Set in 1944 Rockport, Massachusetts during the final moments of World War II, I'll Be Home for Christmas focuses on the Bundy family. Head of the family Joseph (Hal Holbrook) and his wife Martha (Eva Marie Saint) await the return of their grown children, who include Mike (Whip Hubley), who has completed all of his combat missions in England and is due to come home for good. His pregnant wife Nora (Courteney Cox) has been living with the Bundys since his departure, and is now awaiting her husband's return while preparing to give birth to their first child, hoping it won't be born until Mike arrives.
US soccer star Ryan Hawkes suffers a career-threatening injury from driving under the influence, ending his World Cup dreams. To escape the media circus around him he boards a luxury cruise ship, where he meets and falls in love with ship employee, Lana, a Russian single mother. After a whirlwind romance at sea, Ryan and Lana go their separate ways - but Lana tells Ryan to meet her in St.
Dean Seagrave (David Sutcliffe) is a thirty-something graphic novelist living in L.A., and though he's found personal happiness with his boyfriend Pablo (Antonio Sabato Jr.), he can't surmount his writer's block slump following his successful debut graphic novel, Teenage Speed Freak. His life begins to unravel when his editor, Luise (Coolidge), gives him an ultimatum and Pablo leaves him. Lonely, depressed, and at the end of his rope, Seagrave flies to Argentina in search of closure, but the characters he discovers there – Pablo's secretive and controlling Mother (Sônia Braga), Pablo's ex-lover Marcos (Leonardo Brzezicki), and Marcos'…
Originally intended as a vehicle for Ann Harding and Leslie Howard, Christopher Strong is a tale of illicit love among the English aristocracy. Hepburn plays Lady Cynthia Darrington, a strong-spirited aviatrix, who is over the age of 21 and has never had a lover or an affair because she is too devoted to her work. But she falls in love with the previously-faithful husband and member of Parliament, Christopher Strong , and has an affair with him during the course of her prize-winning around-the world flight.
Ben North (Josh Lawson) is a highly-paid 27-year-old marketing creative who lives in a large inner-city apartment in Curtin House on Swanston Street in Melbourne's CBD with his flatmates, Nick (Daniel Henshall) and Andy (Christian Clark). Ben is presented as a typical millennial as he is prone to frequently changing jobs and moving house just because he feels like it. He is also sexually promiscuous and romantically non-committal.
A family of con artists led by "Colonel" Anthony "Sahib" Carleton and his wife "Marmy" are working the French Riviera in search of wealthy potential mates for their daughter George-Anne and son Richard. Sahib, a former actor, passes himself off as an officer who served with the Bengal Lancers in India. George-Anne flirts with her Scottish suitor, Duncan Macrae, whom she dismisses when she learns that he is not rich.
thumb|thumbtime=16|Swing High, Swing Low (1937) Working her way as a hairdresser on board a liner traveling through the Panama Canal Zone, Maggie King brushes off a brash young soldier, "Skid" Johnson, on his last day in the Army. However, he is persistent, and the next day she and her friend Ella reluctantly go on a double date with him and his piano player friend Harry in Balboa. In a nightclub, she expresses her distaste of trumpet music, whereupon he impresses her with his amazing prowess with the instrument.
Michael Finnegan, a past-his-prime journalist, has been relegated to ghost-writing "Dear Felicity", a column for the lovelorn. He and his wife live in a decaying neighborhood. She is long despondent over the loss of their young son, and lives in a fantasy world.
buddy film, Comedy, Drama, musical film, romance film
Among the insurgent tribes of the Caucasus Mountains is the one occupying the village of Kashiar, led by Yegor, the bandit-singer. His marvelous voice is the pride of his people, and his cheerful songs serve as a gallant defiance against the tyrannical and oppressive nobility. One afternoon, Yegor leads his men to the inn of Osman the Turk, where, merely passing through, they encounter the young Princess Vera Orloff and Countess Tatiana—whose conduct is the scandal of all Saint Petersburg.
1941. In German-occupied France, five downed RAF fliers make their way to Paris to seek help returning to England. Their leader, Paul (Paul Henreid), contacts a former mentor, Father Antoine (Thomas Mitchell), who agrees to hide them in his cathedral.
In 1913, Fernand Maubert, the dedicated chief of police of Paris, is pursuing Philippe Ledocq, a suave bank robber and burglar suspected of a series of thefts, but the criminal always has an alibi. After the latest robbery, Maubert captures Ledocq's accomplice, Madeleine Saincaise. When she is released from prison, Maubert warns her to stay away from Ledocq (though he has a certain admiration for the man).
In flying school, lazy Private Archie Hall somehow dominates everyone around him, fellow trainees, sergeants and officers alike, and manages to avoid doing any work. Bill Bowers, a Hollywood screenwriter in civilian life, becomes his sidekick. An initially hostile, suspicious trio of privates, Sam Beacham, Russell Drexler, and Frank Ostrow, are penalized for opposing him and eventually smarten up and become his pals as well.
Christmas film, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, romance film
Wyatt Burwall (Porte) finally returns home for the holidays in an effort to convince his mother Deb (McDowell) to sell the family's Colorado ranch. A romance unexpectedly ignites between Wyatt and the dashing new ranch hand Heath Ramos (Di Pace), who dreams of saving the beloved property and the ranch's magical Winter Wonderland attraction while reawakening the spirit of Christmas in Wyatt's lonely heart.
Bobby (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and Kate (Lynn Collins) are a young couple who have been together ten months. Kate is 11 weeks pregnant. They can't make up their minds where to go on the Fourth of July, or whether to have the baby, so they decide to flip a coin.
Celia Amonte is a Portuguese American widow who lives in New Bedford, Massachusetts with her daughter Vicky; her late husband was a fisherman lost at sea. Vicky sneaks out of the house to go to a casino, where she meets Charlie Beck, a British card counter, and attempts to convince him to teach her his trade. Charlie is apprehended by the casino staff, and told that he can either work to find other card counters, or be banned from the casino.
Cynthia Potter is a skilled pianist trying to catch the eye of concert promoter Eric Wainwright, who is only looking for young talent. Potter (in her 20s), masquerades as her own fictional younger sister, 14-year-old Molly Potter. Wainwright is captivated by her skills, and as the two work together, Wainwright develops a paternal affectation towards the young performer, while Potter becomes romantically attracted to him.
Arriving in a small town Rossmore, Illinois by train, college professor Casanova Brown is met by his socialite girlfriend Madge Ferris and tells her not to bring up his trip to New York, where he was trying, unsuccessfully, to publish a book about the notorious 18th-century womanizer, Casanova. Cas decides to ask Madge to marry him, even though her father J.J. warns him against it, saying Madge is nothing but trouble.
Under assignment from the state of Maine to locate and secure a Christmas tree for the annual tree lighting ceremony in the state's capital, "tree whisperer" Charlie Freemont and her assistant Rohan travel to the town of Camden. They find their ideal tree on the property of the Alma Beltran and her parents, the proprietors of a century-old Christmas goods business. The Beltrans receive a report from a consultant providing several ideas to modernize their business, which Alma, whose parents are retiring from the company at the end of the year, rebuffs.
Comedy, Drama, fantasy film, romance film, romantic comedy
Victor is an actor in London who is desperate to stop his ex-girlfriend, Sylvia, to whom he was unfaithful, from marrying another man. After meeting two mysterious dustmen, he is given the chance to travel back in time and relive his romance. However, he finds that things develop differently this time around—Sylvia has an affair with Dave, and she leaves him.
Letty Strong becomes pregnant at the age of fifteen and runs away from home. She is eventually taken in by an elderly man named Fuzzy. In due course, Strong gives birth to Mickey in the back room of Fuzzy's bookstore.
School principal Martin Cramer and schoolteacher Sally are a married couple in their 30s who are stuck in a rut. Their Upper East Side apartment is mostly unfurnished five weeks after they moved from Orchard Street because Sally forgot the name of the moving company. Sally wants to bring a juvenile delinquent student of hers named Carlton in to live with them, but Martin reminds her that the boy stole from him the last time they took him in.
Sammy Smalls, a 21-year-old tomboy, works as a grocery store detective at Big Apple Food Town. She tracks down shoplifters and transfers them to her boss Dirk, who beats up the shoplifters as punishment. Sammy dislikes her job, but she can't quit, as she would have to move back in with her overbearing parents.
In 1983 Don Robson started a boys football team called Athletico Greenwich. Twenty years later six of the lads are still playing for the team, but things have become so much more complicated. Cass, the team's top scorer on and off the pitch, isn't sure he's ready for fatherhood with Kate, the love of his life.
