Category: Romance
Posted on February 17, 2014 |
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Angélique et le roy / Angelique and the King (1966)
Adventure | History | Romance
This is the third of the Angélique films. After the loss of her second husband, Angélique goes home to live quietly with her children. However, King Louis XIV has a mission for her involving the Persian ambassador. Later, rumors spread that she has become the new mistress of the king.
Starring: Michèle Mercier, Robert Hossein, Jean Rochefort, Jacques Toja, Sami Frey, Estella Blain
Director: Bernard Borderie
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Tags: Bernard Borderie, Estella Blain, Jacques Toja, Jean Rochefort, Michèle Mercier, Robert Hossein, Sami Frey
Posted on February 17, 2014 |
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Merveilleuse Angélique / Angelique: The Road to Versailles (1965)
Adventure | History | Romance
This is the second in the Angélique series. Picking up where the previous adventure ended, Angélique joins her childhood friend Nicolas and his band of bandits. But when tragedy hits, the beautiful and ever resourceful Angélique finds a way to move on. She rescues her children, becomes a successful businesswoman by running her own restaurant, and becomes entangled in politics. But where will her heart lead her next…?
Starring: Michèle Mercier, Claude Giraud, Jean Rochefort, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Giuliano Gemma, Claire Maurier
Director: Bernard Borderie
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Tags: Bernard Borderie, Claire Maurier, Claude Giraud, Giuliano Gemma, Jean Rochefort, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Michèle Mercier
Posted on February 17, 2014 |
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Angélique, marquise des anges / Angélique (1964)
Adventure | History | Romance
In this first part of the Angélique cycle, set in Mid-17th century France under the young Sun King Louis XIV, still struggling for his throne, while beggars and brigands roam the country, Angélique de Sancé de Monteloup, fifth child of an impoverished country nobleman in the Poitou marshlands, expected to struggle for a meager subsistence, educated in a nunnery, is betrothed at 17 to Joffrey de Peyrac, the 12 years older rich but cripple Comte de (count of) Peyrac de Morens and seigneur (Lord) of Toulouse, scarred in the face and said to be a sorcerer, in fact practicing oriental mining techniques which make his vast fortune. For the sake of her family, Angélique reluctantly agrees to the match but refuses the advances of her husband, who does not enforce his conjugal rights, wishing only to win her heart.
Starring: Michèle Mercier, Robert Hossein, Jean Rochefort, Claude Giraud, Giuliano Gemma, Charles Regnier
Director: Bernard Borderie
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Tags: Bernard Borderie, Charles Regnier, Claude Giraud, Giuliano Gemma, Jean Rochefort, Michèle Mercier, Robert Hossein
Posted on February 16, 2014 |
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Blue Is the Warmest Color / La vie d'Adèle – Chapitres 1 et 2 (2013)
Drama | Romance
At 15, Adele doesn't question it: a girl goes out with boys. Her life is turned upside down the night she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself…
Starring: Adèle Exarchopoulos, Léa Seydoux, Salim Kechiouche, Jérémie Laheurte
Director: Abdellatif Kechiche
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Posted on February 16, 2014 |
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Colette (2013)
Drama | History | Romance | War
Arnost Lustig was one of the world's most renowned literary authors of our times. Lustig's novel 'A girl from Antwerp' upon which our film Colette is based, draws on the author's personal Nazi Concentration Camp experience and his own recollection of several escape attempts from the hell of Auschwitz. The story of The Pulitzer Prize nominee Lustig is about the power of love under an extreme life circumstances. It is a story of young lovers and their vigorous determination to escape from a hopeless life condition and theirs courage to face death.
Starring: Jirí Mádl, Clémence Thioly, Eric Bouwer, Andrej Hryc, Zuzana Mauréry, Ondrej Vetchý
Director: Milan Cieslar
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Tags: Andrej Hryc, Clémence Thioly, Eric Bouwer, Jirí Mádl, Milan Cieslar, Ondrej Vetchý, Zuzana Mauréry
Posted on February 13, 2014 |
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My Wedding and Other Secrets (2011)
Romance
The contemporary story of Chinese New Zealand-born over-achiever Emily Chu, raised to believe she can get anything she puts her mind to. Even if 'anything' is at odds with her traditional Hong Kong born parents' wish for her to become a doctor like her two older sisters. Everything is coming up roses – until she meets James, a European New Zealander, and accidentally falls in love with him. But if her father finds out, she will face disownment. By the time Emily realises that she's sacrificing the respect of her family to follow her heart, James, too, has fallen irrevocably in love and there's nothing for it but to try and keep their relationship a secret. Happy endings don't come easy, if at all, but that doesn't mean they don't happen. But for Emily to get one, she needs to show James and her family that she has learned a lesson about the selflessness of love.
Starring: Michelle Ang, Matt Whelan, Pei-pei Cheng, Kenneth Tsang, Celeste Wong, Katlyn Wong
Director: Roseanne Liang
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Tags: Celeste Wong, Katlyn Wong, Kenneth Tsang, Matt Whelan, Michelle Ang, Pei-pei Cheng, Roseanne Liang
Posted on February 13, 2014 |
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Exquisite Corpse (2010)
Horror | Romance | Thriller
In this chilling modern-day Frankenstein horror, a brilliant young neuroscientist’s world comes crashing down when his fiancée tragically drowns. After discovering a serum that can bring dead tissue back to life, he devises a plan to resurrect his girlfriend back from the dead. His plan is met with horrifying consequences when he realizes that in order to save her life, he must take the life of another. A FilmBuff Presentation.
Starring: Steve Sandvoss, Nicole Vicius, Guillermo Diaz, Tessa Thompson, Larry Cedar
Director: Scott David Russell
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Tags: Guillermo Díaz, Larry Cedar, Nicole Vicius, Scott David Russell, Steve Sandvoss, Tessa Thompson
Posted on February 13, 2014 |
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Juha (1999)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel.
Starring: Sakari Kuosmanen, Kati Outinen, André Wilms, Markku Peltola, Elina Salo
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
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Posted on February 12, 2014 |
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This Thing with Sarah (2013)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A free-spirited surf instructor volunteers herself as a strictly sexual – or so she thinks – rebound for a heartbroken, down and out writer.
Starring: Michael Doneger, Amanda Brooks, Wes Chatham, Ryan Honey, Jess Adams, Shannon Lucio
Director: Michael Doneger
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Posted on February 11, 2014 |
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Reaching for the Moon / Flores Raras (2013)
Biography | Drama | Romance
Set in 1950s Brazil, this sumptuous drama recounts Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop (Miranda Otto, "Lord of the Rings") and her love affair with architect Lota de Macedo Soares, the designer of Rio's famed Flamengo Park. Initial hostilities between the pair make way for a complicated yet long-lasting love affair that dramatically alters Bishop's relationship to the world around her. From Oscar-nominated Brazilian director Bruno Barreto ("Four Days in September"), "Reaching for the Moon" is an intimate snapshot of the search for inspiration, wherever and however you find it.
Starring: Glória Pires, Miranda Otto, Tracy Middendorf, Treat Williams
Director: Bruno Barreto
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Posted on February 11, 2014 |
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Dry Spell (2013)
Comedy | Romance
Sasha tries to get her soon-to-be ex husband Kyle laid so she can move on with her sex life guilt-free.
Starring: Suzi Lorraine, Jared Degado, Heather Dorff, Rachael Robbins, Kristen Seavey, Kris Eivers, Amanda-Elizabeth Sawyer, Travis Legge, Kyle Hoskins
Director: Travis Legge
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Tags: Amanda-Elizabeth Sawyer, Heather Dorff, Jared Degado, Kris Eivers, Kristen Seavey, Kyle Hoskins, Rachael Robbins, Suzi Lorraine, Travis Legge
Posted on February 10, 2014 |
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Crying 100 Times / To Cry a 100 Times / 100 kai nakukoto (2013)
Drama | Romance
Shuichi (Tadayoshi Okura) had a motorcycle accident 4 years ago. Because of the accident, he lost the last year of his memory. One day, at a friend's wedding, Shuichi has a fateful meeting with Yoshimi (Mirei Kiritani). They enjoy happy times together and Shuichi thinks about marrying Yoshimi. Then Yoshimi becomes sick. A sad truth is hidden in the lost memory of Shuichi.
Starring: Tadayoshi Ôkura, Mirei Kiritani
Director: Ryuichi Hiroki
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Posted on February 10, 2014 |
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City Lights (1931)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
As it is the case with practically all of Chaplin's films, in City Lights comedy and drama are closely intertwined. In it the Tramp makes two friends – one is an eccentric millionaire (Harry Myers) with a serious drinking problem who has decided to end his life, the other a poor blind girl (Virginia Cherrill) selling flowers to make ends meet. The Tramp profoundly changes their lives but they react to his goodness in two radically different ways.
Starring: Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee, Harry Myers, Al Ernest Garcia, Hank Mann
Director: Charles Chaplin
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Posted on February 9, 2014 |
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Romeo and Juliet / Romeo & Juliet (2013)
Drama | Romance
When the star-crossed lovers of two enemy families meet, forbidden love ensues.
Starring: Hailee Steinfeld, Ed Westwick, Douglas Booth, Damian Lewis, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Paul Giamatti
Director: Carlo Carlei
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Tags: Carlo Carlei, Damian Lewis, Douglas Booth, Ed Westwick, Hailee Steinfeld, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Paul Giamatti
Posted on February 7, 2014 |
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Lust for Love (2014)
Comedy | Romance
Astor's happy tenacity spoils his one chance at love with his lifelong crush Mila. Convinced he needs more experience with women to win her back, he engages her ex-best friend Cali to teach him how to woo women.
Starring: Fran Kranz, Dichen Lachman, Beau Garrett, Caitlin Stasey, Enver Gjokaj, Miracle Laurie, Felicia Day
Director: Anton King
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Tags: Anton King, Beau Garrett, Caitlin Stasey, Dichen Lachman, Enver Gjokaj, Felicia Day, Fran Kranz, Miracle Laurie
Posted on February 6, 2014 |
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Bitter Moon (1992)
Drama | Romance | Thriller
Nigel Dobson is an English perfect gentleman, married to equally respectable Fiona. On a cruise heading for India, they meet a highly unconventional couple, American unpublished would-be literary celebrity Oscar, in a wheelchair, and his much younger Parisian wife, Mimi.
Starring: Peter Coyote, Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner
Director: Roman Polanski
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Posted on February 6, 2014 |
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You Can't Hurry Love (1988)
Comedy | Romance
A comedy of a guy who moonlights as a low-budget director of commercials, and is looking for someone to love. So, he pays a dating service and is videotaped on several occasions. The film shows the many women who seduce our hero, until he finally finds his true love…
Starring: David Leisure, Bridget Fonda, David Packer, Charles Grodin, Sally Kellerman, Kristy McNichol
Director: Richard Martini
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Tags: Bridget Fonda, Charles Grodin, David Leisure, David Packer, Kristy McNichol, Richard Martini, Sally Kellerman
Posted on February 5, 2014 |
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The Wedding Pact (2014)
Comedy | Romance
Best friends Mitch and Elizabeth make a pact in college that if they are both single ten years after graduation, they will marry each other. Ten years pass and the still-single Mitch, realizing he still has feelings for Elizabeth, embarks on a cross-country journey to her hometown to follow through on their pact. Soon after Mitch's unannounced arrival, he realizes that it will take more than a decade-old pact to win back the heart of the woman of his dreams.
Starring: Haylie Duff, Angie Everhart, Leslie Easterbrook
Director: Matt Berman
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Posted on February 3, 2014 |
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Two Weeks Notice (2002)
Comedy | Romance
A lawyer decides that she's used too much like a nanny by her boss, so she walks out on him.
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Hugh Grant, Alicia Witt, Robert Klein, Dana Ivey
Director: Marc Lawrence
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Posted on February 3, 2014 |
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Cardcaptor Sakura: The Sealed Card / Kâdokaputâ Sakura: Fûin sareta kâdo (2000)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
All of the Clow Cards have been captured, and Sakura Kinomoto, the new Master of the Cards, is preparing to play the lead in the play for the town festival. However, a new evil force is causing mysterious events all over Tomoeda, including the disappearance of Sakura's cards. With Syaoran's help, Sakura must figure out the cause of these events, and save her town.
Starring: Sakura Tange, Motoko Kumai, Aya Hisakawa, Masaya Onosaka, Megumi Ogata, Junko Iwao
Director: Morio Asaka
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Tags: Aya Hisakawa, Junko Iwao, Masaya Onosaka, Megumi Ogata, Morio Asaka, Motoko Kumai, Sakura Tange