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Plot Summary:
A writer returning from a hunt finds a dying beggar in a ramshackle hut. The beggar tells the story of his life. Based on story by Ilia Chavchavadze.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min
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Now and Forever (1983)
Plot Summary:
A couple's seemingly "perfect" marriage is shaken when the husband is charged with rape.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: anamorphic, independent film
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You Cannot See What I Had Seen (1965)
Plot Summary:
the film about gueta.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: crying
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Life (1971)
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IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min
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Meeting Past (1966)
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A famous surgeon named Nino, who came to the village, is requested to perform the operation. She recognizes her ex-husband Akia is the wounded person and now her difficult past is there before her eyes: Almaskhan's son Akia raped orphaned Nino. She and her real love Giorgi cannot be together. Life becomes monotonous for her. Almaskhan makes his son marry Nino, but Akia - hater of the Soviet Union soon disappears in Turkey. Neither Almaskhan is able to endure the oppression from Bolshevists - he burns the house and tries to run but dies in a fire. Also Nino's little child dies during this conflagration. She leaves this village and goes to the city to begin new life and becomes a doctor.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: crying
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Khevsurian Ballad (1966)
Plot Summary:
When Imeda’s father is killed in a blood revenge accident, the family moves him to the city where he is sheltered at his father’s friend. After fifteen year he gets back to Khevsureti. A talented painter, he spends most of his time doing sketches of nature and people. There he meets a local beauty, Mzekala and fells in love with her but finds out that Torghva is also in love with her. Enraged by Imeda’s impudence Torghva calls him for a sword fight and is killed by Imeda. To avoid another round of blood revenge, the villagers let Imeda and Mzekala out of the village but someone who wants Imeda’s blood finds it out and follows them.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min
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The White Caravan (1964)
Plot Summary:
Martia, an experienced shepherd together with others is moving his herd to the winter pastures. The life of the shepherds is mundane and complex to the extent that even a minor mistake is fraught with serious consequences. Martia’s older son forsakes the herd for good and moves to the city in quest of easy money. In his attempt to save the herd scattered by the storm, Martia dies. Martia’s son, who returns home from the city blames himself for the accident and is profoundly repentant.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 93 min
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Nostalgia for the Countryside (1995)
Plot Summary:
Set in a small village in North Vietnam, a tale of awakening which traces a growing love triangle between Nham, an earnest and responsible 17-year-old country boy; the charming Ngu, his lonely and naive sister-in-law with whom he works closely in the fields; and Quyen, a stylishly vivacious expatriate who has just returned from the city, curious about life in the village where she spent her childhood. While all three characters are too reticent to unleash their feelings, the romance turns on the realization that this web of emotions is largely symbolic. Nham represents for Quyen an innocence and a past that she can’t recapture, just as she represents for Nham an urbanity and future prospects that he may never attain; and caught between the two is the delicate Ngu, left in the most desolate postion of positions.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Vietnam, Japan
Duration: 116 min
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Great Love (2006)
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Начало шестидесятых годов. Грядёт сокращение вооружённых сил. Бравый генерал, убежденный холостяк и отчаянный бабник Антон Улыбабов получает приказ жениться в течение двух недель — в противном случае ему грозит увольнение из армии. Отправляясь на поиски невесты, генерал летит в Москву. Еще в самолете генерал предотвращает террористический акт, спасая всех пассажиров. Придя к профессиональной свахе, генерал находит невесту: случается так, что эта невеста — стюардесса, с которой Улыбабов познакомился в самолёте. С детства у девушки предубеждение — не выходить замуж за военных. Первый ее муж, военный летчик-испытатель, погиб, а гадалка еще до этого нагадала вообще с военными не связываться. Увидев генерала рядом со свахой, девушка просто убегает. Генерал заходит в гости к своему московскому другу. Но так случается, что друга нет дома, а ему открывает дверь его соседка по коммунальной квартире — та самая бортпроводница.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 94 min
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Melodies of the Vera Quarter (1973)
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This musical is based on old Georgian vaudevilles and plays. The early 20th century. Old Tiflis is in confusion and turmoil. A mysterious fairy is helping the poor Pavle’s family: real wood is burning in his old, neglected fireplace, wherein a pot with meat would suddenly appear. The good fairy is impersonated by laundress Vardo who helps not only the poor Pavle, but other families in this quarter as well. Vardo is known to many people in the town, but no one ever suspected that she was capable of performing miracles. The film’s colorful folk melodies, merry songs and fiery dances leave no viewer indifferent. Starring in the leading role is the great Georgian actress Sofiko Chiaureli.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 742
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 98 min
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It Rains in My Village (1968)
Plot Summary:
A bizarre and tragic love story involving swineherd, village fool, teacher and an agricultural pilot. The story unfolds in a remote village in the communist ruled Yugoslavia at the down of Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 671
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia, France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: black and white, serious, realistic
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Discreet (2008)
Plot Summary:
Monique, a high class escort, has always been able to give her clients exactly what they want, while clean cut Thomas has always been exactly what everyone has expected. But tonight Thomas' curiosity is going to get the better of him while demanding of Monique the one thing she's reluctant to offer. Honesty, costs more.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Africa
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Morning Bells (1967)
Plot Summary:
Young Teacher Lado moves to the village, where he falls in love with Ketu,a young librarian, but Ketu has been engaged to a fellow villager since childhood. Chofe and his brother threaten Lado that breaking his word and breaking custom can be fatal for the lovers. However, young people are not afraid of threats.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 75 min
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Promises (2020)
Plot Summary:
Latchkey kids lose touch when one of them moves away, only to reconnect years later without realizing it, having changed their names to escape their pasts. Once they realize who each other are; they are able heal the wounds of their pasts.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, realistic, affectionate
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Bewafa Sanam (1995)
Plot Summary:
While in prison, Sunder learns that his fiancee is to marry another man. Enraged, he goes to the wedding venue and shoots her.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 144 min
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Pakshe (1994)
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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
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Aaja Sanam (1968)
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Dr. Satish travels from the big city to a small village, where he can serve the poor who cannot afford to go to the city for medical treatment. Once in the village, he meets with Shanti, who lives with her dad, Radhekiran, a watchman. Both Shanti and Satish fall in love, and exchange vows to be married. Radhekiran has an accident, and dies, leaving Shanti to re-locate, without notifying Satish. Satish is devastated at losing Shanti, and tries to locate her, to no avail. His parents want him to marry Kamini, and he agrees to do so. It is then he comes across Shanti, and he is shocked to see that Shanti has given birth to baby-boy, but will not disclose who the father is.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 121 min
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Falling Leaves (1966)
Plot Summary:
A young idealist takes a job at a local state run winery only to discover and become disillusioned by the corruption of the Soviet State.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 955
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: spiritual
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Love at First Sight (1975)
Plot Summary:
Murad, a Muslim guy brought up in the noisy yard of Tbilisi, falls in love with a Belorussian girl Anya, who lives in the same neighborhood, though Anya is impervious to Murad’s feelings.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min
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Kreutzer Sonata (1987)
Plot Summary:
A revelatory discussion on a train. Based on Leo Tolstoy's novel of the same name.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 158 min
Plot tags: spiritual
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Deedar-E-Yaar (1982)
Plot Summary:
Childhood pals Javed (Rishi Kapoor) and Akhtar (Jeetendra) will do anything for each other, but their loyalties are tested when they fall in love with the same woman. For Javed, it's love at first sight when he meets the beautiful Firdaus. But when her father insists she marry the wealthy Akhtar instead, the loyal young man agrees -- but only to help out Javed by quickly divorcing her. Now that he's seen her, though, that may prove difficult.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration:
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Sentimental Romance (1976)
Plot Summary:
Near the close of the Russian Civil War, in 1923, a young man begins studying journalism at a worker newspaper and has a series of romantic adventures which cause him to mature swiftly. He rescues a beautiful girl from an abusive family situation, only to lose her to a smooth-talking sharpster the first time he has to leave town on assignment. Another much nicer and more principled girl is really in love with him, but he doesn't know it. This bittersweet coming-of-age story was based on a novel by Vera Panova.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 93 min
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Where the Heart Is (1998)
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From the director of Marius et Jeannette, this story of two working-class families is a fable with an optimist streak. A young black man, Francois, is wrongly accused of rape by a racist policeman. The story is told in voiceover by his childhood friend, neighbor, and the mother of his future child, Clementine, who is white. The city is Marseilles as in the previous film, symbolic with its churches, prisons and ruins. Except in this film, director Robert Guediguian also ventures outside, taking the story to Sarajevo; two different cities, one devastated by war, the other by a bad economy and unemployment. A la Place du coeur won a Special Jury Prize at the 1998 San Sebastian Film Festival and was also shown at the 1998 Toronto Film Festival and the 1998 Montreal Film Festival.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 382
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 113 min
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Rooster's Breakfast (2007)
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After being fired, a young car mechanic Đuro gets recommendation to look for another job in a remote village. His new boss is warm, old fashioned and naive - completely opposite from the world he's coming from. The peaceful atmosphere is shaken when Đuro falls for a regular customer's wife.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Slovenia, Croatia
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, erotic, offbeat, humorous, semi serious
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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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The Oath of Love (1989)
Plot Summary:
Raja Bhaiya (Mithun Chakraborty) and his friend Charan (Satish Kaushik) come to a city to make a living. Failed in their attempts to find a job, one day, they are teased and ragged by Kallu Dada (Ranjeet). The quarrel gets physical, which Raja wins. Raja thus becomes the local underworld don and starts collecting protection money from shopkeepers, while becoming addicted to alcohol. Raja's life takes twists and turns when Mohan Rao (Nilu Phule) passes away.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 156 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Fools of Fortune (1990)
Plot Summary:
A Protestant Irish family is caught up in a conflict between Irish Republicans and the British army.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, independent film
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Icharus Broken (2007)
Plot Summary:
After four years in prison, Bobby is released into a world he no longer recognizes. His exgirlfriend Penny is abusing drugs. Their daughter is in foster care. Bobby's sister is in the process of rebuilding her life after a bad relationship.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, independent film
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Lost in Siberia (1991)
Plot Summary:
The political drama is set in the Stalin's Soviet Union after the Second World War. A British archaeologist Andrei Miller is working in Iran. He is mistakenly kidnapped and arrested by the KGB. He is falsely accused of spying and wrongfully sentenced to a Gulag prison-camp in Siberia.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union, UK
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, bleak, serious, realistic, disturbing
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Lady J (2018)
Plot Summary:
When a romance between a widow and a notorious libertine takes an unexpected turn, Mademoiselle de Joncquières becomes instrumental to one lover’s plans for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: costume drama, melancholic, sentimental, sincere, disturbing, stylized, period piece, sensitive, period drama
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Lorna Doone (2000)
Plot Summary:
The year is 1675. England is threatened by religious and political rivalries. King Charles II's Catholic brother, James, is next in line for the throne, but many Protestants put their faith in Charles' illegitimate son, The Duke of Monmouth. On the king's death, conflict is inevitable... Over seven days journey from London, Exmoor is a primitive and lawless area. Here, farmer Jack Ridd lives with his wife Sarah, son John, and two daughters. The only shadow over their simple life is cast by the notorious outlaw family the Doones. The aristocratic Doones were banished from their ancestral lands and now live through looting, theft, and murder. Their brutality is legendary.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: emotional, realistic, serious, captivating, stylized, period piece, costume drama, historical drama, historical romance, epic