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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 141.

Obsession (1997)

Drama, romance film

The film follows two men, Pierre and John, who find themselves ensnared in a romantic entanglement with the same woman, Miriam. Pierre, Miriam’s steadfast companion, has been by her side for years. Meanwhile, John, a stranger to Miriam until a chance encounter at a bustling Berlin train station, becomes the third vertex of the love triangle.

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The Sum of Us (1994)

Comedy, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Tragicomedy

Widower Harry Mitchell (Thompson) lives with his gay son Jeff (Crowe), with both men struggling in their searches for true love. Harry is completely comfortable with his son's sexuality, and is almost over-eager in his support for his son's search for a boyfriend. Harry meets an attractive but judgmental divorcee through a dating service, and this leads to some conflict between the two main characters.

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Fire with Fire (1986)

Drama, romance film, teen film

Joe Fisk is a juvenile delinquent who falls in love with Lisa Taylor, a beautiful Catholic girls' school student, in an Oregon forest. The two meet by accident when Joe finds her being chased by his peers in a training exercise, and sees Lisa recreating the Pre-Raphaelite painting Ophelia by John Everett Millais by floating in the lake. Both of them are strongly drawn towards each other but as their current custodians discourage contact with the opposite sex they both find themselves in trouble.

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Spectacular! (2009)

musical film, romantic comedy, teen film

As the opening credits roll, a band called Flux, apparently with no singer, starts to play at a nightclub. Among the audience is a girl named Courtney Lane (Tammin Sursok). Interspersed with the scenes of the band playing, lead singer Nikko Alexander (Nolan Gerard Funk) calmly walks into the club through the back, barely making his cue for "Don't Tell Me".

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Alice (2009)

Adventure, fantasy film, fantasy television series, romance film, Science fiction

Alice Hamilton is a judo sensei living with her mother Carol. Her father disappeared when she was ten, and she has spent much of her life looking for him. She invites her new boyfriend Jack Chase to dinner, but is shocked when he gives her a valuable-looking ring as a gift.

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Boy Meets Girl (2014)

Comedy, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, romance film, romantic comedy, transgender film

21-year-old Ricky is a transgender woman living in a small town in Kentucky with big dreams to move to New York and attend a school of fashion design. Ricky is working as a barista and spends most of her time hanging out with her only friend Robby, who has been by her side for the past 15 years. One day while Ricky is at work, Francesca, a woman from town, walks in and a friendship unexpectedly blossoms that then turns into an affair.

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Neptune's Daughter (1949)

musical film, romantic comedy

Although she initially rejects an offer by Joe Backett to become his business partner at the Neptune swimming suit design company, aquatic ballet dancer Eve Barrett changes her mind when she considers the publicity potential of the job. One day, Joe learns that a South American polo team will be playing a big match in town, and he and Eve begin planning a swimming spectacle for the event. Eve tells her man-crazy sister and roommate Betty about the South American team, and Betty immediately seizes upon the idea of finding herself a date among the players.

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Where the Boys Are '84 (1984)

Coming-of-age, Raunchy comedy, sex comedy, teen film

Four female students from snowbound Penmore College in the Northeast head to Fort Lauderdale, Florida for spring break: Carole Singer is taking a separate vacation from her steady boyfriend Chip, but she winds up as a hot contender in a "Hot Bod Contest;" Jennie Cooper is courted by both rich classical pianist Camden Roxbury III and devil-may-care rocker Scott Nash; Sandra Roxbury is looking for the Mr. Right who will finally satisfy her; and Laurie Jameson is a sex crazed nymphomaniac who dreams of a night of unbridled passion with a real he-man. Laurie ends up getting her wish, albeit through a rather unexpected source.

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Love in Paris (1997)

Drama, Erotic Film, romance film

Ten years after Elizabeth McGraw left John Gray, John has descended into a world of depression and loneliness, and is suicidal. When he receives an invitation to attend an art exhibit in Paris that will feature some of Elizabeth's paintings, he immediately boards a plane for France, hoping to get to talk to her. John arrives at the auction house and promptly wins all of her artwork, but Elizabeth is not there.

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The Groomsmen (2006)

romantic comedy, Tragicomedy

A groom and his four groomsmen wrestle with issues such as fatherhood, homosexuality, honesty and growing up in the week leading up to his wedding. Paulie, a self-supporting writer, is making plans for his marriage to Sue, his girlfriend who is in her 5th month of pregnancy. Paulie is strongly advised by his older brother Jimbo to not go through with the wedding.

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Burning Man (2011)

Comedy, Drama, romance film

Burning Man tells the story of Tom (Matthew Goode), a British chef in a Bondi restaurant, who seems to have chosen to disobey his boss, and his actions are tolerated by everyone around him. As Tom descends into darkness from a car crash in his Volkswagen, pieces of a different story start to emerge. Every woman around him tries, in different ways, to help Tom put himself back together.

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Everybody Sing (1938)

Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy

Teenager Judy Bellaire (Judy Garland) has trouble fitting in at school. She frequently causes trouble by introducing her jazzy vocal style into her conservative music class and is expelled as a result. She returns home to her dysfunctional and financially challenged family, where her frustrated playwright-father (Reginald Owen), ditzy actress-mother (Billie Burke), and beautiful elder sister, Sylvia (Lynne Carver) compete for attention along with Olga, the funny Russian maid (Fanny Brice) and Ricky, the hunky singing cook (Allan Jones), who is in love with Sylvia.

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Boom (1968)

Drama

Flora 'Sissy' Goforth is a terminally-ill woman living with a coterie of servants, whom she verbally abuses, in a large mansion on a secluded Italian island. Into her life comes a mysterious man, Christopher Flanders, nicknamed "L'Angelo della morte" ("The Angel of Death"). Christopher claims to have met her previously, while Flora, for her part, affects not to remember having met him before.

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Beat (2000)

Biography, Drama, LGBTQ-related film

In 1944 New York City, beat writers and students Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs, and David Kammerer all become acquainted with Joan Vollmer, a student at Barnard College. Joan and William carry on a romance.

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Susan Slade (1961)

Drama, romance film

After working for ten years in an isolated desert in Chile, mine manager Roger Slade (Lloyd Nolan) returns to the United States with his wife Leah (Dorothy McGuire) and their beautiful but naive 17-year-old daughter, Susan (Connie Stevens). During the journey, Susan has a shipboard romance with Conn White (Grant Williams), a wealthy young mountain climber. Susan and Conn make love in secret and plan to marry, but Conn wants to hold off making any announcement to their families until after he returns from his scheduled trip to Alaska to climb Mount McKinley (Denali).

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Go Fish (1994)

Comedy drama, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, romance film, romantic comedy, Romantic drama

Max is a young lesbian college student in Chicago who has gone ten months without having sex. She and her roommate and college professor Kia are in a coffee shop when they run into Ely, a hippieish woman with long braided hair, whom Max initially dismisses. Max and Ely end up going to a film together, and afterward return to Ely's place, where, after some flirtatious conversation, they kiss.

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At Middleton (2013)

romantic comedy

Edith Martin and her highly strung daughter Audrey, and George Hartman and his unmotivated son Conrad, arrive for a campus tour of the quaint Middleton College led by junior "Dingleberry" Justin. When Edith and George wander off, the two bond as they try to reunite with the tour. When they meet the group in the library, Edith and George embarrass their children.

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Mrs. Parkington (1944)

Drama, romance film

Susie Parkington, an elderly matron and widow of wealthy businessman and financier Major Augustus Parkington, is visited in 1938 by her many relatives, except her beloved great-granddaughter Jane. Except for Jane, Susie's heirs are boorish, dissolute, and unhappy despite their wealth. When Jane does appear, she informs her great-grandmother that she plans to secretly elope with Ned Talbot, her father's employee, who wishes to take her away from her family and their way of life.

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Moment by Moment (1978)

Drama, romance film

Trisha Rawlings is a wealthy middle-aged Beverly Hills socialite suffering from loneliness following a separation from her philandering husband, Stu. At a pharmacy, she meets Vick "Strip" Harrison, a suave young drifter whom she had briefly met in the recent past when he worked as a car valet. He becomes infatuated with her, follows her to her Malibu beach house, hangs around despite her cold demeanor, and offers her pills in an attempt to woo her.

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Christopher and His Kind (2011)

Biography, Drama, drama television series, LGBTQ-related film, Melodrama, romance film

In Los Angeles in 1976, Christopher Isherwood begins writing his memoir. The film flashes back to 1931 as Christopher prepares to leave England for Germany, against the wishes of his mother, Kathleen. On the train he meets Gerald Hamilton, an English ne'er-do-well of Irish descent, who suggests that Christopher take a room at the boarding house where he lives.

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Where the Money Is (2000)

Comedy, Criminal Comedy Film, Drama, Heist

Professional thief Henry Manning is in an Oregon nursing home's care. Having apparently had a massive stroke, he is immobile and mute. Henry is in the care of Carol Ann McKay, a high school prom queen who married her boyfriend Wayne, the prom king and star of her school's football team.

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The Emperor's New Clothes (2001)

Drama, historical drama, Historie

In 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte, after six years in exile on the isle of Saint Helena, has a plan to escape. Switching places with lowly French deckhand Eugene Lenormand, Napoleon will make his way to Paris, at which time Eugene will announce the switch, allowing Napoleon to reclaim his throne. However, the plan quickly goes awry: the ship Napoleon is serving on abruptly changes its itinerary and docks in Belgium instead of France.

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