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Plot Summary:
Victor Derval is returning home after a performance when he is hailed by Lisa, a young Hungarian woman. Her motives are mysterious; is she simply a star-struck peasant girl, or an ambitious, manipulative aspiring star?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: avant garde
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Henry's Romance (1993)
Plot Summary:
It is carnival time in Munich and participants are overindulging in alcohol and sensual pleasures. "Follow us into madness" beckons Lys who is drunk on life, but the sensitive Henry does not follow him. Lys has betrayed his fiancé, as Henry once betrayed his lost love Anna. In memory of Anna and his cruel Dickensian childhood, Henry challenges Lys to a duel to try to appease his guilt.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Switzerland, France, Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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The Impostor (1997)
Plot Summary:
This drama is based on a novel and incomplete screenplay by the late Maria Luis Bemberg. In 1930s Argentina, wealthy Sebastian (Antonio Birabent) leaves his Buenos Aires home for the family estate on the pampas. His family, concerned for his physical and mental health, arranges for Sebastian's childhood friend Juan (Walter Quiroz) to check on Sebastian's situation. Juan finds the highly erratic Sebastian caught in a doomed relationship with the Danish daughter of religious sect members. Unfortunately, Juan also becomes obsessed with the young woman, and Sebastian's suspicions increase.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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Dama de Noche (1993)
Plot Summary:
Bruno, a novelist with no luck goes to call for help from his love always sofia, who is in Veracruz desolate without knowing what to do with the corpse of her boyfriend who died because of a heart attack while they made love.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Lou Didn't Say No (1994)
Plot Summary:
"Inspired by the correspondence between Rainer Maria Rilke and his psychoanalyst paramour Lou Andreas-Salomé, Miévilleés sophisticated study of modern love charts the turbulent relationship between a filmmaker (Bunel) and a volatile actor (Blanc). Threaded throughout are intoxicating moments of music by Mahler and Arvo Pärt, dance, and a dialogue between two Greek statues." - BAM.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: crying
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Love on the Ground (1984)
Plot Summary:
Two actresses fall prey to the supernatural manipulations of a nightclub magician.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 617
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags:
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Tiramisu (2008)
Plot Summary:
Bookkeeper Jacob newest client is the talented and flamboyant actress Anne. They first meet each other on her houseboat, the morning after the premiere of Anne's new theatrical play. Jacob soon discovers that Anne has made a mess of her personal finances and that she has several debts. She may even have to sell her houseboat. Anne gets into a blind panic as she definitely has no intention to sell the boat where she has so many memories. Jacob becomes fascinated about Anne's world and is not concerned anymore with his own personal life and wife. Anne is trying to get money and is convinced that Jacob can save her financial mess. Despite Anne's plans and efforts, the boat must be sold by auction. During the evening of the auction, Anne has organized a big good-bye dinner and has invited all her colleagues and friend on the boat. When Jacob is about to inform Anne about how he wants to save Anne's houseboat (he has bought it himself for her), she comes up with a totally different plan.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Netherlands, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, realistic, semi serious, exciting, contemplative
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Two (1989)
Plot Summary:
The manager of a contemporary music composer falls in love with the real estate agent with whom he is looking for a house in Paris. But both have been used to living an independent life: they want to marry but at the same time, are afraid of marriage.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags:
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The Wicket Gate (1974)
Plot Summary:
Wiktor Zawadzki is a playwright who flies to Gdansk to have a look at the rehearsals of his new avantgarde play. Although the play asks serious existential questions, the stage director and the actors have no artistic idea for it. Unable to find a room in a hotel, he ends up in a private house inhabited by an old woman and her young attractive daughter Krystyna. Wiktor becomes briefly involved in their lives - he has a love affair with the daughter and discovers the truth about the mother's difficult mental condition.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tension, suspense
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Fabian: Going to the Dogs (2021)
Plot Summary:
In 1930s Berlin, Dr. Jakob Fabian, who works by day in advertising for a cigarette company and by night wanders the streets of the city, falls in love with an actress. As her career begins to blossom, prospects for his future begin to wane.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 176 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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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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Eine ganz hei?e Nummer (1989)
Plot Summary:
Al and Elsa have been a couple for some time, but the chances that their relationship will be long-lived are few. For one thing, Al is appallingly dependent on Elsa for his every emotional need. For another, Elsa is an incredibly elusive person, extremely difficult to pin down about anything - especially whatever is bothering her. How they have managed to survive this long is a cause for wonder. When Al gets an opportunity to be cast in a movie role, complete with no-cost occupancy in the casting agent's ugly but fashionable apartment, he jumps at the chance to provide a little material satisfaction for his beloved Elsa. But what exactly does she want?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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The Beginning (1970)
Plot Summary:
A film-in-film story set in a provincial town in Russia. Pasha is an amateur actress who plays a witch at a local club, but her dream is to play Joan of Arc. In a strike of luck she is cast as Joan of Arc in a big screen film. Now she is torn between her luck and her love to Arkadi (Kuravlev) who is a married man.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Twisted Obsession (1989)
Plot Summary:
Dan Gillis, an American screenwriter living in Paris, recently abandoned by his wife, and getting used to his new life as a bachelor while trying to take care of his son, Danny - is commissioned to write a script. The offer comes from Legrand, a successful producer with whom he has worked in the past, but on this occasion he is being asked to write an unconventional story with Malcolm, a young and unknown film director. Dan is undecided about the offer, seeing it as far from the kind of work he has grown used to, but Legrands insistence and the intrigue personality of the young director finally convince him to accept the work despite the reticence of Marilyn, his beautiful but disabled agent. As he starts to work, Dan discovers that there is more at stake than just a movie. His life will be changed as he immerses himself in the closed universe of incestuous relations surrounding Malcolm and his beautiful young sister Jenny, with whom Dan soon becomes obsessed.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: neo noir, manga, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, sexy, eighties, bilingual
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The Story of Marie and Julien (2003)
Plot Summary:
Julien lives alone with his cat. He dreams of Marie, and a few minutes later, he sees her on the street and makes a date. He asks her to move in with him, and she does. Her boyfriend is dead, the rest of her past a mystery. Although they quickly seem to fall in love, she sometimes pulls away suddenly from Julien, is distant, and spends the night in a hotel. She also dreads something imminent and warns Julien that if he missteps, he will lose her and all memory of her. Julien responds by digging into her past: what explains her remodeling an upstairs garret room, her nightly dreams, her fears? What can Julien, now desperately in love, do when he learns why? Can either rescue the other?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, emotional, erotic, sexy, slasher, serious, realistic, contemplative
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Darling (1965)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful but amoral model sleeps her way to the top of the London fashion scene at the height of the Swinging Sixties.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: independent film, clever, witty, cynical, biting, psychological thriller, humorous, realistic, semi serious, crying
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Lost Illusions (2021)
Plot Summary:
Taking place between the years 1837 and 1843, Balzac’s classic novel focuses on the young poet Lucien de Rubempré, who leaves Angouleme for Paris in the pursuit of becoming an author.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 149 min
Plot tags: art house
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Wuthering Heights (1985)
Plot Summary:
Rivette's unique take on Bronte's famous novel "Wuthering Heights".
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Drama, Romance, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, realistic, gloomy
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Long Day's Journey into Night (2018)
Plot Summary:
Luo Hongwu returns to Kaili, the hometown from which he fled many years ago. He begins the search for the woman he loved, and whom he has never been able to forget.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: China, France
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: surreal, enigmatic, captivating, cerebral, psychological, tense, neo noir, erotic, philosophical, suspense
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Boy Meets Girl (1984)
Plot Summary:
Paris by night. Alex, 22, wants to become a filmmaker. He is fascinated by first times and his girlfriend, Florence, has just left him for his best friend, Thomas. First break-up, first attempted murder: Alex tries to strangle Thomas, but gives up and wanders the streets. That evening, Mireille, a girl from provincial France who has come up to Paris to make commercials, is left by her boyfriend. Alex witnesses this separation. These two tormented souls run into each other at a party.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, stylized, avant garde, black and white, mysterious, disturbing, art house, postmodern, contemplative
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The Girl (2000)
Plot Summary:
A torrid affair between two women, a struggling artist and a flame-haired blues singer, upsets a man who has a thing for the girl.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 478
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: erotic, sentimental, touching, light, sincere, melancholic, neo noir, independent film
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Girl with Green Eyes (1964)
Plot Summary:
Catholic-Irish farm girl Kate, along with her gregarious best friend Baba, moves to Dublin to pursue a more exciting life.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, romantic drama, independent film
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Rendez-vous (1985)
Plot Summary:
A woman and three men. Nina, who's come to Paris to act and sleeps with any man at hand, meets Paulot, a young estate agent; he's smitten. She also meets Paulot's flatmate Quentin, a compulsive who stalks her. To Paulot's jealous dismay, she's willing to sleep with Quentin, and wants Paulot's friendship. After a desperate act by Quentin, Nina and Paulot share a flat, but she still won't take him as a lover; instead, her energy goes into a production of "Romeo and Juliet" directed by a detached, intense man who becomes her father figure. Quentin's ghost taunts her, Paulot wants to end all contact, and the director plans to return to London. The art of the theater may be her only refuge.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, anthology, art house, psychological, noir, serious, realistic, gloomy, sexual
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These Foolish Things (2006)
Plot Summary:
As war looms on the horizon, a hopeful ingenue (Zoe Tapper) finds herself caught between the warring affections of a playwright (David Leon) and a director (Andrew Lincoln) in 1930s London. Director Julia Taylor-Stanley's heartwarming ensemble piece features zesty performances by Anjelica Huston as an eccentric investor, Mark Umbers as a vain matinee idol, and Terence Stamp as a tart butler. And don't miss the immortal Lauren Bacall in a small role.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 568
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, captivating, emotional, serious, realistic, crying
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The Last Tycoon (1976)
Plot Summary:
F.Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: realistic, stylized, captivating, sentimental, retro, psychotronic, metafiction, cult classic, serious, gloomy
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The Apartment (1996)
Plot Summary:
A stylish suspense thriller that confounds the audience while presenting them with an extraordinary and elusive mystery. Max is a former playboy who has decided to settle down by marrying his current love, Muriel. However, during a business trip, Max catches a glimpse of the great lost love of his life, reviving his wanderlust and sending him off on a chase of the elusive Lisa, whom he had overheard suggesting to a friend that her lover, Daniel, had killed someone for her. Soon, Max is trying to unravel the mystery behind the suspicious death of Daniel's wife, which he hopes will lead him closer to Lisa.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Spain, Italy
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, tense, enigmatic, suspense, suspenseful, romantic, art house, psychological thriller, sentimental
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Little Lili (2003)
Plot Summary:
This film, loosely inspired by Anton Chekov's The Seagull, weaves a story about sex, family and the business of making films. When the young and overly sensitive filmmaker Julien screens his new DV art-film starring his girlfriend Lili (Swimming Pool's Ludivine Sagnier) --a sexy young local girl--to his famous actress mother Mado, and her lover Brice, an accomplished film director, an unraveling of the delicate peace in their house begins. The graceful beauty Lili, who dreams of becoming a famous actress like Mado, is immediately fascinated by Brice, who gladly falls prey to her charms.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, clever, touching, erotic, contemplative, sexual, crying, sexy
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Regular Lovers (2005)
Plot Summary:
1968 and 1969 in Paris: during and after the student and trade union revolt. François is 20, a poet, dodging military service. He takes to the barricades, but won't throw a Molotov cocktail at the police. He smokes opium and talks about revolution with his friend, Antoine, who has an inheritance and a flat where François can stay. François meets Lilie, a sculptor who works at a foundry to support herself. They fall in love. A year passes; François continues to write, talk, smoke, and be with Lilie. Opportunities come to Lilie: what will she and François do?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 183 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, black and white, touching, captivating, suspenseful, political, art house, contemplative, crying
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Cinema Paradiso (1988)
Plot Summary:
A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 277000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: sad, uplifting, inspirational, touching, emotional, realistic, feel good, atmospheric, heartbreaking, compassionate
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The Governess (1998)
Plot Summary:
When the father of privileged Rosina da Silva violently dies, she decides to pass herself off as a gentile and finds employment with a family in faraway Scotland. Soon she and the family father, Charles, start a passionate secret affair.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, emotional, colorful, period piece, costume drama, atmospheric, scenic, serious, historical drama, realistic
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Jane Eyre (2011)
Plot Summary:
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 92000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, gothic, atmospheric, captivating, costume drama, period piece, visually appealing, sexy, emotional