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Comedy, romantic comedy
Simon Sparrow, now a senior doctor at Hampden Cross Hospital, falls in love with Delia, a model and aspiring actress. They eventually move in together, but then she goes to Italy to audition for a film. Meanwhile, Sir Lancelot Spratt injures his back in a fall.
Biography, Crime, Drama, romance film, silent film
Cited as one of the first full-length gangster films, Regeneration tells the story of a poor orphan who rises to control the mob until he meets a woman for whom he wants to change. The film is a "candid adaptation" of the autobiography of Owen Frawley Kildare, called the Kipling of the Bowery. The story follows the life of Owen, a young Irish American boy who is forced into a life of poverty after his mother dies.
Comedy, Heist, romantic comedy
Harry Lucas (Jim Hutton) works at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington, D.C. He has an admirer in sweet co-worker Verna Baxter (Dorothy Provine), who tries to woo him by giving him home-made, yet famously inedible fudge, but he avoids her because he doesn't feel ready for anything serious. He also has a nemesis in co-worker and supervisor Samson Link (David J.
Furniture supplier Ram (Derek Ramsay) is happily married to Charmaine (Cristine Reyes). One day, he lands a big client, a new luxury resort, but needs the help of Kara (Anne Curtis), the daughter of the resort's owner, to finalize the deal. Kara's help comes with a price because she wants Ram to be her lover.
Comedy drama, Drama, romantic comedy
Biography
On August 19, 1966, protestors burn their Beatles records and paraphernalia after John Lennon says The Beatles are more popular than Jesus. When a firecracker is thrown onto the stage the group decides to stop touring. John meets Yoko Ono, who is married and has a daughter.
Drama, romance film
At a reception honoring her work with blind and orphaned children, elderly Lydia Macmillan meets an old acquaintance, Dr. Michael Fitzpatrick, who has been in unrequited love with her for forty years. Accepting Michael's invitation to tea, Lydia discovers that he has also invited Bob Willard, a football quarterback she knew when a young woman, and pianist Frank Audrey, who once worked at Lydia's orphanage.
romance film, romantic comedy
Ben and Lulu were one time college sweethearts who shared an intense passionate affair that circled around Lulu's untreated mental health condition, a condition which eventually leads to her hospitalisation and their separation. Now Ben is a successful professional writer in a personally distant relationship with his wife Claire. Lulu leaves her treatment facility and seeks out a reluctant Ben to reveal that fifteen years ago they had a child whom she placed in adoption.
Comedy
Three single men gather at a local restaurant every Sunday, so they can discuss each other's sex lives; however, when each one of them falls in love with a beautiful girl named Mia (Amanda Peet), their weekly ritual becomes something of a trial, and their once strong friendships are put at risk.
Comedy, Comedy drama, Coming-of-age, Drama, teen film
The film follows Grace (Eva Amurri), a young woman whose irresponsible mother, Rhonda (Susan Sarandon), ruins her daughter's credit rating. Rhonda uses the money to finance Grace's younger sister, Taylor's (Willa Holland), modeling campaign. While working a summer job, Grace meets the lonely Dorian Spitz (Anton Yelchin) and they start selling drugs together for extra cash.
romantic comedy
Anthony Wayne, the head of mergers and acquisitions for a NYC bank, is hired by a Parisian bank to take over for someone who has suddenly left. Nicole Chantrelle is frustrated to not be promoted, as her boss C.P. has head-hunted Wayne rather than consider her.
Comedy, Science fiction
Hyde Pierce, acting out the role of an alien (credited as "infinity-cubed" in the opening credits), narrates a courtship in a late 20th-century American city, presenting findings and opinions as an extraterrestrial nature documentary. The relationship "footage" is played straight, while the voice-over (with its most often wildly inaccurate theories) and elaborate visual metaphors add comedy. Among other themes the film explores the possibility that, whenever describing their interpretations of other species' acts and feelings, humans may get everything wrong.
Comedy, Crime, romance film, romantic comedy
Beautiful, young, sexy Madeleine de Beaupre selects a string of perfect pearls worth millions of francs at a posh Parisian jeweler. She cons the owner Aristide Duvalle into believing she is married to an eminent and wealthy psychiatrist, Maurice Pauquet, and has him deliver the pearls to Pauquet's office in order for him to pay for them. Before the scheduled time she meets Pauquet there and tells him her husband has delusions of needing to collect debts and needs to be examined.
Comedy, LGBTQ-related film, Tragicomedy
Paul Prentice and Karl Foyle were close friends during their secondary school days. Paul used to defend Karl from the violent attacks of their classmates, who ridiculed Karl for being effeminate. Some years later they are reunited literally by accident, when Paul, on the motorcycle he rides as a courier, runs into the cab that Karl (who has undergone surgery and is named Kim) is riding in.
Adventure, buddy film, Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy
The film starts with con-artist Chuck Reardon singing "You Lucky People, You" as a side-show caller at an African circus advertising an act featuring his friend Hubert "Fearless" Frazier. "Fearless" poses as a human cannonball, but quickly substitutes a dummy at the last minute and hides in a secret compartment. The flaming dummy sets the big tent on fire and the two of them flee through Africa.
Drama
In 1918, Riyo is a young Japanese woman who becomes a picture bride for a man who works as a field hand on a sugarcane plantation in Hawaii. It is Riyo's aunt who facilitates the match as Riyo's father has long been deceased. Riyo is shown a picture of the handsome Matsuji, her husband-to-be in Hawaii.
LGBTQ-related film, romantic comedy
Set in 1884, the story focuses on Dolly Gallagher Levi, a widow who supports herself by a variety of means, with matchmaking as her primary source of income. Horace Vandergelder, a wealthy but miserly merchant from Yonkers, New York, has hired her to find him a wife, but unbeknownst to him, Dolly is determined to fill the position herself. When he expresses his intent to travel to New York City to woo milliner Irene Molloy, Dolly shows him the photograph of a woman she calls Miss Ernestina Simple and tells him the buxom beauty would be a far better choice for him.
Comedy drama, romantic comedy, Tragicomedy
Susan, a flighty society matron, returns from Europe earlier than expected waxing enthusiastic about a new religious movement. She is estranged from her intelligent and sensitive husband Barrie, who has been driven to drink by his wife's insensitivity, and she has neglected her introverted and maladjusted daughter Blossom. Barrie tries to meet her ship (SS Normandie) as it arrives in New York City, but she avoids him and absconds to the country home of her friend Irene Burroughs.
Drama, Romantic drama, Western
Zandy Allan is a hard-working cattle rancher in a remote part of the American West who needs a hired hand more than he needs a wife. He sends away for a mail-order bride, a Swedish woman who lives near Minneapolis. Expecting a woman in her 20s, Zandy is disappointed when Hannah Lund turns out to be 32.
Drama, romantic comedy
Sisters Sarah and Beth are in relationships with bandmates Andrew and Kevin. Beth is making plans for her wedding with Andrew. Sarah, an artist, moves in with Kevin but struggles to overcome her ambivalence.
Western
Drifter Logan Cates (Rory Calhoun) spies the desert at a watering hole when he sees Apache Indians about to attack three cowboys. He fires warning shots into the air, allowing the cowboys to flee. Sometime later, Cates encounters a young woman whose parents have been tortured and murdered by Apache Indians.
Melodrama, Pirate Film, romance film, swashbuckler film, war film
In the closing stages of the War of 1812, Dolly Madison evacuates the White House as the British Army arrives and burns Washington. Jean Lafitte asks a young woman of good family, Annette de Remy, to marry him, but she asks him to give up his piracy first. He and his pirates set up a trading post in Louisiana in the swamp to sell luxury goods to New Orleans society that they have seized from foreign ships but have to suspend their sales when the governor, Ferdinand Claiborne, who has put a bounty on his head, appears with troops.
Action, Drama, Political Thriller, romance film, thriller film
The subject of her professor's romantic designs, Elizabeth Carlson, a college girl from Wisconsin, packs up and moves to New York City, finding a job as a waitress. At the same time, she attempts to launch a career as a fashion model. As her career takes off, she meets Daniel Jelline, a violinist, who stalks Elizabeth until they begin an affair.
Horror, mystery film, romance film
Sophia Monet is a young woman battling depression after losing both her parents in the last six months. She becomes increasingly isolated and convinces herself that she'll never see her parents again, dismissing any notion of an afterlife. She is drawn out of this flux when she meets a new love interest, Adam Hunt.