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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 9,657 films · Page 146.

Paradise, Hawaiian Style (1966)

Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy

Rick Richards returns to his home in Hawaii after being fired from his job as an airline pilot. He and his buddy Danny Kohana go into the helicopter charter business together. But Rick's reckless flying and his careless flirting with local women may cost Rick the business and Danny his home.

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Kissing a Fool (1998)

Comedy, romantic comedy

Max, an alpha-male, commitment-phobic sports broadcaster, and Jay, a neurotic novelist, have been best friends since childhood in Chicago. Jay has just broken up with his girlfriend, Natasha, and is writing his first book about their relationship in Milan, Italy. He is melancholic and has been drinking.

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Christmas with You (2022)

Christmas film, family film, romantic comedy

Angelina Costa, a Latina pop singer-songwriter since her teens, is under a lot of pressure to stay relevant. 20-somethings in the industry imply she's not keeping up. Barry from her record label expects her to come up with a Christmas song by a gala on Sunday.

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Running for Grace (2018)

family film, romance film

The film is set in the Kona Coffee Belt of Hawaii during the 1920s. Japanese immigrant laborers and the white upperclass live in a rigidly classist society. Jo, an orphan of mixed-race lineage, finds himself ostracized by both groups until Doc, a white doctor from the mainland, is hired as a physician for workers on the plantation owned by Mr.

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Gun Shy (2000)

Crime, Crime Comedy, romantic comedy

Charlie Mayough is an undercover DEA agent suffering from anxiety and gastrointestinal problems after a bust goes wrong. During the aforementioned incident, his partner was killed and he found himself with a gun shoved in his face just before back-up arrived. Charlie, once known for his ease and almost "magical" talent on the job, is finding it very hard to return to work.

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Étoile (1989)

Drama, Modern-Day Fantasy, romance film, thriller film

American ballerina, Claire Hamilton, travels to Budapest to audition for a prestigious ballet school. She befriends a fellow American and antiques dealer, Jason Forrest, who is clearly smitten. At her audition, Claire suddenly loses her courage when a visibly distraught dancer is harshly rejected.

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Japanese Story (2003)

Drama, romance film

Sandy Edwards (played by Toni Collette) is a director in a company that designs geological software in Perth, Western Australia. Her business partner manipulates her into agreeing to act as a guide for a Japanese businessman visiting mines in the Pilbara desert, hoping that he will purchase the software. When Hiromitsu Tachibana () arrives, he treats Sandy like a chauffeur, and he seems more intent on self-discovery in the wilderness than on buying computer software.

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The Only Thrill (1997)

Drama, romance film

In Lockhart, Texas, circa 1966, Reece McHenry, whose wife is in a coma, owns a clothing store. He hires widow Carol Fritzsimmons as a seamstress in the shop and they soon begin an affair. Reece is unable to commit to the relationship due to the circumstances of his wife.

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Once Around (1991)

Drama, romance film, romantic comedy, Tragicomedy

The Bellas are a close-knit family of Italian-Americans living in Boston, Massachusetts. Joe, the head of the family, owns a construction company. He has been married to Marilyn for 34 years and they have three children—Renata, Tony and Jan.

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Between the Lines (1977)

Comedy drama, romance film, Tragicomedy

The film revolves around a team employed at The Back Bay Mainline, an alternative newspaper in Boston, as they face the threat of a takeover by a major corporation. The key figures in this story include Harry Lucas, a disenchanted lead reporter, talented photographer Abbie, who has an on-and-off again relationship with Harry, Lynn, the kind-hearted and dedicated office administrator, Max, a flaky music critic, Michael, a pretentious writer/author intending to relocate to New York, Laura, a founding reporter on the paper who is living with Michael, David, an eager cub reporter, and Frank, a beleaguered editor-in-chief. Various subplots…

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Thief of Hearts (1984)

Drama, Erotic Thriller

A burglar, Scott Muller, teams up with his friend Buddy Calamara, a valet at a high-society restaurant. Buddy keeps an eye on Mickey and Ray Davis, a rich married couple, while Scott robs their home. One of the items Scott takes is a diary belonging to Mickey.

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Harrison's Flowers (2000)

Drama, romance film, war film

Harrison Lloyd, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Newsweek photojournalist, travels on his last assignment to the dissolving Yugoslavia in 1991, during the Croatian War of Independence. While there, he is presumed to have been killed in a building collapse. His wife Sarah travels to the region to find him, believing him to be in the city of Vukovar.

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When Nietzsche Wept (2007)

Drama

The film opens with the Russian-born novelist—who eventually became a member of Freud's 'Vienna Circle'—Lou Andreas-Salome (Katheryn Winnick) who had an unconsummated (Platonic) 'love affair' with German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (Armand Assante), and to whom he allegedly proposed in 1882 (although whether her claims are true is very much up for debate). Writing a letter to Dr Josef Breuer (Ben Cross), after hearing of his newly developed talking cure (Breuer was a friend and mentor of Sigmund Freud (Jamie Elman), who also appears in the story, and one of the influential fathers of psychoanalysis). The two meet, and a reluctant and…

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Carry on Cruising (1962)

Comedy, Parody, slapstick

Captain Crowther has five of his crew replaced at short notice before a new cruise voyage begins. Not only does he get the five most incompetent crew men ever to sail the seven seas, but the passengers turn out to be a rather strange bunch too. The SS Happy Wanderer is the cruise ship and after this voyage, Crowther hopes to get a job as captain on a transatlantic ship, promising the cruise crew members their jobs will be safe under the new captain.

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Medicine for Melancholy (2008)

Drama, romance film

Medicine for Melancholy chronicles the one-day romance of Micah (Wyatt Cenac) and Jo (Tracey Heggins), two black twenty-somethings who have a one-night stand and end up spending a full day and night together despite Jo's long-distance relationship with a wealthy white gallery owner. After a party, the characters wake up in someone else's bed and head their separate ways. Jo leaves her wallet in their shared taxi and they reconnect when he returns it to her at her apartment.

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Boxing Day (2021)

Christmas film, romantic comedy

Melvin "Smelly" Mckenzie (Aml Ameen) is a British immigrant living in Los Angeles. After the release of his new book he is prompted to go back home to London for the first time in two years in order to promote his book. Melvin and his American almost-fiancée Lisa Dixon (Aja Naomi King)- Melvin proposed to her but she threw up before she could explicitly respond- journey to London to meet his lovable but dysfunctional Caribbean-British family.

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Don Juan (1926)

Adventure, romance film

220px|thumb|right|The full film thumb|262x262px|Don Juan ad in 1926 Film Fun In the prologue, Don José, warned of his wife's infidelity, seals his wife's lover alive in his hiding place and drives her from the castle. His jealous last mistress, Donna Isobel, stabs him. With his dying words he implores his son, Don Juan, to take all from women but yield nothing.

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God's Little Acre (1958)

Drama

Widower Ty Ty Walden and three of his children—sons Buck and Shaw and daughter Darlin' Jill—live in the backwoods of Georgia. Buck's comely wife, Griselda, also lives with the family. Ty Ty's daughter, Rosamund, lives in the town of Peachtree Valley with her millworker husband, Will.

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