The Holiday Sitter (2022)
Comedy, romance film, romantic comedy
Romance movies
Explore romantic relationships, love and its complications.
Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 9,657 films · Page 184.
Off Beat (1986)
Comedy, romance film, romantic comedy
Joe Gower is a likable librarian who glides around his job on roller skates. He has a strict boss, Neil Pepper, and a good friend who's a cop, Abe Washington. A mistake Joe makes inadvertently messes up Washington's undercover work.
Only You (1992)
romantic comedy
Clifford Godfrey is a doll's house designer who is dumped by his fiancée a few hours before they are to depart for a vacation in Mexico. Clare Enfield, a travel agent, informs Cliff that his tickets are non-refundable. Upset, Cliff goes to a bar where he meets Amanda Hughes, a woman recently dumped by her rich boyfriend Max after he reunited with his estranged wife.
Klimt (2006)
Biography, Drama
This art house film is presented in the format of a sequence of nearly two dozen often disassociated vignettes taken from the life of Gustav Klimt and visualized by him in his recollection. All of this occurs while he is being treated late in life in hospital using mercury treatments for advanced syphilis which he had contracted earlier in his life. In his advanced age, Klimt has become a leading artist in Vienna and his work is celebrated at all levels of society in Austria.
Two Cars, One Night (2004)
Drama, romance film
One night, the Te Kaha hotel pub carpark is parked by a sedan with nine-year-old boys Ed and Romeo in it. As time passes, another sedan neighbours them, with the two adults, Koro and Tangata, exiting, leaving the child, 12-year-old Polly, alone. Romeo teases her, then vice versa.
Bathing Beauty (1944)
aqua-musical, Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy
In Los Angeles, songwriter Steve Elliot prepares to marry Caroline Brooks, who has pledged to give up her job as a college swimming instructor. Likewise, Steve plans to quit his songwriting career, even though New York producer George Adams has already hired him to write new songs for a water ballet show. When George overhears Steve discussing his "retirement" with Caroline, he vows to prevent it and enlists Maria Dorango, an aspiring actress posing as a Latin-American singer, to help him.
Book of Love (1990)
romantic comedy
Jack Twiller (Michael McKean) gets greetings from a long-gone high-school girlfriend. This makes him open his school's yearbook - his "Book of Love". He remembers the old times, way back in the 1950s, when he was in his last year of high school (Chris Young) and his family just moved to the town.
Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)
musical film, romantic comedy
Two sisters, Jean and Patsy Deyo, are born into a vaudeville family, and when they grow up, start an act themselves. One night, they invite a bunch of servicemen to their apartment. They are both attracted to a sailor named Johnny.
Crazy Kind of Love (2013)
Comedy drama, romance film, romantic comedy
Depressed after getting dumped by her cheating husband, Augusta recovers from a resulting nervous breakdown by way of observing her two sons, 18-year-old Henry and older brother Matthew, as they come of age.
There There (2022)
Comedy, romance film
A series of short scenes featuring two characters at a time, playing with our perceptions and expectations in a disorienting reality not far removed from our own. A lover's doubt in the harsh light of morning leads to a chain of awkward intimacies—confidants, disruptors, peacemakers, and instigators—each seeking a measure of faith rewarded.
Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)
Crime, Drama, musical film, romance film
Jazz cornetist Pete Kelly (Jack Webb) and his Big Seven are the house band at the 17 Club, a speakeasy in Kansas City in 1927 during Prohibition. Crime boss Fran McCarg (Edmond O'Brien) is moving in on the local music scene and wants a percentage of the band's meager earnings. When the band resists, Kelly decides to decline the strongarm and see what happens.
Saratoga Trunk (1945)
Adventure, Drama, romance film
New Orleans, 1875. Clio Dulaine returns, plotting revenge for her mother Rita, who had been mistress to a member of the Dulaine family. After he illicitly fathered Clio and his family forced him to marry a woman of his own class, Rita tried to shoot herself.
Talk Back and You're Dead (2014)
Action, romantic comedy, teen film
A boy and a girl in costumes promise each other that they will someday marry. In the present day, Miracle Samantha Perez is inside a bookstore and notices her friend Michie confronting Timothy Odelle "Top" Pendleton with his girlfriend outside. Samantha assumes Top is cheating on Michie and joins the scene.
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)
romantic comedy
On the French Riviera, wealthy American businessman Michael Brandon wants to buy pajamas, but just the tops. When the store refuses to sell the pajamas without the pants, an attractive woman named Nicole offers to buy the bottoms. As the two engage in a flirtatious conversation about Michael's insomnia, Nicole recommends that he spell "Czechoslovakia" backwards when he goes to bed to help him fall asleep.
National Lampoon's Adam & Eve (2005)
Comedy, Drama, romance film
Adam is a college senior and an aspiring singer/songwriter. He meets Eve, a beautiful, bright student and talented sports still photographer. They begin dating and Adam is surprised to learn that Eve is still a virgin because she does not wish to have sex until it feels right for her.
There’s Always Tomorrow (1956)
Drama, Melodrama, romance film
Toy manufacturer Clifford Groves lives a routine life in Pasadena. His three adolescent children, son Vinnie and daughters Ellen and Frankie, and his wife Marion pay him little attention. One night while Cliff is alone at home, Norma Miller, one of his first employees whom he has not seen for 20 years, makes a surprise visit.
Three Ages (1923)
Comedy, Parody, romantic comedy, silent film
Three plots in three different historical periods — prehistoric times, ancient Rome, and the Roaring Twenties — are intercut to prove the point that man's love for woman has not significantly changed throughout history. In all three plots, characters played by the small and slight Buster Keaton and Wallace Beery compete for the attention of the same woman, played by Margaret Leahy. Each plot follows similar "arcs" in the story line in which Keaton's character works for his beloved's attention and eventually wins her over.
The Eclipse (2010)
Drama, Family Drama, Mysterie, Psychodrama, romance film
Michael Farr (Ciarán Hinds) is a depressed widower who works as a teacher in the small seaside town of Cobh, in County Cork, Ireland, where he lives with his two children. While he continues to adjust to life without his beloved wife, who died two years earlier, he begins to experience strange, possibly supernatural occurrences connected to his elderly father-in-law, who is close to death in a local nursing home. When Michael volunteers at the town's annual literary festival, he is assigned to look after Lena Morrell (Iben Hjejle).
I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987)
Comedy, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Melodrama, romance film
Polly is a worker for a temporary secretarial agency. Polly serves as the narrator for the film, and there are frequent sequences portraying her whimsical fantasies. Polly lives alone, seems to have no friends and enjoys solitary bicycle rides to undertake her hobby of photography.
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965)
Comedy, romantic comedy
In 18th-century England, orphan girl Moll Flanders becomes a servant for the town's mayor, who has two grown sons. Moll has a romantic relationship with the eldest son, but after he abandons her, she marries the younger son, a drunken fool who dies, making her a young widow. Moll is employed by Lady Blystone as a servant.
Private Lives (1931)
Comedy, comedy of remarriage, romantic comedy
Elyot Chase and Amanda Prynne, divorced after a tempestuous marriage, are dismayed to discover they both have opted to honeymoon with their new spouses at the same hotel on the French Riviera. Elyot finds his bride Sybil's questions about Amanda annoying, while Amanda wishes her new husband Victor would stop referring to Elyot every chance he gets. When Elyot discovers Amanda on the terrace their adjoining suites share, he insists he and Sybil immediately depart for Paris, the same plan Amanda proposes to Victor.
Free Enterprise (1998)
romantic comedy
The film deals with the mid-life crises of its two main protagonists, Mark (Eric McCormack) and Robert (Rafer Weigel), fictionalized versions of the film's director and producer/writer. The two friends struggle with adult career and relationship problems, all the while defiantly clinging to the geeky science fiction popular culture of their youth and seeking advice from their greatest hero, William Shatner. Shatner plays a campy caricature of himself as he works on a one-man musical version of Julius Caesar in hopes of finally being taken seriously as a dramatist and musical performer.
Onionhead (1958)
Comedy drama
In the spring of 1941, Al Woods quits an Oklahoma college to join the armed forces after a quarrel with his co-ed sweetheart, Jo. He joins the Coast Guard, partly by chance due to the flip of a coin. After boot training, Al is assigned to a buoy tender in Boston, the Periwinkle, as a ship's cook, although he has no cooking experience.
Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955)
musical film, romantic comedy
left|275px|thumb|Jeanne Crain and Jane Russell in scene from film's trailer. Bonnie and Connie Jones, played by Jane Russell and Jeanne Crain, are two sisters that live in New York working on Broadway. They are known as the second generation of the Jones sisters, taking the name after their mother, Mitzi Jones, who also performed popularly with her sister, Mimi Jones.