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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 9,657 films · Page 171.

Battle Circus (1953)

Drama, romance film, war film

A young Army nurse, Lieutenant Ruth McCara, is newly assigned to the 8666th MASH, a mobile field hospital constantly on the move during the Korean War. Ruth's personal mission is to serve suffering humanity. She initially experiences an uncomfortable welcoming by the unit's hard-drinking, no-nonsense chief surgeon, Major Jed Webbe.

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Departure (2015)

Drama, Family Drama, romance film

Beatrice (Juliet Stevenson) and her teenage son Elliot (Alex Lawther) arrive in southern France to prepare their family holiday home for sale. Both mother and son are in transitional phases: Beatrice is confronting the breakdown of her marriage, while Elliot is experiencing a sexual awakening. Elliot becomes infatuated with Clément (Phénix Brossard), a local French teenager with a rebellious streak.

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Chinese Box (1997)

Drama, Melodrama, romance film

The movie unfolds at least nine different stories on very different levels. First, there is John as a reporter, trying to capture interesting scenes on the streets of Hong Kong, persuading himself his work gives his life a tangible meaning. Second, there is Vivian who is looking to find a balance in life, trying to escape from the underground she once was a part of and forget about her past, but is hindered in her attempts by prejudices that go back thousands of years in the Chinese society (including Hong Kong).

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Stay Away, Joe (1968)

Comedy, musical film, Western

Native American rodeo rider Joe Lightcloud is a Navajo whose family still lives on the reservation. He returns to the reservation in a white Cadillac convertible that he uses to drive cattle. Joe persuades his congressman to give him 20 heifers and a prize bull so that he and his father can prove that the Navajos can successfully raise cattle on the reservation.

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Far North (2007)

Destiny, Drama, Horror, Psychodrama, romance film

The film opens up with a voiceover of a woman named Saiva telling the listener that a shaman said she was cursed at birth and would bring harm to anyone she cared for. While she and a young woman named Anja are camping in a subarctic region of Siberia, in desperation, she takes one of her sled dogs and after calming it, slits its throat. She and Anja then set out to relocate their camp.

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Sooner or Later (1979)

romance film

Jessie Walters (Denise Miller) is a buoyant 13-year-old girl who goes to the Eddie Nova Guitar Institute and is stunned to discover that her guitar instructor is Michael Skye (Rex Smith), a 17-year-old aspiring musician she has just seen play with his rock band (The Skye Band) at the local shopping mall in upstate New York and with whom she is instantly smitten. Through the grace of make-up, Jessie enters the world of a 16-year-old, and she tells Michael that's her age when he gives her a ride home from class one week. They start to flirt.

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The Pompatus of Love (1996)

romantic comedy

The film revolves around four friends and their relationships with women. Set to the background of upscale Manhattan bars, lofts and apartments, the guys engage in sharp banter and one-upsmanship. The men spend much of their time trying to decipher the word "pompatus," from the Steve Miller song, wondering whether they are mis-hearing the lyrics: "Prophetess"?

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Boy Meets Girl (1984)

Drama, romance film

Alex, a jaded young man in Paris, has been abandoned by his girlfriend Florence for his friend Thomas. He now lives alone in a small room with few possessions. He is soon to enter military service (as revealed in an outrageous telephone conversation with his father).

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Adam & Steve (2005)

LGBTQ-related film, romantic comedy

In 1987, Adam (Craig Chester), a shy, cynical, Jewish kid, encounters Steve (Malcolm Gets), an attractive Dazzle Dancer performing at Danceteria one night. The two flirt and go back to Adam's apartment to have sex, with Steve offering Adam the latter's first hit of cocaine. Unbeknownst to Steve, the cocaine is cut with baby laxative, resulting in Steve losing control of his bowels and explosively defecating all over Adam's apartment.

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Road to Nowhere (2010)

romance film, thriller film

A promising young filmmaker named Mitchell Haven invites Laurel Graham, an unknown actress, to play Velma Duran, a person involved in a financial scandal that made headlines, in his new film. The director falls in love with his muse, and the sordid criminal affair on which the film is based resurfaces.

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Caprice (1967)

Comedy, comedy thriller, Heist, mystery film, spy film, thriller film

Patricia Foster, an industrial designer for Femina Cosmetics, owned by Sir Jason Fox, is arrested for trying to sell a secret deodorant formula. She is fired from Femina and hired by Matthew Cutter, owner of rival company May Fortune. This is actually a scheme devised by Sir Jason for Patricia to steal the formula for a new water-repellent hairspray, invented by Dr Stuart Clancy, May Fortune's chief cosmetic chemist.

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Gone to Earth (1950)

Drama

Hazel Woodus is a child of nature in the Shropshire countryside in 1897. She loves and understands all of the wild animals more than she does the people around her. Whenever she has problems, she consults the book of spells and charms left to her by her gypsy mother.

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A Date with Judy (1948)

Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy

In Santa Barbara, California, snobbish teenager Carol Pringle tells her best friend Judy Foster that famous bandleader Xavier Cugat will be the guest of honor at their high school dance that night. Carol convinces her younger brother Ogden "Oogie" Pringle to cancel his dance date with Judy, claiming that women are more drawn to men who ignore them. When Judy learns that Oogie has decided not to take her to the dance, she becomes infuriated and vows to end their friendship.

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The Prisoner of Zenda (1952)

Adventure, Comedy, Drama, romance film

In June 1897, English gentleman Rudolf Rassendyll takes a fishing vacation in Ruritania, a small kingdom in the Balkans. While there, he is puzzled by the odd reactions of the natives to him. Rassendyll discovers why when he meets Colonel Zapt and Captain Fritz von Tarlenheim.

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The Crusades (1935)

Adventure, Drama, Historie, medieval film, romance film

The film takes many of its elements and main characters from the Third Crusade, which was prompted by the Saracen capture of Jerusalem and the crusader states in the Holy Land in A.D. 1187. The character of King Richard the Lionheart is a man of action but little thought.

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Frenchie (1950)

Western

Frank Dawson is killed in the town of Bottleneck by his double-crossing partner Pete Lambert, leaving a young girl without a father. For the next 15 years, she lives in orphanages and works for the Fontaines, originally from Paris, earning her the nickname of Frenchie. Now grown, she makes a fortune running a casino in New Orleans, then returns to Bottleneck to finally try to find her father's killer.

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Band of Angels (1957)

Drama, Historie, romance film

thumb|left|130px|Clark Gable and Yvonne De Carlo in Band of Angels Amantha Starr (Yvonne De Carlo) is the privileged daughter of a Kentucky plantation owner. However, after he dies, a shocking secret is revealed: Unbeknownst to Amantha, her mother had been one of her father's black slaves. Legally now property, she is taken by a slave trader to New Orleans to be sold.

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