Longing movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant longing movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, touching, serious, sentimental, sexy and semi serious films and TV shows about / with longing, love and romance, youth, love, friendship, couples, family relations, sex, male nudity and fall in love plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as longing: Malena (2000), Fraulein (2006), Three Times (2005), Notes on a Scandal (2006), Sexual Tension: Volatile (2012), Dog Days (2001), Turn Left, Turn Right (2003), Viva Cuba (2005), How I Live Now (2013), Casanegra (2008).
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
On the day in 1940 that Italy enters the war, two things happen to the 12-year-old Renato: he gets his first bike, and he gets his first look at Malèna. She is a beautiful, silent outsider who's moved to this Sicilian town to be with her ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, touching, melancholic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sexuality, world war two, hot and sexy, coming of age, longing, older woman younger man relationship, unrequited love, fascism, wartime, older woman younger man, dream girl, women ...
Time:
1940s, ancient times, year 2000, 20th century, year 1943 ...
Place:
italy, sicily, europe, mediterranean sea, southern italy ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Ruža left Serbia, her country, over 30 years ago and lives in Zurich. Her daily life is a string of repetitive moments until, one day, Ana arrives on the scene and upsets Ruža's painstakingly organized world. A subtle friendship develops ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, psychological, captivating, contemplative ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
longing, friendship, self discovery, immigrant, friends, society, job seeking, secret, female nudity, sex scene, female friendship, cafeteria ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
switzerland, serbia, bosnia herzegovina, europe, sarajevo
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Taiwan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
There are three stories of women and men: in "A Time for Love" set in 1966, a soldier searches for a young woman he met one afternoon playing pool; "A Time for Freedom," set in a bordello in 1911, revolves around a singer's ...
Style:
anthology, sexy, atmospheric, touching, sentimental ...
Plot:
longing, love affair, tragic love, social differences, couples, fall in love, wartime life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love triangle, minimalism, time, slut ...
Time:
1910s, 2000s, year 2005, 20th century, year 1966 ...
Place:
taiwan, taipei, shanghai, tokyo
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship.
Style:
sexy, sexual, suspense, erotic, independent film ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
teacher, forbidden love, lesbian, age difference, older woman younger man relationship, obsession, teachers and students, adultery, older woman younger man sex, lust, blackmail, older woman teenage boy sex ...
Time:
90s, 21st century
Place:
london, united kingdom, europe, england
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Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, USA, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Have you ever met someone who made your body heat up, get a little nervous and sweaty, and made your crotch stir a bit? Sexual Tension: Volatile will reignite those lustful feelings as it weaves six scintillating experiences of men in various stages ...
Style:
homoerotic, erotic, anthology, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
homoeroticism, gay interest, gay, lgbt, gay crush, sex, male nudity, lust, gay teenager, longing, seduction, homoerotic friendship ...
Place:
argentina
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Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
In a suburb of Vienna during some hot summer days: A teacher who is in bondage to a sleazy pimp, a very importunate hitchhiker, a private detective on the run for some car vandals, a couple with a serious marriage problem and an old man, whose wife ...
Style:
sexy, sexual, realistic, sensual, erotic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
longing, sex, couple relations, couples, sexual perversion, strong sexual content, suburbs, sexual relations, surrealism, husband wife relationship, erotica, female nudity ...
Time:
year 2001, year 2003, 21st century
Place:
vienna, austria
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, Singapore
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An aspiring violinist and a professional translator live parallel lives and appear to be perfect for each other, but somehow fate seems to keep them apart. Living in different units of the same apartment building, they never meet, because when they ...
Style:
romantic, semi serious, realistic, touching, romantic drama ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
longing, looking for love, destiny, couples, hopes, love and romance, translator, singleness, male female relationship, star crossed lovers, bittersweet, unfulfilled love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong, asia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: France, Cuba
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The friendship between two children is threatened by their parents’ differences. Malú is from a family that was upper-class before the Revolution and remains well-to-do through remittances from relatives overseas, and her single mother (Larisa ...
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, sincere, road movie
Plot:
longing, friendship, youth, forbidden love, coming of age, children, young heroes, against the odds, social differences, parents and children, society, family life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
cuba, latin america
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
An American girl on holiday in the English countryside with her family finds herself in hiding and fighting for her survival as war breaks out.
Style:
suspenseful, teen, romantic, sweet, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
survival, longing, danger, teenage life, young adult, post apocalypse, love and romance, coming of age, cousin cousin relationship, youth, countryside, teenager ...
Time:
year 2013, future, 21st century
Place:
england, northern england, scotland, london
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Genre: Drama
Country: Morocco
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
A Moroccan-Norwegian co-production about the dark side of Casablanca (Casanegra). In a country where good virtues are the norm in public, Casanegra shows the vices: domestic violence, alcohol abuse and drug abuse. Meet Karim and Adil and their ...
Style:
realistic, stylized, serious, rough, gloomy ...
Plot:
longing, friendship, lifestyle, misfit, society, gangster, urban ghetto life, hopes, social differences, life is a bitch, youth, buddies ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
morocco, africa
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Genre: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
15 years ago, Luiza decided to make a fresh start in Spain. She left her 3-year-old daughter Cristina in the care of her relatives and took off. When she returns to Romania, the woman learns some shocking truths that were kept hidden from her: ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, captivating, touching, humorous ...
Plot:
longing, going straight, adoption, starting over, redemption, rehabilitation, orphan, single parent, family relations, drug dealing, addiction, drug abuse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
romania, spain
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
The confessional, behind-the-scenes showbiz melodrama goes under the knife — so to speak — in this drag comedy. "Girls Will Be Girls" casts three male performers in the roles of Evie Harris (Jack Plotnick), a has-been starlet of the ...
Style:
parody, not serious, humorous, feel good, witty ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
longing, transvestism, hollywood, lgbt, cabaret, gay, lgbtq, showbiz, lifestyle, actor's life, transsexual, filmmaking ...
Place:
usa, arkansas, wyoming
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Genre: Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Ireland, Sweden, France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The elder one of each generation in the Furlong family is equipped with an extraordinary capacity. James discovers the nature of his at the time of an accident which causes the death of his father and his grandmother. Haunted by this mysterious evil ...
Style:
touching, serious, stylized, dark, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
longing, forest, fall in love, healing power, supernatural, social misfits, supernatural ability, youth, misfit, orphan, danger, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In a Sydney suburb, two nurses, Maria and Flora, a housekeeper, Lotte, and a solicitor, Arnold, attend to Elizabeth Hunter as her expatriate son Sir Basil, a famous but struggling actor in London, and daughter Dorothy, a divorced and down at heel ...
Style:
touching, realistic, stylized, serious, semi serious ...
Plot:
longing, family reunited, dying mother, family life, elderly, family relations, family problems, parents and children, dealing with death, nursing, manipulative person, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
sydney australia, australia
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Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
On a dark, rainy night, an historic and regal Taipei cinema sees its final film: 1967 martial arts feature "Dragon Inn". As the film plays, the lives of the theater's various employees and patrons intersect, and two ghostly actors ...
Style:
contemplative, surreal, sincere, atmospheric, slow cinema ...
Plot:
longing, tourist, introspection, human nature, dull life, solitude, theater, loneliness, minimalism, underground, asian, life & death ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
taipei, taiwan, japan, east asia, asia
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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, sentimental, touching, anthology ...
Plot:
longing, lesbian, solitude, fall in love, destiny, abuse, unrequited love, death of wife, lifestyle, lgbtq, lesbian relationship, couples ...
Place:
asia, singapore
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA, Belgium
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Xavier is a 40-year-old father of two who still finds life very complicated. When the mother of his children moves to New York, he can't bear them growing up far away from him and so he decides to move there as well.
Style:
humorous, touching, sweet, unusual plot structure, entertaining ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
immigrant, longing, relationships, fall in love, midlife crisis, marital separation, artificial insemination, marriage of convenience, infidelity, lesbian, male female friendship, friendship ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, somalia, usa, france, new jersey ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A newly appointed teacher finds herself being followed, and soon discovers that one of her own students is obsessed with her.
Style:
sexy, erotic, sensual, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
teacher student sex, older woman teenage boy sex, mature woman, teacher student relationship, unfaithful wife, female teacher, sex scene, older woman younger man sex, dangerous attraction, older woman teenage boy relationship, older woman younger man relationship, longing ...
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
When stubborn, spotty Kevin and his equally hopeless best friend Perry go on holiday to the party island Ibiza, they see it as their big chance to become superstar club DJs and, more importantly, to lose their virginities. But they aren't ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, not serious, sexy, sex comedy ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
nightclub, longing, youth, nothing goes right, rave, sexual humor, misfit, disorder, lifestyle, looking for sex, teenage life, teenage love ...
Time:
90s, 2000s
Place:
ibiza, europe, spain
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Genre: Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Set 10 years later, the Phantom has escaped from Paris to New York where he lives amongst the joyrides and freak shows of Coney Island. He has finally found a place for his music to soar, all that is missing is his love Christine Daaé. In a bid to ...
Style:
gothic, sentimental, stylized, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
longing, tragic hero, couples, destructive relationship, haunted by the past, love triangle, disfigurement, unfulfillment, phantom of the opera, live performance, theater, broadway ...
Time:
1900s, victorian era, 20th century
Place:
coney island brooklyn new york city, paris france, new york, france, usa
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Benji is a stray who has nonetheless worked his way into the hearts of a number of the townspeople, who give him food and attention whenever he stops by. His particular favorites are a pair of children who feed and play with him against the wishes ...
Style:
sentimental, sweet, light, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teen drama
Plot:
longing, dog, animal actor, kidnapping, friendship, rescue, animal, runaway, greed, betrayal, obsession, life philosophy ...
Time:
70s
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Zhou Yu, a ceramic artisan in China's rural Northwest, has a deep rapport with Chen Qing, a shy sensitive poet. Taking a long train ride every weekend just to make mad passionate love with him, her longing seems insatiable. Until one day, she ...
Style:
serious, atmospheric, touching, sentimental, contemplative ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
longing, love affair, love triangle, couples, couple relations, fall in love, dishonesty, train travel, infidelity, train, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, passion ...
Place:
china, asia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK, Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Two couple of friends, one very rich the other almost homeless, decides to go on Holiday. Julie, a single mother, joins them too. Once at seaside, it starts a complicate love cross among them that will involve also a transsexual, a jealous brother,a ...
Style:
sexy, humorous, semi serious, witty, sex comedy ...
Plot:
longing, infidelity, family life, lgbtq, class differences, sexual relations, couple relations, husband wife relationship, vacation, kinky sex, age-gap relationship, paranoia ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s
Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The taboo relationship between young Nadav and his Aunt Nina transcends definition on its way to odd highs and lows.
Style:
touching, realistic, sentimental, sweet, semi serious ...
Plot:
incestuous desire, peeping tom, longing, sexual obsession, aunt nephew relationship, infatuation, unrequited love, coming of age, israeli, first love, voyeur, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea, France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
As the first snow falls in Seoul, two old friends reunite; one is a successful college professor, and the other, a struggling filmmaker recently returned from the United States. After their reminiscences, they finally decide to go in search of the ...
Style:
psychological, sentimental, emotional, touching, romantic comedy ...
Plot:
longing, love triangle, friendship, fall in love, obsession, buddies, lifestyle, mental disorder, mature, college, male female relationship, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, korea
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Bud Clay races motorcycles in the 250cc Formula II class of road racing. After a race in New Hampshire, he has five days to get to his next race in California. During his road trip, he is haunted by memories of the last time he saw Daisy, his true ...
Style:
controversial, road movie, sexy, independent film, erotic ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
sex scene, longing, road trip, controversy, sex, prostitute, unsimulated sex, drug addict, rape, redemption, explicit sex, lovers apart ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, las vegas, new hampshire ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After his mother dies, 19-year-old Charlie Conrad skips college to raise his 9-year-old brother, Ben, in this moving drama. But the heavy responsibility soon causes Charlie to yearn for a normal life. Things start to look up when he embarks on a ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sincere, sexual ...
Plot:
gay teenager, gay, longing, lgbt, gay interest, family relations, absent father, college, dysfunctional family, mysterious character, youth, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Malaysia, China, Taiwan, France, Austria
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Forest fires burn in Sumatra; a smoke covers Kuala Lumpur. Grifters beat an immigrant day laborer and leave him on the streets. Rawang, a young man, finds him, carries him home, cares for him, and sleeps next to him. In a loft above lives a ...
Style:
surreal, touching, atmospheric, sentimental, slow cinema ...
Plot:
gay, longing, coma, identity crisis, love triangle, society, rescue, love and romance, isolation, memory loss, immigrant, homeless man ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After total humiliation at her thirteenth birthday party, Jenna Rink wants to just hide until she's thirty. With a little magic, her wish is granted, but it turns out that being thirty isn't as always as awesome as she thought it would be!
Style:
feel good, romantic, romantic comedy, cute, funny ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen fantasy ...
Plot:
time travel, body swapping, coming of age, youth, true love, fashion, love and romance, best friends in love, desire, child as adult, adolescence vs adulthood, wish come true ...
Time:
80s, year 2004, year 1987, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, greenwich village manhattan new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
As a fan of Albert Camus and Jean-Luc Godard, teenage Nick Twisp is definitely out of his element when his mother and her boyfriend move the family to a trailer park. When a pretty neighbor named Sheeni plays records by French crooners, it's ...
Style:
teen, witty, surreal, black comedy, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night
Plot:
teenager, coming of age, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, loss of virginity, teenage love, longing, adolescence, teen angst, high school, virginity, shyness, teenage life ...
Time:
year 2009, future, y2k, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
california, bay area, usa, oakland california, france ...
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