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Plot Summary:
The story of a rare and exceptional bond between the master of classical music Sankara Sastry and his admirer Tulasi, a woman from a family of prostitutes.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: experimental
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The Square Circle (1996)
Plot Summary:
An abducted and sexually abused girl has her traditional views towards sexuality changed after finding refuge and kindness with a transvestite.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags:
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Murari (2001)
Plot Summary:
Circa 1800's a Jamindar (Prakash Raj) insults Durga Devi by stealing her idol in the temple in a state of intoxication.An enraged Devi kills him and puts a curse on his heirs that she is going to take one family member each every 48 years. And one male heir dies accidentally at the end of every 48 years. And the present year denotes end of another 48 years and now it's the turn of Murari (Mahesh Babu). In another village, there lives Vasundhara (Sonali Bendre). She too lives with a big combined family.Both the families of Murari and Vasundhara are releated by blood, but separated due to the family feuds.They both fall in love and these both families makes the formal arrangement of marriage. But once his grandmother, who returns from her Teerdha Yatra, upon being informed by the family poojari that Murari is the one who would be subjected to death by Devi this year, refuses for the marriage.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags:
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Honey Baby (2004)
Plot Summary:
A road movie based on the Greek story of Orpheus and Eurydice.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 377
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, Germany, Latvia, Russia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Sagara Sangamam (1983)
Plot Summary:
A young multi-talented dancer is poverty stricken and as a principled person he does not want to compromise on his ethics for commercial dancing. A wealthy woman recognizes this talent and provides him with an opportunity to showcase his art.
IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: romantic
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Boys (2003)
Plot Summary:
The story centers on six youngsters, who experience the downfalls of teenage life. The film conveys a message about the importance of a good education and career over other distractions, such as romance and sex.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 172 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Pranayam (2011)
Plot Summary:
Menon runs into his former wife Grace, who is married to a bedridden Mathew and loves him immensely. The movie revolves around their crossing and emotes the meaning of love and its various forms.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 910
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: romantic
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Hanste Zakhm (1973)
Plot Summary:
Film about the upper class in India.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration:
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Dance of the Wind (1997)
Plot Summary:
The mother of the Indian female singer Pallavi (Kitu Gidwani) is at the end of her life. She was master and teacher for her daughter for the art of Indian singing. But she will not be able to complete her lessons. So Pallavi experiences the lack of the guru of her mother. Finally she finds him in a very young street-girl who is able to sing marvelously. But this girl keeps disappearing again and again.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: India
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Hey Sinamika (2022)
Plot Summary:
A wife who feels suffocated by her husband's incessant attention hires a psychologist to make him fall in love with her so that she can separate from him.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags:
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I'll Find You (2019)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by stories of Polish musicians from the 1930s and 40s. Two young lovers, Robert, a Catholic opera singer, and Rachel, a Jewish violin virtuoso, dream of one day performing together at legendary Carnegie Hall. When they're torn apart by the German invasion of Poland, Robert vows to find Rachel, no matter what the war may bring. His search leads him on a life-threatening journey through the heart of Nazi Germany, to a reckoning that Rachel may be lost to him forever.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing, romantic drama
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Blue Note (1991)
Plot Summary:
If you’re a fan of Ken Russell’s particular brand of stylistically dizzy biographies covering the lives of old-school classical composers, then you’re going to love The Blue Note, Zulawski’s outré ode to Frédéric Chopin (played here by concert pianist/first-time actor Janusz Olejniczak.) Simultaneously achieveing wistful and surrealistic tones, the film covers the last few days of fragile Chopin’s professional life, as well as the (ahem!) overzealous behavior from the phalanx of Chopin’s celebrity admirers. Set at a lush countryside estate, The Blue Note expertly drifts back and forth from tender “love triangle” mode to hyper-imaginary dream-like sequences, all aided by a near-constant beautiful stream of Chopin’s piano music on the soundtrack. As well, the film is one of Zulawski’s most personal projects, as Chopin’s Polish exile in France within the confines of the narrative mirrors Zulawski’s own similar post-’70s exile.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 697
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: experimental, avant garde
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On Chesil Beach (2017)
Plot Summary:
In 1962 England, a young couple finds their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, period piece, costume drama, novela, sensitive, crying, weird, hot
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Jheel Ke Us Paar (1973)
Plot Summary:
Kulwant Rai's horse carriage runs over a child, and as a result, she loses her vision.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags:
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Julie (2004)
Plot Summary:
A broken hearted Julie comes to Mumbai to make a living,But the fast moving City will force her to take prostitution as her profession.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 462
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, erotic
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Fly (2021)
Plot Summary:
Bex has caused a serious accident and is therefore in prison. In order to rehabilitate the inmates, the prison offers them a dance class led by Ava. But Bex doesn't want to take part. However, she has no other choice and soon she feels drawn to Jay in particular and they realize that they have much more in common than this dance class. The cohesion within the prisoners of rehabilitation grows, but when Bex's past catches up with them again, everything is in danger.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Chhoti Si Mulaqat (1967)
Plot Summary:
Shanker Choudhury's (Tarun Bose) mother (Pratima Devi), at the pleas of her dying husband, marries off his (Shanker's) daughter to a youth. Both the children are under-age and do not know nor understand that they have been married.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 175 min
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Guddu (1995)
Plot Summary:
Guddu Bahadur is only child in the Bahadur family, consisting of Advocate Vikram, and his wife, Kavita. While Kavita is a devout and a religous Hindu, Vikram is not. Guddu and Salina Gupta are in love. One day, while driving, they meet with an accident, and Salina loses her sight. Guddu blames himself, and so do Salina's parents, and he is asked to keep away from Salina. Salina herself knows that the accident was not Guddu's fault, but would not like to meet Guddu and be a burden on him. Then Guddu overhears a conversation between their family doctor and his dad, and he comes to know that he has brain tumor, and has only a few more months to live. He wants to donate his eyes to the hospital so that Salina can benefit from them, but his dad will not even consider this. Things take a turn for the worse, when Guddu decides to go to court to assert his right to donate his eyes, not knowing that his decision will change everyone's lives.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags:
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Nandanam (2002)
Plot Summary:
Balamani is the housemaid looking after Unni Amma. There are three more housemaids in the house but it is Balamani's duty to look after them too. Balamani is a devotee of Guruvayoorappan (Lord Krishna of Guruvayoor). But she could never visit the Guruvayoor temple, though her house is very near to the temple. Unni Amma's grandson Manu comes to spend a couple of weeks with Unni Amma before he goes to USA. Manu and Balamani fall in love but the whole family is against their union. Will Balamani's friend Guruvayoorappan (Lord Krishna of Guruvayoor) come to their help..?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 986
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: romantic, sincere, touching, serious, captivating
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Geethanjali (1989)
Plot Summary:
Geethanjali and Prakash, two terminally ill people with six months of life left, fall in love. A young man diagnosed with a terminal illness wishes to spend the few remaining days of his life in solitude away from his family. He comes to a hill station and there he comes across a girl, who seems to be his complete opposite and full of life. As they keep playing tricks on each other they get closer to each other. One such incident makes him aware of a shocking truth about her, which changes both their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: romantic, tragic ending, tragic
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Mazhayethum Munpe (1995)
Plot Summary:
Nandakumar is a college professor who wants to get the best treatment for his paralyzed fiancee, Uma Maheshwari. Trouble starts brewing when Shruthi, Nandakumar's student falls in love with him. Will Shruti let Uma unite with Nandakumar weaves the rest of the story.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 691
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags:
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Tangos Are for Two (1997)
Plot Summary:
A woman's voice says she was wife to Renzo Franchi and Carlos Gardel (1890-1935), Argentina's great tango singer. People say she's crazy. Her story unfolds. Buenos Aires, 1933: Juana Romero, a seamstress who lives for the music of Gardel, dumps her boyfriend Gustavo for Renzo, a singer who looks like Gardel. She insists that his trio performs Gardel's tangos, which leads to Renzo recording a Ford commercial when Gardel himself is overbooked. The trio, with Joanna in tow, goes on an ill-fated tour of points north. The couple breaks up: she goes home and he tries to get to New York. Fate steps in, and once again he's called upon to pose as Gardel. Then, legend and a bracelet take over.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 333
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: manga
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A Star Is Born (1976)
Plot Summary:
A Star Is Born is a 1976 rock music film telling the story of a young woman, played by Barbra Streisand who enters show business, and meets and falls in love with an established male star, played by Kris Kristofferson, only to find her career ascending while his goes into decline.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, sentimental, touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, corny
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Stateside (2004)
Plot Summary:
The film follows a rebellious teenager on leave from the Marines who falls in love with a female musician. The relationship is threatened when she develops a mental illness.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, captivating, romantic, romantic drama, freeze frame
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Purple Hearts (2022)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring musician agrees to a marriage of convenience with a soon-to-deploy Marine, but a tragedy soon turns their fake relationship all too real.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: romantic, disturbing, captivating, entertaining, thought provoking, touching, emotional, romantic comedy, romantic drama
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Radhe Shyam (2022)
Plot Summary:
Vikramaditya, a world-renowned palmist, believes love does not exist in his stars, until he meets Prerana. But when destiny tries to pull them apart, will love prevail?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, romantic
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Mouna Raagam (1986)
Plot Summary:
Divya, a woman grieving over the death of her lover, is convinced into an arranged marriage with Chandra Kumar. Over a year the couple attempt to adjust to each other's presence and live with each other. Revathi is forced to marry Mohan in an arranged marriage. She lives in the memory of her lost love Karthik and asks for a divorce. The law requires them to stay together for a year before granting the divorce. That gives time for a lot of incidents in their lives and things change.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: romantic, entertaining
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Salt N' Pepper (2011)
Plot Summary:
Kalidasan, a foodie, receives a phone call not intended for him. He finds that the person at the other end, Maya, is also fond of food and cooking. Soon they develop feelings for each other.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: romantic, funny, light, captivating, entertaining, feel good
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Shyam Singha Roy (2021)
Plot Summary:
A young filmmaker is in a soup right when he’s about to find his footing in the film industry. When he sets out to find an answer, turns out it’s in the past.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing, spiritual
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The Tango Lesson (1997)
Plot Summary:
On a trip to Paris Sally meets Pablo, a tango dancer. He starts teaching her to dance then she returns to London to work on some "projects". She visits Buenos Aires and learns more from Pablo's friends. Sally and Pablo meet again but this time their relationship changes, she realises they want different things from each other. On a trip to Buenos Aires they cement their friendship.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, France, Argentina, Germany, Netherlands, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: realistic, visual, sentimental, atmospheric, epic, serious, stylized, independent film
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Rockstar (2011)
Plot Summary:
An uninhibited youth woos the hottest about-to-be-married college girl. He rises to become a rock-star - then self-destructs.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 159 min
Plot tags: sentimental, realistic, touching, serious, emotional, romantic, inspirational, heartbreaking, entertaining, sad