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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Tragedy strikes when Heathcliff falls in love with Catherine Earnshaw, a woman from a wealthy family in 18th-century England.
Style:
gothic, tragic ending, family saga, psychological thriller, period drama
Plot:
tragedy, obsessive love, literary, passion, forbidden romance, haunting, class conflict, jealousy, star crossed lovers, toxic relationship, revenge, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
19th century
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
William Houston's portrayal of the Danish prince.
Style:
tragic ending, costume drama, period drama
Plot:
tragedy, shakespeare, revenge, political intrigue, royalty, moral ambiguity, melancholy, castle, patricide, regicide, fatalism, poisoning ...
Place:
denmark
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279
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A poor Mexican diver finds a priceless pearl that will change his impoverished family's future -- if he can fend off his own greed and the people trying to take advantage of him.
Style:
tragic ending, thrilling, captivating, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot:
poverty, greed, diver, tragedy, diving, changing lives, lifestyle change, adaptation, moral dilemma, symbolism, temptation, jealousy ...
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 165 min.
Story:
The heroine of this beloved opera finds herself faced with a dreadful choice: life without dignity or death with honor. Hear some of Puccini's most soaring and captivating music in this classic story of colliding hearts and cultures.
Style:
tragic ending, emotional, melancholic, art house, costume drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
opera, suicide, tragic romance, classical music, cross cultural relations, longing, loss, honor, female protagonist, heartbreak, sacrifice, desperation ...
Place:
japan
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Little Marco suffers from his parents' divorce. He runs away from home and is hit by a car. He drags on but eventually dies under a tree with pink leaves, remembering a story his grandmother told him.
Style:
tragic ending, emotional, melancholic, poignant, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
childhood, tragedy, divorce, runaway, loss, child protagonist, family drama, grief, death of child, accident, symbolism, family conflict ...
Time:
70s
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Portugal
Duration: 262 min.
TV show
Story:
A story about doomed love between two people from different worlds and the impact in their lives.
Style:
tragic ending, romantic, family saga, dramatic, poignant ...
Plot:
literary, forbidden love, tragic romance, star crossed lovers, heartbreak, fate, class conflict, family honor, fatalism, obsessive love, betrayal, social realism ...
Time:
19th century, year 1979
Place:
portugal
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149
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Another story of a young and beautiful singer, whose beauty and ambition and a lack of happiness, an obstacle to reach the top but a shortcut to an untimely death.
Style:
tragic ending, emotional, intense
Plot:
singer, untimely death, tragedy, ambition, female protagonist, glory, rise and fall, fame, passion, character study, desperation, beauty ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
The film tells a complicated love story. Carmen with Ke, Xiang Yi and Jiyuan. They start as a friend, but somehow a love triangle occur, and the outcome is very tragic.
Style:
romantic drama, poignant, emotional, tragic ending, period piece ...
Plot:
love triangle, jealousy, tragic romance, bittersweet, unrequited love, betrayal, character study, moral ambiguity, urban, coming of age, passion, classmate ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Adaptation of Shakespeare's play, presented originally on television for schools in the UK.
Style:
romantic drama, tragic ending, bleak, period piece, educational
Plot:
shakespeare, literary, star crossed lovers, tragedy, family feud, family tragedy, forbidden love, teen romance, young love, shakespeare's romeo and juliet, duel, fatalism ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him into giving it away. The film was selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at ...
Style:
tragic ending, emotional, melancholic, bleak, neorealism ...
Plot:
poverty, greed, homelessness, tragedy, survival, compassion, drifter, loneliness, class conflict, empathy, desperation, character study ...
Time:
60s
Place:
mexico city
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 720 min.
Story:
Raoul Wallenberg born 1912 Stockholm is send to Budapest 1944 July. His job is to save Jewish from Holocaust, his methods are non conventional. January 1945 arrested by Russians at Budapest Siege. Man who saved lives never returns home.
Style:
tragic ending, captivating, emotional, tense, inspirational ...
Plot:
holocaust, spy, historical figure, sacrifice, world war two, biopic, heroism, humanitarian, arrested, salvation, saving a life, life ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
budapest, hungary, stockholm sweden
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173
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Uma, a mute Brahmin girl, lives with her uncle's family as she is an orphan. Since Uma has a faulty horoscope which indicate widowhood, the family finds it impossible to get her married off. According to a custom prevalent at the time, Uma is ...
Style:
tragic ending, bleak, melancholic, poignant, pastoral ...
Plot:
caste system, social realism, patriarchy, superstition, tragedy, symbolism, sexual assault, silence, fatalism, mute girl, woman, indian woman ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s
Place:
india
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
"Pag-puti ng Uwak, Pag-itim ng Tagak" is a pulsating love story that recaptures the nostalgic fifties, the exciting era of mass hysteria, and the golden years of the rock and roll fever inflicted by screaming, wiggling hip-shaking foreign ...
Style:
tragic ending, emotional, poignant, period piece, family saga ...
Plot:
elopement, father daughter relationship, sacrifice, forbidden love, small town, provincial life, lost love, coming of age, youth culture, nostalgia, violinist, satire ...
Time:
1950s
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289
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and ...
Style:
tragic ending, melancholic, bleak, allegory, period drama
Plot:
shakespeare, tragedy, betrayal, father daughter conflict, madness, power struggle, literary, deception, political intrigue, sibling rivalry, loyalty, desperation ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The true story of a judge who lives a double life, and stays married to two women for more than 15 years. While one knows nothing of the other, his second wife doesn't care that he is married already as long as he comes home to her as well. ...
Style:
tragic ending, intense, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
bigamy, infidelity, love triangle, betrayal, double life, marriage, lie, family drama, duplicity, tragedy, secrets, judge ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A juvenile offender is handed over to authorities at age 13 and placed in an institution in this somber social drama. Martin is a petty thief who enjoys stealing and looks up to his older brother. When he is informed that his brother has died, ...
Style:
bleak, grim, tragic ending, melancholic, intense ...
Plot:
runaway, social realism, juvenile delinquency, teen suicide, reform school, desperation, social criticism, mental health, loneliness, alienation, child psychologist, character study ...
Time:
70s
Place:
southern germany
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176
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Norway, Iceland
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In a barren land ruled by oppression and ignorance, a spirited woman driven by hope of a better life must fight against the odds. Agnes is a servant in the house of the county sheriff. There she is constantly sexually harassed by him and treated ...
Style:
tragic ending, grim, bleak, intense, period piece ...
Plot:
revenge, betrayal, tragedy, sexual abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of power, female protagonist, brutality, oppression, class conflict, forbidden romance, domestic abuse ...
Place:
iceland
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A circus clown is imprisoned by the Nazis and goes with Jewish children to their deaths.
Style:
controversial, emotional, tragic ending, grim, disturbing ...
Plot:
clown, holocaust, nazi, auschwitz, concentration camp, oppression, innocence lost, accomplice, haunting, tragedy, guilt, prison ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
europe
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland, France, Hungary
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Turn-of-the-century Hungary. Two young brothers, neglected by their cold and uncaring mother, descend deeper and deeper into psychosis, with tragic consequences.
Style:
tragic ending, period piece, atmospheric, grim, bleak ...
Plot:
boy, character study, neglect, tragedy, psychosis, dysfunctional family, mental illness, childhood trauma, brotherhood, haunting, coming of age, mother son conflict ...
Time:
turn of the century
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 170 min.
Story:
Octavius Caesar (later renamed Augustus Caesar, son of the murdered Julius Caesar), Marc Antony, and Lepidus form the triumvirate, the three rulers of the Roman Empire. Antony, though married to Fulvia, spends his time in Egypt, living a life of ...
Style:
tragic ending, historical drama, period piece, art house
Plot:
shakespeare, cleopatra, ancient rome, roman empire, love affair, power struggle, ancient egypt, ambition, suicide, betrayal, political intrigue, jealousy ...
Time:
1st century
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 200 min.
TV show
Story:
Two teenagers fall in love, but their feuding families and fate itself cause the relationship to end in tragedy.
Style:
tragic ending, romantic drama, romantic, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
forbidden love, teenage love, shakespeare, teenager, star crossed lovers, death, tragedy, shakespeare's romeo and juliet, love affair, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, tragic love, teen romance ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Argentina
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
After a string of bad contacts, Argentina’s greatest heavyweight boxer, Oscar “Ringo” Bonavena, arrives in Nevada in 1976 seeking to restart his career. There, Ringo unknowingly stumbles into the criminal world of Joe Conforte, who promises ...
Style:
tragic ending, captivating, psychological, melancholic, tense ...
Plot:
boxing, ambition, life, boxer, based on real people, tragic hero, rise and fall, biopic, professional sports, career, problem, sporting event ...
Time:
70s, year 1967, 60s
Place:
argentina, nevada, usa, las vegas
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Andrea is a receptionist and loves soap opera star Sam Lloyd Pascual. When Sam Lloyd Pascual checks in to the resort hotel she works in, he invites her for a romantic dinner. She now has a chance to make fantasy love a reality but this turns out ...
Style:
tragic ending, romantic drama, noir, soap opera
Plot:
tragedy, heartbreak, regret, hotel, bittersweet, dinner, unrequited love, resort, loneliness, romantic obsession, fan culture, celebrity culture ...
Time:
year 2013
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, set in Istanbul, the tragic story of three heroes chasing an unlikely dream, running towards their sad end in a Shakespearean manner.
Style:
tragic ending, dramatic, suspenseful, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
violence, blood, torture, running, violence against women, shakespeare, shakespeare's romeo and juliet, star crossed lovers, forbidden love, violent, graphic violence, dream ...
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy set in modern-day Italy where two young lovers strive to transcend a violent world where Catholic and secular values clash.
Style:
tragic ending, romantic drama, psychological, captivating, thrilling ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
star crossed lovers, shakespeare's romeo and juliet, tragic romance, forbidden love, shakespeare, male female relationship, love story, relationships, problem, relationship problems, couples, tragic love ...
Place:
italy
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The first Shakespeare feature film adaptation of "Romeo and Juliet" with a complete cast of color that stays true to the language and storyline.
Style:
tragic ending, captivating, romantic, thrilling, romantic drama ...
Plot:
shakespeare, shakespeare's romeo and juliet, star crossed lovers, all black cast, forbidden love, love affair, relationships, romantic relationship, love story, love and romance, male female relationship, couple relations ...
Place:
harlem, new york
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 194 min.
Story:
84 years later, a 101-year-old woman named Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story to her granddaughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell and Anatoly Mikailavich on the Keldysh about her life set in April 10th 1912, on a ship called ...
Style:
romantic, emotional, touching, sentimental, dramatic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, kids, family friendly ...
Plot:
titanic, love story, disaster, love, ship, tragedy, forbidden love, love and romance, ocean, fall in love, tragic love, survival ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s, year 1997, edwardian era, 90s ...
Place:
atlantic ocean, britain, iran, nova scotia, america ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Russia
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
The life pages of a man who changed the world but paid back everything he had. Leon Trotsky is being interviewed in Mexico city of the year 1940 by Canadian journalist Frank Jackson. During eight days they have eight interview sessions revealing the ...
Style:
rough, tense, tragic ending, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
lenin, rivalry, world war one, chase, danger, storytelling, violence, death, communism, imperial russia, russian politics, revolutionary ...
Time:
1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 19th century ...
Place:
ussr
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist and actor Hervé Villechaize, the world's most famous gun-tothing dwarf, resulting in life-changing consequences for both
Style:
ironic, tragic ending, factual, sad, cynical
Plot:
bohemian life, interview, twists and turns, celebrity, performer's life, untimely death, lust, promiscuous past, journalism, nude model, cooking, writers ...
Time:
70s, year 1997, 90s
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 188 min.
Story:
Based on the eponymous book by Boris Vasilyev, the film is set in Karelia (North-West of Russia, near Finland) in 1941 during WWII. In a beautiful and quiet wilderness far from the front-line there is an anti-aircraft artillery point, where corporal ...
Style:
disturbing, tragic ending, epic, sad, realistic ...
Plot:
world war two, soldier, war, female soldier, soviet army, female warrior, wartime life, great patriotic war, military life, military, world war, friendship ...
Time:
year 1942
Place:
soviet union, ussr, russia
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