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Plot Summary:
A love story between a simple guy and a music star fails, but suddenly he notices somebody else.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 7
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 127 min
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Stalin's Funeral (1990)
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1953 year. Moscow says goodbye to the leader. In the funeral crowd, Eugene met with Elya. During the long hours spent in the funeral procession, they managed to learn a lot about each other ... But Elia absurdly dies. So Zhenya begins another, adult life.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 109 min
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Beloved (1965)
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 79 min
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Friend (1988)
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Looking for the money for a drink, an alcoholic gets a Newfoundland dog as a present from a stranger at a bird fair. He'll soon find out that the animal is not only able to speak, but to get him to give up drinking as well. Now he's determined to get rid of the dog, but that won't be an easy task.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 368
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, melancholic, sincere, touching
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Short Summer in Mountains (1964)
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 7
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 80 min
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Diamond Stud (1970)
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A train mogul thinks on his life and loves as he rides his own train.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Parachute (2023)
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Riley has recently been discharged from rehab after struggling with food and body image issues. She soon meets Ethan and finds herself navigating the line between unconditional love and a new addiction.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
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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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Ice House (1989)
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Pake has left a good paying job working in the oil fields of Texas in order to give the music business a try. Eventually he finds himself alone and with no money in a hotel room in Los Angeles. He sets up a meeting with his old girlfriend Kay. When he meets her, she is with her fiancee. He is a Greek immigrant who desperately needs to marry Kay in order to become a permanent resident in this country. However his plans are in trouble because of Pake trying to convince Kay to go back to Texas with him and get married.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film
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There Lived a Doctor (1985)
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A young doctor Nikolai Alexandrovich Zaostrovtsev, a fourth generation medical professional, found himself in the Gladuny village directly after the Institute. Neither he himself, nor his father, a town surgeon, expected that he would linger long their. But having become a real doctor in this working village community, he remains true to his profession without any dreams of glory or city life….
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 86 min
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Light in the Window (1960)
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 72 min
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A Moment Decides Everything (1979)
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A story of a Russian girl Nadya Privalova, a record-braking swimmer. She grew up by the sea, and learned swimming with a dolphin named "Fregat". Her first coach encouraged Nadya, and she took swimming professionally. She could beat the world record during her practice routine. But in public she suffered a classic "stage fright" syndrome, and she could not win any international competition. Now her participation in the Olympic games is at stake... . Can she overcome..?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min
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Hello, That's Me! (1966)
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Artyom (Armen Dzhigarkhanyan) is a scientist who buries himself in his work after the woman he loves dies during the war. He is informed of his sweetheart's death by a young woman, and soon love blossoms between the lonely doctor and the emerging beauty. This is the big-screen debut of Margarita Terekhova in the popular film that was seen by over 20 million in the USSR.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 137 min
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Force of Destiny (2015)
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A journey of love and hope, of courage and sacrifice, and one man's miraculous salvation through a life-saving liver transplant. FORCE OF DESTINY is a story of survival inspired by Paul Cox's personal experiences and his recent book Tales From the Cancer Ward.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Journey to Another Town (1980)
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By chance, two middle-aged people met - the telephone operator of the hotel Lina and the chief engineer of the construction department Kirillov, who had arrived on official business from Leningrad in one of the provincial cities of the country. Behind everyone has setbacks in family life. A sincere feeling that brought two lonely people closer together helped to see those around them in a new way. They are already over forty. Both are lonely. Having met by chance and fell in love with each other, they never became happy.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 93 min
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Melodies of a White Night (1977)
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A Russian composer and Japanese pianist enter a relationship strained by their geographic and cultural boundaries.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan, Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min
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The Beautiful Risk (2013)
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William, a respected artist who lost everything after his divorce, arrives in Montreal on a job prospect. When the job falls through he then is saved and forms an erotic friendship and exposes his soul with a young woman named Paulette.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
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Point of No Return (1974)
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The love story of a Soviet officer wounded in battle and the woman who shelters him during the German occupation of the Great Patriotic War. Multifaceted and ambiguous, this film spans twenty years of love, joy, and sorrow.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 99 min
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Holiday Harmony (2022)
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A likeable and talented underdog gets momentarily sidelined from chasing her musical dreams when her van breaks down in a welcoming small town just before Christmas.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
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One Hundred Days After Childhood (1975)
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A group of Russian teenagers spend their summer at a summer camp. Mitia falls in love and gets so occupied with his own problems that he forgets about everything else.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 991
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: existential
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The Beginning (1970)
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A film-in-film story set in a provincial town in Russia. Pasha is an amateur actress who plays a witch at a local club, but her dream is to play Joan of Arc. In a strike of luck she is cast as Joan of Arc in a big screen film. Now she is torn between her luck and her love to Arkadi (Kuravlev) who is a married man.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 91 min
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Falling Leaves (1966)
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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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An Umbrella for Lovers (1986)
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Kraskov and Vera have long loved each other. They are unable to part, however, and connect their destinies can not and have already accepted the circumstances of life: he has a family, three children. A chance meeting in Moscow with a young couple, familiar with the rest in the South, pushes them to a decisive step….
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 89 min
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God Willing (2006)
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After a couple of chance encounters the nightly meetings with Juli become the most important thing in Juan's life. God willing, fantasy can become reality.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 87 min
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Take Care (1991)
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A young man just released from the army is making great dreams for his life. Finally he gets a job in a butcher's shop and gains the confidence of the owner. After the butcher's death he falls in love with his daughter but also has an affair with the widow and cannot decide between them.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 93 min
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Anna Karenina (1967)
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The film is based on the novel of the same name by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. “All happy families resemble each other, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, ” goes the novel’s opening sentence. The melodrama centers around a tragic story of love and infidelity, the destiny of a woman who irrevocably changes her life for the sake of a passion. Anna Karenina finds it impossible to renounce her feelings for the loved one. She rejects the morals of society and tries to defend her right to love. Her husband bars Anna from her son, her acquaintances turn their backs on her… Starring in the title role was the famous Russian actress Tatiana Samoilova (“The Cranes Are Flying”).
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 991
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: spiritual
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The World Is Full Of Married Men (1979)
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David Cooper works in advertising but spends more time on his love life despite the fact that he is married. When his wife Linda discovers his girlfriends, she decides to get revenge by having an affair.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Lyubov Yarovaya (1970)
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This film is set in the time of the Russian Civil War, after the October revolution of 1917. The communist forces are losing a battle over town. They must blow up the strategic bridge, but the explosion is prevented by one anticommunist man, who is posing as a communist commissar. His wife, Lyubov Yarovaya, discovers him. He is asking for her forgiveness, but she is uncompromising and ruthless.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 105 min
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Office Romance (1977)
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Anatoli Yefremovich Novoseltsev works in a statistics institution, whose director is an unattractive and bossy woman. An old friend of his, Yuri Grigorievich Samokhvalov, who gets appointed assistant director of the institution, wants to make Novoseltsev the head of the department but encounters objections from Ludmila Prokopievna Kalugina, the director. Samokhvalov then advises Novoseltsev to lightly hit on the boss. Ironically, Novoseltsev and Kalugina fall in love with each other.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 159 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, funny, humorous
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Afonya (1975)
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The 1975 film by Georgi Daneliya "Afonya" was an unexpected commercial hit in USSR. The main character "Afonya" Borshev is a plumber, who spends his life partying with "buddies", many of whom he doesn't even remember after nights of heavy drinking. His wife leaves him, his boss places him on probation, his whole life is falling apart, but he doesn't realize it. Afonya met Katya at a dance club, yet didn't pay her much attention. But she is the one, who can save him... In this movie Daneliya achieves a perfect balance of satire and drama. Quotes from the movie gained a cult status in USSR.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: funny, sincere, satirical, ironic
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We'll Live Till Monday (1968)
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Ilya Semenovich Melnikov is a history teacher in an ordinary Soviet high school. He is a very good teacher and his students and colleagues treat him with a great deal of respect. However, Melnikov faces a lot of difficulties in his work. In particular, everybody at school is spreading rumors about Natalya Sergeyevna, an Enlish language teacher and a former student of Melnikov, being in love with him. Exhausted by his mental suffering, Melnikov asks the principal to allow him to quit his job. At the end of the week that is to become the last week of Melnikov's teaching career the students of his class write an in-class essay on how they understand happiness. Svetlana Mikhailovna, their Russian teacher, is shocked by what one of the students wrote in her essay, nevertheless, she allows her to read it in front of the class. The other students express support of their classmate. Melnikov gets involved in the conflict, after which he reconsiders his decision to quit.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, captivating, intellectual
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