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Plot Summary:
In 1880's China, young Lalu is sold into marriage by her impoverished father. Rather than becoming a bride, Lalu ends up in an Idaho gold-mining town, the property of a saloon owner who renames her China Polly and plans to sell her as entertainment for the locals. Refusing to become a whore, Lalu ultimately finds her own way in this strange country filled with white demons.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 712
Genere: Romance, Western
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: emotional, period piece, independent film, serious, realistic
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Crush (2009)
Plot Summary:
Five short love stories, which become a statement of the directors about love. A shoemaker, a reporter, a pavement hooker-in, a psychiatric patient and a young man released from prison are the main characters of the film, heroes in a time of no heroes. All of them have the important qualities of being openhearted and not afraid of loving.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 547
Genere: Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, touching, serious, realistic, romantic, art house, clever, contemplative, non-linear
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The Virginian (2000)
Plot Summary:
A cowboy finds himself betrayed by his best friend and must choose between bringing him to justice and alienating the pretty schoolteacher he is in love with.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 667
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, captivating, intense, realistic
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Painted Angels (1998)
Plot Summary:
The story centers on the life of a bordello in a midwestern prairie town in the 1870s. The whorehouse is run by pragmatic madam Annie Ryan and the film follows the life of several of her girls.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 230
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy
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The Substitute Wife (1994)
Plot Summary:
In Nebraska, in pioneer days, a woman who knows she is going to die asks a prostitute to replace her with her husband and four children in order to make it possible for them to keep their family farm.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 584
Genere: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, emotional, sentimental, serious, realistic
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For a Handful of Kisses (2014)
Plot Summary:
A girl. A boy. A love story. But also about dreams, fears, life, true love, friendship and how we deal with it. And a secret between them.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: serious, sentimental, emotional, realistic
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A Stranger's Heart (2007)
Plot Summary:
Man and woman (Peter Dobson and Samantha Mathis) fall in love in a heart transplant facility. They are both attracted to a little girl (Mary Matilyn Mouser) who turns out to be the orphan of their heart donors.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 446
Genere: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, uplifting, emotional, serious, realistic
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Pharaoh's Army (1995)
Plot Summary:
Union soldiers in search of food descend on the farm of a Confederate family and decide to stay until one in their ranks' wounds have healed. While the war weary Union captain (Chris Cooper) falls for the mother of the family (Patricia Clarkson) - whose husband is off fighting for the rebels - her son plots revenge on the dirty, double-dealing Yankees. Co-stars Kris Kristofferson.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 697
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, atmospheric, rough, serious, emotional, realistic
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The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1973)
Plot Summary:
Western based on the novel by Marilyn Durham. A defiant wife who leaves her husband to take up riding with outlaws.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic
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Rough Night in Jericho (1967)
Plot Summary:
The only business in the Wild West town of Jericho that corrupt sheriff Alex Flood doesn't control behind the scenes is the stagecoach owned by tough-willed widow Molly Lang and her right-hand man, Hickman. Former marshal Dolan, recently hired by Lang and Hickman as a driver, wants to stay out of the mess, but when he sees Flood's henchman Yarbrough assault Lang, he steps up to fight the corruption.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, light, sexy, brutal, unusual plot structure, bloody
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Romeo and Juliet (2014)
Plot Summary:
Orlando Bloom and Condola Rashad take on the title characters in a modern adaptation of the timeless classic, Romeo and Juliet. This Broadway stage production is being broadcast in movie theaters.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 500
Genere: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, romantic, sexy
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Redemption: For Robbing the Dead (2011)
Plot Summary:
For Robbing the Dead is a story of compassion - compassion toward those who may seem the least deserving of Christian love. It follows the story of Henry Heath, a law officer in 1862 Salt Lake City. Heath finds himself responsible for the well-being of a prisoner whom he despises - an impoverished French immigrant named Jean Baptiste who is convicted of robbing the graves of the recently deceased. Baptiste is exiled to Antelope Island in the Great Salt Lake. With no one willing to look after this man, Henry Heath becomes Baptiste's sole defense against the hostile isolation of Antelope Island and the contempt of an entire community. Through his somewhat reluctant service, Heath's heart softens and his own sorrows find relief.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, independent film
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Shadowheart (2009)
Plot Summary:
James Conners comes home to the town of Legend, New Mexico in 1865 to avenge his fathers death against the ruthless Will Tunney. Along the way he re-captures his long lost love Mary Cooper. With the chance to take Will Tunney he must choose revenge or redemption.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 672
Genere: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, rough, bleak, serious, stylized, epic, realistic, gloomy
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The Ballad of Little Jo (1993)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story, this is the tale of Josephine Monaghan, a young woman of the mid-19th century who is thrown out of her parents' home after being seduced by the family's portrait photographer and giving birth to an illegitimate child. Josephine quickly learns that young, female, pretty, and alone are a bad combination for life in the wild west. In her desperation to survive, Josephine disguises herself as "Jo", a young man, and struggles to make a life for herself in a dingy frontier mining town. Can "Little Jo" live and love without revealing his/her secret?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: funny, independent film, sincere, rough, thought provoking, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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Blood Red (1989)
Plot Summary:
Set in the Napa Valley in 1895, an immigrant family struggles to keep their vineyards from industrialists.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 956
Genere: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, serious, emotional, realistic, spaghetti western
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The Work and the Glory (2004)
Plot Summary:
When Benjamin Steed and Mary Ann Steed relocate their family to upstate New York in the early 1800's, they unwittingly settle in a town divided along religious lines. After their new hired help turns out to be at the center of the uproar, each member of the Steed family must come to terms with their own beliefs in the face of heavy persecution. Together they struggle to weather the raging controversy surrounding a young man named Joseph Smith.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, christian film, controversial
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Love Takes Wing (2009)
Plot Summary:
Belinda Simpson is now a doctor in a small Missouri town where an unknown plague is spreading fear and resentment amoung the townspeople. One local resident thinks the illness was spread from the town orphanage and wants to see it shut down. Belinda struggles to make sense of the disease and God's plan for the beleaguered town.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Family, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: uplifting, sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, historical romance, period drama
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Stella (1990)
Plot Summary:
Barmaid Stella Claire and blueblood Stephen Dallas have very little in common -- except they've fallen in love. When their relationship fails, Stella decides to raise the child they had, Jenny, alone. But Jenny and Stella are far from the perfect mother-daughter pair.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, sentimental, captivating, sad, touching, realistic, sexual, erotic, romantic
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Safe Harbour (2007)
Plot Summary:
Melissa Gilbert stars in this film adaptation of Danielle Steel's bestselling novel, in which a young girl named Pip and her mother meet an artist on the beach in Safe Harbour, where they have retreated in order to recover from the devastating loss of Pip's father and brother.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 520
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic
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The Painting (2001)
Plot Summary:
Heath Freeman (Tru Calling, ER) heads an all-star cast including Clifton Davis (Any Given Sunday) Ben Vereen (Roots), Stacey Dash (Renaissance Man) and Debbie Allen (Fame) in the period drama Soldier of Change, which resurrects the turmoil and confusion of the late sixties. Travel back in time to visit a young man, Randy (Freeman) who finds himself immersed in the impassioned civil rights cause in the States, and struggles valiantly to adjust to the changing social fabric around him. But this is only the first of two worlds that Randy encounters. When he is drafted and shipped off to Asia - and the nightmare that called itself Vietnam - this inexperienced soldier must fight for his life and his convictions as he attempts to survive amid the turmoil of a war whose real nature is alien even to the country fighting it.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, romantic, touching, independent film
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Black Fox (1995)
Plot Summary:
A former slave affects peace between Indian tribes and homesteaders in 1860s West Texas.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 453
Genere: Romance, Western
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful, period drama
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Riders of the Purple Sage (1996)
Plot Summary:
Jim Lassiter roams from town to town in search for the man who drove his sister to suicide. While riding toward a mountain pass, he sees an heiress, Jane Withersteen, being harassed by thugs and steps in to help. A religious sect wants Jane to marry their leader, Deacon Tull, so they can gain ownership of her land. When he steps in to help, Lassister slowly begins to believe that a member of this sect is the man he is looking for.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 908
Genere: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized
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Cowboy Up (2001)
Plot Summary:
"Cowboy Up" is a celebration of the risk-taking, daredevil personalities of modern rodeo. In the world of professional bull riding, newcomer Ely Braxton (Marcus Thomas) is the craziest guy around; his brother Hank (Kiefer Sutherland) is a rodeo clown, and the two use each other to play up their acts. But love may be one thing that tears the brothers apart. When Ely falls for the rodeo's sweetheart (Daryl Hannah), Hank is filled with jealousy and hatred. The brothers try to come to grips with their differences, but the competition gets as fierce as the bulls in the ring.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 941
Genere: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sincere, touching, sex comedy
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The Horse Whisperer (1998)
Plot Summary:
Based on the novel by the same name from Nicholas Evans, the talented Robert Redford presents this meditative family drama set in the country side. Redford not only directs but also stars in the roll of a cowboy with a magical talent for healing.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 169 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, emotional, melancholic, light, serious, realistic, romantic, retro, offbeat
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Under the Protection of Ka'Bah (2011)
Plot Summary:
Growing up in West Sumatra in the 1920s, Hamid and Zainab comes from families from very different social classes. Hamid is poor, while Zainab is wealthy. Hamid receives a scholarship from Zainab’s father and Hamid’s mother works for Zainab’s family. Hamid and Zainab fall in love and dream of finding a way for society to accept their union, and also to make the pilgrimage to Mecca.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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The Time And The Wind (2013)
Plot Summary:
Based on the novel's trilogy of the same name, by Erico Verissimo, Time and the Wind follows 150 years of family Terra Cambará and their opponent Amaral family. The history of struggles between the two families begins in the missions and runs until the end of the 19th century. The film also features the period of formation of the State of Rio Grande do Sul and the dispute of territory between the Portuguese and Spanish crowns.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 890
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Brazil
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: emotional, realistic, epic, serious, captivating, soap opera, romantic drama, period piece, sentimental, saga
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Grayeagle (1977)
Plot Summary:
A young Cheyenne warrior, who goes by the name Grayeagle, kidnaps the daughter of a grizzled frontier man John Colter who goes on an epic search for his daughter Beth, aided by a friendly native.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 688
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, sincere, atmospheric, serious, emotional, realistic
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Monte Walsh (2003)
Plot Summary:
Monte Walsh and Chet Rollins are long-time cowhands, working whatever ranch work comes their way, but "nothing they can't do from a horse." Their lives are divided between months on the range and the occasional trip into town. Monte has a long-term relationship with prostitute Martine Bernard, while Chet has fallen under the spell of the widow who owns the hardware store. Camaraderie and competition with the other cowboys fill their days, until one of the hands, Shorty Austin, loses his job and gets involved in rustling and killing. Then Monte and Chet find that their lives on the range are inexorably redirected.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, tense, period piece, sentimental, gloomy, surprise ending, wild
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Jane Eyre (1996)
Plot Summary:
Jane Eyre is an orphan cast out as a young girl by her aunt, Mrs. Reed, and sent to be raised in a harsh charity school for girls. There she learns to be come a teacher and eventually seeks employment outside the school. Her advertisement is answered by the housekeeper of Thornfield Hall, Mrs. Fairfax.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, UK, USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: romantic, costume drama, melancholic, period piece, emotional, intense, realistic, gothic, serious, romantic drama
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Great Expectations (2012)
Plot Summary:
Miss Havisham, a wealthy spinster who wears an old wedding dress and lives in the dilapidated Satis House, asks Pip's "Uncle Pumblechook" (who is actually Joe's uncle) to find a boy to play with her adopted daughter Estella. Pip begins to visit Miss Havisham and Estella, with whom he falls in love,then Pip a humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: captivating, emotional, sentimental, serious, realistic, costume drama, period piece, gothic, sex comedy, cult classic
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Far and Away (1992)
Plot Summary:
A young man (Cruise) leaves Ireland with his landlord's daughter (Kidman) after some trouble with her father, and they dream of owning land at the big giveaway in Oklahoma ca. 1893. When they get to the new land, they find jobs and begin saving money. The man becomes a local barehands boxer, and rides in glory until he is beaten, then his employers steal all the couple's money and they must fight off starvation in the winter, and try to keep their dream of owning land alive. Meanwhile, the woman's parents find out where she has gone and have come to America to find her and take her back.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 67000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, period piece, sentimental, epic, intense, serious, romantic, entertaining, romantic comedy