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Plot Summary:
The forbidden love between a middle-aged family woman and a callow youth working in the same hotel.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 503
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: sincere, realistic, captivating, serious
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24 City (2008)
Plot Summary:
Chengdu nowadays. The state owned factory 420 shuts down to give way to a complex of luxury apartments called "24 CITY". Three generations, eight characters : old workers, factory executives and yuppies, their stories melt into the History of China.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Documentary, Drama
Country: China, Hong Kong, Japan
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, realistic, captivating, psychological, slow cinema, aesthetic, sincere, thought provoking, touching, serious
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Flying Blind (2012)
Plot Summary:
Frankie is in her forties, ambitious and successful. She works in the aerospace industry at Filton, designing surveillance drones for the military. Shes never married, and is completely in control of every part of her life. Her closest relationship is with her father, who worked as an engineer on Concorde. But her life changes forever when she embarks on a passionate affair with Kahil, a French/Algerian aerospace student, twenty years younger than her. One day, she arrives at work and is detained by the security services: Kahil is a person of interest to MI5. Her well-ordered life starts to unravel in a welter of suspicion and prejudice, as Frankie no longer knows whether to follow her passion or listen to the doubts that increasingly overwhelm her.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 676
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, suspense, disturbing, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Cost of Life (2009)
Plot Summary:
Two men fight for one woman. One of them has done something bad to her.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating
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Dei-te Quase Tudo (2005)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, soap opera, novela
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Love, Lies and Records (2017)
Plot Summary:
Registrar Kate Dickinson tries to balance her personal life with the daily dramas of births, deaths and marriages and the impact they have upon her and her staff at the local Registry Office in Leeds.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 884
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, disturbing, entertaining
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I Dare You to Leave (2015)
Plot Summary:
A heartbreaking story in which power, obsession, and desire will tragically mark the love between Paulina and Adrián who will fight for their love against all odds, even if it takes their life.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, telenovela
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The Beautiful Lie (2015)
Plot Summary:
Anna is happily married. She has the perfect family. But one man will change it all.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Third Half (2018)
Plot Summary:
A contemporary take on "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus" with the love for football as a dramatic backdrop.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Anna Karenina (2017)
Plot Summary:
In late-19th-century Russian high society, St. Petersburg aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the dashing Count Alexei Vronsky. An eight part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" from Vronsky's point of view.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, period drama
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Miss Mermaid (2002)
Plot Summary:
《인어 아가씨》는 MBC에서 2002년 6월 24일부터 2003년 6월 27일까지 246부작으로 방영되었던 드라마이다.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Si nos dejan (2021)
Plot Summary:
After dedicating a lifetime to her husband and family, Alicia's world changes completely when she discovers a betrayal. Determined to rebuild her life, Alicia begins to fall in love with a much younger man.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, soap opera, telenovela
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Single Father (2010)
Plot Summary:
Dave is facing the seemingly impossible job of bringing up four kids alone after the sudden death of his wife. And things get even more complicated when he falls in love with his wife's best friend, Sarah. Single Father asks how soon is too soon to fall in love again?.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, serious, emotional, sincere, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Secrets at the Hotel (2016)
Plot Summary:
The story of Secrets at the Hotel begins in 1908. Julio Olmedo and Isabel Alarcón travel on the same train to the Gran Hotel, property of the Alarcón family. Both of them ignore that their lives will take a new twist in that place, produced by love, treason, and the secrets hidden there.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, telenovela
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Older Sister (2005)
Plot Summary:
Naoko Noda, who works in a trading company, is called "anego" by her younger co-workers. What is "anego"? It means "older sister," but in this case it is given as a nickname to Naoko because she is like a big sister to her coworkers, who depend on her to give them advice about everything. This drama, depicts realistically how Naoko lives her everyday life, including her love life, the problems she faces, and her uneasiness about the future. --NTV.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, dorama
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Anna Karenina (2000)
Plot Summary:
To help her brother mend his failing marriage, young Russian beauty Anna Karenina - who's married to eminent nobleman Alexei Karenin - leaves St. Petersburg for Moscow, where she meets the dashing Count Vronsky. They soon fall madly in love, but the scandal of their illicit affair and Alexei's vengeance give rise to tragedy in this faithful adaptation of author Leo Tolstoy's immortal novel.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 598
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 360 min
Plot tags: touching, captivating, emotional, realistic, serious, historical romance, epic, gloomy, period drama
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Doctors (2000)
Plot Summary:
Set in the fictional Midlands town of Letherbridge, defined as being close to the city of Birmingham, this soap opera follows the staff and families of a doctor's surgery.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: medical drama, touching, captivating, sentimental, serious, emotional, realistic, soap opera
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Sangre de mi tierra (2017)
Plot Summary:
American drama series about two rival family wine farmers in Napa, California.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Sacrificio de Mujer (2011)
Plot Summary:
Sacrificio de Mujer is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by Venevisión International. Marjorie de Sousa and Juan A. Baptista star as the main protagonists with Mariana Torres and Pablo Azar as co-protagonists. Luis Jose Santander,Flor Núñez, Géraldine Bazán, Arnaldo Pipke and Ximena Duque star as the main villains. Filming took place in Miami, Florida in 2010. From April 18, 2011 to June 17, 2011, Univision aired double episodes weekday afternoons at 12pm/11am central. From June 20, 2011 to July 7, 2011, the remaining episodes aired for one hour weekday afternoons. As of September 21, 2011, Venevisión is currently airing Sacrificio de Mujer at 10pm.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Drama
Country: Venezuela, USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, telenovela
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Iron Island (2018)
Plot Summary:
On an offshore oil rig, "Iron Island" showcases the duality of people who have their lives torn apart: wherever they are, they feel incomplete. In this scenario, Dante, the oil rig's production coordinator, is an irascible man who sees his life collapsing between the turmoil in the high seas and family dilemmas on solid ground.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, nautical
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Black Pearl (2017)
Plot Summary:
Hazal, beautiful young girl is engajed with Kenan, handsome young fisherman. The day before their wedding, Hazal is forced to marry Vural, successful businessman who fall in love with her since the first time he saw her working on his birthday party as a waitress. Vurals first wife, Naz, was just alike Hazal, and thats the reason why Vural fell in love with her so much, since Naz died 2 years ago and now he finds a replacement of her in Hazal. The story is telling us about the love story between Kenan who thought Hazal dumped him just for money and higher society life and who became a successful businessman with the aim of avenging them , and Hazal who tries to forget all she has been through and the way Vural stole her dreams and youth, and of course Vural who is still waiting for Hazal to love him as much as she loves Kenan.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Enemies from the Past (2017)
Plot Summary:
Go Ya supports her family by doing part-time work. Her father had an affair and left home 10 years ago. She is now looking for a regular full-time job. Ji Seok is a lawyer who specializes in divorces. He is skeptical about marriage, but after he meets Go Ya and gets close to her, they face a difficult situation.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing, suspenseful, soap opera
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The Only Living Boy in New York (2017)
Plot Summary:
When a young man learns that his overbearing father is having an affair, he tries to stop it, only to be seduced by the older woman as well.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, emotional, disturbing, christian film, sentimental, light, inspirational, social, art house
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Love of Sage (2016)
Plot Summary:
Starring by Miho Nakayama! Amy Yamada's high impact love-hate drama is now draw a curtain. A woman has trained her ex-best friend's son to be her sexual slave for 20 years. Because her best friend stole her first love. What was meant to be revenge. Ending will come with great impact. This is the drama vividly portrays the axis of terror and psychological warfare caused by the main character, with “love” and “animosity” from over 20 years. The main character's only aim in life is “revenge” for her best friend and her family who stole her first love.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Mother (2003)
Plot Summary:
A grandmother has a passionate affair with a man half her age, who is also sleeping with her daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, erotic, sincere, independent film, realistic, romantic, captivating, clever, contemplative
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Inborn Pair (2011)
Plot Summary:
Betrothed while in utero, a resort group president enters into an arranged marriage with a legal assistant. Despite their bickering, love blooms.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Scenes from a Marriage (2021)
Plot Summary:
A chronicle of the many years of love and turmoil that bind a contemporary American couple, tracking their relationship as it progresses through a number of successive stages: matrimony, infidelity, divorce, and subsequent partnerships.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 296 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, erotic, heartfelt
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Hotelier (2007)
Plot Summary:
An incident in the past causes Ogata Kouhei (Tanabe Seiichi) to resign his position and leave the country in shame. Now, at the hotel's 30th anniversary, the hotel is facing a crisis; the president has just been submitted to the hospital, and the hotel is facing a potential takeover. Under his request, assistant manager Odagiri Kyoko (Ueto Aya) goes to Korea in order to convince Kouhei to return. Kyoko is caught up in an incident when her purse is stolen when she meets Mizusawa Keigo (Oikawa Mitsuhiro), who tries to help her. Ultimately, Kyoko comes back to Japan unsuccessful. However, under the advice from Korean hotel manager Shin Dong Hyuk (Bae Yong Jun), Kouhei returns to Tokyo Ocean Hotel as the position of the new general manager. Upon his return however, Kyoko once again meets Mizusawa Keigo. Little does Kyoko know, not only does Keigo want to take over the Tokyo Ocean Hotel, but he also carries affections for her.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, serious, realistic
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Heat Wave (2009)
Plot Summary:
After the death of her unfaithful husband, Gisele, a social worker of 52 years, falls madly in love with Yannick, one of her former customers and kleptomaniac addict. She tries to repress her feelings, but the attraction she has for this 19 year old boy is beyond comprehension. Her sister, her boss and two children will each turn, disrupt her secret meetings with her young lover.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 537
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disaster movie
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Secret Love: The Schoolboy and the Mailwoman (2005)
Plot Summary:
A 17 year old boy falls in love with a 37 year old woman. As if this wouldn't be enough they are of different social classes and she is married.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, erotic