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Plot Summary:
8-year-old Vicky possesses a special gift: she has a hyperacute sense of smell. She spends her days exploring this gift, and lives happily with her mother Joanne, a swimming teacher whom she adores exclusively – to the despair of her fire-fighter father. One day, her mysterious aunt Julia suddenly reappears in their lives, and secrets from their past resurface both violently and magically.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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Passages (2023)
Plot Summary:
Tomas and Martin are a gay couple living in Paris whose marriage is thrown into crisis when Tomas impulsively begins a passionate affair with young schoolteacher Agathe. But when Martin begins an affair of his own, Tomas must confront life decisions he may be unprepared—or unwilling—to deal with.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, bilingual, interesting, gay cinema
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Valley of Love (2015)
Plot Summary:
A story of two famous actors who used to be a couple. They reunite after the son's death and receive a letter asking them to visit five places at Death Valley, which will make the son reappear.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: captivating
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Burning Ghost (2019)
Plot Summary:
Juste wanders the streets of Paris looking for people only he can see. He collects their last memory before helping them into the afterlife. One day Agathe, a young woman, recognizes him. She belongs to his previous life. She is alive and he is a ghost. How will they manage to love each other and seize this second chance?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 505
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: scary, romantic, bleak, dark, suspenseful, disturbing, urban fantasy
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The Singing Forest (2003)
Plot Summary:
Two lovers are killed during the Holocaust. One reincarnates first. He has a twenty two year old daughter who falls in love with who her father believes is his past life lover.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 726
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: touching, serious
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Rachel, Rachel (1968)
Plot Summary:
Rachel is a 35 year old school teacher who has no man in her life and lives with her mother. When a man from the big city returns and asks her out, she begins to have to make decisions about her life and where she wants it to go.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: retro, psychological, sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, sexual
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Lover at Large (1991)
Plot Summary:
Lover at Large is a Hong Kong Romance.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 7
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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The Nature of Love (2023)
Plot Summary:
Sophia is a philosophy professor in Montreal and has lived as a couple with Xavier for 10 years. Sylvain is a carpenter in the Laurentians and must renovate their country house. When Sophia meets Sylvain for the first time, it’s love at first sight. Opposites attract, but can it last?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 735
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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L'Amour Fou (1969)
Plot Summary:
L'Amour Fou follows the dissolution of the marriage between Claire, an actress (played by Bulle Ogier), and Sebastien, her director (Jean-Pierre Kalfon).
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 762
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 252 min
Plot tags: experimental, avant garde
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Someday or One Day (2022)
Plot Summary:
In 2009, 28-year-old Li Zi Wei and 17-year-old Huang Yu Xuan met each other. Two innocent and unaffected lives that could each feel marks like ones of their past and present lives. However, they could not find sufficient proof to fill up the emptiness at the bottom of their hearts. An accident let them fall into another Mobius loop that had already happened countless times. Only then did they realize that in different times and spaces, they once had a deep, true love that had passed through countless timelines to search for each other with no regrets. But in that story, their deepest love came at the highest price. If they could start again, would they choose to meet by chance in ordinary life or be scarred by the memories etched in their heart and bones? Or perhaps they can choose to hurt and love all over again, betting on a different ending? based on someday or one day (2019).
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 558
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, China, Taiwan
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags:
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Bird People (2014)
Plot Summary:
An overstressed American businessman and a French chambermaid make a connection at an airport hotel in Paris.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: serious, atmospheric, realistic, captivating, sexy, independent film, relaxing, interesting
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Out of the Blue (2007)
Plot Summary:
Marion, a 50 year old woman, suddenly ups and leaves the man with whom she has been living for the past 20 years; she has found herself, midlife, in love with her friend Claude, another woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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One Fine Morning (2022)
Plot Summary:
With a father suffering from neurodegenerative disease, a young woman lives with her eight-year-old daughter. While struggling to secure a decent nursing home, she runs into an unavailable friend with whom she embarks on an affair.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK, Germany
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags:
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Julia(s) (2022)
Plot Summary:
Paris 2052. Julia, 80 years old, had a fulfilled life. On her birthday, she reflects on the decisions and circumstances that could have led her on different paths. From the age of 17 to this day, her life was full of small but critical moments. Each was a turning point with dramatic consequences. What would have happened if she had forgotten her passport, chosen a different line at the store, driven the scooter this one time...? Is her life a succession of coincidences and accidents or a ready-made path?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 475
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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About Joan (2022)
Plot Summary:
Overwhelmed when a figure from her past reemerges, Joan Verra retreats to the countryside with her son Nathan. There she experiences fragmented recollections of her past romantic encounters.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 407
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Ireland
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: non-linear
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Nana (1970)
Plot Summary:
This adaptation of Emile Zola's novel "NANA," is about the sexual liaisons of a woman who through her relationships with different men, enjoys a life of pleasure and luxury. However, her lavish life-style does not always bring happiness.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: erotic
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My Favorite Season (1993)
Plot Summary:
Old woman Berthe leaves her house to live in her daugter Emilie's one. Emilie and her brother Antoine have fallen out three years ago and have not seen each other since, but Emilie invites him for Christmas. Memories will come up, and will be depicted both Berthe's destiny and the strange relationship between Emilie and Antoine.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, erotic, anthology, anamorphic, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, crying
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A French Gigolo (2008)
Plot Summary:
Marco leads a double life. As Marco, he is a construction worker but rich ladies craving sexual excitation know him as Patrick. As Marco he is married to Fanny, an ambitious young woman who has opened her own hairdressing salon in partnership with her friend Rosalie. Marco/Patrick is not a male prostitute at heart: in fact he does the job in order to support his wife's business. Which doesn't prevent Judith, an elegant tele-shopping presenter who buys his services, from falling in love with him. But when Fanny learns what Marco does and with whom, she first gets mad but soon starts interfering in their affair.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: realistic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, melancholic, offbeat, gloomy, crying, exciting
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Boomerang (2015)
Plot Summary:
Antoine Rey looks for a special gift for his sister Melanie on her 40th birthday. He decides to surprise her with a trip to the French Island of Noirmoutier, where they spent many summers as children until their mother's death. On the drive back to Paris, Melanie is seriously injured in a car accident.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, serious, realistic
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Ava (2017)
Plot Summary:
Ava, 13, is spending the summer on the Atlantic coast when she learns that she will lose her sight sooner than expected. Her mother decides to act as if everything were normal so as to spend their best summer ever. Ava confronts the problem in her own way. She steals a big black dog that belongs to a young man on the run.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: captivating, touching, art house, sentimental, thought provoking, disturbing, erotic, sexy
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Petite Maman (2021)
Plot Summary:
Eight-year-old Nelly has just lost her beloved grandmother and is helping her parents clean out her mother's childhood home. She explores the house and the surrounding woods where her mother used to play and where she built the fort Nelly has heard so much about. One day, her mother suddenly leaves, and Nelly meets a girl of her own age in the woods, building a fort.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, talky, psychedelic, art house, independent film, teen, feel good
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Ashamed (2010)
Plot Summary:
Arts professor Jung Ji Woo is searching for a nude model for a video clip that will be played at her exhibition. When Hee-jin, one of her students, recommends Yoon Ji Woo for the job, the three woman head to the beach to shoot the video. As they spend time together, Yoon Ji Woo begins to share pieces of her past relationship with Kang Ji Woo. The film weaves the pasts and presents of the three Ji Woos and focuses on their intersecting relationship.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: emotional, sentimental, atmospheric, surreal, contemplative, sincere, serious, realistic, non-linear
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La Belle Époque (2019)
Plot Summary:
Victor, a disillusioned sexagenarian, sees his life turned upside down on the day when Antoine, a brilliant entrepreneur, offers him a new kind of attraction: mixing theatrical artifices and historical reconstruction, this company offers his clients a chance to dive back into the era of their choice. Victor then chose to relive the most memorable week of his life: the one where, 40 years earlier, he met the great love.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: romantic, humorous, contemplative, psychological, touching, sweet, unusual plot structure, intellectual, independent film, cute
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Thelma (2017)
Plot Summary:
A college student starts to experience extreme seizures while studying at a university in Oslo, Norway. She soon learns that the violent episodes are a symptom of inexplicable, and often dangerous, supernatural abilities.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Norway, France, Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, twisted, psychological thriller, philosophical, art house, cerebral, queer horror
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The Firefly (2013)
Plot Summary:
After her estranged brother's sudden death, young wife Lucia bonds with his fiancée through their shared grief and finds herself falling in love.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Colombia, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, erotic, queer cinema
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Bang Gang: A Modern Love Story (2015)
Plot Summary:
Biarritz. 16 year-old George, the high-school hottie, falls in love with Alex. To get his attention, she initiates a group game with Alex, Nikita, Laetitia and Gabriel. They will discover, test, and push the limits of their sexuality.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, tense, captivating, eros, sensual, steamy, erotic, unusual plot structure, hot
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To the Adventure (2008)
Plot Summary:
Fed up with her present lifestyle, and more particularly sexually unsatisfied by her boyfriend Fred, Sandrine decides to find a new way in life. Intrigued by her friend Sophie, who tells her about her sexual experimentations, she will find, through various encounters, new pleasures and new experiences, whether physical or spiritual.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, realistic, psychological, serious, sexy, art house, controversial, sexual
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Summertime (2015)
Plot Summary:
In 1971, Carole and Delphine meet and fall in love in Paris. When Carole follows Delphine back to her family farm in Limousin, the two find lesbianism and feminism are not as easy in the countryside.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sincere, sexy, sweet, eros, cute, aesthetic, erotic, queer cinema, pink cinema, beautiful
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Being 17 (2016)
Plot Summary:
Set in the beautiful high Pyrenees in south-west France, Damien lives with his mother Marianne, a doctor, while his father, a pilot, is on a tour of duty abroad with the French military. At school, Damien is bullied by Thomas, who lives in the farming community up in the mountains, nut learns to fight back. The boys find themselves living together when Marianne invites Thomas to come and stay with them while his mother is ill in hospital. Damien must learn to live with the boy who terrorised him.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: erotic, sentimental, romantic, uplifting, disturbing, lgbt cinema, queer cinema
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Looking for Cheyenne (2005)
Plot Summary:
Cheyenne, a journalist, decides to leave Paris after being laid off and to settle down in the middle of nowhere, far from the society she hates.The trouble is that she leaves Sonia, her true love, behind. The latter, a teacher who loves her job, refuses to give up everything -including her comfort- to follow her. Sonia makes all the efforts in the world to forget Cheyenne, whether in the arms of Pierre, a charming anarchist, or in those of Béatrice, a gay woman who soon proves perverse and dangerous, only to realize that her heart belongs to Cheyenne and nobody else. If Cheyenne does not come back, Sonia feels life is not worth living any longer... Written by Guy Bellingerew found.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 370
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, sexy, realistic, gloomy, sexual, allegory, queer cinema
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Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013)
Plot Summary:
Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 161000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Spain
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexual, psychological, emotional, heartbreaking, sexy, touching, atmospheric, realistic, art house