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Plot Summary:
The young couple love each other. The boy is in constant work which will fit him, and in the end becomes a petty thief who cannot pay his debts anymore and decides to steal from homes where he pays scheduled visits to lonely housewifes. The girl works a nurse but is too sensitive in extreme cases. Running parallel to their story is a metaphor involving a castaway on a junkyard, who tries every means possible to get rid of the dog which becomes attached to him. In the end he attaches sticks of dynamite to the dog, but he breaks loose and the explosion wipes them both.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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A Very Unsettled Summer (2013)
Plot Summary:
A man becomes lured into a fictional game his ex-girlfriend has initiated. Sexually ensnared by her, and now realizing the fragility of the border between the real and the imagined, he begins to unravel. He convinces himself that if he can only write an ending to his life story, he can regain control of his life. But playing with fiction is not an innocent game….
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, UK, Romania, Czech Republic
Duration: 98 min
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Screen Test (1977)
Plot Summary:
Three-part film centered around a film being made by a group of young directors. In the first a working-class girl finishes school and has her first love affair, which ends badly. In the second a provincial boy with dreams of life in the theater has an affair with his boss' wife. They meet during the film's screen tests.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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No Coffee, No TV, No Sex (1999)
Plot Summary:
Two-guys-one-girl thing in a squatted house in Geneva.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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More Than Ever (2022)
Plot Summary:
Hélène, a 33-year-old woman from Bordeaux, France, lives happily as a couple with Mathieu, her husband of many years. Her life turns upside down the day she learns she has a rare lung disease. Thanks to a blog, she discovers Norway and decides to follow her instinct. Despite all the love she has for her life partner Mathieu, who is very supportive through her illness, she leaves him behind in France and will cross all Europe to Norway alone in search of a new path and to meet a blogger named Mister that she found on the internet.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Luxembourg, Norway
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: existential
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A Few Hours of Sunlight (1971)
Plot Summary:
Gilles Lantier, a young reporter on the AFP newspaper, is suffering from a nervous breakdown. Realising that neither his friend Jean nor his girlfriend Eloïse can help him, he decides to stay with his sister Odile, who lives near Limoges. At a party one evening he meets a wealthy bourgeois woman named Nathalie Sylvener. It is love at first sight, and on his return to Paris, Gilles tells Eloïse that he is now devotedly attached to another woman. Although Nathalie agrees to live with him in Paris, she rejects Gilles' offer of marriage. It is not long before the couple have settled into a routine and their passion begins to cool. Then Nathalie suddenly disappears from Gilles' life.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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The Tears of Saint Peter (1995)
Plot Summary:
Izabella Scorupco plays Carla, who is a con-artist somewhere in mediavel Sweden. Carla is disguised as a man and she is selling a "product" called Petri tårar (Tears of St. Peter). This product cures every sickness. In order to promote her product she promises to wake up from the dead all citizens of the town who have died within the last ten years. Both the bishop and the mayor are alarmed as they fear loss of influence over them and try to work against Carla. There are also many citizens who don't want to see their "loved ones" wake up from the dead. In order to make things more confusing, Carla and the son of the mayor, Mark, fall in love with each other.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Love, Sex & Pandemic (2022)
Plot Summary:
We follow the lives of three women and a young man who are sexually liberated and treat monogamy lightly. When the coronavirus pandemic begins, the protagonists are faced with the opportunity of setting their lives straight.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 506
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags:
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Summer Night in Town (1990)
Plot Summary:
Unable to sleep in the sweltering heat, a young couple bares their bodies --- and their souls --- to each other over one life-changing night. They didn't know each other when the night began. It got hot, they stayed in. Now they know each other better than most.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 499
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Lover's Leap (1995)
Plot Summary:
An architect is struggling to get over his wife's death. He meets a young woman who brings him happiness only to find out she is his son's girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, hot
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Sixtynine (1969)
Plot Summary:
Tuula's husband Jukka takes care of all domestic chores. Tuula seems to have no idea that her husband spends his evenings working as a major league ice hockey referee. She also finds out about his extra-marital affair with a female rally driver. In revenge, Tuula starts seeing her gynecologist Timo Paasi, a married man with six children.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, cult film
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Heaven in Hell (2023)
Plot Summary:
Olga and Maks are 15 years away. She is a successful woman with an established position, the mother of an adult daughter, he is a handsome young man who enjoys his life in a handful and lives only in the moment. It might seem that these two different worlds will never meet, and yet fate put them in the way.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 490
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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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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Oysters at Nam Kee's (2002)
Plot Summary:
Young Dutch dropout, Berry, falls in love with slightly older nightclub dancer and ex-nude model Thera and gives up his social live with his dodgy comrades and fine family to make a three-stop 'world tour' together. Suddenly Thera ODs terribly, leaving Berry alone with his obsessive but unanswered love which drives him crazy.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands, Germany
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, entertaining, erotic
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The Maids of Wilko (1979)
Plot Summary:
Set in the late '20s. A thirtyish young man, who heads a small factory, faints at the funeral of a close friend. He decides to go home to his aunt and uncle for a while, but gets involved with a family of five women who had been in love with him at one time though he had apparently loved only one, who, unknown to him, has died since his departure. The women are mainly disillusioned with life or estranged from husbands while the youngest has a crush on him.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland, France
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: existential, psychological, sentimental, atmospheric, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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Blind Chance (1987)
Plot Summary:
Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: cerebral, philosophical, political, surreal, atmospheric, anthology, mind bending, psychedelic, postmodern, psychological
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No End (1985)
Plot Summary:
Taking place in a 1982 Poland a translator loses her husband and becomes a victim of her own sorrow. She looks to sex, to her son, to law, and to hypnotism when she has nothing else in this time of martial law when Solidarity was banned.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: retro, depressing, atmospheric, thought provoking, clever, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, allegory
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Quartet (1981)
Plot Summary:
Quartet is the story of a girl who, adrift with her feckless husband amidst the literati of glittering Paris in the 1920s, becomes entrapped by a rich and sybaritic English couple. Adapted from the wistful, melancholy autobiographical novel by Jean Rhys, Quartet is full of intense confrontations dazzlingly acted by Alan Bates, Maggie Smith, Anthony Higgins, and Isabelle Adjani. This is one of the Merchant Ivory team’s darkest and most compelling dramas of dangerously intertwined relationships.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: costume drama, romantic drama, independent film, atmospheric, clever, serious, realistic, talky, stylized, gloomy
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Ricordi? (2018)
Plot Summary:
A long love story, seen through the memories of one young couple. The journey through the years of two individuals, united, divided, happy, unhappy, deeply in love, or in love with others, in a single stream of emotions and shades of feeling. Over the course of the film, he learns that love can indeed last, while she learns to live with nostalgia.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, sexy, touching, emotional
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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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Until September (1984)
Plot Summary:
American tour guide Mo Alexander misses her tour group, and then her flight out of Paris. Stuck in the city of romance, Mo runs into the very suave -- and very married -- Xavier, who attempts to seduce Mo while his family is out of town. His charms prove hard to resist, and Mo succumbs, though her conscience weighs heavy. Soon their bickering romance of convenience takes a serious turn, and, in spite of himself, Xavier finds he's falling in love.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 803
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, romantic, sex comedy, sentimental, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Meet Prince Charming (1999)
Plot Summary:
Jonathan 'Jack' Harris is a waiter, who hopes to start a newspaper called The Tribeca Times, after the part of Manhattan where he lives, and while struggling to find advertisers and stories decides to do one on Internet dating services, so he joins one and seems to have found a great match, maybe even a soul-mate. He doesn't know it's actually his apartment block neighbor, 29-year old magazine editor Samantha Feld -who only rolled into the thing because her friend and co-worker Jen thinks she needs a man and threw a party at Samantha's place- with whom he clashed from the start in daily life as they consider each-other noisy and inconsiderate. Yet, when they meet after e-mail bliss together and nothing but failed dates with others.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 771
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, realistic, semi serious, romantic, erotic, sexy, independent film, humorous
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By the Sea (2015)
Plot Summary:
Set in France during the mid-1970s, Vanessa, a former dancer, and her husband Roland, an American writer, travel the country together. They seem to be growing apart, but when they linger in one quiet, seaside town they begin to draw close to some of its more vibrant inhabitants, such as a local bar/café-keeper and a hotel owner.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Malta, USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: psychological, depressing, melancholic, scenic, artsy, erotic, sexy, thought provoking, cult classic, aesthetic
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The Woman Who Dreamed of a Man (2010)
Plot Summary:
A famous Danish artist and fashion photographer who leads an eventful life and is always travelling, meets a man who immediately awakens strong feelings in her. This unexpected encounter sparks a decisive turning point in her life and they begin a passionate relationship.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 923
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Poland, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, stylized, serious, erotic, sexy, romantic drama, hot
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Julie Walking Home (2002)
Plot Summary:
Julie's son is dying of cancer and her marriage falling apart. She goes to Poland in search of a man who can heal using his hands. Julie finds not only a magical cure for her son, but also comes across a love so pure it begins to heal the aching in her heart.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Canada, Poland, USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: psychological, emotional, realistic, atmospheric, serious, contemplative, erotic, spiritual, crying, allegory
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365 Days: This Day (2022)
Plot Summary:
Laura and Massimo are back and hotter than ever. But the reunited couple's new beginning is complicated by Massimo’s family ties and a mysterious man who enters Laura’s life to win her heart and trust, at any cost.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sexual, feel good, disgusting
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United States of Love (2016)
Plot Summary:
Poland, 1990. The first euphoric year of freedom, but also of uncertainty for the future. Four apparently happy women of different ages decide it's time to change their lives, and fulfill their desires.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland, Sweden
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, touching, contemplative, social, visually appealing
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The Next 365 Days (2022)
Plot Summary:
Laura and Massimo's relationship hangs in the balance as they try to overcome trust issues while a tenacious Nacho works to push them apart.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: disgusting, erotic
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The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well (1996)
Plot Summary:
A novelist has an affair with two women, finding fulfillment in neither; a married businessman strays from his wife he can't satisfy; a naive young woman surrenders her dignity for her lover; and a married woman tries to find solace in a frustrating affair.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: disgusting
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Floating Skyscrapers (2013)
Plot Summary:
Kuba attends an art opening with his girlfriend of two years and bumps into Mikal. The connection between these two young men is instantaneous and intoxicating, and despite opposition from all sides, he allows Mikal into his life. The results go beyond anything he could have imagined. This intimate and bold second feature from Polish director Tomasz Wasilewski captures the often-complicated consequences of finding love where others do not want it.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, serious, realistic, erotic, bleak, crying, queer cinema
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The Heart of Me (2002)
Plot Summary:
Drama set in 1930s London with two sisters, Madeleine married to Rickie, and Dinah, who falls in love with him. Rickie and Dinah begin an affair which is to have repercussions throughout all their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, romantic drama, clever, erotic, romantic, spiritual, cult classic