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Plot Summary:
Pietro is a successful businessman with a wife and a daughter. One day he helps his brother save two women from drowning at the beach. When he returns home he finds that his wife has died. Now Pietro has to take care of his daughter, Claudia. When he drives her to school soon after, he decides to wait for her all day in front of the school, and soon that's what he does every day. Written by Peter.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, realistic, serious, contemplative, erotic
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Light of My Eyes (2001)
Plot Summary:
Antonio is a fallen angel, a rootless chauffeur in Rome, who relates only to the lonely heroes in the science fiction novels he grew up with. Only through a chance meeting with Maria, a woman struggling to hold onto her daughter and her business, does he discover a hope that's been in his detached existence.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 881
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sentimental, serious, psychological, touching, realistic, emotional
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Genova (2008)
Plot Summary:
A man moves his two daughters to Italy after their mother dies in a car accident, in order to revitalize their lives. Genoa changes all three of them as the youngest daughter starts to see the ghost of her mother, while the older one discovers her sexuality.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, Sweden, Cayman Islands
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, sentimental, captivating, sex comedy, romantic drama, contemplative, gloomy, feel good
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Giulia Doesn't Date at Night (2009)
Plot Summary:
Guido, an acclaimed author, leads an idyllic life with his beautiful wife and teenage daughter. But despite his seemingly perfect existence, Guido's restless search for inspiration leads him into the arms of Giulia, a charming and mysterious swim instructor, who is hiding a secret from her past.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 741
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: emotional, sentimental, captivating, realistic, serious, gloomy
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The Secret (2007)
Plot Summary:
Husband, wife, and daughter have moved from Boston to Williamstown. At 16, Samantha treats her mother shabbily, but when the two of them are in a horrific car crash, the mother wills Sam to live, somehow losing her own life while her spirit enters Sam.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, serious, suspenseful, motivational, scary, psychotronic
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Wings of Glass (2000)
Plot Summary:
Vingar av glas är en svensk film från 2000 regisserad av Reza Bagher, det var hans debutfilm. I huvudrollerna ses Alexander Skarsgård som en "vanlig svensk kille" och Sara Sommerfeld som en invandrartjej. Det blir problem mellan dem.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, touching, realistic, teen
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Woman Wanted (1999)
Plot Summary:
A new woman comes between a widower and his adult son.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 798
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: erotic, sex comedy, sentimental, atmospheric, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy, independent film
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Sons & Lovers (2003)
Plot Summary:
Filmmaker Stephen Whittaker adapts author D.H. Lawrence's simmering tale of sex, love, and family. In the years leading up to World War I, the problems faced by many families were uncannily similar to the issues that mankind would still be struggling with nearly a century later. Human relationships remain as fragile as ever, and the only constant in life seems to be a humbling sense of uncertainty. Sarah Lancashire stars in a drama detailing the anguish of first love, and the awkward confusion of first sex.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 192 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sincere, romantic, period drama
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All the Way Home (1963)
Plot Summary:
In the early 1900's Tennessee, a loving family undergoes the shock of the father's sudden, accidental death. The widow and her young son must endure the heartache of life following the tragedy, but slowly rise up from the ashes to face the hope of renewed life.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: retro, sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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The Run of the Country (1995)
Plot Summary:
An Irish lad (Matt Keeslar) who fled from his oppressive, widowed father (Albert Finney) falls for a girl (Victoria Smurfit) from an affluent family.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 443
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy, sexy, thought provoking, brutal, enigmatic
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Once in a Lifetime (1994)
Plot Summary:
After losing her husband and baby daughter to a fire, Daphne Fields raises her deaf son while beginning a writing career. Hollywood loves her scripts, but her heart remains with her son Andrew, under the care of Headmaster Matthew Dane at an eastern boarding school. Daphne finally seems to have rediscovered love in her leading man. But an accident leaves her hospitalized, contemplating her life, fate and her best chance for love.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 407
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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Stella (1990)
Plot Summary:
Barmaid Stella Claire and blueblood Stephen Dallas have very little in common -- except they've fallen in love. When their relationship fails, Stella decides to raise the child they had, Jenny, alone. But Jenny and Stella are far from the perfect mother-daughter pair.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, sentimental, captivating, sad, touching, realistic, sexual, erotic, romantic
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Bridge to Silence (1989)
Plot Summary:
A woman with a hearing problem tries to get het life back together after a car accident that killed her husband.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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Anything You Want (2010)
Plot Summary:
Leo is immediately set adrift by his new found responsibilities as a single parent, a feeling that is made doubly distressing when Dafne, herself understandably confused and heartbroken by her mother's absence, asks for an "artificial" mother to help her fall asleep at night. It is here that Mañas takes the road less traveled, but to write any more about the plot line he introduces would be unfair to both the viewer and filmmaker alike. Suffice it to say that Leo's actions are both surprising and potentially dangerous, as they require Leo to subsume his own identity to the point where he nearly loses it.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 565
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sentimental, uplifting, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, crying
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Byways (2004)
Plot Summary:
Victor, a father, travels the roads with his teenage son, Felix. For Felix, the trip is a school of life, as his first romantic encounter helps him better understand his father and get closer to him.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Spain, Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: road movie, touching, realistic, serious, emotional, contemplative
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To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday (1996)
Plot Summary:
David loves his wife, Gillian. Unfortunately, she died two years ago. David deals with his grief by continuing his romance with Gillian during walks with her "ghost" on the beach at night. While David lives in the past, other family problems crop up in the present in the real world.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, emotional, melancholic, sex comedy, serious, talky, erotic, inspirational, romantic
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Loverboy (2005)
Plot Summary:
A neglected daughter becomes a possessive mother in an emotional journey into the heart and mind of a woman who loved too much.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, touching, serious, erotic, offbeat, realistic, contemplative
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Ponette (1996)
Plot Summary:
A four-year-old girl must come to terms with the loss of her mother and the reality of death in this award-winning French drama. Little Ponette (Victoire Thivisol) is riding in a car with her mother when they're involved in a serious accident; Ponette survives, but her mother does not. Her father (Xavier Beauvois) initially reacts with anger over his late wife's careless driving, while her Aunt Claire (Claire Nebout) tries to comfort the child by telling her about Jesus and the resurrection. However, none of this does much to reassure Ponette or clarify her confusion about the practical realities and spiritual dilemma posed by death. In time, Ponette and her cousins Matiaz (Matiaz Caton) and Delphine (Delphine Schiltz) are sent off to boarding school, where they have to resolve their confusion and loss on their own. ~Mark Deming, Rovi.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, realistic, talky, depressing, philosophical, spiritual, psychological, sincere, serious
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You (2009)
Plot Summary:
You is a love story. It spans 21 years, bouncing around in time, creating a kind of family quilt that wraps around a father as he struggles to overcome the grief of losing his beloved wife and raise their daughter alone. A coming-of-age journey for both the father and his daughter, You is filled with the magic of life and love and family.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: emotional, sentimental, psychological, captivating, independent film, sincere, touching, offbeat, serious
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Two Gates of Sleep (2010)
Plot Summary:
After preparing for their mother's imminent death, two brothers go on an arduous upriver journey to honor her final request.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, sincere, atmospheric, serious, realistic, gloomy, independent film
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Free Radicals (2003)
Plot Summary:
Following the death of Manu (Resetarits) in a car accident, the film relates the interwoven stories of several people who become indirectly connected by the events and aftermath of the crash.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 553
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Austria, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, realistic, touching, contemplative, gloomy, crying
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Love Is Blind (2013)
Plot Summary:
30-year old Kertu has lived under her father's power her whole life. Because of her gentle nature, she is thought by locals to be a little simple-minded. The young woman makes her first timid attempt to change something in her life - she send a postcard to Villu, a handsome but degenerate village drunk.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 958
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Estonia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: emotional, realistic, touching, serious, captivating
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The Maid (2014)
Plot Summary:
An emotionally troubled teenager gets into a passionate relationship with the older French woman working in his father's house.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, realistic, serious, sexy, romantic drama, independent film
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Morning (2010)
Plot Summary:
Five days in the life of an American couple immediately following the accidental death of their child. An every day story of tragedy, loss, acceptance, hope and renewal. 'Morning' follows the divergent paths of Mark (Leland Orser) and Alice Munroe (Jeanne Tripplehorn) as they circle each other in a heart-breaking pas-de-deux of grief before finally coming to grips with their shared loss.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, independent film, psychological thriller, gloomy, psycho film
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Closing the Ring (2007)
Plot Summary:
During the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann, who is in love with one of them, Teddy. In modern-day Belfast, a man named Jimmy endeavors to return a ring found in the wreckage of a crashed plane. He travels to Michigan, where the grown Ethel Ann, who married another man after Teddy was killed in battle, now lives. Ethel Ann must decide whether to go with Jimmy to meet the soldier who last saw Teddy alive.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, suspenseful, realistic, romantic, period piece, romantic drama, independent film, feel good
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33 Scenes from Life (2008)
Plot Summary:
The Polish artist Julia and her husband Piotr, a talented and successful composer, live in Kraków. When Julias's mother, Barbara falls ill with stomach cancer, the life of the family is falling apart. Julia accompanies her mother to death, but her husband Piotr is at rehearsals in Cologne and leaves her to cope with this difficult situation. Only her friend Adrian is at her side. Her father Jurek is also overwhelmed by the impending loss of his beloved wife. After the death of the mother her father takes comfort from alcohol. Shortly after the father dies. Julia found only in the arms of Adrian to rest, but this in turn destroyed her marriage to Piotr. After the loss of the parents and break up of the marriage she is now alone in the world with an uncertain future where Adrian is of little help.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, Poland
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, psychological, captivating, dark comedy, contemplative, gloomy
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Surrender, Dorothy (2005)
Plot Summary:
When her daughter Sara unexpectedly passes away, Natalie retreats to the summer home where she and Sara used to visit. Time with her best friends and some of Sara's friends help her deal with her loss.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 897
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative
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The Son's Room (2001)
Plot Summary:
A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, emotional, depressing, sad, meditative, lyrical, psychological, realistic, philosophical
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Sisters (2009)
Plot Summary:
Lyon, France in 1970s, Sibylle, Corinne, and Georgette are sisters who share everything, as they live with their Italian mother. Sibylle is the only blonde in the family, except for their father who abandoned them, and she feels isolated. She dreams of meeting her French father one day.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 230
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, captivating, entertaining
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Alpha Male (2006)
Plot Summary:
Drama about a family torn apart after the death of its patriarch. Haunted by their father's death, Jack and Elyssa have a fraught relationship with their remarried mother even now they have come of age.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: emotional, touching, realistic, contemplative, psychological, sentimental, sincere, serious
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Facing Windows (2003)
Plot Summary:
Overburdened and stuck in a greying marriage, Giovanna takes to caring for a Jewish Holocaust survivor her husband brings home. As she begins to reflect on her life, she turns to the man who lives across from her.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, Turkey, Portugal, UK
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: emotional, psychological, enigmatic, sincere, touching, realistic, stylized, erotic, culinary, poetic