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Plot Summary:
In the Yucatan coast of the thirties , Elisha, a boy of 13, is initiated into the art of love by Felipa , his schoolteacher. After discovering the relationship, Felipa runs away from the village , leaving Elisha mired in nostalgia. Forced to marry another woman and lead a routine life , recalling the years passed Eliseo romance with Felipa until ten years later, the woman returns , removing his wounds and changing forever the life of Elisha , his family and the whole town.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 130 min
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The Shadow of the Day (2022)
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Italy, after the promulgation of the racial laws (1938). Luciano, a Fascist-abiding restaurateur, nonetheless believes he can still live by his own rules inside his business. However, everything changes when Anna, a girl with a dangerous secret, starts to work at his restaurant.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 125 min
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Dotonbori River (1982)
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A poignant love story between a 29-year-old woman, who has once been a prostitute but is now the mistress of a wealthy jewelry merchant, and a 19-year-old college student.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min
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The Buttercup Chain (1970)
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Born to twin sisters on the same day in London, France and Margaret are more like brother and sister than cousins. The close relationship between the cousins is suspended when Margaret is sent abroad for schooling. Now a young woman, Margaret returns to London and resumes her intimate connection with France.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
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Sweet William (1980)
Plot Summary:
William McClusky (Sam Waterston) is a dashing and eccentric Scotsman whose charms rapidly overwhelm the sweet and naive Ann Walton (Jenny Agutter), but she nearly as quickly begins to comprehend that her new beau is anything but a one-woman man. In addition to his two ex-wives, with whom he remains remarkably close, William exhibits a disturbing attraction for nearly any female who crosses his path -- Ann's friends among them.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Sinking of Van Der Wijck (2013)
Plot Summary:
When a young man leaves home to fulfill the wishes of his late father, he meets and falls in love with a woman from a very different background.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 164 min
Plot tags: social
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Forgotten Love (2023)
Plot Summary:
A once-respected surgeon who's lost his family and his memory gets a chance at redemption when he reconnects with someone from his forgotten past.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: period drama
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Akitsu Springs (1962)
Plot Summary:
Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal attraction between a spineless intellectual and a strong woman is conventional, but its enactment is radically new.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: avant garde
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The Young Nun (1964)
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The life of Antonio suddenly changes when she meets Serena, a young nun who took the veil to escape the hard life of the country and has chosen the provision of assistance to the sick to get out of the convent, which falls in love, moving from the role of seducer to that of seduced.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
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Anatomy of Love (1972)
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A young attractive widow has a one-night stand with a handsome architect. The couple soon starts a tumultuous relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min
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The Heaven None Missed 3 (2021)
Plot Summary:
Meirose strives to create heaven in her family, with her husband and their two children. One day, Ray, a man from her past, returns and wants to build his lost paradise with Meirose and Akbar.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 120 min
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The Sailor from Gibraltar (1967)
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Alan, after quarreling with his girlfriend Sheila, becomes intrigued by Anna, a mysterious widow who's searching for a sailor she had known many years before. Alan and Anna begin the search on board a yacht bound for Greece, but they don't find the sailor. After a stop in Africa, Louis de Mozambique joins the party and suggests that the sailor may never have existed other than in Anna's mind.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 433
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
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Crazy in Love (1992)
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Three generations of women live on a small island off the coast of Washington state with their men with whom they have no end of problems.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 370
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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Lina's Wedding (1973)
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Lina is in her best age, mid-30s. She is strong-willed, resilient and self-conscious. There has never been a man in her life, on the contrary, she even had to play the man's role on the small farm to sustain herself and the parents. But the quest for true love and longing for a man is still strong. She has never had the opportunity to realize this dream in the confined environment she lives in. Her obstinacy has also scared off the men. But one day Gilbert returned to the village after being in America for 20 years.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Norway, Denmark
Duration: 101 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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A Tale of Love and Desire (2021)
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Ahmed, 18, is French of Algerian origin. He grew up in the Parisian suburbs. On the benches of the university, he meets Farah, a young Tunisian full of energy recently arrived from Tunis. While discovering a body of sensual and erotic Arabic literature that he never knew existed, Ahmed falls deeply in love with this girl, and although literally overwhelmed by desire, he will try to resist it.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Tunisia
Duration: 102 min
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Nahid (2015)
Plot Summary:
A woman tries to mend the broken pieces of her last life, as she is now involved with a new sexual relationship with a man.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, contemplative, independent film
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Burning Patience (2022)
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Mario is a young fisherman who dreams of becoming a poet. He gets a job as the postman to Pablo Neruda when the legendary writer moves there after being exiled from Chile.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 350
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Chile
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: period drama
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Matters of the Heart (1990)
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A world-class pianist (Seymour) becomes romantically and sexually involved with her young protege (Gartin).
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: erotic
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We Couldn't Become Adults (2021)
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Prodded by a friend request, a feckless forty-something recalls his past relationships from the 90s onward, looking for his vanished hopes and dreams.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 997
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Abyss of Passion (2012)
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Rosendo Arango, the owner of Grupo La Anita, is married to Alfonsina. They have one son, Damian. Estefanía Bouvier is married to Augusto Castanon and they have one daughter, Elisa. Rosendo cheats on his wife with Carmina Bouvier, Estefanía's sister. Damian and Elisa become friends because Augusto and Rosendo were best friends. But one day, Rosendo and Carmina try to go away from La Ermita, the pueblo in which they live in. But, Estefanía, who had found out about their plans, wants to prevent this, shuts Carmina in her room and then goes with Rosendo in his car, trying to convince him not to run away with Carmina. They have an accident and die and everyone thinks they were lovers.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, sentimental, captivating, psychological, soap opera, novela, telenovela
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Royalteen: Princess Margrethe (2023)
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In the wake of her prom scandal, Princess Margrethe longs for normalcy as she struggles to maintain her perfect facade while dealing with family drama.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 721
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Norway
Duration: 98 min
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Falling for a Dancer (1998)
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Romantic drama set in rural Ireland of the 1930s. The story begins when 19-year-old Elizabeth has a brief fling with an actor and falls pregnant. Community pressure forces her to marry a dull middle-aged man, but maybe there is hope on the horizon.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 716
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 200 min
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Royalteen (2022)
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A teenager struggles to keep her scandal-ridden past and a big secret from getting out when she strikes up an unlikely romance with the crown prince.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Norway
Duration: 107 min
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I Capture the Castle (2003)
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A love story set in 1930s England that follows 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain, and the fortunes of her eccentric family, struggling to survive in a decaying English castle. Based on Dodie Smith's 1948 novel with the same name.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: touching, atmospheric, stylized, lyrical, semi serious, romantic, period piece, colorful, intense, sex comedy
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A Little Closer (2011)
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In the forgotten corners of rural Virginia, Sheryl struggles to balance her work as a housekeeper and raising her two sons, fifteen year-old Marc and eleven year-old Stephen. Hoping to meet the love of her life and bring home a father for her boys, she frequents a depressing, weekly mixer for the towns aging singles set. Meanwhile, Marc is desperate to lose his virginity, and spends his days working at a used car lot. And his brother Stephen, in the throes of sexual discovery, becomes infatuated with his school teacher while hoping to win the approval of a group of peers who adamantly detest her.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 324
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: sincere, atmospheric, realistic, psychological, captivating, erotic, sensual, touching, serious, gloomy
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JJ+E (2021)
Plot Summary:
Elisabeth and John-John live in the same city, but they inhabit different worlds.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, teen
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Gaby: A True Story (1987)
Plot Summary:
The life of Gaby Brimmer, a girl physically handicapped, who finally gets her goals of study and triumph.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 783
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sincere, uplifting, touching, emotional, realistic, serious
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Like Water for Chocolate (1992)
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Tita is passionately in love with Pedro, but her controlling mother forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro marries her sister, Tita throws herself into her cooking and discovers she can transfer her emotions through the food she prepares, infecting all who eat it with her intense heartbreak.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, compassionate, romantic, sweet, emotional, melancholic, intense, atmospheric, sensual
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Clement (2001)
Plot Summary:
Benoit turns 13 and develops an intense crush on his godmother, Marion. As they lie on beaches in the summer, she humors him by talking about the mysteries of women.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 555
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: erotic, sentimental, psychological, sexy, disturbing, hot
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After (2019)
Plot Summary:
A young woman falls for a guy with a dark secret and the two embark on a rocky relationship.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: romantic, sexy, emotional, light, atmospheric, touching, lyrical, erotic, saga, scenic