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Plot Summary:
Middle-aged writer (Kornél Esti) travels to Germany to deliver a lecture. During the long journey he recalls the memories of an other journey he made thirty years ago.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Hungary
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: surreal
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Jardines Colgantes (1993)
Plot Summary:
A Taylor comes to town looking for top-quality leather. From his apartment window, he watches the comings and goings of the other inhabitants. He grows obsessed with a woman who is also desired by the rich, powerful owner of the building. The rivalry between the two men leads to a series of events culminating in a dramatic ending.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags:
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Priceless Beauty (1988)
Plot Summary:
A rock-star who stopped singing after the death of his brother finds a female genie in a vase. She tries to help him live again.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 350
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: erotic
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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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Italiani (1996)
Plot Summary:
1965, a train with a variety of passengers is heading north when it makes an unexpected stop. On the other track, heading south, a train passes with the same passengers 20 years later.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min
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Thou Gild'st the Even (2013)
Plot Summary:
In a small Anatolian town life goes on; Cemal is an assistant referee in football matches, Yasemin works in an egg factory, Defne is a street vendor who sells books, Doctor Irfan is occupied with his patients... In this town with two suns and three full moons in the sky, Cemal -who can see through the walls- has no expectation out of life and looks for a way out with Yasemin -who can move objects with her fingers- as he was trying to deal with the distress that fell on his. However, Defne, who can freeze time will muddle things up; Yasemin’s immortal boss’ actions will contradict the invisible elementary school teacher’s advices who is trying to eliminate the worries of Cemal. Thou Gild’st the Even is a black and white movie about the ordinary sorrows, worries and troubles of the townsmen with extraordinary abilities.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: art house, surreal, black and white
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The Shadow of the Day (2022)
Plot Summary:
Italy, after the promulgation of the racial laws (1938). Luciano, a Fascist-abiding restaurateur, nonetheless believes he can still live by his own rules inside his business. However, everything changes when Anna, a girl with a dangerous secret, starts to work at his restaurant.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags:
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India Song (1975)
Plot Summary:
India, 1937. Anne-Marie Stretter is the wife of the French ambassador and leads a solitary yet privileged life in Calcutta. The tedium of her existence is relieved by numerous illicit love affairs with government officials, young men who find her an object of desire and fascination. The Vice Consul is driven insane by his love for her and, expelled from the ambassador’s palace, cries like a sick animal. Life continues for Anne-Marie Stretter, the same tedious existence….
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: art house, cult classic, psychological, atmospheric, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, experimental, contemplative
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Compartment No. 6 (2021)
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A Finnish archaeology student escapes an enigmatic lesbian love affair in Moscow by boarding a train to the arctic port of Murmansk. Forced to share the long ride and a tiny sleeping car with a larger than life Russian miner, the unexpected encounter leads the occupants of compartment no. 6 to face major truths about human connection.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, Russia, Estonia, Germany
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: road movie, disturbing, psychological, captivating, romantic, beautiful, cult film
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Lily, an American traveling on the famous Orient Express train from Venice to Paris, suddenly runs into her former lover, Alex, whom they met and had a tender romance 10 years earlier while vacationing in France which ended abruptly when he walked out on her without saying a word. Now Alex tries to make up for lost time with Lily while she digs into his past to find out what haunting secrets that he has which led to their abrupt breakup.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: romantic drama
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Mouvements du désir (1994)
Plot Summary:
During the long train ride from Montreal to Vancouver, a man and woman find themselves increasingly attracted to each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, France, Switzerland
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: avant garde
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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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My Mother, the Mermaid (2004)
Plot Summary:
Na-young works at a post office and is sick and tired of being around her shamefully unyielding mother and her pushover father who's excessively nice. The only thing that she can look forward to is her trip abroad in a few days. But one day, her father leaves home without any notice. Her mother doesn't care what happens to him and doesn't care to look for him. Na-young has no choice but to give up her dream trip abroad and to search for her father instead. Once she arrives at her parents' hometown, Na-young is shocked to meet someone she'd never expect, even in her dreams.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 391
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: mind twisting, romantic, captivating, mind bending, touching, entertaining
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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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Five Evenings (1979)
Plot Summary:
Tamara and Sasha were separated during the war. Now (1957) Sasha is visiting Moscow for five days and by chance recognizes the house where Tamara used to live. She is still living there with her nephew Slava.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: period drama
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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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Split (2016)
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The story of a young woman who takes an epic journey to claim her own darkness and sexuality so she can stop putting it into the hands of her abusive lover. When Inanna, a young actress, working as a stripper, becomes obsessed with a mask maker, she sacrifices parts of herself and her life, piece by piece, in order to win his love. At the same time she enters a mythic journey in the theater. One that forces her to face the many abuses endured by women around that world and that blurs her performance, her dreams and her real life and results in a provocative and powerful confrontation that frees her. -- from official website.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 502
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, surreal
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The Adventures of God (2000)
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It tells the story of a man and a woman trapped inside what appears to be a dream set in the labyrinthine hallways, mysterious rooms of a large hotel in the 30's, facing the sea.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Argentina
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: art house, captivating, surreal, absurd, experimental
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The Virgin of Lust (2002)
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In Vera Cruz in the 1940s, Nacho, an Indian, waits tables at Don Lázaro's café at Hotel Ofélia. He falls for Lola, an opium-addicted, alcoholic whore who's hopelessly in love with Gardenia Wilson, a masked wrestler who slept with her once but knows she's unbalanced. Don Lázaro warns Nacho about Lola, and Nacho knows his love will be unrequited, but he'll do anything, regardless of how degrading, to be near her. Lola, for her part, can be sadistic. Republican exiles who are regulars at the café encourage Lola's desire to assassinate Franco. Nacho in turn mixes this political mirage with his fascination with the plot of "The Mikado." Where do fantasies and obsessions lead?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 151 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, emotional, sexy, surreal, atmospheric, realistic, stylized, gloomy, sexual
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Geethanjali (1989)
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Geethanjali and Prakash, two terminally ill people with six months of life left, fall in love. A young man diagnosed with a terminal illness wishes to spend the few remaining days of his life in solitude away from his family. He comes to a hill station and there he comes across a girl, who seems to be his complete opposite and full of life. As they keep playing tricks on each other they get closer to each other. One such incident makes him aware of a shocking truth about her, which changes both their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: romantic, tragic ending, tragic
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Moondram Pirai (1982)
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Moondram Pirai starring by kamal haasan and sridevi kappor. he movie begins with a young girl Bhagyalakshmi (Sridevi) who meets with an accident thus succumbing to amnesia. This condition makes her lose her memory of her entire teenage and adulthood leaving her as a physically grown up woman but with the memory and intelligence of a seven year old. Circumstances cheat her into Prostitution, where in the brothel, she meets Srinivas (Kamal Haasan) who understands that she has been tricked into the trade.He rescues her to take her to his home in Ooty and begins to lead life with.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: sad, tragic ending, tragic, cult film
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Rough Magic (1995)
Plot Summary:
A sleazy politician sends an agent (Russell Crowe) after his ex-fiancee (Bridget Fonda), who fled to Mexico with incriminating film of him.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: surreal, touching, humorous, melancholic, intense, semi serious, romantic, neo noir, independent film, atmospheric
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Hello, My Dolly Girlfriend (2013)
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A lonely otaku is fired from his job. He is rescued in a ruined building by a strange girl in a sailor suit. When he wakes up, the girl becomes a figure. The young man and the pretty figure begin to live together.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 376
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, enigmatic, captivating, surreal, disturbing, erotic, manga, entertaining
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Déjà Vu (1997)
Plot Summary:
L.A. shop owner Dana and Englishman Sean meet and fall in love at first sight, but Sean is married and Dana is to marry her business partner Alex.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 952
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: romantic, romantic drama, independent film, sentimental, serious, realistic, light, philosophical, sexy, thought provoking
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The Future (2011)
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When a couple decides to adopt a stray cat their perspective on life changes radically, literally altering the course of time and space and testing their faith in each other and themselves.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Germany, France, UK
Duration: 91 min
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Earth (1996)
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Angel, an exterminator recently released from a mental hospital, comes to rid a small Spanish town of tiny grubs in the soil. The local wine-making industry has found these pests responsible for giving their product an "earthy" taste that has divided local opinion. While in town, Angel becomes involved with two beautiful and very different women, and impacts their lives on a grand scale. Can either of these women accept the fact that Angel travels with a "ghost" of himself, or that he routinely speaks with the deseased townspeople?.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: erotic, art house, hispanic, humorous, realistic, surreal, contemplative, semi serious, manga, weird
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Somewhere in Time (1980)
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Young writer, Richard Collier is met on the opening night of his first play by an old lady who begs him to, "Come back to me." Mystified, he tries to find out about her, and learns that she is a famous stage actress from the early 1900s. Becoming more and more obsessed with her, he manages – by self-hypnosis – to travel back in time where he meets her. They fall in love, a matching that is not appreciated by her manager. Can their love outlast the immense problems caused by their 'time" difference, and can Richard remain in a time that is not his?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, sentimental, atmospheric, heartbreaking, period piece, sweet, light, emotional, stylized
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Il Mare (2000)
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Eun-joo moves out of her house "Il Mare", leaving behind a Christmas card for the eventual new owner of the house in 1999. In it she asks him/her to forward any mail of hers to her new address in the city. It is 1997 and Sung-hyun, the first owner of "Il Mare" is moving in and finds in his mailbox the Christmas card from Eun-joo. Thinking it was a joke, Sung-hyun leaves her a letter telling her so and reminds her that its 1997 not 1999. Eventually the two realize that they are separated by two years of time but can somehow communicate through the mailbox and begin to form a friendship through their letters.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
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Country: South Korea
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A Room with a View (1985)
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When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy's life forever but, once back in England, how will her experiences in Tuscany affect her marriage plans?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: scenic, touching, period piece, atmospheric, costume drama, romantic, sweet, captivating, visually appealing, clever
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Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Plot Summary:
A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 516000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
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Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022)
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A solitary scholar discovers an ancient bottle while on a trip to Istanbul and unleashes a djinn who offers her three wishes. Filled with reluctance, she is unable to come up with one, so the djinn tries to inspire her with his stories.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, philosophical, psychological, captivating, disturbing, exciting, psychedelic, humorous, surreal, visual