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Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 02:00 |
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:43 |
In 1838, lovely governess Elisabeth agrees to bear a child of anonymous English landowner, and he will in return pay her father's debt. At birth she, as agreed, gives up the child. Seven years later she is hired as governess to a girl on a remote Sussex estate. The father of the girl, Charles Godwin, turns out to be that anonymous landowner. So Elisabeth has to be her own daughter's governess, and she can't reveal the secret of her tie with little Louisa.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, biography, history |
Country | USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:57 |
An aspiring young physician, Robert Merivel found himself in the service of King Charles II and saves the life of someone close to the King. Merivel joins the King's court and lives the high life provided to someone of his position. Merivel is ordered to marry his King's mistress in order to divert the queens suspicions. He is given one order by the king and that is not to fall in love. The situation worsens when Merivel finds himself in love with his new wife. Eventually, the King finds out and relieves Merivel of his position and wealth. His fall from grace leaves Merivel where he first started. And through his travels and reunions with an old friend, he rediscovers his love for true medicine and what it really means to be a physician.
Mark | imdb: 7.7 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:16 |
Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. Two daughters are the titular opposites.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | France |
Duration | 01:28 |
Marianne leaves Abel for Paul, his best friend and the father of her unborn child. Eight years later, Paul dies and Marianne returns to Abel. However, things have changed for the both of them and feelings of jealousy surround their new relationship.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, France, USA |
Duration | 01:43 |
A girl dying of leukemia compiles a list of things she'd like to do before passing away. Topping the list is her desire to lose her virginity.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:43 |
A romantic comedy centered on Dexter and Emma, who first meet during their graduation in 1988 and proceed to keep in touch regularly. The film follows what they do on July 15 annually, usually doing something together.
Mark | imdb: 7.8 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:04 |
An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately reunited, seven years later, after they have taken different paths.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 02:25 |
A small town girl is caught between dead-end jobs. A high-profile, successful man becomes wheelchair bound following an accident. The man decides his life is not worth living until the girl is hired for six months to be his new caretaker. Worlds apart and trapped together by circumstance, the two get off to a rocky start. But the girl becomes determined to prove to the man that life is worth living and as they embark on a series of adventures together, each finds their world changing in ways neither of them could begin to imagine.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 02:33 |
Based on the literary classic by Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd is the story of independent, beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene, who attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer, captivated by her fetching willfulness; Frank Troy, a handsome and reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood, a prosperous and mature bachelor. This timeless story of Bathsheba's choices and passions explores the nature of relationships and love – as well as the human ability to overcome hardships through resilience and perseverance.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:45 |
An American girl on vacation in Italy finds an unanswered "letter to Juliet" -- one of thousands of missives left at the fictional lover's Verona courtyard, which are typically answered by a the "secretaries of Juliet" -- and she goes on a quest to find the lovers referenced in the letter.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, Italy, Morocco, USA |
Duration | 02:13 |
Based on Evelyn Waugh's 1945 classic British novel, Brideshead Revisited is a poignant story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in England prior to the Second World War.
Mark | imdb: 7.8 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | India, France, Germany, USA, Canada |
Duration | 01:44 |
A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system (Mumbai's Dabbawallahs) connects a young housewife to a stranger in the dusk of his life. They build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. Gradually, this fantasy threatens to overwhelm their reality.
Mark | imdb: 5.9 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:48 |
Ex-football star Mike Gambril meets Terry McKay on a flight to Sydney, which is forced to land on a small atoll. They become romantic on board a ship sent to take them to a larger island. They agree to meet in New York three months later to see if the attraction is real. One shows up but the other doesn't. However, a chance meeting brings them together again.
Mark | imdb: 5.8 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | USA, Japan |
Duration | 02:03 |
Diving to save a camera from a fall down a flight of stairs, high school junior Naomi Sukuse wakes with no memory of the last four years. Naomi must remember who she was and figure out who she wants to be in this story of love and second chances.
Mark | imdb: 5.6 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, biography |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:40 |
The Newlyn School of artists flourished at the beginning of the 20th Century and the film focuses on the wild and bohemian Lamorna Group, which included Alfred Munnings and Laura and Harold Knight. The incendiary anti-Modernist Munnings, now regarded as one of Britain's most sought-after artists, is at the centre of the complex love triangle, involving aspiring artist Florence Carter-Wood and Gilbert Evans, the land agent in charge of the Lamorna Valley estate. True - and deeply moving - the story is played out against the timeless beauty of the Cornish coast, in the approaching shadow of The Great War.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | Canada, France |
Duration | 02:00 |
Jacqueline is a young mother living in 1960s Paris with her disabled son Laurent. Abandoned by her husband, Jacqueline sacrifices everything to care for her son and vows to give Laurent a “normal” life full of happiness. Antoine, is a successful DJ in present day Montreal who seems to have it all: a thriving career, two beautiful daughters, partner Rose, with whom he is passionately in love. However, nothing is perfect and Antoine’s ex-wife Carole remains devastated by their recent separation.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | drama |
Country | Denmark, Canada, Sweden, France, Germany, United Kingdom, USA |
Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who gets them into an emergency shelter. While stealing food at a Russian restaurant called ‘Winter Palace’, Clara meets Marc, who has been given the chance to help the old eatery regain its former glory. The ‘Winter Palace’ soon becomes a place of unexpected encounters between people who are all undergoing some sort of crisis and whom fate has now brought together.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, military, history |
Country | United Kingdom, Germany, China, USA |
Duration | 02:15 |
Iin 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.
Mark | imdb: 8 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:26 |
Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits into something more emotionally fulfilling than either expected, and they must wrestle with the potential havoc their deepening relationship would have on their lives and the lives of those they love.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:04 |
In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective characters, Sarah and Charles. Both actors are involved in serious relationships, but the passionate nature of the script leads to an off-camera love affair as well. While attempting to maintain their composure and professionalism, Anna and Mike struggle to come to terms with their infidelity.
Mark | imdb: 5.7 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | USA, Canada, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:49 |
Dr. Burke Ryan is a successful self-help author and motivational speaker with a secret. While he helps thousands of people cope with tragedy and personal loss, he secretly is unable to overcome the death of his late wife. It's not until Burke meets a fiercely independent florist named Eloise that he is forced to face his past and overcome his demons.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | Australia, USA |
Duration | 02:23 |
An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:55 |
When the father of privileged Rosina da Silva violently dies, she decides to pass herself off as a gentile and finds employment with a family in faraway Scotland. Soon she and the family father, Charles, start a passionate secret affair.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:37 |
Duncan Mayor decides the perfect Christmas present for his terminally ill wife, Suzy, is a ride on a real Ferris wheel, set up in their very own back yard. As a young man, it was the perfect place for a wedding proposal. Now, years later, in order to relive the experience with his wife, Duncan will go to any length to make their fantasy become a reality.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, biography |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:11 |
C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | USA, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico |
Aged, embittered widower, Fred learns to enjoy life thanks to his elderly yet vibrant neighbor, Elsa. Upon learning Elsa is terminally ill, Fred takes her to the Fontana di Trevi in Rome in order to reenact her favorite scene from ‘La Dolce Vita’.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:34 |
In the fall of 1963, Eddie Birdlace is an 18-year-old Marine Corps volunteer who is about to ship out with three of his buddies for a tour of duty in Vietnam. Planning a massive blowout for their last night in San Francisco, Eddie, his buddies, and a number of other Marines set up a contest they call a "dogfight."
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:58 |
British teenager Leo Colston spends a summer in the countryside, where he develops a crush on the beautiful young aristocrat Marian. Eager to impress her, Leo becomes the "go-between" for Marian, delivering secret romantic letters to Ted Burgess, a handsome neighboring farmer.
Mark | imdb: 5.2 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | France, Luxembourg, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:37 |
English-language adaptation of Albert Cohen's epic Swiss tale of a tortured love affair between a high-ranking Jewish official and the protestant wife of one of his employees.
Mark | imdb: 5.4 |
Genre | thriller, melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:28 |
The story of a husband who suspects his wife of adultery, and sets out to track down the other man in her life.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, adventure |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:44 |
The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns from a trip to the city, bringing with him a ragged little boy called Heathcliff. Earnshaw's son, Hindley, resents the child, but Heathcliff becomes companion and soulmate to Hindley's sister, Catherine. After her parents die, Cathy and Heathcliff grow up wild and free on the Moors and despite the continued enmity between Hindley and Heathcliff they're happy-- until Cathy meets Edgar Linton, the son of a wealthy neighbor. Written by Marg Baskin
Mark | imdb: 7.6 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 02:37 |
Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity to Auschwitz. In the present, Sophie and Nathan's relationship increasingly unravels as Stingo grows closer to Sophie and Nathan's fragile mental state becomes ever more apparent.