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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 191.

Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928)

Drama, Melodrama, romance film, silent film

left|thumb|thumbtime=12|Laugh, Clown, Laugh (full film) Tito, a traveling circus clown, finds an abandoned child. He adopts her and raises her as his daughter, naming her Simonetta after his brother Simon. One day the now-teenaged Simonetta encounters Count Luigi Ravelli, a wealthy man who falls madly in love with her.

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And While We Were Here (2012)

Drama, romance film

Jane and her husband, Leonard, travel to Naples, where Leonard has been hired to teach and perform with his instrument of choice, the viola. Jane and Leonard have a strained marriage, with Leonard, in Jane's belief, not being a supportive or caring husband. Jane is writing a sort of memoir about her grandmother's experiences in the world wars while her husband is at work.

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Weather Girl (2009)

Comedy, romantic comedy

Sylvia Miller, a Seattle morning show weather television personality, after learning her boyfriend Dale Waters and anchor for their show has cheated on her with his co-anchor Sherry, shames him on air. Her live freak out includes quitting her job. Sylvia is forced to move in with her younger brother, as she was living with Dale.

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The Match (1999)

association football film, romantic comedy

In the Scottish village of Inverdoune, teams representing the village's two pubs—Benny's Bar and Le Bistro—have played an annual football game for 99 consecutive years. Under the terms of the original bet, the loser of the 100th match must forfeit their bar to the winner. Facing its 100th consecutive loss, Benny's Bar looks set to be bulldozed and replaced with a car park by the odious owner of Le Bistro, "Gorgeous" George Gus (Richard E.

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Cool Blue (1988)

romantic comedy

An aspiring painter named Dustin Pennett is on a search for love, sex, and inspiration when he meets a woman named Christiane at an art gallery. They spend the night together at her apartment, but the next morning she has disappeared, leaving Dustin heartbroken. He visits her family home in Southern California and learns from her younger sister that Christiane ran away at a young age after having an abortion, also finding out that "Christiane's" apartment was actually a display room she had broken them into.

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Now You Know (2002)

Comedy

On the eve of his bachelor party, Jeremy (Jeremy Sisto) learns that his fiancée, Kerri (Rashida Jones), wants to call off their wedding without providing a reason. He tries to determine what caused this sudden decision. The unmarried couple returns to New Jersey to sort out their relationship.

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40 Guns to Apache Pass (1967)

Western

In the Arizona Territory of 1868, the Apaches, led by Cochise (Michael Keep), are on the warpath. Army Captain Bruce Coburn (Audie Murphy) is tasked with escorting homesteaders to Apache Wells where they can concentrate their defense against the Apaches. But there is dissension in the ranks as some of the men under Coburn's command feel they are being driven too hard.

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Dust (2001)

Drama, Western

In present-day New York City, a young criminal, Edge, is confronted at gunpoint by an ailing old woman, Angela, whose apartment he is attempting to burgle. While he awaits an opportunity to escape, she launches into a tale about two outlaw brothers, Luke and Elijah, at the turn of the 20th century, who travel to Ottoman-controlled Macedonia. The two brothers have transient ill will between them, and they become estranged when confronted with a beautiful woman, Lilith.

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Un plan parfait (2012)

romantic comedy

Isabelle is prepared to marry Pierre, the man she has loved for the past ten years, but first must overcome a curse that afflicts the female members of her family: all their first marriages are unhappy. She comes up with the perfect plan: marry a stranger, get a quick divorce to avoid the curse, and be happily married forever the second time. She flies to Copenhagen and finds the perfect pigeon in Jean-Yves, an editor for the Guide du Routard, but her plans are complicated when he believes that she is in love with him.

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Younger & Younger (1993)

Comedy, Comedy drama, romantic comedy

Jonathan Younger owns a self-storage facility, and runs it with his wife Penny, with who he has a strained relationship. One day Penny, a plain and skittish woman, is startled by a great deal of noise Jonathan makes with an organ and dies from a heart attack. Jonathan's college-aged son Winston returns home for the funeral and to help run the family business.

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Lo (2009)

Comedy horror, Horror, romance film, romantic comedy

Justin (Ward Roberts) sits inside a pentagram. He has obvious claw marks on his chest. He cuts his hand and uses a spell from a book to summon the crippled demon Lo (Jeremiah Birkett).

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Angel (1937)

Comedy, Drama, romance film, Tragicomedy

Maria, Lady Barker, is the wealthy but neglected wife of Sir Frederick Barker, a top-level British diplomat. Although Frederick loves her, he has been neglecting her in favor of his busy career. One day, when he is in Geneva on important business, she secretly flies to Paris to ask advice from her old friend, the Russian Grand Duchess Anna Dmitrievna, who operates a high-class escort business.

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Something of Value (1957)

Drama, romance film, war film

In British-ruled Kenya in 1945, members of the Kikuyu tribe work for considerate white settler Henry McKenzie. Both in their early twenties, Henry's son Peter and black worker Kimani Wa Karanja are close friends, having been raised as brothers since the death of Henry's wife. One day, when Kimani asks to use a rifle during a lion hunt, Peter's brother-in-law, Jeff Newton, slaps him and reminds him that he cannot have the gun nor can he continue his friendship with Peter.

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Today We Live (1933)

Drama, romance film, war film

During World War I, Diana "Ann" Boyce-Smith is an English girl living on her father's estate in Kent. The estate is bought by a wealthy American, Richard Bogard, who seeks to move into his new property. Right as Bogard arrives, Ann and the house's servants find out that her father has been killed in action, but Ann projects calm and brave graciousness and moves to the guest cottage without complaint.

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Two for the Seesaw (1962)

Comedy drama, Drama, romance film

Jerry Ryan (Mitchum) is a lawyer from Nebraska who has recently separated from his wife, Tess, and moved into a shabby apartment in New York City. He is struggling with the divorce, which is still being finalized, and takes long walks at night. At a party, he meets Gittel Mosca (MacLaine), a struggling dancer.

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Toward the Unknown (1956)

Drama, romance film

USAF Major Lincoln Bond was captured during the Korean War and subjected to torture, finally cracking after 14 months and signing a confession used for propaganda. Upon his release, he took a year to recover from the ordeal before showing up at the Flight Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base, hoping to return to work as a test pilot. On his arrival a plane crash lands nearby on the dry lake bed; he races to offer assistance, braving flames and explosion to attempt to pry the canopy free and save the pilot.

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Curtain Call (1999)

Comedy, fantasy film, romantic comedy, speculative fiction

Stevenson Lowe (James Spader) has a publishing business that's in trouble and a girlfriend (Polly Walker), who is also being pursued by a U.S. Senator (Sam Shepard). Stevenson buys a townhouse, for himself, which disappoints her.

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Looking for Leonard (2002)

Comedy, Comedy drama, Crime, Drama, romance film

The film stars Benjamin Ratner as Ted and Darcy Belsher as Johnny, an aimless pair of brothers in Montreal who regularly commit small-scale crimes with the help of Ted's girlfriend Jo (Kim Huffman). Jo, however, is more ambivalent about the trio's lifestyle, and spends most of her time reading Leonard Cohen's novel Beautiful Losers while entertaining fantasies of meeting and running off with Cohen to lead a more fulfilling and interesting life. Jo then meets Luka (Joel Bissonnette), an immigrant from the Czech Republic whom she becomes smitten with and begins to date; one day, however, a confrontation between Luka and Ted leaves Luka…

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Going Ape! (1981)

Comedy, romance film

Struggling slacker Foster Sabatini is the only member of his circus family who left the life, greatly disappointing his wealthy father Max. When Max dies, Foster and his sisters (who all hate Foster) are shocked to hear that Max left his entire estate to Foster, but only on the condition that Foster must care for his father's beloved trio of orangutans. Along with the orangutans, Foster also inherits the services of Lazlo, Max's manservant & protégé.

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