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Explore romantic relationships, love and its complications.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 9,658 films · Page 203.

This Above All (1942)

Drama, romance film, war film

On the day that France surrenders to Nazi Germany in 1940, Prudence "Pru" Cathaway, a strong-willed young woman from the upper class, joins the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF), the women's organisation of the Royal Air Force, to her family's surprise. Her aunt Iris and uncle Wilbur disapprove since she has chosen to serve as a private rather than as an officer. However, family butler Parsons privately expresses his support.

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The Hammer (2007)

boxing film, Comedy, sport film

thumb|left|On location in San Fernando Valley Jerry Ferro is turning 40 years old and leading a mediocre life. He works part-time in construction as a carpenter and part-time as a boxing instructor at a fitness center near Los Angeles. He drives a beat-up pickup truck and loses both the construction job and the woman in his life.

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Julian Po (1997)

Drama

The film is the story of a depressed man who comes into a town with no future. The title character (Slater) wanders into a small sleepy town with the intent to kill himself. When the townspeople learn of his plan, Julian becomes a minor celebrity, and is offered all sorts of free perks since this is the most exciting thing to ever happen in that town.

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Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! (1948)

Drama, romance film, romantic comedy, Tragicomedy

Farmer Milt Dominy and his son Daniel, who is called "Snug", commiserate with each other about their loathing of Judith, Milt's second wife, and her brutish son Stretch. Milt decides to return to the sea while Snug takes a job as a hired hand with a neighboring farmer, Robert "Roarer" McGill, with whose daughter, Rad, he is in love, although the daughter gets her kicks out of keeping him guessing about her true feelings. Her father neither encourages nor endorses the courtship.

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The 7.39 (2014)

Drama, romance film

Carl Matthews (David Morrissey) commutes by train to London where he works in a property management office under a boss who is pressuring him to dismiss an employee. He has a kind and supportive wife Maggie (Olivia Colman) and two teenage children who he feels do not appreciate him. One morning he complains to a woman called Sally (Sheridan Smith) that she has taken his seat on the train.

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Oh, Ramona! (2019)

romantic comedy

Oh, Ramona! follows the main character Andrei from his point of view while he steps into adulthood and dealing with romance. He shares his experience as seen through the eyes of a teenager, with all the good and bad parts of it, and a pinch of self-humour and irony.

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You Instead (2011)

Drama, musical film, romantic comedy

The story centers around two characters Adam and Morello who end up handcuffed whilst appearing at T in the Park. Adam is the lead singer with successful pop group The Make who are booked to perform at popular music festival in Scotland. While looking for his manager he happens upon Morello, the lead singer for the all girl punk band The Dirty Pinks.

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Applause (1929)

Drama, Melodrama, musical film, romance film

thumb|thumbtime=0:11|The film The first scene has a marching band playing Theodore Mentz's "A Hot Time in the Old Town". The film tells of Kitty Darling, a burlesque star. Upon the recommendation of burlesque clown and suitor, Joe King, Kitty sends her young daughter to a convent to get her away from the sleazy burlesque environment she is involved.

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Margie (1946)

Comedy, romantic comedy

In 1946, Margie (Jeanne Crain) is a housewife reminiscing about her high school days with her own teenage daughter, who has just discovered her mother's old photo album in the attic. In a flashback to the 1920s, Margie is a high-spirited girl living with her dominant but good-hearted Grandmother McSweeney (Esther Dale). Her mother has died and her father (Hobart Cavanaugh), the local mortician, lives apart from Margie and her grandmother, only visiting on Wednesday due to his busy work schedule, and sometimes not even staying long enough to see his daughter.

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Sinners' Holiday (1930)

Crime, Drama

thumb|thumbtime=10|Sinners' Holiday (1930) Ma Delano runs a penny arcade on an amusement pier at Coney Island with her children Jennie, Joe, and Harry. Underneath La Verne's establishment, Mitch McKane is running a bootleg operation. In order to escape detection, McKane doubles as a sideshow operator.

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Trainwreck: My Life as an Idiot (2007)

Biography, Comedy drama, Tragicomedy

Approaching his thirties, Jeff (Seann William Scott) has a heavy drinking problem coupled with ADHD, dyslexia, and a mild case of Tourette syndrome. He spends most of his time attending support meetings including ones which have no connection to the problems he suffers. Jeff's attempts to hold down a job end in disaster.

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Over the Brooklyn Bridge (1984)

Comedy, romantic comedy

Alby Sherman is a Jewish man whose father died when he was young. He and his mother run a luncheonette in Brooklyn, but Alby has negotiated the purchase of an upscale restaurant in Manhattan, a project he cannot finance on his own. He asks his wealthy Uncle Benjamin to lend him the money.

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Slow (2023)

Drama, romance film

thumb|Grinevičiūtė and Cicėnas on set in 2022 Dancer Elena and asexual sign language interpreter Dovydas, portrayed by Greta Grinevičiūtė and Kęstutis Cicėnas, meet and form a beautiful bond. As they dive into a new relationship, they must navigate how to build their own kind of intimacy.

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The Miracle Woman (1931)

Drama, romance film

Florence Fallon, the daughter of an elderly clergyman, is outraged when the church elders have chosen a younger preacher to replace her father after twenty years of ministry. She angrily states her father has died from a broken heart, and chastises the congregation of what she thinks of their ingratitude and hypocrisy. As the congregation leaves, her bitter, impassioned speech impresses Bob Hornsby, a promoter, who convinces her to use her religious faith so they can squeeze donations out of gullible believers.

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The Truth About Love (2005)

Comedy, romantic comedy, Romantic drama

After Alice Holbrook (Jennifer Love Hewitt), a happily married English woman living in Bristol, receives an anonymous Valentine's Day card with radish seeds in it, she automatically assumes the card is from her supposedly loving lawyer husband, Sam (Jimi Mistry), and that he is trying to be romantic. In return, Alice decides to write an anonymous reply to her husband to keep the gimmick going, but only accidentally sends the card after a drunken night with her sister. What Alice does not realise, however, is that her husband did not, in fact, send her the original Valentine's Day card; her husband's best friend and lawyer partner, Archie…

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Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (1940)

romantic comedy

Andy Hardy from Carvel becomes infatuated with well-known young socialite Daphne Fowler, from New York City. Although he has never met Daphne, he tells his friend "Beezy" and on-and-off girlfriend Polly Benedict that he and Daphne know each other well and hints that she has a romantic interest in him. Andy's father, judge James K.

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Rainbow's Sunset (2018)

LGBTQ-related film, romance film

84-year-old Ramon announces to his family his decision to move to the house of his cancer-stricken lover, Fredo, to take care of him. Each of his children has his or her own troubles and victories, and so does his wife, Sylvia and he was torn between his duty on his family, and his true love. His children, who already know he is gay, are bewildered as to why he moves out and are also confused by the acceptance of his wife, Sylvia.

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Take a Girl Like You (1970)

romantic comedy

Northerner Jenny arrives in a town near London to take up a job as a teacher, and she has taken lodgings with a local political candidate. She quickly meets Patrick, who knows another girl at the lodging house but shares the goal, along with his friend Julian, of having sex with as many women as possible. After a first date which ends at Patrick's flat for coffee, Patrick is shocked when Jenny tells him she is a virgin and intends to stay that way until she meets the right man.

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