Best movies like Summer Affair
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Plot Summary:
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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Penguin (1965)
Plot Summary:
A shy student falls in love and is involved in a kidnapping plot.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Nanami: The Inferno of First Love (1968)
Plot Summary:
A teenage goldsmith with a dark past tragically falls in love with a young nude model.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 906
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: romantic drama, experimental, avant garde, independent film, freeze frame, weird, student film
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Still the Water (2014)
Plot Summary:
Taking place during the full-moon night of traditional dances in August and set on the Japanese island of Amami-Oshima, the drama centers on a 14-year-old boy who finds a dead body floating in the sea. The young man enlists the help of his girlfriend to solve the mystery. The pair “will learn to become adults by experiencing the interwoven cycles of life, death and love.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Japan, Spain
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, touching, serious, light, sincere, romantic, uplifting, art house, realistic
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Private Passions (1984)
Plot Summary:
When Mark goes to visit his cousin Toni in Austria for the summer, he develops a serious crush on Toni's pretty stepsister Clair and at the same time tries to fend off Toni's efforts to get him set up with prostitutes. As much as he likes Clair, Mark cannot bring himself to start a sexual relationship with her and ultimately goes to Clair's mother Katherine to vent his feelings. It is that meeting that ultimately sends Mark home more experienced than when he arrived.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA, France, Austria
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexploitation film
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Spring Blossom (2020)
Plot Summary:
A 16-year-old girl, bored with her own age group, becomes involved with an older man at a theater she passes.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags:
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Candy Regentag (1989)
Plot Summary:
Flesh and fantasy fill the nights of the call girls at Bambi’s, a flashy back street brothel. Join Bambi, Candy and the girls for an evening or two and find out what happens in the violent world of sex for sale. Candy is new to the business. She follows all of the rules of the house - she arrives on time, doesn’t take drugs, is polite to customers, and numb to all the men who used her. Then she meets Reg and breaks the most important rule - don’t fall in love with one of your customers. Their first encounter leaves her longing to see him again. She fantasizes about the love they share and how idyllic their life together would be. But the facts are clear. Candy is a hooker and she will never be a real part of his world … she’s one of Bambi’s girls. She has seen his life and felt his love, a brief glimpse is all she’ll ever have, KISS THE NIGHT!.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Inga (1968)
Plot Summary:
Inga, a 17 year-old, is sent to live with a scheming aunt who wants her to become mistress of her rich neighbour. She falls for a common young man instead.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 359
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, erotic, sensual, psychotronic, sexploitation film
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Sensuela (1973)
Plot Summary:
Laila is an innocent Lappish girl and the only daughter of a reindeer herder. During world war II Laila rescues crashed German fighter pilot Hans and the two develop warm feelings for each other during his convalescence. Years later, after the war, Hans returns to Lapland as a freelance photographer and manages to lure Laila to run away with him to capital Helsinki to start a career as a photo model, much to the chagrin of her traditional father Aslak. After initial happiness, however, Hans abandons Laila and the decadent lifestyle of a big city sends her life into a downward spiral.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 656
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Camille 2000 (1969)
Plot Summary:
Marguerite is the tart who sleeps her way up the social ladder to help Armand Duval, a commoner who happens to be her boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 823
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, grindhouse, experimental, erotic, serious, realistic, stylized, sexual, erotic drama, sexy
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Fiore (2016)
Plot Summary:
Young and in prison for theft, Daphne falls in love with Josh, another inmate. Their love story exists through secret letters and fleeting conversations.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, sexy, touching, contemplative, unusual plot structure
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Love to Eternity (1972)
Plot Summary:
Liza slowly replaces Melampo, Giorgio's dog. While she accepts it, Giorgio forces her to wear collars and leashes.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 868
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sexy, independent film, grotesque
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Ricordi? (2018)
Plot Summary:
A long love story, seen through the memories of one young couple. The journey through the years of two individuals, united, divided, happy, unhappy, deeply in love, or in love with others, in a single stream of emotions and shades of feeling. Over the course of the film, he learns that love can indeed last, while she learns to live with nostalgia.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, sexy, touching, emotional
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Sound of the Sea (2001)
Plot Summary:
Son de Mar (English: "Sound of the Sea") is a 2001 Spanish drama / erotic film directed by Juan José Bigas Luna based on the novel of the same title by Manuel Vicent. It revolves around Ulises (Jordi Mollà), who comes to a fishing village to teach literature at a local high school. During his stay he falls in love with Martina (Leonor Watling), the daughter of his landlord. Sierra (Eduard Fernández), a rich businessman, also falls in love with her and fruitlessly tries to win her heart.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, psychological, serious, realistic, erotic, art film, sensual, sexual, sexy
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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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Liar's Moon (1981)
Plot Summary:
Matt Dillion In East Texas, the summer after high school, Jack falls in love with Ginny, the daughter of the town's banker (Jack's mom's high school sweetheart). Ginny's been at boarding school; she's headed for Vassar. Over her father's strenuous objections, she spends time with Jack. At summer's end, Jack and Ginny elope to Louisiana (where 17-year-olds can marry without their parents' permission), and he gets a job in the oil fields. Her dad hires a menacing private eye to find them, Ginny's pregnant, her town doctor gives her horrible news, and Jack's mom has her own agenda. It seems that Jack and Ginny have grown up under a liar's moon. What will these sweethearts do?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 726
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, eighties, cult film
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By the Sea (2015)
Plot Summary:
Set in France during the mid-1970s, Vanessa, a former dancer, and her husband Roland, an American writer, travel the country together. They seem to be growing apart, but when they linger in one quiet, seaside town they begin to draw close to some of its more vibrant inhabitants, such as a local bar/café-keeper and a hotel owner.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Malta, USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: psychological, depressing, melancholic, scenic, artsy, erotic, sexy, thought provoking, cult classic, aesthetic
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My Queen Karo (2009)
Plot Summary:
Nine-year-old Karo grows up with her parents in an Amsterdam commune in the Seventies. She leads a carefree existence in this utopia-for-adults. Everything is shared in the squat, but not everyone is able to honor these ideals. Karo gets confused because of the internal conflicts that start to divide the group. Karo slowly realizes that nothing can stay the same forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, eros, contemplative
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To Our Loves (1983)
Plot Summary:
A portrait of youth in bloom; a tale of one family's dissolution; a reflection upon the danger and the mystery in living. Sandrine Bonnaire plays Suzanne, a free spirit and the vessel for an almost Brontëan choler. She's 16, and men exist — diverse lovers, an overbearing brother, and the father portrayed by director Maurice Pialat himself in an unforgettable turn that displays the full magnitude of the cinema giant's tenderness, force-of-will, and presence of being.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: erotic, retro, anthology, art house, sensual, crying, psychological, serious, realistic, gloomy
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Aching Hearts (2009)
Plot Summary:
Set in the early 1960s, the story evolves around highschool sweethearts Jonas and Agnete, their friendships and families, trials and tribulations. Jonas fails to give Agnete the kind of attention she craves, and when she decides to start a new romance, he feels for the first time a cold stab of jealousy. Their rocky relationship takes Jonas through the spectrum of emotions that arises with an aching heart. »Aching Hearts« is shot over a period of three years, taking into account the development of the young actors, some of whom are amateurs from the actual milieus Malmros is depicting.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 921
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Raising Victor Vargas (2002)
Plot Summary:
The film follows Victor, a Lower East Side teenager, as he deals with his eccentric family, including his strict grandmother, his bratty sister, and a younger brother who completely idolizes him. Along the way he tries to win the affections of Judy, who is very careful and calculating when it comes to how she deals with men.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, harsh, cynical, stylized, semi serious, humorous, realistic, crying, sexy
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Laura (1979)
Plot Summary:
A blinded French sculptor completes a statue of a friend's daughter by using his sense of touch.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, sexy, controversial, serious, realistic, sexual, beautiful
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Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991)
Plot Summary:
In this sequel to the 1980 classic, two children are stranded on a beautiful island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together and eventually become tanned teenagers in love.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: melancholic, realistic, serious, erotic, teen, romantic, sexy, feel good, sensual, sexual
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Endless Love (1981)
Plot Summary:
Two young kids fall in love with each other. But the passion is too consuming for the parents of Jade. The parents try to stop them from seeing each other. But when this doesn't work, David burns down the house and is sent away. This doesn't stop him from seeing her. When he gets out he goes to look for her. But the passion for his first love is too strong and she has to leave.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: intense, erotic, sentimental, touching, emotional, romantic, sexual, dark, sensual, romantic drama
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Blue Island (1982)
Plot Summary:
After an airplane crash, a handsome couple is left stranded on a tropical desert island. Bonnie and Billy are forced to fight against nature and the inhospitable environment to survive. Then soon learn to live with the environment then suddenly a large man-beast appears and threatens their heavenly and exotic ménage. So this paradise can change into hell... Sexy blond Sabrina Siani, who has starred mostly in Italian barbarian films, stars in this Italian rip-off of the film THE BLUE LAGOON. As this is an Italian rip-off, the sexual content significantly surpasses it's inspiration. Also stars Fabio Meyer and Mario Pedone.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sexploitation film
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First Desires (1983)
Plot Summary:
Three teenage girls decide to visit a romantic island and find love. They get shipwrecked and end up on different sides of the island. Each girl begins her own romantic adventure either with a man, a boy or even another girl.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, sexual, controversial, serious, realistic, sexy, eighties
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Normal Adolescent Behavior (2007)
Plot Summary:
High school student Wendy has an odd relationship with her five friends: They're openly sexual with each other, swapping partners every week. But this is all thrown into turmoil when she meets Sean, a new student in school who has a crush on her. Wendy wants to be with Sean, but doesn't want to disappoint her friends, whom she has known since grade school. When she does decide to leave them, her best friend, Billie, threatens revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sincere, bleak, serious, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, sexy, erotic, sexual
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Capriccio (1987)
Plot Summary:
After the renewed flings with their former lovers prove to be disastrously unlike the romantic memories, an unfaithful couple returns to each other.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, Netherlands Antilles
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, romantic, manga, sex comedy
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Bilitis (1977)
Plot Summary:
A coming of age story centering on the exploits of a young girl during summer vacation.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sexual, manga, sensual, sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, realistic
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The Venetian Woman (1986)
Plot Summary:
Venice, sixteenth century. Giulio, a foreign gentleman spends a memorable night in the city where he meets and beds two beautiful women. They are Angela, a widowed lady, and Valeria, whose husband has left for Florence.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 611
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy
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Very Good Girls (2013)
Plot Summary:
Two New York City girls make a pact to lose their virginity during their first summer out of high school. When they both fall for the same street artist, the friends find their connection tested for the first time.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, teen, exciting, captivating, touching, sad, independent film, happy