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Plot Summary:
In 1942, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, a casino is organizing a farewell party for its patrons, since it's about to be turned into a US military base. The guests drink, seduce and gossip, but some also plot against each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Puerto Rico, Mexico
Duration: 101 min
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Those Who Pay with Their Lives (1989)
Plot Summary:
An uncompromising journalist obsessed with the idea of absolute justice ends up committing suicide after reading his father's biography.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Romania
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Blue Moon (2005)
Plot Summary:
Corazon (Boots Anson Roa), an old Filipina who lives in Boston, wrote to each Manuel Pineda in her home a letter. She hopes to find her love again. In the Philippines experiences of the old Manuel Pineda (Eddie Garcia), meanwhile, that he has cancer and has only months to live. He goes in search of his Corazon.There were two Corazons in his life: before the Second World War, he spent (Mark Herras) and his buddy Domingo (Polo Ravales) a lot of time with the shy "Cora" (Jennylyn Mercado) and the lively " Azon "(Pauline Luna).
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags:
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The Winds of Jarrah (1983)
Plot Summary:
Australia 1946. A young woman escapes from an unhappy affair to become tutor to three children who are being raised by their uncle.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 24
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Manhattan Merengue (1995)
Plot Summary:
A realistic look at the life of a young immigrant man who comes to America with the hope of dancing on Broadway.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Wild McCullochs (1975)
Plot Summary:
A story about the rich McCulloch Family, their overbearing father and the children's misguided blaming him for everything that doesn't go right.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: saga, independent film
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More Time (1993)
Plot Summary:
Thandi finds out the complexities of love, when David, the schoolboy Mister Charming, coolly sweeps her off her feet.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Zimbabwe
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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The Inheritance (1980)
Plot Summary:
In this standard Hungarian drama, the effects of sterility and jealousy on a marriage are played out against a backdrop of World War II and the rising Nazi persecution of Jews. Director Marta Meszaros usually focuses on issues like pregnancy, middle-age, and other topics without questioning the broader picture. In this drama, Sylvia (Lili Monori) cannot have children, and she convinces married Jewish woman Irene (Isabelle Huppert) to have a child and then give the child to her for adoption. The plan works but it also backfires. The way in which the child was adopted causes friction between Sylvia and her husband, and to make matters worse, Sylvia's husband falls in love with Irene. A crisis looms when he asks his jealous wife to give Irene her identity papers because Jews are being deported and Irene will die without their help.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, Hungary
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Burnt by Frost (1997)
Plot Summary:
When is an enemy not an enemy, when is an ally not an ally? The answer to these questions determines the fate of a man. Simons struggle is played out against the rugged landscape of northern Norway. Raised in a close-knit community, he bears the scars of a childhood haunted by rumors. During World War II, the Russians and Americans become a presence in this remote landscape, which will have far-ranging consequences. Victimized by rumor and Norways shifting political allegiances, Simon is denied the final reconciliation he longs for with his community and with himself. When the Berlin Wall falls, his life is once more turned upside down.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Norway
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: offbeat
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Everlasting Love (1984)
Plot Summary:
An intern doctor falls in love with a 19-year-old girl, not knowing that she is a hostess at a night club and a single mother.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: soap opera
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The Portrait (2017)
Plot Summary:
A musical tale about two impoverished sisters' anguish over whether or not to sell the final masterpiece of their recluse father days before the second world war, in Manila.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, captivating, surprise ending, neo noir
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Our Town (1977)
Plot Summary:
3-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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A Kind of Loving (1962)
Plot Summary:
After his girlfriend's pregnancy forces him to marry her, a young man must adjust to his new life and contend with his domineering mother-in-law.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: social, experimental, sincere, serious, emotional, realistic, independent film, vintage
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The Strait Story (2005)
Plot Summary:
The year is 1943 and Taiwan is under Japanese colonization. After finishing his studies in Japan, famous Taiwanese sculptor and painter Ching-Cheng Huang receives an offer to teach in Beiping Art School. He decides to visit friends and family back home before leaving for China. He boards the passenger liner "Takachiho Maru" in Kobe, Japan, with his girlfriend, a pianist. Tragically, the luxurious liner is torpedoed by an American submarine and sinks off the coast of Keelung, Taiwan. Decades later, Shou-shou, a fine art restorer with a crippling illness, finds one of Huang's paintings in an exhibition. As she restores the painting, Shou-shou learns about the artist, the stories behind his work and his death at sea. She recreates the story of the painting "Woman in Black", and romantically imagines the ways the artist painted his girlfriend. The more she studies, the more she was inspired by Huang's value of art and of life. Restoring Huang's painting thus becomes Shou-shou's way of.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, captivating
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Romeo & Juliet (1994)
Plot Summary:
Adaptation of Shakespeare's play, presented originally on television for schools in the UK.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags:
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Prague Duet (1998)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Lauren is staying in Prague for a conference and falls in love with Czech writer Jiri Kolmar.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 393
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Czech Republic, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, sincere, serious, realistic, disturbing, sexual, sexy
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Faneflukt (1975)
Plot Summary:
1941, Norway. The young kitchen maid Liv and the German officer Franz meet in the military camp where Liv works. They develop a friendship and decides to flee to Sweden.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Norway
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Up at the Villa (2000)
Plot Summary:
Superficial people are revealed and drastically changed by circumstance or luck in this a tale of death, seduction, blackmail and theft among British and Americans in Florence in the turbulent days just before World War II.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: serious, atmospheric, suspenseful, stylized, romantic, realistic, crying, independent film, fairy tale, sentimental
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Focus (2001)
Plot Summary:
In the waning months of World War II, a man and his wife are mistakenly identified as Jews by their anti-Semitic Brooklyn neighbors. Suddenly the victims of religious and racial persecution, they find themselves aligned with a local Jewish immigrant in a struggle for dignity and survival.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, sincere, thought provoking, suspense, talky, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Europeans (1979)
Plot Summary:
Based on Henry James' novel with the same title. It's the fall of 1850, a few miles outside Boston. The household of the dour Mr. Wentworth receives two unannounced visitors from Europe, Eugenia and Felix, the daughter and son of his half sister. Gertrude, one of Wentworth's two daughters, is instantly infatuated with her cousins, thinking them sophisticated and worldly. She turns her back on the local Unitarian minister, Mr. Brand, who has been calling on her, to delight in the pleasure and amusement Felix offers. Another wealthy neighbor, Mr. Acton, is attracted to Eugenia, who is going through a divorce with a European aristocrat. Are the Americans being used by the penniless Europeans? Or is there real affection?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: romantic drama, historical drama, realistic, stylized, semi serious, biting, independent film, costume drama, suspense, period drama
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Tango Bar (1987)
Plot Summary:
After many years, Ricardo and Antonio, two former partners, will reunite in their Tango Bar in Buenos Aires. Ricardo, the partner still owning the bar, reminiscences the days of their old show "Esto es Tango" while waiting for Antonio.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Argentina, Puerto Rico
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anthology, serious, realistic
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One Last Dance (2003)
Plot Summary:
In the wake of tragedy, a renowed New York dance company is on the brink of collapse. After leaving the dance world for good, Travis, Chrissa, and Max are pulled in to resurrect the dance that shattered their careers. They have one last chance to save the company, re-connect with the passion and magic, and prove that miracles really can happen.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, romantic, sexy, independent film
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Washington Square (1997)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1870's New York, a spinster heiress is courted by a much younger, penniless man, much to the chagrin of her over-protective father, and must decide whether to spend the rest of her life alone, or marry a man who is interested in her only because of her inheritence.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: costume drama, romantic, stylized, sex comedy, romantic drama, historical drama, psychological, serious, realistic, gloomy
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The Crossing (1990)
Plot Summary:
A single day. To challenge the past. To accept the present. To decide the future. Sam arrives in his home town after 18 months away, hopeful that Meg, the girlfriend he abandoned, will go back with him to the city. His return brings the outside world into the parochial confines of the town, provoking mixed reactions which fuel conflict. Meg, heartbroken when Sam left her, has begun an affair with Sam's friend Johnny. On the eve of Sam's arrival, Johnny asks Meg to marry him. The marriage proposal, along with Sam's unexpected return, forces Meg to choose not only between the two men but also the type of life she wants. The conflicting loyalties and emotions generated by the triangle provide the focus for an array of inter-related characters enmeshed in the life of this country town. There is a feeling of impending tragedy as night falls and Johnny becomes increasingly desparate.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 642
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, crying, independent film
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Love Love Love (1989)
Plot Summary:
Widowed businessman, Sudhirbhai lives a wealthy lifestyle with his son, Vikram, who is student at National College. He is very affectionate toward Vikram and will do anything for him. His business partner is Goswami, who is also widowed, and has two children, a son, Mahesh, a daughter, Reema, who are good friends of Vikram, and the two businessmen expect to cement their relationship by getting Reema married to Vikram. But when Reema meets and falls in love with Amit Verma, who lives with his taxi-driver dad, mom - Shanti, and sister - Munni, things change dramatically as Sudhirbhai uses his underworld contacts in order to pressurize Verma to get his son to forget Reema, and he does this by destroying his taxi by a bomb. Verma does manage to convince Amit to stay away from Reema, but both meet again and renew their love - prompting Sudhirbhai to threaten Reema that he will get Amit gravely injured.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 959
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: romantic drama, serious, realistic
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Battle: Freestyle (2022)
Plot Summary:
Amalie and Mikael lead their street dance team to the finals in France but tough competition and personal distractions threaten to ruin their dreams.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Norway
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)
Plot Summary:
In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a telegraph boy, falls in love with Fermina Daza, the daughter of a mule trader.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico, UK, Colombia
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: psychological, sexy, romantic, costume drama, emotional, serious, sentimental, atmospheric, realistic, erotic
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Restless (2012)
Plot Summary:
A young woman finds out that her mother worked as a spy for the British Secret Service during World War II and has been on the run ever since.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, realistic, historical drama, neo noir, period drama
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Gaby: A True Story (1987)
Plot Summary:
The life of Gaby Brimmer, a girl physically handicapped, who finally gets her goals of study and triumph.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 783
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sincere, uplifting, touching, emotional, realistic, serious
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Chinese Box (1997)
Plot Summary:
The story of Hong Kong, from New Year's Day to June 30th, 1997, when the British left their colony and turned it over to the People's Republic of China.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Japan, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, independent film, sentimental, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, philosophical, sexy, thought provoking
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A Walk in the Clouds (1995)
Plot Summary:
World War II vet Paul Sutton falls for a pregnant and unwed woman who persuades him -- during their first encounter -- to pose as her husband so she can face her family.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, realistic, sentimental, uplifting, sweet, tear jerker, emotional, epic, cult classic