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Plot Summary:
Based on a true story and set in one of the most colorful periods in Philippine history, ROSARIO is destined to be a modern masterpiece in Philippine filmmaking. It is a monumental yet intimate portrait of a woman's emancipation and the sometimes painful consequencesof following one's desires.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: neo noir, silent, noir, silent film
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When the Crow Turns White, When the Heron Turns Black (1978)
Plot Summary:
"Pag-puti ng Uwak, Pag-itim ng Tagak" is a pulsating love story that recaptures the nostalgic fifties, the exciting era of mass hysteria, and the golden years of the rock and roll fever inflicted by screaming, wiggling hip-shaking foreign pop idols dominated by Elvis Presley, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Pat Boone, Doris Day and the Platters. It is more than a love story. It is also a commentary - a satire rich with humor injected into a moral, psychological, sociological, and cultural aspect, outlook, and values of the said bygone era. It is a poignant rich-girl-meets poor boy love story of Julie Monserat and Candido Ventura - two love-struck starry eyed youths who fought for their right to love each other, here is a story that touches social conflict - the perennial clashes and discrimination between the rich and the poor.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags:
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Naked Under the Moon (1999)
Plot Summary:
A young woman recalls how her father (a fallen priest), her mother (a woman with a secret past) and her teenage sister returned with her to live in their ancestral home after the family business failed. She was plagued with mysterious problems of sleepwalking and began a romance with a young man who tried to cure her.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: slow cinema, aesthetic
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Ploning (2008)
Plot Summary:
In the picturesque island of Cuyo, Palawan, an illegal Taiwanese fishing vessel docks carrying the fisherman named Muo Sei, a man looking for something or someone with the name Ploning. He has from sunrise to sundown to look for this "Ploning".
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Bona (1980)
Plot Summary:
A scorned teenager gets revenge on the aging gigolo who took advantage of her while pursuing other women.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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My Father, My Mother (1978)
Plot Summary:
Coring, a gay beautician, is left with a baby by his former ward, Dennis. The baby grows up thinking that Coring is his real father. Everything seems to be smooth until the kid's mother suddenly shows up to claim her son. (Written by ledster).
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags:
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Yesterday Today Tomorrow (2011)
Plot Summary:
It’s a story of people and their secrets that tear them apart...The movie follows a surprising decision that each family member will make in the aftermath of a tragedy… life changing decisions that will either lead them to a future lasting happiness, or one full of despair.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, soap opera, unusual plot structure, contemplative
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Summer Heat (2006)
Plot Summary:
The story is set in Guagua, Pampanga a decade after the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo which ravaged the province with lahar. It follows the lives of Rodolfo "Mang Rudy" Manansala, a woodcarver, and his three daughters and their relationships with the people close to them in the span of seven summers.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Sandpiper (1965)
Plot Summary:
A free-spirited artist (Elizabeth Taylor), who lives near California's Big Sur, meets the administrator (Richard Burton) of the parochial school that her young son attends and lures the cleric away from his wife (Eva Marie Saint).
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: sentimental, retro, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, light, inspirational, romantic, sexy
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Summer Solstice (1981)
Plot Summary:
An old man lives out the final years of his half-century marriage by living and remembering.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 279
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags:
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Let's Embrace the Past Once Again (1983)
Plot Summary:
Rod leaves Helen for his career and she falls in love with another. Rod becomes successful and goes back to Helen who obviously still feels strongly for him. An illicit affair ensues.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration:
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One More Chance (2007)
Plot Summary:
Popoy and Basha had been together forever. Their love story began when they first met as students at university. They had been inseparable and did everything together—eating, studying and attending parties. However, Popoy's incessant planning and nagging took a toll on their relationship leading Basha to break-up with him.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 831
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, tagalog, sentimental, captivating, heartbreaking, romantic drama
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A Love Story (2007)
Plot Summary:
What if you met the woman you wanted to make your wife after you married someone else? Ian Montes is a picture of success. Despite being a son of a shipping tycoon, Ian refused to just ride in his father's empire. He built his own real estate company and earned his first million at a very young age. He never looked back since then. Driven by his ambition to become better, if not as good as his father, Ian managed to make it on his own. But behind all the glory is a man yearning for love and recognition.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: tagalog, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Town Whore (2001)
Plot Summary:
Syota ng Bayan is Tanya Marquez, a bold star who quits showbiz and goes back to her hometown. Finding out that a cement factory is causing a lot of havoc in the environment and in the lives of her town mates, she challenges the incumbent of Mayor Golano to have it closed. When denied, Tanya rallies the people in protest but is silenced. The mayor's opponents prevail upon Tnays to run for mayor in the coming elections against Golano's son, Peter Lee. During the campaign period Tanya and Peter Lee meet and fall in love.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: political drama
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On the Edge (1995)
Plot Summary:
A man. A woman. A single night in Paris. Such is the basic framework of this French romance that begins when middle-aged middle-class housewife Clara, happily drives to the airport to meet her husband who was supposed to come in on the evening flight and is devastated to learn that he has remained at his hotel and is having an affair. Clara sees a younger man eating a sandwich and asks him to have a drink. Later, she and he, an amiable baggage handler, spend the evening talking and exploring the nightlife on the outskirts of Paris. There they meet many people from other countries who come to Paris and work as laborers.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags:
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Baler (2008)
Plot Summary:
In 1898, a band of Spanish soldiers heroically defended Baler against Filipino forces for 337 long and grueling days. The battle, now referred to as the Siege of Baler, is the setting of a forbidden love between a Mestizo soldier and a Filipina lass who lived at the end of the 19th century.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Philippines
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: tagalog
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The Arrangement (1969)
Plot Summary:
Eddie is a very rich man who has everything he wants; money, family, success. But a car crash is all that needs to make him reconsider the life he leads. Searching for the happiness he lost, he remembers his one time lover, Gwen. Meanwhile his wife conspires to take his fortune.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: semi autobiographical, psychological, tense, offbeat, serious, realistic, biting, suspense
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The Weather in the Streets (1983)
Plot Summary:
Passion comes calling when a man suffering through an unhappy marriage in 1920s England runs into first love.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags:
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Little Angel (1996)
Plot Summary:
Ramona lives her lonely life in Berlin working in a lipstick factory. One day she accidentally runs into Andrzei, a Polish mechanic illegally selling cigarettes in Germany during the weekend. One thing leads to another, and soon she finds herself pregnant. Then her life starts falling apart, when Andrzei tells her he already has a wife back in Poland and her baby dies shortly after its premature birth.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Mrs. Montero's Lover (1999)
Plot Summary:
A erotic drama chronicles the amorous exploits of a winsome young bride. When her affluent but crippled spouse fails to fulfill her physical desires, she seeks sexual satisfaction outside her marriage by taking a lover. Sunshine Cruz delivers a standout performance in a supporting role.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tagalog
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The Green Widow (1968)
Plot Summary:
A lonely young suburban housewife participates in a radio interview survey while simultaneously engaging in an extramarital affair.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: tripping
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The Love Affair (2015)
Plot Summary:
Often in the backseat and a second priority to her partner, a lawyer decides to end her relationship and focuses on herself with a help of a man out of her league.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 293
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: romantic, atmospheric, emotional, realistic
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Yellow Asphalt (2000)
Plot Summary:
Three stories set among the Bedouin of Jahalin in the hills of the Judean desert. On an almost deserted highway, two Israeli truckers strike a Bedouin lad accidentally. Before they can flee, the boy's people appear and circle the truckers. Retribution? In a tent, elders judge a woman seeking divorce; she wants to leave with her young daughters. They deny the suit. That night she gathers her girls and runs. Her husband pursues her. The Bedouin maid of a married Israeli hot-house farmer is discovered in adultery; with her life in danger, she seeks protection from her lover. He turns her away and involves a Bedouin farmhand in disposing of her. What tribal justice awaits?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sincere, thought provoking, serious, realistic, bleak, gloomy, crying, intercultural, inter cultural
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A Promise (2013)
Plot Summary:
A romantic drama set in Germany just before WWI and centered on a married woman who falls in love with her husband's teacher. Separated by the war, they pledge their devotion to one another.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, emotional, period piece, sincere, romantic drama, historical drama, costume drama, serious, realistic
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Madame Bovary (1991)
Plot Summary:
Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and sensual Emma Bovary finds herself in calamitous debt and purses scandalous sexual liaisons with absolute abandon. However, when her volatile lifestyle catches up to her, the lives of everyone around her are endangered.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: realistic, melancholic, sexy, costume drama, intense, romantic, erotic, spiritual, art house, romantic drama
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Cactus (1986)
Plot Summary:
A woman who injured her eyes in car accident and a young blind man fall for each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, crying, independent film
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Lady Chatterley's Lover (2022)
Plot Summary:
Lady Chatterley, a woman born into a life of wealth and privilege, finds herself married to a man that she eventually falls out of love with. She engages in a torrid affair with a gamekeeper on their English estate, discovering more desire and intimacy than she thought possible. When she realizes that she has fallen heart and soul, she breaks all traditions of the day and seeks happiness with the man she loves.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: sexy, period piece, costume drama, family comedy, romantic, period drama
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Heat and Dust (1983)
Plot Summary:
The parallel story of Anne and her grand-aunt Olivia in their experiences in India.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: realistic, costume drama, romantic drama, historical drama, serious, contemplative, crying, independent film, baroque, period drama
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Lovin' Molly (1974)
Plot Summary:
Spanning nearly 40 years from 1925 to 1964, two Texas farm boys; straight-arrow Gid and laid-back Johnny fight over the affections of the beautiful and headstrong Molly Taylor, who consistently refuses to marry either of them.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 590
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic
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Service (2008)
Plot Summary:
A struggling family (Gina Pareño, Jaclyn Jose, Coco Martin) owns a Filipino porn theater where prostitutes conduct their business.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines, France, South Korea, Hong Kong
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sexy, sincere, atmospheric, serious, emotional, erotic, tense, realistic, saga, gloomy
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In the Mood for Love (2000)
Plot Summary:
A melancholy story about the love between a woman and a man who live in the same building and one day find out that their husband and wife had an affair with each other. More and more the two meet during their daily lives as they determine that they both don’t want to be lonely in their marriage.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 163000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: art house, atmospheric, melancholic, visually stunning, artsy, contemplative, visually appealing, visual, sexy, psychological