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Plot Summary:
The story of the descent into madness of Mussolini's secret first wife, Ida Dasler, who was seduced by his passion and vigour but blind to the fascist dictator's many flaws. A historical drama with the passion, lyricism and tragedy of a classical Italian opera. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, emotional, realistic, political, sad, historical drama, period piece, serious, stylized
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Belle du Seigneur (2012)
Plot Summary:
English-language adaptation of Albert Cohen's epic Swiss tale of a tortured love affair between a high-ranking Jewish official and the protestant wife of one of his employees.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Luxembourg, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: emotional, inspirational, realistic, touching, serious, weird
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The Best Intentions (1992)
Plot Summary:
The story of Ingmar Bergman's parents. In 1909, poor theology student Henrik Bergman falls in love with Anna Åkerbloom, the daughter of a rich family in Uppsala. After their wedding Henrik becomes a priest in the north of Sweden. After a few years Anna can't stand living in the rural county with the uncouth people. She returns to Uppsala, Henrik stays in the north.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, UK, Italy, Norway, Iceland
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: sincere, manga, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, talky, gloomy, beautiful
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Abzurdah (2015)
Plot Summary:
A disenfranchised 16-year-old girl connects to an older man on the internet and after a brief one-sided affair descends into obsession and anorexia.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, tense, suspense, melancholic, suspenseful, crying
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A French Woman (1995)
Plot Summary:
Wed just as war breaks out, Jeanne hardly gets to know her military husband, Louis, before the debacle of 1940. While waiting for his return from a POW camp, Jeanne journeys through countless affairs with Louis' comrades- in-arms. Hoping to forget these wartime betrayls, Louis takes his wife and the infant twins he didn't father to Berlin, where she falls for Matthais, a sensitive German industrialist. When the Indochinese war sends Louis to Vietnam, Matthais follows Jeanne back to France. A subsequent move to Damascus where Louis is posted as military attache, fails to break their bond.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, serious, realistic, gloomy, sexual, semi autobiographical, sexy
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Kiss Me Again (2010)
Plot Summary:
A look at the lives of Carlo, Giulia, and their friends some 10 years after the events of L'Ultimo bacio.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, touching, captivating, melancholic
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An Italian Romance (2004)
Plot Summary:
Giovanni, a married man with a child, meets on a train Maria, a former lover.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 360
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, captivating, historical drama, sentimental
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Nuts for Love (2000)
Plot Summary:
En 1975, unos meses antes del comienzo de la dictadura militar argentina, Alicia y Marcelo se conocen en un concierto de Sui Géneris. El amor surge inmediatamente entre ellos, pero el retorno del novio de Alicia provoca la separación. En 1982, en Madrid, sus caminos vuelven a cruzarse. Tras el encuentro, se dan cuenta de que, a pesar de que el amor sigue latente, sus destinos discurren por rumbos separados. Años después, en 1990, tras otro encuentro casual, Marcelo decide hacer frente a sus sentimientos por Alicia: ambos quieren hacer realidad su sueño postergado desde la adolescencia.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 466
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, serious, emotional, sentimental, realistic, contemplative, talky, gloomy
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Wild Blood (2008)
Plot Summary:
The story of two renowned actors of Fascist cinema, Luisa Ferida and Osvaldo Valenti, who were supporters of the Salò Republic. Accused of collaboration and torture, they were shot by the Partisans after the country was liberated.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 148 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sexy, touching, tense, suspenseful, gloomy, sexual
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The Front Line (2009)
Plot Summary:
An Italian man looks back from his jail cell on his youthful exploits as a political extremist with understanding, candour and remorse.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 651
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Belgium, UK, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, sincere, serious, emotional, tense, captivating, realistic, contemplative, factual
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Priest of Love (1981)
Plot Summary:
Following the banning and burning of his novel, "The Rainbow," D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, move to the United States, and then to Mexico. When Lawrence contracts tuberculosis, they return to England for a short time, then to Italy, where Lawrence writes "Lady Chatterley's Lover.".
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 505
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Mexico, Italy
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: intellectual, independent film, sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, talky, romantic drama, historical drama
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Sonny Boy (2011)
Plot Summary:
Waldemar Nods, a young man from Suriname, meets the older Dutch woman Rika van der Lans and they fall in love. In pre-WWII Netherlands they could not be more different. The one black, the other white, 17 years between them and on top of that Rika already has four children with another man. They love each other, but then Rika appears to be pregnant.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, sentimental, captivating, emotional, costume drama, serious, realistic
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For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story (2000)
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In the early 1970s, Cuban trumpeter Arturo Sandoval (Andy Garcia) is torn between his own musical dreams and the dreams of his wife, Marianela (Mía Maestro), a fervent supporter of the ideals of the Castro revolution. Also starring Charles S. Dutton as Dizzy Gillespie and José Zúñiga as Paquito D'Rivera, this gripping jazz biopic is at once a detailed portrait of a musician and a stinging critique.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, realistic, sincere, serious, independent film
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Summer in February (2013)
Plot Summary:
The Newlyn School of artists flourished at the beginning of the 20th Century and the film focuses on the wild and bohemian Lamorna Group, which included Alfred Munnings and Laura and Harold Knight. The incendiary anti-Modernist Munnings, now regarded as one of Britain's most sought-after artists, is at the centre of the complex love triangle, involving aspiring artist Florence Carter-Wood and Gilbert Evans, the land agent in charge of the Lamorna Valley estate. True - and deeply moving - the story is played out against the timeless beauty of the Cornish coast, in the approaching shadow of The Great War.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, emotional, retro, historical drama, realistic, stylized, costume drama, period drama
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Tom & Viv (1994)
Plot Summary:
The story of the marriage of the poet TS Eliot to socialite Vivienne Haigh-Wood, which had to cope with her gynaeological and emotional problems and his growing fame.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: romantic, psychological, romantic drama, sincere, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, independent film, light
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Grace of Monaco (2014)
Plot Summary:
The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly's crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco's Prince Rainier III and France's Charles De Gaulle, and a looming French invasion of Monaco in the early 1960s.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Switzerland, France, Italy, Belgium, India
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: realistic, stylized, captivating, sentimental, touching, historical drama, sincere, serious, weird
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Georgia O'Keeffe (2009)
Plot Summary:
Biopic of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe and her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 958
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, art film, stylized, crying
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Surviving Picasso (1996)
Plot Summary:
The passionate Merchant-Ivory drama tells the story of Francoise Gilot, the only lover of Pablo Picasso who was strong enough to withstand his ferocious cruelty and move on with her life.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: emotional, serious, realistic, intense, romantic, heartbreaking, art film, romantic drama, historical drama, contemplative
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The Soul Keeper (2002)
Plot Summary:
In the present days, Maria Spielrein and Fraser are in Russia making a research about the life of Sabina Spielrein. In the beginning of the Twentieth Century, this Russian girl was a patient treated by Dr. Jung and later they fall in love for each other and Sabina became his lover. While the researchers read the documents, the romance between Sabina and Dr. Jung is disclosed, in a time of revolution and war.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy, France, UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, serious, captivating, sexual, neurotic, erotic, spiritual, art house, epic
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Carrington (1995)
Plot Summary:
The story of the relationship between painter Dora Carrington and author Lytton Strachey in a World War One England of cottages and countryside. Although platonic due to Strachey's homosexuality, the relationship was nevertheless a deep and complicated one. When Carrington did develop a more physical relationship with soldier Ralph Partridge, Strachey was able to welcome him as a friend, although Partridge remained somewhat uneasy, not so much with Strachey's lifestyle and sexual orientation as with the fact that he was a conscientious objector.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: costume drama, touching, emotional, talky, sexual, historical drama, independent film, sentimental, sincere, atmospheric
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The Edge of Love (2008)
Plot Summary:
The Edge of love is a love story of two feisty women and a brilliant, charismatic poet who love both women. One woman Vera Phillips who is his first love and whom he lost for ten year, while other one is his present wife Caitlin who is adventurous and felt same adventurous nature in this charismatic poet, Dylan Thomas, also.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, sincere, melancholic, sweet, period piece, realistic, erotic, retro, heartbreaking
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Where Am I Going? (1976)
Plot Summary:
Tullio Hermil is a chauvinist aristocrat who flaunts his mistress to his wife, but when he believes she has been unfaithful he becomes enamored of her again.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: erotic, romantic, spiritual, neorealism, thought provoking, serious, realistic, contemplative, stylized, gloomy
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Facing Windows (2003)
Plot Summary:
Overburdened and stuck in a greying marriage, Giovanna takes to caring for a Jewish Holocaust survivor her husband brings home. As she begins to reflect on her life, she turns to the man who lives across from her.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, Turkey, Portugal, UK
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: emotional, psychological, enigmatic, sincere, touching, realistic, stylized, erotic, culinary, poetic
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Olga (2004)
Plot Summary:
Based upon the true story of Olga Benário, the German-born wife of Brazilian communist leader Luís Carlos Prestes. During the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas (1930-1945) she was arrested and sent to Nazi Germany, where she was put to death in a concentration camp. After World War II began, Vargas decided to uphold the Allies.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Brazil
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, bleak, contemplative, period piece
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Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012)
Plot Summary:
Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: serious, stylized, psychological, captivating, intellectual, heartbreaking, political, sex comedy, grindhouse, period piece
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The Last Sentence (2012)
Plot Summary:
Renowned journalist Torgny Segerstedt declares war against Hitler as he criticizes Swedish politicians who tried to look away from the tyranny of the Nazis with the good excuse of “neutralism”. His only weapon is his pen and his life is full of gossip such as an affair with his boss’ wife, a love scandal with a secretary younger than his daughter, and the suicide of his wife. However, he continues to fight a one man battle against Hitler and the Nazi regime until his death, throwing the question “Can one person really change history?” to the audience.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 839
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, touching, serious, uplifting, bleak, realistic, gloomy, period drama
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In Love and War (1996)
Plot Summary:
After teenage ambulance driver Ernest Hemingway (Chris O'Donnell) takes shrapnel in the leg during World War I, he falls in love with Agnes von Kurowsky (Sandra Bullock), a beautiful older nurse at the hospital where he's sent to recover. Their affair slowly blossoms, until Hemingway boldly asks Agnes to be his wife and journey to America with him. Richard Attenborough directs this drama based on the real-life experiences of the famed novelist.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: romantic, sentimental, romantic drama, sincere, sex comedy, atmospheric, serious, realistic, light, inspirational
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When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story (2010)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true story of the enduring but troubled love between Lois Wilson, co-founder of Al-Anon, and her alcoholic husband Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, captivating, touching, melancholic, thought provoking, spiritual, tragic
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The Theory of Everything (2014)
Plot Summary:
The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 474000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Japan
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: touching, uplifting, emotional, inspirational, compassionate, thought provoking, heartbreaking, dramatic, factual, sentimental
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Reds (1981)
Plot Summary:
A radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 195 min
Plot tags: epic, political, tense, sentimental, serious, captivating, atmospheric, breathtaking, philosophical, road movie
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Infinity (1996)
Plot Summary:
Story of the early life of genius and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, intellectual, period piece, emotional, independent film, romantic