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Plot Summary:
A young American girl at a French boarding school develops a crush on an egotistical sculptor living next door. One night, driving in a drunken stupor, he runs over and kills a man, and she witnesses it.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 87 min
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Mitte 30 (2007)
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy, hot
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Gromozeka (2011)
Plot Summary:
In present day Moscow three childhood friends in their forties - former school band players - live their everyday lives of a police officer, a taxi driver and a surgeon. They have lost track of each other. Three stories of betrayal, love and ageing are told in parallel. In fact, unknown to our heroes, their paths cross and their lives become connected. But they are not aware of it even when they reunite for a breaking performance at their graduation anniversary.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: dark comedy
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Mr. Singh Mrs. Mehta (2010)
Plot Summary:
Mr. Singh / Mrs. Mehta is a 2010 Hindi-language film starring Prashant Narayanan and Aruna Shields. It's directed by Pravesh Bhardwaj. The film is produced by Manu Kumaran and was released on June 24, 2010. Mr Singh/Mrs Mehta is directorial debut of Pravesh Bhardwaj and features music of Grammy nominated artist Ustad Shujaat Hussain Khan.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Drama
Country: India, UK
Duration: 118 min
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Two (1989)
Plot Summary:
The manager of a contemporary music composer falls in love with the real estate agent with whom he is looking for a house in Paris. But both have been used to living an independent life: they want to marry but at the same time, are afraid of marriage.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 113 min
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The Big Ceremonial (1969)
Plot Summary:
Fantasy is a favourite theme for directors, since it enables them to give vent to diabolical situations with unlimited licence. This film is of this category. It is the story of a jealous and protective mother who allows her son only home-made dolls to satisfy his sick fantasy. But as in all fairy stories, there comes a day when a real, warm girl enters the sheltered life of the son. His natural and innate thirsts for oddities soon make him repeat on the girl what, until then, he has been doing with the dolls. The story then evolves into a fight of wills between the mother and the girl.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 24
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
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Betrayed: A Story of Three Women (1995)
Plot Summary:
Joan Bixler and Amanda Nelson have known each other for several years and lead successful and seemingly functional families. However, their friendship is ripped to shreds and their families shattered when the husband of one of the women has an affair with the other woman's daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 188
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
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Seduction by the Sea (1963)
Plot Summary:
A young women is hired by a woman to seduce her son and convince him to return to home from his self-induced exile.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany, Yugoslavia
Duration: 80 min
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The Dark Room (2000)
Plot Summary:
In 14th-century France, Aliénor breaks with the codes governing girls’ behavior and does as she wishes. The King of France grants her the hand of her childhood love, but her new husband deserts her immediately after the ceremony. Undeterred, she sets out after him, traveling to Siena to bring him back.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Luxembourg, Canada, Italy
Duration: 107 min
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L'Amour Fou (1969)
Plot Summary:
L'Amour Fou follows the dissolution of the marriage between Claire, an actress (played by Bulle Ogier), and Sebastien, her director (Jean-Pierre Kalfon).
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 762
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 252 min
Plot tags: experimental, avant garde
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Sleepless Nights (2003)
Plot Summary:
A strong controversial adult drama about troubles facing young married and non-married couples. The old friends are invited at Khaled's and Perry's daughter birthday. Moushira is married to Ali, Amr to Farah , and Sameh is having an affair with Inas. After the party all the problems explodes when Moushira tells Ali that he doesn't satisfy her sexually, Perry tells Amr about her discovery of his infidelity, Amr is jealous of Ali as Farah's ex-boyfriend and she is faces him with the fact that her rich family improved his standard. While Inas gives the choice to Sameh of either marrying or separating. Then everyone faces his problem trying to make decisions with the help of his/her friends.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Egypt
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: islamic
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Birch Interval (1976)
Plot Summary:
A young girl is sent to live with Amish relatives in post-war Pennsylvania, where her life dramatically changes.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Love After Love (2020)
Plot Summary:
The film tells the story of a young girl who travels from Shanghai to Hong Kong in pursuit of education, but ends up working for her aunt seducing rich and powerful men.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 611
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: captivating
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Le Garcu (1995)
Plot Summary:
A self-centered man (Gérard Depardieu) with many diversions occasionally visits his 4-year-old son (Antoine Pialat) and the boy's mother (Géraldine Pailhas).
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 628
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
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Light Drops (2002)
Plot Summary:
Rui was raised in Mozambique in a small village at the frontier of a mysterious river. Son of Portuguese colonists, his best friend is Ana, a black girl godchild of his mother. At fourteen he is confronted with the tragic destruction of his childhood and has to learn to recognize two distinct realities - the European and the African.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Drama
Country: Portugal, Mozambique
Duration: 103 min
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Red Rose White Rose (1994)
Plot Summary:
Chronicles the love life of a man, Zhenbao. He has a steamy fling with the wife of a friend, the saucy and exciting Red Rose. Even though he feels happy with her, he knows he will not end up with her. To maintain his reputation, he marries an antiseptic, frigid but classy lady of a prim and proper background (White rose). Dissonance abound when he finds his bride irritating.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 324
Genere: Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 110 min
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The Prodigal Daughter (1981)
Plot Summary:
A young woman in a deep depression leaves her husband and returns to her parents. She discovers her father is having an affair, becomes jealous of his mistress and tries to turn his feelings in her direction.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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The Trade Off (2013)
Plot Summary:
A man is forced to re-evaluate the choices he's made in his life.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, sexy, serious, disturbing, erotic drama, independent film, black comedy
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Lodge Money (2020)
Plot Summary:
New couple Na-ni and Joon-seo left the stuffy Seoul to try and start a cafe in the countryside. Behind the couple's attempt to change, they had some unspeakable worries, so they were sexless people who used their own rooms because they were not sexually compatible. Regardless of her husband's efforts to establish a relationship, her wife Na-ni has long been on an extramarital affair with her sex partner Dal-ho, who has been embroiled in a hit-and-run accident that she never thought of enjoying sex outdoors and is asked for a large settlement.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: dramatic, emotional, intense, gloomy
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A Married Man (1983)
Plot Summary:
British television movie in which a married lawyer's excursion into adultery leads to murder.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 240 min
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Black and White (1968)
Plot Summary:
Juha is a sales manager of a refrigerator company. His perfect-looking family and glittering array of modern kitchen appliances have just been featured in a magazine article, but in reality Juha is a womanising chauvinist more at home on the road than with his family.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 293
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Silsiilay (2005)
Plot Summary:
A group of women find solidarity with each other as they negotiate their complicated love-lives.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 762
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 134 min
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Obsessed with a Married Woman (1985)
Plot Summary:
Jane Seymour makes a six-course meal of her starring role as a magazine editor in Obsessed With a Married Woman--indeed, her performance is the only tangible reason for sitting through this artistically bankrupt TV movie. The story contrives to have Seymour, happily married and the mother of a wise-lipped son, fall into the sack with her star reporter Tim Matheson. It seems that Jane has assigned Matheson to do a series of articles on mistresses. He does his homework so well that Jane takes him on as her own "male mistress.".
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
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With/In: Volume 2 (2021)
Plot Summary:
Giving creatives the chance to step outside the box while being confined to their own homes, the filmmakers behind With/In range from seasoned directors to first-timers, all provided with the same iPhone and basic gear to bring their visions to life.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, anthology
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Secrets (2017)
Plot Summary:
Secrets: Tarron is a successful, married businessman who risks losing it all when a sexy new hire comes to his company. As his wife struggles to keep her family together by all means necessary, Tarron’s world is tested and shaken to its core.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Innocence (2000)
Plot Summary:
After more than forty years apart, Andreas and Claire embark on an affair as reckless and intense as when they were young lovers. Widowed musician Andreas decides to get back in touch with his one great love, Claire, who is still married to her first husband, John. Andreas and Claire find that the connection they shared when they were young is still there and they soon become involved in a rekindled love affair.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia, Belgium
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: romantic, sincere, touching, emotional, romantic drama, atmospheric, serious, realistic, contemplative, erotic
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An Unusual Affair (2002)
Plot Summary:
Jochen Wenzel, a young teacher, married with two kids, one day surprisingly falls in love with a young male colleague, Tom Leuthner and they begin an unusual affair (= "Eine aussergewöhnliche Affäre"). While Ina, Jochen's wife, worries about Jochen's distanced behavior without having a clue of her husband's affair, Jochen and Tom seriously fall for each other. Torn between his family and his new love, Jochen has to make a decision. Written by Smoothhoney.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 592
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, suspense, captivating, queer cinema
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Anthem (2011)
Plot Summary:
A young writer and his attractive wife looking to climb the social ladder move to an affluent area outside of Scottsdale AZ. Little do they know... Once you say yes... it's hard to say no.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sexy, touching, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Dreamchild (2020)
Plot Summary:
François and Noémie run a sawmill in the mountains not far from the Swiss border. François has taken over his family's business, making him the fourth generation. He dreams of having a child. After years of failed fertility assistance, they give up on having a baby of their own and turn to adoption. But then François meets Patricia, new to the neighborhood. They begin a passionate affair. Soon after, Patricia gets pregnant.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Lead Us Not Into Temptation (2011)
Plot Summary:
A teenager girl intrudes a quite couple's life.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: erotic, twist ending, psychological, sexy, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, surprise ending, hot
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Love Life (2007)
Plot Summary:
A married young academic falls under the sexual thrall of a much older man whose air of jaded ennui conceals a secret desire for vengeance.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 478
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, Israel
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sentimental, romantic, captivating, emotional, witty, erotic, sexy