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Plot Summary:
The film set, in post war Sri Lanka, brings us close to two characters who collide quite accidentally, and through them we experience the deep and seemingly unbridgeable chasm that conflict almost always creates. Will love help them cross the bridge? Or will the past continue to color the present? A man and a woman from the two ends of the thirty-year-old bloody civil war in Sri Lanka discover that the color of love is blue, and life, shades of grey.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Sri Lanka
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sinhala, psychological, tense, touching, suspense, poignant, crying, unusual plot structure
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Yesterday Today Tomorrow (2011)
Plot Summary:
It’s a story of people and their secrets that tear them apart...The movie follows a surprising decision that each family member will make in the aftermath of a tragedy… life changing decisions that will either lead them to a future lasting happiness, or one full of despair.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, soap opera, unusual plot structure, contemplative
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Truth (2011)
Plot Summary:
An estranged couple on a weekend retreat are pushed further apart when the wife, Becca, becomes romantically fascinated with the journal of the cabin's long-dead former owner. When the ghost of the old owner appears and reciprocates Becca's feelings, the web of betrayals and untruths between Becca and her husband begins to unravel.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, sincere, sexy, touching
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Bokser (2011)
Plot Summary:
The films was inspired by true events. Przemyslaw Saleta, World's Kickboxing Champion and European Champion in professional boxing gave a kidney to his seriously ill daughter. There were unexpected complications during the surgery and Saleta almost died. The movie starts when Saleta learns about the birth of his daughter Nicole and ends several years later when Saleta decided to give Nicole his own kidney. The story does not follow one linear, chronological path. The audience watches the boxer in the surgery room and join the protagonist in the recollection of past events;.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: touching, psychological, tense, suspense
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Plot Summary:
The lawyer Federico Fendi has reasons to believe that his wife Carla in secret is Rome's highest paid prostitute.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 848
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: sentimental, bad ending, suspense, cynical
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The Inmate (2007)
Plot Summary:
Set in two contrasting enivronments that undeline the same premise of imprisonment, Selda tells the story of Rommel (Sid Lucero), a young man who accidentally kills a boy, resulting in his incarceration. Inside the jail, he befriends another inmate, Esteban (Emilio), who becomes his rock and protector. Seven years later, Rommel is living in the province as a farmer together with Sita (Ara Mina) his wife. Esteban tracks down Rommel in hopes of renewing a brewing love affair. Rommel and Sita welcome Esteban into their lives, until their intimacy crosses borderlines and results in the undeniable scourge of self-discovery.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, rough, suspense, crying, independent film, queer cinema
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The Dam (2013)
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A young man called Roman is working for an attorney. Roman has to travel to a small village in Bavaria, in order to get some files from a local police station. These files keep records about a high school massacre committed by a student a year ago. Due to bureaucratic reasons, Roman has to stay in the village for a few days. By accident he meets a young girl called Laura, who has survived the massacre. By becoming more acquainted to Laura, Roman also becomes more interested in the tragic event. Later on he realizes that Laura is hiding a secret. She has been more involved in the incident.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Plot Summary:
Eleven people, isolated from the outside world, communicate via screens. A son wants to hold the hand of his suffering mother. Love grows. A mother has abandoned her family. A therapist finds himself at the edge of ruin. A daughter connects with her parents.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, unusual plot structure, captivating, melancholic
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Santa (2014)
Plot Summary:
A trip to Lapland leads to immense changes in the life of a single mother and her seven- year- old son. Love, hope and efforts to save the life of the little boy will change dramatically the lives of the two grown-ups. “Santa” - is a story about human relations and often painful challenges that life poses. In order to overcome these challenges one must believe in the miracle of a fairy-tale and... breath in deeply the fresh air of the North. It’s so fresh, you almost want to drink it. And it’s worth living for. The movie contains breathtaking Lapland views and is peppered with Marius Ivaškevičius specialty humor.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Lithuania, Finland
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, touching, captivating, suspense
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'How Not To Disappear Completely' follows a week in the life of a young photographer Tom as he returns to London after spending two years traveling in India. Tom is at a crossroads in his life. A stranger in the cold hard city, he struggles to reconnect with his friends whilst searching for his half sister. Along the way Tom is forced to face up to his past and soon realises that it may not be his life he's been running away from but himself.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, melancholic
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Sheesha (2005)
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Businesswoman Sia Malhotra lives a wealthy lifestyle in Bangkok, along with her twin, Ria, who is deaf and dumb due to a neurological disorder. She meets with Raj Oberoi, and both fall in love. Their endeavors to cure Ria are all in vain. Sia plans to travel to the United States to improve her business, and has no one to look after Ria. So she decides to get married to Raj so that he could move in with Ria and look after her. Raj agrees, and both obtain a marriage certificate from Pattaya City Hall, and Sia departs for America. Sia does not know that after her return she will be a suspect in the brutal killing of a female Caucasian, Diana, and will not be permitted to leave Bangkok; and she will face further trauma and shock when she finds that her husband has been sexually molesting her handicapped sister.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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Cherry Blossoms (2008)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, serious, stylized, realistic, funny, existential, gloomy, crying, extraordinary
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Secrets, Objects (2011)
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40-year-old Sociology professor Hye-jung falls for a 21-year-old Usang, a male student who helps her project research on women's extramarital affair. Their prohibited love and secrets are watched and told by two secretive observers. They are her copy machine and his digital camera.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 103
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Country: South Korea
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Frangipani (2014)
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Sri Lanka
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, romantic, touching, melancholic, contemplative, sinhala, unusual plot structure
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Dearest Jane (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young girl learn to accept love and change, after being sent to live with her uncle in Indiana.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, tense, suspense, contemplative, independent film, unusual plot structure
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IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 135
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
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Country: UK
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 186
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 225
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Asi (2007)
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Asi is a Turkish television drama serial. The series originally aired from Jule 21, 2007 to June 15, 2009. It ran for two seasons on Kanal D.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
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45 Years (2015)
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, Germany
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As a young New York couple goes from college romance to marriage and the birth of their first child, the unexpected twists of their journey create reverberations that echo over continents and through lifetimes.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Drama, Romance
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The Secret Lives of Second Wives (2008)
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Lynn Hughes finds that marriage the second time around is far from idyllic when the ex wife and her children return to manipulate her husband Jack.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 210
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IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 479
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 59000
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IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 247
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