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Plot Summary:
A British woman and her husband seek a fresh start in Australia after infidelity in their marriage. The couple hire a young nanny, but she isn't the innocent stranger she pretends to be.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
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The Betrayal (2023)
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Dr. Jenphitcha is a successful psychiatrist, a loving wife and mother. Her picture-perfect life is shattered when she suspects her husband Athin of having an affair. As Jane unravel more layers into her devious husband’s secret other life, she is enraged when it becomes clear she has been betrayed with a young college student—Kate. What ensues is a game of cat and mouse with her cheating husband and mistress. She spirals out of control—behaving in ways she never imagined—threatening everyone around her and tearing her family apart.
IMDB Rating: 9.7
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration:
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The Wife (2022)
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Mia Luang is a story about a very wealthy, famous, well-educated, and respected couple. Everyone assumes that they're happily married and live a very good life, while in reality, they have a lot of problems. The problems start with Aniroot, the husband who is a player and has a lot of mistresses. His wife Wiganda is a smart woman who endures his misbehavior and his many women. Among his women, there is only Ornin who seems to openly come in between the couple without shame. Mia Luang literally means Main Wife, while his mistresses are called Mia Noi, literally Small Wife or Minor Wife, in Thai.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 6
Genere: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration:
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Crossing Thresholds (2017)
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Main portion of the movie displays an evening out for people from multiple circles having dinner in Charisma restaurant. Many stories are being told by patrons from each table.
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Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: independent film
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Partner (2009)
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"Partner" centers around two law firms as they struggle to defend the accused and those around them. Kang Eun-ho, a widowed single mother & attorney, tangles with the charismatic and ruthless attorney Lee Tae-jo. In the first two episodes the attorneys work on cases involving a step-brother chraged with murdering of his step-sister and a lawsuit between a wealthy mother-in-law and her divorced daughter-in-law. Each successive episode will cover provocative cases like these, while also bringing to light the charms of the attorneys and their daily lives.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
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Mi camino es amarte (2022)
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IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration:
Plot tags: soap opera, telenovela
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Monarch Cove (2006)
Plot Summary:
Monarch Cove is a prime time telenovela that premiered on Lifetime Television on November 4, 2006. It ran for 14 episodes, ending on December 16, 2006.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic
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Yukionna to Kani wo Kuu (2022)
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A certain summer day, as the cicadas sing loudly. A man with no money and no place to belong tries to end his life, however is unable to take the last step. While wavering between life and death, he sees a gourmet food program on television, and realising he's never once eaten crab in his life decides that "For my last day on this Earth, I'll eat crab". Settings his sights on the wife who lives in a high-class neighbourhood that he happened across in a library, he forces his way into her home. And thus, he demands money from her, however things go in an unexpected direction.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 6
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, psychological horror
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Machos (2003)
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Set in the city of Viña del Mar, the story focuses on the Mercader family and the conflicts, love and relationships that arise between the patriarch Ángel Mercader and his 7 sons.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, telenovela
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Hatsukoi (2012)
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Midori is a married woman with a happy home life, a child, and a job as a speech therapist. One day, Midori is diagnosed with liver cancer and finds herself face to face with her first love; a man whose betrayal had left her deeply scarred. They are forced to put their past aside and work together to save her life.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 6
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 48 min
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Sham love Series - Stop That Wedding (2017)
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SYNOPSIS: As a rejected woman’s world – and mental state - disintegrates around her, hell hath no fury as she plots and maneuvers to stop the wedding of her ex-lover and his new fiancée. Cold murder is not out of the question. She must stop that wedding by all means necessary. Intrigue, horrors, twists and turns, woven into the mysterious suspense of Diana's story as she fights to avoid loosing.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
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Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: captivating
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Anglo Saxon Attitudes (1992)
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Three part miniseries about Gerald Middleton, an aging historian, who reflects on his youth, relationships (especially the one with his best friend's girl), career (shadowed by a scandal), and current issues, like his marriage and kids.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 229 min
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My Night with Reg (1997)
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A group of English gay men get together to reminisce. They are all coming from a wake for one of their circle who's died of AIDS. It's that terrifying time between the outbreak of AIDS and the development of an AIDS test and as the conversation unfolds it becomes apparent that each man there has had unprotected sex with the deceased.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Plastic Man (1999)
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A seemingly happily married, successful plastic surgeon embarks on a torrid affair with tragic consequences for his marriage and those close to him.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min
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A Married Man (1983)
Plot Summary:
British television movie in which a married lawyer's excursion into adultery leads to murder.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 240 min
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The Scarlet Letter (1979)
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In the 17th century Massachusetts, a married women, whose husband is missing, has a child with the local pastor. The puritanical residents of her town condemn her to carry the Scarlet Letter of shame. Then the husband shows up.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 393
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: period drama
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Hospital at the End of the City (1977)
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Hospital at the End of the City is a popular television series first released in Czechoslovakia in 1977, it featured an ensemble cast and received much viewer praise in central Europe. The series ran from 1977 to 1981 for a total of twenty episodes. The success of the series inspired the German television series The Black Forest Clinic.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 368
Genere: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 60 min
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Eastsiders (2012)
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What happens after the world ends? Written and directed by award winning playwright Kit Williamson, "EastSiders" explores the aftermath of infidelity on a gay couple in Silverlake. When Cal (Kit Williamson) finds out Thom (Van Hansis) has been cheating on him with Jeremy (Matthew McKelligon), their relationship is turned upside down. Will the lies tear them apart or are they just stubborn enough to stay together forever? Drunken outbursts and double standards abound in this dark comedy about the sad and funny messes we make out of our lives. Cal's best friend Kathy (Constance Wu) is always there for him with a bottle of whiskey in her purse, but she has her own problems with her nice guy boyfriend Ian (John Halbach), even if they're all in her head. Stephen Guarino guest stars as a party promoter throwing one last bash before the apocalypse. - Written by Kit Williamson.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, humorous, dark comedy, emotional, realistic, gloomy, queer cinema
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The Beautiful Lie (2015)
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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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Life of Lies (2013)
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Mentir para vivir is a Mexican telenovela produced by Rosy Ocampo for Televisa. The telenovela is written by Maria Zarattini, who last wrote La Fuerza del Destino. Mayrín Villanueva and David Zepeda star as the protagonists, while Altair Jarabo, Leticia Perdigón and Diego Olivera star as the antagonists.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, soap opera, telenovela
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No Trace of You (2016)
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The night before her wedding, Julia, a young pediatrician with a promising future, vanishes without leaving a trace behind. Five years later, in the middle of the road, a college student discovers a woman in a wedding gown, alone and confused. The boy takes her to the nearest hospital. On the way, the woman gets to reveal her name: Julia Borges. Julia has no memory on what happened to her in those five years. All she has is an image she just can’t get out of her mind: A man she doesn’t recognize who promises to always look after her. Mauricio, Julia’s fiancée, has moved on believing she is death. He is married and has a one year old kid. His new wife: Camila, Julia’s conflictive little sister. The only person who got his hopes up about finding Julia was Tomás, her best friend and workmate. Tomás has invested all his money, ruined his marriage, and almost went bankrupt trying to discover her whereabouts. The reason? He has always been in love with her. Julia tries to face this new reality in which the man she loves is married to someone else and all her life projects came to nothing. Meanwhile, she is trying to find clues that can reveal what happened to her in those lost years and who is responsible for her disappearing.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, enigmatic, suspense, disturbing, cynical, telenovela
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Satisfaction (2007)
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Set in and around 232, an up-market city brothel, Satisfaction reveals the world of five high class escorts and their manager as they juggle the pressures of their private lives with their secret profession.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: erotic, realistic, psychological, captivating, emotional, sexy, sensual, serious, sexual
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Red Roses (2006)
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Rote Rosen is a German telenovela produced by Studio Hamburg Serienwerft Lüneburg and broadcast by Das Erste since November 6, 2006. The show is a complex telenovela, who tells one love story every season about women in their forties.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: emotional, realistic, sentimental, captivating, serious, telenovela
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East Los High (2013)
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East Los High is not your typical high school. Dance, sex, romance, and mystery are at the heart of this inner city school in East LA where two teenage cousins—Jessie, a 16-year-old virgin and Maya, a troubled runaway with a violent past —fall in love with Jacob, a popular football player. From this forbidden love triangle, Maya, Jessie and Jacob, along with their close friends must face true-to-life decisions during a single dramatic and breath-taking year that will mark their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 855
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 26 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, exciting, melancholic, suspense, suspenseful
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The Slap (2015)
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A family drama that explodes from one small incident where a man slaps another couple's misbehaving child. This seemingly minor domestic dispute pulls the family apart, exposes long-held secrets, and ignites a lawsuit that challenges the core values of all who are pulled into it.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, psychological, captivating
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Betrayal (2013)
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Centers on Sara, a beautiful but unhappily married female photographer who begins a torrid affair with Jack, a lawyer for a powerful family.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, heartbreaking
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The Neighbors (2014)
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Peter and Eva, a nice young couple expecting their first child, buy a house in a suburban village. Before they get to move into their new home, they lose their baby girl. Eva has a hard time coping with her loss. Peter has mixed feelings. The baby wasn’t his to begin with.He’s infertile and hopes the chapter of having children has now come to an end. Then they meet their new neighbors Rebecca and Steve, a carefree outgoing couple, that helps them forget their pain. But are they really who they say they are?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: tense, touching, serious, realistic
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A Passionate Woman (2010)
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1950's, Leeds: Betty (Billie Piper) is a wife and mother, whose life is changed forever after falling hopelessly and dangerously in love with her charismatic Polish neighbour, Alex Crazenovski, better known as Craze . Against her principles, she soon abandons herself to a world of untapped thrills and passion, a world that has been so desperately missing from her own conventional and claustrophobic marriage. But 30 years later, an older Betty (Sue Johnston) comes to realise that her compulsive passion of the past and its consequences have created ripples that spill far into the future, finally reaching crisis point on her beloved son s wedding day.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sincere, atmospheric, thought provoking, bleak, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy, period drama
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Double Fantasy (2018)
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Natsu Takato is a 35-year-old popular screenwriter. She lives with her husband Shogo in the outskirts of Saitama. Shogo used to work as a TV station director, but he now supports Natsu by doing housework and working as her business manager. Natsu doesn't have a lot to complain about in her life, but she has a strong sexual desire that she cannot suppress. She spends nights with theater director Shizawa. Meanwhile, Natsu Takato senses her husband interfering with her script and trying to control her. Natsu Takato leaves her home and begins to live alone in Tokyo. She gets involved with two men.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The Affair (2014)
Plot Summary:
The Affair explores the emotional effects of an extramarital relationship between Noah Solloway and Alison Lockhart after the two meet in the resort town of Montauk in Long Island. Noah is a New York City schoolteacher with one novel published (book entitled A Person who Visits a Place) and he is struggling to write a second book. He is happily married with four children, but resents his dependence on his wealthy father-in-law. Alison is a young waitress trying to piece her life and marriage back together in the wake of the tragic death of her child. The story of the affair is told separately, complete with distinct memory biases, from the male and female perspectives.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, emotional, captivating, realistic, erotic, gloomy, philosophical, bleak, grindhouse
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You Taught Me All the Precious Things (2011)
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Shuji is a young teacher whose confidence and honesty has made him popular with the students. He is engaged to Natsumi, also a teacher at the same high school. At the morning of the new semester, Shuji wakes up with a hangover and no memory of the night before, and a strange young woman in his bed. He feels terrible about possibility of having cheated on his fiancée, but when it turns out the girl is a student in his class Shuji is wrecked with guilt. Things go from bad to worse when the girl, Hikari, makes it clear that she's in love with him and wants to break him and Natsumi apart. Shuji's honest nature makes him want to come clean to everyone about what has happened, but before he has the chance, the secret is out. As his life starts crumbling around him, Shuji still decides to try and save Hikari from herself.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing