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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 221.

Desire Me (1947)

Drama, Melodrama, romance film

In Paris, Marise Aubert is discussing her medical condition with Dr. Leclair, who explains that there is nothing physically wrong with her and that her pain is the result of her internal struggles. In a flashback to two weeks earlier, soldier Jean Renaud arrives suddenly at Marise's cottage.

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One Night of Love (1934)

musical film, romance film

Opera singer Mary Barrett (Grace Moore) leaves to study music in Milan, Italy to the disappointment of her family in New York City. Mary gets a job at the Cafe Roma, where Giulio Monteverdi (Tullio Carminati), a famous vocal coach, hears her sing. Giulio promises to make Mary a star if she will allow him to control her life.

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Suburban Secrets (2004)

Drama, pornographic film, romance film

Overview Laura, a nude model, returns to her small-town hometown after learning her ex-boyfriend has begun a relationship with her aunt Cynthia. Synopsis During a photo shoot, nude model Laura (Isadora Edison) receives a phone call from her sister Winnifred (Chelsea Mundae). Laura learns that her ex-boyfriend, high-powered attorney Nelson Nyland (John Samuel Jordan), is dating her aunt Cynthia (Tina Tyler); not only that, they are making plans to move in together.

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Second Chorus (1940)

Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy

thumb|thumbtime=10|Second Chorus (1940) Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are friends and rival trumpeters with "O'Neill's Perennials", a college band. Both have managed to prolong their college careers by failing seven years in a row. At a performance, Ellen Miller catches the eye of Danny and Hank.

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The Black Tent (1956)

Drama, war film

Colonel Sir Charles Holland receives a note at his country estate. He contacts the Foreign Office and is informed that his missing-in-action brother may still be alive in Libya. A promissory note dating from the Second World War has turned up at the British Embassy in Tripoli signed by his presumed-dead brother, who had given it to a nomadic Bedouin tribe.

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With or Without You (1999)

Comedy, romance film

Rosie (Dervla Kirwan) and Vincent Boyd (Christopher Eccleston) are a Northern Irish married couple living in Belfast. One evening they decide that they want to have a baby and start trying to conceive. Both make efforts individually and jointly to increase the chances of Rosie’s pregnancy, such as being precise about when to have sex during her period cycle.

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Ice Palace (1960)

Drama, romance film

The film tells the story of Zeb Kennedy and Thor Storm, Alaska settlers in the period following World War I. Kennedy works his way up through the Alaskan fish cannery business, befriending Wang, a Chinese worker, and Storm, an idealistic fishing boat captain. Kennedy and Storm begin to plan a cannery together in the Alaskan town of Baranof, when Kennedy falls for Bridie Ballantyne, Storm's fiancée.

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Never a Dull Moment (1950)

Comedy, romantic comedy

At a rodeo in New York, visiting cowboy Chris Heyward is charmed to make the acquaintance of Kay Kingsley, a songwriter. They marry and move out west to his ranch in Wyoming. Here, she meets Chris' two daughters from a previous marriage, Nan and Tina, and his old romantic interest, Jean Morrow.

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I Met My Love Again (1938)

romance film

Julie and Ives are two teen sweethearts on a walk together. They declare they love each other and want to get married as soon as Ives has earned enough money for them to live on. The following Christmas, Julie is out in town with her friend, buying provisions for a Christmas party.

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Thunder Alley (1967)

Action, Drama, romance film

A race car driver, Tommy Callahan, retires after a blackout causes the death of another driver on the motorway. After the accident, he begins working at a Pete Madsen's "Thrill Circus" as a stunt driver. There he meets the proprietor's daughter, Francie, who also drives there, and her boyfriend Eddie Sands.

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Bolero (1934)

Drama, musical film, romance film

In 1910 New York, Raoul De Baere is a coal miner who wants to be a dancer and tries to persuade his brother Mike to manage him. He dreams of moving to Europe and opening a nightclub in Paris. He does not fare well until he teams with a female partner, Lucy, and they make a success dancing at a beer garden in New Jersey.

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Primrose Path (1940)

Drama, romance film

thumb|225px|left|Lobby card for Primrose Path Tomboy Ellie May Adams (Ginger Rogers) keeps her virtue despite her difficult circumstances. Her alcoholic, Greek scholar father Homer (Miles Mander) is unemployable, leaving her mother Mamie (Marjorie Rambeau) to support the family through prostitution. Her retired-prostitute grandmother (Queenie Vassar) sees nothing wrong with their shared profession.

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My Mother Frank (2000)

Comedy drama, Drama, romantic comedy, Tragicomedy

David Kennedy (Matthew Newton) is preparing to go to university. His mother, Frank (Sinéad Cusack) is a widow and has very little social life. David tells her that she should get out more and much to his surprise, Frank enrolls at the same university.

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Hairshirt (1998)

romantic comedy

Danny Reilly (Dean Paras) is a self-obsessed man who, after dumping Renee Weber (Neve Campbell), falls in love again with Corey Wells (Katie Wright). But Renee makes it her mission to see that Danny never falls in love again and sets out for attack when he falls for Corey.

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The Hanging Garden (1997)

Drama, LGBTQ-related film, romance film

The film's central character is Sweet William, as both a thin adult and a fat teenager. Its plot hinges on a fateful incident from his teenage years, when his grandmother caught him attempting to have sex with his bisexual friend Fletcher, involuntarily outing him to his dysfunctional family as gay. As a consequence of the ensuing rejection, particularly by his alcoholic father Whiskey Mac, Sweet William faced the difficult decision of whether to run away to live in a big city far away from his family, or to commit suicide by hanging himself from a tree in the family garden.

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A Breath of Scandal (1960)

Comedy drama, romance film, romantic comedy, Tragicomedy

In 1907, the widowed Princess Olympia of the Austro-Hungarian Empire has been banished from the imperial court to her late husband's country estate. The bored princess spends her time improving her rifle marksmanship by using flowers, statues and the postman as her targets. When she tires of that, as an expert equestrian as well as an expert markswoman, she rides a wild stallion to her hunting lodge.

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Trading Christmas (2011)

Christmas film, romance film, romantic comedy

Three years after her husband's death, Emily Spengler, a 2nd grade teacher in the small Washington town of South Woodbourne, is preparing for the arrival of her daughter, Heather, who is a Boston College student. When Emily finds out that Heather wishes to do other things for Christmas, she calls her friend Faith Kerrigan, for advice. Faith is a divorced event planner based in San Francisco.

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The Great Garrick (1937)

Comedy, romantic comedy

In London in 1750, renowned English actor David Garrick announces at the end of a performance that he has been invited to Paris to appear with the prestigious Comédie-Française. A fop declares that the French want Garrick to teach them how to act, and the audience raises the chant, "Teach the French!" The playwright Beaumarchais, who was there, attributes the remark to Garrick himself, which outrages the Parisian theatre company. He devises a plot to cut Garrick down to size.

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His Glorious Night (1929)

Drama, romance film

Although being engaged against her will with a wealthy man, Princess Orsolini is in love with Captain Kovacs, a cavalry officer she is secretly meeting. Her mother Eugenie, who has found out about the affair forces her to dump Kovacs and take part in the arranged marriage. Though not believing her own words, Orsolini reluctantly tells Kovacs she cannot ever fall in love with a man with his social position, being the son of a peasant.

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Cherish (2002)

Comedy drama

Zoe Adler (Robin Tunney), is a shy, eccentric and misunderstood computer animator who lives and works in San Francisco, has a love for 1970s and 80s pop music and is infatuated with co-worker Andrew (Jason Priestley). While heading home after a few drinks one night, she is forced into her car by a stalker who steers her into a police officer, knocking him off his bicycle and killing him. When Zoe is put under house arrest with a story no one believes and an electronic bracelet that keeps her homebound with an ever-increasing list of mandatory and repetitive tasks she must complete or risk going to jail, she must find a way to clear her name.

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For the First Time (1959)

musical film, romance film

Tony Costa is a world famous opera singer with a reputation for playboy antics and irresponsibilty. His loyal manager Tabory is constantly ingesting nervous stomach medication. After a scandalous no-show at the Vienna Opera, Tabory ships Tony off to Capri to hide out from the press.

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Ask Any Girl (1959)

Comedy, romantic comedy

A wide-eyed Meg Wheeler comes to New York City and takes a job in market research for a large firm. She's also keeping an eye open to meet the right man, her research making her aware that the United States has five million more females than males. Upon meeting two clients, the reserved and somewhat stodgy Miles Doughton and his playboy younger brother Evan, it doesn't take long for Meg to realize she's romantically interested in Evan.

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