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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 250.

The Time, the Place and the Girl (1946)

Comedy, musical film, romance film

Steve and Jeff are about to open a nightclub when Martin Drew objects on behalf of conductor Ladislaus Cassel, who lives next door. Drew claims that Cassel objects to the club's music and says that it disturbs his granddaughter, Victoria, an aspiring opera singer. It turns out that Cassel himself is fine with the club, but Vicki's grandmother Lucia is against it.

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Follow Thru (1930)

musical film, romantic comedy

thumb|thumbtime=20|Follow Thru (1930) At the Mission Country Club in 1910, golf pro Mac Moore orders champagne to celebrate the birth of his child, whom he hopes to raise to be a champion golfer. When he learns that the newborn is a girl, he changes the order to beer. Twenty years later, Mac's daughter Lora has entered the club tournament, but she loses to Ruth Van Horn, a champion from another club, and contemplates giving up golf.

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Navy Blues (1941)

musical film, romantic comedy

"Honolulu ...where "Aloha" means goodbye, and "Shore Leave" means trouble..."Margie Jordan and her friend Lilibelle Bolton arrive in Honolulu, much to the surprise of Lillibelle's former husband, Powerhouse Bolton, a sailor who is behind on the alimony he owes her. In need of money, Powerhouse and his shipmate Cake O'Hara come up with a scheme. Learning that the crew is about to include Homer Matthews, a marksman, they make bets with practically everybody aboard on how a shooting competition will turn out.

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Feet First (1930)

Comedy, Splatstick

left|thumb|thumbtime=67|Feet First (1930) Harold Horne, an ambitious shoe salesman in Honolulu, meets his boss's secretary Barbara, thinking that she is the boss's daughter, and tells her that he is a millionaire leather tycoon. Horne spends much of his time around Barbara hiding his true circumstances, in both the shoe store and later as an accidental stowaway aboard a ship. Trying to evade the ship's crew, he becomes trapped in a mailbag, which is taken off the ship and falls off a delivery cart onto a window cleaner's cradle, which is hoisted upwards.

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Chained (1934)

Drama

Eager to marry his devoted secretary Diane Lovering, New York shipping magnate Richard Field asks his wife Louise for a divorce. However, Louise refuses to surrender her social position and denies Richard's request. Although Diane insists that she will continue to love him without the benefit of marriage, Richard asks her to contemplate her choices while cruising to South America on one of his boats.

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The Secret Life of Kathy McCormick (1988)

romantic comedy

A modern-day Cinderella tale about a grocery-store cashier named Kathy McCormick (Barbara Eden) who becomes a member of local high society through a series of misunderstandings and when she tells her society peers she works at The Market, they believe she's talking about the stock market. While attending a charity luncheon, she meets and falls in love with Grant Sherwood (Josh Taylor), a wealthy playboy who is unaware of her true identity.

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Luster (2002)

LGBTQ-related film, Melodrama

Luster takes place over a weekend in Los Angeles. Friday Jackson wakes up in the aftermath of an orgy and heads to his job at his friend Sam's alternative record store. At the store he gets a call from Sonny Spike.

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Count Your Blessings (1959)

Comedy, Drama, romantic comedy, Tragicomedy

While visiting Grace Allingham in wartime London at the behest of Hugh "Hughie" Palgrave, his friend, Charles is charmed by her and abruptly proposes marriage. They marry, but before their honeymoon, Charles reports back for military duty. He reportedly is shot and taken prisoner.

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Thin Ice (1937)

musical film, romantic comedy

The plot follows Lili Heiser (Henie), a skate instructor who works at a luxury hotel in the Swiss Alps. She falls in love with a man who goes skiing every morning (Power), thinking he is an ordinary tourist, unaware that he is a prince seeking to escape the demands of royal life. The movie showcased Sonja Henie's skating talents.

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Why Change Your Wife? (1920)

Comedy, Drama

Frumpy wife Beth devotes herself to bettering her husband's mind and expanding his appreciation for the finer things in life, such as classical music. When he goes shopping at a lingerie store to buy some sexier clothes for her, he meets Sally, the shop girl. Rejected by his wife for a night out in town, he takes Sally, who douses him with her perfume.

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Rain or Shine (1930)

Comedy, romance film

thumb|thumbtime=20|Rain or Shine (1930) The opening credits roll over a peppy instrumental rendition of “Singing in the Rain.” The “Greater John T. Rainey Shows” traveling circus was successful when Mary Rainey inherited it from her father, but by the end of the first season they are struggling. Drenching rains make things worse.

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Love on the Run (1936)

romantic comedy

Rival London-based American newspaper correspondents Michael "Mike" Anthony and Barnabas "Barney" Pells flip a coin to determine who will cover which of two boring assignments. Mike gets to cover the wedding of millionairess Sally Parker to fortune-seeking Prince Igor, while Barney has to interview aviator Baron Otto Spandermann and his wife, Baroness Hilda. When Mike sees Sally running out of the church, he follows her, hoping to get a story.

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Going Under (2004)

independent film, Psychodrama

Peter (Roger Rees) and his dominatrix, Suzanne (Geno Lechner), develop a personal relationship during their sadomasochistic sessions and, when Suzanne quits her job, they attempt to maintain that relationship outside her workplace, without the rules and boundaries that existed in the S&M dungeon. During the opening credits, images are shown of frescoes from a villa in Pompeii called the Villa of the Mysteries. Of particular relevance to the film is a fresco depicting an angel with a whip.

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Helter Skelter (1949)

romantic comedy

Susan Graham is a discontented heiress whose joint guardians are both trying to get her married to their odious nephews. On her nineteenth birthday, the five of them visit a nightclub called the Magnolia Club; also present happens to be radio star Nick Martin, whom Susan detests. When she is inadvertently seated at Martin's table directly in front of the floor show, she refuses to move, and Martin, despite his radio reputation as a fearless detective, is too intimidated by her hauteur to insist.

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Welcome (2009)

Drama, Fugitive Drama

The film tells the story of Simon Calmat (Vincent Lindon), a French swimming coach who is divorcing his wife Marion (Audrey Dana). Simon tries to help a young Iraqi-Kurd immigrant, Bilal Kayani (Firat Ayverdi), whose dream is to cross the English Channel from Calais in France to the United Kingdom by any means possible to be reunited with his girlfriend Mina (Derya Ayverdi). Meanwhile, Mina's father strongly opposes Bilal's plans as he wants to marry his daughter to her cousin who owns a restaurant.

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The Wine of Summer (2013)

Drama, romance film

James, at the age of 27 quits his law career in pursuit of his childhood dream of becoming an actor. While studying acting under the tutelage of Shelley, he becomes engrossed in Carlo Lucchesi's play, Tinto de Verano, which is set in Spain. James’ girlfriend Brit leaves him, and he spontaneously flies to Spain, where he encounters the playwright Lucchesi at a bookstore in Barcelona.

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