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Plot Summary:
The level of disinterest in personal affairs has become so cynical in Bucharest that people cheer even an inept army and police manhunt. Meanwhile, Mitu and Elena get to know each other in the course of a vodka drinking contest and discover that they are both dissatisfied with the status quo. Mitu is about to begin military service and Elena is to be married to a man she does not love. They decide they are meant for each other and plan on a different future, one that is on a collision course with the authorities, and start a mad affair.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Romania, Italy
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: iconic
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I Hope for You (1992)
Plot Summary:
After abandoning her newborn child a woman goes through very difficult times and starts working in a foster house.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Belarus, Russia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Donovan Slacks (2007)
Plot Summary:
1928 and Donovan Slacks, a man with a fragile head, is sent to an English Sea Bathing Hospital. But when he falls in love with a local fishergirl, he discovers the bitter truth about his past and life goes into freefall. In the eye of the storm he takes a decision - determined to break free, he leads the local fishermen in an uprising against the government. But as things spiral out of control, can Donovan Slacks really become the leader everyone desperately needs?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, period drama
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In Motion (2002)
Plot Summary:
Modern Russian take on Felinni's "La Dolce Vita" focuses on a few days from one popular Moscow journalist's life and the essential attributes of his life: Sex, betrayal, love, friendship, murders, etc.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 559
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 97 min
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The Ragman's Daughter (1972)
Plot Summary:
Based on the Alan Sillitoe short story. Tony, a worker at a cheese factory, is also a petty thief. He moves from robbery after robbery until he meets Doris, the daughter of the local ragman. Slowly, he falls in love with her and must decide whether he will stay a thief or start a new life with Doris.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, poliziottesco
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The Generation Gap (1973)
Plot Summary:
Ling Xi (David Chiang) is a rebellious youth whose liaison with underage girlfriend Cindy (Agnes Chan) is the spark which lights the eventual flame of his rebellion. Against the wishes of her parents, Ling Xi and Cindy move in together, and the two find a measure of bliss in their shared life. However, rumors circulate that Ling Xi is using Cindy as a means of financial support. After his brother Ling Zhao (Di Lung) returns Cindy to her parents, Ling Xi is branded an outcast. His anger only leads to spiraling bitterness, and finally employ in a triad gang which gives him the ability to release his frustration - which he does until the bitter end.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 113 min
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Mad Dogs and Englishmen (1995)
Plot Summary:
Gorgeous Antonia (Elizabeth Hurley) is on a dangerous downward spiral caused by an addiction to heroin when she meets Mike (C. Thomas Howell), a tough drifter who helps her score more smack. Although they're not attracted to each other initially, Antonia and Mike eventually give in to their growing feelings for each other. But this leads to a dilemma: How does Mike help the woman he now loves kick her addiction?.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 655
Genere: Thriller, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
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Those Who Pay with Their Lives (1989)
Plot Summary:
An uncompromising journalist obsessed with the idea of absolute justice ends up committing suicide after reading his father's biography.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Romania
Duration: 102 min
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The Shadow of the Day (2022)
Plot Summary:
Italy, after the promulgation of the racial laws (1938). Luciano, a Fascist-abiding restaurateur, nonetheless believes he can still live by his own rules inside his business. However, everything changes when Anna, a girl with a dangerous secret, starts to work at his restaurant.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 125 min
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Dotonbori River (1982)
Plot Summary:
A poignant love story between a 29-year-old woman, who has once been a prostitute but is now the mistress of a wealthy jewelry merchant, and a 19-year-old college student.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min
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Frameup (1993)
Plot Summary:
Ricky, a dim-witted ex-con, meets Beth, a dim-witted waitress, in an Idaho diner. They take off in his car to Washington and begin an affair. Beth, a lonely romance-novel addict, is hopelessly enamored; Ricky is just in it for the (constant) sex. Beth's longing to visit California and Ricky's longing for quick cash leads them into a desperate situation. Director Jost uses a variety of avant-garde visual and narrative techniques, such as montage, collages, split screens and lengthy, tongue-in-cheek monologues to tell the tragicomic story of two complete losers in love.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: road movie, dark comedy, independent film, black comedy
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She Good Fighter (1995)
Plot Summary:
Dennis Davids is a young, talented and idealistic lawyer in Antwerp, who takes every case at heart, even the pro-deo clients the court assigns for a meager fee. Needless to say he really goes the extra mile, risking his life and his career as his own private detective, in the case of Sandra Van Rompaey, a female kick-boxer who also proves herself as his lover, but is a miserable client, repeatedly violating her probation terms as well as the law.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 393
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium
Duration: 85 min
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Under the Skin (1996)
Plot Summary:
Passion, criminal instincts and traditions melt together in this film that shakes our understanding of crime.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Peru, Spain, Germany
Duration: 112 min
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Great Love (2006)
Plot Summary:
Начало шестидесятых годов. Грядёт сокращение вооружённых сил. Бравый генерал, убежденный холостяк и отчаянный бабник Антон Улыбабов получает приказ жениться в течение двух недель — в противном случае ему грозит увольнение из армии. Отправляясь на поиски невесты, генерал летит в Москву. Еще в самолете генерал предотвращает террористический акт, спасая всех пассажиров. Придя к профессиональной свахе, генерал находит невесту: случается так, что эта невеста — стюардесса, с которой Улыбабов познакомился в самолёте. С детства у девушки предубеждение — не выходить замуж за военных. Первый ее муж, военный летчик-испытатель, погиб, а гадалка еще до этого нагадала вообще с военными не связываться. Увидев генерала рядом со свахой, девушка просто убегает. Генерал заходит в гости к своему московскому другу. Но так случается, что друга нет дома, а ему открывает дверь его соседка по коммунальной квартире — та самая бортпроводница.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 94 min
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Verso sud (1992)
Plot Summary:
In Pasquale Pozzessere's debut, a woman just out of prison falls in love with a man who saw steaing form a collection box in a church. Some critics saw a dry style next to Pasolini's as the director shows the two desperate individuals effort to build a sort of precarious family. In the end you could almost feel there's still a slender thread of hope for them to hang on.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Journey to Another Town (1980)
Plot Summary:
By chance, two middle-aged people met - the telephone operator of the hotel Lina and the chief engineer of the construction department Kirillov, who had arrived on official business from Leningrad in one of the provincial cities of the country. Behind everyone has setbacks in family life. A sincere feeling that brought two lonely people closer together helped to see those around them in a new way. They are already over forty. Both are lonely. Having met by chance and fell in love with each other, they never became happy.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 93 min
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The Last Passport (2009)
Plot Summary:
THE LAST PASSPORT takes place in a passport office...or so you think. George Miller is a 70 year old man who through a variety of encounters, takes us on a journey through his mysterious past to show us we are not all that different.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Eine ganz hei?e Nummer (1989)
Plot Summary:
Al and Elsa have been a couple for some time, but the chances that their relationship will be long-lived are few. For one thing, Al is appallingly dependent on Elsa for his every emotional need. For another, Elsa is an incredibly elusive person, extremely difficult to pin down about anything - especially whatever is bothering her. How they have managed to survive this long is a cause for wonder. When Al gets an opportunity to be cast in a movie role, complete with no-cost occupancy in the casting agent's ugly but fashionable apartment, he jumps at the chance to provide a little material satisfaction for his beloved Elsa. But what exactly does she want?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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God Willing (2006)
Plot Summary:
After a couple of chance encounters the nightly meetings with Juli become the most important thing in Juan's life. God willing, fantasy can become reality.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 87 min
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Cholera Street (1997)
Plot Summary:
The film is set in a rundown, crime ridden neighborhood of Istanbul dubbed "Cholera Street" (Kolera Sokağı). Salih is a mechanic and son of a respected barber Ali. A woman Tina arrives at Cholera street where she takes up residence and works as a prostitute. Deniz is a ganster who gives himself the nickname "Reiss" ("Chief"), tries to take control of the neighbourhood through intidimation.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey, Hungary, France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema, art house, serious, realistic, suspenseful, black comedy, dark comedy
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Angel (1982)
Plot Summary:
Twenty-year-old homosexual Angelos, who works in a jewelry shop, lives very discreetly in a rather hostile social environment. When he falls in love with a sailor, Michalis, he decides to leave home, abandoning his alcoholic father, his hysterical mother and his disabled sister, to live with his lover. Later on, he will also join the army. A former lover of his visits him and tells him things about Michalis. At a party, Michalis forces Angelos to dress up as a woman. Later on, Angelos ends up on the street with other transvestites. He gets arrested and expelled from the Navy, while his father kills himself out of shame. His clients often humiliate him, and his lover beats him brutally.Angelos, in despair, decides to kill Michalis..The film is based on true facts and has shocked Greek public opinion.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 417
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags:
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Keys (1994)
Plot Summary:
A one-time investigator gets back in the game when a family suffers a trauma similar to her own.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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The Wedding Murders (2016)
Plot Summary:
Serial Killer Henry Sparks fall in love with his childhood sweetheart Detective Prospect Jenkins who is after him.
IMDB Rating:
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Genere: Crime, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, captivating, disturbing, independent film, detective, gay cinema
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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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Midnight My Love (2005)
Plot Summary:
The film features a change of pace for comic actor Petchtai, who offers a sombre, dramatic portrayal of a taxicab driver who develops a relationship with a young woman (Woranut, in her debut feature film role) who is working in a massage parlor. The film has dream sequences that place the characters in scenes that might have come from a classic Thai melodrama film of the 1960s or 70s, with a dubbed soundtrack, which was a common method of filmmaking in the era.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 463
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Fast, Fast (1981)
Plot Summary:
Angela begins to hang around with Pablo and his gang of young robbers.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: hood, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Summer Affair (1971)
Plot Summary:
A very young Ornella Muti plays a rich girl who falls for an older hippie boy. Her parents don't approve and try to stop her from seeing him so they run away to a villa (Her parents') by the sea. Later they are shipwrecked on a deserted island. The plot focuses on the efforts of the police to figure out where the girl is, which is set against the developing relationship between the two young people.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, ambiguous ending, freeze frame
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Who's Your Daddy (2016)
Plot Summary:
When one of them is about to become a father, three friends must make a decision that will change their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Norway
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, feel good, humorous, serious, captivating, entertaining, realistic, independent film
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Queen & Slim (2019)
Plot Summary:
An exploration of America’s social and political climate through the lens of a genre-defying love story. The film centers on a black man and black woman who go on a first date that goes awry after the two are pulled over by a police officer at a traffic stop. They kill the police officer in self-defense and rather than turn themselves in, they go on the run.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: road movie, thought provoking, exciting, sad, captivating, disturbing, romantic, sexy, neo noir, political
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An Unforgettable Summer (1994)
Plot Summary:
In 1925 Romania, young Marie-Therese Von Debretsy refuses the flirtatious advances of her husband's commanding officer. As a result, the cosmopolitan family is reassigned to a brutally bleak and dangerous outpost on the Bulgarian/Romanian frontier where both their relationship and humanity are severely tested.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: meditative, light, atmospheric, melancholic, talky, serious, realistic, costume drama, bleak, romantic
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The Child (2005)
Plot Summary:
Bruno and Sonia, a young couple living off her benefit and the thefts committed by his gang, have a new source of money: their newborn son.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sincere, emotional, harsh, rough, depressing, art house, independent film, bleak, realistic, aesthetic