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Drama, romance film
Teresa, a postulant at the convent of Miraflores in Salamanca, Spain, is an orphan taken in by the sisters there. She enjoys the convent life, despite being a handful for her superiors. She sings worldly love songs to the other postulants and reads secular stories and plays such as Romeo and Juliet.
LGBTQ-related film, mystery film, romance film, thriller film
A man by the name of Chris Jensen (Jack Brockett) is out to kill a person he swore on his best friend's death bed to protect. Chris is torn between his allegiance to his fallen friend, Tyler Townsend (Addison Graham), who died in Afghanistan, and Tyler's half-sister, who hires Chris to kill her late brother's gay lover. The lover, Andrew Warner (Sean Paul Lockhart), stands to inherit half of the family's multi-million dollar company left to him by Tyler.
Comedy, romantic comedy
David Sloane is a confirmed bachelor whose married pal Harry Hunter is having an affair. David decides to do something about it so Harry doesn't mess up his home life. The scheme is to make a play for Harry's mistress himself.
Comedy, Drama, romance film
left|thumb|Myrna Loy and Clark Gable High-end magazine publisher Van Stanhope and his wife, Linda, are celebrating their third wedding anniversary. They are very much in love, and demonstrate it in every way. However, Van's secretary, the beautiful and bright Helen "Whitey" Wilson, is thought by Van's mother to be too great a temptation to him.
Drama, romance film
The film is set in the early 1900s. It tells the story of a pretty and independent young woman, Ray Smith, who lives in Cincinnati. She has many suitors, none of whom she takes seriously.
Comedy, romance film, romantic comedy
When Byron (George) hits the big time, no one is happier than his girlfriend Tiffany (Lewis) - that is, until she catches him flirting with his sly new project manager Carla (Kellita Smith). While contemplating whether to break it off with Byron, Tiffany's best friend tells her about a specialist for women whose men can not control their primitive urges. Enter Ms.
Comedy, romance film, romantic comedy
Young mattress salesman Brian decides to adopt a baby from China. Brian's life becomes more complicated and contemplative when he forms a relationship with quirky, wealthy Harriet, whom he meets at his mattress store.
Comedy, romance film
Ruth Sherwood, a reporter for the Columbus Courier, finds herself embroiled in a series of misfortunes after inadvertently publishing a premature and erroneous review of her sister Eileen's theatrical performance. This blunder results in Ruth's dismissal from her position. Encouraged by their grandmother, the two sisters, Ruth and Eileen, decide to relocate to New York City, armed with meager financial resources provided by their father.
romantic comedy, Tragicomedy
Scott has been in and out of rehab programs for eight years. He is haunted by the ghost of his dead mother. She talks to him, and presses him to return home to Louisiana, to the family he turned his back on years ago.
Comedy, Erotic Film, musical film, Raunchy comedy
On his twenty-first birthday, a prince is approached by his father (the king) and other courtiers. They present him a girl as birthday gift. The king asks him to enjoy sexual life and to produce the next heir.
Action, Drama, romance film, war film
Colonel Pieter Deventer is an intelligence agent of the exiled Dutch government, working to liberate his homeland from Nazi occupiers during World War II. He is discovered by a German signals operation targeting him and captured while making his final broadcast. He is courted by the top German officer involved, also a colonel, who tries to entice him to become a double agent.
Drama, romance film
Comedy, romantic comedy
Love Is All There Is is a modern retelling of the Romeo and Juliet story, and it is set in the Bronx. The Capomezzos, Bronx-born Sicilians, own a local catering business. They develop a bitter rivalry with the pretentious Malacicis, recent immigrants from Florence and owners of a fine Italian restaurant.
romance film
Months after the end of the Civil War, Henry Carson, a schoolteacher before the war, walks through a rural region of the Missouri hills. He spends the night with the MacBean family: farmer Gill, his wife Sairy, and two of their children, young woman Lissy Anne and youngster Andrew. Another son, Ben, had run off to fight in the war; the family's hope that he is alive and will someday return is gradually waning.
Drama, Melodrama, romance film
During Carnival in early-20th-century Spain, the boulevards of Seville are jammed with revelers wearing grotesque costumes and masks. A detachment of Civil Guards stagger among the masquerading merrymakers. Antonio Galvan, a young bourgeois revolutionary home from his exile in Paris to visit his parents, mixes with the crowds while evading the authorities pursuing him.
Drama, musical film, romance film
thumb|thumbtime=10|The Great Gabbo (1929) Brilliant ventriloquist Gabbo increasingly uses his dummy "Otto" as his only means of self-expression—an artist driven insane by his work. Gabbo's gimmick is his astonishing ability to make Otto talk—and even sing—while Gabbo himself smokes, drinks, and eats. Gabbo's girlfriend and assistant Mary loves him, but is driven to leave him by his megalomania, superstitions, irritability, and inability to express any human emotion without using Otto as an intermediary.
Coming-of-age, Drama, romance film
College student David is having sex with a woman named Shelly until his girlfriend then pounds on his dorm room, demanding to know who is in there with him. Wearing only a towel, Shelly goes into the room next door, which belongs to David's friend Elgin. Shelly says that she will only be there until David finishes having sex with his girlfriend; but it takes a lot longer.
romantic comedy
Following a whirlwind romance and marriage, Ski instructor Karin Borg (Greta Garbo) learns, to her chagrin, that her new husband Larry Blake (Melvyn Douglas), editor of a fashion magazine, expects her to be a dutiful, submissive wife and not the independent woman she was when they met. They separate and Larry returns to New York City, where he takes up again with playwright Griselda Vaughn (Constance Bennett), with whom he was involved before his marriage. Karin travels to New York to thwart the romance and win her husband back by masquerading as her spurious twin sister Katherine Borg, a wild, amoral "modern" woman.
musical film, romance film
Peggy Martin and her mother Mae both work as burlesque chorus girls. After star Bubbles LaRue quits, stage manager Joe asks Mae to perform a special number, but Mae secretly arranges for Peggy to take the opportunity. Peggy's performance is so good that she is offered the starring spot.
romantic comedy
Set during the summer of 1987, Cruise focuses on Gio Fortunato, a blue-collar Italian-American who is preoccupied with car racing and chasing women. Life starts to change for Fortunato when he meets Jessica Weinberg, a "nice Jewish girl" from Long Island who ventures into Gio's neighborhood looking for some action.
Comedy, Comedy drama
Manhattanite Julie Messinger, a complacent housewife and mother of two raucous young sons Matthew and Nicky, is married to Richard, a chauvinistic and self-centered magazine art director and author of a best-selling children's book. When he falls into a coma during minor surgery to remove a nonmalignant mole on his neck, Julie learns from his doctor, Dr. Timmy Spector, that another surgeon nicked his artery, necessitating a blood transfusion to which he had a rare allergic reaction.
Drama, fantasy film, romance film
Julia, a young American woman living in Trieste, Italy, is widowed on her wedding day when her husband Paolo is killed in a car accident for which she is partly responsible. Six years later, Julia still lives in Trieste and works full-time at a local tourist travel office. She still keeps in close touch with Paolo's parents, but is cold and distant to her co-workers at the office and refuses to move on with her life or resume dating.
Comedy
Cleavon, Zenobia, Victoria, and Phil are all friends over the age of 35 and struggling to build the families they've always dreamed of. While Cleavon is still looking for the woman of his dreams, Victoria is married to a man who doesn't want children, Zenobia meanwhile, is too geeky to get a man, and Phil is already married with children, but his wife is not very interested in being a mother. All four of them try to rectify their romantic lives and futures while their biological clocks tick away.
romance film
In New York City, Ruth Wood works as a secretary for Excelsior Shoe Manufacturing Company, and lives with her elderly mother, Agnes. Ruth's co-workers are Grace Ullman and Millie Kranz, who is having an affair with her married boss, Stephen Jalonik. One evening after work, Arthur Hugenon, a G.I.