Summer and Smoke (1961)
Drama, romance film
Romance movies
Explore romantic relationships, love and its complications.
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It's All About Love (2003)
Drama, Dystopian, romance film, Romantic drama, Science fiction, thriller film, Utopia & Dystopia
In the year 2021, when the Earth is devastated by continuous climate changes, with sudden waves of frost (it snows in the middle of summer even in Venice), John, a university lecturer, traveling from Poland to Calgary, stops in New York, to sign divorce papers for his wife Elena. A much beloved figure skating champion, Elena is followed by a very large entourage that takes care of her numerous commitments and all external relations. John is detained one night in order to attend an important performance by Elena.
The Lemon Drop Kid (1951)
Christmas film, Comedy, romantic comedy
Sidney Milburn, known as the "Lemon Drop Kid," is a New York City swindler. He illegally touts horses at a Florida racetrack by recommending each horse in a race to different people, claiming a percentage of their winnings each time. The Kid encounters a beautiful woman intending to bet $2,000 on a horse.
The Mating Game (1959)
romantic comedy
Irritated neighbor Wendell Burnshaw brings the Larkin family to the attention of the Internal Revenue Service. Lorenzo Charlton is assigned to the case by his boss, Oliver Kelsey. Ma and Pop Larkin warmly welcome him to their family farm in Maryland, at first unaware of why he is there.
The Night We Never Met (1993)
romantic comedy
Upset with his current living arrangements, Sam rotates occupancy of a flat with slob Brian and painter Ellen. Each of them gets the apartment to themselves two days each week. Sam and Ellen never see each other, they just leave notes.
A Fine Mess (1986)
Action, Comedy, Crime, slapstick
While filming on location at a race track, womanizing bit actor Spencer Holden, who lives life on one scam after another, overhears a couple of inept thugs named Maurice "Binky" Drundza and Wayne "Turnip" Parragella while they dope a race horse Sorry Sue with a supposed undetectable super stimulant. The thugs find out that Spence overheard them and will do anything to catch him to prevent him from going to the authorities with the information. Spence, however, enlists the help of his best friend, drive-in carhop and aspiring restaurateur Dennis Powell, to bet on the race with that horse so that they can make some guaranteed money.
Reuben, Reuben (1983)
Comedy, Drama, Tragicomedy
Gowan McGland (Tom Conti) is a creatively blocked Scottish poet who ekes out a day-to-day existence by exploiting the generosity of strangers in an affluent Connecticut suburb, where he recites his verse to various arts groups and women's clubs. Gowan is something of a leech, cadging expensive dinners from well-off patrons (usually stealing the tips afterward) while seducing their bored wives and affecting a superior attitude toward the smug bourgeois types he exploits. Although a talented poet, he is a chronic drunk, indifferent to the wounds he can casually inflict with his wit.
Pure Country 2: The Gift (2010)
Drama, musical film, romance film, Romantic drama
The film "Pure Country 2: The Gift" tells the story of Bobbie, a young woman with a naturally beautiful voice. Bobbie leaves her small town for Nashville, hoping to become a singing superstar. Before she leaves, her Aunt Ella gives her a locket containing a picture of her mother and a one-hundred dollar bill.
Robin Hood (1922)
Adventure, medieval film, silent film, swashbuckler film
left|thumb|thumbtime=3|The full film The opening has the dashing Earl of Huntingdon besting his bitter enemy, Sir Guy of Gisbourne, in a joust. Huntingdon then joins King Richard the Lion-Hearted, who is going off to fight in the Crusades and has left his brother, Prince John, as regent. The prince soon emerges as a cruel, treacherous tyrant.
Boy's Night Out (1962)
Comedy
Three married men, George, Doug, and Howie, and divorcé Fred are friends who commute to work from Greenwich, Connecticut, to New York City on the same train. Seeing Fred's philandering boss, Mr. Bingham, with his mistress sets the men to fantasizing about sharing the expense of an apartment in the city as a love nest.
The Savage (1952)
Action, romance film, Western
A young boy, Jim Aherne Jr., is the only survivor of a wagon-train raid by Crow Indians. Sioux Indians rescue Jim, and Chief Yellow Eagle raises him as a Sioux, renaming him War Bonnet. When Jim grows to maturity, his loyalties between his tribe and his white heritage are questioned.
Southside with You (2016)
Biography, Drama, romance film
Harvard Law School student Barack Obama, while working as a summer associate at a Chicago law firm in 1989, arranges to meet Michelle Robinson, a young lawyer and his supervisor at the firm ostensibly to go to a community organizing meeting. However, when they meet in the morning, he tells her that the meeting is at 4 pm and he wants to fill the time till then getting to know each other. She is initially apprehensive because they work together, but agrees.
Brigham Young (1940)
Biography, Drama, romance film, Western
In frontier-town Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1844, the main body of the church are forced to leave Illinois, choosing to settle temporarily in Nebraska. They then travel by wagon train to the Great Basin.
Inserts (1974)
Comedy, Drama
Before the opening titles, in the present day, an audience of men and women are watching a 1930s black-and-white stag film. After it ends, a man complains that there was no "cum shot". In Hollywood in the early 1930s, shortly after the start of the talkie period, a young Hollywood director known as Boy Wonder has fallen out of favour with the studios, ostensibly due to his reluctance to lower his standards or abandon his experimental style, such as using a hand-held camera.
Finding Mr. Right (2013)
romantic comedy
Wen Jiajia is pregnant with the child of her boyfriend, a corrupt businessman in Beijing who is already married. She flies to Seattle so she can have her child in an illegal maternity center because of legal issues with giving birth to the baby in China. At Seattle-Tacoma International Airport she is picked up by Frank, a taxi driver who was a doctor in China, but came to Seattle in order to take care of his daughter, while his ex-wife, who works as a manager for a pharmaceutical company, has plans to immigrate to the United States.
Blind (2016)
Drama, romance film
Suzanne Dutchman seems to be a happily married wife. Her husband Mark is a businessman who continuously travels and is very well known. One day at a dinner party, Mark speaks to a client, Howard, about a deal whilst Suzanne speaks with her close friend Deanna.
Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956)
Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy
High roller rancher Chuck Rodwell arrives at the Sands Hotel for his annual visit to the gambling tables. He is greeted warmly by the staff, who all like him and want him to avoid losing everything, as he has done on his prior trips. He has a superstition: he thinks holding hands with any unsuspecting woman walking by brings him luck.
Love on a Leash (2011)
romantic comedy
Lisa is a young woman who has not been lucky finding a romantic partner. She meets a golden retriever whom she names Prince (who also calls himself Alvin Flang). After discovering that Prince turns into a human man each night, Lisa falls in love with him.
My Dream Is Yours (1949)
Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy
The film opens in Los Angeles, where Doug Blake is dumped as a manager by Gary Mitchell. He goes to New York City to find a new singer to replace Gary on the Hour of Enchantment radio show. While in New York, he discovers Martha Gibson turning records in a jukebox factory.
Secret Beyond the Door (1948)
Crime, Drama, Noir, Psychological Thriller, Romantic drama
New York heiress Celia Barrett and her lawyer Bob Dwight are on the verge of marriage, but he wants her to be sure so convinces her to vacation in Mexico with her friend Edith Potter. While there, Celia falls in love with and marries American architect Mark Lamphere. On their honeymoon, after she playfully locks him out of their hotel room, he turns cold towards her and abruptly leaves, claiming that he has urgent business at home and will make arrangements for her to follow.
The Tarnished Angels (1957)
Drama, romance film
Disillusioned World War I flying ace Roger Shumann (Robert Stack) spends his days during the Great Depression making appearances as a barnstorming pilot at rural airshows with his parachutist wife LaVerne (Dorothy Malone), worshipful son Jack (Chris Olsen), and mechanic Jiggs (Jack Carson) in tow. New Orleans reporter Burke Devlin (Rock Hudson) is intrigued by the gypsy-like lifestyle of the former war hero, but is dismayed by his cavalier treatment of his family and soon finds himself attracted to the neglected LaVerne. Meanwhile, Roger barters with aging business magnate Matt Ord (Robert Middleton) for a plane in exchange for a few…
Hotel for the Holidays (2022)
romantic comedy
The film revolves around the staff and guests at New York City's Hotel Fontaine during the christmas season. The personal and work life of the hotel's manager, Georgia, become entangled when she is torn between Luke, the hotel's resident chef, and Raymond, a former prince staying at the hotel over the holidays.
Fishtales (2007)
children's film, fantasy film
Widowed Classics Professor Thomas Bradley (Billy Zane) is about to lose his research grant studying ancient love spells at Oxford University. He knows he is close to a major academic breakthrough and desperately needs more time to complete his research. Thomas is given one last chance to finish his work, and goes to the Greek island of Spetses, where he has been invited to stay at the home of a supportive Oxford don Professor Coulter.
Roxie Hart (1942)
Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy
thumb|left|upright|Ginger Rogers as Roxie Hart Stuart Chapman starts a new job as a newspaper reporter in Chicago, where he is pulled into a murder investigation together with his new colleague, veteran reporter Homer Howard. As they sit in a bar having a drink after a long day, Homer starts telling about a case he reported on in 1927: a murder case involving the young dancer Roxie Hart. Back in 1927, a theatre booking agent, Fred Casely, has been murdered, and his body is found in Roxie Hart's apartment.