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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 178.

Stolen Women: Captured Hearts (1997)

The story is set on the plains of Kansas in 1868, where General George Custer has destroyed a village of Cheyenne Indians. Seeking revenge, a band of Lakota led by Tokalah (Michael Greyeyes) attack a wagon train headed to Fort Hays, Kansas, where they kill nearly everyone in the wagons. However, when Tokalah comes to the remaining wagon driven by Anna Brewster (Janine Turner) he lets her and her pregnant friend go.

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Zerophilia (2005)

LGBTQ-related film, romantic comedy, science fiction comedy

After Luke (Taylor Handley) loses his virginity to a random stranger he meets on a camping trip (Kelly LeBrock), he soon finds parts of his body intermittently transforming into those of a female's body and back. Upon returning from his trip, Luke takes his car for repairs and meets the shop's owner Max (Kyle Schmid), whom Luke envies for exhibiting the kind of suave, confident masculinity that he himself cannot, and Max's sister Michelle (Rebecca Mozo), a recent transfer student at Luke's school whom Luke had been fostering a crush on. Luke asks Michelle out and the two hit it off, with Luke interested in Michelle's down-to-earth…

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The Glass Slipper (1955)

fantasy film, musical film, romance film

Ella is a lonely and misunderstood young woman living in a European duchy. She works as a lowly servant to her stepmother, the Widow Sonder, and stepsisters, Birdena and Serafina. Ella is shunned by the townspeople because of her anti-social behavior and nicknamed "Cinderella." In the face of ridicule, Ella boasts that she will live in the palace one day, as a fortune-teller once told her late mother.

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The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990)

Comedy

Australian heiress Alexandra Hobart's father has disapproved of every boyfriend she has brought home to meet him, including her burly, life-of-the-party fiancé, Bruce. After a disastrous birthday party, Alexandra decides to challenge her father with the worst boyfriend she can find. She hires a down-on-his luck waiter from a Mexican restaurant in Sydney, Australia, named Carlos to masquerade as her new boyfriend to persuade her father into allowing her to marry Bruce.

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La Tigre e la neve (2005)

romantic comedy, Romantic drama

In 2003 Italy, Attilio de Giovanni, a comical and impassioned poetry professor and the divorced father of two teenage girls, is hopelessly in love with Vittoria, a coworker and writer. Vittoria is the subject of Attilio's many dreams that center around a wedding between him and Vittoria. Attilio's strenuous courtship is unsuccessful, yet he does not lose hope, despite the fact that Vittoria obviously does not share the same feelings.

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Union City (1980)

Crime, Drama, mystery film, romance film

In 1953, Harlan is a repressed, uptight accountant living in an apartment block with his beautiful, neglected wife Lillian. He becomes obsessed with discovering who is drinking from the milk bottles left outside his apartment every morning, so he ties some cord to a bottle which will alert him when it is taken, and through this he finds the culprit to be a homeless war veteran. The vagrant apologises but the obsessive Harlan attacks him, knocking him down and seemingly cracking his skull.

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Dance 'Til Dawn (1988)

Comedy, teen film

It's the day of the senior prom at Herbert Hoover High School. The celebration has been organized by one of the popular girls at the school, the beautiful but spoiled Patrice Johnson (Christina Applegate). When Shelley Sheridan (Alyssa Milano) and her jock boyfriend Kevin McCrea (Brian Bloom) break up just before the prom because she refuses to sleep with him, they are both forced to try to find new dates on short notice.

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The Vicious Kind (2009)

Comedy drama, Family Comedy, Family Drama, romantic comedy

Peter is an idealistic college student on Thanksgiving break, and his older brother Caleb is begrudgingly giving him a ride home. At school, Peter has found a new girlfriend, Emma Gainsborough, and Caleb immediately grills him for details. We find out that Emma and Peter met while Emma was dating another fraternity boy.

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Young Bess (1953)

Biography, Drama, Historie, romance film

Following the execution of Princess Elizabeth's mother, Queen Anne Boleyn, for infidelity, King Henry VIII declares his daughter illegitimate, removes her from the line of succession to the throne, and exiles her to Hatfield House. Joining her in Hatfield are her loyal servants, governess Mistress Ashley and Mr. Parry.

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Falling from Grace (1992)

Drama

Music superstar Bud Parks, along with his statuesque wife, Alice, and their approximately eight-year-old daughter, Terri Jo, return to his small hometown, fictional Doak City, Indiana, for his paternal grandfather's 80th birthday. Initially, the visit is light-hearted and Bud receives a hero's welcome from many of his relatives and fans. But what is supposed to be a three-day visit of fun quickly turns into much more.

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The Christmas Setup (2020)

Drama, LGBTQ-related film, romantic comedy

Lawyer Hugo Spencer returns home to Milwaukee with best friend Madelyn McKay over Christmas. His mother, Kate Spencer, immediately sets up a list of chores and Christmas activities for her sons, Hugo and Aiden, who returns later that week. While there, Hugo runs into Patrick Ryan, a boy he crushed on in high school.

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Safe Harbour (2007)

Drama

Philippa Mackenzie was once a normal 13-year-old kid with a happy life, but she becomes lonely when her dad Ted Mackenzie and brother Chad Mackenzie, die in a plane crash, and she has to live with a clinically depressed mom. ‘Pip’ and Ophelia are currently residents in a rest home, Safe Harbour, by the Pacific Ocean, in San Francisco. Her mother, Ophelia Mackenzie, overcome with grief and survivor's guilt, loses appetite for food and sleeps most of her time away.

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The Joker Is Wild (1957)

Biography, Drama, musical film

In 1929, Joe E. Lewis is a successful nightclub singer in Chicago while working for the Mob during the Prohibition era. His decision to work elsewhere displeases his Mob employer, who has his thugs assault him by slashing his face and throat, preventing him from continuing his career as a singer.

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The Only Game in Town (1970)

Drama, romance film

Fran Walker is an aging Las Vegas chorus girl. She has given her wealthy San Francisco, California-based married lover Tom Lockwood, whom she has not seen in six months, ultimatum after ultimatum about leaving his wife, but always ends up back in his arms, despite him not having submitted to her ultimatum. Fran continually tells herself that Tom will one day come through, regardless of whether she truly believes it.

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Night Catches Us (2010)

Drama

In 1976, former Black Panther Marcus (Anthony Mackie) returns to his Philadelphia neighborhood to attend his father's funeral. Marcus has been away for several years, part of the time spent in prison on gun running charges and part spent wandering the country. Marcus has a reputation for having snitched on a fellow Panther which led to his death when the police tried to arrest him.

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Esther (1999)

Bible Film, Biography, Drama, Monumental Film

Hadassah, a beautiful Jewish girl, lives with her cousin (and legal guardian) Mordecai in Shushan, the capital of Persia. After King Ahasuerus deposes Queen Vashti for her refusal to obey him, he is advised to choose a new queen. Guards then search the entire kingdom for worthy candidates, taking them from their homes by force to the palace.

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Amour apocalypse (2025)

romantic comedy

Adam is a kennel owner from Montreal who has depression and eco-anxiety. After buying a light therapy box to counter his symptoms, he falls in love with Tina, the customer service representative who helps him set up the device over the phone, and sets off to Sudbury to find her.

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Alfie Darling (1975)

Comedy drama, romantic comedy

After experiencing a failure in the ending of the earlier film, Alfie – now working as a London to France HGV driver alongside Bakey – decides to get back to his old self. And his new occupation provides new opportunities to do so. The film starts as Bakey drives the truck through customs in France, while Alfie has sex with an English hitchhiker (listed in the cast as 'Bird') in the back of the vehicle until a customs' officer catches her topless.

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Platinum Blonde (1931)

romantic comedy

Stewart "Stew" Smith, ace reporter for the Post, is assigned to get the story about the latest escapade of playboy Michael Schuyler, a breach of promise suit by chorus girl Gloria Golden, who has been paid to drop it. Unlike rival Daily Tribune reporter Bingy Baker, he turns down a $50 bribe from Dexter Grayson, the Schuylers' lawyer, to not write anything. He does pretend to be swayed by the pleas of Anne, Michael's sister, but then brazenly calls his editor with the scoop, appalling the Schuylers.

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