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Plot Summary:
A psychological drama about two young lovers who are emotionally and mentally unstable. Through the flashbacks they are telling what did they do before they ended up in asylum.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: non-linear
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Crush (2009)
Plot Summary:
A four part anthology exploring the multitude of emotions and colors in gay relationships.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: anthology, queer cinema, gay cinema
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Something in Between (1982)
Plot Summary:
An American woman comes to Belgrade to visit an old friend. There, on the exotic boundary between West and East, she becomes entangled in a love triangle.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Senza pelle (1994)
Plot Summary:
The life of a happily married couple is turned upside down when the wife unknowingly becomes the focus of the attentions of a depressed and mentally unstable young man.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 322
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: crying
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3 Seasons in Hell (2009)
Plot Summary:
A 19 year old nonconformist poet living in 1947 Czechoslovakia is blind to the Communist behemoth looking over him, and instead lives a bohemian life with sexually liberated girls.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 420
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: intellectual, psychological, captivating, disturbing, freeze frame, unusual plot structure, contemplative
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Sally (2000)
Plot Summary:
Jack is driving aimlessly on a road to nowhere with his imaginary girlfriend, Sally, when he meets Beth. The duo becomes a trio when escaped mental patient Bugs, also fixated on an imaginary woman named Sally, finds himself along for the ride with Jack and Beth. Disagreements between the new acquaintances coincide with a series of violent and criminal confrontations.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, light, sincere, captivating, melancholic, suspenseful, independent film, exciting, cult film
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Young and Healthy as a Rose (1971)
Plot Summary:
Young and Healthy as a Rose follows Stevan Nikolic, "Stiv", a petty criminal born in Belgrade, and his rise to power along with drugs, sex and with the help of local police.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 930
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: black and white
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Private Road (1971)
Plot Summary:
Receptionist Anne’s new relationship with nascent writer Peter is opening her eyes to a new lifestyle, one far removed from her comfortable middle-class background.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: crying, independent film
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Nudity (1990)
Plot Summary:
Young prisoner Jan, nicknamed Roughboy (Petr Cepek), tries to commit suicide. He was imprisoned for a fight in which he injured a functionary of the National Committee and for stealing material but actually by the blame for this crime was pinned on him by the road-builders in whose group he worked. The prison doctor knows that Jan is an emotionally deprived person who never knew his parents and spent all his childhood - except one year with foster-parents - in orphanages, homes for youth and reform schools. He arranges a five-day holiday for Jan, who wants to find his mother's grave.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: crying
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The Story of Paul (1975)
Plot Summary:
A young man is checked into a mental hospital for unexplained reasons.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags:
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The Profiteer (1974)
Plot Summary:
A young seminarian who can't be ordained because of a speech impediment leaves the seminary to take a job with a wealthy baroness' crippled son. The seminarian is actually what the italian title of the movie describes as an exploitative parasite ( saprofita), first bedding the baroness and consequently pushing her impotent husband to commit suicide, then taking off to Lourdes with the boy, who hopes for a miracle, and finally seducing a very devout woman who is visiting the site with her grandmother, who unexpectedly dies. Sergio Nasca's (an assistant director of Marco Bellocchio) decadent erootic drama debut.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: crying
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White Whore (1974)
Plot Summary:
Pinku from 1974.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: naughty
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Day for My Love (1977)
Plot Summary:
The sore and tender hearts of a young couple with a toddler are explored in this drama. The little girl, four years old, is not aware that she is doing anything distressing while she ambles about the house on the day after a post-examination celebration by her father, a university student. Even though hung over, he tries hard to be patient with her. The beginning of the story follows her on her little adventures. The girl comes down with a fever, which kills her before anything can be done, and the student and his photographer wife mourn and comfort one another. Little encounters with children cause the mother pain she is seldom free of, until she gives birth to their next child, a son.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: crying, freeze frame
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Our Lady of Lust (1972)
Plot Summary:
When it looks like the plane that Cristina is travelling on is about to crash, she makes a pledge to become a nun if her life is spared. The plane lands safely & Cristina uphold her end of the bargain, but even as a nun she cannot leave her promiscuous ways behind her.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: erotic, crying
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An Unlikely Romance (2013)
Plot Summary:
Luisa and Erika are prototypes of young women who plunge into relationships with the "wrong" men. Luisa (Berenika Kohoutová) wants to become an actress, which upsets her husband Igor to no end. Erika (Alzbeta Pazoutová) is trying to work as much as possible so that she can afford to study and thereby achieve a better outlook on life, but she unfortunately runs up against a boss who doesn't have the best intentions with her. Ultimately Luisa's husband demonstratively commits suicide. Erika accidentally kills her boss in self-defense... The women blame themselves for all these failures, and that has got to change. Both have to grow up and start living again. Perhaps even together.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: lgbt cinema, psychological, romantic, compassionate, crying, gay cinema
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Love and Fury (2016)
Plot Summary:
In 1980's Helsinki, a city about to burst with young energy and rebellion, two young writers determined to conquer the world fall madly in love. For Inka, the love affair puts everything in motion: she finds her own voice, publishes her first novel - and becomes a sensation. The intensity of their relationship has a different affect on Juhana, who starts to lose his grip on writing and, finally, life. At the height of the love affair Inka starts to suspect that their mad love might actually be real madness.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 533
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Bambola (1996)
Plot Summary:
Her name is Mina, but she is called Bambola (doll). Upon the death of her mother, she and her homosexual brother, Flavio, open a pizzeria. A man named Ugo loans Bambola the money, but is then killed in a fight with another one of her boyfriends, Settimio. While visiting Settimio in jail, she meets a sadistic man named Furio, and they begin a relationship.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, Spain, France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, erotic, sentimental, feel good, tense, captivating, melancholic, suspenseful
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The Elementary Particles (2006)
Plot Summary:
Based on Michel Houellebecq's controversial novel, Atomised (aka The Elementary Particles) focuses on Michael and Bruno, two very different half-brothers and their disturbed sexuality. After a chaotic childhood with a hippie mother only caring for her affairs, Michael, a molecular biologist, is more interested in genes than women, while Bruno is obsessed with his sexual desires, but mostly finds his satisfaction with prostitutes. But Bruno's life changes when he gets to know the experienced Christiane. In the meantime, Michael meets Annabelle, the love of his youth, again.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, clever, serious, erotic, sensual, tense, offbeat, captivating, realistic
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Mothering Sunday (2021)
Plot Summary:
Set over a day in 1924, the story follows Jane Fairchild, a maid in the Niven household, who has the day off to celebrate Mothering Sunday while Mr. and Mrs. Niven attend a lunch to celebrate the engagement of their neighbour’s only remaining son, Paul, to Emma Hobday. Jane rejoices at her freedom on an unseasonably hot, beautiful spring day. But, she has no mother to go to. For almost seven years she has – joyfully and without shame – been Paul’s lover. Like the Nivens, Paul belongs to England’s old money aristocracy, whereas Jane was orphaned at birth. With the house conveniently empty, they can finally meet in Paul’s bedroom for the first time. Today will be their last as lovers. It is also the day that will mark the beginning of Jane’s transformation as the story unfolds through the hours of clandestine passion.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, non-linear, entertaining
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Turkish Delight (1973)
Plot Summary:
Sort of a cross between "Love Story" and an earthy Rembrandt painting, this movie stars Rutger Hauer as a gifted Dutch sculptor who has a stormy, erotic, and star-crossed romance with a beautiful young girl. The story follows the arc of their relationship and his interaction with her family.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sensual, disturbing, controversial, cult classic, romantic, epic, experimental, manga, erotic drama, insightful
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Open Future (1983)
Plot Summary:
A 16 year old boy growing up in the 60's, experimenting with life, sex, drugs and alcohol.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: freeze frame
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A Night in Heaven (1983)
Plot Summary:
Faye Hanlon is a community-college professor with an emotionally depressed husband and an abundance of sexual frustration. Her sister drags her to a male strip-club for a girls-night out, where she discovers that one of the dancers is her failing student Rick Monroe, a.k.a. "Ricky the Rocket". A heated affair between teacher & student ensues, as Faye struggles to reconcile her emotions and make consequential life choices: Continue her lustful sessions with the studly-but-shallow teen stripper? Or break it off with Ricky & work to salvage her marriage to the loving-but-distant husband?.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: sensual, erotic, sexy, sex comedy, cult classic, independent film, sentimental, emotional, realistic, semi serious
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The Deserter (1970)
Plot Summary:
A soldier runs away from the horrors of war, finds love with a virgin farm girl and a mistreated housewife, and will find that it is difficult to survive the battles of sex and love.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, Greece
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: mondo, crying, freeze frame
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Veronika Decides to Die (2009)
Plot Summary:
After a frantic suicide attempt, Veronika awakens inside a mysterious mental asylum. Under the supervision of an unorthodox psychiatrist who specializes in controversial treatment, Veronika learns that she has only weeks to live.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, melancholic, emotional, intense, sincere, controversial, erotic, surreal, neurotic
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Close to the Horizon (2019)
Plot Summary:
Jessica knows exactly what her life is supposed to look like and where it takes her. But then she meets Danny. He has a complicated past and could confuse all their plans. Jessica has to decide.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, sentimental, romantic, sincere, heartbreaking, tear jerker, crying, tearjerker
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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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3some (2009)
Plot Summary:
In an attempt to help his friend with his impotence, Jaime sets up two friends together. But after the failure, he comes in to help. What first appeared to be just a sexual experience evolves to a full romantic relationship of three people.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: romantic, erotic, atmospheric, sexy, captivating, eros, explicit, crying
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365 Days (2020)
Plot Summary:
Laura, in order to save her relationship from falling apart, goes to Sicily, where she meets Massimo. A dangerous man, the head of a mafia family, kidnaps her and gives 365 days to love him.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 96000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, sexual, disturbing, captivating, psychological, sincere, tragic ending, romantic, feel good
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Center of My World (2016)
Plot Summary:
A strange family: 17-year-old Phil lives with his mother and twin sister in an old mansion on the outskirts of town. When he returns from summer camp, the mood in the mansion has soured somehow. Phil doesn’t worry about it, hanging out with his best friend Kat instead. When he starts to feel attracted to a mysterious new student at school, Phil is plunged into emotional turmoil only exacerbated by the trouble at home.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, psychological, rough, lgbt cinema, erotic, cute, teen, crying, freeze frame
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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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Head-On (2004)
Plot Summary:
Head On is German director Fatih Akin’s story of the alcoholic Cahit and Turkish Sibel. Akin tells the story of a love that can never be between two people who are too alike to not be together.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Turkey
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: psychological, depressing, bleak, emotional, breathtaking, serious, disturbing, touching, melancholic, independent film