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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 292.

Zulu Wedding (2019)

romantic comedy

A beautiful young dancer Lu Sabata (Nondumiso Tembe) who moves to US from her motherland South Africa in order to pursue her career in dancing, falls in love with Tex Wilson (Darrin Henson), a New York based man. However a complication is caused due to the family background of Lu who is from the royal Zulu family and is determined to fulfill her aspirations in the US, but is bound by an ancestral debt to marry a Zulu royal family member.

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Something to Believe In (1998)

Drama, romance film

Reports of a crying Madonna statue in Italy make their way to Las Vegas, where Maggie (Maria Pitillo), a blackjack dealer recently given a grim diagnosis, decides to embark on a journey of faith. She travels to Europe in the hope that witnessing the Madonna in person could offer redemption or healing. Hitchhiking her way through Italy, she crosses paths with Mike (William McNamara), a pianist heading to Naples for a pivotal concert he hopes will transform his life.

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The Matinee Idol (1928)

Tragicomedy

thumb|upright=1.2|alt=The Matinee Idol (1928), directed by Frank Capra|Surviving film Don Wilson, a famous blackface comedian, is preparing to headline a new show. Arnold Wingate, his manager, persuades him to take a weekend off in the country. When their car breaks down, they go off in search of a mechanic.

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English Without Tears (1944)

romantic comedy

In July 1939, the top-hatted deliveryman from a Fortune and Weedon carriage takes a basket of quail to the tradesman's entrance of Beauclerk House. An elaborate process brings the birds to the dinner plates of Lady Christabel Beauclerk and her nephew, Sir Cosmo Brandon, a British delegate to the League of Nations in Geneva. A fanatical bird expert, Lady Christobel identifies the "quail" as a thrush and sends the "tortured friend" away in horror.

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Port of Seven Seas (1938)

Drama

TCM Synopsis: In the port of Marseilles, France, Honore Panisse, a well-to-do sailmaker in his fifties, is enamored of the lovely Madelon, the daughter of a widowed fishmonger. For many years Panisse has played cards with Bruneau, Captain Escartefigue and tavern-owner Cesar, the father of Marius, the boy with whom Madelon is in love. Though Cesar and Marius are great friends, they argue constantly, especially over Panisse's infatuation with Madelon, whom Cesar considers one of the family.

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Chicken Rice War (2000)

Chicken Rice War is loosely based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. In this movie the Montagues and Capulets are represented by the families Wong and Chan. Both families run Chicken Rice stalls side by side in the same market, something that the authorities say is impossible, since it is not allowed.

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Florian (1940)

Drama, romance film

A young groom, Anton, has grown up in Austria a friend of the duchess, Diana, despite their differences in social class. Anton trains a gifted stallion, Florian, for her father, the emperor. Archduke Oliver is the intended husband for the emperor's daughter, but he is killed in battle.

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Flight Angels (1940)

Comedy drama

"Ace" commercial airline pilot Chick Faber (Dennis Morgan) is grounded by Flight Superintendent Bill Graves (Ralph Bellamy) when a flight physical reveals that his eyesight is failing. Aided by stewardess Mary Norvell (Virginia Bruce) and her friend, Nan Hudson (Jane Wyman), Graves persuades Chick to take a job as teacher in the school for stewardesses. While he remains at the airline, along with engineer, Artie Dixon (Wayne Morris), he continues work on the design of a secret research aircraft, he calls the "stratosphere ship" that will revolutionize commercial aviation by flying faster and higher than any current type.

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Polly of the Circus (1932)

Drama, romance film

When a traveling circus arrives in a small town, trapeze artist Polly Fisher is outraged to find that clothing has been added to posters of her to hide her moderately skimpy costume. She goes to see the man she mistakenly holds responsible, Reverend John Hartley. He denies being the censor, but their relationship gets off to a rocky start.

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I'll Be Yours (1947)

musical film, romantic comedy

Louise Ginglebusher is a young woman from the small town of Cobleskill who comes to New York City to make it in show business. In a café, she's befriended by a kindhearted but ornery waiter, Wechsberg, and meets a bearded struggling attorney, George Prescott. She gets a job as an usherette from Mr.

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Double Exposure (1944)

Drama, romantic comedy

In New York City, James R. Tarlock, a fitness fanatic and publisher of the picture magazine Flick, tells his editor, Larry Burke, to hire Pat Marvin, a small town Iowa photographer, based on a great photograph of a crashing airplane. After Tarlock leaves, Larry fires a photographer for faking a picture.

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A Stranger's Heart (2007)

romance film

Callie Morgan (Samantha Mathis), a workaholic magazine editor who prides herself on having no emotional attachments in her life, changes practically overnight when she undergoes a life-saving heart transplant operation. Not only does Callie find herself strangely drawn to a young girl who happens to be the heart donor's orphaned daughter, but she also finds unlikely romance with another patient who also recently received a new heart. She soon discovers that the man, named Jasper Cates (Peter Dobson), received the heart from her donor's husband.

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Islander (2006)

Drama, romance film

Maine lobsterman Eben Cole discharges his weapon in the direction of another fishing vessel. As a result, a deckhand on the other vessel is thrown overboard and drowns. Cole goes to prison and loses his family, friends and stature in his island fishing community.

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