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Adventure, buddy film, Drama, romance film
"Big John" McMasters and "Square John"/"Shorty" Sand are two down-on-their-luck oil wildcatters who join forces. Without enough money, they steal drilling equipment from a skeptical Luther Aldrich. Their well proves a bust and they have to hastily depart when Aldrich shows up with the sheriff to take back his property.
Christmas film, romantic comedy
Mark Christopher is a successful 35-year-old Hollywood screenwriter who has suffered from partial writer's block since winning an Academy Award and has been unable to produce a decent script. One Christmas Eve, he receives an unexpected and very unwanted surprise present. Vice Squad Sergeant Sam Hanlon brings 17-year-old Susan Landis to Mark's luxurious apartment.
Comedy, Drama
Jim is a perennially gloomy 27-year-old aspiring writer from Goshen, Indiana who had moved to NYC in hopes of finding success with his writing. After two years of barely making a living as a dog walker, he decides to move back home to his parents' house in Goshen. Jim's 32-year-old brother Tim, a recently divorced father of two young girls whose business recently failed, has moved back into his parents' home.
romantic comedy
After more than a year fantasizing about asking out his co-worker, Stanley (Luke Wilson) finally asks Diana Evans (Denise Richards) out on a date. Meanwhile, their co-workers form an office pool, including his friend, Michael (Ben Affleck). They are monitoring the date between Stan and Diana at a type of party, betting on how far Stan will get with the beautiful Diana.
Comedy, Drama, romance film
The film starts with Henry Griffin (Dermot Mulroney) learning from his oncologist that his cancer has spread and that he only has one year, two at most, left to live. This discovery starts him on a journey of self-reflection which includes starting a novel and taking a psychology class at New York University. In this class, he meets Sarah Phoenix (Amanda Peet).
romantic comedy
Sam, a young New York City author, is dissatisfied with his life. Although his novelization of the blockbuster film Teen Vampire is popular, he does not want to write the other novelizations despite encouragement from his agent, Alan. Sam suffers from writer's block with his own work.
Action, Road Movie, thriller film
Jimmy Kowalski, a Gulf War veteran and former stock car racer, works as an automobile restorer and delivery driver at a shop in Idaho. He takes an assignment delivering a 1971 Plymouth Roadrunner to New Mexico, to pay his wife's mounting medical bills. While in New Mexico, he is offered another job: delivering a 426 Hemi-powered 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T to Salt Lake City, Utah.
Drama, romance film
Impoverished Roman Prince Amerigo is engaged to American socialite Maggie Verver. Maggie has a very close relationship with her millionaire father Adam, a widowed tycoon living in England who plans a museum in the United States to house his collection of art and antiquities. Unbeknownst to his fiancée and prior to their engagement, Amerigo had a brief, passionate affair with Maggie's friend Charlotte.
romance film
In Turkey, several prisoners are granted temporary leave from prison. One of them, Seyit Ali (Tarık Akan), travels to his house and discovers that, in order to survive, his wife Zine (Şerif Sezer) had to turn to prostitution. Caught by her family, she was held captive for eight months so that Seyit Ali would end her life in an honour killing.
Comedy
Precocious bohemian teenager Placid Lake finishes high school, but after having an existential crisis devises a plan to totally reinvent himself as a functioning member of society. With a few weeks spent reading a library of self-help manuals, Lake gets a haircut, buys a bespoke suit, and finds a white collar job at an insurance agency. Lake has a smart friend Gemma (Rose Byrne) who tries to talk him out of his newly found economic rationalism.
Drama, romance film, Tragicomedy
The film stars Elias Anton as Kol, a Serbian immigrant in Australia who enters a brief but intense romance with Adam (Thom Green), the brother of his ballroom dance partner Ebony (Hattie Hook).
romance film
In 1940s east Texas, Jack Duncan, a high school graduate from a blue-collar family, falls in love with Ginny Peterson, who has just returned to town from four years of boarding school. Ginny's father Alex is the town's wealthy banker and was formerly high school sweethearts with Jack's mother, Babs. However, Alex strenuously objects to Ginny's relationship with Jack.
romantic comedy
By the terms of her late father's will, spoiled London heiress Epifania Ognissanti di Parerga, the richest woman in the world, cannot marry unless her prospective husband is able to turn £500 into £15,000 within a three-month period. When Epifania becomes smitten with Alastair, a muscular tennis player, she rigs the contest by giving him £500 in stock and then buying it back for £15,000. Alastair is unable to live peacefully with the domineering Epifania, however, and is carrying on with the more domestic Polly Smith.
Drama, romance film
A recently widowed Englishwoman, Mary Panton (Kristin Scott Thomas), is staying at the villa of some wealthy friends outside of Florence, Italy in 1938. After meeting her old friend Sir Edgar Swift (James Fox) at a party celebrating the Munich Agreement, she is surprised when he proposes marriage to her the next day. She asks for a few days to think the proposal over, and he agrees to meet with her on his return from Rome.
Drama, Melodrama, romance film
Daisy Kenyon is a Manhattan commercial artist having an affair with an arrogant, overbearing and successful lawyer named Dan O'Mara, who is married and has two children. He breaks a date with Daisy one night, and she goes out with a widowed war veteran named Peter Lapham. O'Mara and his wife Lucille fight constantly about his job, the upbringing of their two daughters, and his cheating.
Drama, romance film
While taking a summer holiday in Florence with her mother, Meg, 26-year-old Clara Johnson, an American with a developmental disability since childhood caused by a kick in the head from a Shetland pony, meets and falls in love with a young Italian named Fabrizio Naccarelli. Blinded by his love for Clara, and with his limited English language skills and Clara's limited Italian language skills, Fabrizio believes her disability to be simple naivete. At a local holiday celebration, Meg tries to explain her daughter's condition to Fabrizio's father, but the moment is interrupted when one of the performers, a Naccarelli acquaintance, is wounded…
musical film, romance film, war film
In the heyday of vaudeville, on the verge of America's entrance into World War I, two talented performers, Jo Hayden (Judy Garland) and Harry Palmer (Gene Kelly), set their sights on playing the Palace Theatre on Broadway, the epitome of vaudeville success, and marrying immediately after. Just weeks before their plans are to be realized, Harry gets a draft notice. Intending to obtain a short delay before reporting for duty, he intentionally smashes his hand in a trunk.
Comedy, Comedy drama, romance film, romantic comedy
Following her breakup with and imminent divorce from her entertainment lawyer husband David, thirty-something Amy Minsky is forced to move back in with her upper middle-class parents Ruth and Stan in Westport, Connecticut. Amy, who is depressed and out of work, spends most of her days in the house, directionless and watching Marx Brothers films. She rejects everybody else's so-called "advice" to turn her life around, but upon the insistence of her mother, she attends a dinner that her family is hosting for friends Gwen and Larry Hammer.
romantic comedy
Overweight, depressed improv actor James is a Second City cast member in Chicago. He lives with his mother and cheats on his diet. He quits his acting job on a sleazy television prank show after they fool someone into believing he has a daughter.
Comedy, romantic comedy
Nick, a sports lawyer, is married to psychotherapist and author Deborah. After years of being happily married, Nick reveals to Deborah that he has had an affair. She is soon shocked and requests a divorce, but later admits that she herself has been unfaithful.
Coming-of-age, Drama, musical film, romance film, teen film
Jesse Tucker and his four friends live at Benedict Boys Home, under the strict guidance of headmaster Eugene Benedict, who has a daughter Sara. Newcomer music teacher Jack Cabe introduces them to rock and roll, until headmaster Benedict threatens to fire Cabe. Cabe instructs the boys to get a radio and listen to the show Midnight Rider.
Drama, romance film
In the 1840s, in the town of San Pierre on the English Channel Island of Guernsey, two sisters, Marguerite and Marianne Patourel, daughters of the wealthy Octavius Patourel, fall in love with the same young man, William Ozanne. Marguerite is sweet and simple, while Marianne is extremely shrewd and plans to take over the family shipping business. William is the son of Dr.
Comedy drama, Crime, Drama, romance film
Drama, Melodrama, romantic comedy
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