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Explore romantic relationships, love and its complications.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 9,657 films · Page 162.

Square Dance (1987)

Coming-of-age, Drama, teen film

Gemma Dillard is a 13-year-old country girl who lives with her Grandpa Dillard on a farm in the Texas Panhandle. Gemma is visited by her mother, who lives in Fort Worth, with an offer to come stay with her in the city. Her mother (who had Gemma when she was still only a teenager) is now married with a job as a hair stylist and can provide for her.

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Death Defying Acts (2007)

Drama, historical film, romance film, Romantic drama, thriller film

In 1926, 13 years after his mother's death, illusionist and escapologist Harry Houdini has begun debunking mystics, psychics, and others who claim to have paranormal powers. He offers $10,000 to anyone who can quote his mother's dying words to him. Impoverished and uneducated Scottish con artist Mary McGarvie and her daughter, Benji, set their sights on Houdini's reward when he visits Edinburgh on tour.

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Love Takes Wing (2009)

Drama, Western

Mourning her husband's recent death, Dr. Belinda Simpson (Sarah Jones) arrives in the tiny town of Sikeston to fill the post of town physician. Once there she discovers that many of the town’s residents, including children at an orphanage run by Miss Hattie Clarence (Cloris Leachman), have fallen ill or died from an unknown ailment.

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Red Shoe Diaries (1992)

Erotic Film, romance film

Jake Winters, a successful architect, attends the funeral of his fiancée, Alex. It is revealed Alex’s death was the result of suicide. A heartbroken Jake returns to the upscale loft he shared with Alex and discovers a diary she kept leading up to her last days.

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Frank & Lola (2016)

Drama, mystery film, Psychodrama, Romantic drama

Frank, a chef in Las Vegas, meets and falls in love with Lola, a mysterious young woman who is new to the city. When Lola receives a job as a fashion designer, Frank becomes jealous of her boss, Keith Winkleman, even though Keith makes it clear that he does not make a habit of sleeping with his employees. When Frank discovers a one-night stand Lola had in a hotel with an unknown man from out of town, he storms out feeling angry and betrayed.

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Dream Boy (2008)

Coming-of-age, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, romance film

Nathan Davies (Stephan Bender), a shy and quiet but intelligent 15-year-old boy, moves to St. Francisville, Louisiana, with his parents Harlan (Thomas Jay Ryan) and Vivian (Diana Scarwid), one of many unexplained moves his family has made. Shortly after moving, he befriends his classmate and nextdoor neighbor Roy (Max Roeg), who is one year older than him and dating a girl named Evelyn (Rooney Mara); Roy also drives the city's school bus.

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Wanda Nevada (1979)

Drama, romance film, Treasure hunt, Western

Set in 1950s Arizona, the story follows a drifter and gambler named Beaudray Demerille. In a card game, he wins the movie's title character, Wanda Nevada, a 13-year-old orphan with dreams of singing at the Grand Ole Opry. Despite his best efforts, Wanda sticks to Demerille, accompanying him to a pool hall.

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The Winslow Boy (1999)

Historie, romance film, trial film

It is nearing Christmas 1911 and Arthur Winslow, a London banker, is making final preparations for a dinner to seal the engagement between his daughter Catherine, an outspoken supporter of the cause of women's suffrage, and Captain John Watherstone. The family and guests are toasting the forthcoming marriage when Arthur discovers that his youngest son Ronnie, a 13-year-old cadet at the Royal Naval College, Osborne, has returned home earlier than expected. Ronnie had been accused of the theft of a postal order.

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Akron (2015)

Drama, LGBTQ-related film, romance film

In a supermarket, two families are shopping for groceries. Young Christopher and his mother, Carol, are seen driving away in a van, while Benny and his family load their purchases into their vehicle. Carol accidentally hits and kills Benny's brother, Davey.

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Highball (1997)

Tragicomedy

Newlyweds Diane and Travis decide to improve their social life by throwing parties in their Brooklyn apartment. Over the course of a year, the couple stages three events: a birthday party; a Halloween party; and a New Year's Eve party. The film explores how friendships and relationships are tested during each of these social gatherings.

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Heat (1972)

Comedy, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Raunchy comedy, romantic comedy

Joey Davis is an unemployed former child star who supports himself as a hustler in Los Angeles. Joey uses sex to get his landlady to reduce his rent, then seduces Sally Todd, a former Hollywood starlet. Sally tries to help Joey revive his career but her status as a mediocre ex-actress proves to be quite useless.

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Best Player (2011)

Comedy

Quincy Johnson is a barely employed adult gamer who lives at home with his parents. Quincy plays video games under the username "Q" and is renowned in the gaming community for his many awards and world records. Much to Quincy's dismay, his parents decide to sell their house, meaning Quincy will need to find a new place of residence.

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2 Days in New York (2012)

Comedy, Comedy drama, romantic comedy

Parisian Marion is living in New York with her son, in order to be closer to Jack, the boy's father (Marion's ex-boyfriend from 2 Days in Paris). She and her new boyfriend Mingus have a cozy relationship until the arrival of Marion's father, sister and sister's boyfriend, on vacation from France. The group's two days together are tested by "unwitting racism and sexual frankness", with no one left unscathed.

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Blood Red (1989)

Action, Drama, Late Western, romance film, Western

Set in the 1890s, the story centers around the life of a Sicilian family, the Collogeros, who live in California and work in the winemaking business, and their confrontation with the powerful railroad and land baron William Bradford Berrigan, who is after their land and the land that belonging to other families in the area. Berrigan's plan is to get ahold of the properties in order to build a new railroad. When the conflict escalates, Berrigan murders the patriarch of the family, Sebastian Collogero, and in response, his son Marco claims for justice.

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Jane Eyre (1971)

Drama, romance film, Romantic drama

Jane Eyre is an orphan raised by her tormentingly abusive aunt and cousins until she is sent to Lowood School, where cruelty is an education strategy. The headmaster reminds the students that "God saw fit to make them orphans." Jane's best friend, who had tuberculosis (called "consumption" in those days), was forced to stand in the rain as punishment and died the next day. On leaving, Jane takes a position as governess to a girl named Adele at Thornfield Hall.

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In the Bleak Midwinter (1995)

Christmas film, Comedy, romantic comedy

Joe Harper, a depressed and down-on-his-luck actor, asks his agent Margaretta D'Arcy to lend him money to put on a Christmastime production of Shakespeare's Hamlet in his hometown of Hope, Derbyshire. Wanting the rendition to be "free and experimental", Joe holds auditions that attract a variety of performers, most of whom Margaretta thinks are mad. In the end, Joe casts six actors: the well-meaning Nina Raymond; the long-suffering and cynical Henry Wakefield; the flamboyant homosexual Terry DuBois; the vain Tom Newman; alcoholic-in-denial Carnforth Greville; and former child actor Vernon Spatch.

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A Summer Story (1988)

romance film, Romantic drama

In the summer of 1902, Frank Ashton, an educated young barrister from London, is on a walking holiday in Devon with a friend. When he falls and twists his ankle, Ashton is helped at a nearby farmhouse in Dartmoor and stays there for a few days to recover, while his friend goes on. During his stay, he quickly falls for the village girl who looks after him, Megan David.

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Tokyo Joe (1949)

Drama, Noir

Joe Barrett, an ex-US Air Force Colonel and World War II veteran, returns to Tokyo to see if there is anything left of his pre-war bar and gambling joint, Tokyo Joe's. Amazingly, it is more or less intact and being run by his old friend Ito. Joe is shocked to learn from Ito that his wife Trina, who he thought had died in the war, is still alive.

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Tortilla Flat (1942)

Comedy, Drama, romantic comedy

Danny inherits two houses in the central coastal area of California, "just outside the old seaport town of Monterey", So Pilon and his poor, idle friends move in. One of them, the Pirate, is saving money that Pilon endeavors to steal, until he discovers that it is being collected to purchase a golden candlestick that Pirate intends to burn to honor St. Francis, for healing his sick dog, that later is run over and killed.

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