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Drama, Melodrama, romance film, sport film
Mike McDermot is a rising golf star on the PGA Tour until he is accused of cheating. He supposedly has offered to split a winner's purse with a competitor, Jonathan Linus, if his opponent deliberately misses a final putt. In fact, the competitor is the one who approached him.
Biography, Drama, musical film, romance film
Drama
In the misty mornings of Saigon, young girls wake up to pick lotuses from a flower pond, to later sell to American tourists and fellow Vietnamese alike. To pass the time, the girls sing rich folk songs that touch the heart of a poet (Teacher Dao) who lives in an old temple overlooking the pond. Teacher Dao suffered leprosy at the age of 26 and had consequently lost his fingers.
romance film, Romantic drama
The movie explores the viewpoints of two people at different stages in their lives and their attitudes toward sex and relationships. A virgin teenage boy with an eager, optimistic view of sex and an older woman who holds a bitter view of relationships meet on a ferry from France to Portsmouth. She tells him she has just left her husband.
romantic comedy
Alejandro Lopez narrates the events of his father Juan Lopez's life, and how by selling oranges he changed their lives. A man named Juan is born on a strawberry field in Bakersfield, California, but due to hardship, his mother decided to relocate to Mexico. As an undocumented citizen (due to no proof of US citizenship), Juan struggles in Los Angeles not only to get a green card, but to care solely for Alejandro after Juan's wife's death.
romance film, Western
A killer named Cain is released from prison after 18 years and wants to settle down as a rancher without ever having to touch a gun again. But no one will give him a job and people are after him for his earlier crimes. He finally takes an offer from showman Ruffalo to perform as "Killer Cain" in his traveling shooting show.
romance film
In 1943, Captain Cliff Brandon is a cargo aircraft pilot supplying the Allied troops fighting the Japanese in Kunming, Yunnan, southwestern China. When he is not flying or training his new crew hard, he is usually drinking in the local bar. One night, while stumbling home drunk, he encounters an old Chinese man from Chongqing who offers him a girl, his daughter Shu-Jen.
Drama, musical film, romance film, romantic comedy
At a small town May Day celebration, elderly Miss Morrison (Jeanette MacDonald) tries to console her young friend Kip (Tom Brown), whose sweetheart Barbara (Lynne Carver) has been offered a job on the operatic stage. Later, Barbara goes for comfort to Miss Morrison, who reveals that years ago she was the internationally famous opera diva Marcia Mornay. Miss Morrison then relates her story: Marcia, a young American singer in Paris, is guided to success by famed but stern voice teacher Nicolai Nazaroff (John Barrymore), who introduces her at the court of Louis Napoleon.
romantic comedy
Mortuary cosmetician Grace Hart lives in Queens and rides the subway every day. Her somewhat unhappy existence is noted as she shops in a department store with her best friend, Keri, a socially awkward and mousy coworker, when she is rudely asked to look at their "Large Ladies Department". That same night, she and Keri are at a local skating rink when a young, attractive, amateur ice skater, Rob, catches Grace's eye; she claims that he is the most beautiful man she has ever laid eyes on.
Drama, romantic comedy
Ever since Seth Warner's wife died two years ago, his life has gone to pieces. In his rage, he affronts God who seemingly responds by stopping his suicide attempt and his screaming at God above by crippling his dog and putting Seth in the hospital. So Seth sets out to break all the Ten Commandments.
Comedy, romantic comedy
Nancy (Loretta Young) and Jeff Troy (Brian Aherne) move into a somber-looking basement apartment building on 13 Gay Street, Greenwich Village, where the residents all act very strangely. Nancy recognizes one of the residents, Anne Carstairs (Jeff Donnell), who acts very oddly and not at all the way Nancy remembers her. While eating in a nearby restaurant named Polly's Stable, Nancy overhears a man, later identified as Louis Kaufman, talking on the telephone telling someone to meet him in the basement apartment.
Drama
The Viceroy of a remote 18th-century Peruvian town has ordered a magnificent golden coach from Europe, intending to pay for it with public funds. There is speculation that he is going to give it to his mistress, the Marquise, but he says he plans to use it to overawe the populace and flatter the local nobility, who enthusiastically look forward to taking turns parading in it. By coincidence, the coach arrives on the same ship that carries an Italian commedia dell'arte troupe composed of men, women, and children who perform as singers, actors, and acrobats.
musical film, romantic comedy
thumb|thumbtime=18|left|Rio Rita (1929; 1932 re-release cut version) Chick Bean, a New York bootlegger who comes to the Mexican town of San Lucas to get a divorce so he can marry Dolly. After the wedding, Ned Lovett, Chick's lawyer, informs Chick the divorce was invalid, and advises Wheeler to stay away from his bride. Rita Ferguson, a south-of-the-border beauty pursued by both Texas Ranger Jim Stewart and local warlord General Ravinoff.
Drama, romance film
The Prestons are an apparently happy household made up of wife Amy, husband Jim and teenage son Brian, living in a cramped flat on a London housing estate. Amy, rarely gets dressed and is always seen wearing her dressing gown However, tensions soon become clear. Although she has a breezy, loving character, Amy is a disorganised housewife.
Comedy, romantic comedy
The film portrays the conflicting and comical attempts by five couples to avoid pregnancy by using contraceptive pills. All of their efforts are ultimately unsuccessful, with the result that all five of the women give birth the following year. The story revolves around a wealthy London banker named Gerald Hardcastle and his wife Prudence, who live together unhappily, sleeping in separate bedrooms and speaking to each other only when necessary.
romantic comedy
In Westport, Connecticut, Augie and Isolde Poole celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary by turning in an application to the Rock-a-Bye adoption agency. Encouraged by their friends and next-door neighbors, Dick and Alice Pepper, who have three children and another due, Isolde, who has been unsuccessful in her attempts to become pregnant, is determined that she and Augie will eventually be parents. While awaiting news of the application to the agency, Isolde decides that she and Augie should continue to try to have a baby on their own, and she enthusiastically follows all the latest advice by pregnancy experts.
Drama, fantasy film, romance film
In rural New Zealand, a farmer, Rob (Karl Urban), gets engaged to his love, Lucinda (Danielle Cormack). However, Lucinda is worried about their relationship losing its spark and she continues pushing him away to try to keep the spark alive. A string of quilt thefts have been occurring around town and when Lucinda finds hers, she is curious and reckless when she trades Rob's cows, worth NZ$400,000, for it.
Comedy
Rich Mrs. Phoebe Tuttle is upset that her daughter Barbara is engaged to a man beneath their social status, Norman Phiffier. Barbara has been keeping her heiress status to the Tuttle Department Store fortune a secret from Phiffier, knowing he is a proud person who refuses to marry her until he can afford to buy her a home.
Drama, romance film
A meandering and not too bright quasi celebrity is conflicted by his aimless and wannabe high living lifestyle.
Crime, Crime Comedy, Heist, romantic comedy
A.J. Raffles, the celebrated cricketer, is welcomed in the parlours and country estates of high society. This circumstance he uses to his advantage in his secret career as "The Amateur Cracksman", a master burglar and safecracker who remains always one step ahead of Scotland Yard.
Biography, Drama, musical film, romance film
"Schani" is dismissed from his job in a bank. He puts together a group of unemployed musicians who wangle a performance at Dommayer's cafe. The audience is minimal, but when two opera singers, Carla Donner and Fritz Schiller, visit whilst their carriage is being repaired, the music attracts a wider audience.
Drama, LGBTQ-related film, romance film
The film begins as a mini-documentary of New York City's 1973 Gay Pride parade and rally, with a lesbian unabashedly declaring, "being gay is a very natural thing". The action cuts to the protagonist, David (Robert Joel), going through the ritual of being released from his vocation as a monk in a monastery. He is then seen as a public school teacher of English Literature in the New York City area, who spends his time off driving into the city to be with his "oldest friend from Schenectady", Alan (Jay Pierce) at a gay bar.
Drama, romance film
One Sunday afternoon, Jack Mitchell, a married middle-aged salesman from Utica, New York, meets his old friend, children's book author Larry Moore, while on business in Chicago. After asking if Larry knows any "girls" in town, Jack is given the phone number of T.R. Baskin, a socially isolated and sarcastic young woman who has moved to Chicago "to seek fame and fortune," in her own words.
Adventure, Drama, romance film
Johnny Munroe travels to South America to build a mountain railroad tunnel for Frederick Alexander, a wealthy industrialist. Complications arise when Alexander insists upon a shorter, more dangerous passage and when his daughter Maura develops a romantic interest with Johnny.