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Plot Summary:
Donald is a Nigerian immigrant who after being expelled from Spain three years ago, has returned to meet again with Teresa, with whom he had a secret love affair. But on arrival he finds that she has married and is mother of a child. However, the return of Donald wakes strong contradictions in her. By chance, Donald starts working in the garage of Carmen, where Antonio also works, who ignores what happened between his wife and his new partner. Francisco, a foreman of the town and Carmen's suitor, cannot stand the situation. The tension between these frustrated passions ends up playing a key role in the outcome of a seemingly impossible love.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min
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The White Dove (1989)
Plot Summary:
This is a Spanish Drama-Romance starring Antonio Banderas.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Orange Girl (2009)
Plot Summary:
The film is based on a 2003 novel by the same name, written by Norwegian author Jostein Gaarder. The main character is the young boy Georg who one day finds a long letter from his deceased father. The letter tells, among other things, about the father's youthful love for the mysterious "orange girl" (appelsinpiken), and leaves a mystery for Georg to solve.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 610
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Norway, Germany, Spain
Duration: 80 min
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My Dearest Senorita (1972)
Plot Summary:
A woman living in a small town discovers after fifty years that she is actually a man. Will she change her sex and suffer the reaction of a narrow-minded society?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 646
Genere: Romance, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Impossible Love (1977)
Plot Summary:
Rich Spanish landowner Alvaro is torn between his wife Elvira and two other women in his life. He's also worried about the fact that both his father and grandfather were murdered by Spanish revolutionaries in the house he's inherited.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Extramuros (1985)
Plot Summary:
This 1985 Spanish film reveals one of the many terrible aspects of 16th century Spain, still plagued by the radical Christian Inquisition, one of a plethora of difficulties Spaniards faced at the time. Spanish super star Carmen Maura plays a nun who agrees to a selfless scam, a fake stigmata, only to avoid separation from her lover, another nun. It's a serious and passionate work, highlighting the theme of outspoken women-against-repression, seen in other good gay and lesbian films. This is not a lesbian "Nun sense" or another "Dark Habits" (by Almodovar, which also starred Carmen Maura, and also set in a Spanish convent, with some lesbian nuns). Perhaps, best of all, 'Extramuros' is realistic and frank. It isn't shy about its characters' sexuality. Their sexuality, and the film as a whole are genuine.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags:
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Farewell to the Summer Light (1968)
Plot Summary:
The setup here is a couple. They are both Japanese. She is married to a European, is haunted by the Nagasaki bomb which killed her father. The two are in love.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: road movie, light
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Close Your Eyes (2023)
Plot Summary:
Years after his mysterious disappearance, Julio Arenas, a famous Spanish actor, is back in the news thanks to a television program.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 763
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 169 min
Plot tags: metafiction
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How Do I Love You? (1966)
Plot Summary:
Gigliola is a young and humble Neapolitan swimmer who will compete in a competition in Spain and finds herself falling for the fiance of her best friend. But when they come to visit her in Italy, she pretends to be rich, with the complicity of their parents.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags:
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Alma gitana (1996)
Plot Summary:
A young man who wants to become a professional dancer falls in love with a gypsy girl and gets in conflict with her totally different cultural background. But love can overcome these differences.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: multicultural, intercultural, inter cultural
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Carmen (1989)
Plot Summary:
Filmed production of Bizet’s Carmen at Earls Court in London, June 1989.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 166 min
Plot tags:
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See You On Venus (2023)
Plot Summary:
Mia and Kyle, two misfit American teens, travel to Spain searching for Mia's birth mother. As the pair road trip through the picturesque cities of Andalusia and fall in love, they discover that the most important question isn't who gave you life, but what you decide to do with it.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
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Madrid (1987)
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Hans, a German director, is in Madrid to film a television production about the capital and the Civil War, 50 years after it occurred. Accompanied by Lucía, his editor, and Goyo, his cinematographer, he films shots of the modern city, searching for spaces and people related to its past. At the same time, he views materials related to the past. In this search, Hans questions the point of his project, and disagrees with his producers until he discovers a project that he is passionate about.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: documentary filmmaking
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South from Granada (2003)
Plot Summary:
Brenan arrives at Yegen on foot, interrupting the funeral held for the daughter of the local cacique. He collapses from dysentery and soon learns that the local cacique, Don Fernando, is leaving for Granada with his wife. Brenan rents Fernando’s house for a year and soon enlists the services of María as housekeeper and cook and becomes friends with a local man named Paco. Brenan spends most of his time reading, walking, and trying to write poetry.His friends Dora Carrington, Lytton Strachey (who is ill), and Ralph Partridge visit for a couple of days. Brenan, who has been maintaining a correspondence with Carrington, learns during the visit that Partridge and Carrington are engaged. He is crushed, as he had been in love with Carrington.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 950
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: sentimental, atmospheric, realistic, semi serious
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Beautiful Youth (2014)
Plot Summary:
Natalia and Carlos, both aged 20, are in love and struggling to survive in today’s Spain. Their limited resources prevent them from getting ahead as they’d like to. They have no great ambitions because they have no great hopes. To earn some money, they decide to shoot an amateur porno film. The birth of their daughter Julia is the main catalyst for the changes they make.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, surprise ending, sentimental, suspense, melancholic, sexy, sexual, exciting
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Lasting (2013)
Plot Summary:
Lasting is an emotional love story about Michał and Karina, a pair of Polish students who meet and fall in love with each other while working summer jobs in Spain. An unexpected nightmare brutally breaks into their carefree time in the heavenly landscape and throws their lives into chaos.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 579
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland, Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sexy, serious, stylized, tense, realistic
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Stockholm (2013)
Plot Summary:
The story of the encounter between a boy and a girl. He confesses that he fell in love with her at first sight, but she does not believe him. However, as they walk through the night in Madrid, they share their desires, secrets, and maybe a few little lies. But soon the film brings us back to the harsh reality of power struggles, psychological games and conflicts between the sexes. Stockholm thus offers an incredible reading of the relations between young people today.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, talky, captivating, sexy, heartbreaking, aesthetic, tense
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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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Women and Men: Stories of Seduction (1990)
Plot Summary:
This trio of tales, based on classic short stories, chronicles the complicated relations between the sexes. In "The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt," salesman Gerry seduces train traveler Viki. Then, in "Dusk Before Fireworks," a night of romance between Hobie and Kit goes bad when the phone keeps ringing. Finally, in "Hills Like White Elephants," Robert discovers Hadley is pregnant.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: anthology, touching, serious, realistic, stylized, gloomy
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Intruder (1993)
Plot Summary:
In childhood and youth, the three were "the inseparables." Luisa married Ángel, then two years later, she left him to marry Ramiro. After ten years, Ángel reappears, back from South America, broke and ill. Luisa is overcome with sentimentality and, over Ramiro's objections, takes Ángel into their house. Ángel is bitter, he and Ramiro have shifted from best friends to enemies. Luisa wants to be in love with both. Ramiro hopes he can wait out Ángel's declining health, and Luisa wants to heal Ángel through force of will. What is Ángel's plan? Observing the roiling emotions are Luisa and Ramiro's precocious young children. Who's in danger here?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic
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I Want You (2012)
Plot Summary:
Sequel to "Three Steps Above Heaven". The sexy Gin (Clara Lago) is the new love of Hache (Mario Casas), but this can not forget his former girlfriend (Maria Valverde), so the love triangle is inevitable.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sentimental, emotional, romantic, touching, serious, realistic, sexy, captivating, dramatic, disturbing
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Blood and Sand (1989)
Plot Summary:
Remake of the tale of an acclaimed matador who finds himself involved with a beautiful woman, jeopardizing both his marriage and career.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: erotic, sentimental, atmospheric, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy, hot
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Palm Trees in the Snow (2015)
Plot Summary:
Kilian is a young man who has never left the mountains of Huesca which saw him grow up. In 1953 he will travel to the exotic island of Fernando Poo to work in a cacao field alongside his father and his brother. During 20 years in this island he will undertake a journey towards maturity and knowledge, but will also have to deal with pain and loss.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 163 min
Plot tags: touching, multicultural, captivating, romantic, serious, realistic, inspirational, retro, sexy, scenic
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Summer Rain (2006)
Plot Summary:
A coming-of-age tale charting the first loves, lusts and obsessions of friends on vacation at the end of the 1970s.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, UK, USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, captivating, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, stylized
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Backroads (1997)
Plot Summary:
Spain, 1974. A teenager and his father are traveling in a car that is the only property they have. Their life is a continuous move by desolate coastal apartments in the tourism low season. When forced to change route and get away from sea, their lives will change dramatically.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: road movie, manga, touching, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Second Skin (1999)
Plot Summary:
Diego is a doctor who has fallen in love with a married man with a son. Against the advice of his boss and best friend, he continues his affair with Alberto. The consequences of this affair profoundly alter not only the two men's lives, but also that of Alberto's wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sentimental, psychological, erotic, eros, gloomy, homoerotic, gay cinema, queer cinema
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The Misfits Club (2014)
Plot Summary:
The story focuses on Valeria (Charlotte Vega), a young woman who has just moved to Madrid after the separation of their parents. In her new school, Valeria is forced to attend a meeting with the counselor who also serves other classmates. What at first seems a bad start for the new life of Valeria, become the beginning of an amazing life experience. New friendships, a city full of possibilities, first love... Intense experiences that will forever change the lives of this new group of friends.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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In the City (2003)
Plot Summary:
Un grupo de amigos de Barcelona se reúnen casi a diario, pero su amistad es sólo aparente; de hecho, ninguno de ellos conoce a fondo la vida de los demás. La película relata la vida íntima y secreta de cada uno de los personajes, sus sentimientos y deseos más inconfesables.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, captivating, emotional, clever, talky, semi serious
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Your Life in 65 (2006)
Plot Summary:
A Sunday, three young friends read the obituary of a schoolmate with whom long ago they lost contact. They go to the morgue and realize that they are wrong: that burial is not that of their fellow student. From this, the confusion and random weave a story of friendship, love and death.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 703
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, realistic, semi serious, romantic, captivating, heartbreaking, offbeat, feel good, complex
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The Green Chariot (2005)
Plot Summary:
Emigration to Israel challenges Sasha's Jewish identity. Will love help him to go over this crisis?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, serious, emotional, realistic
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Desire (2002)
Plot Summary:
In 1945 Spain a young man with Nazi contacts fell in love with a left wing family woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sentimental, serious, captivating, stylized, realistic