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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 322.

Toto Forever (2010)

Drama, Noir, romance film

While delivering a package, a young postman Toto (Kylan James) discovers an injured man lying next to an inground pool and tends to his wounds. Mark (Kjord Davis) is in trouble with the mob and the two men decide to flee together. While resting on the side of the road, Toto gazes longingly at the handsome fugitive.

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I Love You, Apple, I Love You, Orange (2013)

Comedy drama, romantic comedy

Maggie (Smithey) lives alone and spends her days writing lists and talking to fruits and vegetables that have come to life. The arrival of Martin (Kim), via a blind date set up by Maggie's mother (Blake), sparks a romantic relationship that threatens the routine and quiet order of Maggie's daily life as she labors to keep Martin from discovering her inner world.

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This Lady Called Life (2020)

Drama, romance film

Aiye (Bisola Aiyeola) is a young single mother financially struggling to cope with the rising cost of living in the modern city of Lagos. She works extremely hard running a modest business that barely supports her to have a decent but not a luxury standard of living. She wants to prove her worth while working as a chef in order to fulfill her desire.

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Paid (2006)

Noir

Paid is a film noir in the tradition of the French gangster movie. It is a story about underworld characters that have come to regret the choices they have made and now secretly long for a different and more meaningful life. It is also a love story between Paula Gireaux, a 28-year-old Parisian call girl working in Amsterdam and a hit man, Michel Angelo whose hearts are touched when a six-year-old Bolivian boy abruptly enters their lives.

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Rain (2001)

Coming-of-age, Drama

Janey is on vacation with her brother Jim, mother Kate, and father Ed, at their beach house on the Mahurangi Peninsula in New Zealand. Ed and Kate, who are on the verge of divorce, sit in the backyard all day drinking whisky, leaving their young children to amuse and fend for themselves. Cady, a local boatie who is having an affair with Kate, catches Janey's pubescent eye.

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Zis Boom Bah (1941)

musical film, romantic comedy

Grace Hayes—essentially playing herself—has been playing the vaudeville circuit to finance her son's college education after her wealthy family has shunned her. Tiring of the road, she goes incognito to visit her son, Peter Kendricks (played by her real-life son Peter Lind Hayes) with her personal assistant Mary Healy (played by her real-life daughter-in-law of the same name). She finds her son and the college "going to Hell in a hand basket", despite the earnest efforts of the kindhearted Dean, Prof.

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Ups and Downs (1937)

musical film

An elevator operator Harry Smith (Hal Le Roy), who works in a luxury hotel, courts the hotel president's daughter June Dailey (June Allyson). She is engaged to another, but when her fiancé leaves on a business trip, Harry asks her to join him for dinner. During dinner, Harry is introduced to her father, who misinterprets Harry's remarks about elevators as being a tip to invest in the Upsadaisy Elevator Company.

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Blue Moon (2002)

Adventure, Comedy, Drama, romance film

In a month with two full moons, Austrian petty criminal Johnny Pichler is hired to carry a bag of cash to the Slovakian border and deliver it to a gangster. Johnny arrives late in a battered taxi. He is forced into the car behind the gangster's beautiful but unhappy escort.

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Kelly the Second (1936)

romantic comedy

After a traffic incident culminating in a brawl, feisty Molly Kelly (Kelly) comes up with the idea of making truck driver Cecil Callahan (Williams) a professional boxer, aided by her boss Doc Klum (Chase). Complications arise when mobster Ike Arnold (Brophy), impressed by Cecil's punching, declares himself a partner, putting additional pressure on him to win. Further muddying the waters is Ike's girl friend Gloria (Kelton), who's set her sights on Cecil, much to Molly's dismay.

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A Yank in Libya (1942)

Drama, romance film

American correspondent Mike Malone uncovers a Nazi plot for an uprising of the Arab tribes in Libya. Pursued by Sheik David and his men, Mike takes refuge in the suite of Nancy Brooks, who is in the British Intelligence. He asks her to hide a gun and escapes through a window.

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King Kelly of the U.S.A. (1934)

musical film, romantic comedy

James W. Kelly (Guy Robertson) and his pal Happy Moran (Edgar Kennedy) are taking their all-girl-dancing troupe "Kelly's Affairs" across the ocean on the SS Île de France to tour Europe. Despite warning his troupe not to fall in love, Kelly and the mysterious Catherine Bell (Irene Ware), fall for each other, literally.

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Curtain Call (1940)

romantic comedy

Two theatrical producers plan to get even with a demanding actress by tricking her into starring in the worst play they can find. The producer and director conspire to give the actress a dreadful role to play from the script of The End of Everything. The plot to mislead the actress, however, backfires when she loves the role and gives a stellar performance, which turns the play into a hit.

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Revenge (1928)

romance film, silent film

In the wild Carpathian Mountains, fiery gypsy girl Rascha lives untamed alongside her father Costa, the most renowned bear tamer in all Europe. Proud and headstrong, Rascha enjoys bending men to her will only to scorn them once they've surrendered their hearts. To Costa’s camp comes a gathering of nomadic gypsies—for trading, weddings, and celebration.

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Over the Garden Wall (1934)

musical film, romantic comedy

A young man and a woman exchange glances through the windows of their passing trains. They later discover that they are staying in neighboring houses, but their respective families are feuding, and they are only occasionally able to continue their romance across the garden wall. Eventually, they decide to elope together, but this only leads to more trouble than it is worth.

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