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Plot Summary:
Tears for You is a love story about two step-siblings, Yota (Satoshi Tsumabuki) and Kaoru (Masami Nagasawa). Long ago, Yota's mother (Kyoko Koizumi) married Kaoru's jazz-playing father (Tatsuya Nakamura), effectively merging the two families. Unfortunately, Kaoru's father skipped town, and Yota's mother passed away, but not before imparting a dying wish to her young son to take care of Kaoru. In the meantime, the two young children were raised by Yota's grandmother on a small island off the coast of Okinawa. When Yota came of age, he took on a role not just as a brother but as a surrogate father of sorts for Kaoru, al.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, romantic, romantic drama
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sad, psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, compassionate, romantic, emotional, romantic drama, tear jerker
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IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 879
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
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Plot tags: sincere, captivating, entertaining
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 748
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 138
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Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
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Winter Solstice (2003)
Plot Summary:
When Elfrida Philips abandons London for a country village, she settles in quickly. She is very poor, but has a tiny cottage, her four-legged friend Horace, and friendships of good neighbors. Tragedy upsets her newfound tranquillity, and she takes refuge in a rambling house with a new gentleman friend in Corrydale. But the group proves to be greater than the sum of its ill-fitting parts, and as the solstice passes, and as Christmas approaches, the healing power of love, begins to work its magic. (Filmed at Dunrobin Castle, Golspie, Sutherland).
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 205
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
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Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, romantic
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 265
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IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
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IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 15000
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 641
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IMDB Votes: 164
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 119
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 95
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IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 343
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
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IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 210
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IMDB Votes: 1000
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 402
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IMDB Votes: 10000
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 173
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IMDB Votes: 218
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 247
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