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Plot Summary:
The 38-year-old bodybuilder Dennis would really like to find true love. He has never had a girlfriend and lives alone with his mother in a suburb of Copenhagen. When his uncle marries a girl from Thailand, Dennis decides to try his own luck on a trip to Pattaya, as it seems that love is easier to find in Thailand. He knows that his mother would never accept another woman in his life, so he lies and tells her that he is going to Germany. Dennis has never been out traveling before and the hectic Pattaya is a huge cultural shock for him. The intrusive Thai girls give big bruises to Dennis' naive picture of what love should be like, and he is about to lose hope when he unexpectedly meets the Thai woman Toi.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, sincere, captivating, social, romantic drama, serious
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The Call of the Toad (2005)
Plot Summary:
A Polish woman and a German man fall in love against the odds and decide to set up a cemetery for exiles. But can their daring venture survive the call of the toad? Adapted from Gunter Grass’ novel.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Poland
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, touching, captivating, humorous, emotional
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City of Life (2009)
Plot Summary:
A privileged young male Arab at odds with his cultural identity and his less fortunate street smart friend; a disillusioned Indian taxi driver who bears an uncanny resemblance to a famous Bollywood star; and a former Romanian ballet dancer now working as a flight attendant and searching for love and companionship ... these individuals all live in Dubai and their lives are about to collide for better or for worse in a city where ambition, growth and opportunity are encouraged and dreams can still manifest. "City of Life" is an urban drama that tracks the various intersections of a multi-ethnic cast, examining how random interactions and their consequences can irrevocably impact another's life.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: United Arab Emirates
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, touching, serious, realistic, romantic, captivating, anthology, multicultural, islamic, independent film
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Like It Never Was Before (1995)
Plot Summary:
The Runeberg family is an ordinary middle class family, with a house in a suburb, a car and three children. By vacationing in a rented house by the sea, the hope is that the tension and anxiety between Rune and Gunnel will disappear. However, instead of spending time with his family, Rune finds himself attracted to a young man, Petrus. Whatever happens next, Rune realizes, it can never be like it was before. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 980
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, biting, suspense
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Everyone Else (2009)
Plot Summary:
While on a Mediterranean vacation, a seemingly happy boyfriend and girlfriend find their connection to one another tested as they bond with another couple.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, humorous, talky, semi serious, sexy, mumblecore, realistic, witty, contemplative
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I'll Come Running (2008)
Plot Summary:
A young Danish man traveling through Texas hooks up with an Austin girl, and even though they're not planning to see each other again, tragic circumstances lead her to his doorstep in Denmark.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 370
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, romantic drama, gloomy, independent film
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Reply with Photo (1999)
Plot Summary:
The shy scientist Lars decides to publish a small ad in order to find a girlfriend. From the 218 replies, he selects Brigita, an attractive Latvian woman and invites her to Stockholm. But what actually happens after Brigita's arrival is far more complicated than Lars could ever have imagined.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Latvia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic
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I Am Yours (2013)
Plot Summary:
An unhappy single mother in Norway's Pakistani expatriate community begins to ignore her young son in favor of placating a Swedish filmmaker she thinks could change her life for the better.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 754
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, erotic, sexy, eros
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Come Early Morning (2006)
Plot Summary:
Lucy wakes up in bed with a stranger and obviously from a night of drinking. She checks out and pays for the motel room on her account. Through her grandmother, she finds out her father is in town and pays him a visit. She agrees to go to his new church.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, semi serious, cult classic, romantic drama, realistic
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Wonderful Town (2007)
Plot Summary:
Takua Pa is a small town in the South of Thailand. Ever since the tsunami, people have lost their jobs and remember better times in the past. One day a stranger comes to town. His name is Ton, he is an architect. He rents a room in a small hotel owned by Na. They begin to have a secret love affair. The town finds out about it, people are bored and angry. And now they have found an enemy, a person they can blame. Wit is Na's younger brother, the town gang leader. He loves his sister but cannot bear to see another person's happiness. He is the one that will lead the town to destroy this stranger.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 930
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, emotional, realistic, captivating, serious, independent film
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Alone (2008)
Plot Summary:
Alper is in his mid 30s and a good chef at his own restaurant. He loves luxury and spends his life with one-night stands and paid love. One day, his life changes utterly as he walks into a second-hand shop where he first encounters Ada who is in her late 20s and has a shop where she designs costumes for kids. She leads a modest life and one day while looking for a book, her and Alper's paths cross.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sentimental, romantic, sincere, melancholic, breathtaking, social, islamic, romantic drama
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Rain (2008)
Plot Summary:
Buenos Aires. It rains. Alma is in her car, stuck in Buenos Aires' traffic. She has recently broken-up with her boyfriend, and she has been living in her little car since then. Suddenly, Roberto gets into the car. He's wet and hurt, he's tired of the rain, of broken dreams. He has come back after thirty years abroad. In this new city he has nothing and nobody, just a father in coma, whom he has no relationship. He promises to leave the car as soon as the rain ceases. Alma, not knowing exactly why lets him in. That night will be different. And the next few days too. There's something new to find in the depth of their hearts.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, touching, emotional, realistic, sexy, humorous, sexual, independent film
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Civil Love (2012)
Plot Summary:
Rachel is a widow during the Civil War who holds the South responsible for her husband's death. When a wounded enemy soldier takes refuge in her barn, Rachel reluctantly helps him. As she gets to know him more, she realizes she must protect him from the dangerous men pursuing him, and discovers a courage she didn't know she had - the courage to love again.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, realistic, independent film
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The Elephant King (2006)
Plot Summary:
The story of two brothers who lead totally different lives. Jake Hunt enjoys life to the fullest in Thailand, while his shy brother Oliver deals with his own depressions back home in the USA. Their dominant mother wants Jake back home and for this reason, Oliver is sent to Thailand to retrieve his brother. Once there, Oliver finds himself in Jake's bizarre life and falls in love with a beautiful girl, Lek. However, it is not a coincidence that she and Oliver have met.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 551
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, sentimental, captivating, multicultural, sincere, touching, serious, gloomy, inspirational
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Four (2012)
Plot Summary:
Adapted from a stage play by Christopher Shinn, the debut feature from Joshua Sanchez is a provocative rumination on race and sexuality set on a sweltering 4th of July evening.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 573
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: sincere, emotional, realistic, atmospheric, serious, sexual, talky, gloomy, independent film, crying
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Private Fears in Public Places (2006)
Plot Summary:
In Paris, six people all look for love, despite typically having their romantic aspirations dashed at every turn.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, sincere, clever, touching, semi serious, anthology, sensitive, gloomy
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John and Mary (1969)
Plot Summary:
John and Mary meet in a singles bar, sleep together, and spend the next day getting to know each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, serious, realistic, talky, sincere, touching, romantic drama, independent film, clever
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Roseland (1977)
Plot Summary:
"Roseland" is made up of three stories, sometimes connecting, all set in the famed New York dance palace, and all having the same theme: finding the right dance partner.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 533
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sincere, atmospheric, serious, realistic, thought provoking, captivating, anthology, romantic drama, independent film, touching
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Open Hearts (2002)
Plot Summary:
Cecilie and Joachim are about to get married when a freak car accident leaves Joachim disabled, throwing their lives into a spin. The driver of the other car, Marie, and her family don’t get off lightly, either. Her husband Niels works in the hospital where he meets Cecilie and falls madly in love with her.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, independent film, touching, realistic, romantic, captivating, sentimental, art house, psychological, sincere
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Charlotte Sometimes (2002)
Plot Summary:
Michael, a young mechanic, is forced to choose between a daring tryst with an alluring stranger and the habitual comfort of his bittersweet obsession: his beautiful young roommate.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sincere, sexy, light, captivating, romantic, romantic drama, erotic, serious, realistic, contemplative
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A Better Life (2011)
Plot Summary:
A gardener in East L.A. struggles to keep his son away from gangs and immigration agents while traveling across town to perform landscaping work for the city's wealthy landowners.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, realistic, sincere, thought provoking, inspirational, hood, independent film, romantic, captivating
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Reconstruction (2003)
Plot Summary:
Late one evening Alex suddenly abandons his girlfriend, Simone, to pursue the beautiful Aimee. In his encounter with Aimee time and place dissolve for him and he becomes a stranger to Simone, to whom he cannot return.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, mind bending, non-linear, romantic, philosophical, enigmatic, emotional, melancholic, serious
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Stanley & Iris (1990)
Plot Summary:
An illiterate cook at a company cafeteria tries for the attention of a newly widowed woman. As they get to know one another, she discovers his inability to read. When he is fired, she takes on trying to teach him to read in her kitchen each night.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, sentimental, melancholic, sincere, serious, realistic, romantic, light, anamorphic
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Love (2012)
Plot Summary:
Eight people try to end their loneliness by searching for that one person to love, who can make their life complete.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan, China
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, emotional, captivating, romantic, romantic comedy, sentimental, serious
Similar in 76%
Partition (2007)
Plot Summary:
Determined to leave the ravages of war behind, 38 year old Gian Singh resigns from the British Indian Army to a quiet life. His world is soon thrown in turmoil, when he suddenly finds himself responsible for the life of a 17 year old girl, traumatized by the events that separated her from her family.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Canada, South Africa, India, Pakistan
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, inspirational, political, informative, atmospheric, epic
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Eden (2006)
Plot Summary:
Fat German star restaurant chef Gregor shows romantic interest in waitress Eden Drebb. She's happily married to hunky Xaver Drebb, but feels romantically neglected. Gregor's deserts seduce her, first trough her brat daughter Leonie, to spend time with him and his fabulous dishes. That soon becomes a rather platonic affair, and domestic troubles. Xaver decides to exact revenge on Gregor, with tragic results.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 890
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: emotional, sentimental, touching, humorous, serious, realistic
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Lover's Concerto (2002)
Plot Summary:
Lee Ji-hwan receives photographs in the mail that reminds him of how he met two girls, Shim Su-in and Kim Gyeong-heui, one summer five years ago. He shares his memories with his friend Cheol-hyeon. He recalls initially being in love with Su-in, but she rejects him. Throughout the summer, the three remain friends. Ji-hwan and Gyeong-heui develop feelings for each other but are reluctant to admit it. Ji-hwan recalls the complex relationship between the three to Cheol-hyeon.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, romantic, captivating, romantic comedy, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative
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You Are Not Alone (1978)
Plot Summary:
Young teenager Bo (Anders Agensø) is too sensitive for the hothouse atmosphere of a boarding school run by a cold, unfeeling would-be man of the cloth (an uncharacteristically grim Ove Sprogøe). Lonely and scared, he finds a soul mate in the headmaster's son (Peter Bjerg) and the two boys form a bond that slowly grows into a sexual relationship. Frank and unadorned, this Danish film concluded director Lasse Nielsen's youth-oriented trilogy that began with La' Os Være (1975) and continued with Måske Ku' Vi (1976). ~ Hans J. Wollstein, Rovi.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, erotic, serious, realistic, sexy, art house, grindhouse, romantic drama, sexual
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The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them (2014)
Plot Summary:
A New York couple's relationship is tested after the loss of their child. This film is the wide-released combination of the original two :him and :her volumes that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, meditative, surreal, sincere, touching, crying, sad, eros, cute
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Heavy (1995)
Plot Summary:
Victor is a cook who works in a greasy bar/restaurant owned by his mother, Dolly. It's just the two of them, a waitress named Delores, and a heavy drinking regular, Leo. But things change when Callie, a beautiful college drop-out, shows up as a new waitress and steals Victor's heart. But Victor is too shy to do anything about it, and too self-consciously overweight to dream of winning Callie away.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, realistic, slang, psychological, sincere, serious, contemplative, gloomy, crying
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Cairo Time (2009)
Plot Summary:
In Cairo on her own as she waits for her husband, Juliette finds herself caught in a whirlwind romance with his friend Tareq, a retired cop. As Tareq escorts Juliette around the city, they find themselves in the middle of a brief affair that catches them both unawares.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, Ireland, Egypt
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, romantic, heartbreaking, emotional, serious, captivating, sentimental, atmospheric, realistic, inspirational