Ode to Joy (2019)
Comedy, romantic comedy
Romance movies
Explore romantic relationships, love and its complications.
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The Gorgeous Hussy (1936)
Biography, Drama, Historie, romance film
In 1823 Washington D.C., Major O'Neal and his daughter Margaret "Peggy" O'Neal run an inn that is frequented by politicians. Peggy is outspoken for a woman of her time, and when Tennessee senator Andrew Jackson visits, she affectionately refers to him as "Uncle Andy". Peggy is secretly in love with the well-known Virginia senator John Randolph, but her feelings are seemingly unrequited.
Merrily We Live (1938)
Daffy Comedy, Melodrama, romantic comedy
Grosvenor (Alan Mowbray), the Kilbournes' butler, discovers at breakfast that the family silver has been stolen by Ambrose, the latest tramp Emily Kilbourne (Billie Burke) had taken under her wing as the family chauffeur in her obsession to reform fallen and destitute men, much to the exasperation of the rest of the family. A distressed Emily swears off taking in any more tramps, to the delight of the rest of the family. However, later in the morning, Wade Rawlins (Brian Aherne) appears at the Kilbournes' doorstep.
The Story of Adele H. (1975)
Biography, Drama, historical film
In 1863, in the midst of the American Civil War, British troops are stationed in Halifax, Nova Scotia, carefully checking European passengers disembarking from foreign ships. Adèle Hugo, the second daughter of French writer Victor Hugo, makes it through and takes a carriage into Halifax. Traveling under the pseudonym Miss Lewly, Adèle finds accommodations at a boarding house run by Mr.
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year (2008)
Christmas film, Comedy, Drama, family film
Ralph is a retired police officer who has worked as a New York cop for over 38 years. He plans on visiting his niece Jennifer in Naperville, Illinois for the holidays. Jennifer is a successful businesswoman and the single mother of her young son Brian.
Peeples (2013)
Comedy, romantic comedy
The Peeples are an affluent East Coast family celebrating their annual Moby Dick Day reunion at Sag Harbor in the Hamptons. The weekend is interrupted when musician Wade Walker, the fiancé of Grace Peeples, shows up to propose after being goaded by his brother, Chris. Upon arrival, Wade loses his wallet while being chased by the family dog.
Pete 'n' Tillie (1972)
Comedy drama, LGBTQ-related film, romantic comedy, Tragicomedy
Tillie Schlaine is introduced to Pete Seltzer at a party. Her friends Gertrude and Burt are the hosts and attempting to fix her up. Pete is a confirmed bachelor with eccentric habits.
Dummy (2002)
Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama, romance film, romantic comedy
Steven Schoichet is a socially awkward young man who still lives with his overbearing parents, Lou and Fern, and his abrasive sister, Heidi. Struggling to communicate with people, he buys a ventriloquist dummy named Woody, hoping ventriloquism will help him gain confidence and improve his social skills. After accidentally destroying a copy machine, Steven loses his office job.
The Man with the Answers (2021)
Drama, romance film
Victoras is a Greek former diving champion who now works at a furniture factory and lives with his sick grandmother by the sea in Greece. Distraught after her death, he decides to dust off her old car and take a road trip to Germany, where his estranged mother lives in Bavaria. On the ferry to Italy, he meets carefree and eccentric German student Matthias, who is on his way home.
A Walk in the Spring Rain (1970)
Drama, romance film
Libby Meredith and her law-professor husband, Roger, 52, move from New York to a small house in the Tennessee backwoods during a snowy winter. Their married neighbor, Will Cade, is attracted to Libby and very helpful and friendly to them. While her intellectual husband is busy writing a book, Libby comes to like the country life and finds herself attracted to Will's rural sensibilities, culminating in a brief affair.
Romeo and Juliet (2014)
romance film
Buying the Cow (2002)
LGBTQ-related film, romantic comedy
David is too afraid to commit to his girlfriend Sarah, who is pressuring him to get married. While she goes away to New York for work for two months, David's friends persuade him to experience the dating scene one more time. Meanwhile, David's womanizing friend Mike gets drunk one night and mistakenly believes he has had sex with a man, and afterwards makes several awkward attempts to come out of the closet, even though he is not really gay.
The Pleasure Seekers (1964)
musical film, romantic comedy
Susie Higgins arrives in Madrid and moves in with her friend Maggie Williams and Maggie's roommate Fran Hobson. Still a virgin, Susie is surprised to find both of the other girls have active dating lives. Secretary Maggie has recently ended an affair and is now seeing her married boss Paul Barton, much to the dismay of Paul's jealous wife Jane.
Music from Another Room (1998)
Comedy, romance film, romantic comedy
On Thanksgiving 1973, five-year-old Danny Kowalski accompanies his doctor father Hank to visit family friend Grace Swan. While they are there, Grace unexpectedly goes into labor with her fourth baby. Because Hank had been enjoying Thanksgiving wine all day, he asks his son to help assist him with the birth.
Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947)
Drama, romance film
In a hospital, nightclub singer Angie Evans, her face bandaged, recounts the events that brought her there. Angie becomes involved with aspiring singer Ken Conway. Her agent Mike Dawson helps Ken and piano accompanist Steve Anderson secure a spot on a radio show singing cowboy songs.
You, Me and Him (2017)
romantic comedy
Set in middle class England, with female lovers Olivia and Alex. 39-year-old career lawyer Olivia feels ready to start a family but Alex, a much younger artist, remains unsure. When Olivia reveals that she has already begun fertility treatment and insemination, the couple have an argument.
The New Romantic (2018)
romance film, romantic comedy
Blake is a student journalist who writes a column about her love life, The Hopeless Romantic, for her school paper. After her latest column her editor, River, cancels her column for being too dull, but offers to re-instate it if she came come up with more interesting material. On a night out with her roommate and best friend Nikki, Blake mistakenly has her ID swapped with the ID of another student.
It's a Great Feeling (1949)
Comedy, musical film, Parody
Film directors Raoul Walsh, King Vidor, Michael Curtiz, and David Butler all refuse to helm producer Arthur Trent's new Warner Bros. film Mademoiselle Fifi, starring Dennis Morgan and Jack Carson, because of Carson's huge ego. Frustrated, Trent assigns Carson to direct the film himself.
The Walking Stick (1970)
Drama
Deborah Dainton has a limp as a result of polio. Treatment for the disease as a child has left her claustrophobic and reclusive in large crowds. Her rigid and controlled life is transformed when she meets a struggling artist, Leigh Hartley, at a party she begrudgingly attends to please her parents.
Haunted Summer (1988)
Drama, Historie, romance film
In 1816, authors Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and Mary Shelley (née Godwin) get together for some philosophical discussions, but the situation soon deteriorates into mind games, drugs, and sex. It is the summer that Lord Byron and the Shelleys, together with Byron's doctor, John William Polidori, spent in the isolated Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva. There they held a contest to produce the best horror story, so as to kill the dullness of summer.
Lancelot and Guinevere (1963)
Adventure, fantasy film, medieval film, romance film
Lancelot is King Arthur's most valued Knight of the Round Table and a paragon of courage and virtue. Things change, however, when he falls in love with Queen Guinevere. A sub-plot concerns Arthur's effort to forestall a challenge from a rival king, a problem that will inevitably catch Lancelot up in a personal conflict.
Falling for Figaro (2020)
Comedy, romance film, romantic comedy
American fund manager Millie Cantwell, whose life-long dream is to become an opera singer, quits her lucrative job in London just after being offered a promotion. Deciding to take a year to make it, she moves away from her boyfriend Charlie and travels to the Scottish Highlands for intense vocal training from former opera diva Meghan Geoffrey-Bishop. Patricia Hartley from the London conservatory suggests Millie contact the retired diva to train for the annual competition Singer of Renown in hopes of winning a spot in an opera company.
Words and Pictures (2013)
Drama, romance film, romantic comedy, Tragicomedy
Croyden is an upscale college preparatory school in Maine that hires teachers for their advanced courses who are accomplished professionals. Jack Marcus is a writer and poet who teaches the advanced writing class. He is a good teacher who inspires his students.
The Serpent's Kiss (1997)
Drama, romance film
Thomas Smithers (Postlethwaite), who has made his fortune as an ironmonger and cannon-maker, hires the famous Meneer Chrome (McGregor) to create the most extravagant garden imaginable on his overgrown property. Smithers doesn't know that his wife's cousin Fitzmaurice (Grant) has already hired Chrome, with the goal of bankrupting Smithers and essentially acquiring Juliana, whom he loves. Juliana, however, is attracted to Chrome and he in turn to the Smithers' daughter, Anna, who filters all experiences through a volume of Andrew Marvell's poems that she is never without.