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Plot Summary:
Musical about the love story of a tea-picking girl and a fisherman.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Musical, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags:
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Fiddlers (1972)
Plot Summary:
Leader of a traveling gypsy band from the steppes of Bessarabia (now Moldova), Toma Alistar is a skilled violinist whose fame takes him on tours around European capitals and royal courts. He remains obsessed with his first love, beautiful Leanca who was married elsewhere while Toma was traveling, and spends his life and fortune trying to find her.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 286
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: road movie, family saga
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Delincuente (1986)
Plot Summary:
Homeless dude gets 'adopted' by three college boys.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Musical, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: vintage
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Transistor Love Story (2001)
Plot Summary:
Phaen is a suburban young man with a great love for music. He never misses a chance to show off his voice at temple fairs in his village. It is at one of the fairs that he meets and falls in love with Sadao. On their wedding day, Phaen gives Sadao a transistor radio that the new family loves, and it also gives Phaen many a daydream of becoming a famous singer himself. Soon, Sadao is pregnant and it is hard for Phaen to leave home, but he has to enter military service. While there, he enters a singing contest, and winds up first runner-up. So he decides to leave the service and heads for Bangkok to follow his dream. He spends two years in a band that never goes anywhere, and eventually is forced to work in a sugarcane plantation. But a fight causes him to lose his job. As things go from bad to worse, he recalls his transistor radio with fondness, for it evokes in his mind much better and more peaceful times, when dreams were still possible. Written by.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 998
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: touching, captivating, sentimental, light, sincere, suspense
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Haajar Bachhar Dhorey (2005)
Plot Summary:
The barren wife of a rich man allows him to marry a younger woman in order to have a child.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: Bangladesh
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags:
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Teen Devian (1965)
Plot Summary:
Devdutt Anand works in a company selling musical instruments, and is always late for work, infuriating his boss, I.S. Johar. Things change for the better when Johar finds out that Devdutt has a talent for writing poems, and he gets Devdutt to write and even gets them published for him. While traveling home by bus, he meets with Nanda, who has come to live in his neighborhood, and both are attracted to each other. One night Devdutt comes to the assistance to Bollywood movie actress Kalpana when her car breaks down, she finds out he is a poet and both are attracted to each other. Devdutt is asked to deliver a piano to the palatial house of a wealthy woman named Simi alias Radha Rani. She too is impressed by Devutt's poems and invites him over to her house for a party, and again both are attracted to each other. Knowing fully well that he cannot marry three women in his country, a tortured and uncertain Devdutt must now make up his mind as who he wants as his life-partner.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 121 min
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Aradhana (1987)
Plot Summary:
Aaradhana is story about an illiterate Puliraju (Chiranjeevi), who is a small time rowdy in a small town. He meets (Suhasini), who arrives in that town as a school teacher. Suhasini slaps and accuses him for ill-treating his mother. Puliraju, instead of taking revenge on her, gets attracted towards her and manages to join as her student. Over a period of time, Pulitsju transforms in his looks, behaviour and leaves his past life back. Over few reels, they both get attracted towards each other, but neither of them express their feelings. His mother, surprised by changes in his behaviour brings his maradalu (Radhika) from his village and tries to marry him off. At the same time, suhasini.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 141 min
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Madam White Snake (1962)
Plot Summary:
This Classic Seductive tale of two snakes who assume human forms will send chills of pleasure down viewers' backs. The Lovely Linda Lin Dai (Les Belles, The Kingdom And The Beauty) and margaret Tu Chuan (The Dream of The Red Chamber) play the two sister serpents, Pak Su-cheng and Ching Ching. Su-cheng meets Hsu Hsien (Chao Lei) one day and recognizes him as her savior in another life 1,000 years ago. She marries him to reward him but the snake-human union brings about problems beyond imagination.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min
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American Folk (2017)
Plot Summary:
Two strangers, both folk musicians stranded in California, take a road trip to New York in the days after 9/11. A story about the kindness of strangers and the power of music.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 503
Genere: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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Laila (1984)
Plot Summary:
Bitter hatred had always existed between two Rajput families, namely those of Bharat Singh and Prithviraj Singh, resulting in the death of Bharat's nephew. Years later, Prithviraj's son Dharamraj gets married to Sunaina, who gives birth to a baby boy named Deshraj. On Deshraj's 10th birthday, Prithviraj goes to make peace with Bharat and invites him for a birthday party, which Bharat attends, but there is no end to the animosity - which results in the death of Prithviraj, when his chauffeur, Chandu, is bribed and manipulated by Bharat and his men. (Watch for more).
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration:
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The Birch Tree (1967)
Plot Summary:
Beautiful but ailing girl is married to a harsh man who doesn't care for her. Only after she dies does he realize that he actually loves her.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 842
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: depressing
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Rainbow Around the Sun (2008)
Plot Summary:
Zachary Blasto, a hard-drinking, talented songwriter and performer, envisions madcap musical fantasies in order to avoid dealing with the downward spiral of his personal life.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: avant garde, independent film
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A Day of My Life (1961)
Plot Summary:
An unexpected love affair quickly blossoms between aspiring down-on-his-luck reporter Salah (Abdel Halim Hafez) and the subject of his first newspaper scoop, a pretty young heiress (Zubaida Tharwat)who's soon to be forced into an arranged marriage.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 201
Genere: Musical, Romance
Country: Egypt
Duration:
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A Bride from the North (1975)
Plot Summary:
Popular musical comedy satirising Russian-Armenian relations, featuring Arno Babadzhanyan's hits. Artak has served his military service in the Russian countryside where he meets Valya. But Valya's mother refuses to send her only daughter to “these far highlands, where earthquakes happen all the time”. Artak is forced to ask his contrasting and numerous relatives –Armenian villagers– to visit a remote Russian village to bring a bride to Armenia.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags:
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Rebels (2001)
Plot Summary:
Musical retromovie from the 60's in Czech republic. Story about star-crossed lovers - student Tereza and a boy who deserted from the army.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 705
Genere: Musical, Comedy, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: campy
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Cider and Sunsets (2022)
Plot Summary:
Marley’s brilliant at organizing other people’s engagements, but unlucky in finding romance herself. When designing her most important proposal yet, the man who could jeopardize it all may be the one who helps find her own love story.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 377
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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State Fair (1962)
Plot Summary:
The third film version of 'State Fair' (and the second musical version).Margy Frake this time round is played by newcomer Pamela Tiffin, who has her voice dubbed as Jeanne Crain did 17 years earlier. Her squire at the fair this time round is called Jerry and works for that new-fangled media, the 'tube' or TV. He's played by Bobby Darin who looks far too old to be chasing Tiffin - perhaps that is why a couple of references were added in this version about her age.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, cult film
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Prince (1969)
Plot Summary:
Film starring Shammi Kapoor, Vyjayanthimala and Rajendra Nath.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 214
Genere: Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration:
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Janwar (1965)
Plot Summary:
The wealthy patriarch of a Mumbai family learns more than wants to about his own origins after his refusal to accept his sons' chosen spouses drives them and his own wife away.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 212
Genere: Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 247 min
Plot tags:
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Bollywood Queen (2002)
Plot Summary:
A cross cultural romance set in London's East End about a young girl of Indian heritage.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 511
Genere: Musical, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, stylized, semi serious, feel good, humorous
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Leila (2010)
Plot Summary:
A musical centered on the romance between a wealthy slacker and an Arab law student.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 211
Genere: Musical, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: emotional, sentimental, romantic, captivating, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Fantasticks (2000)
Plot Summary:
Two rural teens sing and dance their way through a forbidden romance and a dangerous travelling carnival.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: lyrical, feel good, humorous, semi serious, anamorphic, realistic, fairy tale, light, romantic, road movie
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Burning Patience (2022)
Plot Summary:
Mario is a young fisherman who dreams of becoming a poet. He gets a job as the postman to Pablo Neruda when the legendary writer moves there after being exiled from Chile.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 350
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Chile
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: period drama
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Modern Love (2008)
Plot Summary:
Marianne gets off to a bad start with gallery director and Brad Pitt look alike Vincent but everything works out "just like in the movies" in the end.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, sexy, romantic, sexual
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Seducing Mr. Perfect (2006)
Plot Summary:
Min-joon is a believer in true love and always very dedicated to her current boyfriend. Distracted by the latest break-up, she bumps into a car and a man steps out of it - who turns out to be her new boss, Robin Heiden. Heiden has very clear ideas about a relationship and love: both are a game of power and Min-Joon seeks advice from him, as she doesn't want to get dumped again. However, when she starts to treat men like Heiden treats women, she realizes that she prefers her older behaviour, even if that means that she gets dumped again; she doesn't see love as a game of power and never will. Heiden, who has to deal with his own heartbreak, as he loved a woman so much that she had to shoot him to get the message across that she wasn't interested in him, starts to soften at Min-joon's attitude towards life. He eventually falls in love with her and both get into a real relationship and a happy ending of their own.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Romance
Country: South Korea, Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, romantic, romantic comedy, cute
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Love Sublime (1978)
Plot Summary:
As Pandit Shyam Sunder prayed in Bhagwan Shivji's temple on the occasion of Janamashtami, his wife gives birth to a daughter, Rupa, and passes away, leaving her child to bear the brunt of being an ill-omen. Years later, Rupa burns her face from a frying pot, thus disfiguring the right side of her face completely, so much so that when she matures, the scar being so hideous, that no one in the village nor surrounding area wants to marry her. Then an Engineer named Rajeev arrives from Bombay, he approaches Shyam Sunder to seek his permission and blessings, so that he can marry Rupa. Protesting strongly, Rupa is asked to marry Rajeev and re-locate to his house. When Rajeev finds out that his wife is disfigured, he refuses to have to do anything with her. Then one day when he returns from a trip out of town, he is told that Rupa is expecting his child. Watch what impact this has on Rajiv and what he does to expose Rupa in the community.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 172 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, stylized, sexual, sexy
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Immortal Love (1972)
Plot Summary:
Amar Prem (Eternal Love) shows a off and on loving relationship between a small boy Nandu and a nautch girl Pushpa (Sharmila Tagore). Pushpa is seperated from her Husband and is brought to Calcutta to work as a Nautch girl. Here she meets Anand Babu and thus begins the journey of Pushpa where love enters and leaves her life in different form. Film shows the different aspects of Love, Love between a Man and a Woman, Love between a Mother and a Child.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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Khamoshi: The Musical (1996)
Plot Summary:
Goa based Joseph Braganza and his wife Flavy, devout Catholics, are both deaf and mute. He makes a living selling soap bars door to door. Flavy gets pregnant and gives birth to a daughter who they name Annie, who can speak and hear much to their delight. Flavy soon gives birth to a son, Sam, who can also hear and speak. A few years later, Sam accidentally passes away, making Joseph lose faith. Joseph, unable to make a living selling soap, opens a toy making factory and the family prospers. Annie grows up, takes to music and singing in a great way, meets with a young man named Raj and both fall in love. Joseph dislikes Raj, mainly because he is Hindu, is able to speak and hear, not a resident of Goa, and the fear of losing Annie forever and thus their contact with the world. When Annie gets pregnant, Joseph is enraged, he asks her to abort, when she refuses, he asks her to leave his house. What will Annie do next? Will Joseph, Flavy and Annie ever re-unite.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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Neal 'N' Nikki (2005)
Plot Summary:
The film, as its name implies, centres on Gurneal "Neal" Ahluwalia and Nikkita "Nikki" Bakshi (Uday Chopra and Tanisha), two Canadians of Indian descent, born and raised in British Columbia. Before getting married Neal wants to spend one month on vacation in total freedom by meeting women, going to clubs.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Ram & Leela (2013)
Plot Summary:
Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela is an adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, set in violent times.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, stylized, realistic, romantic, independent film, fast, exciting, captivating, tear jerker
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Yash Chopra's Moonlight (1989)
Plot Summary:
Chandni was a blockbuster in 1989 and is one of the most successful films of Indian cinema. The huge profits of this musical brought an end to director Yash Chopra's lean phase. The platinum success of its music was instrumental in ending the era of violence in Bollywood and bringing back music into Hindi films. The film reaffirmed Sridevi's position as the top female star of the Eighties.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 186 min
Plot tags: sentimental, serious, emotional, realistic