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Explore romantic relationships, love and its complications.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 9,657 films · Page 131.

Paper Heart (2009)

Arranged Documentary, Comedy drama, Investigative Documentary, romantic comedy

Charlyne Yi embarks on a quest across America to answer, "What is love?". She and director Nick search for answers and advice about love. Yi asks people on the street as well as celebrities like Seth Rogen, Demetri Martin, bikers, romance novelists, children, and scientists to share their opinions and understanding of love.

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Five Corners (1987)

Crime, Drama

In 1964, in the Bronx, a high school teacher is fatally shot in the back with an arrow. A man offers two seemingly intoxicated young women to two teenage boys, even offering cash to take the women off his hands. Later, these women awaken in an unfamiliar apartment, nude beneath the sheets.

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Ibiza (2018)

romantic comedy

Harper is weary of life in New York City working for a PR firm. Her boss Sarah is constantly reciting nasty one-liners at her while failing to recognize her hard work. In a surprise move, Sarah informs Harper that she has to fly to Barcelona for the weekend in order to secure a new client.

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The Phantom of the Opera (1998)

Drama, Gothic film, gothic horror film, Horror, romance film, romantic horror film, Slasher, thriller film

In 1877 Paris, a pack of rats save an abandoned baby from a basket that was flowing along a river. They raise him in the underground of the Opéra de Paris. This child becomes the Phantom of the Opera, a misanthrope who kills anyone who ventures into his underground chambers, just as rats are killed whenever they venture above ground.

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Live a Little, Love a Little (1968)

Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy

Greg Nolan is a newspaper photographer who lives a carefree life until he encounters an eccentric, lovelorn woman named Bernice on the beach. Bernice assumes different names and personalities whenever the mood hits her. She introduces herself to Greg as "Alice" but she is known to the grocery delivery boy as "Susie" and to the milkman as "Betty." After having her Great Dane dog Albert chase Greg into the water when he insults her after a kiss, Bernice invites him to stay at her beachfront home.

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Rip Girls (2000)

Drama, romance film, teen film

Sydney Miller is a 13-year-old girl who was born in Hawaii and moved away at a young age after the death of her mother, whom she barely remembers. From her great-aunt, Sydney inherits a derelict Hawaiian plantation that had been used through five generations. Sydney, her father Ben, and her stepmother Elizabeth leave their residence in Chicago to visit the plantation, known as Makai.

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Group Sex (2010)

Comedy

The story begins with two roommates and business partners, Andy and Jerry. Andy hears Vanessa singing at a bar and, lovestruck, follows her to a church, where he realizes she has joined sex addict meetings. To get closer to her, he attempts to fit in with the other sex addicts in the class.

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Twentieth Century (1934)

Daffy Comedy, romantic comedy

left|300px|thumb|Lobby card for Twentieth Century Ebullient Broadway impresario Oscar Jaffe takes an unknown lingerie model named Mildred Plotka and makes her the star of his latest play, despite the grave misgivings of everyone else, including his two long-suffering assistants, accountant Oliver Webb and the consistently tipsy Owen O'Malley. Through intensive training, Oscar transforms his protégée into the actress "Lily Garland", and both she and the play are resounding successes. On opening night, after her triumph, he comes to her dressing room to apologize abjectly for his behavior to her.

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Not as a Stranger (1955)

Drama, romance film

Lucas Marsh is a brilliant and dedicated medical student who has aspired to be a doctor since childhood. His mother is dead and he is estranged from his alcoholic father, who has squandered the family's money, leaving Lucas unable to pay for medical school. In order to get the needed tuition money, Lucas marries older nurse Kristina "Kris" Hedvigson, who has substantial savings.

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Sarah, Plain and Tall (1991)

Drama, family film, romance film

The story is set in Kansas in 1910. Jacob Witting is a widowed farmer who is still saddened by the death of his wife, Katherine, during childbirth six years before. Since then, the task of taking care of his farm and two children, Anna and Caleb, is too difficult for him to handle alone.

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Vita & Virginia (2018)

Biography, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, romance film

Set in the 1920s, the writers Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf move in different London circles. When they meet, Vita decides Virginia will be her next conquest. They have an affair against the background of each of their open marriages.

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Astérix et les Vikings (2006)

Adventure, Animation, children's film, Comedy, fantasy film, romantic comedy

A succession of raids leaves a tribe of Vikings without anyone to fight against them. The tribe's adviser, Cryptograf, concludes that their enemies have all fled, stating that "fear gives you wings". The Viking's chief, Timandahaf, misinterprets his adviser's words and declares they must find a "Champion of Fear", believing that if the tribe were to become great cowards, they'll be able to fly and become invincible.

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A New Kind of Love (1963)

romantic comedy

Steve Sherman, a womanizing American newspaper columnist, is exiled to Paris after unwittingly sleeping with his publisher's wife. On the plane, Steve meets Samantha "Sam" Blake, whom he mistakes for a man due to her tomboy appearance, and the two instantly dislike each other. A career woman, Sam works as a designer for a manufacturer of knock-off women’s clothing in New York City, copying designs from high-end fashion houses to be recreated and sold for a fraction of the cost.

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The Bitch (1979)

Drama, Erotic Film

Following from where The Stud left off, Fontaine Khaled is now a divorcee. While she still leads an extravagant jetset lifestyle and did get a rather hefty divorce settlement, she no longer has the financial security of being a billionaire's wife and her once-successful London nightclub, "The Hobo", is now failing due to a newer club taking away most of the former patrons. While on a flight returning to London from New York, she meets handsome Italian gambler Nico Cantafora.

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Designing Woman (1957)

romantic comedy

In Beverly Hills, California, covering a golf tournament, New York sports reporter Mike Hagen correctly chooses the winning golfer in the reporters' betting pool. With the $1,200 he won, Mike begins buying drinks. The next morning he awakes with no memory of the night before.

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Dirty Love (2005)

Comedy, romantic comedy

Rebecca Sommers, a struggling photographer, discovers her model boyfriend Richard cheating on her, which throws her life into turmoil. She alternates between seeking revenge, engaging in casual relationships, and feeling hopeless about love. Her friends, Michelle and Carrie, try to help by setting her up on various dates, including with a peculiar magician and a man with a fish fetish who gives her ecstasy.

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Trapeze (1956)

Drama, romance film

Embittered trapeze aerialist and former star Mike Ribble needs a cane to walk, the result of a fall during a performance. Brash, inexperienced Tino Orsini wants Mike to train him to do the dangerous triple somersault. Mike, only the sixth man to complete the triple, brushes him off at first, but comes to believe that Tino is capable of matching his feat and starts teaching him.

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How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965)

beach party film, Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy

Frankie goes to Tahiti on naval reserve duty. While cavorting with local girls, Frankie realizes that Dee Dee might be unfaithful to him. When Frankie seeks help from a witch doctor, the witch doctor sends a sea beauty, Cassandra, to lure Ricky, an advertising executive, away from Dee Dee.

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Cleopatra (1999)

Biography, drama television series

In 47 BC, Egypt is in civil war. Cleopatra VII, Egypt's rightful Queen, is in exile, while her sister Arsinoe and brother Ptolemy have stolen the throne. Roman general Julius Caesar comes to Alexandria to collect Egypt's tax debt.

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Happy, Texas (1999)

Comedy, LGBTQ-related film

Three prisoners escape from a chain gang, and two of them, Wayne and Harry, steal an RV. They discover that the RV actually belongs to two gay men who travel around Texas as consultants for beauty pageants. They are apprehended by Chappy Dent, the sheriff of Happy, Texas, who mistakes the escapees for the pageant organizers.

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Palm Springs Weekend (1963)

Comedy, Comedy drama, Coming-of-age, romantic comedy

A group of college students from Los Angeles travel to Palm Springs to spend the Easter weekend there. Student Jim Munroe (Troy Donahue) falls for Bunny Dixon (Stefanie Powers), the daughter of the overprotective Palm Springs police chief (Andrew Duggan). Munroe's roommate Biff Roberts (Jerry Van Dyke) and plain-jane Amanda North (Zeme North) try to seduce each other, while hampered by having to babysit an inquisitive young boy (the son of hotelier Naomi Yates, who has just met and is romancing the group's chaperone, coach Fred Campbell).

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