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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 249.

Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1931)

Comedy

Jeffrey Haywood wants to marry Virginia "Ginny" Embrey. However, Ginny refuses to marry unless her older sister, the hard-to-please Angelica marries first as she's afraid that Angelica will become an old maid. Angelica, in turn, finds every man she knows too dull and predictable, not wild and exciting, so prefers to stay single.

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Ever in My Heart (1933)

Drama, romance film

In 1909 in the town of Archedale, Mary Archer, an American girl from the prominent Archer family, meets Hugo Wilbrandt, a German chemist who knows her cousin and childhood sweetheart Jeff. It had been assumed for years that Mary and Jeff would marry someday, but Mary falls in love with Hugo and he with her. They soon marry and start a family.

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Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas (2005)

Drama, romance film

New York City book editor Katie Wilkinson is devastated when her boyfriend, poet Matt Harrison, abruptly breaks up with her for no apparent reason. He later sends her a diary as a means of explaining why he can't be with her, and Katie discovers the diary is written by a woman named Suzanne, who is writing to her newborn son, Nicholas. Suzanne begins her story in Boston, where she was working as a doctor in a hospital.

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Svengali (1954)

Drama, romance film

After being fired from working as a barmaid in a Paris bar, Trilby O'Ferrall is hired by the sculptor Durian as an artist's model. She encounters three British painters living next door, including the sensitive Billy Bagot with whom she gradually falls in love. She also encounters the street musician Svengali, but does not much like him.

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The Kiss (2003)

romantic comedy

Cara Thompson is a book editor who is entranced by a certain old manuscript about a romance. Unfortunately, she discovers that the story is unfinished, so with her roommate Megan, she attempts to find the author, only to be disappointed that he is nothing more than a broken man after his wife's death. The editor forms a close friendship with him, and they find the meaning of true love.

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To Die For (1994)

Comedy drama, Drama, Ghost, LGBTQ-related film, romance film

Set in London in the early 1990s, the film portrays the bittersweet lifestyles of a young gay couple in a fiery open relationship. Mark is an acerbic drag queen with a sharp tongue, who finds it difficult to accept his much better-looking partner's highly promiscuous lifestyle of non-stop clubbing and cruising. Worse still, Mark is HIV positive and his partner is negative.

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Muffin Top: A Love Story (2014)

Comedy, romantic comedy

Suzanne (Cathryn Michon) is a professor of Women's Studies Pop Culture at Malibu University. On her birthday her husband Michael (Diedrich Bader) surprises her by saying that he's divorcing her in favor of his co-worker Jessica (Haylie Duff), prompting her to go on a quest to find herself.

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Once in a Lifetime (1994)

romance film

Daphne Fields is a world-famous novelist from New York City who one night is hit by a car. She falls into a coma and her memory flashes back to eight years earlier, when she was happily married to Jeffrey and had a loving daughter, Aimee. Her perfect life had subsequently fallen into pieces when she suddenly loses her husband and daughter in a fire.

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Hard to Get (1938)

romantic comedy

The hectoring wife (Isabel Jeans) of New York oil magnate Ben Richards (Charles Winninger) is gathering her family for their annual summer vacation in Newport. Their spoiled willful and beautiful daughter Margaret (Olivia de Havilland) refuses to go and storms out of the house. Impetuously commandeering a modest car belonging to her father's valet, she soon notices the car is low on fuel and stops at an auto court gas station.

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Unofficially Yours (2012)

Macky Galvez is a depressed young man recovering from a failed relationship. One night, Galvez meets Ces Bricenio, a modern-day beautiful girl who is afraid of commitment, and they have a one-night stand. Later on, Macky meets Ces again in his new job as a reporter for the Manila Bulletin.

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It's a Date (1940)

musical film, romantic comedy

Georgia Drake performs on stage, singing "Gypsy Lullaby"; her daughter, Pamela, watches with her boyfriend Freddie Miller. They have come down from Maine, where they are part of a summer theater. Georgia is a renowned Broadway actress; this is closing night, and she is going to Hawaii for a rest before starting any new play.

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Blind Husbands (1919)

Drama, romance film, silent film

A group of holiday-makers arrives at Cortina d'Ampezzo, an Alpine village in the Dolomites. Among them are an American Doctor who does not pay much attention to his wife and an Austrian Lieutenant, who decides to seduce her. He manages to befriend the couple so that, when the Doctor has to leave to help a local physician, he asks the Lieutenant to look after his wife.

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The Dish & the Spoon (2011)

Comedy drama, romantic comedy

Rose (Greta Gerwig), in a depressive episode after being cheated on by her husband (Adam Rottenberg), drives far from home to isolate herself at a boarded-up beach town in Delaware on a cloudy fall day. She spends all her cash on beer, and runs into a comatose boy (Olly Alexander), atop a desolate lighthouse. Rose first tries to get him to a hospital, but he awakens and refuses, so they go to a cafe, where he reveals has been dumped by a girl he had traveled from England to be with.

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Jupiter's Darling (1955)

musical film, romantic comedy

Horatio the Historian sings to beautiful women about the day that Fabius Maximus was crowned the dictator of Rome. Fabius gives a speech about stopping Hannibal’s invasion and looks for his bride-to-be, Amytis, but she is not there. She and her personal slave, Meta, visit Rome’s market and witness a slave auction where Varius, one of Hannibal’s soldiers, is being sold.

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Service de Luxe (1938)

Comedy, romantic comedy

Helen Murphy, alias Dorothy Madison number 1, runs a very successful agency, "Dorothy Madison Services," for wealthy people who need someone to run their lives. A huge staff is up 24 hours a day to attend to all sorts of problems. Her alter ego, Pearl, alias Dorothy Madison 2, is there to assist Murphy, who dreams of finding a man who is able to run his own life.

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Wilby Wonderful (2004)

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

In the small Canadian Maritimes island town of Wilby, Dan Jarvis (James Allodi), the town's video store owner, is preparing to kill himself by jumping off a bridge; however, the presence of the town's lovable handyman, Walter "Duck" MacDonald (Callum Keith Rennie), stops him from doing so. Dan's next three suicide attempts all kept on getting interrupted. His next attempt is to drown himself by stuffing rocks in his pocket at the shore of Wilby Watch, a large undeveloped area on the island, but is forced to leave when local reporters were there, interviewing local police Stan Lastman (Daniel MacIvor) about a police raid at the Wilby Watch.

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Interlude (1957)

Drama, Melodrama, romance film

Helen Banning, an American, moves to Munich, Germany to begin a new job with a cultural agency. She meets a handsome doctor, Morley Dwyer, but lets him know she is reluctant to begin any new relationships. Helen's new boss Prue Stubbins introduces her to symphony conductor Tonio "Tony" Fischer, then, concerned about the upcoming performance, asks Helen to follow him when he abruptly leaves the concert hall.

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New Moon (1940)

musical film, romance film

During the 18th century in New Orleans, Louisiana, a French nobleman in disguise as a bondsman, Charles (Nelson Eddy) leads his fellow bondsmen in revolt against his ship's captain (George Irving), commandeering the ship and heading out to sea.

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