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Plot Summary:
In this drama, a young wife leaves her German home to discover the identity of her mysterious late mother who married a Jewish German during WW II. Her mother was French, and soon after she married her aristocratic husband, Hitler came to power, causing the couple to flee to Argentina. Later he abandons the woman. Much of the complex tale is told via flashback, and in learning about her mother's past, the daughter begins to experience an emerging sense of identity and the knowledge of what she must do to avoid the same mistakes her mother made.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 95 min
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Suzy Q (1999)
Plot Summary:
A weekend in the life of a bizarre family in the sixties. Their lives will never be the same after it.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 651
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 82 min
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Better Than Escape (1993)
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A Yugoslav stage actor marries an American girl in Belgrade and has a child with her, when his career downhill out of political reasons he develops a drinking habit, his wife leaves him and takes their daughter to U.S.A.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 517
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Duration: 110 min
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The Memory of Water (2015)
Plot Summary:
After the tragic loss of their 4-year-old son, Javier and Amanda struggle to make sense of their lives together.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 784
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Chile, Spain, Argentina, Germany
Duration: 88 min
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Der Philosoph (1989)
Plot Summary:
The obscure philosopher Georg Hermes almost withdrew from the world to concentrate on his studies, especially Heraclitus, having no relationship since his mother's death. When he wants a new suit for a lecture (actually very minor) about his new book, he meets the sisters Franziska, Breate and Marthe, who run a boutique, share a house and have a lover each. Those invite Georg to dinner, Franziska even on dates. Falling off a boat he gets naked with her, and they become lovers. The girls all take to Hermes and get him to move in, spoiled by all and offered polygamy.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 83 min
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Other People's Children (2015)
Plot Summary:
A filmmaker, reeling from the death of her famous father, falls down the rabbit hole of a charismatic homeless man who becomes the subject of her latest documentary and her new love interest.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sexy
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Women in Prison (1985)
Plot Summary:
After graduation, a young woman gets his first job in the women's prison in the province. The story follows her struggle to survive in a small town with her small child, alcohol addiction, and the battle with the prisoners and prison brutality and other schemers who wanted to remove her from working spot.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 106 min
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Frank and Eva (1973)
Plot Summary:
The story of a man who goes out looking for hamburgers, while he has a beautiful steak at home. Frank and Eva can't live together, but can't live without each other either. Frank has sex with every woman he can get, while Eva wants to start a family.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 105 min
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Snow White (2005)
Plot Summary:
The life of 20-year-old Nico from upper class Zurich is all party, sex and drugs when she meets Paco, the front man of a rap band. She finds herself drawn to his independent, creative and profound way of life, so different from her own. With naiveté and infinite self-confidence, she tries to adopt his lifestyle - without anticipating the consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Drama
Country: Switzerland, Austria
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Monday (2020)
Plot Summary:
A spark on a Friday can lead to a sizzling weekend fling, but what happens when you get to the inevitable Monday?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Greece
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: sexy, ambiguous ending
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The Maids (1975)
Plot Summary:
A film version of Genet's play. Two maids, Solange and Claire, hate their employers and, while they are out, take turns at dressing up as Madame and insulting her.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 572
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychosexual thriller, independent film, realistic, semi serious, detective, gay cinema
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On the Road (2016)
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North London band Wolf Alice have had a rise to prominence that might have been bends-inducing were it not for their tightness as a group. In summer of 2015, the deliciously dark, hook-and-riff-filled sound of their debut album, My Love Is Cool, inspired the NME to crown it: "the debut of the decade". As a measure of their impact, BAFTA-winning filmmaker Michael Winterbottom joined the band on the road, capturing 16 different gigs and daily life backstage.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 121 min
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E-Love (2011)
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Paule is pushing 50, as she repeatedly observes in her voice-over commentary. When she – a philosophy lecturer with a 10-year marriage and a 15-year-old daughter – learns that her husband is having an affair with a 28-year-old, this number takes on a special weight. The Internet site “L’âme-sœur” is supposed to help Paule get through her burgeoning midlife crisis.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Sergio (2020)
Plot Summary:
A sweeping drama set in the chaotic aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq, where the life of top UN diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello hangs in the balance during the most treacherous mission of his career.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: political, psychological thriller, sexy
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Appeal to Your Love (1989)
Plot Summary:
A sad story about love between Czech boy and German girl during 1944.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: period piece
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F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood (1975)
Plot Summary:
The story of author F. Scott Fitzgerald's two stays in Hollywood to write for films, once in 1927 at the height of his acclaim, and again in 1937 when he arrived with little money, enormous expenses and an ill wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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I Saw the Light (2015)
Plot Summary:
Singer and songwriter Hank Williams rises to fame in the 1940s, but alcohol abuse and infidelity take a toll on his career and marriage to fellow musician Audrey Mae Williams.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, emotional, stylized, romantic, sad, anamorphic, historical drama
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Hammers Over the Anvil (1993)
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Set in the summer of 1910 in Australia the film follows the story of 14 year old Alan Marshall (Alexander Outhread) as he stumbles out of childhood towards the exciting yet forbidding world of adulthood. For Alan, despite the effects of polio, there is only one passion in life - to become a great horseman just like his hero, the reclusive horse trainer East Driscoll (Russell Crowe). Alan is one of East's few friends and also one of the few who knows about the affair between East and the aristocratic English woman Grace McAlister (Charlotte Rampling). Things inevitably take a turn towards the tragic when East becomes determined to force Grace to leave her husband and run away with him. Hammers Over The Anvil is an evocative coming of age film from Australian director Ann Turner.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 635
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: erotic, sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, independent film, period piece, period drama
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The Blue Room (2002)
Plot Summary:
Toño (Juan Manuel Bernal) and his wife, Ana (Elena Anaya), decide to return to the town of Toño's parents after a long stay in Mexico City. But things get complicated little by little when Toño meets again with Andrea (Patricia Llaca), a friend of the time of the institute, because they unchain the desires that both had repressed when they were adolescents. Their passion brings them to places never explored while, in the town, the rumors are not made to wait.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 533
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, psychological, captivating, disturbing, hot
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By the Sea (2015)
Plot Summary:
Set in France during the mid-1970s, Vanessa, a former dancer, and her husband Roland, an American writer, travel the country together. They seem to be growing apart, but when they linger in one quiet, seaside town they begin to draw close to some of its more vibrant inhabitants, such as a local bar/café-keeper and a hotel owner.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Malta, USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: psychological, depressing, melancholic, scenic, artsy, erotic, sexy, thought provoking, cult classic, aesthetic
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The Meetings of Anna (1978)
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Anna is a film director whose job takes her all over western Europe. In each place she either already has some intimate connection, or readily makes one. People seem drawn to her, but inevitably insist on sharing their inmost secrets and discontents with her, despite her obvious and profound lack of interest in these revelations. This does not deter Anna from continuing to meet people, and she genuinely connects with them occasionally, as when she sees her mother briefly in Brussels.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, West Germany
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: art house, psychological, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, talky, avant garde, masterpiece
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Obsession (2015)
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Simone inherits a dilapidated farmhouse in France and makes her way there with her husband Eric and their two children. Her dream is to turn the house into a bed and breakfast but as the hectic pace of the rebuilding gets underway, she gets caught up in the romance and chaos of it all. Losing sight of her goals, she must find her way back to the dreams and ambitions which brought her there in the first place.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, touching, captivating, melancholic, sexy, erotic, hot
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Saint Laurent (2014)
Plot Summary:
1967-1976. As one of history's greatest fashion designers entered a decade of freedom, neither came out of it in one piece.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: captivating, stylized, serious, realistic, sex comedy, eros, visual, crying, homoerotic, queer cinema
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Christopher and His Kind (2011)
Plot Summary:
In 1931 budding author Christopher Isherwood goes to Berlin at the invitation of his friend W. H. Auden for the gay sex that abounds in the city. Whilst working as an English teacher his housemates include bewigged old queen Gerald Hamilton and would-be actress Jean Ross, who sings tunelessly in a seedy cabaret club. They and others he meets get put into his stories. After a fling with sexy rent boy Caspar he falls for street sweeper Heinz, paying medical bills for the boy's sickly mother, to the disapproval of her other son, Nazi Gerhardt. With Fascism rapidly rising Christopher returns to London with Heinz but is unable to prevent his return to Germany when his visa expires. Years later Christopher, now a successful writer, returns to Berlin for a final meeting with Heinz, now married with children.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, realistic, sexual, crying, sexy, queer cinema, gay cinema, pre war
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Creation (2009)
Plot Summary:
A psychological, heart-wrenching love story that provides a unique and inside look at Charles Darwin. Torn between faith and science, he struggles to finish his legendary book "On the Origin of the Species," which goes on to become the foundation for evolutionary biology.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: emotional, talky, contemplative, psychological, sincere, thought provoking, serious, stylized, meditative, philosophical
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Marie Curie: The Courage of Knowledge (2016)
Plot Summary:
The most turbulent five years in the life of a genius woman: Between 1905, where Marie Curie comes with Pierre Curie to Stockholm to be awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the radioactivity, and 1911, where she receives her second Nobel Prize, after challenging France's male-dominated academic establishment both as a scientist and a woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Poland, Germany, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: light, touching, melancholic, sentimental, rough, captivating, disturbing
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Summer in February (2013)
Plot Summary:
The Newlyn School of artists flourished at the beginning of the 20th Century and the film focuses on the wild and bohemian Lamorna Group, which included Alfred Munnings and Laura and Harold Knight. The incendiary anti-Modernist Munnings, now regarded as one of Britain's most sought-after artists, is at the centre of the complex love triangle, involving aspiring artist Florence Carter-Wood and Gilbert Evans, the land agent in charge of the Lamorna Valley estate. True - and deeply moving - the story is played out against the timeless beauty of the Cornish coast, in the approaching shadow of The Great War.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, emotional, retro, historical drama, realistic, stylized, costume drama, period drama
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Sylvia (2003)
Plot Summary:
Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: depressing, emotional, realistic, psychological, serious, heartbreaking, romantic, neurotic, art house, period piece
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My Brilliant Career (1979)
Plot Summary:
A young woman who is determined to maintain her independence finds herself at odds with her family who wants her to tame her wild side and get married.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, period piece, romantic, historical drama, sentimental, uplifting, touching, feel good, serious, realistic
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Frances (1982)
Plot Summary:
The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: depressing, disturbing, emotional, factual, compassionate, psychological, melancholic, intense, serious, touching
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Dangerous Beauty (1998)
Plot Summary:
Veronica is brilliant, gifted and beautiful, but the handsome aristocrat she loves, Marco Venier, cannot marry her because she is penniless and of questionable family. So Veronica's mother, Paola, teaches her to become a courtesan, one of the exotic companions favored by the richest and most powerful Venetian men. Veronica courageously uses her charms to change destiny -- and to give herself a chance at true love.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: romantic, sexual, period piece, witty, sexy, costume drama, light, emotional, erotic, dramatic