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Plot Summary:
Jacqueline, a Paris society hostess (Faye Dunaway) introduces a fellow American, businessman Andrew Lamont (Steven Brand) to a beautiful young Russian girl, Daria Larina (Agata Gotova), while he is on vacation in Europe. She is the kind of woman who will turn the eye of every man when she walks into a room. Andrew is fascinated by her, as Jacqueline knew he would be. He woos Daria with flowers and dinners. Eventually he wins her over and together they go to Moscow, where he meets Daria's father Raf (Rade Serbedzija), a former mafia oligarch, but now Russia's Minister of Internal Affairs. Raf lives in a magnificent mansion with his "Russian doll" blonde girlfriend (Musetta Vander), whom he is about to marry. He had kept news of the wedding from his daughter and is furious that she has found out about it and shown up with this American. He wants her to go back to Paris immediately. Daria is terribly hurt, believing that her father has no love for her. She doesn't know, and he won't tell.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, suspenseful, independent film, realistic
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Summer Heat (2008)
Plot Summary:
Photographer Bob loses his girlfriend. A year later he meets Kathleen. Is she in love? Or does she use him for her dark dealings with the mafia?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, sexy, serious, realistic, exciting, captivating, melancholic, sexual, nature documentary
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The Other Side of the Street (2004)
Plot Summary:
Regina, a lonely 65 year old who works on the neighborhood watch for the police in Copacabana, believes to have witnessed a murder in the building across the street, and ends up getting involved with the suspect in a potentially dangerous chain of events that will force her to take stock of her life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 992
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: Brazil, France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, romantic drama, gloomy
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Crimes of Passion (2011)
Plot Summary:
Arturo Bolaño is a mediocre insurance salesman who loves women, booze and any short cut he can find to Easy Street. He thinks he's found it with the beautiful Rebeca Solis, the wife of the owner of the hotel where he stays on business. Rebeca wants nothing more than to escape from her husband and after Arturo falls in love, she asks him to help her get rid of him. The plan goes without a hitch but just as they think they are going to get away with murder, they receive an anonymous letter from a witness to the crime.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sexy, suspenseful, tense, rough, realistic, serious, sexual
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Asunder (1999)
Plot Summary:
Chance Williams (Underwood), a man whose life is torn apart when his wife and unborn child are killed in a bizarre accident. Chance comes to believe Lauren (Morgan), wife to best friend Michael (Beach), is the only woman who can love and help him, and he's willing to do anything to make her his own.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 459
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy
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Cold Heart Canyon (2008)
Plot Summary:
In L.A.'s Laurel Canyon, Karen has a dream that her sister Heather is in danger, but Heather seems safe enough, having just moved to a remote spur of the canyon to distance herself from her ex-husband. She's a writer, and she's soon met several men - Marcus, who helps her the day she moves in, neighbors Daniel and Marisa for whom she cooks dinner, and Michael her landlord who cleans her pool weekly. Daniel warns her away from Marcus even as he makes a play for her and invites her to participate in sexual escapades - some enjoyable, some not. Then it becomes clear that Karen's anxiety dream was prescient. Who can Heather trust, and does she figure it out too late?.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sexy, serious, erotic, realistic, sexual, independent film, light
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Prague Duet (1998)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Lauren is staying in Prague for a conference and falls in love with Czech writer Jiri Kolmar.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 393
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Czech Republic, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, sincere, serious, realistic, disturbing, sexual, sexy
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Silver Man (2003)
Plot Summary:
A street performer fights a pathological man for his girlfriend's love.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Secret Sharer (2014)
Plot Summary:
On a rusting cargo ship in the South China Sea, it's the young Polish captain's first command. His mutinous Chinese crew suspect him and his unscrupulous Boss of planning to scuttle the ship for an insurance scam. When the crew abandon ship, the young captain is left alone on board, helpless, anchored in a bay. That night while waiting anxiously on deck, he finds a naked body floating in the sea below, tangled up in the ship's rope ladder. Pulling the ladder, the captain discovers a Chinese woman in distress. She climbs on board, saying only "Hide me". Dawn comes a few hours later and so does a search party, looking for a murderer.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Poland, China, Thailand
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, stylized
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Deadly Betrayal (2003)
Plot Summary:
International reporter Jeff Randal spends half of his time abroad. His wife Donna feels neglected. When their preteen daughter Melinda's hunky teacher Adam Hamilton notices, Donna becomes his hot lover, to her Boston bookstore employer and confident Rosalind Roz's envy. After loosing colleague Lou in Bosnia, traumatized Jeff suddenly stops traveling. Jeff smells a rat. Adam refuses to be dumped and reverts to his youth habit of robbing lovers. Donna finds out but can't tell the adulterous truth. Jeff gets an anonymous video, which starts a vindictive cycle.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 389
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, sexy, suspenseful, serious, realistic, sexual, erotic
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Falling Overnight (2011)
Plot Summary:
Falling Overnight tells the story of twenty-two year old Elliot Carson on the day before he has risky surgery to remove a brain tumor. Facing what could be his last night, Elliot’s path intersects with Chloe Webb, a young photographer who invites him to her art show. Elliot welcomes the distraction and as the night descends, Chloe takes him on an intimate and exhilarating journey through the city. But as morning approaches, and Chloe learns of Elliot’s condition, the magic of the evening unravels, and they must together face the uncertainty of Elliot’s future.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, sentimental, sincere, mumblecore, cute, realistic, independent film
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Just a Sigh (2013)
Plot Summary:
In the short break between performances in Calais, stage actress Alix makes a quick escape to Paris. On the train she meets a mysterious English stranger and, for the most fleeting of afternoons, imagines what the future could hold down a different road.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Ireland
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, captivating, disturbing, touching, realistic, semi serious
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Milan (2004)
Plot Summary:
Loving husband Lino is on a mission: His wife, who works as a domestic in Milan, is missing and he's determined to find her. To do so, he enters Italy illegally and takes cover as one of the hundreds of Filipino migrant workers wh make their way to Europe.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, tagalog, sexual, sexy
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Dark Honeymoon (2008)
Plot Summary:
Dark Honeymoon follows a man who marries a seductive woman after a brief and passionate relationship. During their honeymoon, on the Pacific coast, terrible truths unfold as those around them die mysterious deaths.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 551
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, realistic, suspenseful, scary, tense, serious, surprise ending, erotic, queer horror
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Friday Night (2002)
Plot Summary:
Paris, 1995. Laure (Valérie Lemercier) is about to meet friends for dinner to celebrate her moving in with her boyfriend. But on her way out, she discovers that the entire city is stalled by a massive transit strike. When a handsome stranger (Vincent Lindon) offers her a ride, Laure takes a highly charged, impossibly erotic detour.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexual, serious, psychological, atmospheric, realistic, stylized, road movie, contemplative, erotic, sexy
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Ghosted (2009)
Plot Summary:
A woman who is mourning the love of her life falls into a relationship with a mysterious stranger.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Taiwan, Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, melancholic, touching, bleak, gloomy, sexual, independent film, sexy
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Man of Her Dreams (1997)
Plot Summary:
After suspecting her husband is playing the field, a nervous woman finds a sympathetic ear in the form of a strange man. The drawback is that her sensitive new-found friend is an obsessive psychopath.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, sexy
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The Polish Bride (1998)
Plot Summary:
Drama on the dawning love between a Polish woman and a farmer. Anna is forced to work in a brothel, but manages to escape. She's found, exhausted and scared, by Henk (the farmer) who offers her a place to stay, but her past chases her.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological
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Strangers (2007)
Plot Summary:
Six days in the lives of an Israeli living in a kibbutz and a Palestinian living in Paris, which starts with an accidental meeting in the Berlin Subway during the World cup finals, will change them completely.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, serious, realistic, contemplative, independent film
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Tangled 8 (2015)
Plot Summary:
People from diverse social backgrounds, races and ages manage grief through its different phases.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, contemplative, talky, experimental, gloomy, independent film
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A Small September Affair (2014)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful girl who has everything. Charming, playful, in her own words: 'too joyful to fall in love.' A sudden car crash, and her heart stops for a few minutes. When she wakes up, everyone assures 'every-thing's alright.' But she knows it isn't. Because she cant remember her final month; a September of her life is missing. Leading a trail of hastily covered clues she finds herself in a remote Aegean island. A weird looking, grubby recluse, comes up-to him and proclaims: 'Don't you remember me? I'm the man you fell in love with.' Everything sensible about her screams 'get out of there' but she follows her memories right onto the tragic end of a miraculous affair.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: emotional, touching, serious, realistic, sincere, captivating, romantic, sentimental
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Peter and Vandy (2009)
Plot Summary:
Flashbacks and flash-forwards illustrate the rise and fall of a love affair between two New Yorkers.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, mind bending, offbeat, intellectual, dark, independent film, non-linear
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Dancing at the Harvest Moon (2002)
Plot Summary:
A betrayed wife, whose husband leaves her after 25 years, returns to the lake where she first fell in love and begins an affair with the son of her first love.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 401
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, gloomy
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Love (2012)
Plot Summary:
Eight people try to end their loneliness by searching for that one person to love, who can make their life complete.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan, China
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, emotional, captivating, romantic, romantic comedy, sentimental, serious
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Breaking Up Is Hard to Do (2010)
Plot Summary:
Vince and Shonda have come to the proverbial end of their ropes with one another. Set in Atlanta during the 2008 Presidential Election season, Breaking Up Is Hard To Do is the touching story of what happens when two people feel they have nothing more to give to a relationship. A funny and intimate look at how people fall in love and what it takes to stay there, Breaking Up Is Hard To Do touches on the reality of the outside forces that can make or break a relationship. They say the truth will set you free, but when Shonda and Vince are armed with the truth, will they use it to set themselves free for once and for all?.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, psychological, sentimental, captivating, touching, serious
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The Old Garden (2006)
Plot Summary:
Activist Hyun-woo is released from prison after a 17-year stint. Journeying back to the village where he spent some time as a fugitive he recalls the time spent with Yoon-hee, a woman who gave him shelter and companionship.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sincere, touching
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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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Lost in Time (2003)
Plot Summary:
Sui Wai lost her fiance Ah Man in a car accident. With the obligations of life sitting heavy on her shoulders, she lives on only to find herself confiding in her beloved through a phone call. Dai Fai. a mini-bus driver who witnessed Ah Man's death, is always there offering her attentive encouragement and support, yet he himself also lives in the shadow of his last relationship. When Siu Wai strives to face the future without the man she loves, Dai Fai finds himself steadily falling in love with her.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, sincere, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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The Affair (1973)
Plot Summary:
A crippled lady songwriter meets an older lawyer, who becomes her first love.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 294
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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William & Catherine: A Royal Romance (2011)
Plot Summary:
The film is based on the story of William of Cambridge and Catherine Middleton. Shown in the same life of William of Cambridge, and Catherine Middleton met at the University of Saint Andrews, besides the romance that they maintained, the break of it and commitment.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 536
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, disturbing
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Comes a Bright Day (2012)
Plot Summary:
A romantic thriller set during the armed robbery of one of London’s most exclusive jewellers. Sometimes funny, often dark, always captivating and never what you expect.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, interesting