Alfie (2004)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A cockney womanizer learns the hard way about the dangers of his actions.
Starring: Jude Law, Marisa Tomei, Jane Krakowski, Omar Epps, Nia Long, Renee Taylor
Director: Charles Shyer
Les Aventures d'Anthony / A Journey, Through Time, with Anthony / Pei an dong ni du guo man chang sui yue (2015)
Drama | Romance
You never know what you have until it's gone. Anthony is about to leave Dalian, the only place he's known and lived since he was born, to study for a business degree in Melbourne. His best friend and soulmate Ying is about to leave too, to Japan to study sound design. In his new environment, Anthony meets a bunch of energetic new friends and a landlady who loves to paint. The youngsters have all travelled far to chase their dreams, and Anthony decides to start a blog to document his experiences. Despite being oceans apart from Ying, Anthony wants to share every moment with the girl he grew up with, and wonders if that's what constitutes "love". Whenever he has a free moment, he records sounds from the environment, or animals he encounters to send to Ying, keeping in touch in their own special way.
Starring: Chang Liu, Baihe Bai, Yixin Tang, Vivian Sung, Yiyan Jiang
Director: Janet Chun
Good Take, Too! / Good Take! 2 / Da ka wo tian kong (2016)
Drama | Romance
The second installment of the Eric Tsang-produced Good Take anthology series, Good Takes, Too offers four more thematically-related Macau-set short stories directed by Heiward Mak (Ex), Clement Cheng (Gallants), Macau native Chong Cho Kio and Eric Tong, who has assisted on numerous Hong Kong films including Shaolin and Rob-B-Hood.
Starring: Eric Tsang, Pei-Pei Cheng, Charmaine Fong, Edison Chen, Maria Cordero, Man-yik Wong, Felix Wong
Director: Cho-Kio Chong, Clement Cheng, Heiward Mak, Kelvin Tong
Uptown Girls (2003)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Molly Gunn, a rock and roll princess whose father was a famous music legend. She lives wildly off her inheritance–until the man in charge of her money takes off with it. With bankruptcy staring her in the face, she is forced to do something she never dreamed of–get a job. So she becomes a nanny–for precocious Ray Schleine, an eight-year-old who acts more mature than she does but doesn't have much fun in life.
Starring: Brittany Murphy, Dakota Fanning, Marley Shelton, Donald Faison, Heather Locklear, Jesse Spencer
Director: Boaz Yakin
Equals (2015)
Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi
A futuristic love story set in a world where emotions have been eradicated.
Starring: Guy Pearce, Kristen Stewart, Nicholas Hoult, Bel Powley, Claudia Kim, Kate Lyn Sheil
Director: Drake Doremus
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Miles Ahead (2015)
Biography | Drama | Music | Romance
An exploration of the life and music of Miles Davis.
Starring: Don Cheadle, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Ewan McGregor, Michael Stuhlbarg, Keith Stanfield, Austin Lyon
Director: Don Cheadle
The Perfect Match (2016)
Comedy | Romance
A playboy named Charlie, convinced that all his relationships are dead, meets the beautiful and mysterious Eva. Agreeing to a casual affair, Charlie then wants a bit more from their relationship.
Starring: Terrence Jenkins, Paula Patton, Cassie Ventura, Donald Faison, Dascha Polanco, Robert Christopher Riley
Director: Bille Woodruff
Sing Street (2016)
Comedy | Drama | Music | Romance
In 1980s Dublin, 14-year-old Conor (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo) is looking for a break from a home strained by his parents’ relationship and money troubles, while trying to adjust to his new inner-city public school where the kids are rough and the teachers are rougher. He finds a glimmer of hope in the mysterious, über-cool and beautiful Raphina (Lucy Boynton), and with the aim of winning her heart he invites her to star in his band’s music videos. There’s only one problem: he’s not part of a band…yet.
Starring: Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Aidan Gillen, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Jack Reynor, Lucy Boynton, Kelly Thornton
Director: John Carney
For Love's Sake / Ai to makoto (2012)
Musical | Romance | Teen
Troubled high school student Makoto arrives in Tokyo to exact revenge from a past incident. He then falls in love at first sight with Ai, a daughter raised in a wholesome family. Around Makoto and Ai are Iwashimizu , who has feelings for Ai and Gamuko , a gang member who eyes Makoto. Also Gamuko's leader, Yuki have eyes for Makoto too. Who will get Makoto?
Starring: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Emi Takei, Takumi Saitô, Ito Ohno, Sakura Andô
Director: Takashi Miike
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)
Drama | Romance
Two young women from the US, Vicky and Cristina, come to Barcelona for a summer holiday. Vicky is sensible and engaged to be married; Cristina is emotionally and sexually adventurous. In Barcelona, they're drawn into a series of unconventional romantic entanglements with Juan Antonio, a charismatic painter, who is still involved with his tempestuous ex-wife María Elena.
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Rebecca Hall, Patricia Clarkson, Kevin Dunn
Director: Woody Allen
My So-called Love / Ai de fa sheng lian xi (2008)
Romance
Raised in a broken family, Cat (Barbie Hsu) runs away from home as a teenager to escape her stepfather. In high school, she begins living with boyfriend Liam (Eddie Peng), but puppy love eventually ends in betrayal. While Liam is in the army, Cat, feeling lonely and poor, meets an older man through the Internet; Xiao Gu (Joseph Chang) is looking for sex, Cat is looking for money. From lust comes love, until Cat discovers Xiao Gu is actually married. After ten years of ups and downs, Cat begins anew at age 28 when she meets the rich and kind-hearted Sunshine (Easton Tung), but is he really her heart's final home?
Starring: Barbie Hsu, Eddie Peng, Hsiao-chuan Chang, Ming-hsiang Tung
Director: Leading Li
The River / He liu (1997)
Drama | Romance
In Taiwan, Xiao-kang, a young man in his early 20s, lives with his parents in near silence. He is plagued by severe neck pain. His father is bedeviled by water first leaking into his bedroom and then flooding the apartment; rain is incessant. Xiao-kang's mother is overcome by sexual longing for her son, sometimes making seemingly incestuous overtures. They try virtually every intervention for Xiao-kang's neck: Western medicine, a chiropractor, acupuncture, an herbal doctor, and a faith healer, Master Liu. Are the family's silent dynamics and Xiao-kang's neck pain connected? And what about the body floating in the Tamsui River: is everything dead?
Starring: Tien Miao, Kang-sheng Lee, Yi-Ching Lu, Ann Hui
Director: Ming-liang Tsai
Bride & Prejudice (2004)
Comedy | Drama | Musical | Romance
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice gets a Bollywood treatment.
Starring: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Martin Henderson, Anupam Kher, Naveen Andrews, Daniel Gillies, Indira Varma
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Ex (2009)
Comedy | Romance
Ex is a 2009 film directed and co-written by Fausto Brizzi and interpreted by a rich and large cast of characters. The film, produced by Italian International Film, in co-production with the French company and Mes Films in collaboration with RAI Cinema. It was released February 6, 2009 in Italian cinema and has been recognized as "national cultural interest" by the Directorate General for Cinema of the Ministry of Heritage and Culture.
Starring: Vincenzo Salemme, Claudio Bisio, Nancy Brilli, Cristiana Capotondi, Cécile Cassel, Fabio De Luigi
Director: Fausto Brizzi
A French Gigolo / Cliente (2008)
Drama | Romance
Marco leads a double life. As Marco, he is a construction worker but rich ladies craving sexual excitation know him as Patrick. As Marco he is married to Fanny, an ambitious young woman who has opened her own hairdressing salon in partnership with her friend Rosalie. Marco/Patrick is not a male prostitute at heart: in fact he does the job in order to support his wife's business. Which doesn't prevent Judith, an elegant tele-shopping presenter who buys his services, from falling in love with him. But when Fanny learns what Marco does and with whom, she first gets mad but soon starts interfering in their affair.
Starring: Nathalie Baye, Éric Caravaca, Isabelle Carré, Josiane Balasko, Catherine Hiegel, Marilou Berry
Director: Josiane Balasko
Third Person (2013)
Drama | Romance
Three interlocking love stories involving three couples in three cities: Rome, Paris, and New York.
Starring: Liam Neeson, Maria Bello, Mila Kunis, Kim Basinger, Michele Melega, Adrien Brody
Director: Paul Haggis
Ki & Ka (2016)
Comedy | Romance
Follows a young, married couple whose relationship challenges the gender roles placed upon women and men in Indian society.
Starring: Kareena Kapoor, Arjun Kapoor
Director: R. Balki
I Saw the Light (2015)
Biography | Drama | Music | Romance
The story of the country-western singer Hank Williams, who in his brief life created one of the greatest bodies of work in American music. The film chronicles his rise to fame and its tragic effect on his health and personal life.
Starring: Tom Hiddleston, Elizabeth Olsen, Bradley Whitford, David Krumholtz, Cherry Jones, Maddie Hasson
Director: Marc Abraham
Kites (2010)
Action | Drama | Romance | Thriller
J, a streetsmart, carefree young guy on the wanted list is mortally wounded and left to die in the harsh Mexican desert. The only thing that keeps him alive is his quest to find Natasha, a woman engaged to another man, but destined to be his. While Natasha speaks only Spanish, J does not understand a word of it but the two are able to communicate through the language of love and passion.
Starring: Hrithik Roshan, Bárbara Mori, Steven Michael Quezada
Director: Anurag Basu
Seattle Road (2015)
Drama | Romance
Two young artists use love as a safety net against the fear and pain in their lives in order to propel them deeper into their art.
Starring: Kelly Lynch, Maximillian Roeg, Julia Voth
Director: Ryan David
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