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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 138.

The Humbling (2014)

Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama, Erotic Film, romantic comedy

Simon Axler is an aging actor who has bouts of dementia. He is institutionalized after an incident during a Broadway play, then returns home, where he contemplates suicide Ernest Hemingway style. When he embarks on an affair with old friends Asa and Carol Staplefords' bisexual daughter Pegeen, his world begins to fall apart.

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Feng huo fang fei (2017)

romance film, war film

Jack is a United States Army Air Forces pilot assigned to carry out the first US bombing run on Tokyo. After the mission succeeds, his plane is separated from the rest of the squadron due to bad weather. Running on low fuel, he is forced to fly towards China's Zhejiang Province.

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Afterglow (1997)

Comedy, Drama, romance film, romantic comedy

The lives of two unhappily married couples intertwine in Montreal, Canada. The marriage between Lucky Mann, a contractor and his beautiful British wife, former actress Phyllis Hart, has been in a poor state for years. Their relationship fell apart when Phyllis revealed to Lucky that their daughter Cassie was not his biological child.

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Cal (1984)

Drama, romance film, thriller film

Cal is a young member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) in 1970s Northern Ireland. He acts as a driver on a nighttime murder of a member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), which takes place at the victim's home in view of his father, who is also shot. One year later, Cal learns that a librarian, Marcella, to whom he is attracted, is a Catholic and the widow of the victim.

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Anything's Possible (2022)

Coming-of-age, romance film, romantic comedy, transgender film

Kelsa is a transgender high school student in her senior year. She spends time with her best friends, Chris and Em, and makes YouTube videos about her life as a trans high schooler that she keeps a secret from her mother. Her classmate Khal spends time giving thoughtful relationship advice to strangers on Reddit and hanging out with his best friend Otis.

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Romeo and Juliet (1936)

Drama, Melodrama, romance film

In the Italian city of Verona, two noble families, the Montagues and the Capulets, are locked in a bitter feud. Despite the longstanding animosity between their families, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet meet and fall deeply in love at a masquerade ball. The two secretly marry with the help of Juliet's nurse and Friar Laurence, hoping that their union might bring peace to their feuding families.

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To Each His Own (1946)

Drama, romance film

In World War II London, England, fire wardens Josephine "Jody" Norris and Lord Desham keep vigil and bond over being lonely, middle-aged people. While Desham is arranging dinner plans, a man from Jody's hometown turns up and tells her that someone from their town is arriving at the train station. Overjoyed, she rushes to the station and runs into a young woman who is waiting for her pilot beau, which sends Jody into a flashback.

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Pretty Poison (1968)

crime thriller film, Dark Comedy, thriller film

Dennis Pitt is a disturbed young man on parole from a mental institution who becomes attracted to teenager Sue Ann Stepanek. He tells her that he is a secret agent, and takes her along on a series of "missions". Things, however, turn out disastrously when Dennis takes Sue Ann along to sabotage a factory on imaginary orders from the CIA.

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Conception (2011)

romantic comedy

The film opens with a group of students wanting to know where babies come from and the teacher not knowing exactly how to explain. This bookends multiple scenes relating to conception that feature the experiences and complications of nine various and contrasting couples, some wishing for a baby, others shocked by the prospect and others with confused feelings.

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The Music Man (2003)

musical film, romance film

In 1912, a con artist named Harold Hill arrives in River City, Iowa where he is greeted with sneers from its citizens. He meets up with his friend Marcellus Washburn, who warns him about the town librarian and moral watchdog, Marian Paroo. Hill asks Marcellus if there is any news in the city and Marcellus tells him that the town bought a pool table for the billiard hall.

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It's My Turn (1980)

romance film, romantic comedy, Tragicomedy

Kate Gunzinger is a mathematics professor at a Chicago university. She lives with divorcé Homer, in a comfortable but not terribly passionate relationship. Kate travels to New York for a job interview and to attend the wedding of her widowed father Jacob.

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Vivacious Lady (1938)

Daffy Comedy, romantic comedy

thumb|250px|Lobby card for the film Botany professor Peter Morgan Jr. is sent to Manhattan to retrieve his playboy cousin Keith; he immediately falls in love with nightclub singer Francey Brent, Keith’s current infatuation. After a whirlwind one-day courtship, Peter and Francey get married.

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Jackie & Ryan (2014)

Drama, musical film, romance film

Nomadic musician Ryan ends up in remote Ogden, Utah, hoping to visit his friend and fellow musician and nomad, Cowboy. Meeting with Cowboy's brother, they busk in town, where he briefly meets Jackie Laurel, who recognizes their talent. Noticing they only do cover songs, she questions why they do not have their own message.

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Wind (1992)

Action, Drama, romance film, sport film

Competitive sailor Will Parker is given an opportunity with his colleague Charley to join the crew of Radiance, a 12-metre-class racing yacht set to defend the United States's century-plus-held title in the America's Cup. Despite her having retired from racing to finish a master's degree in aeronautical engineering, Will asks his lover and sailing partner Kate Bass to go with him, but she declines. Radiance owner and skipper Morgan Weld selects Will to captain the American Eagle against them in practice, and Will is introduced to Weld's daughter, Abigail.

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Battle Cry (1955)

Drama, romance film, war film

In January 1942, All-American athlete Danny Forrester is one of many young men responding to a call for Marine Corps recruits. Traveling by train from Baltimore, Maryland, Forrester encounters other recruits en route to the Marine training camp near San Diego, including womanizing lumberjack Andy Hookans, bookish Marion Hotchkiss, Navajo Indian Shining Lighttower, troublemaking "Spanish" Joe Gomez, L.Q. Jones of Arkansas, Speedy of Texas, and the Philadelphian Ski, who is eager to escape the slums, but upset to leave his girlfriend Susan.

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Used People (1992)

Comedy, Drama, romance film, romantic comedy

In 1969, Pearl Berman has just returned home from her husband Jack's funeral, her grief disrupted by her many relatives animatedly discussing which parkway offered the best route to the cemetery. Pearl's family tackles any and every subject – from body odor to toilets to Tupperware to borscht – as if it is worthy of a major debate. Into a household filled with kvetchers steps Joe Meledandri, a distinguished Italian who years ago met Pearl's wayward husband in a bar, and convinced him to return to her.

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Tammy and the Bachelor (1957)

Comedy, romantic comedy

Tambrey "Tammy" Tyree is a 17-year-old girl living in a houseboat on the Mississippi River at Natchez, Mississippi (within sight of Louisiana), with her Grandpa, John Dinwitty. She runs around barefoot, dreaming of life outside of the swamp, and talking to her best friend, Nan, a goat. One day a small airplane crashes in the swamp.

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Avenging Angelo (2002)

Action, Action Comedy, Comedy, Crime, Criminal Comedy Film

Years ago, a mob boss named Lucio Malatesta (George Touliatos) pinned the murder of rival Sammy Carboni (Gino Marrocco) on another rival named Angelo Allieghieri (Anthony Quinn), which led to Sammy's son Gianni vowing revenge. Frankie Delano (Sylvester Stallone) has spent his life safeguarding Angelo as well as Angelo's daughter, Jennifer Barrett (Madeleine Stowe), whose unsavory husband Kip Barrett (Harry Van Gorkum) has had their young son Rawley (Ezra Perlman) placed in a boarding school against Jennifer's wishes. Jennifer was raised by her adoptive parents Whitney Towers (John Gilbert) and Peggy Towers (Dawn Greenhalgh) and is not…

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Love & Sex (2000)

Comedy, romantic comedy

When her rather explicit article on oral sex is rejected, magazine journalist Kate Welles is told by her editor Monique to write an article on loving relationships instead—and to do so by the end of the day or face being fired. This gets Kate thinking back over her own various misadventures searching for love over the years, and wondering if she is in much of a position to write on the subject. Kate's first relationship, a playground romance in grade school with a boy named Bobby, ends when Kate's friend spills the details of their relationship to the entire school, humiliating Bobby.

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Woo (1998)

romantic comedy

Darlene "Woo" Barnes, an extroverted woman living in New York City, is notoriously talented at turning men into mush. When Woo's psychic friend Celestrial predicts that the man of her dreams is about to enter her life, Woo doesn't believe it is true. Celestrial is convinced that Woo is destined to meet a tall, debonair Virgo.

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I Was a Male War Bride (1949)

Comedy, LGBTQ-related film, romantic comedy

In Heidelberg in post–World War II Allied-occupied Germany, French Army Captain Henri Rochard is given the task of recruiting a highly skilled lens maker named Schindler. He is assigned American Lieutenant Catherine Gates as his driver, much to their mutual discomfort (arising from several prior clashes). The only available transportation is a motorcycle which, due to Army regulations, only Catherine is allowed to drive; Henri has to ride in the sidecar.

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