The Piano

7.4

1993

120 mins

DramaRomance

When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited pre-teen daughter Flora to the wilderness of 19th-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction.

The Shipping News

Year : 2001Rating : ⭐ 6.4

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The Burning Plain

Year : 2008Rating : ⭐ 6.6

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Dirt Music

Year : 2020Rating : ⭐ 6.3

Georgie is slowly suffocating in a loveless marriage to fishing tycoon Jim Buckridge. Handsome poacher Lu is an irresistible symbol of the excitement she craves. A passionate affair follows that reveals the dark secrets in Lu’s past and forces him to take flight into the blistering heat of the outback. Georgie follows, determined to find him and bring him back.

The Convert

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Heavenly Creatures

Year : 1994Rating : ⭐ 6.9

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A Jazzman's Blues

Year : 2022Rating : ⭐ 7.4

A tale of forbidden love and family drama unravels 40 years of secrets and lies against a soundtrack of juke joint blues in the Deep South.

The Nightingale

Year : 2018Rating : ⭐ 7.0

In 1825, Clare, a 21-year-old Irish convict, chases a British soldier through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. She enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past.

Dream Lover

Year : 1994Rating : ⭐ 6.8

Not long after they cross paths at an art gallery, architect Ray Reardon and hypnotically sensual Lena are married with children. But as strange incidents occur, Ray begins to realize he may not really know the woman he married.

Close My Eyes

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

Breezy

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A free-spirited young woman, Breezy, hitches a ride with an aging real estate salesman, Frank. Sensing that she just wants to use him he tries to have nothing to do with her. She's not that easy to shake, however, and over time a bond forms between them.

On Chesil Beach

Year : 2018Rating : ⭐ 6.1

In 1962 England, a young couple finds their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night.

The Deep Blue Sea

Year : 2011Rating : ⭐ 5.9

The wife of a British Judge is caught in a self-destructive love affair with a Royal Air Force pilot.

In My Father's Den

Year : 2004Rating : ⭐ 6.9

War journalist Paul Prior returns to his New Zealand hometown after his father’s death, rekindling strained relationships with his brother and memories of a troubled past. He befriends Celia, a curious and aspiring writer, who shares a fascination with his world. When Celia mysteriously disappears, Paul becomes the prime suspect, forcing him to confront buried secrets and uncover the dark truths of his family and community.

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Year : 2022Rating : ⭐ 6.7

After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her husband's consent, she seeks out other means of fulfilling her needs.

Laurel Canyon

Year : 2003Rating : ⭐ 6.0

When an uptight young man and his fiancée move into his libertine mother's house, the resulting clash of life attitudes shakes everyone up.

Careful What You Wish For

Year : 2015Rating : ⭐ 6.1

A guy gets more than he bargained for after entering into an affair with the wife of an investment banker. Soon, a suspicious death and substantial life insurance policy embroil him in a scandal.

The Young One

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A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.

Blind

Year : 2017Rating : ⭐ 6.1

A novelist is blinded in a car crash that killed his wife and several years later rediscovers his passion for life and writing when he embarks on an affair with the neglected wife of an indicted businessman.

The World to Come

Year : 2021Rating : ⭐ 7.0

In 1856, two women forge a close connection despite their isolation on the American frontier.

The Big Country

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