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Plot Summary:
Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of their safe American suburban surroundings, the family is plunged into the despair of an archaic '80s Britain and their unaffordable new life in an English manor house threatens to destroy the family.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, suspense, realistic, talky, cynical, cerebral
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360 (2011)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by Arthur Schnitzler's classic La Ronde, screenwriter Peter Morgan and director Fernando Meirelles' 360 combines a modern and dynamic roundelay of stories into one, linking characters from different cities and countries in a vivid, suspenseful and deeply moving tale of love in the 21st century. Starting in Vienna, the film beautifully weaves through Paris, London, Bratislava, Rio, Denver and Phoenix into a single, mesmerizing narrative.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Austria, France, Canada, Brazil, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, touching, serious, suspense, suspenseful, sexy, political thriller, slang, existential
Similar in 82%
Uncertainty (2008)
Plot Summary:
Every choice has a consequence. But what if the flip of a coin could trigger two separate but parallel destinies? Bobby (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and Kate (Lynn Collins) are a young New York couple at a crossroads whose lives are about to take very different directions. A seemingly ordinary July 4th is cleaved in two by the flip of a coin. One path leads them to gentle discoveries about family, loss and each other on a visit to Brooklyn, and the other plunges them into an urban nightmare of pursuit, suspense and murder in Manhattan.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, clever, captivating, erotic, experimental, offbeat, independent film, suspense, crying
Similar in 79%
Hungry Hearts (2014)
Plot Summary:
The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, serious, sad, indie film, gloomy, interesting
Similar in 76%
The Souvenir (2019)
Plot Summary:
A shy but ambitious film student falls into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship with a charismatic but untrustworthy older man.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, sweet, captivating, disturbing, erotic, breathtaking, independent film, cult classic, aesthetic
Similar in 89%
AKA (2002)
Plot Summary:
A story of a disaffected youth's search for love, status, and identity in late 1970s Britain. 18-year old Dean is handsome and bright, but feels hampered by his working-class background and by his family. In order to make something of himself, Dean assumes another identity and manages to enter high society. As he navigates this decadent new world, he meets a host of characters, including David, an older gay man who desires him, and Benjamin, a young hustler from Texas who has also managed to find a place among the aristocracy. Can Dean find love while living a lie? How much is he willing to sacrifice in order to pull off his charade? Presented through three simultaneous frames rather than one.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, captivating, contemplative, sexual, crying, detective, sexy
Similar in 89%
Hitting Home (1988)
Plot Summary:
Canadian businesswoman Dinah Middleton's is devastated when her teenage son, Alex, is killed by a hit-and-run driver. When the police fail to turn up any suspects, she turns private detective to track the killer down. She traces the murderer to New York, only to discover that the crime is not covered by the extradition treaty between Canada and the US. She becomes obsessed with bringing the criminal to justice.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, independent film
Similar in 89%
The Leading Man (1996)
Plot Summary:
Successful playwright Felix Webb has a new play, 'The Hit Man', in rehearsal. Directed by his old friend Humphrey, it is already being hailed as a masterpiece; but Felix can't enjoy his success. He has fallen passionately in love with Hilary, a beautiful, fiesty young actress, and is preparing to desert his perfect family, his wife Elena and three lively children. His intolerable situation is further complicated when Humphrey casts Hilary as one of the leads in 'The Hit Man'. Enter Robin Grange, a charismatic young Hollywood actor making his London theatre debut. Robin is attractive, charming and dangerous, and soon inveigles his way into everyone's life. He ingratiates himself with the cast and, quickly grasping Felix's dilemma, sets about weaving his web of mischief. He suggests that if he were to seduce Elena, she would be distracted from Felix's affair, regain her self respect, and perhaps even willingly part from the unfaithful husband to whom she clings.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sweet, semi serious, realistic, clever, talky, emotional, melancholic, humorous, witty, crying
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Breaking and Entering (2006)
Plot Summary:
Set in a blighted, inner-city neighbourhood of London, Breaking and Entering examines an affair which unfolds between a successful British landscape architect and Amira, a Bosnian woman – the mother of a troubled teen son – who was widowed by the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sincere, emotional, heartbreaking, psychological, stylized, compassionate, thought provoking, realistic, anime, crime thriller
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Winter Sleepers (1997)
Plot Summary:
Young blonde translator Rebecca lives with her boyfriend ski instructor Marco in a mountain villa owned by her friend, nurse Laura. Rene, local cinema projectionist, steals Marco's car and gets into a car crash with local Theo, whose daughter, after being in coma for a time, dies. Rene suffers from partial short term memory loss and starts a relationship with Laura. Meanwhile Marco is looking for the man who stole his car and Theo - for the man who killed his daughter.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: psychological, sexual, atmospheric, serious, realistic, gloomy, crying, erotic, road movie, sexy
Similar in 82%
Hope Gap (2019)
Plot Summary:
A couple's visit with their son takes a dramatic turn when the father tells him he plans on leaving his mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Similar in 80%
I Love You, I Love You Not (1996)
Plot Summary:
School student and her European-born grandmother share sad stories of their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, sincere, serious, realistic, crying, scary, fairy tale, light, romantic, rough
Similar in 77%
Ordinary Love (2019)
Plot Summary:
An extraordinary look at the lives of a middle-aged couple in the midst of the wife's breast cancer diagnosis.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, philosophical, rough, captivating, suspenseful
Similar in 85%
By the Sea (2015)
Plot Summary:
Set in France during the mid-1970s, Vanessa, a former dancer, and her husband Roland, an American writer, travel the country together. They seem to be growing apart, but when they linger in one quiet, seaside town they begin to draw close to some of its more vibrant inhabitants, such as a local bar/café-keeper and a hotel owner.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Malta, USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: psychological, depressing, melancholic, scenic, artsy, erotic, sexy, thought provoking, cult classic, aesthetic
Similar in 81%
Love After Love (2017)
Plot Summary:
A sixty-something mother and her two adult sons cope and move onward following the death of their larger-than-life father/husband.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, contemplative, unusual plot structure
Similar in 85%
Intimate Strangers (2004)
Plot Summary:
Because she picked the wrong door, Anna ends up confessing her marriage problems to a financial adviser named William Faber. Touched by her distress, somewhat excited as well, Faber does not have the courage to tell her that he is not a psychiatrist. From appointment to appointment, a strange ritual is created between them. William is moved and fascinated to hear the secrets no man ever heard.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, sincere, touching, philosophical, suspense, clever, talky, romantic drama, humorous
Similar in 78%
The Dinner (2017)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers and their wives meet up at a haute-cuisine restaurant to discuss what to do about a horrific crime that their sons committed together. As the quartet debate their options, the conversation reopens old wounds between the siblings.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: ambiguous ending, enigmatic, rough, suspenseful, cynical, psychological, psychological thriller, suspense, dark, novela
Similar in 86%
Inconceivable (2017)
Plot Summary:
A mother looks to escape her abusive past by moving to a new town where she befriends another mother, who grows suspicious of her.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sexy, captivating, suspense, disturbing, artsy, surprise ending, psychological, feel good, twisted
Similar in 80%
Enduring Love (2004)
Plot Summary:
Two strangers become dangerously close after witnessing a deadly accident. On a beautiful cloudless day a young couple celebrate their reunion with a picnic. Joe has planned a postcard-perfect afternoon in the English countryside with his partner, Claire. But as Joe and Claire prepare to open a bottle of champagne, their idyll comes to an abrupt end. A hot air balloon drifts into the field, obviously in trouble. The pilot catches his leg in the anchor rope, while the only passenger, a boy, is too scared to jump down. Joe and three other men rush to secure the basket. But fate has other ideas.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, disturbing, sexy, suspenseful, stylized, serious, bleak, realistic, suspense
Similar in 87%
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987)
Plot Summary:
A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. She makes a sad last bid for love with a fellow resident of her rundown boarding house, who imagines she has the money to bankroll the business he hopes to open.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy, crying, independent film
Similar in 86%
Crutch (2004)
Plot Summary:
An autobiographical film taken from the experiences of writer-director Rob Moretti, CRUTCH is a coming-of-age tale about a young man's struggle with family problems and substance abuse. Behind a facade of suburban middle class perfection, David's home life is falling apart. As he tries to cope with the impossible situation, the troubled and impressionable teenager falls under the spell of Kenny, a georgous, thirty-something, has-been actor turned theatre coach. When Kenny's "support" escalates into seduction, David slowly decends into an abyss of drinking and drug addition from which he must escape if he is to survive. CRUTCH is a dramatic tale of the confusion of youth and the difficulties in finding oneself.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 712
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, emotional, realistic, bleak, contemplative, gloomy, crying, queer cinema
Similar in 79%
Fascination (2004)
Plot Summary:
Young Scott Doherty (Adam Garcia) gets suspicious when his mother (Jacqueline Bisset) plans to wed Oliver Vance (Stuart Wilson) soon after her husband's untimely death. Scott investigates with Oliver's pretty daughter, Kelly (Alice Evans), who shared Scott's doubts about the upcoming nuptials. Along the way, he falls in love with Kelly, but a fatal explosion turns Scott's life upside down - and the evidence points to him as the murderer. Has he been framed?.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, neo noir, serious, suspense, romantic, realistic, sexual, surprise ending
Similar in 81%
Crooked Hearts (1991)
Plot Summary:
The father of a family has a an affair. This affects every member of the family.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sentimental, clever, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, talky
Similar in 76%
Personal Velocity (2002)
Plot Summary:
Three women's escapes from their afflicted lives. Each struggles to flee from the men who confine their personal freedom.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: talky, stylized, intense, touching, psychological, sincere, serious, realistic, anthology, erotic
Similar in 80%
Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
Plot Summary:
Bizarre tale of sex, betrayal, and perversion at a military post.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, sexual, suspense, southern gothic, erotic, retro, tense
Similar in 82%
Asylum (2005)
Plot Summary:
A woman becomes very curious about one of her psychiatrist husband's inmates, a man who was found guilty in the murder and disfigurement of his former wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, erotic, sexy, psychological thriller, dramatic, period piece
Similar in 85%
Closer (2004)
Plot Summary:
A witty, romantic, and very dangerous love story about chance meetings, instant attractions, and casual betrayals. Two couples disintegrate when they begin destructive adulterous affairs with each other.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 233000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, romantic, psychological, melancholic, intellectual, sensual, dark, heartbreaking, romantic drama
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Hateship Loveship (2013)
Plot Summary:
A wild teenage girl orchestrates a romance between her nanny and her father, who is a recovering addict.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: emotional, serious, realistic, sincere, captivating, disturbing, sentimental, cerebral, teen, aesthetic
Similar in 77%
Final Cut (1998)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends gather for a wake, and are shown a video shot by Jude (Jude Law) and starring them before he dies. Things go rapidly downhill.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, disturbing, clever, cynical, suspense, psychological, psychological thriller, experimental, tech noir
Similar in 81%
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
Similar in 88%
Close My Eyes (1991)
Plot Summary:
After some years of tension, Richard begins a sexual relationship with his sister Natalie. Now married, the relationship proves dangerously obsessional.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sensual, bleak, stylized, sexy, erotic, thought provoking, offbeat, sexual