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Plot Summary:
During World War I, a home care nurse treats a man who lost one leg on the front lines. A strong bond arises between them and evolves into a passionate love affair.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 353
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: romantic, rough, sexy, controversial, stylized, complex
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My Golden Days (2015)
Plot Summary:
Paul is preparing to leave Tajikistan, while thinking back on his adolescent years. His childhood, his mother's madness, the parties, the trip to the USSR where he lost his virginity, the friend who betrayed him and the love of his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: captivating, sentimental, sincere, suspense, erotic, sexy, stylized, sensual
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Wild Seas (2022)
Plot Summary:
A couple of fisher-folk are joined by a young new apprentice in the middle of a raging storm.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: romantic
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Belle du Seigneur (2012)
Plot Summary:
English-language adaptation of Albert Cohen's epic Swiss tale of a tortured love affair between a high-ranking Jewish official and the protestant wife of one of his employees.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Luxembourg, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: emotional, inspirational, realistic, touching, serious, weird
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Grand Central (2013)
Plot Summary:
A young unemployed man finds work at a nuclear power plant and begins an illicit affair with the fiancée of one of his senior workmates.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Austria
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, tense, sincere, serious, emotional, sexy, clever, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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A Serious Game (2016)
Plot Summary:
In the 1910s, journalist Arvid Stjärnblom and painter's daughter Lydia Stille fall in love with each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, romantic, captivating, costume drama
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Ricordi? (2018)
Plot Summary:
A long love story, seen through the memories of one young couple. The journey through the years of two individuals, united, divided, happy, unhappy, deeply in love, or in love with others, in a single stream of emotions and shades of feeling. Over the course of the film, he learns that love can indeed last, while she learns to live with nostalgia.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, sexy, touching, emotional
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Pendular (2017)
Plot Summary:
The trajectory of a romantic couple of contemporary artists reveals how the limits, contradictions and obsessions of a romantic relationship are reflected in each of their artistic endeavors.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 523
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil, Argentina, France, Germany
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Circle of Love (1964)
Plot Summary:
In a chain reaction of romantic adventures, various people play musical beds in a remake of Max Ophul's "La Ronde.".
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 639
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: art house, sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, sexual, sexy, confusing
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Madame Bovary (1991)
Plot Summary:
Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and sensual Emma Bovary finds herself in calamitous debt and purses scandalous sexual liaisons with absolute abandon. However, when her volatile lifestyle catches up to her, the lives of everyone around her are endangered.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: realistic, melancholic, sexy, costume drama, intense, romantic, erotic, spiritual, art house, romantic drama
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The Woman Who Dreamed of a Man (2010)
Plot Summary:
A famous Danish artist and fashion photographer who leads an eventful life and is always travelling, meets a man who immediately awakens strong feelings in her. This unexpected encounter sparks a decisive turning point in her life and they begin a passionate relationship.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 923
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Poland, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, stylized, serious, erotic, sexy, romantic drama, hot
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Pola X (1999)
Plot Summary:
A writer leaves his upper-class life and journeys with a woman claiming to be his sister, and her two friends.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Switzerland, Germany, Japan
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: sexy, meditative, disturbing, psychological, serious, romantic, controversial, offbeat, mysterious, sensual
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To Our Loves (1983)
Plot Summary:
A portrait of youth in bloom; a tale of one family's dissolution; a reflection upon the danger and the mystery in living. Sandrine Bonnaire plays Suzanne, a free spirit and the vessel for an almost Brontëan choler. She's 16, and men exist — diverse lovers, an overbearing brother, and the father portrayed by director Maurice Pialat himself in an unforgettable turn that displays the full magnitude of the cinema giant's tenderness, force-of-will, and presence of being.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: erotic, retro, anthology, art house, sensual, crying, psychological, serious, realistic, gloomy
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The Red Thread (2016)
Plot Summary:
Seven years after their first infatuated encounter, Abril and Manuel meet again. Despite the fact that they are both married, it is soon apparent that their attraction has only grown.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Chile
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sexy, romantic, psychological, sincere, touching, captivating, realistic, erotic
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Lady J (2018)
Plot Summary:
When a romance between a widow and a notorious libertine takes an unexpected turn, Mademoiselle de Joncquières becomes instrumental to one lover’s plans for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: costume drama, melancholic, sentimental, sincere, disturbing, stylized, period piece, sensitive, period drama
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Valmont (1989)
Plot Summary:
Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that he can seduce her, even though she is an honorable woman. If he wins, he can have his lover to do as he will. However, in the process of seducing the married woman, Valmont falls in love. Based on the same novel as "Dangerous Liaisons.".
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: stylized, period piece, sensual, costume drama, sexy, realistic, erotic, historical drama, independent film, captivating
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Obsession (2015)
Plot Summary:
Simone inherits a dilapidated farmhouse in France and makes her way there with her husband Eric and their two children. Her dream is to turn the house into a bed and breakfast but as the hectic pace of the rebuilding gets underway, she gets caught up in the romance and chaos of it all. Losing sight of her goals, she must find her way back to the dreams and ambitions which brought her there in the first place.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, touching, captivating, melancholic, sexy, erotic, hot
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Five Times Two (2004)
Plot Summary:
As young French couple Gilles and Marion officially separate, we see, in reverse order, the milestone moments in their relationship: Gilles revealing his unfaithfulness at a tense dinner party; Marion giving birth to their premature son while Gilles is elsewhere; Gilles and Marion's joyous wedding; and, finally, the fateful moment when they meet as acquaintances at an Italian beach resort, and their love affair begins.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, enigmatic, non-linear, sensual, stylized, sincere, inspirational, disturbing, tense
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Leaving (2009)
Plot Summary:
Suzanne is a well to do married woman and mother in the south of France. Her idle bourgeois lifestyle gets her down and she decides to go back to work as a physiotherapist. Her husband agrees to fix up a consulting room for her in their backyard. When Suzanne and the man hired to do the building meet, the mutual attraction is sudden and violent. Suzanne decides to give up everything and live this all engulfing passion to the fullest.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, emotional, psychological, captivating, erotic, romantic, sexy, sensual, tense
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Happiness (1965)
Plot Summary:
Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse, young husband and father François finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal worker.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: art house, anthology, psychological, sentimental, atmospheric, serious, realistic, gloomy, fairy tale, erotic
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From the Land of the Moon (2016)
Plot Summary:
An adaptation of Milena Agus' eponymous novel set after WWII, "Mal de Pierres" ("Mal di Pietre") spans 20 years, following the destiny of a passionate, free-spirited woman who is in a loveless marriage and falls for another man.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Canada, Spain
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, sexy, suspense, tense, erotic, retro, sexual, novela, twisted
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The Secret (2000)
Plot Summary:
Marie, who works as a successful door-to-door encyclopedia salesperson, has been married to her husband Francois for 12 years and has a two-year-old son. Though she is relatively content with her life, she feels something is wanting. Enter 50-year old African-American Bill. Initially she is annoyed by his insouciance, but she finds that she is irresistibly attracted to him. Soon the two are in the midst of sordid illicit affair. She knows little about her new lover, and he seems uninterested in learning about her, but the long sessions of lovemaking are something else entirely. Feeling out of control, Marie is increasingly repelled by her own actions. Psychologically, she struggles to reconcile her torrid encounters with Bill and mundane domestic chores such as bathing her son. Moreover, she finds herself incapable of hiding her adulterous behavior, rather she comes home with scratches and hickeys all over her body, to the devastation Francois.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 795
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sexy, serious, realistic, erotic, captivating, sexual
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Betty Blue (1986)
Plot Summary:
Betty Blue, a mentally unbalanced and sexually aggressive free spirit who becomes involved with Zorg, a repairman moonlighting as a writer. The two engage in a variety of sexual encounters, and grow more passionate toward each other. Betty finds Zorg’s book and is aggressively supportive; over time, her instability begin to catch up with her, leading to a grisly and shocking conclusion.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, atmospheric, sexual, romantic, breathtaking, talky, intense, serious, sensual
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Lady Chatterley's Lover (1981)
Plot Summary:
A film adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's novel. After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her husband's consent, she seeks out other means of fulfilling her needs.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, West Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, controversial, sensual, sexual, manga, serious, realistic, crying, atmospheric
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Intimacy (2001)
Plot Summary:
Jay, a failed musician, walked out of his family and now earns a living as head bartender in a trendy London pub. Every Wednesday afternoon a woman comes to his house for graphic, almost wordless, sex. One day Jay follows her and finds out about the rest of her life (and that her name is Claire). This eventually disrupts their relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK, Germany
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: sexy, sexual, sensual, erotic, controversial, bleak, disturbing, enigmatic, artsy, depressing
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Young & Beautiful (2013)
Plot Summary:
Isabelle, a 17-year-old student, loses her virginity during a quick holiday romance. When she returns home, she begins a secret life as a prostitute for a year.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexual, sexy, atmospheric, sensual, controversial, art house, romantic, harsh, intellectual
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L'ennui (1998)
Plot Summary:
A philosophy teacher restless with the need to do something with his life meets a young woman suspected of driving an artist to his death. He finds the very simple Cecilia irritating but develops a sexual rapport with her. Obsessed with the need to own and tormented by her inability to respond to him, he becomes increasingly violent in a quest he can't name - a quest that slowly begins to undermine his certainties.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Romance, Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, sexy, emotional, sexual, psycho sexual, sensual, transgressive, serious, realistic
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Lady Chatterley (2006)
Plot Summary:
French adaption of DH Lawrence's infamous novel about forbidden passion across the class divide. Winner of the 2007 Cesar Award for Best Film.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 168 min
Plot tags: sexy, romantic, touching, sexual, sincere, erotic, costume drama, eros, sensual, historical drama
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Come Undone (2010)
Plot Summary:
Anna is an accountant for an important insurance firm and lives with her longterm lover Alessio - a man who longs for a stable longterm relationship with children, home, etc. Anna, feeling as though the fire has fizzled in that relationship takes up with co-worker Domenico and the two begin a passionate affair.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, Switzerland, France
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, sincere, touching, sexy, serious, realistic, sexual, art house, explicit
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Damage (1992)
Plot Summary:
The life of a respected British politician at the height of his career crumbles when he becomes obsessed with his son's lover.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: sexy, sexual, erotic, melancholic, psychological, sensual, emotional, realistic, non-linear, romantic
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The Painted Veil (2006)
Plot Summary:
A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 95000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Canada, USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, scenic, captivating, heartbreaking, melancholic, costume drama, romantic, period piece, atmospheric