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Romance movies

Explore romantic relationships, love and its complications.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 9,658 films · Page 252.

Le sauvage (1975)

Adventure, Drama, romantic comedy, Tragicomedy

Nelly, a young Frenchwoman, becomes engaged to Vittorio, an overbearing and hot-tempered Italian man, in Caracas. Shortly afterwards, she has a change of heart and runs away in the middle of the night, checking into a hotel. Vittorio soon finds Nelly and breaks into her hotel room by entering the next room, which is occupied by a middle-aged Frenchman named Martin, and jumping over the balcony.

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The Nanny Express (2009)

Drama, Family Drama

After the passing of their mother three years prior, Ben and Emily have driven their father David crazy by driving away 20 nannies with sabotaged appliances and Ben's pet rat in the clothes. The film shows a life of a young girl, Kate, who looks after her dad. She is looking for work and Beverly Hills offers her a job as a nanny for David’s family.

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The White Sister (1933)

Drama, romance film

The banns are called for the third time for the marriage of Italian Princess Angela Chiaromonte (Helen Hayes) and the husband chosen by her father (Lewis Stone), Ernesto Traversi. Driving home through streets filled with revelers celebrating a saint's feast day, their limousine is rear-ended by a car full of officers, driven by Giovanni Severi (Clark Gable), a handsome army lieutenant. Traversi, the son of a banker, is 31, rather stuffy, preoccupied with business.

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Carnival Story (1954)

Drama

Grayson's Amerikanische Wunderschau ("American Show Of Wonders"), a traveling carnival, arrives in Munich with acts that include high-diver Frank Colloni and silent strongman Groppo. On the midway, local woman Willi picks the pocket of carny Joe Hammond. He catches her, takes an interest, and finds her a job in the cookhouse.

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Who Gets the Dog? (2016)

Comedy, romantic comedy

The film centres on a divorcing couple, Dr Olive Greene (Alicia Silverstone) and Clay Lonergan (Ryan Kwanten), a professional ice hockey player. Both want custody of their beloved dog Wesley. The dog, a golden Labrador Retriever, is the centre of this couple's universe.

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My Kontrabida Girl (2012)

romance film

Isabel Reyes (Rhian Ramos) is an infamous soap opera villain in the country. Everyone simply loathes Isabel which makes her the most condemned personality in the world of television. But by some weird twist of fate, Isabel's life turns upside down when she encounters a near-death accident.

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Spike (2008)

fantasy film, Horror, LGBTQ-related film, monster film, romance film

Through a series of dreamlike images, a girl (Sarah Livingston Evans) and her three friends find themselves stranded in a dark and surrealistic forest by someone — or something (Edward Gusts) — who has obsessively loved, watched, and waited for the girl ever since childhood.

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Shirin in Love (2014)

romantic comedy

Shirin is an absent-minded, yet sophisticated, young Iranian-American woman who lives in "Tehrangeles", the large Iranian community of Los Angeles. While Shirin has been engaged for years to a successful Iranian plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills, she lives with her overbearing mother and empathetic father. When she falls in love with a mysterious young man who lives in a lighthouse in Northern California, a secret unravels and cultures clash, challenging all the tradition Shirin grew up with - and she re-discovers herself in the process.

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Till Human Voices Wake Us (2002)

Drama

Fifteen-year-old Sam Franks has returned from a Melbourne boarding school to his hometown in Victoria. He has an obvious affection towards a local girl, Silvy, who has a disability affecting her legs which requires a brace and prevents her from walking freely. This does not stop the two friends from enjoying each other's company, and they are virtually inseparable.

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Victim of Love (1991)

mystery film

Therapist Tess Parker (JoBeth Williams) meets Paul Tomlinson (Pierce Brosnan), an English professor she is wacky over, and a guy too good to be true. Her patient Carla (Virginia Madsen), comes to Tess to tell her about her former lover who wanted to marry her but needed some time after his wife's death, even though they started going out when he was still married. But after a year he left and never came back, only to tell her that he was with someone else.

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Mardi Gras (1958)

musical film, romance film

A military school cadet (Boone) wins a date with a French movie goddess (Carère) who happens to be the queen of the "Mardi Gras" parade. The two fall in love, but Carère's movie studio wants to capitalize on this newly found love for publicity.

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Fine Things (1990)

Drama, romance film

Bernard "Bernie" Fine is a highly successful businessman who moves from New York City to San Francisco for his work at the west coast Wolff's department store. One day, he meets Jane, a little girl who is lost while shopping at the store. Bernie approaches her, and helps her by paging her mother.

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The Bottom of the Bottle (1956)

Drama

Patrick Martin (Joseph Cotten), known as P.M., is a wealthy attorney and rancher in the border town of Nogales, Arizona. He returns home to find his brother Donald (Van Johnson) hiding in his garage. A former drunkard, Donald had been sent to the penitentiary five years previously for killing a man in a barroom brawl.

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Whatever Lola Wants (2007)

romance film

Lola (Laura Ramsey) is a female postal worker who dreams of becoming an Oriental dancer. After a friend encourages her to perform at a local restaurant, Lola captures the attention of the handsome Zack (Assaad Bouab). Lola follows after him, but is crushed to find that Zack is to marry someone of his family's choosing.

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Condemned (1929)

Drama, romance film

Set against the oppressive backdrop of Devil’s Island in French Guiana, the film follows Michel, a newly arrived prisoner facing a lengthy sentence in the notoriously brutal penal colony. Michel, however, is no typical inmate; his relaxed demeanor and easy charm quickly ingratiate him with fellow prisoners, including the affable Jacques, and eventually earn him a privileged position as houseboy to the camp’s warden, Vidal. Vidal is a deeply possessive man, particularly when it comes to his much younger wife, whom he treats less as a partner and more as a symbol of status.

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Queen of the Night (2013)

romantic comedy

Young-soo is a nerdy, timid man without any interest in women until he meets Hee-joo in a sandwich store one day. They get married and at first, the couple settles into a happy marriage. But three years later when by chance, at the reunion for his university class, the allure of winning a kimchi-fridge for her mother-in-law makes her dance a super-sexy show, the shockingly surprised Young-soo begins to doubt his seemingly perfect wife and does some digging into her past.

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