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Plot Summary:
A musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel "Notre Dame de Paris" which follows the gypsy dancer Esmeralda and the three men who vie for her love: the kind hunchback Quadimodo, the twisted priest Frollo, and the unfaithful soldier Phoebus.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, stylized, captivating, compassionate, philosophical, mesmerizing, serious, realistic, tragic ending, freeze frame
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Obsession (1997)
Plot Summary:
Two men become entangled in a torrid love affair with the same woman. Pierre is Miriam's longtime lover. John is desperately searching for clues about his past when he and Miriam have a fateful encounter in a Berlin train station. The allure of forbidden love becomes irresistible, and an intense love triangle is ignited. Who will Miriam choose? Who will walk away? For two men who desperately adore the same woman and for the woman who loves them equally...there is no easy way out.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 387
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: controversial, psychological, serious, captivating, realistic
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Notre Dame de Paris - Live Arena di Verona (2002)
Plot Summary:
A musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel "Notre Dame de Paris" which follows the gypsy dancer Esmeralda and the three men who vie for her love: the kind hunchback Quadimodo, the twisted priest Frollo, and the unfaithful soldier Phoebus.
IMDB Rating: 9.0
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Musical, Music, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 130 min
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1982)
Plot Summary:
Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer of Notre Dame's cathedral meets a beautiful gypsy dancer, Esmeralda, and falls in love with her. So does Quasimodo's guardian, the archdeacon of the cathedral, and a poor street poet. But Esmeralda's in love with a handsome soldier. But when a mob mistakes her for a witch, it's up to Quasimodo to rescue her and claim sanctuary for her in the cathedral.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, fairy tale, gothic, psychological, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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Queen of the Gypsies (1976)
Plot Summary:
This colourful, music-filled and sensual melodrama based on early stories by Maxim Gorky tells the fatal love story between the beautiful and rebellious girl Rada and the handsome horse thief Zobar. The story is set in early 20th century Bessarabia, now part of Moldova, then belonging to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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Passion (1996)
Plot Summary:
Giorgio, a young soldier, is in love with the married Clara and becomes her lover. But they are separated when Giorgio is posted far away, where he meets the unhappy, unhealthy Fosca who develops a passionate love for Giorgio and tries to make him love her. Film of the Broadway production.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 331
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Karmen Gei (2001)
Plot Summary:
Bizet's Carmen gets a modern adaptation. Seducting, provocating, sensual. All the ingredients for a perfect drama. With her charm, Karmen gets out of many situations.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Musical, Romance, Drama
Country: Senegal, France, Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, captivating, stylized, erotic, sexy, realistic, sexual, queer cinema
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Black Tights (1960)
Plot Summary:
Live scenes of Paris and a continuity Narrator link together four dramatic choreographies, all by Roland Petit: Carmen (1949), La croqueuse de diamants (1950), Deuil en 24 heures (1953), and Cyrano de Bergerac (1959).
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Drama, Musical
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: anthology, feel good, captivating, realistic, stylized, semi serious
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Tosca (2001)
Plot Summary:
Benoit Jacquot's acclaimed 2002 film of Puccini's opera stars Angela Gheorghiu in the title role, with Roberto Alagna, Ruggero Raimondi and the Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, under Antonio Pappano.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 448
Genere: Musical, Drama
Country: Italy, France, UK, Germany
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: emotional, serious, captivating, realistic, stylized, sexy, sexual
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The Duchess of Langeais (2007)
Plot Summary:
In Majorca, in 1823, a French general, Armand de Montriveau, overhears a cloistered nun singing in a chapel; he insists on speaking to her. She is Antoinette, for five years he has searched for her. Flash back to their meeting in Paris, he recently returned from Africa, she married and part of the highest society. She flirts with him, and soon he's captivated. His behavior is possessive, insistent. Then, it is her turn to become obsessed. Letters, balls, scandal, a kidnapping, and an ultimatum bring her to the cloister and him to melancholy.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, stylized, romantic, sexy, surprise ending, period drama, weird
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Love Songs (1984)
Plot Summary:
When Peter, Margaux's American writer husband, leaves Paris in a funk and heads home, she finds herself the single parent of two near teens. She also gets a new assignment at work: to find, sign, and promote new rock singers. She discovers a duo, Michel and Jeremy, and jump-starts their career. Jeremy is attracted to the older Margaux, asserts himself with her, befriends her children, and neglects Michel and the music. The kids go to New York to be with their father, freeing Margaux to respond to Jeremy. Does that relationship have any future? And what of the musical duo?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: sexy, serious, captivating, realistic, sexual
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A Room in Town (1982)
Plot Summary:
Set against the backdrop of an increasingly violent strike, a worker falls in love with the middle-class daughter of his landlady.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, atmospheric, touching, humorous, serious, captivating, realistic, stylized
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The Hunchback (1997)
Plot Summary:
Based on the novel, a young gypsy becomes a Minister's obsession in 1483. Only the bell ringer and her husband and the court of miracles can save her.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Hungary, Canada, Czech Republic
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: gothic, serious, emotional, psychological, suspense, fairy tale, realistic, gloomy, psychotronic, weird
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Carmen (2005)
Plot Summary:
U-CARMEN is a feature film based on Georges Bizet's 19th-century opera that was filmed on location in a modern South African township setting. The energy, compassion, and heat of township life in all its elements create a constantly visually interesting and dynamic background for the unfolding of the story, which owes part of its huge popularity to the thrilling combination of a violent gangster tale with a passionate, almost supernatural love story. As it unfolds, it explores issues of fame and wealth, the position of a strong and independently minded woman in a very masculine society and, perhaps most importantly, the incomprehensible attraction between abuser and victim. Bizet's opera, based on Prosper Merimée's novel, premiered in Paris on March 3, 1875. Set in a poor area of Seville, the story of the magnetic woman who seduces, loves, and ultimately destroys her lover and herself.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 737
Genere: Musical, Drama, Romance
Country: South Africa
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, captivating, suspense
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Love on a Pillow (1962)
Plot Summary:
A young girl rescues a man from a suicide attempt. He turns out to be a sociopath, who begins to take over her life, abusing her both verbally and emotionally, yet she can't seem to tear herself away from him.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 714
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sentimental, realistic, touching, serious, emotional, erotic, gloomy
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Othello (1986)
Plot Summary:
Having previously staged Verdi's 1887 opera Otello at the Met and La Scala, filmmaker Franco Zeffirelli committed his production to film in 1986. Starring as the fatally jealous Moor of Venice is Placido Domingo, who had also headlined Zeffirelli's 1976 La Scala staging (production on the film was briefly interrupted while Domingo participated in the rescue operations following the Mexico City earthquake). While Katia Ricciarelli as Desdemona and Justino Diaz as Iago perform their own singing, Zeffirelli's Cassio--played by real-life European prince Urbano Barberini--is dubbed by Ezio de Cesare. The director made several cuts in the original libretto and score in order to accommodate the film's two-hour time limit, but these excisions are done with taste and discretion. Because of the excessive violence in the third act--two murders, a suicide, a superficial throat-slashing--Otello was released with a PG rating.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 607
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: Netherlands, Italy, USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, stylized, serious, captivating, realistic, light, inspirational, sexy, thought provoking, enigmatic
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Carmen (1984)
Plot Summary:
A film version of the famous Bizet opera, where a soldier (Don Jose) falls in love with a beautiful factory worker (Carmen), but she does not reciprocate his feelings.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 152 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, sexual, erotic, light, romantic, atmospheric, sexy
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The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall (2011)
Plot Summary:
A disfigured musical genius, hidden away in the Paris Opera House, terrorises the opera company for the unwitting benefit of a young protégée whom he trains and loves. The 25th anniversary of the first public performance of Phantom of the Opera was celebrated with a grand performance at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: serious, atmospheric, realistic, suspense, gothic horror, horror musical, romantic drama, emotional, gloomy, gothic
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Love Never Dies (2012)
Plot Summary:
Set 10 years later, the Phantom has escaped from Paris to New York where he lives amongst the joyrides and freak shows of Coney Island. He has finally found a place for his music to soar, all that is missing is his love Christine Daaé. In a bid to win back her love, the Phantom lures Christine, her husband Raoul, and their young son Gustave from Manhattan, to the glittering and glorious world of Coney Island... they have no idea what lies in store for them... You truly haven’t experienced Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies until you see this spectacular new Australian production, filmed at Melbourne’s iconic Regent Theatre.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: gothic, sentimental, stylized, captivating, serious, realistic, fairy tale
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Summer Rain (2006)
Plot Summary:
A coming-of-age tale charting the first loves, lusts and obsessions of friends on vacation at the end of the 1970s.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, UK, USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, captivating, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, stylized
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Dance of the Dragon (2008)
Plot Summary:
The story of three people whose lives are pulled into review and assessment when their paths cross. The initial sparks of what could be a new romance plays off against a couple falling out of love, a student and teacher, a father and son, a mother's influence and competing suitors - all explored with sensitivity, delicacy and refined artistry.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 728
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Singapore
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, touching, realistic, serious, captivating, stylized, epic
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Carmen (1983)
Plot Summary:
While rehearing Carmen of Bizet, the middle-aged choreographer Antonio brings the sexy Carmen to perform the lead role. Antonio falls in love for Carmen, who is an independent and seductive woman incapable to accept a possessive love. When Carmen has an affair with another dancer, Antonio is consumed by his jealousy like D. José in the original opera, entwining fiction with reality.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, inspirational, art house, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, stylized, eighties
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The Captive (2000)
Plot Summary:
An adaptation of Proust's "La Prisoniere" (book five of "Remembrance of Things Past"). Set in Paris, France, it is a serious tale of a tragic and dysfunctional love.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, serious, erotic, slow cinema, aesthetic, sexual, realistic, gloomy, crying
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Umrao Jaan (2006)
Plot Summary:
Bollywood film about the famous courtesan of the title. Aishwarya Rai stars in the lead role. The film is directed by J.P. Dutta and also stars Shabana Azmi, Sunil Shetty, Abhishek Bachchan, Divya Dutta, Himani Shivpuri and Kulbhushan Kharbanda.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 188 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, captivating, emotional, serious, realistic, stylized
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A Married Woman (2005)
Plot Summary:
They fall in love before they know its meaning, Lolita, orphaned at an early age & Shekhar, who reaches out & gives her the security she craves.They share joys & sorrows through childhood & adolescence,unknown to them the relationship of an unspoken right they hold over eachother metamorphs into an intense love, they don't even sense coming. It Takes and outsider for them to realize their love.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: sentimental, atmospheric, touching, captivating, realistic, emotional, semi serious, romantic, mesmerizing, stylized
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Mademoiselle Chambon (2009)
Plot Summary:
Véronique Chambon (Sandrine Kiberlain), a single schoolteacher and Jean (Vincent Lindon), discover an unexpected bond that causes them to question the direction of their lives. They move in different social circles but their relationship develops and their lives begin gradually to unravel.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, sentimental, captivating, sincere, realistic, sexual, sexy
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The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
Plot Summary:
Deformed since birth, a bitter man known only as the Phantom lives in the sewers underneath the Paris Opera House. He falls in love with the obscure chorus singer Christine, and privately tutors her while terrorizing the rest of the opera house and demanding Christine be given lead roles. Things get worse when Christine meets back up with her childhood acquaintance Raoul and the two fall in love.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 129000
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: gothic, stylized, breathtaking, captivating, gothic horror, sentimental, serious, period piece, lyrical, romantic
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Les Misérables (2012)
Plot Summary:
An adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th-century France, in which a paroled prisoner named Jean Valjean seeks redemption.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 342000
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 158 min
Plot tags: inspirational, epic, emotional, period piece, suspense, historical drama, harsh, stylized, lyrical, heartbreaking
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The Tango Lesson (1997)
Plot Summary:
On a trip to Paris Sally meets Pablo, a tango dancer. He starts teaching her to dance then she returns to London to work on some "projects". She visits Buenos Aires and learns more from Pablo's friends. Sally and Pablo meet again but this time their relationship changes, she realises they want different things from each other. On a trip to Buenos Aires they cement their friendship.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, France, Argentina, Germany, Netherlands, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: realistic, visual, sentimental, atmospheric, epic, serious, stylized, independent film
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Farewell My Concubine (1992)
Plot Summary:
Abandoned by his prostitute mother in 1920, Douzi was raised by a theater troupe. There he meets Shitou and over the following years the two develop an act entitled, "Farewell My Concubine," that brings them fame and fortune. When Shitou marries Juxian, Doutzi becomes jealous, the beginnings of the acting duo's explosive breakup and tragic fall take root.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 171 min
Plot tags: visual, epic, visually stunning, atmospheric, emotional, realistic, stylized, depressing, controversial, retro
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Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Plot Summary:
A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp of the 20th century. A young poet, who is plunged into the heady world of Moulin Rouge, begins a passionate affair with the club's most notorious and beautiful star.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 296000
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sexy, visually stunning, romantic, colorful, postmodern, period piece, visual, atmospheric, emotional