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Plot Summary:
In 1987, when tear gas exploded like firecrackers, a bloody man jumped into a female college dormitory and a female student treats him thinking he's an activist student fighting for the generation. Based on the handwritten notes of a man who escaped from a political prison camp in North Korea.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: romantic, psychological, touching, emotional, talky
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7th Grade Civil Servant (2013)
Plot Summary:
Love and espionage collide in this drama of the National Intelligence Service’s rookie agents. Han Gil Ro realizes his dream of becoming an international man of mystery, after a childhood spent pouring over James Bond films. Kim Seo Won spices things up as a goofy, yet determined agent, but it's not all 007 glamor. Both Gil Ro and Seo Won must learn what it takes to uphold their sworn duty, even at the sacrifice of their happiness - and lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Action, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, romantic, touching, emotional
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The Queen of Office (2013)
Plot Summary:
Temporary employee Ms. Kim is a remarkable woman. She possesses highly advanced skills in seemingly all work fields. She's also highly confident and always sticks to her ideals. Jang Kyu-Jik is a hot-shot foreign educated MBA, hired to turn around a flagging corporation. As they begin work together at their new jobs, can they ever co-exist?.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, touching, humorous, emotional
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The Ranger - On the Hunt (2018)
Plot Summary:
The Ranger - On the Hunt is a German television series that has been produced for Das Erste since 2018 on behalf of ARD-Degeto and MDR. The episodes are about 90 minutes long and will be broadcast as part of the series Endlich Freitag on Das Erste. The central character of the series is Jonas Waldek who worked as a ranger in Canada for several years and returned to his hometown of Wehlen to work as a ranger in the Saxon Switzerland National Park.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Crime, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, touching, emotional, talky
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My Gear and Your Gown (2020)
Plot Summary:
Pai is a clever medical student. He goes from being the thick glasses president of his school's academic club to a college freshmen regarded as the beau of the faculty of medicine. He has never been confident about how he looks. He has never believed in love. Itt is a handsome engineering student who is an ex-president of his school's sports club. He has always been in a spotlight. Fate brings him back to his enemy who always wears a dust grey medical gown earring.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, emotional, talky
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Please Don't Date Him (2020)
Plot Summary:
“Please Don’t Meet Him” is about a woman named Seo Ji Sung who wants to fall in love but also avoid the wrong men. In order to create the perfect love life, she creates an artificial intelligence (AI) program called Cho Sang Shin. Seo Ji Sung is a programmer of the AI smart home appliance development team. One day, she accidentally develops an AI program called Cho Sang Shin, which will identify trashy humans, and she uses it to save people who are in difficult relationships. Jung Kook Hee is a firefighter who doesn’t use social media. He is the one and only person that Cho Sang Shin is unable to analyze.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, humorous, emotional, melancholic, talky, dorama
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Eccentric! Chef Moon (2020)
Plot Summary:
Moon Seung Mo is a popular chef. Due to the sudden deaths of his parents by fire, he moves to Seoha Village. His peaceful daily life suddenly changes there with the sudden appearance of Yoo Yoo Jin. Meanwhile, Yoo Yoo Jin is a world-famous fashion designer. She works under the name of Yoo Bella. One day, she has a car accident. The car accident causes her to lose her memory completely and she ends up in Seoha Village. She acts very eccentric there and becomes a troublemaker. Due to her behavior, she picks up the nickname "Yoobyeolna" ("What an eccentric").
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, touching, humorous, melancholic, talky, dorama
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The Many Faces of Ito (2017)
Plot Summary:
A jaded rom-com screenwriter in her 30s mines four love-sick women for their stories under the guise of providing them with romantic advice.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, touching, humorous, emotional, talky
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The Diary of the 38-year-old Divorcee who has tried a Dating App (2020)
Plot Summary:
Matsumoto Chiaki is a 38-year-old woman who got married at 24 and divorced at 35. As she's almost 40, she decides to try a dating app and meet various types of men to recover the youth she lost from her early marriage.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, emotional, melancholic, talky
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How Are You Bread (2020)
Plot Summary:
A love story between Ha Do-woo, a genius patissier, and Noh Mi-rae, a variety show writer. Han Do-Woo is a mysterious and excellent pastry chef. Every morning at a mysterious bakery, he makes bread to grant wishes. To have Han Do-Woo make an appearance on a TV show, screenwriter No Mi-Rae infiltrates the bakery.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, touching, emotional, melancholic, disturbing, talky
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Ru: Taiwan Express (2020)
Plot Summary:
In 1999, a general trading company in Tokyo celebrates because Shinkansen of Japan wins priority negotiating rights for the Taiwan High Speed Rail. Haruka Tada (Haru) has been working at the general trading company for 4 years and she is sent to Taiwan for work. When Haruka Tada was a university student, she visited Taiwan for the first time during the summer. During that time, she happened to meet young Taiwanese man Eric and he showed her Taiwan for a day. She lost contact with him after that and she could not find him again. She then sealed away her thoughts about him in her mind. 6 years later, Haruka Tada arrives in Taiwan again.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan, Taiwan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, emotional, melancholic, talky
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My Dear Lady (2020)
Plot Summary:
After getting a divorce from her husband, Ling Xunxun decides to celebrate her singlehood. However on her way to a party, her car collided with a luxurious car on the roadside. The owner of the car Cheng Li, a young man who appears to be a university graduate, asked her for a huge amount of compensation. What makes the situation worse is that the he also turns out to be the boss of her new company.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, touching, humorous, emotional, talky
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Weakest Beast (2018)
Plot Summary:
Seemingly perfect from the outside, Shinkai Akira was exhausted from worrying too much about how to be perfect. Nemoto Kousei is amicable and popular with women, but he trusts no one and views everything with a cold heart. The two of them, who became unable to live instinctively like animals, meet by chance at a craft beer bar after work and gradually become close enough to fight and tell each other how they really feel. Due to their encounter, even while getting hurt, they begin to try to be themselves and start taking a step forward.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 487
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic, psychological, touching, emotional, talky
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Mistrust (2018)
Plot Summary:
Happy, beautiful and independent, Veronica enjoys being a mistress. No commitment, no strings and she never has to be vulnerable. She has carefully laid every brick in the walls of the fortress surrounding her heart. She's safe and having a great time. However, there is one person who knew her heart before those walls were erected, her best friend Brandon, who has stood by her for too many years to count. And while Veronica has tried to keep her feelings at bay, he is the one who holds the key that opens her Pandora's box of emotions.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: romantic, psychological, touching, emotional, melancholic, talky, romantic comedy, independent film
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When I Was the Most Beautiful (2020)
Plot Summary:
Oh Ye Ji is an art student who dreams of becoming a ceramic artist. She heads to school in Yangpyeong as both a student and a teacher, where she meets brothers Seo Hwan and Seo Jin. Hwan, who is Ye Ji’s student, falls in love with her and takes her to his father’s workshop to confess his feelings. However, at the workshop, Ye Ji meets Jin. Although Jin is aware of Hwan’s feelings toward Ye Ji, Jin does not hesitate to win over Ye Ji’s heart and eventually gets engaged to her. Overnight, those who are meant to be each other’s strongest supporters end up becoming the worst enemies thanks to a twist of fate. Straddling desire and love, the three struggle to figure out what’s right during the most beautiful time of their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, emotional, talky
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Been So Long (2018)
Plot Summary:
A single mother in London's Camden Town hears music when she meets a handsome stranger with a past. But she's not sure she's ready to open her heart.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: romantic, psychological, touching, emotional, melancholic, talky, romantic comedy
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Overlord (2020)
Plot Summary:
During the late Tang Dynasty, the lives of people from different social classes never intersected, despite the fact that they lived side-by-side. With his keen sense and a thriving silk trade, Li Qing Liu had worked hard to become one of the most prominent leaders of the upper elite. At the same time, Long Ao Yi was using her quick wit and tenacity to climb her way through the ranks of the Longzhu Clan. Though living entirely different lives, Qing Liu and Ao Yi had both made a name for themselves as two of the strongest leaders of their respective classes.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, emotional, talky
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Eduardo and Monica (2020)
Plot Summary:
On an unusual day, a series of coincidences lead Eduardo to meet Monica at a party. A curiosity is aroused between the two and, despite not being alike, they fall madly in love. In 1980s Brasília, their love needs to mature and learn to overcome differences.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, romantic, touching, emotional, talky
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Cherish the Day (2020)
Plot Summary:
A chronicle of the stirring relationship of one couple, with each episode spanning a single day. The narrative will unfold to reveal significant moments in a relationship that compel us to hold true to the ones we love, from the extraordinary to the everyday.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 492
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, romantic, touching, emotional, melancholic, talky, anthology
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The Way We Were (2018)
Plot Summary:
Xiao Qing is an exchange student in the US. The daughter of a heroic prosecutor back home, she takes extreme pride in her father’s work. Her dad is an incorruptible arbiter of justice, and Xiao Qing lives her life with the same principles. Shu Che is Xiao Qing’s classmate. Unlike Xiao Qing's father, Shu Che’s dad is a little less pure. As a government official, Shu Che’s dad has taken part in quite a few shady deals. With these deals, he has opened many doors for his son. But Shu Che doesn’t want any part of that. When Xiao Qing and Shu Che meet, they fall in love. But when their fathers clash in a legal battle, the lovers’ relationship is forever changed. As they struggle between their duty and their love, the two realize that they can never again be the way they once were.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, touching, emotional, talky
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Recipe of Love (2021)
Plot Summary:
Going on an indescribable love journey, will Firat be able to give a "lesson of love" to Mr. Doctor Love? Or will he be hunted while he goes hunting?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 408
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, emotional, talky
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I Picked Up a Star on the Road (2018)
Plot Summary:
Contract worker Lee Yeon Seo daydreams about teaching her manager a lesson, but accidentally acts out her fantasy on none other than top Hallyu star Kang Joon Hyuk. Thinking she killed him but afraid to be labeled a murderer, she takes him home and prepares to get rid of the body. But Joon Hyuk wakes up and seeing her preparations thinks he has been kidnapped by a murderous psychopath. Seeing no other option, she keeps him hostage so he doesn't turn her in to the police. How long can she keep him hidden and can she ever convince him she's not an evil person?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: dorama, psychological, romantic, touching, emotional, talky
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Hundred Year Inheritance (2013)
Plot Summary:
A warm-hearted family drama about a three-generation family and their noodle factory that they operate in the outskirts of Seoul.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic, touching, emotional
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Forest (2020)
Plot Summary:
Kang San-Hyeok is a member of the 119 special rescue team. He is handsome and smart, but he does not remember his childhood. Jung Young-Jae is an enthusiastic surgical resident. Kang San-Hyeok and Jung Young-Jae meet at a mysterious forest. Even though they do not want to, they must live together in the mysterious forest. Living there, they discover small pleasures. Kang San-Hyeok and Jung Young-Jae soon uncover a secret about themselves and the forest.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 476
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, emotional, talky, dorama
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The Third Charm (2018)
Plot Summary:
The twelve-year love story of two individuals with completely opposite personalities who unexpectedly met on a group blind date.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 464
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, humorous, emotional, talky, dorama
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Rookie Cops (2022)
Plot Summary:
Wi Seung Hyun joins the Korean national Police University to follow in his father's footsteps but runs into hurdles as he gets involved with a woman named Go Eun Gang.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: dorama, psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Lovestruck in the City (2020)
Plot Summary:
Heart stolen by a free-spirited woman after a beachside romance, a passionate architect sets out to reunite with her on the streets of Seoul.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: romantic, dorama, psychological, light, sincere, captivating, entertaining
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Theatre: A Love Story (2020)
Plot Summary:
Nagata works as a writer and director for theater company Oroka. His work has not received positive responses and ticket sales has not increased. Making things worse, his relationship with the theatrical troupe is not good. Nagata feels lonely. One day, he sees a woman named Saki on the street. She is wearing the same sneakers as he is. Nagata talks to her. Saki is a university student and she dreams of becoming an actress. Nagata and Saki fall in love.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 734
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, touching, talky, romantic drama
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Sparrow (2016)
Plot Summary:
This drama is set during the revolutionary time in Shanghai, based on a novel of the same name of Hai Fei. During the republican revolution, Chen Shen is a secret agent under Special Operations Executive Director Bi Zhongliang, among the agents called “sparrow” (similar to the program “zero” in Japan).
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: sentimental, captivating, factual
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Tune in for Love (2019)
Plot Summary:
In 1994, on the first day that Yoo Yeul went on air as the new DJ of the popular radio show ‘Music Album,' a college girl Mi-su meets Hyun-woo who happens to drop by the bakery she works at. Like the music streaming from the radio, their frequencies slowly come in sync; even when they're apart, the show brings them together through ebbs and flows of events arising from both pure coincidence and inevitability, until the bitter reality sets in and drives them apart.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: romantic, sentimental, sincere, uplifting, touching, sweet, captivating, romantic drama
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Something in the Rain (2018)
Plot Summary:
Explore the relationship of two people as they go from being “just acquaintances” to “a genuine couple” — Yoon Jin Ah, a coffee shop supervisor in her 30s, and Seo Joon Hee, a designer at a video game company who has just returned from working abroad.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: dorama, sweet, sentimental, romantic, light, feel good, romantic drama, affectionate