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List of long distance relationship movies

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 7.8
 61
Umizaru (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot: coast guard, workplace situations, frogman, relationships, coworker, life is a bitch, male female relationship, scuba diving, long distance relationship, relationship problems, workplace, friendship ...
Place: japan
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A Love for Separation (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
TV show
Style: dramatic, atmospheric, captivating, exciting
Plot: family relations, parents and children, supportive parent, love and romance, couples, relationships, love, long distance relationship, education, parents, life
Place: shanghai
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 7.5
 150K
Brooklyn (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story: In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Ellis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.
Style: sentimental, touching, romantic, sweet, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot: starting over, love and romance, immigrant, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friendship, female protagonist, immigration, true love, working class, homesickness, coming of age, hopes ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 2010s, year 2015, 1900s ...
Place: ireland, brooklyn new york city, new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, america ...
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The Other Side of Heaven (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: John H. Groberg, a middle class kid from Idaho Falls, crosses the Pacific to become a Mormon missionary in the remote and exotic Tongan island kingdom during the 1950's. He leaves behind a loving family and the true love of his life, Jean. ...
Style: touching, inspirational, uplifting, sincere, biblical ...
Plot: missionary, human spirit, true love, life philosophy, biopic, friendship, fish out of water, christianity, church, love and romance, hopes, mormon ...
Time: 1950s, year 2001, 50s, 20th century
Place: idaho, usa
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 6.9
 321K
The Holiday (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Two women, one (Cameron Diaz) from America and one (Kate Winslet) from Britain, swap homes at Christmastime after bad breakups with their boyfriends. Each woman finds romance with a local man (Jude Law, Jack Black) but realizes that the imminent ...
Style: romantic, feel good, sweet, sentimental, light ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot: holiday, christmas, love, love story, love and romance, happy ending, couples, fall in love, multiple storylines, snow, looking for love, unrequited love ...
Time: year 2006, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, england, california, london, united kingdom ...
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Closing the Ring (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: During the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann, who is in love with one of them, Teddy. In modern-day Belfast, a man named Jimmy endeavors to return a ring found in the wreckage of a crashed plane. He travels to ...
Style: serious, touching, suspenseful, realistic, romantic drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, optimism, couples, death in the family, couple relations, battles, family problems, family relations, parents and children, wartime life, love and romance, sex ...
Time: 90s, 50s, 1940s
Place: ireland, europe, london
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Testament of Youth (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Denmark, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and ...
Style: touching, period piece, captivating, serious, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot: world war one, wartime, war, aspiring writer, women, death, poetry, nurse, life is a bitch, wartime life, love and romance, love affair ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, 1920s, edwardian era, 2010s ...
Place: england, oxford university, london, yorkshire, france ...
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 7.1
 234K
Ghost (1990)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Sam Wheat is a banker, Molly Jensen is an artist, and the two are madly in love. However, when Sam is murdered by his friend and corrupt business partner Carl Bruner over a shady business deal, he is left to roam the earth as a powerless spirit. ...
Style: sentimental, romantic, touching, sweet, tear jerker ...
Audience: date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: afterlife, love story, ghost, love, love and romance, supernatural, life & death, psychic, death, supernatural romance, impossible love, psychic power ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 80s
Place: new york, persia, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
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 7.8
 634K
Cast Away (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Chuck, a top international manager for FedEx, and Kelly, a Ph.D. student, are in love and heading towards marriage. Then Chuck's plane to Malaysia ditches at sea during a terrible storm. He's the only survivor, and he washes up on a tiny ...
Style: suspense, captivating, psychological, inspirational, serious ...
Audience: family outing, date night, kids, teens
Plot: survival, loneliness, isolation, island, desert island, stranded on an island, lost at sea, courage, air disaster, determination, solitude, survivor ...
Time: year 2000, 20th century, y2k, year 1995, year 1999 ...
Place: fictional island, persia, america, moscow russia, russia
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 7.4
 115K
Frequency (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: When a rare phenomenon gives police officer John Sullivan the chance to speak to his father, 30 years in the past, he takes the opportunity to prevent his dad's tragic death. After his actions inadvertently give rise to a series of brutal ...
Style: psychological, feel good, suspense, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: kids, boys' night
Plot: time travel, radio, father son relationship, investigation, parallel universe, butterfly effect, time, altering history, murder, serial killer, changing the past or future, rescue ...
Time: future, year 1969, year 1999, year 2000, y2k ...
Place: new york, usa
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 8.0
 665K
Her (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every needs. To Theodore's surprise, a romantic relationship develops between him and his operating system. ...
Style: melancholic, philosophical, futuristic, touching, clever ...
Audience: date night, teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: loneliness, artificial intelligence, existentialism, philosophy, love, computer, cyberspace, impossible love, relationship problems, psychology, human nature, unlikely relationship ...
Time: future, near future, 2010s, year 2013, distant future ...
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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 7.7
 34
Liminality (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 73 min.
Story: An ensemble of interconnected twentysomethings struggle with the complications of life, work, and love as they cross paths in the city throughout one day.
Style: independent film, mumblecore
Plot: marriage, long distance relationship, twenty something, salesman, single parent, bisexuality, paramedic, love, city, one day, interlinked stories, vignette
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 7.6
 2K
The Fiances (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 77 min.
Story: A young man has a renewed interest in his girlfriend when he takes a job that separates the two.
Style: contemplative, neorealism, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot: minimal dialogue, italian neorealism, european, worker, long distance relationship, longing, renewed love, promotion, couples, introspection, couple relations, starting over ...
Time: year 1963, 20th century, 60s
Place: italy, sicily, europe
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I Never Sang for My Father (1970)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Hackman plays a New York professor who wants a change in his life, and plans to get married to his girlfriend and move to California. His mother understands his need to get away, but warns him that moving so far away could be hard on his father. ...
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, sincere, gloomy ...
Plot: parent child relationship, professor, father son relationship, aging, elderly, introspection, dysfunctional family, father, mission, slice of life, self-help, time travel ...
Time: year 1970, 60s
Place: new york, california
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We Were There: True Love (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min.
Story: During the 2nd year of high school in the winter season, Yano (Toma Ikuta) transferred from Kushiro to Tokyo due to a family matter. Yano and Nanami (Yuriko Yoshitaka) promised to meet again. A couple of years later, Nanami is busy finding a job, ...
Style: sentimental, touching, disturbing, suspenseful, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: renewed love, teen romance, parent child relationship, unfulfilled love, love, love affair, high school sweetheart, adolescence, couple relations, teenage love, love and romance, looking for love ...
Place: japan
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Don't Read This on a Plane (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, Romania, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal
Duration: 93 min.
Story: As novelist Jovana Fey attempts to check into the first hotel of her 3-week European book tour, she learns that her publisher has gone bankrupt. Penniless and stranded, she decides to continue the tour regardless.
Style: semi serious, psychological, thrilling, captivating, funny
Plot: writers, hitchhiking, open relationship, road trip, bankruptcy, female writer, problem, hitchhiker, satire, writer's life, female protagonist, married couple ...
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Love Is Love Is Love (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Three sto­ries that explore love, com­mit­ment, and loy­al­ty between cou­ples and friends. "Two for Din­ner" where a mar­ried cou­ple tem­porar­i­ly liv­ing in two dif­fer­ent loca­tions are more sep­a­rat­ed than they ...
Style: funny, romantic, light, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love affair, couples, love story, love and romance, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, relationships, multiple storylines, friendship, friends, love, male female relationship, power of love ...
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Stealing Paradise (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The story follows a brilliant engineer whose breakthrough design is stolen and patented by a colleague. When the colleague is found murdered, she becomes the prime suspect.
Style: suspense, psychological, talky, tense, suspenseful
Plot: murder, murder investigation, partner, rivalry, investigation, testimony, police detective, evidence, investigator, interrogation, death, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, boston
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For Love of the Game (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: A baseball legend almost finished with his distinguished career at the age of forty has one last chance to prove who he is, what he is capable of, and win the heart of the woman he has loved for the past four years.
Style: touching, sentimental, realistic, romantic, entertaining ...
Plot: baseball, loneliness, love story, unlikely friendships, storytelling, looking for love, athlete's life, love and romance, training, major league, hopes, motivation ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: usa, detroit, new york, london, bronx new york city
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The Unusual Suspects (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
TV show
Story: Follows the theft of a multi-million-dollar necklace and the women from different walks of life who come together to ensure that justice is served.
Style: captivating, semi serious, entertaining, disturbing
Plot: heist, female protagonist, robbery, businesswoman, theft, women, stolen jewelry, duplicity, thief, criminal, rich woman, rivalry ...
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 8.2
 22K
Gavin & Stacey (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 29 min.
TV show
Story: Gavin is an ordinary boy from Billericay, Essex. Stacey is an ordinary girl from Barry Island, South Wales. They’ve spoken on the phone every day at work for months but they’ve never actually met… until now.
Style: sitcom, semi serious, feel good, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, couple relations, family relations, family life, separation, couples, honeymoon, lifestyle, buddies, marriage, dating, newlyweds ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, wales, europe
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Sita Sings the Blues (2008)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: The movie is about Sita, the Hindu Goddess from the epic "The Ramayana", who accompanies Lord Rama on a 14 year exile in forest. Sita is abducted by Ravana, the ruler of Lanka. This movie tells the story of Rama and Sita, along-with a ...
Style: stylized, colorful, epic, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot: jazz, ancient, mistrust, duty, martyr, monk, long distance relationship, suspicion, gossip, blues, imaginary, exile ...
Time: year 2008, 1920s
Place: india, san francisco, asia
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Any Questions for Ben? (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 114 min.
Story: For 27-year-old Ben, life couldn't be better. A well paid job, friends, parties, girls and nothing to tie him down. But when he is invited back to his old school to join several other ex-students including Alex and Jim in talking about their ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous, romantic
Audience: date night
Plot: self discovery, renewed love, love and romance, hopes, introspection, disorder, long distance relationship, fame, success, islam, tennis, un ...
Time: 21st century
Place: melbourne
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 6.8
 157K
The Lake House (2006)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A lonely doctor who once occupied an unusual lakeside home begins exchanging love letters with its former resident, a frustrated architect. They must try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it's too late.
Style: romantic, sentimental, sweet, sincere, touching ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: time travel, time, fall in love, love and romance, supernatural, impossible love, couples, architect, pen pal, autumn, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, letter ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: chicago, illinois, usa
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Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A young boy who tries to set his dad up on a date after the death of his mother. He calls into a radio station to talk about his dad’s loneliness which soon leads the dad into meeting a Journalist Annie who flies to Seattle to write a story about ...
Style: romantic, feel good, touching, sentimental, inspirational ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, family outing, kids, girls' night ...
Plot: happy ending, life, radio, loneliness, single parent, love and romance, looking for love, love, starting over, couples, grief, love story ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: seattle, manhattan new york city, new york, baltimore, washington state ...
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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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 5.8
 68K
V/H/S (2012)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: When a group of misfits is hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire a rare VHS tape, they discover more found footage than they bargained for.
Style: anthology, disturbing, scary, atmospheric, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: found footage, supernatural, ghost, demon, nudity, macabre, ghost child, danger, halloween, videotaping, gory, haunted house ...
Time: year 2012, year 1998, 90s, 21st century
Place: usa, arizona
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Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The story of Katherine Ann Watson, a feminist teacher who studied at UCLA graduate school and in 1953 left her boyfriend behind in Los Angeles, California to teach at Wellesley College, a conservative women's private liberal arts college in ...
Style: inspirational, touching, romantic, sentimental, period piece ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot: feminism, teacher, art, college, teachers and students, art history, coming of age, dedicated educator, college life, women, gender, feminist ...
Time: 50s, year 2003, 1950s, year 1953, post world war two ...
Place: massachusetts, california, boston, usa, manhattan new york city ...
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A Paris Education (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Etienne comes to Paris to study filmmaking at the Sorbonne. He meets Mathias and Jean-Noël who share his passion for films. But as they spend the year studying, they have to face friendship and love challenges as well as choosing their artistic ...
Style: black and white, queer cinema, student film
Plot: women, lgbt, lgbtq, friendship between men, coming of age, student life, long distance relationship, friendship, death of friend, cheating girlfriend, student, sex scene ...
Time: 2010s
Place: paris france
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Keep Your Distance (2005)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In the perfectly normal town of Louisville, KY, there is a perfectly normal man living the perfect life. David Dailey is a man who has it all: A great career, a community that adores him, and an enduring marriage. But beneath the surface, ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, serious, suspense, independent film ...
Plot: dangerous attraction, stalking, infidelity, obsession, betrayal, dishonesty, couple relations, friendship, mentally unstable, family problems, couples, sexual relations ...
Place: kentucky, louisville kentucky
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