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Plot Summary:
Mali, 1960. The youth of Bamako dance the twist to rock and roll music newly imported from the West and dream of political renewal. Samba, a young socialist, falls for spirited Lara during one of his missions to the bush. To escape her forced marriage, she secretly flees with him to the city. But Lara’s husband won’t let them be and the Revolution soon brings painful disillusions as they dream of a future together.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 261
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, Canada, Senegal, Italy, Mali
Duration: 129 min
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Lump of Sugar (2006)
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The daughter of a poor rancher, Si-eun's only hope is to one day, become a jockey. With her mother passing away at her birth, her favorite horse, Chun-doong, has become not only her friend, but also a soul mate. She is devastated when Chun-doong is sold to another owner, but when they are reunited two years later they have a chance to create a miracle by teaming up in a race.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 123 min
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Don Juan in Hell (1991)
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While the last remnants of the Empire are extinguishing and King Philip II (1559-1598) is dying in the shadow of lost splendor, a man, defying the divine and human justice, turns his passions into fate and his will into law. His fame is as great as his pride. His conviction, eternal. His name, a legend: Don Juan. Free adaptation of "Don Juan" by Moliere.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min
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Innocent Lust (1977)
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Ho Fan started his career as a Shaw Brothers actor, best known for his role as the monk Tang Seng in the classic Monkey Goes West film series. As a director, however, his forte was erotica. Like Li Han Hsiang, Ho Fan was a pioneer of the aesthetic school of erotica, known for his luscious cinematography and seductive lens. He is certainly one of the few Hong Kong erotica filmmakers to have made a respectable name for himself with Category III offerings like Adventure in Denmark, Yu Pu Tuan, and 1977's Innocent Lust. One of Ho Fan's representative works, Innocent Lust stars Ai Fei, Chan Chun Ho, and Lam Choi as college friends who are unlucky in love. They decide to go to a night club, and are surprised to discover that their innocent-looking classmate (Chan Wai Ying) works as a hostess there. When they step up to defend her from a lecherous old man, the encounter sparks off an unexpected journey of love and lust.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 86 min
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Marriages (2001)
Plot Summary:
The supernatural is invoked to save a romance in 19th century Quebec.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
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Sweet William (1980)
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William McClusky (Sam Waterston) is a dashing and eccentric Scotsman whose charms rapidly overwhelm the sweet and naive Ann Walton (Jenny Agutter), but she nearly as quickly begins to comprehend that her new beau is anything but a one-woman man. In addition to his two ex-wives, with whom he remains remarkably close, William exhibits a disturbing attraction for nearly any female who crosses his path -- Ann's friends among them.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Okafor's Law (2016)
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A slick serial seducer bets his friends that he can bed three old flames in six weeks, in this risqué comedy from the director of the smash hit Wives on Strike.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Nigeria
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Mouvements du désir (1994)
Plot Summary:
During the long train ride from Montreal to Vancouver, a man and woman find themselves increasingly attracted to each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, France, Switzerland
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: avant garde
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Agnes (1995)
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In a barren land ruled by oppression and ignorance, a spirited woman driven by hope of a better life must fight against the odds. Agnes is a servant in the house of the county sheriff. There she is constantly sexually harassed by him and treated with contempt by his wife. Agnes falls in love with Natan, a self taught homoeopathic doctor. The sheriff takes revenge on Natan by making it illegal for him to practice his profession. The dramatic relationship between the three main characters ultimately leads to a fatal web of events where a love affair turns into a nightmare of brutality and destruction.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Norway, Iceland
Duration: 101 min
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The Taste of Things (2023)
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Set in France in 1889, the film follows the life of Dodin Bouffant as a chef living with his personal cook and lover Eugénie. They share a long history of gastronomy and love but Eugénie refuses to marry Dodin, so the food lover decides to do something he has never done before: cook for her.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: period drama
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Anatomy of Love (1972)
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A young attractive widow has a one-night stand with a handsome architect. The couple soon starts a tumultuous relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min
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Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything (2023)
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An adaptation of Daniela Krien’s novel, this coming-of-age story set in the 1990s, amidst the last days of the GDR. The 17-year-old protagonist, Maria, lives on a farm with her boyfriend. One day, an older man moves into the neighbourhood. Maria and Henner start a love affair, which takes a tragic turn.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 325
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 129 min
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The Days Between (2001)
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Lynn (22) lives with her brother in Berlin. There she enjoys the advantages of family life, without really feeling involved in it. She does not have any precise aim in life, but manages to awaken the interest of many people with her direct and spontaneous character. Her boyfriend David is very different: he is entirely engrossed in his very disciplined swimming training for the world championships. David does not intend to allow himself to be distracted by the complicating factors of a relationship with Lynn. When Lynn, working behind the till of restaurant, meets the Japanese student Koji, everything gets more complicated. They can't exchange many words, but it is soon clear that their moments together mean a lot to both of them.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 566
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 118 min
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Return of the Storks (2007)
Plot Summary:
Slovakia's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2007.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Slovakia, Germany, Czech Republic
Duration: 96 min
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The Feelings Factory (2008)
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Attractive, educated and successful, Eloïse (Elsa Zylberstein) has it all, except for a long-term, stable romantic relationship. Now in her mid-30s, she can hear a certain clock ticking loudly. So she enrolls in a speed dating program. Seven men, seven women, pre-screened for compatibility. You have seven minutes to take the measure of each other before you both move on to other candidates. The Feelings Factory is a remarkable look at one variation of modern romance, a streamlined notion of courtship that gets past all the awkward preliminaries that seem to capsize such encounters. Zylberstein is perfect in the role: her self assurance and intelligence not to mention her sense of humor can always be felt, even as she reveals bits of her needs and vulnerabilities to potential suitors.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
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Agent (2019)
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'The business end' of soccer as seen through the eyes of a fierce, mercurial football agent, wrestling with a fatal secret he buried six years ago, on the brink of breaking big or losing everything.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration:
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Myth of Love (2021)
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A divorced, retired painting teacher from Shanghai falls in love with a woman who is also divorced. The involvement of his ex-wife and a student of his makes the whole thing complicated.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 112 min
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Lina's Wedding (1973)
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Lina is in her best age, mid-30s. She is strong-willed, resilient and self-conscious. There has never been a man in her life, on the contrary, she even had to play the man's role on the small farm to sustain herself and the parents. But the quest for true love and longing for a man is still strong. She has never had the opportunity to realize this dream in the confined environment she lives in. Her obstinacy has also scared off the men. But one day Gilbert returned to the village after being in America for 20 years.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Norway, Denmark
Duration: 101 min
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El invierno de las anjanas (2000)
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A young worker enjoying an affair with an upper class beauty, Adelaida, is drafted by the Spanish Army to fight in the Cuban War of Independence. After Adelaida receives an unusual announcement regarding her lover's death in combat, she refuses to believe the loss of her lover. Her class-conscious family, led by her jealous sister Maria, believes that Adelaida has lost her mind and places Adelaida in an insane asylum. However, Adelaida continues to to live according to her beliefs of passion and freedom. Fellow "inmates" tell her about the wood-nymphs which inhabit the adjacent forest. Adelaida is convinced these nymphs will lead her to her lover and to happiness.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min
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A Tale of Love and Desire (2021)
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Ahmed, 18, is French of Algerian origin. He grew up in the Parisian suburbs. On the benches of the university, he meets Farah, a young Tunisian full of energy recently arrived from Tunis. While discovering a body of sensual and erotic Arabic literature that he never knew existed, Ahmed falls deeply in love with this girl, and although literally overwhelmed by desire, he will try to resist it.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Tunisia
Duration: 102 min
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Euphoria (2006)
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They saw each other only once. At a wedding with lots of alcohol. Their eyes met and that was it. They didn't understand rationally what happened to them but they felt that they cannot keep living and breathing without each other. Cosmic magnetism with irresistible intensity pulled them together. They no longer belonged to themselves, their families and friends and that's how a tragedy evolves.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 74 min
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Mother and Son (2022)
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In the late 1980s, Rose moves from the Ivory Coast to the Paris suburbs with her two young sons, Ernest and Jean. Spanning 20 years from their arrival in France to the present day, the film is the moving chronicle of the construction and deconstruction of a family.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 385
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: interesting
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A Sunday Affair (2023)
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Two best friends, Uche and Toyin, fall in love with Sunday, a charming, yet flawed eligible bachelor. A love triangle ensues with the women unaware that they are dating the same man.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Romance
Country: Nigeria
Duration: 96 min
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Looping (2016)
Plot Summary:
Three intertwining stories about women, who end up in a psychiatric clinic.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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An Epitaph for Barbara Radziwill (1983)
Plot Summary:
Drama about historical figure Barbara Radziwiłł, her romance with King Sigismund II August, her death and her posthumous return to Vilnius.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 89 min
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Both Sides of the Blade (2022)
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Jean and Sara have been living together for 10 years. When they first met, Sara was living with François, Jean’s best friend and an admirer from back when he played rugby. Jean and Sara love each other. One day, Sara sees François in the street. He does not notice her, but she is overtaken by the sensation that her life could suddenly change. François gets back in touch with Jean. For the first time in years. He suggests they start working together again. From here on, things spiral out of control.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 116 min
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The Legend & Butterfly (2023)
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Oda Nobunaga and Nōhime were originally married to mend a hostile relationship between neighbouring regions. Unfortunately, they were like oil and water, making for a somewhat unhappy marriage. When Oda's enemy, Imagawa Yoshimoto, attacks Owari with his vast army, Oda is devastated by the overwhelming gap in military strength. However, Nohime encourages him not to despair, and the pair draw up a tactical plan that will allow them to overcome the odds.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 462
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 168 min
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Letters of a Portuguese Nun (2014)
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An actress is about to play the part of Mariana Alcoforado, a young nun from the convent of Beja who was writing five letters to her French lover, the officer De Chamilly. The actress, being the perfect embodiment of Mariana, will drive us to a journey beyond time and imagination.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, emotional, independent film, realistic
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Ehrengard: The Art of Seduction (2023)
Plot Summary:
When a self-appointed expert on love tries to teach a timid prince the art of seduction, the plan backfires, leading to scandal — and unexpected romance.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: period piece, period drama
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A Tale of Winter (1992)
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Felicie and Charles have a whirlwind holiday romance. Due to a mix-up on addresses they lose contact, and five years later at Christmas-time Felicie is living with her mother in a cold Paris with a daughter as a reminder of that long-ago summer. For male companionship she oscillates between hairdresser Maxence and the intellectual Loic, but seems unable to commit to either as the memory of Charles and what might have been hangs over everything.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: spiritual, art house, postmodern, sentimental, clever, realistic, contemplative, talky, semi serious, sexual
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Marie-Jo and Her 2 Lovers (2002)
Plot Summary:
Marie-Jo and Her Two Lovers (French: Marie-Jo et ses deux amours) is a 2002 French drama film directed by Robert Guédiguian. It was entered into the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 824
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: emotional, psychological, sincere, serious, realistic, contemplative