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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 9,657 films · Page 169.

Gray Matters (2006)

Comedy, LGBTQ-related film, romantic comedy, Romantic drama

Gray, a family-oriented and quiet bachelorette, lives a close-knit life with her brother, Sam. Their lifestyle is generally co-dependent, involving them living together, going to dance classes together, etc. Gray and Sam's relationship has never been thought of as strange, but once a dinner party guest mistakes the siblings as a couple, Gray and Sam decide to venture outside of one another.

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Constellation (2005)

romance film

Returning to Huntsville, Alabama—a town that once held back their opportunities but now glistens as a modern, technology-based city—the Boxer family and its extended members discover in the memory of a loved one what binds them together. When the beloved Carmel Boxer passes away, her entire family returns to the Deep South to celebrate her life and legacy. As the Boxer family comes together for the first time in many years, revelations of Carmel's painful past begin to force each person to address their pent-up emotions and true feelings for one another.

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Preaching to the Perverted (1997)

BDSM-themed film, Comedy, LGBTQ-related film, romance film

Henry Harding MP, a British government minister on a moral crusade, hires an inexperienced young computer whiz kid, Peter Emery, who works for a Christian computer company called Holy Hardware, to infiltrate the UK BDSM scene. Harding is set on putting a club called "House of Thwax" run by Mistress Tanya Cheex out of business, and is sure that Peter's secretly videotaped evidence of the club's activities will do the trick. However, the virginal Peter takes a liking to Tanya Cheex and finds himself falling for the Mistress.

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All Over Me (1997)

Coming Out, Coming-of-age, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, teen film

This film focuses on Claude (Alison Folland), a tomboy teenage girl who lives with her divorced mother in Hell's Kitchen, New York City, and is the story of her sexual discovery and budding lesbianism during summer vacation. Claude's best friend is Ellen (Tara Subkoff). Her plan to start a band with Ellen is subverted when Ellen begins dating Mark (Cole Hauser).

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Love Me Tonight (1932)

Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy

The story describes an encounter between a Parisian tailor named Maurice Courtelin and a family of local aristocrats. These include Vicomte Gilbert de Varèze, who owes Maurice a large amount of money for tailoring work; Gilbert's uncle the Duc d'Artelines, the family patriarch; d'Artelines' man-hungry niece Valentine; and his other 22-year-old niece, Princesse Jeanette, who has been a widow for three years. D'Artelines has been unable to find Jeanette a new husband of suitable age and rank.

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Groove (2000)

LGBTQ-related film

Groove tells the story of an all-night rave. The film is broken up into segments according to which DJ is spinning and features real-life DJs Forest Green, WishFM, Polywog, and Digweed. Introverted aspiring writer David Turner is reluctantly dragged to a rave at a warehouse by his brother Colin.

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Once Is Not Enough (1975)

Drama, LGBTQ-related film, romance film

Mike Wayne is a middle-aged motion-picture producer whose career has fallen on hard times. Try as he might, Mike can no longer get a new Hollywood project made. Accustomed to a lavish lifestyle, Mike has pampered his daughter, January, providing her with an expensive education in Europe and everything else money can buy.

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Cluny Brown (1946)

romantic comedy

In 1938 London Cluny Brown meets Adam Belinski while she is fixing a plumbing issue at Mr. Ames's, and the two strike a chord. Later, at a party at Ames's, the self-obsessed Betty Cream is pursued by two young men: Andrew Carmel and John Frewen.

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There's Always Vanilla (1971)

Drama, romantic comedy

Chris Bradley, a former U.S. Army soldier, has become a drifter and makes money by various means, from pimping to guitar playing. After working with a band in New York City, Chris returns to his home city of Pittsburgh and visits his father who owns and operates a baby food factory.

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Slap Her... She's French (2002)

Comedy, romantic comedy, teen film

High school student Starla Grady is the popular head cheerleader and pageant queen of the small town of Splendora, Texas, who aspires to be a news anchorwoman. She hosts a French exchange student, an orphan named Genevieve Le Plouff. The seemingly shy and harmless Genevieve is immediately in awe of Starla's beauty and popularity.

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Gloomy Sunday - Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod (1999)

Justice Drama, Melodrama, romance film, Romantic drama

In the present day, German industrialist Hans Wieck returns to Budapest with his family on the occasion of his 80th birthday, having been stationed there during World War II. During dinner at his favorite restaurant, Szabó's, Hans regales his family and friends with stories of his many visits to the restaurant before and during the war. As he relishes his favorite dish, "Beef Rolls" he suddenly collapses with the song "Gloomy Sunday" being played, at his request, by two musicians.

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Get Yourself a College Girl (1964)

beach party film

Terry Taylor (Mary Ann Mobley) is a senior at conservative Wyndham College for Women (fictitious), and under an assumed name, a successful pop songwriter. After her publisher Gary Underwood (Chad Everett) unknowingly exposes her career, Wyndham's board of trustees—including the college founder's grandson, California State Senator Hubert Morrison (Willard Waterman)—condemns Terry for indecent behavior. To distract herself from a possible expulsion, Terry, her friends Sue Ann Mobley (Chris Noel) and Lynne (Nancy Sinatra), and their physical-education instructor Marge Endicott (Joan O'Brien) travel to Sun Valley, Idaho, for a Christmas-break…

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Welcome to Woop Woop (1997)

Comedy, Criminal Comedy Film, romantic comedy

Teddy (Johnathon Schaech) is a New York City con artist, womaniser, and exotic animal smuggler who travels to Australia after a deal goes awry, his latest shipment of rare tropical birds escapes, and must be replaced. While driving through an arid desert in the Northern Territory, he picks up a hitchhiker, Angie (Susie Porter), who seduces him and asks him to drive her to the beach, as she has never seen the ocean before. After a brief and sexually ravenous 'courtship', Angie proposes marriage after they reach the seaside and when Teddy pretends to accept, Angie knocks him unconscious.

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Wichita (1955)

Western

Former bison hunter and entrepreneur Wyatt Earp (Joel McCrea) arrives in the lawless cattle town of Wichita, Kansas. His skills as a gunfighter make him a perfect candidate for marshal but he refuses the job until he feels morally obligated to bring law and order to this wild town. His least popular move is to take away the guns of everyone in town, no matter how important.

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Blue Juice (1995)

Comedy, Drama

JC is a respected surf instructor, approaching his 30th birthday and living in an idyllic Cornish village with long-term girlfriend Chloe. He is focused on a dream of travelling the world surfing, with Chloe. His old friends from London visit late one night on an impromptu stag-weekend, including the 'kidnapped' groom-to-be Terry, who being more sensible and staid than the others is considered 'boring' and in need of livening up.

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Delirious (2006)

Comedy, Drama, romance film, romantic comedy, Satire

Toby, a young homeless man, and paparazzo Les meet when Toby interrupts a crowd of paparazzi waiting to take pictures of pop diva K'harma Leeds (Allison Lohman). Toby volunteers to go get coffee for Les and two of his colleagues. On his way back with the coffee, Toby is stopped by K'harma's agent from inside the building and asked to see if the photographers are looking.

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My Animal (2023)

Horror, LGBTQ-related film, romance film

One full moon night during the 1980s, Heather (Bobbi Salvör Menuez) turns into a wolf for the first time, attacking her human mother Patti and clawing her in the chest. Heather inherited this curse from her father Henry. Years later, Heather works with Henry at a local diner and plays hockey with her younger twin brothers Cooper and Hardy, while Patti has turned to alcoholism.

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Love Object (2003)

Drama, Horror, romance film, Slasher, thriller film

Kenneth Winslow is an extremely shy but knowledgeable technical writer who orders a sex-doll. He develops a relationship with "Nikki," to the point of talking and even arguing with her. Kenneth begins to display bizarre behavior, and starts to feel stalked by Nikki.

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Carefree (1938)

Comedy, musical film, romance film

Stephen Arden urges his best friend, psychiatrist Dr. Tony Flagg, to psychoanalyze his fiancée, radio singer Amanda Cooper, who has broken off their engagement for the third time. Tony reluctantly agrees, and before meeting Amanda, he records his opinion of her into his dictaphone, describing her as a "dizzy, silly, maladjusted female who can't make up her mind".

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Forever, Darling (1956)

fantasy film, romantic comedy

After five years of marriage, chemical engineer Lorenzo Xavier Vega (Desi Arnaz) tends to neglect his wife Susan (Lucille Ball) in favor of his work. When she wishes aloud that she had a more attentive spouse, her Guardian Angel – coincidentally the mirror image of her favorite movie star (James Mason) – appears. The angel advises Susan to take a greater interest in Lorenzo's career, so she agrees to accompany him on a camping trip to test the revolutionary insecticide he's developed.

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Three of Hearts (1993)

LGBTQ-related film, Raunchy comedy, romantic comedy

It involves a love triangle: a straight gigolo Joe (William Baldwin), his lesbian best friend Connie (Kelly Lynch), and her former lover, an attractive bisexual woman Ellen (Sherilyn Fenn). Connie is desperate to win Ellen back and Joe volunteers to break Ellen's heart to convince her that heterosexual relationships are inferior to lesbian ones. The hope is that the disaster will cause her to return to Connie.

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