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List of unfulfilled love movies

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Under the Hawthorn Tree (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The daughter of a right-winger, schoolgirl Jing Qiu (Zhou Dong-Yu) is sent to the countryside for reeducation, and tasked to help write a textbook. There she meets Lao San (Shawn Dou), a young soldier with a bright future ahead. Despite the class ...
Style: touching, sentimental, sincere, realistic, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: tragic love, social differences, forbidden love, revolution, society, youth, love and romance, unfulfilled love, fall in love, young lovers, totalitarian regime, terminal illness ...
Time: 2010s, 60s, 20th century, 70s
Place: china, asia
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 6.7
 15
Tangled 8 (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: People from diverse social backgrounds, races and ages manage grief through its different phases.
Style: realistic, contemplative, serious, talky, independent film ...
Plot: love and romance, couple relations, couples, unfulfilled love, sexual content, dealing with death, unfulfillment
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Girlfriend Boyfriend (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Mabel, Liam and Aaron have been friends since childhood. Their bonds of friendship are tested when, years later, they realize their friendship is the only reason they have made it through emotional hardships and extreme tragedies.
Style: semi serious, emotional, captivating, sincere, romantic drama ...
Plot: love triangle, friendship, rebelliousness, love affair, follow your dream, rebellion, idealism, love and romance, youth, couples, couple relations, unfulfilled love ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: taiwan, asia
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Honey and Clover (2005)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Yuuta Takemoto is a poor college student who lives in a dilapidated apartment building with his two friends, Shinobu Morita and Takumi Mayama. The series chronicles the students' story as they struggle through life and love.
Style: anime, semi serious, humorous, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot: slice of life, coming of age, friendship, unrequited love, fall in love, love triangle, unfulfilled love, struggle, everyday life, lifestyle, student life, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: tokyo, japan
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Follow The Stars Home (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Two brothers - one virtuous, one feckless - are in love with the same woman. She falls for Brother Wrong, carrying a torch for him even after he deserts her. But Brother Right remains steadfast and available. What's unusual here is why the bad ...
Style: uplifting, sentimental, sincere, touching, erotic ...
Audience: family outing, girls' night
Plot: lifestyle, dysfunctional family, love and romance, unfulfilled love, babies and infants, family problems, family life, couples, disability, parents and children, family in crisis, single parent ...
Place: san francisco
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FRED: The Movie (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Fred Figglehorn has a crush on Judy, the girl next door. Fred's stalker, Kevin, lives across the street and thwarts each attempt Fred makes to see her. When Fred finally succeeds in making it to Judy's, he finds out she has moved so he ...
Style: humorous, not serious, captivating, light, freeze frame ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: in love, obsessive quest, teenage life, rivalry, prank, escapades, disorder, love and romance, unfulfilled love, youth, misfit, silly humor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.3
 701
Sparkhouse (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: The relationship between childhood sweethearts, a farmer's daughter and boy from a rich family, turns tumultuous in this modern interpretation of Wuthering Heights.
Style: emotional, serious, touching, melancholic, gloomy ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love affair, family relations, parents and children, unfulfilled love, society, life is a bitch, human nature, farm, dysfunctional relationship, strong female lead, love, hopeless romantic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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 6.7
 902
Cafe Setareh (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Filmmaker Saman Moghadam details the struggles of three women living in an antiquated district of Tehran in this emotionally resonant drama. Fabria's husband has been morally corrupted, and now it's up to her to take charge of the small ...
Style: touching, psychological, sincere, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: fall in love, human nature, unfulfilled love, couple relations, love and romance, hopes, family problems, society, couples, bittersweet, cafe, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, persia, middle east
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 7.2
 3K
Me Too (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Daniel - a recent university graduate with Down's Syndrome - falls in love on his first day at work in the Department of Social Services. Laura is an outsider who spends her nights in the city's crowded clubs and singles' bars, ...
Style: serious, touching, sincere, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: mentally challenged, disability, love, fall in love, love and romance, looking for love, friends, unfulfilled love, hopes, society, college graduate, friendship ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: spain, iberian peninsula
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A Tale of Samurai Cooking (2013)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Set within the Kaga Domain in the Edo Period. Oharu is an excellent cook and recognized for her skills. Due to her cooking talents, she marries Yasunobu, who is an heir in the Funaki family. The Funaki family serves as the cook for the Kaga Domain. ...
Style: humorous, touching, sentimental, culinary, semi serious ...
Plot: samurai, cooking, food, chef, couples, unsupportive spouse, couple relations, society, unfulfilled love, husband wife relationship, edo period, rebellion ...
Time: 18th century
Place: japan
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So Hard to Forget (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Julia is a 35-year-old English Literature teacher struggling with depression as she tries to get her life back together again after her long, intense love affair with Antonia. Feeling totally abandoned after she and her enigmatic girlfriend broke ...
Style: psychological, serious, emotional, captivating, deep ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, lgbt, starting over, haunted by the past, gender, breakup, unfulfilled love, unfulfillment, lesbian love, depression, gay ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, latin america
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 5.6
 953
Cowboy Up (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: "Cowboy Up" is a celebration of the risk-taking, daredevil personalities of modern rodeo. In the world of professional bull riding, newcomer Ely Braxton (Marcus Thomas) is the craziest guy around; his brother Hank (Kiefer Sutherland) is a ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, touching, sex comedy
Plot: love affair, love triangle, friendship, rivalry, family relations, couples, relationship vs career, parents and children, fish out of water, unfulfilled love, redemption, fall in love ...
Time: 90s
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Dance Baby Dance (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 138 min.
Story: London, an overcrowded cafe, one table to share. Two strangers tell each other “how I met my fiancé” stories to kill time. Rikki (Abhishek Bachchan) met his fiance Anaida (Lara Dutta) at the Ritz in Paris and Alvira (Preity Zinta) met her ...
Style: feel good, stylized, humorous, semi serious, realistic
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: unfulfilled love, destiny, friendship, social differences, love triangle, breakup, terminal illness, couple relations, unfulfillment, fall in love, couples, friends ...
Place: france, paris france, london, england, europe ...
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 6.6
 468
Nuts for Love (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story: En 1975, unos meses antes del comienzo de la dictadura militar argentina, Alicia y Marcelo se conocen en un concierto de Sui Géneris. El amor surge inmediatamente entre ellos, pero el retorno del novio de Alicia provoca la separación. En 1982, en ...
Style: touching, serious, sincere, emotional, talky ...
Plot: love affair, lovers reunited, social differences, couples, unfulfilled love, political unrest, destiny, love and romance, state affairs, politics, bittersweet, concert ...
Place: argentina
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 6.3
 432
Raja (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Morocco
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Raja is a nineteen year old orphan literally and figuratively scarred by life. Fred is an emotionally bankrupt westerner living amid his plush gardens and palm trees. Set against the backdrop of contemporary Marrakech, Raja is a cross-cultural drama ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, sincere
Plot: opposites attract, fall in love, unlikely couple, social differences, love and romance, society, obsession, youth, orphan, destructive relationship, couples, rich and poor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: morocco, africa
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A Soldier's Tale (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In the days following the D-Day invasion in Normandy, France, a British platoon leader named Saul (Gabriel Byrne) and his corporal (Paul Wyett) reach an isolated farmhouse and encounter a beautiful French girl named Belle (Marianne Basler). Love ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, emotional
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, soldier, love affair, war, love and romance, couples, impossible love, unfulfilled love, woman in danger, wartime life, love, love triangle ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: france, europe, normandy
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The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 114 min.
Story: An aging actress' husband dies of a heart attack en route to Rome, where they'd planned to holiday. There, she rents an apartment and, through the Contessa, she meets a young man, with whom she begins an affair.
Style: touching, sentimental, serious, sincere, atmospheric ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, sexual intercourse, loss of husband, love triangle, looking for love, infidelity, unfulfilled love, forbidden love, unrequited love, family problems, couples, midlife crisis ...
Place: italy, rome italy, tennessee, usa, europe ...
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A Lot Like Love (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: On a flight from Los Angeles to New York, Oliver and Emily make a connection, only to decide that they are poorly suited to be together. Over the next seven years, however, they are reunited time and time again, they go from being acquaintances to ...
Style: romantic, romantic comedy, sweet, light, feel good ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: love story, best friends in love, love and romance, love, happy ending, friendship, bittersweet, small town, loneliness, travel, encounter, unfulfilled love ...
Time: year 2005, 20th century, 21st century
Place: new york, california, los angeles, usa
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 7.8
 121K
Once (2007)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A vacuum repairman moonlights as a street musician and hopes for his big break. One day a Czech immigrant, who earns a living selling flowers, approaches him with the news that she is also an aspiring singer-songwriter. The pair decide to ...
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, inspirational, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: music, musician's life, pianist, street musician, friendship, love, singer, love and romance, musician, recording studio, immigrant, rock and roll ...
Time: year 2007, year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, london, europe, czech republic
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 5.8
 322
Sonja (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Sonja is struggling to deal with her parent separation, and find her feelings for her best friend might not just be a phase.
Style: realistic, sincere, touching, sexy, lgbt cinema ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, teens
Plot: coming of age, lesbian, friendship, love and romance, family relations, youth, friends, couples, unfulfilled love, lifestyle, best friend, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
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Mansfield Park (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In Mansfield Park, poverty-stricken Fanny Price is sent away to live with her wealthy uncle and aunt at Mansfield Park. As she struggles to adapt to her new lifestyle she begins to attract the attentions of suitors, learning about the sexual ...
Style: period piece, costume drama, stylized, witty, realistic ...
Plot: love triangle, couples, love and romance, couple relations, class differences, society, fall in love, social differences, unrequited love, unfulfilled love, estate, hypocrisy ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, regency period
Place: england, europe, britain
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 4.8
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Denied (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Troy, a former high school team captain, was used to living with everything thrown at his feet. Things get a little rocky when Troy's love for his slacker best friend Merrick also becomes a personal inner struggle. His affair with Merrick ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, emotional, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot: gay, best friend, teenage love, lgbt, gay interest, social relations, youth, lifestyle, society, unfulfilled love, high school, homosexuality ...
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Love in a Cold Climate (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 150 min.
TV show
Story: Adaptation of Nancy Mitford's novel.
Style: realistic, serious, stylized, historical drama, costume drama ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: fall in love, love triangle, social differences, looking for love, eccentric family, master and servant, unlikely couple, society, wooing, infidelity, unfulfilled love, rich and poor ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: england, europe
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Be with Me (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Singapore
Duration: 93 min.
Story: "Be with me" consists of three stories of love vs. solitude: 1)An aging, lonesome shopkeeper doesn't believe in life any more since his wife died. But he is saved from desperation by reading an autobiographical book and meeting its ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, anthology ...
Plot: lesbian, solitude, lifestyle, fall in love, longing, death of wife, couples, couple relations, unfulfilled love, teenage life, destiny, unrequited love ...
Place: asia, singapore
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The Duchess of Langeais (2007)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 137 min.
Story: In Majorca, in 1823, a French general, Armand de Montriveau, overhears a cloistered nun singing in a chapel; he insists on speaking to her. She is Antoinette, for five years he has searched for her. Flash back to their meeting in Paris, he recently ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, stylized, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: obsession, high society, nun, kidnapping, unrequited love, duchess, couple relations, love and romance, unfulfilled love, love affair, social differences, tragic love ...
Time: 19th century, year 2007, victorian era, 1810s, 1820s
Place: paris france, france, africa, spain, europe
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Ten Tiny Love Stories (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Ten women give monologues to camera, each remembering a man who was important in their lives.
Style: realistic, talky, sincere, clever, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: loss of virginity, gender, lifestyle, destructive relationship, love affair, looking for love, dangerous attraction, couple relations, unfulfilled love, sexual relations, male female relationship, monologue ...
Time: 21st century
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 7.8
 5K
Casanova (2005)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 174 min.
TV show
Story: After a life spent seeking pleasure and decadence, Casanova seeks his one true love, Henriette.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, stylized, emotional ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: casanova, true love, sexual relations, womanizer, seduction, unrequited love, aristocracy, high society, unfulfilled love, sexual exploration, maid, sexuality ...
Time: 18th century
Place: italy, paris france, europe, london, england ...
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 8.6
 17K
A Dog's Will (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Western
Country: Brazil
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The lively João Grilo and the sly Chicó are poor guys living in the hinterland who cheat a bunch of people in a small Northeast Brazil town. But when they die, they have to be judged by Christ, the Devil and the Virgin Mary, before they are ...
Style: talky, semi serious, humorous, exciting, light ...
Plot: priest, religion, poverty, hopes, clergy, race against time, social differences, unfulfilled love, buddies, society, odd couple, righting the wronged ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s
Place: brazil, latin america, south america, northeast brazil
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 7.9
 292K
Almost Famous (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journalist lands him an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine to interview and tour with the up-and-coming band Stillwater – fronted by lead guitar ...
Style: sentimental, road movie, feel good, realistic, semi autobiographical ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, family friendly ...
Plot: coming of age, journalism, rock and roll, musician, on the road, rock music, music, rock, musician's life, fame, road trip, manic pixie dream girl ...
Time: 70s, 2000s, year 2000, y2k, 20th century
Place: california, san francisco, new york, seattle, phoenix arizona ...
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Beyond the Clouds (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Made of four short tales, linked by a story filmed by Wim Wenders. Taking place in Ferrara, Portofino, Aix en Provence and Paris, each story, which always a woman as the crux of the story, invites to an inner travel, as Antonioni says "towards ...
Style: erotic, touching, emotional, colorful, atmospheric ...
Plot: infidelity, adultery, love triangle, love, tragedy, love story, nude girl, love and romance, dishonesty, unfulfilled love, love affair, fall in love ...
Place: italy, europe, france, new york, paris france ...
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