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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 197.

Naughty Marietta (1935)

musical film, Pirate Film, romance film

To avoid an arranged marriage to Don Carlos, an elderly Spanish duke, Princess Marie masquerades as her uncle's former servant, Marietta, and escapes from France on a ship with casquette girls who are traveling to New Orleans to marry colonists. On board, Marietta befriends Julie. En route, the women discuss what type of man they want to marry.

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Some Velvet Morning (2013)

Drama, romance film

Set entirely inside a rowhouse located in Brooklyn, New York City, and taking place in real time featuring a cast of only two people: a middle-aged lawyer named Fred (Stanley Tucci) surprises his beautiful young mistress Velvet (Alice Eve) by arriving at her doorstep after four years, claiming to have finally left his wife. After she rejects his attempts to rekindle their romance, his persistence evolves into obsession. As tensions rise, a dark history between the former lovers comes into focus.

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Easy Virtue (1927)

Drama, romantic comedy, silent film

thumb|thumbtime=5|Easy Virtue (1928) In 1926, Larita Filton testifies at her divorce. In a flashback, her husband, a drunken brute named Aubrey Filton, is getting drunk in an artist's studio, as Mrs. Filton's portrait is being painted.

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Hands Across the Table (1935)

Daffy Comedy, romantic comedy

thumb|left|Fred MacMurray and Carole Lombard in Hands Across the Table Brought up in poverty, New York City hotel manicurist Regi Allen is determined to marry a rich husband. Her new client, wheelchair-using hotel guest Allen Macklyn, is immediately attracted to her and becomes her confidant. Despite his obvious wealth, Regi does not view him as a potential husband, and has no qualms about telling him about her goal in life.

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Ten Seconds to Hell (1959)

Action, Drama, thriller film, war film

In post-war Berlin, British Major Haven recruits members of what's left of a returning German bomb disposal unit—Hans Globke, Peter Tillig, Wolfgang Sulke, Franz Loeffler, Karl Wirtz and Eric Koertner—to defuse unexploded Allied bombs throughout the city. Karl bets Eric that he will outlive him. The other men soon agree that half of their salaries will go to the survivors in three months' time.

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Aichaku (2025)

Drama, LGBTQ-related film, romance film, Romantic drama

Lucas, an American expat, works as an English teacher at a struggling small language school in a rural town of Chiba Prefecture, Japan. He lives modestly and dreams of buying an abandoned roadside café that he often passes, but with his meager salary, it's out of reach. Meanwhile, Ken, a half‑Japanese man raised by his uncle after his father's suicide and his mother's return to the United States, has worked since age fifteen at his uncle Nobu's construction business.

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Copenhagen (2014)

Adventure, Coming-of-age, Drama, romance film

After weeks of travelling through Europe, the immature American William finds himself at a crossroads in Copenhagen. Copenhagen is not just another European city for William; it is also the city of his father, Daniel's birth. When Effy, working in William's hotel, befriends the 28-year-old William, they set off on an adventure to deliver a letter written by William's father to his father, after he was abandoned when he was eight years old.

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The Big Bounce (1969)

Action, Drama, mystery film

Jack Ryan (Ryan O'Neal) quits his job as picker on a California farm after assaulting Comacho (Victor Paul), one of his Mexicano co-workers. Jack's boss orders him to leave town—which he intends to do, but not before visiting a local bar to wait for the next bus. While having a drink, Jack meets the town judge, Sam Mirakian (Van Heflin).

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Noah's Ark (1999)

Bible Film, Drama, romance film

The film portrays Noah as a resident of Sodom who is fighting against its equally wicked neighbor Gomorrah and vice versa simply for the amusement of their residents. During the fight, Lot, Noah's friend, is injured in the fight, and comes to Noah for help. At the end of the fight, the leader of Gomorrah is killed with his head chopped off and put on a stake, as Sodom claims victory.

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Dream for an Insomniac (1996)

Comedy, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, romance film, romantic comedy

Frankie works at her uncle Leo's Cafe Blue Eyes in San Francisco (named in honor of family friend Frank Sinatra), and is hoping to meet her ideal lover, ideally one with blue eyes like Sinatra, while going to auditions with her friend Allison. Frankie suffers from insomnia, and has not slept through the night since childhood, when her parents were killed in a car accident. She spends most of her time at night reading.

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The Jazz Singer (1952)

musical film, romance film

As young Korean War veteran Jerry Golding scales the heights of showbusiness, he breaks the heart of his father David, who had hoped that Jerry would instead follow in the footsteps of six consecutive generations of cantors in their family. David sorrowfully reads the Kaddish service, indicating that as far as he is concerned, his son is dead. A tearful reconciliation occurs when Jerry dutifully returns to sing "Kol Nidre" in his ailing father's absence.

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The Flight Before Christmas (2015)

Christmas film, romantic comedy

As Stephanie (Mayim Bialik) prepares to move in with her boyfriend (Gib Gerard), he breaks up with her, leaving her heartbroken and homeless for the holidays until she decides to fly home to Connecticut. On a red-eye the day before Christmas Eve, Stephanie finds herself seated next to Michael (Ryan McPartlin), who is planning to propose to his long-term girlfriend. Stephanie and Michael argue with one another over relationship skills before the pilot announces that an unexpected snowstorm is crossing the country.

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Making of a Male Model (1983)

LGBTQ-related film, romance film

Kay Dillon, a successful modeling agent, meets the young and handsome ranch hand, Tyler Burnett in Nevada, while attending an outdoor shoot. She notices his good looks and invites him to move to New York and start working as a model. Burnett, who has just been dumped by his girlfriend, accepts the invitation and goes to New York, where he shares an apartment with another model, Chuck Lanyard.

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The Interns (1962)

Drama, Melodrama

A class of interns arrives for their first year in training at a public city hospital, which serves patients from many different ethnic and socioeconomic groups. Close friends and classmates John Paul Otis and Lew Worship plan to become surgeons and open their own clinic together. They are less than thrilled about their assignment to obstetrics, feeling that delivering babies is not very difficult.

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Yolanda and the Thief (1945)

Comedy, fantasy film, musical film, romance film

In the pastoral country of Patria, young Yolanda Acquaviva celebrates her birthday in a convent among her fellow students. She has turned 18, and must now take over management of her family fortune, formerly overseen by her Aunt Amarilla. Yolanda feels unprepared, but the mother superior assures Yolanda that her guardian angel will watch over her.

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Black Tea (2024)

Drama, romance film

On her wedding day, Aya, a young woman in her early thirties from Ivory Coast shocks everyone by rejecting her groom. She moves to Guangzhou, China and finds a job in a tea export shop, where she meets Cai, a Chinese man who is 45 years old. They fall in love, but their relationship faces challenges from their history and the bias of others.

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I Died a Thousand Times (1955)

Crime, Drama, Heist, Noir, romance film

Roy "Mad Dog" Earle, an aging bank robber, intends to pull off one last heist before retiring. Sprung from prison by crime boss Big Mac, Earle agrees to plan the robbery of a resort hotel. His partners include the hotheaded Babe Kossuck, easy-going Red Hattery, and an "inside man" at the hotel, Louis Mendoza.

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