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Action, Adventure, Drama, romance film, Treasure hunt
Two men of the sea carry an ongoing rivalry: Mayrant Sidneye, owner of the shipping company Batjak Limited, and Captain Ralls. Ralls is the ruthless captain of the Red Witch, Batjak's flagship. He deliberately wrecks and sinks the ship and its cargo of gold bullion worth five million dollars.
romantic comedy
Joe MacGonaughgill and Lucy Ackerman are roommates and best friends living in a small Manhattan apartment. Lucy is turning thirty and her love life is embarrassingly dull. Joe, on the other hand, is infatuated with his attractive neighbor Jane.
Comedy, romance film, screwball comedy film
Like the play, the film is divided into three acts, all set in Suite 719 of New York City's Plaza Hotel. The first act focuses on not-so-blissfully wedded couple Sam and Karen Nash, who are revisiting their honeymoon suite in an attempt—by Karen—to bring back the love to their marriage. Her plan backfires, and the two become embroiled in a heated argument about whether Sam is having an affair with his secretary Miss McCormack.
Comedy, Comedy horror, mystery film, romance film, Science fiction
A scientific study known as Life Beyond, launched by Dr. Stevenson in San Francisco, allows people to commit painless suicide with the knowledge that an afterlife does exist. In New York City, two ready-to-die strangers, Rose and Teddy, randomly end up sharing a rental car for a cross-country trip to their respective Life Beyond appointments.
Comedy, romantic comedy
Jean is a timid waiter and bartender at a luxury hotel in Biarritz. Irène is a gold digger who convinces wealthy men to fund her lavish lifestyle in exchange for companionship and sex. When Irène's elderly lover Jacques gets drunk and falls asleep on her birthday, she goes to the hotel bar, where she assumes the barman is absent and Jean is a millionaire guest.
Action, Political Thriller, romance film, thriller film
In 1978, David Raybourne is an American novelist who lives in Rome and works as a journalist in a small English-language newspaper. He is romantically involved with Lia, the estranged wife of an Italian Industrialist, and befriended by Italo Bianchi, a politically left-leaning lecturer at a Rome university. The story happens against the backdrop of politically charged atmosphere and student unrest, in which the infamous Red Brigades commit their spate of violent attacks which rocked northern Italy in the 1970s, culminating in the kidnapping and later murder of Aldo Moro, former Italian Prime Minister.
romance film, Science fiction
Sheldon (Andrew Garfield) is a gray robot with a head shaped like an old PC tower. Every day, he rides the bus to the public library then rides home again at the end of the day to recharge himself in his apartment. He appears unhappy and forlorn until one day, while waiting for the bus, he sees Francesca (Sienna Guillory), a sleekly-designed woman robot, driving a car (despite an apparent ban on robots driving).
LGBTQ-related film, romantic comedy
The film is set in Brooklyn in 1957. After the consigliere (assistant) to the Mafia Don dies, crushed by a crate of tuna-fish cans, small-time hood George sees his chance to move up. Together with his dim-witted sidekick, Dip, they celebrate with some prostitutes – George is ecstatic when treated to the oral talents of Glorice, the new girl on the docks.
Comedy, romance film, romantic comedy, screwball comedy film
Ellen McNulty closes her hamburger stand in New Jersey and visits her son Val in Ohio, who has recently married a socialite named Maggie. When Ellen arrives, Maggie mistakes her for a chef sent to cook at her dinner party. Ellen, hoping to avoid embarrassing Maggie, does not correct her.
Christmas film, romantic comedy
Action, disaster film, Drama, prison film
As a passenger ship sails by the bleak ruins of a deserted island, Dr. Kersaint blows his former home a kiss. When a fellow passenger asks him about the place, he tells its tragic story, segueing into a flashback.
Comedy, farce, romantic comedy, war film
thumb|upright 1.25|Gina Lollobrigida and Shelley Winters as Carla Campbell and Shirley Newman. During the WWII American occupation of Italy, American GIs are quartered in the homes of town residents in the village of San Forino, and recently orphaned Carla "Campbell" quarters at her small home one airman at a time. The 16-year old Carla seeks comfort and sleeps with each of the three American GIs quartered alone with her in the course of 10 days: Cpl.
Crime, Drama, Noir, romance film
Gangster Eddie Bendix and his henchman, Johnny Ryan, arrive in the small mining town of Chuckawalla in northern Nevada, where Eddie hopes to cash in on the local community's gambling trade, which is overseen by the powerful Fritzi Haller, owner of the Purple Sage casino. The two men stop at a bridge entering Chuckawalla where Eddie's wife, Angela, died in a car accident. Eddie was once involved with Fritzi, but left town under suspicion of causing his wife's fatal car accident.
Erotic Film, Erotic Thriller, Romantic drama
Comedy
When Rupert Grimm learns that there are several students ahead of him in line to be admitted to the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine he devises a plan for them each to meet with a series of unfortunate '"accidents". Gabriel Higgs also is in need to get into the school, considering that every generation ahead of him has been a doctor. He attempts to bribe both Amanda Morel and Randall Burns, but they refuse to be bribed.
Adventure, Western
In 1803, the United States Congress approves the Louisiana Purchase from France. Meriwether Lewis is summoned to the White House by President Thomas Jefferson, who asks Lewis to lead an expedition to explore beyond the newly claimed land to the Pacific Ocean. Lewis reluctantly agrees and requests that his friend William Clark accompany him at equal rank.
Criminal Comedy Film, Drama, romantic comedy
Dylan (Dan Futterman) and Jez (Stuart Townsend) are two orphans who meet in their twenties and vow to achieve their shared childhood dream of living in a stately home. In pursuit of this dream, they spend their days living in a disused gas holder, spending as little money as possible and conning the upper classes out of their riches. During one of their cons, they encounter Georgie (Kate Beckinsale) who is a medical student who can type.
Comedy drama, Drama, romance film
Irene Vail decides to divorce her husband, the rich ship owner Bruce Vail. However, Bruce learns that he can prevent the divorce if he can provide evidence that she has been involved with another man. He pays his driver Michael to visit Irene's hotel room in Paris and pretend to be her lover so that a private detective can catch them in a compromising position.
Drama, LGBTQ-related film, romance film, war film
In the 1980s, middle-aged ballet dancer and choreographer Jeroen feels dissatisfied with his dancers' interpretation of an autobiographical ballet about Canada's liberation of the Netherlands in 1945. In his office, he shows his colleague Laura a photo of himself as a 12-year-old with his foster family during WWII. A document and vintage sunglasses on his desk reveal he is searching for a Canadian soldier named Walt.
Adventure, Drama, romance film
Lily is forced to leave her home in Princeton, New Jersey with her parents and brother to travel to Nepal. She is unhappy that she had to leave her own country and her old life behind to visit this mystic country with her family. Once there, however, she meets a mysterious Sherpa named Joharv and falls in love with him and the country.
romantic comedy
Angelina (Emily Hampshire) is a shy and whimsical waitress forced to leave her home in Italy to be married to a man she is not in love with in order to fulfill a family vow. After Angelina moves into a new neighborhood in Little Italy, Toronto, she is torn with the idea of marrying a man she is not in love with. However, in the days leading up to Valentine's Day, Angelina encounters Mike (Sean Astin) and the two seemingly are shot with Cupid's arrows.
musical film, romantic comedy
In the early 1900s, world champion baseball team, the Wolves, is preparing for spring training but is missing star players Dennis Ryan and Eddie O'Brien, who are late returning from their off-season jobs as vaudeville performers. While Eddie prefers performing, Dennis is eager to return to baseball. When they finally arrive in Sarasota, Florida, they discover the team's owner has died and bequeathed it to a distant relative, K.C.
Drama, romance film, Treasure hunt
Phaedra (Sophia Loren) is a poor Greek sponge diver on the island of Hydra. She works from the boat of her boyfriend, Rhif (Jorge Mistral), an immigrant from Albania. She accidentally finds an ancient Greek statue of a boy riding a dolphin on the bottom of the Aegean Sea.
Daffy Comedy, Dark Comedy, romantic comedy
World-famous symphony conductor Sir Alfred de Carter returns from a visit to his native England and discovers that his rich brother-in-law, August Henshler, having misunderstood Alfred's casual instruction to watch over his much younger wife Daphne while he was away, hired a private detective named Sweeney to follow her. Alfred is livid, and when August hands him the detective's report, he tears it to pieces without reading it and throws August out of his hotel room. Later, when the hotel's house detective returns the torn-up report to Alfred, he burns it and accidentally sets his dressing room on fire, causing him to be late for lunch…