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Plot Summary:
Two people play out a story of love and desperation that's enacted through music in this drama from writer and director Ivan Vyrypaev. Sasha (Alexei Filimonov) is a man in his twenties who lives in the small town of Serpukhov and has fallen in love with a woman who is also named Sasha (Karolina Gruszka).
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 841
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 75 min
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The 4th Wall (2010)
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One fatal morning, John's door is left ajar. A strange woman slips through the crack in his orderly life. Is she a squatter, a wanderer or a woman from his past? As John's tidy flat is rapidly invaded, his inner space is also besieged. What started as a comic encounter changes his life forever.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, Belgium
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film
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False Alarm (2006)
Plot Summary:
Summer in an Athenian neighborhood, the alarm of a car does not leave their neighbors in peace. But every one has its own problems. Infidelity, robbery, jealousy, flirtation, and family reconciliation on corpses, all pour forth into five intertwined stories.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 86 min
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Rosa la China (2002)
Plot Summary:
Chilean director Valeria Sarmiento weaves a tale of love, betrayal, and civil unrest centering around a nightclub in 1950s pre-Communist Cuba in her 2002 romantic drama Rosa La China. Notorious businessman Santiago Ordenez (Juan Luis Galiardo), who primarily goes by the nickname Dulzara, operates a high-profile club/casino with the protection of some local politicians with whom he has dubious relationships. A large portion of the club's success is due to its star singer, Rosa (Luisa Maria Jiminez), who also happens to be Dulzara's lover. Rosa, however, has recently started into another affair with a somewhat younger womanizer named Marcos (Abel Rodriguez).
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Cuba, Spain, France, Portugal
Duration: 109 min
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Life Is Beautiful (2022)
Plot Summary:
Suddenly learning she is terminally ill, Se-yeon asks her husband, Jin-bong the absurd task of helping her find her first love, and he unwillingly joins her search. Along their journey, Se-yeon and Jin-bong are reminded of the most glittering, beautiful moments of their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 122 min
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Impossible Love (1977)
Plot Summary:
Rich Spanish landowner Alvaro is torn between his wife Elvira and two other women in his life. He's also worried about the fact that both his father and grandfather were murdered by Spanish revolutionaries in the house he's inherited.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min
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Annette (2021)
Plot Summary:
The story of Henry, a stand-up comedian with a fierce sense of humor and Ann, a singer of international renown. In the spotlight, they are the perfect couple, healthy, happy, and glamourous. The birth of their first child, Annette, a mysterious girl with an exceptional destiny, will change their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Belgium, Japan, Mexico, Switzerland
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: surreal, mind bending, psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, psychedelic, aesthetic, explicit, iconic
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Lighter Fluid (2016)
Plot Summary:
An experimental look into the lives of teens and young adults in a dysfunctional town.
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Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 66 min
Plot tags: experimental
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3 Seasons in Hell (2009)
Plot Summary:
A 19 year old nonconformist poet living in 1947 Czechoslovakia is blind to the Communist behemoth looking over him, and instead lives a bohemian life with sexually liberated girls.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 420
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: intellectual, psychological, captivating, disturbing, freeze frame, unusual plot structure, contemplative
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Crush (2009)
Plot Summary:
Five short love stories, which become a statement of the directors about love. A shoemaker, a reporter, a pavement hooker-in, a psychiatric patient and a young man released from prison are the main characters of the film, heroes in a time of no heroes. All of them have the important qualities of being openhearted and not afraid of loving.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 547
Genere: Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, touching, serious, realistic, romantic, art house, clever, contemplative, non-linear
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Love Me, If You Can (2003)
Plot Summary:
A young girl returns to visit her childhood home in Taipei to see her female cousin, whom she has been secretly in love with since she was very young.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 95 min
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Pyar Ka Mousam (1969)
Plot Summary:
Bollywood classic starring Asha Parekh, Shashi Kapoor and Nirupa Roy.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 153 min
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Another Year (2014)
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He's an unemployed guy who earns some money by giving lifts to strangers. She's a graphic designer who just got her first job. The film tracks their relationship - and the way it gradually melts away - throughout a year. A subtle, moving portrait of an immature love that breaks down easily.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sincere, atmospheric, captivating, emotional
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Vendues (2004)
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7 young women from Eastern Europe accept to become prostitutes for a year in exchange for a journey that will take them from Belgrade to Marseilles and provide them with a French passport. Irina, a worker from a Moscow suburb, brings along Enki, her young son, hidden among her luggage. She's ready to do anything to give him a brighter future.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
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Open Eyes (1982)
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Directed by Raafat El-Mihi.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Egypt
Duration: 108 min
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To the Night (2018)
Plot Summary:
Norman, who lost his parents in a fire as a child, is obsessed with light and haunted by its destructive powers.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Austria, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: light, avant garde
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Fire in Her Bed! (1972)
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Lovely and free-spirited young hippie singer Donna goes to Los Angeles, California to seek fame and success in the Hollywood music scene. Donna records an album and falls in with a party hearty bohemian crowd which leads to the inevitable decadent descent into sex, drugs, and booze. Can Donna get out of this wild lifestyle in time? Or is she destined to meet a grim untimely end?.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
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My Father Up the Tree (1969)
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A young man is shunned by his friends after he starts an affair with a dancer.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 353
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Egypt
Duration: 142 min
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Euphoria (2006)
Plot Summary:
They saw each other only once. At a wedding with lots of alcohol. Their eyes met and that was it. They didn't understand rationally what happened to them but they felt that they cannot keep living and breathing without each other. Cosmic magnetism with irresistible intensity pulled them together. They no longer belonged to themselves, their families and friends and that's how a tragedy evolves.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 74 min
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Opium (2013)
Plot Summary:
The frustrated loves of Jean Cocteau and Raymond Radiguet at the beginning of the 1920s. The death of Radiguet that sank Cocteau into opium. A story under the influence of drugs. A narrative in the spirit of Cocteau. And all this in a musical.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 505
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: semi serious, realistic, light, sincere, feel good, period piece
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Pokrov Gates (1983)
Plot Summary:
Stories from the lives of the tenants of the Moscow's communal apartment: Kostik, who is a college student, lives with his aunt while studying; Arkady Velyurov who is a performing artist; Khobotovs, who are a divorced couple; and Sava, who is Margarita Khobotov's new fiancé. All these people live in one apartment and their lives constantly touch each other's.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: tragicomedy, humorous, entertaining
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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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Hipsters (2008)
Plot Summary:
In this hit Russian musical, a group of friends flaunts Soviet authority in 1950s Moscow by embracing jazz. When Communist Mels falls for Polly, a free-spirited jazz fan, he risks losing his party membership by associating with her rebellious crew.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: captivating, stylized, humorous, realistic, atmospheric, sexy, cult classic, semi serious, political
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Our Town (1977)
Plot Summary:
3-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Dearest Jane (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young girl learn to accept love and change, after being sent to live with her uncle in Indiana.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, tense, suspense, contemplative, independent film, unusual plot structure
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The Heart Is a Temple (1963)
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Dr. Dharmesh (Rajendra Kumar) and Sita (Meena Kumari) are in love, and hope to marry on Dharmesh's return from abroad. When Dharmesh returns, he is devastated to find that Sita has married someone else. He then decides to devote the rest of his life at a cancer clinic. One of his patients is Ram (Raaj Kumar), who is critically ill, and has to be operated upon. Things progress well, until Dharmesh meets Ram's wife - none other than Sita. Dharmesh now has to battle with his conscience, and his medical ethics to save Ram or to let him pass away, so that he can marry Sita.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 148 min
Plot tags:
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O Kadhal Kanmani (2015)
Plot Summary:
Adhi and Tara are in a live-in relationship and but they are both unwilling to get married. How do they realize that marriage is just a natural progression of their relationship?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, captivating, suspense, romantic
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Othello (1981)
Plot Summary:
Adaptation of Shakespeare's play.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 195 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Two A Penny (1967)
Plot Summary:
Set in London's Swiinging Sixties, Cliff Richard plays Jamie Hopkins, an art student whose desperate need for money leads him to dabble in the underworld of drug dealing. Cliff has stated that Two A Penny, his most dramatically challenging movie role ever, is the film he is proudest of. He has stated, "if I did want to send a fiolm as a CV, I would send that one". It is certainly his most demanding and controversial role; cynical, self centered and highly manipulative, Jamie Hopkins lies, steals and double-crosses his mother (Dora Bryan), forces himself on his girlfriend (Ann Holloway) and gets involved in fist fights with criminals. Through the influence of his girlfriend, a born again Christian, is the possibility that he may reform, yet in the mystery of the film's by-line "He promised to love her forever….today" lies the possibility that he may well not.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: christian film, independent film
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Pennies from Heaven (1981)
Plot Summary:
A musical set in the great Busby Berkeley style. In Chicago during the depression, sheet music salesman, Arthur Parker, is trying to sell his products, but it's not easy to convince unwilling music store owners to buy them. Although he's already married to the somewhat drab Joan, when he meets school teacher Eileen in a music store, he falls in love with her.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: surreal, stylized, sentimental, atmospheric, touching, serious, realistic, gloomy, road movie, light
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Rent (2005)
Plot Summary:
This rock opera tells the story of one year in the life of a group of bohemians struggling in modern day East Village, New York, USA. The story centers around Mark and Roger, two roommates. While a former tragedy has made Roger numb to life, Mark tries to capture it through his attempts to make a film. In the year that follows, the group deals with love, loss, HIV/AIDS, and modern day life.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 55000
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: emotional, sentimental, stylized, lyrical, captivating, semi serious, romantic, depressing, sex comedy, period piece