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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 9,658 films · Page 227.

Side Effects (2005)

Comedy drama, romantic comedy, Romantic drama

Karly Hert has spent the last ten years selling drugs...legally, that is. Although conflicted on a daily basis by the values within the pharmaceutical industry, and industry driven by profits at the expense of patients; Karly has been seduced by the golden handcuffs of corporate America. Enter Zach Danner, who convinces Karly to be true to her values and walk away from her lucrative but empty job.

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Hold Your Man (1933)

Drama, romance film

left|thumb|Gable and Harlow in Hold Your Man Small-time con man Eddie Hall hides from his latest victim and a policeman in the first unlocked apartment he can find. It turns out to be occupied by Ruby Adams, a cynical woman with numerous boyfriends. When it is safe to come out, Eddie wants to become better acquainted with his pretty rescuer.

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Father Is a Bachelor (1950)

Comedy, musical film, romance film, romantic comedy

Carefree vagabond Johnny Rutledge lives in a small town after his medicine show employer and friend Professor Mordecai Ford is arrested. He befriends a young girl named May Chalotte and her older brothers January ("Jan"), February ("Feb") and twins March and April. Jan received word six months before that their parents had died in a riverboat accident, but has not told anybody but Feb, and now Johnny, fearing they would be sent to an orphanage.

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Tandoori Love (2008)

romantic comedy

In the Bernese Oberland, Sonja works as sommelier at "L'Auberge du Cerf", the restaurant owned by her boyfriend Martin. She meets Rajah, an Indian cook, with whom she falls in love. Rajah's cooking is soon integrated in the menu of the restaurant and receives immense success.

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Dresden (2006)

Drama, Romantic drama, war film

Anna (Felicitas Woll), daughter of a wealthy hospital director, works as a nurse along with her father and her future husband, Doctor Alexander (Benjamin Sadler). Whilst behind enemy lines, British pilot Robert Newman (John Light) is severely wounded and hides in the hospital's cellar. Anna finds him and cures his wounds, slowly falling in love with him.

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Look Both Ways (2005)

Drama, live-action/animated film

The film charts the stories of several people over a hot summer weekend in Adelaide. Photojournalist Nick (William McInnes) discovers he has testicular cancer that has spread to his lungs. On his way home he goes to the site of a train accident to report on it, and meets Meryl (Justine Clarke) an emotionally vulnerable artist, who has witnessed a man get run over by a train.

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Billie (1965)

musical film, teen film

Billie Carol is a 15-year-old girl who is not like every other teen. With her bobbed haircut, tomboyish behavior, and passion for track running, she distances herself from her fellow female classmates. Instead, she befriends Mike Benson, the newest school student who has recently joined the school athletic team.

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Say One for Me (1959)

Comedy, musical film

In the middle of New York's theater district sits Father Conroy's parish, where entertainers often attend his services. His parishioners include Holly LeMaise, whose dad Harry was an old vaudevillian. Holly takes a job as a showgirl in a nightclub to pay the medical bills when her father falls ill.

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Fast and Loose (1930)

romantic comedy

thumb|thumbtime=15|Fast and Loose (1930) The Lenox family of Long Island, headed by Bronson and Carrie, is wealthy and respectful of tradition, but their children Bertie and Marion are more irreverent. When Bertie gets involved with a chorus girl, Alice O'Neil, and Marion falls in love with Henry Morgan, an auto mechanic, the family tries to intervene to prevent their children from marrying beneath themselves.

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Robin of Locksley (1996)

Adventure, Drama, family film

Robin McAllister (Devon Sawa) and his family win the lottery and they end up moving from Kansas City to Seattle where Robin attends Locksley Academy, a wealthy private school. While there Robin comes up with a plan to help one of his friends who was hurt and needs money for an operation by robbing from John Prince Sr., the head of a very wealthy corporation. Robin becomes friends with a couple of misfits at school named Will Scarlett (Billy O'Sullivan) and Little John (Tyler Labine) and also falls for a girl named Marian (Sarah Chalke) who helps train the horses that Robin's family has.

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Pirates of Tortuga (1961)

Pirate Film, romance film

In the 17th century, a Welsh captain (Ken Scott) and his crew are dispatched to the Spanish-controlled island of Tortuga, where famed privateer Henry Morgan (Robert Stephens) has defected from his support of the English empire and is running a strictly piratical venture, stopping any and all vessels, including British carriers. Since the captain cannot attack the island without incurring the wrath of the Spanish government, he must go one-on-one with Morgan himself. A young woman (Leticia Roman) inadvertently stows away on the captain's vessel and becomes the de facto central focus of the story (Morgan doesn't appear until the latter half…

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For Lovers Only (2011)

Drama, romance film

In the film, Katic plays Sofia, a journalist and former model, while Polish plays Yves, a former fashion photographer. Sofia chances upon Yves, her former lover, while on assignment. The story draws upon Claude Lelouch's A Man and a Woman and the French New Wave for inspiration and focuses on the couple's flight from Paris via a variety of forms of transportation: train, car and motorcycle.

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Children of Divorce (1927)

romance film

thumb|left| Clara Bow (Kitty Flanders) and Gary Cooper (Edward D. 'Ted' Larrabee) thumb|thumbtime=7|Children of Divorce (1927) As children, Jean Waddington and Kitty Flanders meet in a boarding school, both dropped off by their divorced parents as inconvenient children. One day Ted Larrabee, whose parents are also divorced, climbs over the school wall, and the three of them commiserate and pledge to never divorce.

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The Road to Christmas (2006)

Christmas film, romantic comedy

A successful fashion photographer has planned a Christmas wedding in Aspen, however it is interrupted by a snow storm. With no flights or rental cars available, she accepts a ride from a widowed school teacher and his 13-year-old daughter, who open up their home to her until the roads clear.

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Our Daily Bread (1934)

Drama, romance film

A couple, down on their luck during the Great Depression, moves to a farm to try to make a go of living off the land. They have no idea what to do at first, but soon find other downtrodden people to help them. Soon, they have a collective of people, some from the big city, who work together on a farm.

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The Locket (2002)

Drama, Psychodrama

Esther is a disillusioned and bitter nursing home resident who shares much with her attendant, Michael, in terms of personal sacrifices that they have both made. Esther also hides a dark secret. Michael has spent the last several years of his life looking after his cancer-stricken late mother and now faces rejection from his fiancée's father.

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College (1927)

Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama, silent film

thumb|thumbtime=15|upright=1.5|College In Southern California, Ronald graduates high school as its "most brilliant scholar." At his graduation, Ronald speaks on "the Curse of the Athlete," arguing that books are more important than athletics. His speech offends most of the student body, especially the popular athlete Jeff, and causes Ronald's sweetheart Mary to reject him. Ronald decides to follow Mary to Clayton, which the dean describes as an "athlete-infested college." Hoping to impress Mary, Ronald tries out for the baseball and track and field teams, but proves to be totally inept.

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Bad for Each Other (1953)

Drama, Noir, romance film

Army colonel and doctor Tom Owen returns home to Coalville, Pennsylvania, on leave. He learns from wealthy mine owner Dan Reasonover that his brother Floyd, a mine safety engineer, has been killed in an explosion. He further discovers that Floyd had betrayed Dan's trust by purchasing substandard equipment and taking kickbacks.

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Two Loves (1961)

Drama, romance film

Anna Vorontosov is an American teacher at a rural school on New Zealand's North Island. Her unorthodox teaching methods have won her the adoration of her classroom, which consists mostly of Māori students. One morning, she learns that new superintendent William W.

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Storm in a Teacup (1937)

romantic comedy

A Scottish town's powerful provost (mayor) struts and brags about his city "improvements" while the cowed villagers are sullenly forced to put up with him. A free-spirited English reporter is brought from London to work for the local newspaper and soon clashes with the autocrat—while falling in love with his daughter. He strikes out against the provost by taking up the cause of a poor woman who sells ice cream from a pushcart, and has dared to protest against the provost's new "dog tax".

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