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Comedy, Drama, fantasy film, flashback film
Lawrence and Sylvia Stevens are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary. In a flashback to the 1890s, Lawrence Stevens is an obituary writer unhappy with his job. He is given tomorrow's evening newspaper by an elderly newspaper man named Pop Benson, though he does not bother to read it.
Drama, romance film
The film is a fictionalized account of the career of the 1930s racehorse Seabiscuit (1933–1947), with a subplot involving the romance between the niece (Temple) of a horse trainer (Fitzgerald) and a jockey (Lon McCallister).
Drama, historical drama
Midsummer night, 1894, in northern Sweden. The complex structures of class bind a man and a woman. Miss Julie, the inexperienced but imperious daughter of the manor, deigns to dance at the servants' party.
Comedy drama, Drama, romance film, romantic comedy
thumb|thumbtime=20|Our Blushing Brides (1930) Fellow department store shopgirls and roommates Gerry March, Connie Blair and Franky Daniels take different paths in New York City but all seek to marry wealthy men. Connie pursues an affair with David Jardine, the youngest son of the store's owner. Franky meets the slick-talking Marty Sanderson when he comes into the store to buy $500 worth of blankets.
musical film, romantic comedy
Francis plays Libby Caruso, who has spent a whole month trying to get into show business with her singing, yet hasn't succeeded. Libby then decides to retire and get a job where she can meet the right man and get married. She is interested in pursuing Paul Davis, whom she meets in the supermarket, but Paul is not interested.
Drama
Larry Darrant, the black sheep of his family, returns home to London from an unsuccessful business venture in Rhodesia and embarks on an affair with a married woman, Wanda. When Wanda's long-absent Russian husband Henry appears, he tries to extort money from the couple and threatens Larry at knifepoint when he refuses to pay. In the ensuing fight, Henry is accidentally killed when he strikes his head.
After two years of college abroad, Gidget returns to Santa Monica. She discovers that the letters she wrote to her boyfriend Jeff, intended to make him jealous, have backfired, and her attempts to patch things up with him are rebuffed. Inspired by a speech she hears on television made by the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, she hops a bus to New York City to work for the United Nations.
Drama, mystery film, romance film, thriller film
Isaac Knott is a successful radio talk show host on a New York City public radio outlet. He lost the use of his legs at the age of eight in an automobile accident that also claimed the lives of his parents. He uses a wheelchair.
Drama, romance film
Prologue A narrator, Miguel Gomes himself, reads in voiceover a poetic and philosophical text that invokes a legend in which the Creator orders, but the heart commands: the suicide of an intrepid explorer who, somewhere in Africa, long ago, jumps into a river after the death of his lover and is devoured by a crocodile. Many swear they have seen a sad crocodile and a woman dressed in old-time clothes on the riverbank and that the two share a mysterious empathy. Part 1—Paradise Lost Three disparate women live in an old building in Lisbon.
romantic comedy
19-year-old Ah Loong (who also called himself "Jason") is in charge of a market stall selling pirated VCDs, but is an incurable romantic with an unlikely hobby: he loves to read and write poetry. One day, his life takes a sudden turn one day when a Malay schoolgirl, Orked, comes to his stall looking for films starring her favourite actor, Takeshi Kaneshiro. Jason and Orked start a romantic relationship, although social and racial pressures stand in their way.
Biography, Comedy, musical film, romance film
Waltzes from Vienna begins with the sound of a fire brigade horn and the clip-clop of horses’ hooves, as the firemen race towards a fire at Ebezeder's Café. Upstairs from the café, Resi and Schani are oblivious to the danger, lost in a love duet that concludes with Schani telling Resi that he has dedicated his newest song to her. At the same time, Schani's music attracts the attention of the Countess Helga von Stahl, who is shopping in the dressmaker's store next door.
romantic comedy
Molly Mahoney is going home for her mother's wedding, and is bringing her boyfriend Lance to meet her family. Knowing they will be skeptical of him if she tells them he's in a band, she doesn't tell them anything about him, including his name. En route to the airport she discovers he's married and breaks up with him.
romantic comedy, Science fiction, science fiction comedy
14-year-old Danny O'Neil is madly in love with his teacher, Miss Peggy Noble. Given the fact that she is engaged to the cold-tempered and vicious gym teacher, Roy Kelton, who is nicknamed Jackjaw for his constant threat of breaking his pupils' jaws, Danny goes through his school days somewhat uninspired and suffers in silence. One day, he oversees his geeky friend Lloyd Duffy, an orphan who happens to live next door with his uncaring uncle Herb and ditsy aunt May, growing fruits with an experimental growth accelerator.
romantic comedy
A romantic comedy, set on Cape Cod in 1905, about three 70-year-old retired sea captains who try to lure an attractive, middle-aged woman into marriage.
Drama, romance film
Julian and Chalice, who have been married for three years, hit turmoil when Julian almost has an affair with a young Spanish student, Elena. Julian suggests, after learning from a neighbour engaged in such, that they look for another woman to join them and have a polygamous relationship. However, Julian has orchestrated affairs so that the woman happens to be Elena.
musical film, romantic comedy
Melinda Howard is an entertainer traveling by ocean liner from England to surprise mother, Broadway singer Jessica Howard, in New York City. Melinda believes that her mother lives in a mansion, but Jessica's alcoholism has reduced her to singing in a Greenwich Village saloon, and the mansion actually belongs to Adolph Hubbell and his wife. Jessica's friends, the Hubbells' butler Lefty Mack and his fiancée Gloria Davis, the maid, are an unsuccessful vaudeville team who have been forwarding her letters to Melinda.
musical film, romance film
The film is set in London’s multicultural Camden Town, where Simone is a single parent caring for her daughter. Both smart and self-sufficient, she is focused at her hair salon job, and prioritises her daughter above all else. Simone is mostly content, albeit a little unfulfilled.
LGBTQ-related film, romantic comedy
The story revolves around University of Melbourne film studies students and roommates Mia and Alice, each of whom is experiencing various upheavals. Mia and Alice have just moved into a trendy apartment but are in desperate need of a housemate. Mia's girlfriend Danni is keen to move in, but Mia fears commitment.
Drama, romance film
Turner, a Black United States Army G.I. stationed in France, is promoted to Assistant Orderly by his captain. Since his appointment starts on Monday, Turner is given a three-day pass.
Comedy drama, Drama, romantic comedy
Forty-something schoolmistress Kate and her two best friends, police superintendent Janine and doctor Molly, live in rural Britain and share their single lives and dating exploits in weekly chats. Kate has recovered from ovarian cyst disease and fears a relapse; she hasn't been dating much. By chance, she meets Jed, a former student of hers, now a handsome twenty-something church organist.
Drama, romance film
In a small Irish village in 1957, Tara Maguire, a young resolute woman, is the talk of the town because she is having a baby out of wedlock, and refuses to name the father. During Sunday mass she goes into labour giving birth to a baby boy. Sergeant Brendan Hegarty, the local police officer of the Garda Síochána, and Mick, a local landowner, vie for Tara's hand in marriage, but she refuses them both.
Biography, historical film, romance film, Romantic drama
Peter Abelard is a famous teacher of philosophy at the cathedral school of Notre Dame, and a champion of reason. At a time when academics are required to observe chastity, he falls in love with one of his students, Héloïse d'Argenteuil, a sixteen-year-old gentlewoman raised in a convent, who has both intellectual curiosity and a rebellious view of the low status of women in 12th-century Europe. When the relationship is suspected, Heloise's uncle Fulbert, who had other plans for her marriage, works with the bishop of Paris to put a stop to it.
Drama, musical film, romance film
Sally, a filmmaker and screenwriter suffering from writer's block, is dissatisfied with her film project, a murder mystery called Rage, which features the fashion industry. Taking a break, she travels to Paris, where she sees the dancer Pablo (Pablo Verón) performing tango. She becomes obsessed with the dance and offers Pablo a part in her film in exchange for dance lessons.
Drama, romance film
Immensely wealthy sisters Fiona, Evelyn, and Susie Gaylord, are orphaned as young children when first their mother goes down with the Lusitania and then their father, Major Penn Gaylord, is killed in France in World War I. Before Penn left for France, he told Fiona, the eldest, that the Gaylords never sell land they acquire. However, their half billion dollar Gilded Age inheritance is held up in probate for decades, right up to 1941; Fiona complains that they have practically grown up in court.