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Drama
In 1955, drifter Clay Hewitt wanders into a small Kansas town seeking employment to finance a visit to his older brother in California. He develops a relationship with local beauty queen Kitty and befriends farmhand Earl, who gets him a job at a local cattle farm owned by wealthy widow Delilah Ashford Potts, known for maintaining sexual relationships with her young employees. Delilah's husband committed suicide after catching her cheating on him.
Drama, romance film
In the seaside French town of Nantes, a young man, Roland Cassard, is wasting his life away until he has a chance encounter with Lola, a woman he knew as a teenager before World War II, who is now a cabaret dancer. Although Roland is quite smitten with Lola, she is preoccupied with Michel, who, seven years earlier, had got her pregnant before abandoning her. Also vying for Lola's heart is American sailor Frankie, whose affection Lola does not return.
Comedy, romance film, romantic comedy
Kay is the widow of a Broadway showman called Jolly, who died falling from a staircase at their home. Kay plans to remarry, to an Egyptologist named Rupert, and suggests that they live in the same house. Jolly returns to her life as a ghost.
Drama, LGBTQ-related film, romance film, war film
In Paris in the year 1924, a young 14-year-old Gilda Bessé, the daughter of a French aristocrat and an emotionally unstable American mother, is told by a fortune teller that the life line on her palm does not extend past the age of 34. Years later, on a rainy night in 1933, Gilda stumbles into the room of Guy Malyon, an Irishman who is a first-year scholarship student at Cambridge University. She has had a lover's quarrel with one of the dons, and rather than turn her out into the storm, Guy gallantly allows her to spend the night.
Comedy
Colin is a nervous schoolteacher working in London, observing rather than participating in the sexual revolution of the 1960s. He has little personal sexual experience and wishes to gain "the knack" of how to seduce women. He turns to his friend and tenant, a confident womaniser known only by his surname, Tolen.
Action, Action Comedy, Comedy, comedy thriller, romantic comedy
Tommy Lucero is caught by French police following a foiled robbery at a museum. He seems confident he will not remain in police custody very long. Then we turn to Henry Durand.
Action, Drama, romance film
Eighteen year-old Rick Kane has just graduated from high school. He uses his winnings from a wave tank surfing contest in his native state of Arizona to fly to Hawaii for the summer before the start of college, in order to try to become a professional surfer. He takes a plane to Honolulu with plans to stay with a surfer that he met in Arizona six months previously.
romantic comedy, Tragicomedy
Sandra Abbott, Lady Abbott, discovers that her recently knighted husband of 35 years, Mike, is having an affair with her best friend Pamela. Sandra seeks refuge in London with her estranged older sister Bif. Sandra had married for stability and security, so is a fish out of water next to her outspoken, serial-dating, free-spirited sibling who lives on an inner-city council estate.
Comedy, romantic comedy, screwball comedy film, trial film
Charlie Tuttle has just been made partner in a successful law firm, Whitfield and Morris. His boss and future father-in-law sends him to Paradise Bluff, Nevada, to request a continuance in a mail fraud case involving a cousin-in-law who is likely to be found guilty. But the timing of the trip conflicts with Charlie's bachelor party.
Biography, Drama
An introductory scene takes place in Paris in 1913, where Coco Chanel attends the first, scandalous performance of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring. The rhythmic and harmonic dissonance of the score and the surprising choreography of the piece result in heckling and outrage among much of the audience. But Chanel is impressed by Stravinsky and his music.
Comedy, Drama, romantic comedy, Romantic drama
Elliot, a tax accountant from Brooklyn, is a dependable though thoroughly average young man doomed to be the "Baxter", the nice guy who's bound to lose the girl to the leading man in romantic comedies. Losing three girlfriends to last-minute rekindled relationships with their ex-boyfriends has made Elliot wary of being abandoned yet again. About a week before his wedding to his girlfriend, Caroline Swann, Elliot discovers that her high school beau, Bradley, is back in town.
Drama, Romantic drama, Social Drama
Three sorority women at a 1957 Alabama college face the experience and difficulties of ethnic strife and integration.
Drama
May is hiding out at a rundown motel in the Mojave Desert when an old flame and childhood friend, Eddie, a rodeo stunt rider, shows up unexpectedly from Wyoming. Eddie breaks into May's room and attempts to convince her in argumentative terms that their fates are somehow linked and that they should be together. May vehemently refuses him for a variety of reasons, one being his infidelity with a fashion model known only as the Countess.
Comedy drama, romantic comedy
Successful British box manufacturer Charlie Blake meets Sara Deever when they both take a driver's exam in New York City. She tries to get a few answers from him, but he gets expelled for cheating. They run into each other later and go out on a date.
buddy film, Drama, romance film
Francis "Frank" Joyce is a retired Irish seaman. Walter is a retired Cuban barber. They are two lonely old men living in Florida, trapped in the emptiness of their own lives.
Biography, Drama, Historie
Princess Sophia Frederica is the daughter of a minor East Prussian prince. Count Alexei brings her to Russia at the behest of Empress Elizabeth to marry her nephew Grand Duke Peter. Elizabeth renames her Catherine and demands that the new bride produce a male heir to the throne, which is impossible because Peter never comes near her after their wedding night.
Drama, romance film, war film
thumb|upright|left|Nils Asther and Barbara Stanwyck as General Yen and Megan Davis. In the late 1920s in Shanghai during the Chinese Civil War, as throngs of refugees flee the rainswept city, a couple of elderly Christian missionaries welcome guests to their home for the wedding of Dr. Robert Strike, a fellow missionary, and Megan Davis, his childhood sweetheart whom he has not seen in three years.
Drama, LGBTQ-related film, romance film
Ben and George, a same-sex couple from Manhattan, get married after 39 years together. George is a Catholic school music teacher, and when word of the marriage reaches the archdiocese, he is fired. Without his salary, the couple can no longer afford their New York apartment and are forced to ask their friends and family for shelter, resulting in their separation.
Comedy
Emory Leeson is an advertising executive who experiences a nervous breakdown. He designs a series of "truthful" advertisements, blunt and bawdy and of no use to his boss Drucker's firm. One of his colleagues, Stephen Bachman, checks him into a psychiatric hospital.
Comedy drama, Drama, fantasy film
In the present, Tom Holman, a family man is beset with financial problems that make him emotionally distant from his family. While driving in his car with his wife and two daughters, he almost runs into a guy walking into a cemetery. Tom's vision of the man causes him to have a flashback to a similar incident in his early life.
Comedy, romantic comedy
When shy Larry Hubbard, a greeting card writer, finds his girlfriend Danielle in bed with another man, he is forced to begin a new life as a "lonely guy." Larry befriends fellow "lonely guy" Warren, who considers committing suicide. After going through a period of terrible luck with women, Larry meets Iris, who has dated "lonely guys" before. She gives Larry her number but he repeatedly loses it due to a few mishaps.
romance film, Western
A homesteader joins forces with a mysterious gunslinger to protect her land from a town that's turned against her.
Comedy, Drama, romance film, romantic comedy
In 1910, Princess Alexandra, the daughter of a minor branch of a European royal house, is urged by her mother to accept her cousin, Crown Prince Albert, as husband so that their family may regain a throne that was taken from them by Napoleon. Princess Alexandra tries to gain Albert's attention; he is otherwise taken with sleeping late, shooting ducks and playing football with Alexandra's two younger brothers. Alexandra's mother urges her to show interest in the tutor, Dr.
Comedy, romantic comedy, Western
Lu Rogers, recently widowed, leaves her children in New York with her mother-in-law in 1911 and travels west to take a job she has been offered. Upon arriving in Arizona, the job falls through, so rancher Aggie Gates tries her out as a hired hand. The resourceful Lu succeeds at work and catches the eye of two potential suitors, Dan Jones, a saloon owner, and Pat Collins, a rancher.