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6.5

♡ 25

67%

Guy Jenkin Director

Brenda Blethyn as Aggie

Emily Mortimer as Cecil

Hugh Dancy as John Truscott

Jessica Alba as Selima

A young Englishman is dispatched to Sarawak to become part of the British colonial government. He encounters some unorthodox local traditions, and finds himself faced with tough decisions of the heart involving the beautiful Selima, the unwitting object of his affections.

The Fantasticks

2000

5.7

♡ 5

based on play or musical

Michael Ritchie Director

Tony Cox as His Assistant

Joey McIntyre as Matt Hucklebee

Keith Jefferson as Roustabout

Arturo Gil as The Bavarian Baby

Widowers Amos and Ben plot to romantically unite Amos' daughter Luiss and Ben's son Matt by pretending to feud and forbidding the teens to associate, knowing they will resist their fathers' interference. As the two youngsters fall in love, the fathers plot to end the 'feud' by hiring a traveling showman to fake an abduction and allow Matt to 'rescue' Luisa.

Jungle Fever

1991

6.6

♡ 22

81%

interracial relationship

new york city

Romance

xenophobia

Spike Lee Director

Gina Gershon as Angie's Neighbor

Annabella Sciorra as Angie Tucci

Samuel L. Jackson as Gator Purify

Halle Berry as Vivian

A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship even worse.

Godless

2015

5.8

♡ 7

Joshua Lim Director

Lovlee Carroll as Jessica

Michelle Gallagher as Mary Flanigan

Craig Jordan as Nate Flanigan

Michael E. Pitts as Steven Flanigan

Two brothers, Nate and Steven, reconnect after the death of their parents. During this time of mourning, the two brothers' unrelenting love for each other threatens a secret they had buried.

Close My Eyes

1991

6.2

♡ 11

80%

56%

based on play or musical

Stephen Poliakoff Director

Karl Johnson as Colin

Geraldine Somerville as Natalie's Boss

Saskia Reeves as Natalie / Sister

Clive Owen as Richard / Brother

After some years of tension, Richard begins a sexual relationship with his sister Natalie. Now married, the relationship proves dangerously obsessional.

Natasha

2015

6.2

♡ 7

100%

55%

cousin cousin relationship

David Bezmozgis Director

Alla Kadysh as Faina

Sergiy Kotelenets as Gena

Lola Tash as Jana

Pavel Tsitrinel as Meyer

Natasha takes place over the course of one summer. It is the story of Mark Berman, 16, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants living in the suburbs north of Toronto. When his uncle enters into an arranged marriage with woman from Moscow, the woman arrives in Canada with her fourteen year-old daughter, Natasha. Mark, a slacker, is conscripted by his parents to take responsibility for the strange girl. He learns that, in Moscow, she’d led a troubled and promiscuous life. A secret and forbidden romance begins between the two of them that has bizarre and tragic consequences for everyone involved.

Moffie

2019

Afrikaans

6.8

♡ 19

91%

72%

apartheid

Oliver Hermanus Director

Christiaan Schoombie as Dorman

Jan Combrink as Jan Gould

Mark Elderkin as Medic

Dijan Botha as Soldier 3

A young man in 1981 South Africa must complete his brutal and racist two years of compulsory military service while desperately maintaining the secrecy of his homosexuality.

Palm Trees in the Snow

2015

Spanish

7.3

♡ 10

83%

79%

1970s

parent child relationship

Fernando González Molina Director

Berta Vázquez as Bisila

Mario Casas as Killian

Daniel Grao as Manuel

José Manuel Poga as Marcial

Spain, 2003. An accidental discovery leads Clarence to travel from the snowy mountains of Huesca to Equatorial Guinea, to visit the land where her father Jacobo and her uncle Kilian spent most of their youth, the island of Fernando Poo.

Sunshine Follows Rain

1946

Swedish

6.5

♡ 3

Romance

rural area

Gustaf Edgren Director

Inga Landgré as Barbro

Sten Lindgren as Germund

Hilda Borgström as Kerstin

Mai Zetterling as Marit

The Farmer Germund is planning a wedding between his daughter Marit and Mats, the son of a neighboring farm. Everything seems to be going according to plan until Marit meets the fiddler Jon, an illegitimate son who enchants the youth with his violin.

There Will Be Spring

2020

Finnish

5.5

♡ 1

Annika Grof Director

Antti Virmavirta as

Timo Lavikainen as

Turkka Mastomäki as

Asta Sveholm as Anni

Late 40’s after the war. Strange languaged and religioned immigrants fleeing from Karelia region are hated by Finns in the countryside. 19-year old Anni is living her life wanting to forget the war and hostility surrounding her. Falling in love with a man who hasn’t left fighting, threatens Anni’s whole family’s future and hope for mutual forgiveness..

Black Panther

2014

German

5.4

♡ 5

Samuel Perriard Director

Jonas Hien as Andreas / Emilie's boyfriend

Lucy Wirth as Emilie / Sister

Samuel Perriard as Jäger / Hunter

Ole Jacobs as Jakob / Brother

After many years apart, Emilie meets her brother Jakob again. She not only shares her sadness about the loss of their parents with him, but also a secret...

Shinobi: Heart Under Blade

2005

Japanese

6.8

♡ 17

Ten Shimoyama Director

Yutaka Matsushige as Hattori Hanzou Masanari

Erika Sawajiri as Hotarubi

Troy Baker as Kouga Gennosuke

Laura Bailey as Oboro

Even though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an annual conference with the Lord, it is dictated that a competition--a fight to the death--will take place between the five best shinobi from each village. Gennosuke and Oboro's love is made even more impossible when they each got picked as the leader of the five to represent their respective villages.

Maurice

1987

7.6

♡ 76

82%

87%

James Ivory Director

Denholm Elliott as Doctor Barry

Helena Bonham Carter as Lady at Cricket Match

Ben Kingsley as Lasker-Jones

Judy Parfitt as Mrs. Durham

After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restrictiveness of Edwardian society.

Liar's Moon

1981

5.9

♡ 6

60%

David Fisher Director

Christopher Connelly as Alex Peterson

Richard Moll as Det. Roy Logan

Matt Dillon as Jack Duncan

Dawn Dunlap as Teaser

In East Texas, the summer after high school, Jack falls in love with Ginny, the daughter of the town's banker (Jack's mom's high school sweetheart). Ginny's been at boarding school; she's headed for Vassar. Over her father's strenuous objections, she spends time with Jack. At summer's end, Jack and Ginny elope to Louisiana (where 17-year-olds can marry without their parents' permission), and he gets a job in the oil fields. Her dad hires a menacing private eye to find them, Ginny's pregnant, her town doctor gives her horrible news, and Jack's mom has her own agenda. It seems that Jack and Ginny have grown up under a liar's moon. What will these sweethearts do?

Made of Honor

2008

5.8

♡ 50

15%

Paul Weiland Director

Kadeem Hardison as Felix

Kathleen Quinlan as Joan

Mary Birdsong as Sharon at Bridal Shower

Whitney Cummings as Stephanie

Tom and Hannah have been platonic friends for 10 years. He's a serial dater, while she wants marriage but hasn't found Mr. Right. Just as Tom is starting to think that he is relationship material after all, Hannah gets engaged. When she asks Tom to be her 'maid' of honor, he reluctantly agrees just so he can attempt to stop the wedding and woo her.

I Walk the Line

1970

6.5

♡ 7

70%