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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 244.

A Match Made in Heaven (1997)

Drama, romance film

Thomas "Tom" Rosner is a successful divorce lawyer, but, his being unmarried is the greatest sorrow of his elderly mother Helen, who is in remission from cancer. As Helen visits the hospital for a check-up, she encounters her doctor's new nurse Jane Cronin, a single woman who is hesitant to meet someone new after getting out of a five-year relationship. She is taken by Jane's beauty, compassion, intelligence and sense of humor, and immediately decides that she is the one for her son.

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Ruben Guthrie (2015)

romance film

Life is good for Ruben Guthrie (Patrick Brammall), who works as an advertisement executive and leads a lifestyle of a party boy and lives in a house on the water with his model fiancée. He's at the top of his game until Ruben lands at the bottom of his infinity pool from some drunken skylarking. Ruben's fiancée leaves him, but says she'll get back with him if he can go a year without drinking.

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Luxury Liner (1948)

musical film, romance film, romantic comedy

Jeremy Bradford, the captain of an ocean liner, visits his teenaged daughter named Polly, and takes her to see a performance of the opera Aida. Polly is entranced by the singing talents of Olaf Eriksen and Zita Romanka. Upon learning that Olaf and Zita will be passengers on her father's voyage to Rio de Janeiro, she begs her father to come along, but Captain Bradford says no.

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Scaramouche (1923)

Adventure, romance film, silent film

thumb|right|thumbtime=3|Scaramouche (1923) André-Louis Moreau loves Aline de Kercadiou, the niece of his godfather, Quintin de Kercadiou, and she loves him as well. However, Quintin prefers that she marry the Marquis de la Tour d'Azyr, a middle-aged nobleman, rather than someone who does not even know who his parents are. One day, expert swordsman de la Tour first toys with, then kills André's friend Philippe de Vilmorin in a duel.

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Andy Hardy's Private Secretary (1941)

romantic comedy

A week from the end of high school, Andy (Mickey Rooney) is keenly anticipating his graduation, but is putting more effort into running the various student committees – most of which he chairs – than studying for his examinations. His father, honorable judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) learns that Andy has been giving money for tuition to a fellow student, a girl named Kathryn Land (Kathryn Grayson). Judge Hardy also learns that Kathryn's father is poor.

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Love That Boy (2003)

romantic comedy

Phoebe (Nadia Litz) is a perky university student who has difficulty relating to her fellow students. Her only friend is her roommate Robin (Nikki Barnett) who she smothers with advice. Eventually, Robin cracks under the pressure of being Phoebe's only friend and leaves on a plane with a stranger she just met.

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Judge Hardy and Son (1939)

romantic comedy

The Volduzzis, a poor immigrant couple, consult Judge James Hardy when they are threatened with eviction. Judge Hardy believes their estranged daughter, who is married and uses her maiden name as a middle name, may be able to help them financially. The judge’s son, Andy, has his own money problems: he needs new tires for his car.

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The Boob (1926)

Drama, romance film, romantic comedy, silent film

Peter Good, a courteous idealist, is in love with his childhood friend Amy. However, she is in a relationship with the urbane Harry Benson, whom she has only known for one week. Peter has two friends, Ham Bunn (who is accompanied with a dog Benzine) and Cactus Jim.

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Saturday's Children (1940)

Drama, romance film

Twenty-two-year-old Bobby Halevy (Anne Shirley) looks forward to her first day of work at the firm where her father has been a bookkeeper for many years. Her married sister, Florrie, tells her the only point in working is to snag herself a husband, preferably one with a lot of money. She meets—and soon falls in love with—her fellow employee, Rims Rosson (John Garfield).

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Kiss the Bride (2007)

LGBTQ-related film, romantic comedy

Ten years after leaving his conservative Arizona hometown, Matt is a successful editor and chief photographer for the LA lifestyle magazine Queery. Though he has no problems meeting men, he usually dumps them after they fail to measure up to his high school flame, Ryan. Matt and his assistant Stephanie are on the verge of closing the "Big Gay Wedding" issue when he receives an invitation to Ryan's nuptials to Alex—who, to Matt's surprise, is actually a woman.

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Faithless (1932)

Drama, romance film

Spoiled New York socialite Carol Morgan, romping through the Depression with her lavish lifestyle, breaks her engagement with advertising executive Bill Wade over her refusal to live on his comparatively modest salary rather than on her own wealth. They temporarily resolve their differences, but Carol refuses Bill's offer for an expedited wedding at city hall, and again they are at odds. Bill leaves Carol at her opulent home.

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Mississippi (1935)

musical film, romantic comedy

Commodore Jackson is the captain of a Mississippi showboat in the late nineteenth century. Tom Grayson is engaged to be married and has been disgraced for refusing to fight a duel with Major Patterson. Accused of being a coward, Grayson joins Jackson's showboat.

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I Married a Woman (1958)

Comedy, romantic comedy

Advertising executive Mickey Briggs is given 48 hours by his boss, Sutton, to come up with a campaign for client Luxemberg Beer, and save the company from ruin. Mickey neglects his wife, Janice, who once had been a "Miss Luxemberg" in a successful advertising campaign featuring various attractive models. Janice has just discovered she is expecting a baby, but is unable to inform Mickey, who is too distracted by work.

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Getting Played (2005)

comedy television program

The film centers around three very attractive women who, after having many guy troubles themselves, decide to play a prank on a random man. Their goal is to seduce the man while catching the whole sequence on tape and ultimately humiliating him with the footage. Their plan runs into some snags, as the man they choose to prank knows what they are trying to do to him.

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The Wife (1995)

art film, Comedy drama

Jack and his wife Rita, both professional therapists, live and work in virtual isolation in a remote Vermont cottage. One night, one of Jack's patients, Cosmo, unexpectedly turns up with young wife Arlie in tow. And the more the couples talk and drink, the more tension builds over what personal issues are being shared in analysis, as well as the private troubles of the therapists themselves.

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Angel's Dance (1999)

black comedy film, Crime, Drama

Tony wants to be a hitman for the Mafia, but first he has to learn from a master. Enter Stevie "The Rose" Rosellini - cool, eats veggie dogs and quotes Nietzsche. Greco may not agree with Stevie's style, but he has to complete his training so he can go back and kill the Mafia's accountant, who is about to turn state's evidence.

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Ceremony (2010)

romantic comedy

Sam Davis (Michael Angarano) convinces his former best friend to spend a weekend with him to rekindle their friendship at an elegant beachside estate owned by a famous documentary filmmaker (Lee Pace). It soon becomes clear that Sam is secretly infatuated with the filmmaker's fiancée, Zoe (Uma Thurman), and that his true intention is to thwart their impending nuptials. As Sam's plan begins to unravel, he is forced to realize how complicated love and friendship can be.

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Goodbye Again (1933)

romantic comedy

On tour in Cleveland, famous author Kenneth Bixby decides to reignite a romance with ex-sweetheart Julie, skipping a downtown engagement at Halle's. However, Julie's family, her husband Harvey, and Bixby's loyal secretary Anne (who has been carrying a torch for her boss for years), prefer that Bixby stick to writing and stay away from Julie.

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Daddy Issues (2018)

Drama, independent film, LGBTQ-related film, romance film

Nineteen year old Maya lives at home with her mother and step-father. She is a very unhappy artist who wants to go to art school in Florence, Italy. Simon is a drug addict doctor who has fantasy sex with Jasmine who dresses up as a little girl.

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The Devil to Pay! (1930)

Drama, romance film

In May 1930, Willie Hale sells his "furniture and effects" in Kenya Colony and returns home to England, where he buys a dog with most of his remaining money. Lord Leeland, his wealthy father, is frustrated with Willie's many failed ventures but gives him £100 in spending money. After seeing his old girlfriend, theatre star Mary Crayle, Willie meets family friend and heiress Dorothy Hope.

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