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war film
Eric Newby is an English soldier in 1943, captured by the Germans and imprisoned in a former mansion in Italy. The mansion is beautiful, Prisoners are well fed and receive Red Cross packages regularly. While Wanda and her Italian girl friends bicycle past the mansion, Eric spots her, and she returns his glances.
Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama, romance film, Tragicomedy
In 1805 England, eligible bachelors are scarce on Quality Street. Twenty-year-old Phoebe Throssel becomes very hopeful when one of the few, Dr. Valentine Brown, tells her he has something important to say to her that day.
Adventure, Drama, romance film
In the 1910s in Fargo, Georgia near the dangerous Okefenokee Swamp, Ben Tyler and his father Zack enter the swamp to search for two lost trappers. During an unsuccessful journey, Ben's dog Careless disappears while running after a deer. While looking for Careless, Ben is hit in the head by someone, and when he awakens, he finds himself captured by two people living in the wilderness: old Jim Harper and his fierce, aggressive but beautiful daughter Laurie.
Comedy, romance film, romantic comedy
During the Great Depression, Fowler Pettypacker, a Wall Street banker, is debating whether or not to accept an offer from Ivor Nassau to buy "Colossal Pictures," a fictional film studio on Poverty Row. The studio has not been turning a profit, but financial analyst Atterbury Dodd advises against selling. He stakes his reputation on his mathematical calculations that show Colossal should turn a profit.
romance film, war film
In 1943 at the height of the World War II Battle of the Atlantic, Captain Pat Banyon of the fishing trawler Daniel Webster unloads his catch in his home port of Gloucester, Massachusetts. He reluctantly agrees to transport Margaret McLean to Trabo, a small community in Newfoundland. Shorthanded, he hires Danish sailor Konrad, and the Daniel Webster sails for the Grand Banks fishing grounds.
romantic comedy
Ann Winters, an insurance company statistician made wary by her data, her sister's impending divorce and the messy divorce of their parents, tells her fiancé, Tice Collins, that after their marriage, there will be a three-month trial period before they consummate it so they can make sure that they are compatible. He thinks the idea is crazy, but she points out that they have known each other for a very short time. Harry Bertrand, his lawyer and friend, convinces him to pretend to go along, then use his charm to get her to change her mind.
Crime, Crime Comedy, romantic comedy
Baroness and concert pianist, Caroline DuLac, steals three jewel-encrusted Fabergé eggs from a San Francisco museum. The eggs are demanded as ransom for her kidnapped fiancé in Latin America. She boards a plane for the Latin American city of Ladera, as per instructions, and is met by a drifter named Mike Chambers.
romantic comedy
On her wedding day, New York heiress Diana "Dee Dee" Dillwood complains to her uncle and guardian, Ralph Tutwiler, that she is having second thoughts about her marriage to Henry Benson. Having gone through six previous broken engagements with Dee Dee, Ralph and psychologist Dr. Blucher advise her to stop doubting herself and "plunge into it" with Henry.
Comedy
Young Janie Prescott is about to be married to her sailor sweetheart, Sonny Phyffe, but the wedding is delayed because the ship hasn't arrived to its dock. The wedding ceremony has to be pushed forward, and is combined with a christening ceremony that is to be performed by the same pastor. Sonny's ship eventually docks and when he meets his father, small-time swindler Hector, before the wedding, he is given a corsage to pass on to Janie.
romance film
10,000 km follows the relationship between Alexandra and Sergi in Barcelona, Spain. They struggle to find a balance between their plans of having a baby and Alex's photography career. When Alex accepts a one-year residency in Los Angeles, their distance apart tests the bounds of their relationship.
romantic comedy
Betty Miller and her Sirens are a struggling all-female band who play at a benefit for an orphanage. The following act is shy Western Union messenger Herbie Fenton, who stuns Betty with his amazing singing voice, performing "Out of This World". In the audience are Bing Crosby's four sons, even though they are not orphans (due to "Dad and his horses"); they recognize the voice right away.
Drama, romance film
Giovanna Masetti (Mangano), a poor Venetian who is admired by the crafty croupier Mario Rossi (Gassman) and the rich count Enrico Marisoni (Rennie). Discovered by Toni Salerno (Winters), Giovanna lives out a dream to become a dancer and moves to Rome. She returns six months later to the competing affections of Mario and Enrico, resulting in a choice between the two and the dramatic finale.
Comedy, romance film
romantic comedy
Marge Winton is fed up with having to quit job after job to avoid the advances of lecherous bosses. When she goes to the employment agency, she is surprised to discover that she is too beautiful for one position. So she gives herself a makeover, hiding her blond curls under a dark, severe wig, putting on glasses, and wearing a drab, unflattering dress.
Comedy drama, romantic comedy
Book of Love is a mockumentary following the unrelated stories of three L.A. bachelors (Eric K. George, Anthony "Treach" Criss, and Richard T.
romantic comedy
In 1920s New York, amorous opera star Augustino "Gus" Caraffa encounters Isabelle Perry, a naive music student from Mississippi and one of his most devoted admirers. When a newspaper photographer captures them in a compromising kiss, a marriage of convenience is proposed to avoid scandal. Isabelle, secretly in love with Gus, agrees to the arrangement, hoping that he will eventually return her feelings.
Comedy
On Christmas Eve, Guido “Gig” Panimba (Joseph Bologna) and Pandora “Panda” Gold (Renée Taylor) each morosely wander the streets of Manhattan and later join an emergency group therapy meeting designed to help the participants break self-destructive patterns. Each person lists his or her neuroses, ranging from bed-wetting to paranoia. When it is Panda's turn, we learn she is there on her 4th emergency session.
Biography, Crime, Drama, Heist, romance film
The rogue who would later call himself Eugène François Vidocq is born in a prison cell, the twelfth child of a woman who steals a loaf of bread each time she needs shelter to give birth. As the boy grows into a man, he is constantly in and out of jail. As the story begins, he and his cutpurse cellmate and associate, Emile Vernet, escape using a file hidden in a birthday cake provided by Vernet's aunt Ernestine.
LGBTQ-related film, romantic comedy
The film opens with a quote from Virginia Woolf: "For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself". This introduces the viewer to charismatic filmmaker Anna, who is facing a midlife crisis on her 40th birthday. She has neither a job nor a girlfriend, and lives in her friend Charlie's garage in Los Angeles.
Comedy, Coming-of-age, Tragicomedy
Life for shy 21-year-old Tim Maitland is not always smooth sailing. His mum Jean is a cafeteria worker by day who hits the comedy club circuit by night, while his dad John is busy trying to recapture his fifteen minutes of fame from when he was a country and western singer back in 1975. But when the feisty beautiful Jill walks into Tim's life, things seem to be looking up.
musical film, romantic comedy
In New York City in the early 1950s, Jerry Biffle is the star of the Blendo Soap Program. He has been invited to participate in an autograph-signing party for his new book at an important department store. He meets Sally Peters, one of the department store models, and makes her part of his TV troupe.
Comedy, Drama, romance film
The film goes against the view that straight men and women can't just be friends. It brings this true by telling the story of Chucks (Blossom Chukwujekwu) nicknamed by his friends as the Terminator, an ardent player with ladies, whose quest to proveng this law to his friends brings him three women he must re-seduce: Ify (Ufuoma McDermott), Tomi (Toyin Aimakhu) and Ejiro (Omoni Oboli), whose lives have drastically changed. And this must be done within 21 days.
romance film
Ann is the owner of a famous nursery and greenhouse from the Japanese family. Tom is from a blue-collar family of self-employed fishermen. They make a relationship, despite obstacles their families get in their way.
romantic comedy
Harold McMurphy (Piven) is a single, 30-year-old, Hollywood-obsessed tour bus driver in Beverly Hills who works for his father's struggling tour company. He dreams of finding a perfect woman that will love him for who he is, despite his father's insistence that he lower his standards. When two women from a tour ask Harold where they can see Hollywood stars, he directs them to a trendy Hollywood cafe where his best friend, Danny (Jeffrey D.