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Revolutionary Road(2008)

15
| 1h 59min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 1,707 votes)

A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.

Exotica(1994)

1h 44min | Drama, Mystery
3.3/5 (with 118 votes)

In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Francis, a depressed tax auditor. Her ex-boyfriend, the club's MC, Eric, still jealously pines for her even as he introduces her onstage, but Eric is having his own relationship problems with the club's female owner. Thomas, a mysterious pet-shop owner, is about to become unexpectedly involved in their lives.

Detachment(2011)

1h 38min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 637 votes)

A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any semblance of sentient attachment.

Kuch Kuch Hota Hai(1998)

3.8/5 (with 166 votes)

Per her mother's last wish, an 8 year old girl sets out to reunite her father with his college best friend who was in love with him.

Stuck in Love(2013)

15
| 1h 37min | Drama, Comedy
3.7/5 (with 875 votes)

An acclaimed writer, his ex-wife, and their teenaged children come to terms with the complexities of love in all its forms over the course of one tumultuous year.

By the Sea(2015)

2.8/5 (with 268 votes)

Set in France during the mid-1970s, Vanessa, a former dancer, and her husband Roland, an American writer, travel the country together. They seem to be growing apart, but when they linger in one quiet, seaside town they begin to draw close to some of its more vibrant inhabitants, such as a local bar/café-keeper and a hotel owner.

Crazy/Beautiful(2001)

12
| 1h 39min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 148 votes)

At Pacific Palisades High, a poor Latino falls hard for a troubled girl from the affluent neighborhood.

Yentl(1983)

3.3/5 (with 96 votes)

Rebbe Mendel is a single father who teaches the Talmud, a sacred text of Judaism, to the boys of his small Polish town. Behind closed doors, he also instructs his daughter, Yentl, despite the fact that girls are forbidden to study religious scripture. When Yentl's father dies, she still has a strong desire to learn about her faith -- so she disguises herself as a male, enrolls in a religious school, and unexpectedly finds love along the way.

Liberal Arts(2012)

3.2/5 (with 233 votes)

Newly single, 35, and uninspired by his job, Jesse Fisher worries that his best days are behind him. But no matter how much he buries his head in a book, life keeps pulling Jesse back. When his favorite college professor invites him to campus to speak at his retirement dinner, Jesse jumps at the chance. He is prepared for the nostalgia of the dining halls and dorm rooms, the parties and poetry seminars; what he doesn’t see coming is Zibby – a beautiful, precocious, classical-music-loving sophomore. Zibby awakens scary, exciting, long-dormant feelings of possibility and connection that Jesse thought he had buried forever.

Take This Waltz(2011)

1h 56min | Drama, Comedy
3.2/5 (with 145 votes)

Twenty-eight-year-old Margot is happily married to Lou, a good-natured cookbook author. But when Margot meets Daniel, a handsome artist who lives across the street, their mutual attraction is undeniable.

Autumn in New York(2000)

1h 43min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 302 votes)

Autumn in New York follows the sexual exploits of Will Keane - New York restaurateur, infamous verging-on-50 playboy, master of the no-commitment seduction - until he runs into an unexpected dead end when he meets Charlotte Fielding. Charlotte is half Will's age and twice his match, a 21 year-old free spirit yearning to get out and taste the excitement of adult life.

Happiness(1998)

2h 19min | Comedy, Drama
3.8/5 (with 332 votes)

The lives of many individuals connected by the desire for happiness, often from sources usually considered dark or evil.

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The Taste of Others(2000)

3.4/5 (with 120 votes)

Unpolished and ultra-pragmatic industrialist Jean-Jacques Castella reluctantly attends Racine's tragedy "Berenice" in order to see his niece play a bit part. He is taken with the play's strangely familiar-looking leading lady Clara Devaux. During the course of the show, Castella soon remembers that he once hired and then promptly fired the actress as an English language tutor. He immediately goes out and signs up for language lessons. Thinking that he is nothing but an ill-tempered philistine with bad taste, Clara rejects him until Castella charms her off her feet.

Your Friends & Neighbors(1998)

18
| 1h 40min | Drama, Comedy
3.0/5 (with 32 votes)

This adult comedy follows six characters, three men and three women from a cross-section of social groups, as they play sexual power games. When an affair fires up between 2 of the married characters, it sparks a chain of consequences for all of them, including one of the wives falling for another woman!

The Mirage(2015)

1h 41min | Comedy, Drama
2.8/5 (with 11 votes)

Le Mirage is the perspective of a man in his thirties asking himself "what am I chasing?" Our society has become all about consumerism, if not excess. Success is determined by what and how much we have and "stuff" becomes the band-aid to a meaningless existence. Stuff fills the void of the existence we weren't meant to lead.

Directed by Ricardo Trogi - With Louis Morissette, Julie Perreault, Christine Beaulieu, Patrice Robitaille, Alexandra Cyr, Richard Thériault, ...

Repast(1951)

1h 37min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 16 votes)

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage, all she does is cook and clean for her husband.

Wife(1953)

1h 36min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 4 votes)

Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and the husband finds the wife slovenly and mean-spirited: she neither cooks not cleans particularly well and is generally disagreeable. In turn, he alternately ignores her and treats her as a servant. Neither is particularly happy, not helped by their unsatisfactory lodgers. The husband is easily seduced by an ex-colleague, a widow with a small child who needs some security, and considers leaving his wife.

Directed by Mikio Naruse - With Mieko Takamine

I Don't Want to Sleep Alone(2006)

1h 58min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 16 votes)

Rawang, an immigrant from Bangladesh living in awful conditions, takes pity on a Chinese man, Hsiao-kang, who is beaten up and left in the street. Rawang lovingly nurses him on a mattress he found. When he is almost healed, Hsiao-kang meets the waitress Chyi. His love for Rawang is put to the test.

Directed by Tsai Ming-liang - With Lee Kang-sheng

The Return of the Prodigal Son(1967)

1h 38min | Drama
2.8/5 (with 5 votes)

Engineer Jan Sebek (Jan Kacer) is undergoing treatment in a mental home after his unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide. His therapist, via discussions both with the patient and with people who know him, tries to find out what made the young and seemingly satisfied man decide to end his own life. Jan's pretty wife Jana (Jana Brejchová) claims not to know about anything but she is conducting an affair with a family friend, almost publicly and with the blessing of her parents.

The Hanging Garden(1997)

1h 31min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 13 votes)

William, a once obese and troubled teen, goes back to his family's home after being gone, without word, for ten years and finds it (and his family) haunted with his past. He had moved to the city and become a fit, well-adjusted gay man, but during his visit home, he becomes unhinged as the newly remembered reasons for his miserable adolescence come to life in each of their presents.

Sudden Rain(1956)

1h 31min | Comedy, Drama
3.3/5 (with 6 votes)

A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.

Back When We Were Grownups(2004)

1h 34min | TV Movie, Drama
2.6/5 (with 2 votes)

A 53-year-old widow believes she's turned into the wrong person in this bittersweet tale based on Anne Tyler's best-seller. Beck's (Blythe Danner) plate is full: She runs a catering business and cares for her large family, but feels lost inside. Determined to find herself, Beck embarks on a journey, starting with her ex-beau (Peter Fonda) and ending with an unexpected soul mate. Jack Palance, Peter Riegert, Faye Dunaway and Ione Skye also star.

Coming Home(1998)

3h 19min | Drama, War
2.7/5 (with 3 votes)

Drama about the Dunar and Carey-Lewis families, before during and after WW2.

Pioneer Heroes(2015)

1h 56min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 3 votes)

Olga, Katya, and Andrey have known each other since childhood. They moved to Moscow many years ago and have become successful. Olga is an actress, Katya works for a large-scale PR agency, and Andrey is a political analyst. They buy cars, take mortgages, build country houses. Just like everybody else. But their lives bring them neither happiness nor content. The feeling of "something's not right but I can't put my finger on it" underpins the lives of today's thirty-year-olds. Their childhood took place during the Soviet era, when kids dreamed of becoming heroes, believed in spy stories and a bright future. Yet nobody expected that the dream of becoming a hero would be replaced by the dream of stable and predictable existence. People have stopped dreaming of truly grand things. They just play their roles.

Amerikana(2001)

1h 35min | Comedy, Adventure
3.0/5 (with 3 votes)

Peter and Chris, two young American friends in their late 20s, go from South Dakota to California on a scooter, and as they travel across the American landscape they see their country through different eyes, ranging from Peter's cynically nihilistic point of view, to Chris' high expectations and romantic notions of the United States.

We(2003)

1h 40min | Comedy, Drama
2.6/5 (with 4 votes)

A summer trip to Berlin offers a fleeting glimpse into the lives of the country's youth in this vibrant, character-driven drama from director Martin Gypkens. When twentysomething Florian arrives in town to pay a visit to long-lost pal Pit, the duo quickly reminisce before heading out to a party. Soon meeting up with many of Pit's acquaintances, the film follows various intersecting lives as they are woven to create an intricate, microcosmic look at life's ups and downs as seen through the eyes of Germany's youth.

When Life Was Good(2008)

1h 26min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Brooklyn flies home to surprise her boyfriend on his birthday, but immediately changes her mind upon arrival and decides to hide out for the summer with her friend Faith. Faith lives with Casey and with relationship problems of their own, the couple are happy with the distraction...until Brooklyn begins to assert herself, then all of the characters come face to face with the hard realities of their relationships.

What Are We Doing Here?(2014)

1h 38min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 3 votes)

Long-time friends Yan, Simon, Roxanne, Maxime and his sister Lily are in their early 20s, the age when anything is possible. They are just embarking on their careers. Then one fine summer day, Yan is involved in a fatal car accident. The young man is killed instantly and the rest of the gang is thrown into turmoil.

Directed by Julie Hivon - With Sophie Desmarais, Maxime Dumontier, Charles-Alexandre Dubé, Richard Robitaille, Francesca Bárcenas, Alexandre Goyette, ...

Acı Hayat(1973)

1h 25min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

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Nevěrné hry(2003)

1h 33min | Drama
2.3/5 (with 1 vote)

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