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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 9,657 films · Page 153.

Pride and Prejudice (2003)

Comedy, romance film, romantic comedy

Elizabeth Bennet is a twenty-six-year-old college student living in early-2000s Utah. She lives at 318 Longbourne Avenue with four roommates Jane, Mary, and Meryton sisters Lydia and Kitty. Despite the social pressure to be married, Bennet is not interested in dating men until after she graduates and rather focuses her attention on becoming a writer.

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The Toll of the Sea (1922)

Drama, romance film, silent film

thumb|Anna May Wong on the set of The Toll of the Sea In 1919, a young Chinese woman, Lotus Flower, sees an unconscious man floating in the water at the seashore, and quickly gets help for him. The man is Allen Carver, an American. Soon the two have fallen in love, and they get married "Chinese fashion".

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Spider-Plant Man (2005)

Comedy, Parody, Superhero

Peter Piper, a photographer, visits a laboratory where scientists have created a carnivorous spider plant. After being bitten by one of these creatures, Piper develops plant-like powers. He uses his newfound abilities to rescue his former schoolmate Jane-Mary from a mugging, leading her to fall in love with him.

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My First Summer (2020)

Coming-of-age, LGBTQ-related film, Romantic drama

16 year-old Grace is interviewed by police detectives after witnessing a woman drown in a reservoir. Despite seeing another girl near the scene, Grace claims that she was the only witness. She tracks down the other girl, Claudia, to her home, and, after a tense confrontation, learns that she is the daughter of the drowned woman—a depressed, reclusive writer named Veronica Fox—and that she was too terrified to commit suicide with her mother.

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A Season for Miracles (1999)

Christmas film, Drama, romance film

Emilie Thompson (Carla Gugino) is forced to take charge of her nephew J.T. (Eve Sabara) and niece Alanna (Mae Whitman) when their drug-addicted mother (Laura Dern) overdoses and the children are threatened with foster care. Fleeing the authorities, the trio come across the sleepy Rhode Island town of Bethlehem, just before Christmas.

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Five Graves to Cairo (1943)

Drama, romance film, thriller film, war film

Corporal John Bramble is the sole survivor of a British tank crew after Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps capture Tobruk in June 1942 and pursue the British into Egypt. He stumbles across the North African desert into the town of Sidi Halfaya, where he finds the Empress of Britain, a small, isolated hotel owned by Farid. The only other employee is the French chambermaid Mouche, as the cook fled with the British and the waiter Davos was killed the night before by German bombing.

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The Real Blonde (1997)

Comedy, romantic comedy

Joe is an aspiring actor working as a busboy in a high-class restaurant. His longtime girlfriend, Mary, works as a cosmetician for the fashion industry and largely supports him with her steady income. Joe is more concerned with expressing himself than getting a paying job, and has been unwilling to accept roles that do not live up to his artistic standards.

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Sadie McKee (1934)

Drama, romance film

Sadie McKee works part-time as a serving maid in the same household where her mother is a cook, and is admired by lawyer Michael Alderson, the son of her employer. However, when Michael talks badly of Tommy Wallace, her boyfriend, during a family dinner, Sadie openly denounces her employers as snobby and insensitive. Sadie then flees to New York City with Tommy, who was fired from his job in the Alderson factory for alleged cheating.

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Love and Honor (2013)

Drama, Historie, romance film, war film

In 1969, at the time of the Apollo 11 mission, American soldier Dalton Joiner, fighting in the Vietnam War, uses his time of R&R supposed to be spent in Hong Kong, to fly back to the United States to re-capture the heart of his girlfriend Jane. Fellow soldier Mickey Wright accompanies him. Jane now calls herself Juniper, and is a member of a group of anti-war activists.

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Bright Leaf (1950)

Drama, romance film

Brant Royle returns to his hometown of Kingsmont, North Carolina to settle his uncle's estate. Many years before, powerful tobacco magnate Major Singleton drove Brant and his father from town. Singleton foreclosed on the Royles because they grew the best bright leaf tobacco and because young Brant fell in love with his daughter Margaret.

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Man’s Favorite Sport? (1964)

romantic comedy

Roger Willoughby works at Abercrombie & Fitch as a salesman of recreational fishing equipment. He is very successful at his job and highly sought after by his customers, some of whom are looking for equipment which could help them win the next annual fishing tournament at Lake Wakapoogee. His boss, Mr.

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Nate and Hayes (1983)

Action, Adventure, Comedy, Pirate Film, romance film, swashbuckler film

The film tells the story of missionary Nathaniel "Nate" Williamson, taken to an island mission with his fiancée Sophie. Their ship, the Rona, is captained by the roguish William "Bully" Hayes, who also takes a liking to Sophie. When Sophie is kidnapped by slave trader Ben Pease, "Nate" teams with Hayes in order to find her.

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One Man's Hero (1999)

Action, Drama, historical film, Historie, romance film, war film, Western

Winfield Scott, Chief Commanding Officer of the U.S. Army, orders that 16 Irish immigrant soldiers be illegally whipped for "desertion" after they are caught entering Mexico to attend Catholic religious services. Sgt.

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Diamond Head (1962)

Drama, romance film

Richard "King" Howland is a swaggering land baron living on the Big Island of Hawaii. He objects when his sister, Sloane Howland, announces she plans to marry Paul Kahana, a native Hawaiian, though Richard is having a torrid affair with an Asian woman, Mai Chen. During Sloane and Paul's engagement party, Mai Chen's brother attacks Richard with a knife.

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None But the Lonely Heart (1944)

Drama, mystery film, romance film

thumb|200px|left|Ethel Barrymore and Cary Grant in the film Ernie Mott is a restless, independent, wandering Cockney with perfect pitch. On Armistice Day, Ernie visits the tomb of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey, which memorializes those who died in World War I, including his father. Ernie seeks a life where he is neither 'the hound nor the hare,' neither a victim or a thug.

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If You Were the Last (2023)

Comedy, Romantic drama, Science fiction

In a living room playing chess, Adam and Jane debate if NASA would spend billions to save one astronaut stranded on Mars. Although talking about The Martian, Adam then asks if this would be true in real life. We then see Saturn directly outside their window.

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Unfaithfully Yours (1984)

romantic comedy

Claude Eastman is a composer and the conductor of a prestigious symphony who has recently married beautiful Daniella, a much younger woman. While traveling, he sends a message to his friend Norman Robbins to keep an eye on Daniella but the message is garbled by Claude's Italian valet Giuseppe and Norman hires private detective Jess Keller to investigate Daniella. Keller's report, which comes with a fuzzy video, is that Daniella had an assignation with a man who, by wearing Argyle socks, appears to be Maxmillian Stein, a handsome violinist with the orchestra – and Claude's protégé – who is well known as a ladies man.

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The Tao of Steve (2000)

Comedy, romantic comedy

Dex is an unlikely Lothario - an overweight, thirty-something part-time kindergarten teacher - who has developed an effective method for seducing women. "The Tao of Steve", Dex's own personal pseudophilosophy on seduction, combines a Taoist outlook with the qualities embodied by TV characters such as Steve Austin (The Six Million Dollar Man) and Steve McGarrett (Hawaii Five-O) and, above all, by the actor Steve McQueen. He meets up with Syd, an old college conquest whom he can't remember, but to whom he is instantly attracted.

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Angels and Insects (1995)

Drama, romance film

William Adamson, a naturalist, returns to Victorian England, staying with his benefactor, Sir Harold Alabaster, a wealthy Baronet. William has lost his possessions in a shipwreck, returning from an extended expedition to the Amazon. Now dependent upon his patron, he is employed to catalog Sir Harold's specimen collection and teach his younger children the natural sciences, assisting their governess, the unassuming Matty Crompton.

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The Man in the Iron Mask (1977)

Historie, Romantic drama, swashbuckler film

In this version, the twins' ages are swapped. Philippe is the firstborn and rightful king, who had been spirited away at birth and raised with no knowledge of his true identity in a plot by Cardinal Mazarin to manipulate Louis before his own death. Colbert and D'Artagnan plot to replace Louis (who is an ineffective king more interested in dancing and pleasure than the welfare of France) with Philippe, and in the process bring down the corrupt finance minister Fouquet, who has embezzled from the national treasury.

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Kings Go Forth (1958)

Action, Drama, Melodrama, romance film, war film

In the final year of World War II, units of the United States Army are in the foothills of the Alps between France and Italy, trying to dislodge a unit of German soldiers from a supply post in the middle of a small village. 1st Lt. Sam Loggins is in charge of an artillery observation unit that has just lost its radioman.

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