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Plot Summary:
Film from Steve Dunning.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Expecting a Miracle (2009)
Plot Summary:
L.A. engineer Pete Stanhope wants to stop expensive, frustrating IVF treatment with his wife, Donna, and consider adoption but his wife disagrees. In the hopes of defusing the marital tension they go on a a romantic holiday to Mexico. Car trouble strands them in tiny Dommatina, a peaceful village where the locals are content. Pete accepts the help of the only car mechanic, Juan Salazar, while aiding the philosophical father Arturo with preparations for the annual fiesta. Juan's kid brother, disabled Pepillo, will then star in the 'flying act'. Getting to know the boy and experiencing simple happiness may reshape the Stanhope's own future.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, sentimental, thought provoking, hispanic
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Beyond Paradise (2015)
Plot Summary:
Haunted by a tragic past, a stunning music student flees her homeland and ends up in an estranged marriage in Los Angeles, where her piano teacher's lover sparks a passion in her that threatens to destroy everything.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 449
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sincere, romantic, touching, captivating, cliffhanger, surprise ending, suspense, ambiguous ending, crying, independent film
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Sandcastles (1972)
Plot Summary:
A young man who dies in an auto accident returns from the dead to meet up with the young woman who tried to save him.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags:
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Wishing for a Dream (2016)
Plot Summary:
Actress Mika Andrews and her filmmaker boyfriend, Louis Digman struggle through the stresses, hopes, desires and disappointments of the entertainment industry to succeed in 'Hollywood.'.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Wall of Noise (1963)
Plot Summary:
The lives and loves behind the scenes at the racetrack are detailed in this thoroughbred soap opera. An ambitious young trainer, Joel Tarrant (Ty Hardin), enters into an illicit affair with the stable owner's wealthy wife, hot-to-trot Laura Rubio (Suzanne Pleshette), in the hope that someday he'll have enough dough to buy his own horses and stable.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags:
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Anything (2017)
Plot Summary:
After the death of his wife, a man moves from Mississippi to a run-down Hollywood apartment, where he meets someone new.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 798
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Apart (2010)
Plot Summary:
'Apart' follows several entangled lives in Los Angeles: Mario, a young man who feels rejected by an older man named Saleheddine; John, a jaded hustler and drug dealer who keeps happiness at bay, and who works closely with Christine, the wife of Saleheddine; Dre, Saleheddine's best friend, who is left astonished by the sudden break up with his girlfriend; and Mannu, whose lover, Dre's brother, dies overseas.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing
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Diamond Stud (1970)
Plot Summary:
A train mogul thinks on his life and loves as he rides his own train.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Love and Love Not (2022)
Plot Summary:
There are two places Nicky Leandro calls home each reinforcing a particular facet of his personality: the red-blooded New Yorker and the L.A. transplant. Up until now each have done a fine job of compartmentalizing themselves. That is until Lily, an old flame, gets a hold of him right as he's about to head home for the holidays.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Ice House (1989)
Plot Summary:
Pake has left a good paying job working in the oil fields of Texas in order to give the music business a try. Eventually he finds himself alone and with no money in a hotel room in Los Angeles. He sets up a meeting with his old girlfriend Kay. When he meets her, she is with her fiancee. He is a Greek immigrant who desperately needs to marry Kay in order to become a permanent resident in this country. However his plans are in trouble because of Pake trying to convince Kay to go back to Texas with him and get married.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film
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No Future (2021)
Plot Summary:
After the tragic overdose of his estranged friend, Will, a recovering addict, returns home, where he is reunited with Claire, his friend's grieving mother, with whom he begins a secret but volatile affair.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 385
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: crying
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A Wonderful Cloud (2015)
Plot Summary:
When Eugene’s ex-GF Katelyn lands in LA to disband their business, the two of them must negotiate between past tensions and future possibilities, in this raw bittersweet rom-com that walks the line between fiction and reality.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: romantic, romantic comedy
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Heartbreaker (1983)
Plot Summary:
Car clubs in East LA provide the background for gang rivalry and a blossoming romance between Beto (Fernando Allende in his first English-speaking role) and the blonde newcomer to the neighborhood, Kim (Dawn Dunlap).
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, intercultural, inter cultural
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A Rising Tide (2015)
Plot Summary:
An inspirational story of redemption, Hell of a View tells the tale of a young chef, Sam Rama. After the destruction of his family's well-established Atlantic City restaurant during Hurricane Sandy, Sam must grow up quickly, taking the biggest risks of his life, both in business and love. When Sam comes to the aid of a wealthy patron and then falls for the newly separated Sarah Bell, a chain of unexpected events unfolds for all of them, as they discover the only way to achieve their dreams may be to acknowledge what they owe to others, and realize that the greatest investments take more than cash.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 486
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: motivational, touching, suspense, disaster movie
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Love in Winterland (2020)
Plot Summary:
Ally, a final contestant on a dating show, must face her high school sweetheart when she is chosen for the Hometown Date.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: touching, uplifting, feel good, sentimental, sweet
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Happy Birthday (2002)
Plot Summary:
As a common birthday approaches, five very different people are faced with very similar problems. Jim, a gay, overweight telemarketer (for a weight loss program) faces his self esteem issues. Ron, is a minister who preaches about conversion but practices watching gay porn whenever he can. Javed living in the US with a gay porn actor faces deportation as a Pakistani and condemnation from his Islamic family. Javed living in the US with a gay porn actor faces deportation as a Pakistani and damnation from his Islamic family. Kelly, a young lesbian weathers a breakup with her lover and considers an earlier unrequited love. Tracy, an asian lesbian, goes back in the closet when her mother visits.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, gloomy, sexual, crying, sexy, queer cinema
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Bleeding Hearts (1994)
Plot Summary:
An ill-fated, tender romance between an adult, male, white tutor (Mark Evan Jacobs) and his 17-year-old, African-American, female student (Karen Kirkland).
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tragic ending, independent film
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Honky (1971)
Plot Summary:
Black girl from rich family loves white boy from poor family.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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The Boost (1988)
Plot Summary:
Lenny Brown moves to California to find his fortune in tax shelter investments. When the federal government changes the tax laws, poor Lenny finds himself $700,000 in hock with nowhere to turn. His friend, Joel, introduces him to cocaine to give Lenny that needed "boost". What ensues next is a descent into drug addiction and insanity as Lenny tries to regain control of his life, all the while needing that extra "boost".
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: bleak, independent film, touching, serious, realistic, gloomy, neo noir, psychological, depressing, unusual plot structure
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A Better Life (2011)
Plot Summary:
A gardener in East L.A. struggles to keep his son away from gangs and immigration agents while traveling across town to perform landscaping work for the city's wealthy landowners.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, realistic, sincere, thought provoking, inspirational, hood, independent film, romantic, captivating
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Déjà Vu (1997)
Plot Summary:
L.A. shop owner Dana and Englishman Sean meet and fall in love at first sight, but Sean is married and Dana is to marry her business partner Alex.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 952
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: romantic, romantic drama, independent film, sentimental, serious, realistic, light, philosophical, sexy, thought provoking
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David and Lisa (1998)
Plot Summary:
It was adapted as a stage play in 1967, and was remade as a television movie in 1998 starring Lukas Haas, Sidney Poitier and Brittany Murphy.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 691
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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Stanley & Iris (1990)
Plot Summary:
An illiterate cook at a company cafeteria tries for the attention of a newly widowed woman. As they get to know one another, she discovers his inability to read. When he is fired, she takes on trying to teach him to read in her kitchen each night.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, sentimental, melancholic, sincere, serious, realistic, romantic, light, anamorphic
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Hester Street (1975)
Plot Summary:
Steven Keats plays a Russian emigre who prides himself on the way he's molded himself into a real Yankee in the USA, though the world he lives in, New York's Lower East Side in the late 19th century, is almost exclusively populated by other Jewish immigrants. When his wife (Carol Kane) finally arrives in the New World, however, she has a lot of assimilating to do. This causes the tension which drives the movie along, though it maintains a fairly light atmosphere most of the time.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: black and white, romantic, historically accurate, aesthetic, independent film, sentimental, touching, serious, captivating, emotional
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Crooked Hearts (1991)
Plot Summary:
The father of a family has a an affair. This affects every member of the family.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sentimental, clever, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, talky
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The Immigrant (2013)
Plot Summary:
In 1921 New York. an immigrant woman is tricked into a life of burlesque and vaudeville until a dazzling magician tries to save her and reunite her with her sister who is being held in the confines of Ellis Island.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, harsh, emotional, suspenseful, serious, captivating, period piece, costume drama, stylized, romantic
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Bounce (2000)
Plot Summary:
A man switches plane tickets with another man who dies in that plane in a crash. The man falls in love with the deceased one's wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: emotional, sentimental, romantic, melancholic, touching, talky, sincere, romantic drama, independent film, serious
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August (2011)
Plot Summary:
August tells the story of two former lovers, Troy and Jonathan, who reunite after a long ago painful breakup. After spending several years in Spain, Troy returns to Los Angeles and decides to phone Jonathan and meet for coffee. A seemingly innocent rendezvous turns into an attempt to revive passions past. Only this time it's not that simple as Jonathan has a new beau, Raul, and is trying to make the right decision a second time around.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, emotional, homoerotic, sexy, touching, serious, non-linear
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Like Crazy (2011)
Plot Summary:
A British college student falls for an American student, only to be separated from him when she's banned from the U.S. after overstaying her visa.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sincere, romantic, heartbreaking, touching, emotional, independent film, sad, realistic, sensual, sentimental
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Shopgirl (2005)
Plot Summary:
Mirabelle is a disenchanted salesgirl and aspiring artist who sells gloves and accessories at a department store. She has two men in her life: wealthy divorcée Ray Porter and struggling musician Jeremy. Mirabelle falls in love with the glamorous Ray, and her life takes a magical turn, but eventually she realizes that she must empower herself and make a choice between them.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: reflective, touching, realistic, emotional, heartbreaking, sentimental, semi serious, romantic, depressing, art film