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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 204.

Amanti (1968)

Drama, romance film

Fashion designer Julia is tired of living because she is suffering from malignant cancer. When she leaves for her last holiday in Cortina d'Ampezzo, she meets the vital Valerio. The two fall in love instantly, but Julia does not reveal her secret to Valerio.

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One Night in the Tropics (1940)

Comedy, musical film

Steve Harper's upcoming wedding to Cynthia Merrick on the Caribbean island of San Marcos is threatened by his tenacious former girlfriend, Mickey Fitzgerald, and by Cynthia's disapproving aunt. Steve's pal, Jim "Lucky" Moore, an insurance agent, conceives an innovative "love insurance" policy that will pay Steve $1 million if his wedding to Cynthia doesn't happen. The policy is underwritten by a tough nightclub impresario, Roscoe, who warns Jim to ensure that the wedding goes off as planned.

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Girl Fever (2002)

romantic comedy

The film starts with a man surrounded by a large number of angry-looking women in a theater. He tells his story and narrates it throughout the film. Sam, an art student who describes himself as "accidentally funny", is having the worst day of his life: he loses his girlfriend, fails art school, and is put down by his favorite professor.

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Fighting Man of the Plains (1949)

Western

Jim Dancer (Scott) is one of Quantrill's Raiders and a close friend of Jesse James (Robertson). They are involved in the Lawrence Massacre, during which Dancer kills Theodore Slocum after mistaking him for his brother Bert Slocum (Kelley), the man responsible for the death of Dancer's own brother. Theodore Slocum's daughter Evelyn (Taylor) witnesses the killing and learns Dancer's name but cannot later recognise him.

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Lucky Me (1954)

Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy

Candy Williams is a member of a struggling vaudeville troupe that is stranded in Miami when creditors take all of their money. After the troupe's leader Hap Schneider tries to scam a restaurant out of dinner, they are forced to work in the hotel to pay for the meal. While cleaning a hallway, Flo Neely hears Dick Carson singing songs for his new Broadway show.

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A Woman of Affairs (1928)

Drama, romance film, silent film

left|thumb|thumbtime=18|A Woman of Affairs (1928) Diana Merrick, Neville and David were playmates as children, members of the rich British aristocracy. Diana and Neville are in love, but his father opposes the match, disapproving the Merrick family's lifestyle. Neville is sent to Egypt for business purposes and to become wealthy.

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Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914)

romantic comedy, silent film, Splatstick

left|thumb|thumbtime=34|Tillie's Punctured Romance A womanizing city man, Charlie, meets Tillie in the country after a fight with his girlfriend. When he sees that Tillie's father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him. In the city, he meets the woman he was seeing already, and tries to work around the complication to steal Tillie's money.

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Shanghai Calling (2012)

romantic comedy

An ambitious lawyer in New York City named Sam (Daniel Henney), who is of Chinese descent, wins a major case for his firm, Powell & Davies, but is told by the partners that he must supervise the Shanghai branch office for three months or he will not be promoted. Sam flies to Shanghai where he meets Marcus, the firm's most important client, who is CEO of a billion-dollar technology company. Marcus says that he wishes to pay 50 million to acquire a next-generation smartphone from a Chinese inventor, but Sam persuades him, in the interests of speed, to draft a leasing agreement instead, for 5 million.

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The House in the Square (1951)

Drama, fantasy film, Science fiction

Peter Standish is an American atomic scientist who is working in a nuclear laboratory in London. His co-worker Roger Forsyth, who is worried about Peter's lack of social activities, drives him to the house in Berkeley Square that Peter inherited. It is there that Peter announces his wishes of living in the 18th century among the high-class family Pettigrew he has studied over the last years.

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Hollywood Hotel (1937)

musical film, romantic comedy

Saxophone player and singer Ronnie Bowers is on his way to Hollywood, having been signed to a ten-week contract by All Star Pictures. At the airport, his former employer, Benny Goodman, and his band give him a big sendoff, performing "Hooray for Hollywood". In Hollywood, temperamental star Mona Marshall becomes furious when she learns that another actress has landed a part she desperately wanted.

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Green Light (1937)

Drama

Dr. Newell Paige is a surgeon whose refusal to name the real culprit in an operation gone fatally awry results in the ruin of his career. Dismissed from the hospital staff, Paige leaves Massachusetts and travels to Montana to assist a researcher into Rocky Mountain spotted fever, almost dying when he subjects himself to an experimental serum.

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Love Nest (1951)

Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama, romance film, romantic comedy

When American serviceman and writer Jim Scott returns from Paris after World War II, he is flabbergasted to discover that his well-meaning but unrealistic wife Connie has invested his wages in a dilapidated apartment building in the Gramercy Park neighborhood of Manhattan. Despite Connie's hope that being a landlord will give Jim the freedom to write a novel, he spends most of his time with building maintenance. Smooth-talking Charley Patterson, a confidence man who romances and swindles wealthy widows, leases a vacant apartment and targets gentle but poor widow Eadie Gaynor.

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Wedding Wars (2006)

LGBTQ-related film, romantic comedy

Gay party planner Shel (Stamos) is organizing the wedding of his straight brother Ben (Dane) to Maggie (Somerville). But when Maggie's father and Ben's boss, Maine's Governor Welling (Brolin), makes a speech against gay marriage, Shel goes on strike for equal rights. His cause picks up steam and eventually spreads nationwide in a "no gays for a day" movement.

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The Iron Petticoat (1956)

Comedy

Captain Vinka Kovalenko (Katharine Hepburn) lands a Soviet Air Force jet in West German territory, to the surprise of the United States Armed Forces, who take her prisoner. However, she tells them she is neither on a mission nor defecting, just upset about a personal matter back home. Capt.

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A Pyromaniac's Love Story (1995)

Comedy, romance film, romantic comedy

Sergio is a pastry shop assistant who is smitten with Hattie, a mousy girl who works in her father Perry's diner and refuses to consider a relationship with him until he begins to earn a decent living. An opportunity presents itself when Linzer, Sergio's employer, offers him $20,000 to torch the store so he can collect the insurance money and use it to give his wife the lifestyle he feels she deserves. Sergio declines the offer, but one night the bakery is burnt to the ground anyway.

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Barry Munday (2010)

Comedy

Barry Munday, a lonely womanizer, wakes up after being attacked to realize that he's missing his "family jewels". To make matters worse, he learns he's facing a paternity lawsuit filed by a woman, Ginger, he can't remember having sex with. Though unintentional, the two discover that their meeting and subsequent "accidents" opened up new opportunities for personal growth and relationships.

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Love Song (2000)

romance film

Camille Livingston is the reserved, sheltered only child and daughter of prosperous African American parents in New Orleans. She attends school, works with under privileged inner city children and lives with her two roommates. Camille has been dating Calvin, who looks up to Camille's father and appears to be following him into medicine.

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The Buddy System (1984)

Comedy drama, romantic comedy

Emily Price is a single mother: she got pregnant in high school and was abandoned by the father before her son, Tim, was born. She and Tim live with her mother, who is both protective and disparaging, and tends to overlook her daughter in favor of her grandson. She is trying to become a court reporter, but freezes up every time she takes the test.

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Dog Park (1998)

romantic comedy

Andy writes the local newspaper classified advertisements and has been going from relationship to relationship since eighth grade. He loses custody of his dog when his girlfriend, Cheryl, breaks up with him for another man, a punk rocker named Trevor. Andy then meets Lorna, a children's TV show host, but she is too obsessed with her own dog.

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