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Plot Summary:
After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a violent gang and the escalation of her ex-husband's grieving rage.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 871
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, Netherlands, Luxembourg
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, erotic, bleak, tragic
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The Case of Unfaithful Klara (2009)
Plot Summary:
In contemporary Prague a young musician is obsessed by jealousy for his beautiful girlfriend Klara. He engages a private detective to spy on Klara but this starts an uncontrollable series of accidents, misunderstandings and traps culminating in an unusual Venice.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, Czech Republic
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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The Student (2015)
Plot Summary:
Lana, a teacher in high school, does not know what to do about Benny, a new student, who is an aggressive yet coldblooded alfa male. Benny intimidates her and she tries to escape his dark magnetism.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 374
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, erotic
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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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Paper Moon Affair (2005)
Plot Summary:
An enigmatic Japanese woman, abandoned by her wealthy Chinese husband in a remote Pacific Northwest village, becomes entwined in the lives of two rugged locals.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, intercultural, inter cultural
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Simple Passion (2020)
Plot Summary:
A man and a woman are brought together by chance for several months. He is younger than she is, married, Russian, officially a diplomat stationed in Paris. She is a beautiful teacher and researcher, with her feet firmly on the ground. The film follows the evolution of their love, from the beginning to end.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 983
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: lyrical, romantic, captivating, erotic, entertaining
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Pendular (2017)
Plot Summary:
The trajectory of a romantic couple of contemporary artists reveals how the limits, contradictions and obsessions of a romantic relationship are reflected in each of their artistic endeavors.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 523
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil, Argentina, France, Germany
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Rosita (2015)
Plot Summary:
Johannes lives together with his father, the middle-aged widower Ulrik in a small fishing town in the northern part of Denmark. They live a quiet routine life, each minding their separate jobs in the fishing industry. Ulrik misses the love and tenderness of a woman and arranges for the young, beautiful, Filipino Rosita to come to Denmark - just as many other men in the town have done before him. Johannes is reluctantly drawn into this as Ulrik's translator. However, over the following weeks Johannes and Rosita are getting more and more attracted to each other which forces Johannes to take responsibility for his dreams and his future.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 641
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, romantic drama
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Making Family (2016)
Plot Summary:
An independent career woman who wants a family without a husband and a man who has no interest in a family of his own, one day go through something unexpected and become a family.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China, South Korea
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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You Can't Save Yourself Alone (2015)
Plot Summary:
Gaetano and Delia, a separated couple, try to pick up the pieces of their broken love, recalling all the faults and the mistakes which led them to where they are now.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Truth or Dare (2016)
Plot Summary:
Aura and Gael's passionate new love is quickly overshadowed by horrible news: Aura is diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumor. Gael decides to stay in the relationship and support her, but don Julio, her father, deeply concerned about his daughter's health and blinded by the possibility of losing her, opposes the relationship. Aura now faces her biggest challenge yet: to live her life with death and love knocking on her door.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Dominican Republic
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Temptation of Kimono (2009)
Plot Summary:
Mikage will get married to Youiti next year, she agrees to live with Youiti's parents. One day, Youiti's father disrobed Mikage's Kimono and raped her. To her astonishment, her fiancé Youiti whom Mikage considers true love has an affair with his young stepmother. Shocked and devastated, what will Mikage do?.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, disturbing, erotic
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The Secret Lives of Second Wives (2008)
Plot Summary:
Lynn Hughes finds that marriage the second time around is far from idyllic when the ex wife and her children return to manipulate her husband Jack.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 210
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Nobody's Home (2013)
Plot Summary:
The story of four people who cannot manage to become a family again after a loss and who destroy themselves with each passing day.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, depressing, bleak, serious, emotional, sad, realistic, surreal, disturbing
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Devil in the Flesh (1986)
Plot Summary:
She was a married woman, tone apart from her husband. He was an innocent schoolboy on the verge of manhood. While the world was at war, they found comfort in each others arms and shared an impossible love that couldn't possibly continue... and an uncontrollable passion that they could not resist.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Black Panther: The Story of Emilie and Jacob (2014)
Plot Summary:
After many years apart, Emilie (26) meets her brother Jakob (22) again. She not only shares her sadness about the loss of their parents with him, but also a secret... It is Emilie's wish to arrange the sale of their jointly inherited holiday house in the Swiss Alps.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, captivating, melancholic, sentimental, romantic, ambiguous ending, independent film
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Obsession (2015)
Plot Summary:
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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A Minute's Silence (2016)
Plot Summary:
A minute's silence is being observed in the grammar school of Hirtshafen, a small fishing town on the Baltic shore - in memory of Stella Petersen, the school's young English teacher. For one of her students, however, Stella was more than a teacher: She was his first love. From 18-year-old Christian's point of view, we relive a magical summer affair between two young people that ends abruptly and tragically, but is transformed, through death, to immortality.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 907
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Denmark
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating
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Wet Season (2019)
Plot Summary:
Wet Season revolves around the life of Ling, a schoolteacher who deals with infertility while having to take care of her infirm father-in-law at home. One of Ling's students, Kok Wei Lun, develops a crush on her during remedial Chinese classes. The two become closer as Wei Lun embraces Ling's extra tutoring.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Singapore, Taiwan, China
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, erotic
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Lover Boy (1989)
Plot Summary:
Explores the conflicting worlds of a teenager and a mature woman as they discover the full force of their sexuality.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 198
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: independent film
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A Teacher (2013)
Plot Summary:
Part psychological thriller and part provocative character study, A TEACHER explores the unraveling of a young high school teacher, Diana (Lindsay Burdge), after she begins an affair with one of her teenage students, Eric (Will Brittain). What starts as a seemingly innocent fling becomes increasingly complex and dangerous as the beautiful and confident Diana gets fully consumed by her emotions, crossing boundaries and acting out in progressively startling ways. Lindsay Burdge delivers a deeply compelling and seamlessly naturalistic performance that brings us into the mind of an adult driven to taboo against her better judgment.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, psychological, serious, tense, realistic, independent film, romantic, mumblecore, sexual
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Buddy's Mom (2015)
Plot Summary:
20-year-old Kyeong-soo is a man who's full of assumptions. He learned about sex from Internet porn, but nothing about the real thing. He's only had crushes and has never even kissed before. He got embarrassed when he confessed his feelings to Ji-yeon, his crush. He comforted himself from the shame with Japanese girls in his room with his right hand. One day, he has a fight with his father and remembers his friend Baek-hyeon had invited him over to Gangwon-do. There he falls in love with his friends' mother. Written by lament.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, light, romantic, sexy, captivating, realistic, intense
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Brief Crossing (2001)
Plot Summary:
Desire for a subject that functions like a brief fling with no future as such, yet embellished by that very fact. Because something fleeting and futureless is not necessarrily pathetic or trivial. A brief crossing, perhaps an initiatory trip. Filming a guy's "first time", filming him like a girl. Gut level skin deep... Nostalgia for vast ocean liners, for places "beyond the law" where you can venture outside of life, safe within an interlude. Describing a passion while respecting classical tragedy's unity of time and place, setting the stage for the eternal play of Masculine/Feminine. A hot-blooded Latin temperatment versus an apparently cool English one. A ship - one night - Sudden intimacy between an Englishwoman whose complexion is frosted by bitterness and a teenager whose gaze glows like ardent coals.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, erotic, sexy, slasher, clever, contemplative
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Janani (2006)
Plot Summary:
Film about a young heir to a toy company who has gotten a young lady pregnant. But were they unknowingly related to one-another?.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, romantic drama
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The Third Way of Love (2015)
Plot Summary:
"The Third Way of Love" tells the sad love story of Lin Qi Zheng, who is from a rich family, and Zhou Yu who is a smart and beautiful lawyer.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 524
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, romantic drama
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A Full Breath (2007)
Plot Summary:
A man travelling to his past finds himself trapped in love triangle with no way out.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The Mother (2003)
Plot Summary:
A grandmother has a passionate affair with a man half her age, who is also sleeping with her daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, erotic, sincere, independent film, realistic, romantic, captivating, clever, contemplative
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My Mistress (2014)
Plot Summary:
It's a long hot summer for Charlie Boyd. He's sixteen, his hormones are raging and he's just found out his mother is having an affair with his father's best friend. One thing takes his mind off his problems, the mysterious woman down the street who has visitors day and night, and has just advertised for a gardener. But she is forgotten when a tragic family event tumbles Charlie into a world of pain, a pain so intense Charlie thinks no-one can help him. He's wrong. Someone can. Maggie, the beautiful French stranger. She's a professional, and she specialises in pain. Giving it, exploring it, sharing it, all for money. So Charlie falls in love, and despite herself so does she, drawn to this troubled boy who takes all the pain she can give and uses it to heal himself. And as Charlie heals, he turns that healing back onto her, his Mistress.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: erotic, captivating, psychological, disturbing, sex comedy, sexual, crying, sexy
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Heat Wave (2009)
Plot Summary:
After the death of her unfaithful husband, Gisele, a social worker of 52 years, falls madly in love with Yannick, one of her former customers and kleptomaniac addict. She tries to repress her feelings, but the attraction she has for this 19 year old boy is beyond comprehension. Her sister, her boss and two children will each turn, disrupt her secret meetings with her young lover.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 537
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disaster movie
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Secret Love: The Schoolboy and the Mailwoman (2005)
Plot Summary:
A 17 year old boy falls in love with a 37 year old woman. As if this wouldn't be enough they are of different social classes and she is married.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, erotic
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Clement (2001)
Plot Summary:
Benoit turns 13 and develops an intense crush on his godmother, Marion. As they lie on beaches in the summer, she humors him by talking about the mysteries of women.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 555
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: erotic, sentimental, psychological, sexy, disturbing, hot