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Plot Summary:
A young woman spends an adventurous winter with a trapper on Spitsbergen.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 466
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, offbeat, humorous, serious, realistic, semi serious
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Emma's Bliss (2006)
Plot Summary:
Upon being informed that he is fatally ill with cancer, Max, who works at a used car store, steals money which his boss has gained through illegal means. When fleeing from the scene of the crime Max crashes his car. He is pulled unconscious from the destroyed vehicle by a homely young woman, Emma, who lives alone on a farm where Max decides to stay in order to hide from the police and his boss.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, thought provoking, captivating, romantic drama, sentimental, offbeat, realistic, semi serious
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The Trap (1966)
Plot Summary:
A fur trapper takes a mute girl as his unwilling wife to live with him in his remote cabin in the woods.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sexual, touching, serious, captivating, realistic, independent film, sexy, period drama, cult film
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Reply with Photo (1999)
Plot Summary:
The shy scientist Lars decides to publish a small ad in order to find a girlfriend. From the 218 replies, he selects Brigita, an attractive Latvian woman and invites her to Stockholm. But what actually happens after Brigita's arrival is far more complicated than Lars could ever have imagined.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Latvia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic
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Rooster's Breakfast (2007)
Plot Summary:
After being fired, a young car mechanic Đuro gets recommendation to look for another job in a remote village. His new boss is warm, old fashioned and naive - completely opposite from the world he's coming from. The peaceful atmosphere is shaken when Đuro falls for a regular customer's wife.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Slovenia, Croatia
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, erotic, offbeat, humorous, semi serious
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Over the Hill (1992)
Plot Summary:
Alma can't stand to have one more birthday without seeing her estranged daughter, Elizabeth, who lives in Sydney, Australia.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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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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Last Goodbye (2004)
Plot Summary:
A confusing intermingling of individuals, drunk office worker, vampire slayer actress, rock band members, runaway teenage girl, father, whiskey drinking preacher etc., whose lives are somehow connected.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Drama, Adventure, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: gothic, realistic, semi serious, captivating, independent film, humorous, campy
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Sinbad (1971)
Plot Summary:
Based on the stories of Hungarian writer Gyula Krúdy, this iconic film is a lush and sensuous depiction of the life, loves and memories of serial seducer Szindbád.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Hungary
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, sexual, sexy
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Desire (1992)
Plot Summary:
A Scottish woman who attends school in Paris comes home for the summer and helps take in the straw, where she meets an attractive and simple man. They begin a torrid affair despite the differences in their lifestyles. He asks her to marry him but she refuses, and they continue their separate lives but also continue their affair through the years, loving each other despite their differences.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Canada, France
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, romantic, sentimental, independent film, serious, realistic, sexual
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Gone with the Woman (2007)
Plot Summary:
A woman moves into a young man's home and starts to run his life -- a process that makes him fall hopelessly in love with her.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, melancholic, captivating, cult classic, cult film
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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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The River Why (2010)
Plot Summary:
A young man abandons his family for a solitary life of fly-fishing. His goal was to find his own way in the fishing world and thereby find himself and love.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, sincere, touching, serious, romantic drama, indie film, realistic, independent film
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The Last Flight (2009)
Plot Summary:
Aviator Marie Vallières de Beaumont goes on a journey to find her lover Bill Lancaster after his plane disappears in the Sahara. After her plane is forced down in the Ténéré she meets Lieutenant Antoine Chauvet of the French Camel Corps who joins in the hunt for Lancaster. As the two endure hardships in the desert, they begin to develop feelings for each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sentimental, atmospheric, serious, realistic
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Lady Libertine (1984)
Plot Summary:
Charlie, a young aristocrat in turn of the century England, meets a boy named Frank on the road to Portsmouth. What Charlie doesn't realize is that Frank is actually Frances, who's donned a disguise to escape working at a brothel. Charlie takes Frank/Frances into his home, and when he discovers her true identity, the two become lovers.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 408
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA, Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: erotic, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy, art house
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Call of the Wild (1992)
Plot Summary:
A young boy heads off to the Yukon after hearing tales about the Gold Rush, and he forms an unwavering friendship with a heroic Alsatian dog called Buck.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic
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The White Dawn (1974)
Plot Summary:
Three stranded 1890s whalers (Warren Oates, Timothy Bottoms, Louis Gossett Jr.) corrupt the culture of their Eskimo saviors.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 867
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, vintage
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The Polish Bride (1998)
Plot Summary:
Drama on the dawning love between a Polish woman and a farmer. Anna is forced to work in a brothel, but manages to escape. She's found, exhausted and scared, by Henk (the farmer) who offers her a place to stay, but her past chases her.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological
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Straight From the Heart (2003)
Plot Summary:
Jordan Donavan, a photographer in New York, is so disappointed when after five years of going steady Edward Morgan offers her not marriage but just to move in with him, that she accepts the match-making arranged via a magazine by her female friend with Tyler Ross, a horse rancher in the West, whose candidacy was actually also posted by his sister. After a bad start they soon grow closer.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, semi serious, humorous, light, romantic, captivating, sex comedy, realistic, romantic drama
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A Bird of the Air (2011)
Plot Summary:
A man in search of his past, and a woman who lives in the moment, are brought together when they pursue the origins of a stray parrot in this comedic and romantic drama.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sentimental, atmospheric, touching, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, romantic, romantic comedy, offbeat
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Your Life in 65 (2006)
Plot Summary:
A Sunday, three young friends read the obituary of a schoolmate with whom long ago they lost contact. They go to the morgue and realize that they are wrong: that burial is not that of their fellow student. From this, the confusion and random weave a story of friendship, love and death.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 703
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, realistic, semi serious, romantic, captivating, heartbreaking, offbeat, feel good, complex
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Tbilisi, I Love You (2014)
Plot Summary:
Following "Paris, Je t'aime" "New York,I Love You" and "Rio, Eu Te Amo" “Tbilisi, I Love You” has become the next film in the “Cities of Love” franchise.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Georgia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, sexy, touching, captivating, uplifting, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, anthology
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Watermelon (2003)
Plot Summary:
A tangled web of deciet pitches three lovers together with the added proposition of a baby.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 391
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic
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Swann (1996)
Plot Summary:
Rose Hindmarsh finds herself at the centre of a controversy when she meets author Sarah Maloney as she investigates the life of Mary Swann, an obscure poet who was brutally murdered in a small town in rural Ontario.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, atmospheric, touching, offbeat, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991)
Plot Summary:
In this sequel to the 1980 classic, two children are stranded on a beautiful island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together and eventually become tanned teenagers in love.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: melancholic, realistic, serious, erotic, teen, romantic, sexy, feel good, sensual, sexual
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Zero Kelvin (1995)
Plot Summary:
Larsen, an aspiring poet in '20s Oslo, leaves his girlfriend to spend a year as a trapper in East Greenland. There he is teamed with a seemingly rough old sailor/trapper, Randbæk, and a scientist, Holm. Trapped in a tiny hut together as the Arctic winter sets in, a complex and intense love/hate relationship develops between Randbæk and Larsen, who are more similar than either would like to admit. A powerful psychological and physical drama set against stunningly bleak Arctic scenery.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: psychological, philosophical, atmospheric, neurotic, tense, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, erotic
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Never Cry Wolf (1983)
Plot Summary:
This film dramatizes the true story of Farley Mowat, when he was sent to the Canadian tundra area to collect evidence of the grievous harm the wolf population was allegedly doing to the caribou herds. In his struggle to survive in that difficult environment he studies the wolves, and realizes that the old beliefs about wolves and their supposed threat are almost totally false. Furthermore, he learns that humans represent a far greater threat to the land, and also to the wolves, a species which plays an important role in the ecosystem of the north.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: scenic, semi autobiographical, philosophical, offbeat, sensitive, anthropological, uplifting, touching, serious, realistic
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The Blue Lagoon (1980)
Plot Summary:
Two small children and a ship's cook survive a shipwreck and find safety on an idyllic tropical island. Soon, however, the cook dies and the young boy and girl are left on their own. Days become years and Emmeline (Brooke Shields) and Richard (Christopher Atkins) make a home for themselves surrounded by exotic creatures and nature's beauty. But will they ever see civilization again?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 75000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: romantic, erotic, sexual, captivating, touching, entertaining, sexy, feel good, minimal cast, sensual
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Team Spirit (2000)
Plot Summary:
The story centers around a group of friends (and girlfriends) who have been playing football together for over 10 years, and who are now getting everything ready for their 500th match.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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The Trouble with Men and Women (2005)
Plot Summary:
A bitter-sweet romantic tale set in London, depicting the sentimental education of a young man who is absurdly confused about women.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat, witty, talky
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Old Fashioned (2014)
Plot Summary:
A romantic-drama, OLD FASHIONED centers on Clay Walsh, a former frat boy who gives up his carousing and now runs an antique shop in a small Midwestern college town. There, he has become notorious for his lofty and outdated theories on love and romance. When Amber Hewson, a free-spirited young woman with a restless soul, drifts into the area and rents the apartment above his shop, she finds herself surprisingly drawn to his noble ideas, which are new and intriguing to her. And Clay, though he tries to fight and deny it, simply cannot resist being attracted to her spontaneous and passionate embrace of life. Ultimately, Clay must step out from behind his relational theories, and Amber must overcome her own fears and deep wounds, as the two of them, together, attempt the impossible: an “old-fashioned” courtship in contemporary America.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, sentimental, uplifting, semi serious, christian film, independent film, disgusting, emotional