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Drama
A smoking, drinking, jazz listening, young prostitute named Sadie Thompson (Gloria Swanson) arrives at Pago Pago (American Samoa), on her way to a job with a shipping line on another island. At the same time, 'moralists' arrive, including Mr. and Mrs.
Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama, Melodrama, romantic comedy
Bertha Jacoby, a Jewish widow, is convinced by her daughter, Alice Black, to move from Brooklyn, New York to Tokyo to be closer to Alice and her husband, Jerry, now stationed at the US embassy in Tokyo. Visiting Bertha with the news of the impending move to Japan, Alice and Jerry, who consider themselves liberal, are condescendingly polite to Bertha's friend, Essie, who is concerned that their neighborhood is being compromised by ethnic minorities. Bertha overlooks the otherwise good-natured Essie's prejudice, which she does not believe she shares.
Christmas film, musical film, romantic comedy
Polly Parish works in the Millinery Department at J.B. Merlin & Son's department store on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. She is summoned to the office of the store manager, who informs her that she is fired because she is overselling hats, which creates too many returns and too much work for the accounting department.
Dance Film, musical film, romance film
At a prestigious South African school, American dance student Melea Martin (Cassie Ventura) plans a thesis presentation based on a modern-day hip-hop adaptation of Romeo and Juliet with her love interest Erik Wildwood (Kenny Wormald) to honor her late mother's memory. However, Melea's dreams are dashed when she's unable to pay tuition and is forced to leave. Determined to fulfill her destiny, she decides to rent a failing theater and persuade the community to support her artistic and unique vision, including childhood friend Nadine (Dena Kaplan) and classmate Laser (Bobby Lockwood).
Drama, prison film, romance film
Julie is a cynical working girl in a café in a town near Devil's Island (French Guiana) penal colony. While on a work shift just after being released from 30 days in solitary confinement, prisoner André Verne sees her on the wharf. She is unfriendly, but Verne is attracted to her, and arranges to escape long enough to visit her in her cabin.
romance film
Joseph Svenden is a middle-aged schoolteacher who lives on a farm with his dying mother. In his simple life there is no excitement, even in his long-time relationship with a widow. However, when a beautiful 17-year-old girl enrolls in his class, life takes an unexpected turn.
Drama, romance film
thumb|thumbtime=20|Ladies of Leisure (1930)|left Aspiring artist, Jerry Strong, the son of a wealthy railroad tycoon, sneaks out of a party he allowed his friend Bill Standish to hold at his New York City penthouse apartment and studio. While out driving in the country, Jerry meets self-described "party girl" Kay Arnold, who is escaping from another party aboard a yacht, and gives her a ride back to the city. He sees something in her and offers her a job as his model for a painting titled "Hope".
Drama, romance film
In 1924, author Kit Marlowe returns to her hometown to speak and to visit her childhood friend Millie. Millie has married Preston Drake and is pregnant, and she has written a romance novel. Millie asks Kit to present her book to her publisher.
Drama
Holly Davis is a wife and mother, happily married to seismologist Chip Davis. She is not aware that he is having an affair with Sandy Dunlap, a television news reporter who interviewed him after an earthquake. Holly begins teaching aerobics part-time at the gym, where she and Sandy meet by coincidence.
Biography, romance film
In New Orleans in the 1850s, a whip-wielding ringmaster announces to the crowd the “attraction of the century” and “the most interesting predator” of his circus: the former royal mistress Maria Dolores Porriz y Montez, Countess von Landsfeld, known as Lola Montez. Richly adorned, she is carried into the ring to take questions from the audience. Each question costs 25 cents, which are not intended as a payment for Lola, as the ringmaster announces, since she will donate them to a correctional home for fallen women.
Drama, romance film, silent film, Western
An impoverished young woman named Letty Mason travels west by train from Virginia to live at her cousin Beverly's isolated ranch in Sweetwater, Texas. On the way, she is bothered by the constantly blowing wind. Fellow passenger and cattle buyer Wirt Roddy makes her acquaintance and tells her the wind usually drives women crazy.
Comedy drama, romantic comedy
Sam and Baggy are two non-committal slackers who waste their time on nonsensical pursuits while dreaming of greater things in life. Paris and Zeke are two guardian angels who confront them with plans for change. Paris is a former dolphin, while Zeke is a former squirrel.
Adventure, Drama, romance film
Mike and Tony Petrakis are Greek American father and son sponge-diving entrepreneurs who find themselves in competition with the Rhys family, Conch fishermen who are prepared to resort to violence and threatening murder to maintain their established fishing grounds off the Gulf Coast of Florida. Run-ins between the two clans lead to an exchange of threats and all-out brawls. Further complications ensue when Tony Petrakis meets Gwyneth Rhys, and the two fall in love.
romance film, sexploitation film
Camille 2000 is set in Rome, in the late sixties. Marguerite Gautier lives a carefree life filled with parties, encounters, drugs, and casual relationships, all in the luxurious villa of her benefactor, Count De Mauriac. To the elderly count, Marguerite—known as Camille due to her love for camellias—is more than a lover; she's like a daughter, having met her after his real daughter died from an overdose.
Adventure, Comedy, romance film
Mike is a struggling artist who draws the Brenda Starr comic strip for a newspaper. When Brenda comes to life and sees how unappreciated she is by Mike, she leaves the comic. To return her to her rightful place and keep his job, Mike draws himself into the strip.
Comedy, Drama, teen film, Tragicomedy
In an effort to secure employment at the upscale Century City Mall in Los Angeles, Jennifer, a 17-year-old "goth" girl who just graduated from high school, makes a nuisance of herself at a clothing store run by 49-year-old Randall Harris, who eventually hires her on a trial basis as a stockroom clerk. Jennifer refers to herself simply as "J", and thus asks Randall if it's okay if she calls him "R", to which he accedes. One day, as there is nothing more to be done in the stockroom, J makes her way to the front of the store and begins to interact with customers.
Comedy, LGBTQ-related film, romance film, romantic comedy
Danish hairdresser Ida (Trine Dyrholm), who has recently completed a successful breast cancer treatment after undergoing a mastectomy, returns home to find her husband Leif having an affair with his accountant, Tilde. In a different part of Copenhagen, English businessman Philip (Pierce Brosnan) is a successful exporter of fruits and vegetables who has become misanthropic after the death of his wife. Meanwhile, Ida's daughter Astrid and Philip's son Patrick have gone to Italy to prepare Patrick's family's villa for their wedding, which is to take place only three months after they met.
Comedy drama, romantic comedy
Jordan Abrams, a conservative Jewish accountant, lives a stable but rather boring life with his girlfriend Rachel Stern. The night before they are supposed to leave for an extended vacation where Jordan had been planning to propose, Rachel says she cannot marry him due to his sexual ineptitude. Rachel leaves him in order to explore her own sexuality.
Crime, Drama, musical film
At Farhaven, a British seaside town, a 14-year-old boy named Honda bumps into Helen, a hairdresser. During that short encounter, he notices that Helen inadvertently dropped her bracelet. Ever since accidentally witnessing the dead body of his mother, who committed suicide in her bathtub, Honda does not speak a word to anyone.
Drama, romance film
In 1912 Germany, a freshly graduated engineer with modest origins, Friedrich Zeitz (Richard Madden), starts work at a steelworks owned by ageing tycoon Karl Hoffmeister (Alan Rickman). Hoffmeister is impressed by Zeitz's knowledge and commitment to the work, and Friedrich moves up through the ranks. When Hoffmeister's declining health starts to confine him permanently to his house, Friedrich has to visit him at home for briefings, which he then relays back to the steelworks.
Drama, mystery film, romance film
Jazz saxophone player Izzy Maurer (Harvey Keitel) is shot in the chest during a performance at a jazz club by a deranged man. Izzy survives the seven-hour operation, but loses his left lung, ending his music career. A young aspiring actress named Celia Burns (Mira Sorvino) walks into the Chez Pierre restaurant in New York City where she works as a waitress.
Comedy, Drama, romance film
Mildred is a widow living with her rebellious, irresponsible twentysomething daughter Annie in Salt Lake City. One day after a fight, Annie goes to live as a vagrant with her boyfriend, leaving Mildred alone for the first time in her life. Her wayward neighbor Monica knocks on Mildred's door, begging her to watch her young son J.J.
Drama, LGBTQ-related film, romance film
Robert and Michael, a gay male couple in their late 20s, live in New York City. The first several scenes, set to silence, show them walking around New York City and, later, an apartment that they share. It is revealed that Robert is leaving for two years on a work assignment in Africa while his partner, Michael (a literary editor), stays behind.
Drama, propaganda film, war film
In 1933 Berlin, Professor Nichols runs the American Colony School. It is next to the Horst Wessel School, where young Germans are indoctrinated into Nazism. During a brawl between the student bodies, Karl Bruner, a German youth born in the United States, objects when Anna Muller, an American citizen born in Germany, smacks him with her baseball bat.