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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 260.

Ed's Next Move (1996)

romance film, romantic comedy

After being dumped by his girlfriend, twentysomething scientist Eddie decides to uproot himself from his home state of Wisconsin and takes a job in New York City. In the Big Apple, Eddie's new roommate Ray encourages him to start dating again. Eddie has little luck with women until he meets Lee, a bohemian musician.

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The Man Who Understood Women (1959)

Drama, Melodrama, romance film

Willie Bauche, a Hollywood producer, becomes so obsessed with turning his wife, Ann Garantier, into the sexiest star in Hollywood that he neglects her real needs. Feeling lonely and tired of Tinseltown, Ann returns to her native France and finds herself attracted to Marco Ranieri, a handsome and very attentive pilot. When Willie hears about the budding affair, he flies into a rage and hires assassins to kill his rival.

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Finishing School (1934)

Coming-of-age, Drama, romance film

Virginia Radcliff is enrolled at the exclusive Crockett Hall finishing school by her mother, with the acquiescence of her wealthy businessman father. Miss Van Alstyne, the head of the school, informs her new student of Crockett Hall's strict rules of ladylike conduct, but Virginia's new roommate, Cecilia Ferris, soon sets her straight. Van Alstyne and the rest of her staff do not really care what they do as long as it does not become public and stain the reputation of the school.

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Manuale d'amore (2005)

romance film, romantic comedy

Each of the four episodes follows a different couple, focusing on a particular stage of a typical love relationship: Innamoramento (falling in love): Giulia and Tommaso (Jasmine Trinca and Silvio Muccino) meet by chance. He falls in love on the spot; although initially Giulia doesn't return his sentiments, a romantic dinner leads the relationship to bloom and develop into an actual marriage proposal. Crisi (crisis): Barbara and Marco (Margherita Buy and Sergio Rubini) are a couple going through a crisis, close to divorce.

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Satyr (1996)

Adventure, Drama, fantasy film, Horror, pornographic film, romance film

Fawn Deering (Jenna Jameson) is a college student researching animal mythology and human sexuality. This project leads her to Dr. Jade (Asia Carrera) for an interview on the subject.

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The Sailor from Gibraltar (1967)

Drama, romance film, Romantic drama

Bored with his fiancée Sheila and with Florence, where they have gone for a holiday, Alan takes her to Bocca di Magra where he meets and sleeps with Anna, a rich woman whose yacht is anchored offshore. When she leaves next day, she agrees to take him as her lover. An odyssey begins as she pursues alleged sightings of “the sailor from Gibraltar”, a man she regards as the love of her life.

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Crack in the Mirror (1960)

Drama, romance film, trial film

In a run-down Paris dwelling, an angry Hagolin accuses mistress Eponine of seeing a man named Robert Larnier behind his back. In a party at a stately home, prosperous attorney Lamerciere's guests include his longtime mistress Florence and his young law partner Claude Lancaster. Eponine attempts to murder Hagolin but fails.

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AWOL (2016)

Drama, LGBTQ-related film, romance film

A young woman, Joey, is in search of direction in her small town. A visit to an Army recruiting office appears to provide a path, but when she meets and falls in love with Rayna, that path diverges in ways that neither woman anticipates.

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The Truth About Lies (2018)

romantic comedy

Gilby Smalls (Fran Kranz) is an aimless guy who is having a meltdown. He's just been fired from his job, lost his apartment in a fire and he's forced to move in with his booze-swindling, man-obsessed mother. Life is bleak and as he's desperate to turn things around when he meets his friend's beautiful sister, who appears to be everything he ever wanted.

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The Cold Room (1984)

Mysterie, Psychological horror, Psychological Thriller, Science fiction, thriller film

Carla Martin (Amanda Pays) is leaving an English parochial boarding school for the summer to live with her estranged father at an inn in East Berlin. The headmistress (Ursula Howells), a nun, gives her a 1936 guide to Berlin, telling Carla that she may find it useful, even though Berlin has surely changed as much as she has. Her best friend, Sophie (Lucy Hornack), gives her a bag of marijuana.

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AmeriQua (2012)

Drama, romantic comedy

Charlie (Bobby Kennedy) is an American hard-partying slacker and recent college graduate whose wealthy parents (Alec Baldwin and Catherine Mary Stewart) cut him off with a cheque for $5000 and an ultimatum to get a job. Instead, eager to explore Europe, he buys a plane ticket to Italy. On the plane, he meets the self-proclaimed "King" of Bologna, Lele (Lele Gabellone), who tells him he is welcome to stay with him, also making a strong impression by joining the mile high club with the woman he just met, Alessia ().

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A Waste of Shame (2005)

drama television series

1609: Shakespeare is struggling to complete his sonnets while the plague rages. He sees the body of a young child and remembers the moment in 1596 when he learned of the illness of his son Hamnet while rehearsing a play in London. Returning to Stratford-upon-Avon, he was subjected to abuse from his shrewish wife Anne for neglecting his family by living in the capital.

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Second Fiddle (1939)

Comedy, musical film, romance film

Jimmy Sutton, the publicity agent of a major Hollywood studio, is taking part in the search to find an actress to star in an adaptation of a best-selling novel, Girl of the North. After over 400 actresses have been tested and rejected, he is sent to the small town of Bergen, Minnesota to meet Trudi Hovland, a schoolteacher whose photo and details were unknowingly submitted to the studio. She is doubtful, but with the entire town backing her, Jimmy persuades her to return to Hollywood with him.

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All the Vermeers in New York (1990)

Drama, romantic comedy

Mark, a Wall Street financial broker, falls in love with a French actress at first sight, due to her resembling a Vermeer painting, and then proceeds to follow her from room to room in a museum. The broker goes up to the actress, Anna, and introduces himself which spawns a romantic relationship. Anna lives with two roommates — a wealthy woman and a female opera singer.

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Three Faces West (1940)

Drama, romance film

Two refugees, the Brauns, an elderly medical doctor and his 20-something-year-old daughter arrive in the USA from Nazi-controlled Austria. They become a much-needed physician and nurse in a small North Dakota farm town. The town is located in the area later known as the Dust Bowl, and is being hit hard by the drought and resultant dust storms.

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The Triumph of Love (2001)

Comedy, romantic comedy

In an unidentified country in 18th century Europe, a usurper's daughter, The Princess, has inherited the throne and feels guilty about her family's crimes. She learns that the Queen gave birth to a prince and the rightful heir, Agis, who was secretly sent to live with the great philosopher Hermocrates and his sister Leontine. After gaining information from one of Hermocrates' servants, she goes to see Agis for herself and finds him bathing in a lake in the forest.

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