel, a charming young man who will lead her to prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 408
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sexy
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Romeo & Juliet (1994)
Plot Summary:
Adaptation of Shakespeare's play, presented originally on television for schools in the UK.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags:
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Keeper (2015)
Plot Summary:
Maxime and Mélanie are a typical teenage couple. Like most lovestruck fifteen-year-olds, they can't get enough of each other and they think they'll be together forever. But when Mélanie becomes pregnant, their worlds are rocked.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 481
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, Switzerland, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, psychological, tense, sentimental, captivating, contemplative, unusual plot structure
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Babygirl (2012)
Plot Summary:
Set in the Bronx, BABYGIRL is a bittersweet drama about teenager Lena, who, since she can remember, has watched her mom Lucy squander her life on a series of deadbeat men. When Victor (her mom's latest boy toy) starts hitting on her, Lena sets up an elaborate honey-trap, hoping to show her mom what a scumbag the guy really is. But the plan backfires. Trapped in a twisted love triangle between Victor and her mom, Lena realizes that the only way out is to stand up and confront some difficult home truths.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, hispanic
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The Last Frontier (1986)
Plot Summary:
A single mother from LA marries an Australian cattle rancher following a whirlwind courtship. He returns to Australia ahead of her and her two children, and dies before they arrive. His widow is left with a debt-ridden ranch during one of the worst droughts in Australian history. In addition, she has land-grabbing neighbors to contend with.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 180 min
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Sky Of Love (2007)
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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
Plot tags: romantic, sweet, bad ending, sentimental, sincere, shoujo, captivating, touching, romantic drama, sexy
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What's Up with Cinta? (2002)
Plot Summary:
A popular high school girl strains her relationship with her close-knit clique when she begins falling for a reclusive, lower-class schoolmate.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, teen, entertaining
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20th Century Girl (2022)
Plot Summary:
Yeon-du asks her best friend Bora to collect all the information she can about Baek Hyun-jin while she is away in the U.S. for heart surgery. Bora decides to get close to Baek's best friend, Pung Woon-ho first. However, Bora's clumsy plan unfolds in an unexpected direction. In 1999, a year before the new century, Bora, who turns seventeen, falls into the fever of first love.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: dorama, nostalgic
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Cheerleader (2016)
Plot Summary:
Cheerleader dives into the mind of a teenager as she tries desperately to win her boyfriend back.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspense, suspenseful, independent film
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Royalteen (2022)
Plot Summary:
A teenager struggles to keep her scandal-ridden past and a big secret from getting out when she strikes up an unlikely romance with the crown prince.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Norway
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags:
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Last Summer (2021)
Plot Summary:
For Deniz, a 16-year-old teenager, this summer is different from the others. Deniz, who goes to his family's summer house every year, falls in love with a young girl named Aslı. Trying to get closer to Aslı, Deniz realizes that a handsome young man, Burak, also likes Aslı.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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A Stray Goat (2017)
Plot Summary:
High school student Min-sik moves to a rural village with his family. There he meets Ye-joo, a classmate who became a social outcast after her father was accused of murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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To Our Loves (1983)
Plot Summary:
A portrait of youth in bloom; a tale of one family's dissolution; a reflection upon the danger and the mystery in living. Sandrine Bonnaire plays Suzanne, a free spirit and the vessel for an almost Brontëan choler. She's 16, and men exist — diverse lovers, an overbearing brother, and the father portrayed by director Maurice Pialat himself in an unforgettable turn that displays the full magnitude of the cinema giant's tenderness, force-of-will, and presence of being.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: erotic, retro, anthology, art house, sensual, crying, psychological, serious, realistic, gloomy
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Raising Victor Vargas (2002)
Plot Summary:
The film follows Victor, a Lower East Side teenager, as he deals with his eccentric family, including his strict grandmother, his bratty sister, and a younger brother who completely idolizes him. Along the way he tries to win the affections of Judy, who is very careful and calculating when it comes to how she deals with men.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, harsh, cynical, stylized, semi serious, humorous, realistic, crying, sexy
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Cocoon (2020)
Plot Summary:
In the heat of a shimmering Berlin summer, Nora spends her days as a third wheel to her older sister Jule and her best friend Aylin. When Romy comes onto the scene, a friendship blossoms. Nora instantly falls for her, opening up a whole new world and unexpected summer of love.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, touching, emotional, talky, queer cinema
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JJ+E (2021)
Plot Summary:
Elisabeth and John-John live in the same city, but they inhabit different worlds.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, teen
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Dakota Skye (2008)
Plot Summary:
For as long as she could remember, Dakota Skye has been cursed with a super power. She has the ability to see the truth in any lie she hears. From small, harmless white lies, to the more devious kind, they have come from the people that she should trust the most; her family, friends and teachers. These lies have snowballed, leading to her becoming bitter and apathetic towards the world around her.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, independent film, captivating, psychological, melancholic, indie film, romantic, offbeat, black comedy, cult classic
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The Greatest (2009)
Plot Summary:
Teenagers Rose and Bennett were in love, and then a car crash claimed Bennett's life. He left behind a grieving mother, father and younger brother, and Rose was left all alone. She has no family to turn to for support, so when she finds out she's pregnant, she winds up at the Brewer's door. She needs their help, and although they can't quite admit it, they each need her so they can begin to heal.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, captivating, realistic, serious, emotional, breathtaking, cult classic, gloomy, independent film
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Gas, Food Lodging (1992)
Plot Summary:
In the boring desert of New Mexico, a single mother raises her two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, whose deepest desire is to leave the dead calm town. Shade is the type to escape in her extravagant fantasies while Trudi is so rebelious it could drive her away.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, realistic, retro, cult classic, sentimental, sincere, serious, romantic, sexy
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Somersault (2004)
Plot Summary:
Australian teenager Heidi is left with little choice but to leave home after she's caught red-handed with her mother's boyfriend. With few options, Heidi ends up in Jindabyne, a tourist community. Upon meeting Joe at a bar, she pursues a relationship with him and tries to find something resembling a normal home life. Heidi makes small strides by getting a job and finding a place to stay, but her relationship with Joe must overcome more than its share of hurdles.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, realistic, sexy, psychological, depressing, melancholic, lyrical, art house, erotic
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After (2019)
Plot Summary:
A young woman falls for a guy with a dark secret and the two embark on a rocky relationship.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: romantic, sexy, emotional, light, atmospheric, touching, lyrical, erotic, saga, scenic