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Plot Summary:
Lin Xiao, Gu Li, Nan Xiang, Tang Wanru - these four best friends, after waving goodbye to their school campus and entering the workforce, they are faced with various challenges in their life: friendship, love, and career. Together, they become lost in life, having long forgotten their past courage.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 895
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 125 min
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El leyton (2002)
Plot Summary:
Leyton and his lifelong friend Modesto are both fishermen and as close as brothers, but very different in temperament. The braggart Modesto is a slave to progress, while the more unpretentious Leyton is content with the simple life. Modesto marries Marta, a beautiful young naïf, who longs for the sexual fulfillment Modesto (who is "like a rabbit - one jump up and one jump down") is incapable of providing. And, just as Modesto captures creatures from the sea in his net, it isn't long before the cruel web of destiny entangles Marta and her lover Leyton in a tragic triangle. Chilean director Gonzalo Justiniano spins a tragic tale of love, lust, friendship, betrayal and murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Chile, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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Dark Victory (1976)
Plot Summary:
A TV producer with a terminal illness is given the strength to keep going by her love for her doctor.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 264
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags:
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Don't Give Up On Us (2006)
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Abby thinks she has everything under control until her best friend Sabina walks out of her own bridal shower weeks before her marriage to Abby's younger brother Samuel. With a cassette tape left behind by Sabina as her only lead, Abby vows to find her best friend and bring her back in time for the wedding.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: tagalog
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Covergirl (1983)
Plot Summary:
Young girl enters the modeling industry wanting to becoming "the face of the '80s.".
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Customize Happiness (2016)
Plot Summary:
Your perfect match can be found in the most unexpected places. Tian Xiao Ni (Tong Yao) is a top fashion designer who is at the peak of her career thanks to her meticulous personality and razor-sharp focus on what she wants out of life. She has lived by the motto of “Perfect Self + Perfect Other Half = Happy Life.” But because of her impossible-to-meet “18 Standards for Mr. Right,” Xiao Ni finds herself still single despite her charm, beauty and talent. When Xiao Ni meets Zhan Wang (Kimi Qiao), she thinks she has found her “ Perfect Other Half” and begins to pursue him. Zhan Wang is a professional race car driver who suddenly quits at the peak of his career and now helps a friend manage an auto body shop. Will Xiao Ni discover that true love can’t be customized to her ideal specifications? “Customize Happiness” is a 2016 Chinese drama series directed by Xie Lü.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 5
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags:
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Milk and Fashion (2007)
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Milk and Fashion centers on a young foreigner, Tyler Ralstin, as he travels from rural Yunnan to Shanghai to live with his uncle Jack. As caretaker for Tyler, Jack must balance his life between the high demand of his profession and the role of a mentor as he guides his nephew through the tough life-decisions that come with growing up. Jack is the president of a cultural investment company that is sponsoring an international fashion contest, and one of the competing designers is Yao Yao, a former ballerina who has decided to pursue her dream of becoming a professional designer. The stories of Tyler and Yao Yao intertwine in Tyler's coming-of-age tale and Yao Yao's journey as she strives to accomplish her dreams. Though her journey at times seems complicated and even hopeless, Yao Yao finds a friend and mentor in Anna, an international fashion magazine editor who helps Yao Yao stay true to her goals.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Stand by Me (2016)
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IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration:
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Women on the Breadfruit Tree (2015)
Plot Summary:
The story of three childhood friends as they navigate through early adulthood together in the city of Shanghai. Three different women, three different love stories – together they grow as individuals through their experiences in love and in sorrow.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags:
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Shanghai Panic (2002)
Plot Summary:
A glimpse into the lives of 4 Shanghai teenagers.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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The Queens (2015)
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Based on the novel of the same name, the film follows three cosmopolitan women, an actress, a PR specialist and a gallery manager, all wrestling with the ups and downs of their romantic lives.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 106 min
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Waiting for the Light to Change (2022)
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Over the course of a week-long beachside getaway, Amy, having recently undergone dramatic weight loss, finds herself wrestling between loyalty to her best friend Kim and her attraction to Kim's new boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Imagine I'm Beautiful (2014)
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Hoping to leave behind the trauma of her mother's death, a young woman moves to New York City, where she becomes close to her similarly haunted roommate -- until a disturbing revelation changes everything.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Fashion King (2014)
Plot Summary:
A teenaged boy transforms from a ‘fashion terrorist’ to a ‘fashion king’ in order to win the heart of the prettiest girl in school. The story is about high school boy Ki-myung, who has a crush on the prettiest girl in his class and opens his eyes to fashion in order to become the best dressed person in the world.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 371
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Falling Leaves (1966)
Plot Summary:
A young idealist takes a job at a local state run winery only to discover and become disillusioned by the corruption of the Soviet State.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 955
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: spiritual
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Soulmate (2023)
Plot Summary:
A movie about two friends who first met at the age of 13, looking back on the nature of their relationship through 14 years of meeting and separation, friendship and love, yearning and jealousy.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags:
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Youth (2018)
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When five college students share a house, they also share their experiences with life and love. Han Yi Tong, Ni Jin, Chen Chen Chen, Lin Xiao Chun and Zhang Sheng Nan are roommates who share a house while attending the same university. Can they support each other through the many challenges they face?.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
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Tiny Times 4.0 (2015)
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In the film series finale, Lily finds herself near financial ruin because of the debts left behind by her father, all while battling a newly diagnosed cancer. Too proud to seek solace from anyone around her, Lily sets off a chain of self-destructive events that lead to her estrangement from best friends Lin Xiao, Nan Xiang, and Ruby.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 544
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags:
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We'll Take Manhattan (2012)
Plot Summary:
We’ll Take Manhattan explores the explosive love affair between Sixties supermodel, Jean Shrimpton, and photographer, David Bailey. Focusing on a wild and unpredictable 1962 Vogue photo shoot in New York, the drama brings to life the story of two young people falling in love, misbehaving and inadvertently defining the style of the Sixties along the way.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sexy, realistic, stylized, serious, period piece, period drama
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Love, Lies (2016)
Plot Summary:
Two best friends, So-yool and Yeon-hee, dream of becoming the top artists in Seoul together. But their friendship doesn't last long as Yoon-woo, So-yool's first love and songwriter, falls in love with Yeon-hee and her voice. So-yool's feeling of jealousy and inferiority towards Yeon-hee grows by the day, and she eventually makes a drastic decision to bring the two lovers down.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 881
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, realistic, suspenseful
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Soulmate (2016)
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30 year-old working woman Li Ansheng’s life in Shanghai is suddenly disrupted by the publication of a novel, entitled “Qiyue and Ansheng”, a chronicle of her friendship with Qi Yue during her youth. Coupled with an accidental encounter with Su Jia Ming, a past love, her long repressed memories are unleashed with the force of a tsunami. The two girls seemed destined to become friends from the moment they entered high school. Though they were inseparable and believed that their bond would last for the rest of their lives, the cruelty of youth eventually led them to separate paths. Even more shocking is the discovery of a long buried secret shared by the women – a secret that serves as an emblem of their youth and the proof of their friendship.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, sad
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So Young (2013)
Plot Summary:
In the brink of the 90s, 18-year-old Zheng Wei steps into her university life with a hopeful heart for love. She forms a great friendship with her roommates and united as a group, they embark on their university life together. Wei meets Chen Hao-Zheng in a chance encounter, and despite initial reluctance, Chen accepts Wei as his girlfriend and the two become inseparable. Four years of university life pass and Wei looks forward to establishing a life together with Chen. However, Chen is forced into an impossible decision to leave Wei. Devastated, Wei decides to start afresh. A decade later, Wei’s previous lovers Lin and Chen both find their way back into her life and she has to make a choice of her next step in life.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: emotional, touching, serious, realistic
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Summer Palace (2006)
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Country girl Yu Hong leaves her village, her family and her lover to study in Beijing. At university, she discovers an intense world of sexual freedom and forbidden pleasure. Enraptured, compulsive, she falls madly in love with fellow student Zhou Wei. Driven by obsessive passions they can neither understand nor control, their relationship becomes one of dangerous games - betrayals, recriminations, provocations - as all around them, their fellow students begin to demonstrate, demanding democracy and freedom. Was the only Asian film selected to compete for the Palme d'Or in 2006. In September of 2006, director Lou Ye was barred from making movies for five years because the film incorporated footage of the Tiananmen Square demonstrations and wasn't screened for Chinese officials. The Chinese government also demanded that all copies of the film be confiscated.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China, France
Duration: 158 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, touching, serious, emotional, bleak, realistic, contemplative, sexual, controversial, sexy
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For 80 Days (2010)
Plot Summary:
Where is the thin line that separates friendship from desire? After more than 50 years without seeing each other, two 70 years old women dare crossing the line.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 752
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, sincere, romantic, gloomy, gay cinema, queer cinema
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August Never Ends (2021)
Plot Summary:
A story revolving around two friends with very different personalities - the no-nonsense and rebellious Weiyang and the idealist 'Princess' Qiao. When Xiao Qiao met Weiyang, the two easily became close friends. However, Xiao Qiao's fiancee Chao Yan can't help himself as he falls deeply in love with Weiyang, which crushes Xiao Qiao's fairytale love story. Just as the three are entangled in a world of complications, Weiyang makes a surprising decision.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Together (2013)
Plot Summary:
Comprised by two love stories: The first story features Donnie Yen as a traffic cop, “Mr. Cool” who never smiles due to a rare disease. He meets and falls in love with Michelle Chen, a patient with amnesia, and spends most of her time looking for her missing fiancé. The second story features Zhendong Ke as a Criminal Intelligence Bureau cop who falls in love with Angela Baby after a 7-day "game of romantic" with her. But when his bureau starts monitoring her, he begins to have doubt on her. Is she a criminal?.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 264
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: emotional, sentimental, touching, realistic, captivating, serious
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Violet Tendencies (2010)
Plot Summary:
A woman tries to distance herself from her gay friends in an effort to land a straight boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 633
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, clever, realistic, not serious, independent film, queer cinema
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Tiny Times 2.0 (2013)
Plot Summary:
Set four years after the first movie, Lin Xiao, Lily, Nan Xiang, and Ruby, confront opportunities and challenges as their school days come to an end.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sexy, captivating, realistic, stylized, semi serious
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Cry Me a Sad River (2018)
Plot Summary:
Qi Ming is a handsome boy and he is also a top student at school, but Yi Yao is a so-called bitch on everyone’s lips. Qi and Yi grew up together and they have been maintaining a good relationship. However, everything is interrupted and changed by Tang Xiaomi. Rumors have become a sharp weapon to destroy people. Yi Yao's life falls into darkness, and she suffers all kinds of cruel bullying at school.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, tense, sentimental, thought provoking, touching, unusual plot structure
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Tiny Times (2013)
Plot Summary:
When four best friends try and move forward in their work and personal life, they realize that trying to live their life's dream is more difficult than they imagine -- especially in the high fashion world of Shanghai.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, humorous, stylized, semi serious
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Sex and the City (2008)
Plot Summary:
A New York writer on sex and love is finally getting married to her Mr. Big. But her three best girlfriends must console her after one of them inadvertently leads Mr. Big to jilt her.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 126000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, witty, romantic comedy, sexy, teen, sex comedy, feel good, emotional, funny