Movies like Besieged 1998

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Besieged (1998)
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Besieged (1998)
Original name: L'assedio
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When an African dictator jails her husband, Shandurai goes into exile in Italy, studying medicine and keeping house for Mr. Kinsky, an eccentric English pianist and composer. She lives in one room of his Roman palazzo. He besieges her with flowers, gifts, and music, declaring passionately that he loves her, would go to Africa with her, would do anything for her. "What do you know of Africa?," she asks, then, in anguish, shouts, "Get my husband out of jail!" The rest of the film plays out the implications of this scene and leaves Shandurai with a choice.
Style: emotional, erotic, melancholic, meditative, serious, stylized, sensual, realistic, contemplative, romantic ...
Plot: sensuality, interracial relations, unrequited love, white male black female relationship, immigration, jail, pianist, politics, fall in love, social differences, society, opposites attract, housekeeper, husband wife relationship, erotica, loneliness, obsession, adultery, sacrifice, interracial romance, mad love, interracial love, composer, professional, refugee ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: rome italy, africa, italy, europe, paris france, tokyo
Keyword: english, poster, dreams

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Stealing Beauty (1996)
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Duration: 118 min.
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Duration: 109 min.
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Duration: 130 min.
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Duration: 99 min.
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