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Husband Material (2018)

Husband Material (2018)

6.9/10 Comedy, Romance, Drama

A love triangle between a spirited young woman, her outgoing boyfriend and a fiance who's husband material.

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Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)

Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)

6.4/10 Drama, Romance

Florentino, rejected by the beautiful Fermina at a young age, devotes much of his adult life to carnal affairs as a desperate attempt to heal his broken heart.

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Fool for Love (1985)

Fool for Love (1985)

6.1/10 Drama

May is waiting for her boyfriend in a run-down American motel, when an old flame turns up and threatens to undermine her efforts and drag her back into the life that she was running away from. The situation soon turns complicated.

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Woodpeckers (2017)

Woodpeckers (2017)

8.0/10 Drama

Incarcerated in the Dominican Republic, an inmate uses sign language to communicate with his imprisoned girlfriend at an adjacent institution.

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The Bounceback (2013)

The Bounceback (2013)

6.8/10 Drama, Romance

'Godfather of hipsterdom' Gavin McInnes goes on a stand-up comedy tour with his best friend from high school and things go from bad to worse to downright catastrophic.

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Cloud 9 (2008)

Cloud 9 (2008)

6.6/10 Romance, Drama

A romantic drama about an old woman in her mid-60s who enters into an affair after 30 years of marriage.

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Love in Another Town (1997)

Love in Another Town (1997)

5.1/10 Drama, Romance

Romeo & Juliet gets transplanted to the Bronx.

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Royal New Year's Eve (2017)

Royal New Year's Eve (2017)

8.2/10 Romance, Other, Drama

Hamlet has the world at his feet. Young, wealthy and living a hedonistic life studying abroad. Then word reaches him that his father is dead. Returning home he finds his world is utterly changed, his certainties smashed and his home a foreign land. Struggling to understand his place in a new world order he faces a stark choice. Submit, or rage against the injustice of...Read all

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I Knew Her Well (1966)

I Knew Her Well (1966)

7.7/10 Drama

Adriana, a naive Italian country girl, moves to Rome to become a movie star and experiences the dark side of the business.

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Three Steps Above Heaven (2010)

Three Steps Above Heaven (2010)

7.0/10 Action, Drama, Romance

A privileged woman and a reckless man fall in love despite their different social classes.

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Asako I & II (2018)

Asako I & II (2018)

6.9/10 Romance, Drama

Asako lives in Osaka. She falls in love with Baku, a free-spirit. One day, Baku suddenly disappears. Two years later, Asako now lives in Tokyo and meets Ryohei. He looks just like Baku, but has a completely different personality.

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Zou Zou (1934)

Zou Zou (1934)

6.5/10 Drama, Comedy

As children, Zouzou (Joséphine Baker) and Jean (Jean Gabin) performed together in a circus. Onstage, they were falsely billed as brother and sister, but in truth Zouzou harbored a secret love for her costar. As an adult, she now works as a laundress, and it seems as if her showbiz days are over. But everything changes when Jean helps land her a spot dancing at a Paris theater. Zouzou rockets to stardom, even as Jean's romance with her friend Claire (Yvette Lebon) leaves her lovelorn.

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Great Expectations (2012)

Great Expectations (2012)

6.4/10 Drama, Romance

A series of events change the orphaned Pip's life forever as he eagerly abandons his humble origins to begin a new life as a gentleman.

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The Seventh Sin (1957)

The Seventh Sin (1957)

6.3/10 Drama

In post-WWII Hong Kong, unhappily married Carol has an affair with a married man. Her husband discovers it and presents her with a choice: travel with him to a remote mainland village or face the scandal of a very public divorce.

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Mararia (1998)

Mararia (1998)

6.3/10 Drama

Fermín is a doctor who fall in love of Mararia in silence. Beltrahn appears and wins the love of Mararia and unleash the wrath of Fermin.

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Revenge (1990)

Revenge (1990)

6.2/10 Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller

A retired US Navy pilot comes to Mexico, where he falls in love with the wife of a powerful businessman. The consequences will be cruel and unforeseen.

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Man-Proof (1937)

Man-Proof (1937)

6.1/10 Comedy, Drama

Mimi has tried everything to become the bride to Alan, but he chooses Elizabeth instead. The ironic part is that Mimi's mother writes romance novels and neither one has had any luck with men. So Mimi decides to get a job as an illustrator at the New York Chronicle where her friend Jimmy works. When Alan and Liz return from their honeymoon, Alan wants to keep Mimi at h...Read all

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Yeh Dillagi (1994)

Yeh Dillagi (1994)

6.0/10 Drama, Romance

A poor girl is rebuked by a rich boy. She leaves town to return successful and rich. He falls for her but his brother is already in love with the girl.

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