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Plot Summary:
A five-part series of intertwining, semi-improvised love stories exploring the reality of love in the modern world.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 955
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: realistic, sentimental, touching, serious
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Reckless (1997)
Plot Summary:
Owen is a Junior Doctor who falls for Anna - a sophisticated and glamorous older woman. Little does he know that she is married to his boss, consultant Richard Crane.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 568
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 310 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Dates (2013)
Plot Summary:
Dates is a British television romantic drama series created by Bryan Elsley, who also created Skins, which first aired on Channel 4 on 10 June 2013, at 22:00, as part of its "Mating Season" programming, illustrating a series of first dates between online dating service users. The show's target audience is "ABC1".
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: realistic, light, captivating, emotional, romantic comedy, sentimental, sexy, serious, talky
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The 7.39 (2014)
Plot Summary:
After fighting for a seat on their morning commute, Sally and Carl begin talking and suddenly their daily train journey becomes a lot more interesting. Carl is happily married, Sally's engaged - where's the harm? Yet they find themselves increasingly drawn to each other, and as their friendship grows to flirtation they refuse to admit - to each other or themselves - that a line might be crossed. The consequences of discovery will be life-changing, catastrophic perhaps, and yet they can't help falling in love.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic
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Doomed (2014)
Plot Summary:
Leandro is a sommelier with a penchant for women and fine wine. After seducing his boss’s wife, he is taken by surprise by the true love he feels for the married couple’s daughter, Antônia, which makes him doubt his convictions and plunge madly into a torrent of passion. When Jaime becomes aware of his wife’s infidelity, his fury coincides with the disappearance of the sommelier. Was it a planned escape or a crime of passion? The uncertainty only increases the suspense in this explosive mixture of action, romance and mystery.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: emotional, realistic, sexy, serious, captivating, exciting
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A Shelter for Love (2012)
Plot Summary:
Un refugio para el amor is a Mexican Spanish-language telenovela produced by Ignacio Sada Madero for Televisa. It is a remake of the Venezuelan telenovela La Zulianita, written by Delia Fiallo and adapted by Nora Alemán and Georgina Tinoco. Zuria Vega and Gabriel Soto star as the main protagonists, while Jessica Coch, Humberto Elizondo, Laura Flores and Frances Ondiviela star as the main antagonists.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: sentimental, emotional, realistic, serious, soap opera, telenovela
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Head over Heels (2013)
Plot Summary:
De que te quiero, te quiero is a Mexican telenovela produced by Lucero Suárez for Televisa. It is a remake of Carita pintada, a Venezuelan telenovela written by Valentina Párraga. Livia Brito is the protagonist, with Juan Diego Covarrubias as the dual protagonist/antagonist. Esmeralda Pimentel stars as the antagonist.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, serious, realistic, novela, soap opera, telenovela
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Decisiones - Unos ganan otros pierden (2005)
Plot Summary:
Decisiones is a Telemundo-produced Spanish-language television anthology of steamy melodramas about passion and sex in the modern world. The 30-minute-long series features impassioned people thrust into amorous adventures and pushed to their breaking points. Unlike much Spanish-language dramatic fare, each show contains a complete story. According to Telemundo, these fervid tales are "inspired by real-life cases of everyday heroes". The network bills the show as a mix of drama and reality. Telemundo also broadcast English subtitles of many episodes as closed captions on CC3. Decisiones' first aired on Telemundo from May 9 to August 8, 2005 with Candela Ferro hosting. It returned to the prime-time schedule from September 26, 2005 to April 13, 2007, when it made room for the serial Sin Vergüenza. A third run began in daytime on August 22, 2007 with the title Decisiones de mujeres hosted by Rashel Diaz. On September 4, 2007, a 50-episode season of Decisiones began production in Puerto Rico by a division of Telemundo, Telemundo of Puerto Rico Studios. The season debuted on November 12, 2007, hosted by Cynthia Olavarria. As of April, 2008, over 500 episodes of this series had been produced.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, Colombia, USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, sexy, sexual, soap opera, telenovela
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Ella (2010)
Plot Summary:
Years ago, a late nurse's young daughter, Ella, was discredited with stepfather Norbert by his wicked daughter Clio and send off to and exploited by her aunt 'tarantula', her only comfort being the friendship of young Jens. Once 18, Ella leaves and ends up in Lier, where Dr. Norbert is running a private clinic owned by recluse Nicolas De Prins's family. Intrigues abound long before Ella meets and recognizes either relative, her mysterious dad or Jens, who ends up comatose after chasing her. Meanwhile Ella made new friends and moved in with a loony hairdresser and her gay deputy Anthony.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, telenovela
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Mistresses (2013)
Plot Summary:
Meet Savi, a successful career woman working toward the next phase in her life -- both professional and personal -- simultaneously bucking for partner at her law firm while she and her husband, Harry, try to start a family of their own. Savi's free-spirited and capricious baby sister, Josselyn, couldn't be more different - living single, serial dating and partying, and regularly leaning on her big sister along the way. Their common best friend, April, a recent widow and mother of two, is rebuilding her life after tragedy and learning to move forward, with the support and guidance of her closest girlfriends. And friend Karen, a successful therapist with her own practice, reconnects with the girls after her involvement in a complicated relationship with a patient goes far too deep.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, tense, sexy, dramatic, soap opera, melancholic
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Peak Practice (1993)
Plot Summary:
Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time. It originally starred Kevin Whately as Dr Jack Kerruish, Amanda Burton as Dr Beth Glover and Simon Shepherd as Dr Will Preston, though the roster of doctors would change many times over the course of the series. Cardale was based on the Staffordshire village of Longnor for the final series, but was previously based in the Derbyshire village of Crich, although certain scenes were filmed at other nearby Derbyshire towns and villages, most notably Matlock, Belper and Ashover.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 495
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: medical drama, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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The Forsyte Saga (1967)
Plot Summary:
Adaptation from John Galsworthy's novels.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: family saga, costume drama, stylized, spiritual, historical drama, touching, epic, serious, captivating, realistic
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Falling for a Dancer (1998)
Plot Summary:
Romantic drama set in rural Ireland of the 1930s. The story begins when 19-year-old Elizabeth has a brief fling with an actor and falls pregnant. Community pressure forces her to marry a dull middle-aged man, but maybe there is hope on the horizon.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 716
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags: sentimental, thought provoking, touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, period drama
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A Perfect Stranger (1994)
Plot Summary:
A television movie based on "A Perfect Stranger," Danielle Steel's novel about an attorney who falls in love with the young wife of a wealthy man who is dying.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 632
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sexual, sexy
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The Neighbors (2014)
Plot Summary:
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)
Plot Summary:
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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Heartbeat (1993)
Plot Summary:
The beautiful and talented Adrian is a writer for one of America's most popular TV soap operas. She is also pregnant, and when she refuses to abort her baby, Adrian's selfish husband deserts her. It falls to one of the soap opera's producers, the recently divorced Bill, to convince Adrian to give romance a second chance.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 407
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, realistic, humorous, serious, soap opera
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And While We Were Here (2012)
Plot Summary:
Trapped in a loveless marriage, a troubled writer experiences a sexual awakening when she meets a carefee American in Italy.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, independent film, erotic, indie film, heartfelt, contemplative
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Kiss Me Again (2010)
Plot Summary:
A look at the lives of Carlo, Giulia, and their friends some 10 years after the events of L'Ultimo bacio.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, touching, captivating, melancholic
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Lady Chatterley's Lover (2015)
Plot Summary:
An early-20th-century tale of love across class boundaries which tells the legendary and romantic story of Lady Chatterley’s affair with her gamekeeper. Jed Mercurio’s adaptation of DH Lawrence’s classic.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, erotic, costume drama, sentimental, captivating, disturbing, period piece, romantic drama, historical drama
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When Shall We Kiss? (2011)
Plot Summary:
The chronicles of the lives of young urban adults in Budapest.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Hungary
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic
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Cold Feet (1997)
Plot Summary:
Follow the lives and loves of a group of thirtysomethings in a heart-warming comic drama as they try to find true love - or at least keep their relationships on track. In this wry and funny look at a generation which is as confused as it is liberated by the choices it faces, will the chill in their feet put out the passion that burns in their hearts?.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: sincere, clever, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Zhou Yu's Train (2002)
Plot Summary:
Zhou Yu, a ceramic artisan in China's rural Northwest, has a deep rapport with Chen Qing, a shy sensitive poet. Taking a long train ride every weekend just to make mad passionate love with him, her longing seems insatiable. Until one day, she meets the hedonistic vet Zhang Qiang and begins a torrid affair, which takes her to another train station, and another level of lust. Driven by the locomotive of love and desire, she hustles through a dark tunnel of no return.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sentimental, atmospheric, touching, serious, contemplative, realistic, surprise ending, non-linear
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Dancing at the Harvest Moon (2002)
Plot Summary:
A betrayed wife, whose husband leaves her after 25 years, returns to the lake where she first fell in love and begins an affair with the son of her first love.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 401
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, gloomy
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One Night (2007)
Plot Summary:
Fifteen New Yorkers go into a Friday night unaware of the fact that their lives are about to change.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sentimental, atmospheric, touching, serious, realistic, independent film
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Sparkhouse (2002)
Plot Summary:
The relationship between childhood sweethearts, a farmer's daughter and boy from a rich family, turns tumultuous in this modern interpretation of Wuthering Heights.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 696
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: emotional, touching, serious, melancholic, realistic, gloomy
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Desire (2002)
Plot Summary:
In 1945 Spain a young man with Nazi contacts fell in love with a left wing family woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sentimental, serious, captivating, stylized, realistic
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Lost in Time (2003)
Plot Summary:
Sui Wai lost her fiance Ah Man in a car accident. With the obligations of life sitting heavy on her shoulders, she lives on only to find herself confiding in her beloved through a phone call. Dai Fai. a mini-bus driver who witnessed Ah Man's death, is always there offering her attentive encouragement and support, yet he himself also lives in the shadow of his last relationship. When Siu Wai strives to face the future without the man she loves, Dai Fai finds himself steadily falling in love with her.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, sincere, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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Belonging (2004)
Plot Summary:
Jess (Brenda Blethyn) and town handyman Jacob (Kevin Whately) have been happily married 20 years, recently taking in a trio of Jacob's elderly relatives, including his mother (Rosemary Harris). Though the relations are demanding, kindhearted Jess -- who selflessly quit her job -- enjoys looking after them. But when Jacob disappears one day, Jess' life falls apart, and she must learn to cope with things on her own in this touching drama.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, touching
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Tipping the Velvet (2002)
Plot Summary:
Set in the 1890s, Tipping the Velvet tells the lesbian love affair between male impersonator music hall star Kitty Butler and Nan Astley.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 177 min
Plot tags: costume drama, touching, sexy, serious, realistic, stylized, erotic, historical drama, romantic, emotional
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Guilty Hearts (2006)
Plot Summary:
Over the course of this drama's six separate stories, a variety of couples struggle with the infidelity, dishonesty and heartbreak that plagues their varied pasts. In overcoming their challenges, these diverse individuals embrace a brighter future.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 818
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, realistic