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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 134.

Once Upon A Time In The Midlands (2002)

romantic comedy

Set in Nottinghamshire, Dek (Rhys Ifans) proposes to his girlfriend Shirley (Shirley Henderson) on TV. When Jimmy (Robert Carlyle), "the great love of her life" and father of her daughter Marlene (Finn Atkins), sees this, he returns in an attempt to win back her heart. However, after deserting his friends in Scotland during an unsuccessful robbery of some clowns, his friends turn against him and come to the Midlands to try to track him down.

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See You in the Morning (1989)

Comedy drama, Drama, romance film, romantic comedy

Beth Goodwin is a happily married mother of two children, living with her pianist husband Peter. Psychiatrist Larry Livingstone is living in New York with wife Jo and their two young children. Three years later, Peter suddenly becomes paralyzed in his hands and takes his own life, leaving Beth and the children heartbroken.

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Middle of the Night (1959)

Drama, romance film

Emotionally distraught, Betty Preisser, a 24-year-old receptionist for a New York City clothing manufacturer, leaves work early, taking some typing to finish at home. Her boss, Jerry Kingsley, a widower of 56 who lives with his spinster older sister Evelyn, needs the document she took, so he drops by the apartment Betty shares with her mother and younger sister to pick it up. Although they are professional, rather than personal, acquaintances, Betty ends up telling Jerry all about her loveless marriage to her musician ex-husband, George, who called her the previous night to say he wants to get back together.

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Alex Strangelove (2018)

Comedy, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, romantic comedy

High school student Alex Truelove has been friends with Claire since freshman year. They host a popular web series about animals and plan to attend Columbia University together. In senior year, after discovering her mother has cancer and is frequently in the hospital, she and Alex share a moment where Alex comforts her.

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Bombay Talkie (1970)

romance film

Lucia Lane is a British author who is researching the Bollywood film industry. She falls in love and has an affair with Vikram, a famous Bollywood actor. The plot is complicated by the fact that Vikram is married, and his friend, Hari, is in love with Lucia.

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Broken Embraces (2009)

Drama, LGBTQ-related film, romance film, thriller film

"Harry Caine" is a blind writer who shares his life with his agent Judit and her adult son, Diego. Slowly, events in the present begin to bring back memories of the past. Harry hears that millionaire Ernesto Martel has died; a young filmmaker, Ray X, appears and turns out to be Martel's son, Ernesto Jr.

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Fido (2006)

Comedy horror, Drama, Horror, Parody, zombie comedy

The film takes place in a 1950s-esque alternate universe where radiation from space has turned the dead into zombies. This resulted in the "Zombie Wars", where humanity battled zombies to prevent a zombie apocalypse, with humanity the ultimate victor. The radiation still plagues humanity, as all those who die turn into the undead, unless the dead body is disposed of by decapitation or cremation.

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Queen Kelly (1929)

Drama, silent film

thumb|left|thumbtime=56|Reconstructed version of Queen Kelly Prince Wolfram is betrothed to mad Queen Regina V of Kronberg. As punishment for partying with other women, he is sent on maneuvers. He sees Kitty Kelly walking with other convent students and flirts with her.

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Crazy on the Outside (2010)

Comedy, Crime

Thomas Zelda (Tim Allen) has been paroled from prison for being involved in movie piracy. He is picked up by his eccentric sister Viki (Sigourney Weaver) who is revealed to be a habitual liar (she claims it's so people aren't hurt by the truth). Tommy arrives at Viki's home, where he plans to spend some time putting his life back together when it is revealed that his grandmother was told (by Viki) that he went to France instead of prison.

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When I'm Ready (2025)

apocalyptic film, romantic thriller

Set against the backdrop of an asteroid cluster threatening to end all life on Earth, When I'm Ready follows Rose and Michael, a young couple who set out to make the most of their final days by embarking on a cross-country road trip to visit Rose's grandmother one last time. Along the way they encounter a rotating cast of characters including Julia (Cohan), a former beauty queen holding out hope for last minute love, and Keith (Mulroney), a solitary drifter searching for any human connection, each looking for something different out of the end.

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The Late Bloomer (2016)

Comedy drama, romance film, Tragicomedy

Dr. Peter Newmans is a thirty-year-old sex therapist who has written a best selling book about how sex can be a distraction from success. His friends and family question why he has never had a romantic relationship and is completely uninterested in sexual desires.

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She's Dating the Gangster (2014)

Comedy drama, romantic comedy

During a wedding reception, Kenji delos Reyes delivers a speech, only for his son Kenneth to cause a scene, to Kenji's disappointment. Kenneth expresses his long-held resentment toward his father and reveals he wishes he had died instead of his late mother. The next morning, Kenneth learns that the plane to Bicol his father was aboard has crashed.

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Cinderfella (1960)

Comedy, fantasy film, musical film, romantic comedy

When Fella's father dies, he continues to live with his wicked stepmother Emily and her two sons, Maximilian and Rupert. His stepfamily takes over the family mansion, while Fella is reduced to living in an unfinished room at the end of a long hallway. He has essentially become their butler, catering to their every whim.

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Me, Natalie (1969)

Comedy drama, Coming-of-age, Drama, Tragicomedy

From childhood, Brooklyn teenager Natalie Miller, who has a slight overbite and a somewhat large nose, considers herself to be homely, and has never subscribed to her mother's determined belief that she will grow up to be pretty. By contrast, her best friend Betty is a popular and beautiful blonde cheerleader who has been going steady with the handsome Stanley since junior high school. Natalie's efforts to become a cheerleader, impress a blind date, and attend her graduation dance all fail.

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The Trouble with Girls (1969)

Comedy, Comedy drama, musical film

In a small Iowa town in 1927, a traveling Chautauqua company arrives, with internal squabbles dividing the troupe. The new manager, Walter Hale, is trying to prevent Charlene, the troupe's "Story Lady", from recruiting the performers to form a union. Meanwhile, the town has a scandal following the murder of the local pharmacist Wilby.

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Tadpole (2000)

Coming-of-age, romantic comedy

Oscar Grubman is a precocious 15-year-old boy traveling home from school for Thanksgiving. He speaks fluent French, quotes Voltaire and finds girls of his own age to be too shallow and superficial, as well as too immature and inexperienced in life. When Miranda Spear, an attractive girl from school, shows interest in Oscar, he politely brushes her off.

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National Lampoon Presents Dorm Daze (2003)

Comedy, LGBTQ-related film, mystery film, romantic comedy, teen film

At Billingsley University, students in the McMartin Hall dorm prepare for Christmas break. Styles hires a prostitute named Dominique to take the virginity of his younger brother Booker, who is faithful to his girlfriend Rachel. Meanwhile, Gerri receives an unexpected handbag containing $30,000 and a note from the sender, Lorenzo, implying it is payment for a job.

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Where the Heart Is (1990)

Comedy, Drama, romantic comedy

Stewart McBain is a successful self-made demolitions expert who blows up buildings for a living. In the midst of one such project, a group of protesters stops the last building on a lot, the Dutch House, from being demolished. When McBain appears on TV to dismiss the protests, he is made to look foolish.

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The Major and the Minor (1942)

Comedy, romance film, romantic comedy

After her first client, Albert Osborne, makes a heavy pass and refuses to take "No" for an answer, Susan Applegate quits her job as a Revigora System scalp massager and decides to leave New York City and return home to Stevenson, Iowa. At the train station, she discovers she has only enough money to cover a half fare, so she disguises herself as a twelve-year-old girl named Su-Su. When two suspicious conductors catch her smoking, Su-Su takes refuge in the compartment of Major Philip Kirby who, believing she is a frightened child, agrees to let her stay in his compartment until they reach his stop.

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