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The Remains of the Day(1993)

FSK: 6+ years
| 2h 14min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 553 votes)

A rule bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude.

Howards End(1992)

FSK: 6+ years
| 2h 22min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 224 votes)

A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and his wife Ruth, and the downwardly mobile working-class Leonard Bast and his mistress Jackie.

Maurice(1987)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 20min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.8/5 (with 224 votes)

After his lover rejects him, a young man in early 20th century England, trapped by the oppressiveness of Edwardian society, tries to come to terms with and accept his sexuality.

The White Countess(2005)

3.3/5 (with 31 votes)

In 1930s Shanghai, 'The White Countess' is both Sofia—a fallen member of the Russian aristocracy—and a nightclub created by a blind American diplomat, who asks Sofia to be the centerpiece of the world he wants to create.

Le Divorce(2003)

1h 57min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.5/5 (with 61 votes)

While visiting her sister in Paris, a young woman finds romance and learns her brother-in-law is a philanderer.

The City of Your Final Destination(2009)

1h 54min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 21 votes)

28-year-old Kansas University doctoral student Omar Razaghi wins a grant to write a biography of Latin American writer Jules Gund. Omar must get through to three people who were close to Gund - his brother, widow, and younger mistress - so he can get authorization to write the biography.

Surviving Picasso(1996)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 5min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.9/5 (with 40 votes)

The passionate Merchant-Ivory drama tells the story of Francoise Gilot, the only lover of Pablo Picasso who was strong enough to withstand his ferocious cruelty and move on with her life.

The Bostonians(1984)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 2min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.5/5 (with 14 votes)

A bored lawyer and a suffragette vie for the attention of a faith healer's charismatic daughter.

Jefferson in Paris(1995)

2.6/5 (with 17 votes)

His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult to adjust to life in a country where the aristocracy subjugates an increasingly restless peasantry. In Paris, he becomes smitten with cultured artist Maria Cosway, but, when his daughter visits from Virginia accompanied by her attractive slave, Sally Hemings, Jefferson's attentions are diverted.

Heat and Dust(1983)

2h 13min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 14 votes)

Anne is investigating the life of her grand-aunt Olivia, whose destiny has always been shrouded with scandal. As Anne delves into the history of her grand-aunt, she is led to reconsider her own life.

The Guru(1969)

1h 52min | Comedy
2.4/5 (with 2 votes)

Britain's top pop artiste, Tom Pickle, travels to Bombay, India, circa 1960s to learn to play the sitar from renowned maestro Ustad Zafar Khan.

Mr. & Mrs. Bridge(1990)

2h 6min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 24 votes)

Set during World War II, an upper-class family begins to fall apart due to the conservative nature of the patriarch and the progressive values of his children.

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Quartet(1981)

1h 41min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.8/5 (with 10 votes)

When her husband's arrest leaves her penniless, a woman accepts an invitation to move in with a strange couple.

The Europeans(1979)

1h 30min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.9/5 (with 8 votes)

A New England household is upset by the arrival of two cousins from Europe.

Heights(2005)

1h 33min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 15 votes)

'Heights' follows five characters over 24 hours on a fall day in New York City. Isabel, a photographer, is having second thoughts about her upcoming marriage to Jonathan, a lawyer. On the same day, Isabel's mother Diana learns that her husband has a new lover and begins to re-think her life choices and her open marriage. Diana and Isabel's paths cross with Alec, a young actor, and with Peter, a journalist. As the interrelated stories proceed, the connections between the lives of the five characters begin to reveal themselves and their stories unravel. Isabel, Jonathan, Diana, Alec, and Peter must choose what kind of lives they will lead before the sun comes up on the next day.

Before the Rains(2007)

1h 38min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.4/5 (with 6 votes)

Set in southern India in the late 1930s, this provocative tale traces the story of three people caught in an inexorable web of forbidden romance and dangerous secrets. After a British spice planter falls in love with his alluring servant, an idealistic young man finds himself torn between his ambitions and his family, his village and his past.

Shakespeare-Wallah(1965)

3.4/5 (with 5 votes)

The story of a family troupe of English actors who travel around the towns and villages in India giving performances of Shakespearean plays. Through their travels we see the changing face of India as the old is replaced by the new, Maharajas become hotel owners, sports become more important than culture and the theater is replaced by Bollywood movies. Based on the travels of Geoffrey Kendal with his daughter Felicity Kendal.

In Custody(1994)

2h 6min | Drama, Comedy
2.2/5 (with 2 votes)

Ismail Merchant's feature directorial debut addresses a subject close to his heart: the expressive Urdu language of Northern India, in danger of extinction as political trends and modernization obscure its contributions to Indian culture. Merchant 's treatment is wry and good humored , as his characters - an aging Urdu poet (Shashi Kapoor) and a worshipful young college lecturer - clash despite their shared passion for the beauty of words.

The Golden Bowl(2000)

FSK: 6+ years
| 2h 10min | Romance / Love, Drama
3.1/5 (with 26 votes)

An intricately plotted tale of thwarted love and betrayal, "The Golden Bowl" tells the story of an extravagantly rich American widower and his sheltered daughter, both of whom marry only to discover that their respective mates, a beautiful American expatriate and an impoverished Italian aristocrat, are entangled with one another in a romantic intrigue of seduction and deceit.

A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries(1998)

2h 7min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 9 votes)

This fictionalized story, based on the family life of writer James Jones, is an emotional slice-of-life story. Jones is portrayed here portrayed as Bill Willis, a former war hero turned author who combats alcoholism and is starting to experience health problems. Living in France with his wife, daughter, and an adopted son, the family travels an unconventional road which casts them as outsiders to others. Preaching a sexual freedom, his daughter's sexual discovery begins at an early age and betrays her when the family moves to Hanover in America. Her overt sexuality clashes with the values of her teenage American peers and gives her a problematic reputation. Meanwhile, her brooding brother copes with his own interior pain regarding his past, only comfortable communicating within the domestic space.

The Wild Party(1975)

1h 49min | Comedy, Drama
2.7/5 (with 8 votes)

An aging silent movie comic star throws a lavish party to try and save his failing career.

The Deceivers(1988)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 42min | Adventure, Drama
2.9/5 (with 11 votes)

India, 1825: the country lives in mortal fear of cult members known as the “Deceivers." They commit robbery and ritualistic murder. Appalled by their activities, an English military man, Captain William Savage, conceives a hazardous plot to stop them. In disguise, he plans to himself become a “Deceiver” and infiltrate their numbers. Ever present in Savage’s adventures is a sense of dread; he is in constant fear of betrayal and vengeance and also undergoes a disturbing psychological transformation as he experiences the cult’s blood lust firsthand.

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Side Streets(1998)

2h 11min | Comedy

In 24 hours, 5 worlds collide in the forgotten neighborhoods of New York City.

The Night of Counting the Years(1969)

1h 42min | Drama, History
3.9/5 (with 22 votes)

Set in 1881, a year before the start of British colonial rule, it is based on the true story of the Abd el-Rasuls, an Upper-Egyptian clan that had been robbing a cache of mummies they have discovered at tomb DB320 near the village of Kurna, and selling the artifacts on the black market. After a conflict within the clan, one of its members made a crucial decision when the Antiquities Service arrived.

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe(1991)

2.9/5 (with 5 votes)

A small-town eccentric opens a café in her decaying home.

The Mystic Masseur(2001)

1h 57min | Drama, Comedy
2.5/5 (with 4 votes)

Circa 1940 in Trinidad, still a British Colony, lives Ganesh Ramseyor, of East Indian origin, along with his wife, Leela. He longs to reach out to people, especially to Hindus, in order to promote the Hindu Faith, and be known as a writer. He does get considerable success, so much so that he becomes famous as a miracle worker, having cured a man of sharing intimacy with his bicycle; prevented a man from believing that he can fly; and convincing a young woman to end her fast. His fame spreads all over the island and thousands throng to seek his blessings, which he does dole out quite benevolently, without charging any fees from the poor and the needy. He then decides to spread his wings by challenging the local politician Pandit Narayan Chandrashekhar alias Cyrus T., and takes over The Hindu Organization, thence opening his way to a seat in the prestigious Member of the Legislative Assembly.

Bombay Talkie(1970)

1h 52min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.6/5 (with 3 votes)

An English novelist travels to Bombay to watch one of her novels translated to film. She chases after the movie's leading man while the screenwriter chases after her.

Autobiography of a Princess(1975)

58min | Drama
2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

On the birthday of her late father, a deposed Maharaja, a displaced Indian princess living in London and his former private secretary watch home movies and reminisce about royal India.

Savages(1972)

1h 46min | Fantasy, Drama, Comedy
2.4/5 (with 3 votes)

A tribe of primitive "mudpeople" encounter a croquet ball, rolling through their forest. Following it, they find themselves on a vast, deserted Long Island estate. Entering, they begin to become civilized and assume the stereotypical roles and dress of people at a weekend party. There follows an allegory of upper-class behavior. At last, they begin to devolve toward their original status, and after a battle at croquet, they disappear into the woods.

The Householder(1963)

1h 40min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

Follows the fortunes of a young teacher, Prem, who isn't ready to take on the responsibilities of his arranged marriage.

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