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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: minimal cast
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The Wednesday Woman (2000)
Plot Summary:
Muriel Davidson, a successful mystery author in a vulnerable stage of her life, falls for a charismatic ex-con. As they begin to bond over their traumatic pasts, Muriel's life slowly begins to resemble one of her darker novels.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Temptations (2002)
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Directed, written, and co-produced by Zoltan Kamondi), Kisertesek ("Temptations") illustrates the struggle between ancient traditions and the modern world of restless young Marci (Marcell Miklos), a fatherless young man who is considered somewhat of an outcast within the community.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Hungary
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Mara Clara The Movie (1996)
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Almira and Susan give birth at the same time in the same hospital. Gary steals the Almira’s newborn child and switches the infant to one of his newborn twins; in revenge to Almira’s decision of rejecting his love for Amanthe’s Gary concocts the wicked plan with his friend, Kardo, a hospital staff in switching the babies. However, one of the twins dies in the process of switching and the Del Valle’s are made to believe that the stillborn child is theirs. Gary then persuades Amanthe to adopt one of his twins to spare Almira from despair and sorrow. Amanthe agrees and for a fee and Gary hands one of his twins to Amanthe. Kardo, feeling remorseful documents every detail of the event on his diary. Susan names her daughter Mara while the Del Valle’s name their child, Clara.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration:
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Walking a Tightrope (1991)
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Marcel Spadice is a famous writer with a criminal background and a penchant for handsome men. From time to time, he induces an attractive female admirer to arrange for him to be introduced to nice, talented young men who happen to be sufficiently handsome to interest him. At other times, the endless effort to woo these men (who are most often heterosexual) grows wearying, and he goes to the train station to pick up soldiers looking for some easy money and a night's lodging. In this film, the writer has grown enamored with a young circus laborer who wants to move up in the world, literally, by becoming a tightrope walker. Marcel cadges an introduction, and for a time sponsors the young man's training. However, when the boy suffers an accident which renders him unfit for his chosen vocation, Marcel loses interest in him and takes up with another young man.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: tragic ending
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Fallen from Heaven (1990)
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An ambitious black comedy that tells three loosely related stories: a couple of elderly landowners, laid low by economic conditions and reformist politics, are trying to gather enough money to build themselves a marble tomb that would keep their remains in the style to which they still aspire; they give their now blind former housekeeper a pig that proves to be more trouble than it's worth as the effort to fatten it up destroys what little family the woman has; and one of the couple's tenants, who is presenter of a relentlessly optimistic radio self-help show, tries to put his own counsel into effect when he saves a young woman from suicide.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Peru, Spain
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags:
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Open Letter To The Evening News (1970)
Plot Summary:
Hoping to shake up the complacent Italian Communist Party, a group of leftist radicals sends an incendiary letter to a major evening newspaper declaring their intention to volunteer to fight American troops in Vietnam as a political statement against the war.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: intellectual
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The House of Doves (1972)
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The widow Alexandra and her schoolgirl daughter Sandra live together in a luxurious villa in Spain. When Fernando, an old love of Alexandra's, appears in town the two rekindle their love affair until Alexandra finds that he is being paid to be the companion of a rich older woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 90 min
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A Tale of Love (1986)
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This drama about a young girl's struggle to overcome the dehumanization of poverty depicts the steady, corrosive effects of her life on her psyche. Bruna (Valeria Golino) has had to work since the age of 13 to help support her father and brothers. She gets up at 3 A.M. to catch the bus to go clean offices, and when she is home, she cleans and cooks for her siblings and father. In spite of this existence, she is spunky and optimistic. As she gets older, she falls in love with Sergio (Bals Roca-Rey), and he moves in with her and her family. But that relationship ends when she meets another young man, Mario (Livio Panieri). This new romance leads her away from her siblings and father and although there is no inkling of any trouble, the drudgery of her past existence catches up with her.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 109 min
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Without Witness (1983)
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In visiting his ex-wife’s apartment a man learns that she plans to remarry a scientist named Valentin Shlyakhov. In his past, the man wrote a scathing letter about Shlyakhov which greatly impacted his career. Fearing that this information will come to light when his ex-wife marries Shlyakhov, the man insists that the wedding be called off. What follows is an intimate portrayal of the relationship between a man and a woman (who are never named), whose history as husband and wife plays out during a heated conversation.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 614
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, minimal cast
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Correspondence (2016)
Plot Summary:
The relationship between Ed, a married astronomer and Amy, his lover, who spend their years apart, is based only on phone calls and texts. One day Amy begins noticing something strange in Ed's messages.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: captivating, exciting, thought provoking, sentimental
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The Young Nun (1964)
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The life of Antonio suddenly changes when she meets Serena, a young nun who took the veil to escape the hard life of the country and has chosen the provision of assistance to the sick to get out of the convent, which falls in love, moving from the role of seducer to that of seduced.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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The Wicket Gate (1974)
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Wiktor Zawadzki is a playwright who flies to Gdansk to have a look at the rehearsals of his new avantgarde play. Although the play asks serious existential questions, the stage director and the actors have no artistic idea for it. Unable to find a room in a hotel, he ends up in a private house inhabited by an old woman and her young attractive daughter Krystyna. Wiktor becomes briefly involved in their lives - he has a love affair with the daughter and discovers the truth about the mother's difficult mental condition.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tension, suspense
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Life Is Beautiful (1979)
Plot Summary:
A politically neutral man is arrested and tortured in prerevolutionary Lisbon, and forced to make, and act on, a political commitment. ….
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union, Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: political
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Pakshe (1994)
Plot Summary:
Pakshe movie is all about Balachandran (Mohanlal) who had to sacrifice his childhood love (Shobhana), to marry into a rich family who only wanted his IAS Status, in order to save his poor family, lives a life of regret and despair for his decision.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 154 min
Plot tags:
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Naya Zamana (1971)
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A hopeful writer, poor but educated Anoop attacks the ruthless exploitation of the lower classes by the rich with his fiery speeches. But his uncompromising principles could stand in the way of the connections he'll need if he hopes to reach a larger audience with his message. A liaison with a wealthy family could bring the exposure and success Anoop desires, but at what cost?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 151 min
Plot tags:
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Love & Money (1981)
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An investment planner, bored with his job and his girlfriend, is given the opportunity to help open a new firm in South America. Once in the new country, he finds himself dealing with dictators and revolutionaries during a time of intense political upheaval, and to complicate his life further, he begins an affair with his new employer's wife.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film
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The Nun and the Devil (1973)
Plot Summary:
It's 1577. The Mother Superior at the convent of Archangel is seriously ill. The determined and calculating Mother Giulia plots to become the next Mother Superior. She receives tough competition from tormented lesbian Sister Chiara and the lusty Sister Carmela.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 519
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: grindhouse
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Nest of Vipers (1978)
Plot Summary:
During the Fascist era in Venice, a young music student has affairs with two beautiful women.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Tales of Ordinary Madness (1981)
Plot Summary:
Poet/lecturer Charles Serking awakens from his alcoholic haze long enough to take a bus back to L.A. and plunge into an orgy of drink and sexual depravity.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sexual, erotic, absurd, disturbing, controversial, neurotic, neorealism, powerful, psychological, serious
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The Last Woman (1976)
Plot Summary:
Gerard and his 9-month-old son have been left by his wife for feminist reasons. The custody of his son is being threatened by his next romance.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: erotic, disturbing, controversial
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Heartbeat (1968)
Plot Summary:
The mistress (Catherine Deneuve) of a wealthy man misses material comforts when she leaves him for a younger lover.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 830
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, stylized
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Love Hurts (2002)
Plot Summary:
Renata is a young high-class girl and Ulises is a poor guy. They both fall in love, but they must fight against everyone, specially Renata's rich parents, who want to stop their love by sending her to Canada. The story remarks the difference between social classes in mexico City, and their characters risk everything just to save their love.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: realistic, sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, contemplative
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Summer Affair (1971)
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A very young Ornella Muti plays a rich girl who falls for an older hippie boy. Her parents don't approve and try to stop her from seeing him so they run away to a villa (Her parents') by the sea. Later they are shipwrecked on a deserted island. The plot focuses on the efforts of the police to figure out where the girl is, which is set against the developing relationship between the two young people.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, ambiguous ending, freeze frame
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Swann in Love (1984)
Plot Summary:
Swann (Jeremy Irons), an eligible bachelor in the best circles of fin-de-siècle Paris, has also some more vulgar but rich friends, the Verdurins. Through them he meets Odette (Ornella Muti), a courtesan, with whom he falls hopelessly in love. She seems to enjoy his company, for which he pays, but considers herself free to socialise and sleep where she pleases, particularly with a rival called de Forcheville. Swann’s passion turns to consuming jealousy, which leads him eventually to accept the social stigma of marrying her. One old friend, the overtly gay Charlus (Alain Delon), stays sympathetic.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, sexual, neurotic, sexy, period drama
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1987)
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This suspenseful Italian crime drama is set in a Colombian river town and chronicles the series of events that led up to murder. Based on a novel by distinguished author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the tale begins in the present as a middle-aged doctor returns to the village after a twenty-year absence to investigate the murder that occurred just before he left.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Colombia
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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The Blue-Veiled (1995)
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An elderly owner of a tomato farm and sauce factory, after his wife's death, falls in love with one of the workers of the factory endangering his relationship with his daughters and in-laws. While everybody in the big family persuades the old man to abandon the relationship with the poor girl, the old man makes his final choice of love.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 785
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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A Five Star Life (2013)
Plot Summary:
Single and middle-aged, beautiful Irene (Margarita Buy) is wholly devoted to her job as an inspector of luxury hotels. Constantly on the road, she indulges in expensive pleasures at impeccable resorts, but always incognito and alone, soon escaping to the next exotic destination with her checklist and laptop in tow. When her best friend and ex, Andrea (Stefano Accorsi), who has always been a source of emotional support, suddenly becomes unavailable, Irene is thrown into a deep existential crisis. "Luxury is a form of deceit," she is told by a fellow traveller in the fog of a steam room, and thus begins Irene's quest to bring more meaning into her life.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, realistic, humorous, semi serious, romantic, captivating
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Late August, Early September (1998)
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A story about the transition from late youth to early maturity, the film follows several friends and lovers as they come to make decisions on how to live their lives--getting a job more in harmony with ones ideals, committing to a lover, giving up a lover that no longer loves you: a film about grown-ups growing up.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: emotional, talky, melancholic, ironic, meditative, lyrical, psychological, serious, depressing, tense
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Martin Eden (2019)
Plot Summary:
The tale of an individualist proletarian in a time marked by the rise of mass political movements. In early 20th-century Italy, illiterate sailor Martin Eden seeks fame as a writer while torn between the love of a bourgeois girl and allegiance to his social class.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, social, sentimental, sweet, realistic, philosophical, political, sad, cerebral
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Starting Out in the Evening (2007)
Plot Summary:
Leonard Schiller once counted among New York's Literary lions, but illness and ten years of writers block have lowered his profile, almost to the point of obscurity. When Heather Wolfe, an ambitious literature major, asks to interview him for her theses on his work, her interest forces hims to address the issues that have been he has avoided all these years, and stirs in him feelings he has long forgotten, much to his daughter's consternation.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, intellectual, talky, melancholic, emotional, sincere, serious, depressing, contemplative