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Tristan & Isolde (2006)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Czech Republic, UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: An affair between the second in line to Britain's throne (Franco) and the princess of the feuding Irish (Myles) spells doom for the young lovers.
Style: touching, romantic, exciting, fairy tale, costume drama ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot: medieval, love affair, love story, knight, forbidden love, true love, king, tragic love, sword and shield, legends and myths, star crossed lovers, betrayal ...
Time: middle ages, medieval times, 6th century, 2000s, 50s ...
Place: ireland, cornwall, england, britain, europe
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Black Panther: The Story of Emilie and Jacob (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 79 min.
Story: After many years apart, Emilie (26) meets her brother Jakob (22) again. She not only shares her sadness about the loss of their parents with him, but also a secret... It is Emilie's wish to arrange the sale of their jointly inherited holiday ...
Style: ambiguous ending, melancholic, psychological, captivating, erotic ...
Plot: brother sister incest, incest, female nudity, incestuous desire, brother sister relationship, bare breasts, sex with brother, infidelity, moral dilemma, brother sister sex, sex scene, sex with sister ...
Place: swiss alps, alps
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 6.3
 3K
Captives (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A beautiful young dentist working in a tough British prison starts to become attracted to a violent inmate after the break-up of her marriage, and embarks upon an illicit affair with him, with terrible consequences for all.
Style: suspenseful, erotic, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: forbidden love, prison, destiny, erotica, bittersweet, obsession, mad love, lost girl, flirting, partner, outlaw, dentist ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: england, london
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 6.8
 1K
Camila (1984)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In Buenos Aires of the 1840s, a young Jesuit and a wealthy socialite fall in love and begin a torrid affair. They escape from the city, and, in disguise, set up house in a village, assuming they are safe and beyond the cares of anyone. However, both ...
Style: romantic, cult classic, manga, captivating, serious ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: forbidden love, priest in love, love, girl, first love, religion, sensuality, tragic love, village life, village, social differences, small town ...
Time: 19th century, 1840s
Place: argentina, latin america, buenos aires argentina
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 5.7
 433
Ardor (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In revenge for her husband's infidelity, a young beautiful housewife, Mi-heun, starts an affair with an attractive young doctor, In-gyu. Despite her husband's efforts to regain her love and the disapproval by the conservative little town, ...
Style: touching, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, erotic
Plot: forbidden love, domestic violence, marital infidelity, divorce, husband wife relationship, infidelity, erotica, male female relationship, love, love story, adulterous husband, crumbling marriage ...
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Blissfully Yours (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand, France
Duration: 125 min.
Story: The story of a love affair that begins during a picnic on the Thai-Burmese border.
Style: contemplative, sexy, sincere, touching, melancholic ...
Plot: sensuality, picnic, forbidden love, immigrant, countryside, on the road, explicit sex, real sex, infidelity, illegal immigrant, summer, nudity ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, year 2001, 21st century
Place: asia, thailand, burma
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 7.0
 3K
Jerichow (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The Turkish diaspora in Germany proves the catalyst for this noir-flavored drama concerning the unlikely friendship between a veteran of the Afghan-Soviet war and a middle-aged Turk in need of a helping hand.
Style: tense, serious, realistic, touching, suspense ...
Plot: abusive husband, immigrant, forbidden love, hot and sexy, adultery, dangerous attraction, crimes of passion, estrangement, couples, dishonesty, life is a bitch, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, europe
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Five Feet Apart (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Two teenagers with life-threatening illnesses meet in a hospital and fall in love.
Style: thought provoking, melancholic, touching, emotional, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, adult
Plot: terminal illness, disability, fighting illness, star crossed lovers, true love, forbidden love, hospital, couple relations, danger, suffering, fall in love, illness ...
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 7.8
 298K
Atonement (2007)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, War
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
Style: touching, emotional, heartbreaking, sad, period piece ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot: world war two, wartime, tragic love, redemption, injustice, unfulfilled love, love story, false accusation, love and romance, forbidden love, innocence, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, year 2007, 2000s, victorian era ...
Place: england, london, britain, dunkirk, europe ...
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Forbidden Relations (1983)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hungary
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Based on a true story, a love affair develops between a half brother and half-sister. When pregnancy results and word gets out the public is outraged.
Style: crying
Plot: incest, forbidden love, incestuous sex, love affair, family affairs, taboo, pregnant by incest, brother sister incest, river, abortion, post office, death of husband ...
Place: hungary, budapest
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 5.8
 1K
Gemini (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An incestuous love affair. Meme and Jeremias are the younger children in a typical bourgeois family. Their mother Lucia is the dominant force in the household, but her fixation on upholding the niceties of upper middle class life has prevented her ...
Style: serious, sincere, touching, realistic, sexual ...
Plot: incest, older woman younger man sex, shame, brother sister sex, incestuous relationship, brother sister incest, incestuous sex, caught having sex, male nudity, dysfunctional family, sex with sister, sexual dysfunction ...
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Madame Bovary (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: A young woman in her late teens, a reader of novels and with high hopes of romance and passion, marries a widowed country doctor. Although he dotes on her, she is soon bored and discontent. First, she gives her imagination to a law student in town, ...
Style: period piece, emotional, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot: forbidden love, adulteress, love affair, destructive relationship, downfall, infidelity, social relations, society, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, tragic hero, sexual freedom ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, victorian era
Place: france, europe
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The Loss of Sexual Innocence (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The story of the sexual development of a filmmaker through three stages of his life.
Style: erotic, sensual, avant garde, eros, non-linear ...
Audience: adult
Plot: innocence lost, dog sex, elderly lovers, woman peeing, forbidden love, erotica, desert, sex, sexuality, age difference, passion, fetish ...
Time: year 1999, 1950s, 50s, 20th century, stone age
Place: africa, england, tunisia, usa, london ...
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 6.2
 703
My Man (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Young Hana had lost everything in the earthquake and tsunami and was being taken care of by a relative named Jungo. As Hana grew up she began to fall in love with her own relative.
Style: serious, psychological, atmospheric, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot: father daughter incest, lolita, orphan, first sexual experience, older man younger woman relationship, forbidden love, family relations, love and romance, single parent, obsession, parents and children, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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 5.9
 2K
Down by Love (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A man, a woman. A prison director, his inmate. An impossible love, a true story.
Style: erotic, explicit
Audience: adult
Plot: infidelity, married man, older man younger woman relationship, extramarital affair, adultery, prison, older man young girl relationship, obsession, sex with a minor, female nudity, girl man relationship, nudity ...
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 7.0
 2K
Little Rose (2010)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Pressured by his superiors to disgrace public intellectual Warczewski, a professor and respected writer whom they believe to be a "camouflaged Zionist," rough security-services colonel Rozek enlists his sexy but naive girlfriend, Kamila, ...
Style: tense, captivating, atmospheric, psychological, sexy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: forbidden love, love triangle, espionage, secret service, undercover, political intrigue, gain trust, university professor, political activist, anti communist, emigration, communism ...
Time: 20th century, year 2010, 60s
Place: poland, warsaw poland, eastern europe
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 6.4
 18K
Mary Shelley (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Luxembourg, USA, Ireland, Australia
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin resulted in the creation of an immortal novel, “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.”
Style: stylized, serious, atmospheric, costume drama, period piece ...
Audience: date night
Plot: poet, forbidden love, literature, young lovers, relationship problems, tragedy, female writer, love and romance, renegade, frustration, social misfits, writers ...
Time: 19th century, regency period, 1810s
Place: london, scotland, switzerland
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 4.8
 5K
A Teacher (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Part psychological thriller and part provocative character study, A TEACHER explores the unraveling of a young high school teacher, Diana (Lindsay Burdge), after she begins an affair with one of her teenage students, Eric (Will Brittain). What ...
Style: sexy, erotic, serious, psychological, tense ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, teacher student relationship, teacher student sex, older woman younger man sex, high school, sexual pleasure, forbidden love, older woman teenage boy relationship, teacher student romance, passion, sex in car, older woman teenage boy sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
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 7.5
 12K
Claire's Knee (1970)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: On the eve of his wedding, on holiday on the Lake Annecy shore, a career diplomat visits an old acquaintance, perhaps a former girlfriend. Through her he meets an intense teenager, Laura, and then lusts after her sister, Claire. Whilst Laura ...
Style: sentimental, thought provoking, existential, sensitive, spiritual ...
Audience: adult
Plot: summer, older man young girl relationship, older man younger woman relationship, forbidden love, teenage girl, glamour, age difference, sadness, relationships, spirit, dialogue, nymphet ...
Time: year 1970, 60s, 20th century, 70s
Place: france, europe
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 7.6
 5K
Brides (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece, USA, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story: A young female character, Nikki Douka, from Samothraki, is sailing to the U.S. to fulfill a marriage contract and save her family honor. Her skills as a seamstress keep her busily sewing throughout the voyage to alter wedding dresses for the ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, depressing, sexy ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: couples, forbidden love, mail order bride, ship, wedding, fall in love, immigrant, society, love and romance, cruise, class differences, greek ...
Time: 1920s
Place: greece, usa, new york, ottoman empire
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Despite the Falling Snow (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In Cold War Moscow, a female spy steals secrets from an idealistic politician – and falls in love with him. Moscow, 1959: Katya (Rebecca Ferguson, Mission Impossible- Rogue Nation, The Girl on the Train, The White Queen), is young, beautiful – ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, suspense, touching, emotional
Audience: girls' night
Plot: cold war, love, politics, forbidden love, female secret agent, secret, danger, female spy, love and romance, espionage, spy, desertion ...
Time: 90s, 60s, 20th century
Place: soviet union, russia, moscow russia, ussr
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 7.0
 14K
Copenhagen (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA, Denmark
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After weeks of traveling through Europe, the immature William finds himself in Copenhagen, the place of his father’s birth. He befriends the youthful Effy, who works in William’s hotel as part of an internship program, and they set off to find ...
Style: touching, emotional, intense, sincere, disturbing ...
Audience: date night, teen drama
Plot: forbidden love, older man younger woman relationship, fall in love, teenager, womanizer, self discovery, older man younger woman sex, older man teenage girl relationship, misfit, twentysomething life, adolescence vs adulthood, relationships ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark, berlin germany, copenhagen, scandinavia
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Three Steps Above Heaven (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Story of two young people who belong to different worlds. It is the chronicle of a love improbable, almost impossible but inevitable dragging in a frantic journey they discover the first great love. Babi (Maria Valverde) is a girl from upper-middle ...
Style: emotional, touching, romantic, serious, sexy ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: love, teenage love, opposites attract, young love, fall in love, forbidden love, love and romance, friendship, couple relations, young lovers, youth, first love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, iberian peninsula, europe
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Love & Savagery (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, Ireland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In 1969, a visiting geologist from Newfoundland, Canada causes scandal in a small Irish village when he romances a local girl who's destined for the convent. Love and Savagery is a story of passion, fate, and the consequences of the two. In ...
Style: emotional, realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: convent, forbidden love, nun, religion, couples, island, isolation, destiny, culture clash, poet, poetry, geologist ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: ireland, canada, newfoundland
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Once Upon a Time in Rio (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Situated just above the awe-inspiring Ipanema beach in Rio is the Cantagalo slum. Every day, floods of Cantagalo residents make their way down the mountain, only to disappear into their surroundings as part of the invisible working-class that cleans ...
Style: emotional, realistic, touching, serious, sentimental ...
Plot: love, forbidden love, love and romance, social differences, parents and children, family relations, couples, life is a bitch, fall in love, slum, favela, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, rio de janeiro, brazil
Is relevant ?
 7.4
 10K
Endless Love (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Two separate worlds lie on two sides of the road in a seaside town. Both too close and way too far from each other. What happens when two young people from these worlds fall in love? Kemal is one of the three children of a moderate family that ...
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, dramatic, suspenseful ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: true love, forbidden love, tragic love, blackmailer, family life, life, beefcake, love and romance, life is a bitch, violent husband, brutality, life philosophy ...
Place: turkey, istanbul turkey
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 5.3
 3K
Trust (2021)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Set in the glamour of the New York and Paris art scenes, gallery owner Brooke Gatwick and her newscaster husband Owen Shore, face temptation, jealousy, twists and mystery when two seductive newcomers enter their lives.
Style: sexy, disturbing, psychological, captivating, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: infidelity, forbidden love, adultery, passion, husband wife relationship, adulterous husband, unfaithful husband, cheating wife, extramarital affair, macho man, mistress, cheating boyfriend ...
Place: paris france
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 6.5
 2K
Delirium (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 52 min.
Story: Set in a world where love is deemed illegal and can be eradicated with a special procedure. With 95 days to go until her scheduled treatment, Lena Holoway does the unthinkable, she falls in love.
Style: exciting, captivating, romantic, suspense, teen ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens
Plot: forbidden love, society, fighting the system, danger, dystopian future, escapades, distopia, adaptation, young adult, paranormal romance, fall in love, love ...
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FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions (2004)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 82 min.
Story: France. A near and probable future. The Sisterhood of Metacontrol governs Europe. Angeline, an exemplary and irreproachable citizen has just joined the order... But her relationship with a special man, Nono, will make her question profoundly the ...
Style: stylized, exciting, captivating, serious, suspense ...
Plot: chastity, forbidden love, distopia, feminism, dystopia, totalitarian regime, sexism, escape, self sacrifice, male female relationship, dehumanization, political repression ...
Time: future
Place: france, paris france
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Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Two modern-day cowboys meet on a shepherding job in the summer of '63, the two share a raw and powerful summer together that turns into a lifelong relationship conflicting with the lives they are supposed to live.
Style: emotional, touching, sexy, sad, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: gay, homosexuality, homosexual, gay romance, gay relationship, forbidden love, lgbt, love story, gays and lesbians, gay slur, gay interest, first gay sexual experience ...
Time: 60s, year 1963, year 2005, 80s, 20th century ...
Place: wyoming, usa, texas, idaho, indiana ...
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