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Plot Summary:
Three skydivers and their travelling thrill show barnstorm through a small midwestern town one Fourth of July weekend.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, serious, emotional, retro, contemplative, sexual, sexy, cult film
Best tv shows and movies like The Gypsy Moths (1969):
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Rain (2001)
Plot Summary:
A tragedy that tells the story of murder, sex and redemption against the backdrop of a dead-end town.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Drama, Action, Romance
Country: Germany, Spain, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, sincere, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, surprise ending, independent film
Similar in 75%
The Arrangement (1969)
Plot Summary:
Eddie is a very rich man who has everything he wants; money, family, success. But a car crash is all that needs to make him reconsider the life he leads. Searching for the happiness he lost, he remembers his one time lover, Gwen. Meanwhile his wife conspires to take his fortune.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: semi autobiographical, psychological, tense, offbeat, serious, realistic, biting, suspense
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Love on a Pillow (1962)
Plot Summary:
A young girl rescues a man from a suicide attempt. He turns out to be a sociopath, who begins to take over her life, abusing her both verbally and emotionally, yet she can't seem to tear herself away from him.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 714
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sentimental, realistic, touching, serious, emotional, erotic, gloomy
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Bloodworth (2010)
Plot Summary:
E.F. Bloodworth has returned to his home - a forgotten corner of Tennessee - after forty years of roaming. The wife he walked out on has withered and faded, his three sons are grown and angry. Warren is a womanizing alcoholic, Boyd is driven by jealousy to hunt down his wife and her lover, and Brady puts hexes on his enemies from his mamma's porch. Only Fleming, the old man's grandson, treats him with the respect his age commands, and sees past all the hatred to realize the way it can poison a man's soul. It is ultimately the love of Raven Lee, a sloe-eyed beauty from another town, that gives Fleming the courage to reject this family curse.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, independent film
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For the Love of Grace (2008)
Plot Summary:
With a great career, close friends, and an upwardly mobile fiancé, ‘How To’ book writer Grace (Chandra West) appears to have the perfect life. Meanwhile, local firefighter Steve (Mark Consuelos), having just been suspended for his reckless, yet heroic style, seems to be heading in the opposite direction That is, until a fateful fire rescue fans the flames of attraction and gives them both a new perspective on life.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 582
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: emotional, psychological, sentimental, captivating, touching, realistic, semi serious
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Above & Beyond (2001)
Plot Summary:
Cop drama meets romance: This intense thriller is about a police officer who shoots his best friend (who also wears a badge) while on the job. His buddy is permanently paralyzed, and the incident raises eyebrows around the precinct. Was it an accident, or did this detective's feelings for his pal's wife cause him to cross the line? Only true super sleuths will figure it out before the end!.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sentimental, serious, emotional, realistic, independent film
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Anna Karenina (1985)
Plot Summary:
Tragic Anna leaves her cold husband for dashing Count Vronsky in 19th-century Russia.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 365
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, psychological, epic, realistic, gloomy, period drama
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One Love (2011)
Plot Summary:
A summer vacation in the 70s. Lalo and Bruno are teenagers doing nothing on days full of nothing. But on a hot and humid afternoon, and without asking for permission, Lisa arrives smashing more than the letargy of the town. Thirty years later Lisa comes again to interfere in the lives of these two adults.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: realistic, contemplative, emotional, psychological, captivating, touching, serious
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Gabrielle (2005)
Plot Summary:
A seemingly ideal marriage is thrown into embarrassing turmoil in Patrice Chéreau's period drama, based on the short story The Return by Joseph Conrad.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, clever, emotional, realistic, contemplative, stylized, gloomy, crying, beautiful
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Maria's Lovers (1984)
Plot Summary:
Ivan Bibic returns to his Pittsburgh PA suburb after surviving a Japanse POW camp, causing regular nightmares. All the time he remained faithfully devoted to his childhood love, fellow ethnic Yugoslavian virgin Maria Bosic. She dates him again, thus ruining a virtual engagement to captain Al Griselli. Against Ivan's dad's advice, they get married. But Ivan became psychologically impotent, feels unworthy of her and starts wondering, even looking for another girl. Meanwhile slick guitar-and-song-busker Clarence Butts moves in to South-Western PA, and seduces Maria.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: sincere, emotional, erotic, sentimental, captivating, controversial, grindhouse, sexual, psychological, serious
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A Perfect Stranger (1994)
Plot Summary:
A television movie based on "A Perfect Stranger," Danielle Steel's novel about an attorney who falls in love with the young wife of a wealthy man who is dying.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 632
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Another Woman's Husband (2000)
Plot Summary:
When Laurel signs up for swimming lessons, she becomes best friends with her teacher Susan - until they realize Laurel’s boyfriend and Susan’s husband are the same man.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 501
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, ridiculous
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Les corps impatients (2003)
Plot Summary:
Paul and Charlotte are in love. Charlotte discovers she has a grave malady and Paul supports her. But Paul is also attracted to Ninon, another girl. Charlotte accepts Paul to have an affair with her, and the three start a difficult and ambiguous relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 613
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, sincere, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, sexual, sexy
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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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A Dangerous Woman (1993)
Plot Summary:
Martha Horgan is a withdrawn, mentally disabled woman who lives with her aunt, Frances. One of Martha's unusual traits is that she doesn't lie, a quality that leads to her getting fired from a dry-cleaning shop thanks to the actions of the shifty Getso. Conflict seems to follow Martha, since she also becomes romantically involved with local fix-it man, Mackey, who is sleeping with Frances as well.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: emotional, psychological, serious, realistic, disturbing, tense, rough, bleak, suspenseful, gloomy
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The Dive from Clausen's Pier (2005)
Plot Summary:
Good boy Mike Mayer is looking at a fine future and enjoys life with Wisconsin small town friends and steady girlfriend Carrie Beal. Then a stupid accident, diving from the local pier when the water is too low, leaves him quadriplegic. As if that weren't bad enough, Carrie does what none of the gang could imagine: she dumps him, as soon as best friend Rooster realizes she wasn't even honest. Carrie leaves for New York to pursue an undefined 'ambition', moving in with Simon Rhodes she vaguely knows. She starts a love affair with Paul Elliot 'Kilroy' Fraser. However he has his own nagging tragic secret, and her past needs dealing with.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 775
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, realistic
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Tangled 8 (2015)
Plot Summary:
People from diverse social backgrounds, races and ages manage grief through its different phases.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, contemplative, talky, experimental, gloomy, independent film
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Picnic (2000)
Plot Summary:
The son of the richest man in town wants to marry the town's beauty queen, but she meets a more interesting stranger who just got off the train.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, tense
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Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac (2010)
Plot Summary:
Diving to save a camera from a fall down a flight of stairs, high school junior Naomi Sukuse wakes with no memory of the last four years. Naomi must remember who she was and figure out who she wants to be in this story of love and second chances.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 674
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: sentimental, emotional, contemplative, captivating, sincere, psychological, romantic, touching, serious, realistic
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The Locusts (1997)
Plot Summary:
A drifter enters a small town looking for employment. While working at the local cattle ranch, he meets and falls in love with the beautiful Kitty and becomes involved in a deadly yet erotic love triangle.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: sexy, sexual, erotic, psychological, offbeat, serious, emotional, realistic, independent film, campy
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Tempted (2003)
Plot Summary:
The strain of juggling her responsibilities as wife, mother, and successful paralegal have worn Emma Burke (Virginia Madsen) out. Thus it is that Emma welcomes the opportunity to briefly take leave of her Boston home and head for sunny Hawaii. It is not, however, a pleasure trip: Having promised to honor the dying wishes of her Hawaiian-born surrogate mother, Emma had agreed to transport the woman's ashes to the Islands for a traditional burial ceremony. Leaving her husband, Mike (Andrew McFarlane), behind to care for their two children, Emma arrives in Hawaii for the first time since childhood, where she is reunited with her childhood friend Kala (Jason Momoa), the handsome son of her late surrogate parent. Against her better judgment, Emma falls in love with Kala, and he with her. Complications arise when Mike and the kids show up in the Islands, a the obligatory evil land developer rears his ugly head, and Emma learns the shocking truth about her biological mother.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 503
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: emotional, touching, serious, realistic, romantic drama, sexual, sexy
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Twice in a Lifetime (1985)
Plot Summary:
A middle-aged steelworker is content with his job and his family, but feels that something is missing in his life. On his 50th birthday, he stops in at a local bar for a drink to celebrate. He finds himself attracted to the young, very sexy barmaid--and, to his surprise, he finds that she is also very attracted to him.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: sentimental, emotional, realistic, sincere, touching, serious, independent film, contemplative
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Ordinary Sinner (2001)
Plot Summary:
Three friends encounter violence and bigotry in a small college town.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, emotional, sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, sex comedy, independent film, tense, talky
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No Looking Back (1998)
Plot Summary:
Charlie returns to his old town where he meets his ex-girlfriend again and tries to get her back.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: emotional, disturbing, sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, gloomy, scary, light
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Not Easily Broken (2009)
Plot Summary:
A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: uplifting, sentimental, emotional, realistic, serious, inspirational, romantic, independent film, romantic drama
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Cherry. (2010)
Plot Summary:
When Brian Cherry, a sweet, sensitive young Los Angeleno, falls for the beautiful, electric, and damaged Jules, she turns his ideas about women and sex upside-down. Slowly, he is drawn into a twisted love-triangle that includes Jules and his best friend, Sam. When Jules eventually leaves him for Sam, Cherry decides on a shocking course of action that will destroy the lives of all three.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: realistic, captivating, psychological, sexy, independent film, humorous, serious, sexual, suspense
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Swann (1996)
Plot Summary:
Rose Hindmarsh finds herself at the centre of a controversy when she meets author Sarah Maloney as she investigates the life of Mary Swann, an obscure poet who was brutally murdered in a small town in rural Ontario.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, atmospheric, touching, offbeat, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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The Car Man (2001)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious stranger arrives in a small town community, leading the locals into greed, sex and murder.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sexy, captivating
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Mademoiselle Chambon (2009)
Plot Summary:
Véronique Chambon (Sandrine Kiberlain), a single schoolteacher and Jean (Vincent Lindon), discover an unexpected bond that causes them to question the direction of their lives. They move in different social circles but their relationship develops and their lives begin gradually to unravel.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, sentimental, captivating, sincere, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Lovin' Molly (1974)
Plot Summary:
Spanning nearly 40 years from 1925 to 1964, two Texas farm boys; straight-arrow Gid and laid-back Johnny fight over the affections of the beautiful and headstrong Molly Taylor, who consistently refuses to marry either of them.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 590
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic