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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 233.

The Good Fairy (1935)

romantic comedy

Luisa Ginglebusher has grown up in the Municipal Orphanage, delighting the other girls with her fairy stories. When Luisa is given a job as an usherette in a Budapest movie palace, the kindly orphanage director Dr. Schultz, herself somewhat inexperienced, sends the young woman into the world with instructions to do a good deed every day and be friendly to everyone, as well as a little (off screen) advice about the male gender.

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The Prince of Thieves (1948)

Action, Drama, romance film

After fighting in the Crusades alongside King Richard I of England, Sir Allan Claire is returning home to marry his betrothed Lady Christabel. He and his sister Lady Marian Claire are intercepted by Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men. Recognising a friend of King Richard, Robin informs them that Lady Christabel is to be married to another against her will in the interest of politics and her father's fortune.

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Dynamite (1929)

Drama, romance film

Coal miner Hagon Derk is sentenced to hang for murder. His only concern is for his young sister Katie, who will be left all alone. Meanwhile, frivolous socialite Cynthia Crothers will not inherit her grandfather's millions and will be penniless if she is not married by her twenty-third birthday (a month away).

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Flight Command (1940)

Drama, romance film, war film

Hotshot ensign Alan Drake, fresh from flight school at Pensacola, Florida, gets off to a bad start with the pilots of an elite Fighting 8 squadron (VF-8), nicknamed the "Hellcats", to which he has been posted in San Diego. Making a nearly disastrous landing attempt in heavy fog against orders and disqualifying the squadron during a competitive shooting exercise by colliding with the target drogue does not endear him to his fellow pilots. He also asks out a woman he has met, Lorna, not knowing that she is the squadron commander Billy Gary's wife.

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The Waiting City (2009)

Drama, romance film

Fiona (Radha Mitchell) and Ben (Joel Edgerton) are a couple from Australia—she is a successful, self-starting lawyer while he is a relaxed, easy-going musician. The couple want to adopt a child and travel to India for what they imagine will be a quick and simple process. However, once they arrive in Calcutta (now Kolkata) they learn that little happens quickly in India, and for all the promises that have been made, they begin to doubt whether they will be able to complete the final stages of the adoption process.

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Cry of Battle (1963)

Drama, romance film

The film begins on December 8, 1941, with the Japanese attacking the Philippines. Dave McVey Jr., the son of a rich American businessman with extensive holdings in the Philippines, is attacked by murderous bandits. He is rescued by Careo, a Filipino patriot who has put together a group of anti-Japanese Filipino guerrillas.

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Lonesome (1928)

Comedy, part-talkie, romance film

thumb|thumbtime=5|Lonesome (1928) In New York City, Mary is a telephone operator who lives alone and is lonely. Jim is a factory worker who also lives alone and feels disconnected from the world. During the Independence Day weekend, both Mary and Jim decide to visit Coney Island alone after finishing their Saturday half-day work shifts.

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A Girl Named Tamiko (1962)

Drama, Melodrama, romance film, Romantic drama

Ivan Kalin is a Eurasian photographer who is trapped in Japan, but who wants to emigrate to the United States. His visa is continually delayed, which causes him to use his charm with women to pull some strings and apply some pressure on the embassy. His romantic magnetism works on a thrill-seeking American and an aristocratic Japanese woman.

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Simon Magus (1999)

Drama, Mysterie, mystery film, romance film

In 19th century Poland, a Jew named Dovid Bendel (Stuart Townsend) tries to revive his dwindling shtetl village by building a railway station next to it. The squire (Rutger Hauer) agrees to provide the land, on the condition that Dovid will read his poetry. A cunning business man (Sean McGinley) is also interested in the land and he tries to compete using money and threats.

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Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (1998)

fantasy film, Romantic drama, speculative fiction

A newly released prisoner, Peter Glahn, returns home to the land of Mandragora, where the sun never sets. Aboard the ship, Glahn has a romantic encounter with Juliana Kossel, then proceeds to the family ostrich farm, which is run by his sister Amelia. Amelia is in love with Dr.

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Archangel (1990)

Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama, romance film, war film

Archangel is set in 1919 in the northern Russian area of Archangel, during a brief historical moment of Canadian intervention in the Russian Civil War following the end of World War I. One-legged Canadian soldier Lt. John Boles sighs on the rail of a steamship over the ashes of his dead lover Iris.

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Kaleidoscope (1990)

Drama, romance film

When wealthy Arthur Patterson (Donald Moffat) finds out that he is dying, he tries to make peace with his past. He looks back to his World War II years, when he was a soldier in France. There, he met a poor French girl, Solange Bertrand (Kim Thomson), whom he fell in love with.

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Bigger Than The Sky (2005)

Drama, romantic comedy

After being rejected by his girlfriend, Peter Rooker, an art-department employee in Portland, Oregon, decides to audition for a small role in an upcoming local community theatre's production of Cyrano de Bergerac. Despite the fact that Peter has no experience or skill as an actor, the director casts Peter as Cyrano, the lead character. Peter soon becomes caught up in the various intrigues of the "theater people", including the charming but mercurial Michael Degan, the beautiful leading lady Grace Hargrove, and a cast of other eccentric players.

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Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women (1979)

romance film, thriller film

After the fall of Indochina to the communists in 1954, a mixed-race group of orphan girls and a Catholic nun escape on a plane, but the flight soon runs into a storm. In 1979, six men from an oil company are trying to reach Guam in a sea plane, so that one of them, who has been blinded by an injury, can have his sight restored at a hospital. They go off course after their radio and navigation equipment are damaged in an electrical storm, landing on the shore of a remote island.

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That Lady in Ermine (1948)

Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy

In 1861, Countess Angelina, ruler of Bergamo in North Italy near the Swiss border, marries Mario, a baron she has known since childhood. When the castle is threatened by Hungarian hussars led by Colonel Teglash on their wedding night, Mario flees. At midnight, the paintings in the ancestral gallery come to life, and their subjects ask Francesca, Angelina's great-great-great-great-grandmother who looks exactly like Countess Angelina, to save the castle just as she did in the 16th century.

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Tripoli (1950)

Adventure, Drama, Historie, Monumental Film, romance film, war film

In 1805, the USS Essex is part of a blockade of the port of Tripoli by a small United States Navy Mediterranean squadron targeting pirates menacing American shipping. American diplomatic consul William Eaton boards to recruit a small commando squad for a secret mission. Lt.

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Hidden Places (2006)

romance film

In the early 1930s, Eliza Wyatt is left to run the family orange orchard while raising her two children, Luke and Betty, after her husband Frank dies of a heart attack. With foreclosure approaching, she withdraws the children from school to help harvest the orange crop. Frank's sister, Aunt Batty, moves in to homeschool them and assist with the farm.

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Fascination (2004)

Drama, Erotic Thriller, romance film, thriller film

The wealthy Doherty family of three live on a remote Florida island, still untouched by developers. Soon after his father's presumed accidental drowning, Scott Doherty is surprised and resentful when his mother plans to wed Oliver Vance. Scott soon meets Kelly, Oliver's daughter, and a heated romance begins.

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Captive Hearts (1987)

Drama, romance film

Shot down over 1944 wartime Japan in the depths of winter, an American airman and his Sergeant are captured by villagers but their lives are spared by the village elder, an ex-Colonel of the Japanese Army whose son was killed by an American bombing raid on a hospital where the son had been a doctor. The son had been married and his widow, Miyoko, still lives in the village. The sergeant tries to escape but dies in the attempt.

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