Hercules (1997)
Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy | Musical | Romance
The heavenly Hercules is stripped of his immortality and raised on Earth instead of Olympus, where he's forced to take on Hades and assorted monsters.
Starring: Tate Donovan, Susan Egan, Josh Keaton, Roger Bart, Danny DeVito, James Woods
Narrator: Charlton Heston
Director: Ron Clements, John Musker
Earthbound (2012)
Comedy | Fantasy | Romance | Sci-Fi
Young Joe is an alien living on Earth. At least that's what his father told him before he died when Joe was eleven. His father unsuccessfully wrote sci-fi stories, and Joe loves sci-fi. He has told that he must not deal with humans, unless they are more than 90 percent compatible with himself. When we meet Joe again, he is 26, and the fantasy keeps him going. But is it a fantasy, or is it real? Joe's life changes radically when he meets a more than 90 percent compatible girl. Can Joe trust himself? Does he know what's real?
Starring: Rafe Spall, Jenn Murray, Stephen Hogan, David Morrissey, Rory Keenan, Aoife Duffin, Carrie Crowley, John Lynn
Director: Alan Brennan
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Satellite of Love (2012)
Drama | Romance
Catherine and Blake just tied the knot. Samuel and Catherine have a long and intimate history which is significant to the fact that Samuel and Blake are best friends. When Samuel decides not to attend their wedding under some pretense that no one believes, he invites the newlyweds to Nadi Vineyards for a week-long party in paradise to make up for his absence. Records spin, wine flows, and bottles pile up. What unfolds over the course of this week will rearrange the geometry of Samuel, Catherine, and Blake's relationships and test the boundaries of their complicated, revolving love for one another.
Starring: Nathan Phillips, Zachary Knighton, Shannon Lucio, Janina Gavankar
Director: Will James Moore
From Here to Eternity (1953)
Drama | Romance | War
Life and love on an army base in Hawaii days before the Pearl Harbor attacks.
Starring: Deborah Kerr, Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Frank Sinatra, Donna Reed, Ernest Borgnine
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Drama | Romance
Story of rebellious middle-class teens, disenfranchised with their parents, and given to a life of thuggery and deadly dangerous drag racing to win over women.
Starring: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Jim Backus, Edward Platt, Dennis Hopper
Director: Nicholas Ray
The Uninvited (1944)
Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Romance
Seeking respite from the bustle of London life, writer Roderick Fitzgerald (Ray Milland, Dial M for Murder and The Lost Weekend) and his sister Pamela (Ruth Hussey, The Philadelphia Story) move into a neglected clifftop mansion and set about making it their home. However, it isn't long before an unnerving presence makes itself felt: an eerie chill lingers in the rooms and distant wailing is heard at night. Despite Roderick's cynicism, it becomes increasingly clear that the house is haunted – but why in such a snug haven would the dead trouble the living?
Starring: Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, Donald Crisp, Dorothy Stickney, Barbara Everest, Alan Napier
Director: Lewis Allen
Simple Men (1992)
Crime | Drama | Romance
Romantic drama from writer and director Hal Hartley following the comic antics of two brothers determined to trace their missing father, a former baseball champion and student radical, who is somewhere on Long Island. With the brothers' search leading them to two different women, they encounter passion and insight into the father they have not seen for so long.
Starring: Robert John Burke, Bill Sage, Karen Sillas, Martin Donovan, Joe Stevens, Elina Löwensohn
Director: Hal Hartley
Almost Perfect (2011)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A 30-something career woman tries to find the balance between her demanding family and her perfect new boyfriend.
Starring: Kelly Hu, Ivan Shaw, Edison Chen, Roger Rees, Tina Chen
Director: Bertha Pan
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Forget Me Not (2010)
Romance
Taking place over twenty four hours, the story centres on Will Fletcher, a passionate musician, and Eve Fisher, a beautiful, free-spirited woman who works in the local bar. Whilst struggling to cope with a tragic secret, Will saves Eve from a drunken customer at closing time and their paths become inextricably linked. Intrigued by one another, they journey through London, not knowing what the night holds or what the day may bring. As dawn turns to light and the two draw ever closer, can Will reveal the truth to Eve?
Starring: Luke de Woolfson, Tobias Menzies, Charlie Covell, Susie Harriet, Genevieve O'Reilly
Director: Alexander Holt, Lance Roehrig
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27 Dresses (2008)
Comedy | Romance
Jane is an idealistic, romantic and completely selfless woman-a perennial bridal attendant whose own happy ending is nowhere in sight. But, when younger sister Tess captures the heart of Jane's boss-with whom she is secretly in love-Jane begins to reexamine her "always-a-bridesmaid" lifestyle.
Starring: Katherine Heigl, James Marsden, Malin Akerman, Judy Greer, Edward Burns, Melora Hardin
Director: Anne Fletcher
Charulata / Charulata: The Lonely Wife (1964)
Drama | Romance
This film about a woman's artistic and romantic yearning by Satyajit Ray is set in late nineteenth-century, pre-independence India. It takes place in the gracious home of a liberal-minded, workaholic newspaper editor and his lonely, stifled wife, Charulata (Madhabi Mukherjee), whose exquisitely composed features mask a burning creativity. When her husband's poet cousin comes to stay with them, Charulata finds herself both inspired by him to pursue her own writing and dangerously drawn to him physically. Based on a novella by the great Rabindranath Tagore, Charulata is a work of subtle textures, a delicate tale of a marriage in jeopardy and a woman taking the first steps toward establishing her own voice.
Starring: Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Shailen Mukherjee, Tarapada Basu, Nilotpal Dey
Director: Satyajit Ray
Library Wars / Toshokan sensô (2013)
Action | Comedy | Drama | Romance
Set in the year 2019 in Japan. In order to crack down on free expression, a new law is passed, which allows for the government to create an armed force to find and destroy objectionable printed material. Meanwhile, to oppose this oppressive crackdown, the Library Force is created. The Library force, including instructor Atsushi Dojo (Junichi Okada) and Iku Kasahara (Nana Eikura), work to protect the libraries. A fierce battle then ensues between these two groups.
Starring: Jun'ichi Okada, Nana Eikura, Chiaki Kuriyama, Kei Tanaka, Sôta Fukushi, Kôji Ishizaka
Director: Shinsuke Sato
Giant (1956)
Drama | Romance | Western
Jordan 'Bick' Benedict Jr., is a wealthy land owner and cattle rancher who marries a spoiled and wealthy Virginian woman. When the two return to his cattle empire in Texas, conflicts around race, class and changing traditions including former cowboy and now rich oil tycoon Jett Rink rise to epic proportions through the years and test the unity of the family and surrounding community.
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Carroll Baker, Dennis Hopper, Sal Mineo
Director: George Stevens
Heart of the Country (2013)
Drama | Romance
With her husband jailed for Wall Street fraud, Faith leaves her life of luxury behind to return to rural North Carolina and the father and sister she'd left behind. A love between a father and his daughter, it parallels the famous parable, "The Prodigal Son".
Starring: Jana Kramer, Gerald McRaney
Director: John Ward
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East of Eden (1955)
Drama | Romance
Film adaptation of Steinbeck's classic about a 1917 California farm family and the two brothers who struggle to maintain their strict, Bible-toting father's favor.
Starring: James Dean, Raymond Massey, Julie Harris, Burl Ives, Albert Dekker, Jo Van Fleet
Director: Elia Kazan
I Married a Witch (1942)
Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
A witch curses the family line of the man who sentenced her to death so that the sons will always marry poorly.
Starring: Fredric March, Veronica Lake, Robert Benchley, Susan Hayward, Cecil Kellaway, Robert Warwick
Director: René Clair
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun / Sêrâ-fuku to kikanjû (1981)
Action | Romance
Following the unexpected death of her mob boss father, a high school girl inherits a Yakuza gang.
Starring: Hiroko Yakushimaru, Tsunehiko Watase, Rentarô Mikuni, Yuki Kazamatsuri
Director: Shinji Sômai
What Women Want (2000)
Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Nick Marshall, a Chicago advertising executive, gets a whole new outlook on life when a fluke accident gives him the ability to read women's minds. At first, this "gift" provides Nick with way too much information, but he begins to realize that he can use it to good effect, especially when it comes to outwitting his new boss, Darcy Maguire. In spite of his best efforts to finesse Darcy, he soon finds himself falling in love and truly understanding what women want.
Starring: Mel Gibson, Helen Hunt, Marisa Tomei, Alan Alda, Ashley Johnson, Judy Greer
Director: Nancy Meyers
Zhara / The Heat (2006)
Comedy | Romance
After three years a sailor Aleksei (Aleksei Chadov) comes back from the Black Sea Fleet to Moscow for a meeting with his waiting girlfriend (Maria Kurkova) and old classmates. Unfortunately, he finds out that his girlfriend is already married and has a child, and decides to spend the remaining time in the restaurant with friends: a son of an oligarch Konstantin (Konstantin Kryukov), beginner actor Artur (Artur Smolyaninov) and hip-hop artist Timati. When their lunch is coming to the end, it appears that no one has money to pay the bill, except Konstantin's dollars which do not accept for payment. The rapper is decided to exchange currency at the nearest exchanger, that will cause troubles. As the former exchanger belongs to the Armenian (Tigran Keosayan), Timati sets out in search of another, but runs against a nazi skinhead gang. Saving his own life, the hero hides in Konstantin's flat, where Ostap Bender-like swindler Dani (Deni Dadaev) in waiting him. Meanwhile, his friends cannot wait anymore and Artur is sent off. Before he can exchange, he is allured by the film director (Fyodor Bondarchuk) and prepares for shooting, but misses the actor-bus and leaves with gastarbeiters to demolish the Rossiya Hotel. Konstantin hands over his last dollars to Aleksei, but he also fails and falls in love with a young traffic victim Nastya (Agniya Ditkovskite). After all that, despaired Konstantin raises noise in the restaurant, as a result he gets jailed by the militsiya. Luckily for him, the mates do not abandon a friend and rescue him from captivity.
Starring: Aleksey Chadov, Artur Smolyaninov, Konstantin Kryukov, Timati, Anastasiya Kochetkova, Agnia Ditkovskite, Deni Dadaev
Director: Rezo Gigineishvili
We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004)
Drama | Romance
The movie is set in the Pacific Northwest; specifically, Washington state. We know this from a glimpse of a license plate, the craftsman architecture of the two houses, and the mature, rich landscapes in between. The setting, like the scrutiny of the four main character's lives, is defined by the narrowness of the camera's field-of view. The one commercial street in town is only seen in the reflection of a store window, a shot of a non-descript auto-yard, or the tunnel of a tree-lined suburban sidewalk. The lush, wooded landscape is understood as an immediate presence in the domestic and professional lives of the characters; a steep hill, railroad tracks, a rushing stream, and a path over an old steel bridge are revisited again and again by the characters in their capacities as lovers, parents and friends.
Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Laura Dern, Peter Krause, Naomi Watts
Director: John Curran
