A Far Off Place (1993)
Adventure | Drama | Family | Romance
Thrown together under incredible circumstances, two strangers must discover courage and strength when they begin a journey across the treacherous African desert.
Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Ethan Embry, Jack Thompson, Maximilian Schell
Director: Mikael Salomon
The Scarlet Letter (1995)
Drama | Romance
In a time when adultery is punishable by death, Hester Prynne becomes involved in a risky and scandalous affair with her town's handsome minister. But when their secret passion results in a child, Hester is confronted with the town's overwhelming scorn… and is condemned to forever wear the scarlet letter "A" as a public brand of shame.
Starring: Demi Moore, Gary Oldman, Robert Duvall, Robert Prosky, Joan Plowright, Edward Hardwicke
Director: Roland Joffé
Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
After Frances's seemingly happy San Francisco marriage ends abruptly, she goes into a funk. Urged by her friends to move on, she joins a bus tour of Tuscany where, on the spur of the moment, she buys a crumbling villa. She assembles a crew of oddballs and immigrants to repair the house; over the next year, as they work, she welcomes one of her New York friends who's pregnant and at loose ends, and she seeks love, first (tenuously) with her married real estate agent, then with a charming stranger. Although life gets in the way of love, Frances's wishes come true in unexpected ways, and there's always the Tuscan sun.
Starring: Diane Lane, Raoul Bova, Sandra Oh, Lindsay Duncan, Don McManus, Elden Henson
Director: Audrey Wells
Hero at Large (1980)
Comedy | Romance
An idealistic but struggling actor finds his life unexpectedly complicated when he stops a robbery while wearing the costume of Captain Avenger, a superhero character of a film he is hired to to promote. He decides to dabble at being a superhero only to find that it is more difficult and dangerous than he ever imagined.
Starring: John Ritter, Anne Archer, Bert Convy, Kevin McCarthy, Harry Bellaver, Neill Barry
Director: Martin Davidson
Starting Over (1979)
Comedy | Romance
Burt Reynolds is an attractive middle-aged man who suffers a crisis of confidence when ditched by his ambitious singer wife (Candice Bergen), until he begins to forge a new new relationship with an equally insecure teacher (Jill Clayburgh). But when the wife attempts a reconciliation – seduction followed by a truly excruciating song she has composed for him – he realizes where his loyalty lies.
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Jill Clayburgh, Candice Bergen, Charles Durning, Frances Sternhagen, Austin Pendleton
Director: Alan J. Pakula
American Ninja (1985)
Action | Adventure | Romance
In American Ninja, Michael Dudikoff plays American "GI Joe" who, based in the Philippines, gets hip to a crooked arms racket involving none other than the military itself. There's no end to the rib-cracking opportunities Dudikoff encounters as he knee-knocks his way through a host of bad guys, rescues a lady in distress, and ventures to thwart the thieving arms vendors.
Starring: Michael Dudikoff, Steve James, Judie Aronson, Guich Koock, John Fujioka, Don Stewart
Director: Sam Firstenberg
A Little Chaos (2014)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Madame Sabine De Barra is an unlikely candidate for the landscape architect of the still-to-be-completed palace of Versailles. She has little time for the classical ordered designs of the man who hires her; the famous architect Le Notre. However, as she works on her creation, she finds herself drawn to the enigmatic Le Notre and forced to negotiate the perilous rivalries and intricate etiquette of the court of King Louis XIV. But Sabine is made of strong stuff; her honesty and compassionate nature help to overcome both the challenges of her newfound popularity, and an unspeakable tragedy from her past, to win the favour of the Sun King and the heart of Le Notre.
Starring: Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman, Jennifer Ehle, Stanley Tucci, Helen McCrory, Matthias Schoenaerts
Director: Alan Rickman
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Tart (2001)
Crime | Drama | Romance
After becoming part of the snooty in crowd at school, 16-year-old Cat Storm ends up involved in a depraved world of drug use, sex and — during a weekend at a well-appointed country estate — a grisly murder.
Starring: Dominique Swain, Brad Renfro, Melanie Griffith, Bijou Phillips, Mischa Barton, Lacey Chabert
Director: Christina Wayne
Race You to the Bottom (2005)
Drama | Romance
Nathan and Maggie are in the throes of a passionate affair. They're young, good-looking, and both have boyfriends. When Nathan is assigned to write a travel article on romantic hot-spots in Napa Valley, these unconventional lovers test the limits of the sensuality and fantasy that bond them.
Starring: Amber Benson, Cole Williams, Jeremy Lelliott, Justin Zachary, Justin Hartley, Danielle Harris
Director: Russell Brown
Wide Sargasso Sea (1993)
Drama | Romance | Thriller
Director John Duigan brings Jean Rhys' difficult 1966 best-selling novel to the screen. It's a story meant to be a prequel to Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre, surmising what drove the first Mrs. Rochester mad in that novel. In Jamaica in the 1840s, slavery has been recently outlawed. Plantation owner Annette Cosway has become so poor that she marries a rich, boorish Englishman whom she does not love. Her husband, Paul Mason, is a sexist, racist tyrant who mistreats his servants and his wife. Paul flees to England after the servants and their countrymen revolt and burn down the mansion, killing Annette's young son. Annette goes insane and is consigned to the care of a servant. Her daughter Antoinette is placed in a convent until she is old enough to inherit the property, but the inheritance depends on her marrying a proper husband. By previous arrangement, she marries Edward Rochester. At first they are lustily in love, but Rochester proves to be as elitist who is as disrespectful as Mason. Rochester has title to all of Antoinette's property, but he despises Jamaica and wants to return to England. He also fears the black magic of Christophene, who mixes up a voodoo potion which ends up driving the couple farther apart.
Starring: Karina Lombard, Rachel Ward, Michael York, Martine Beswick, Nathaniel Parker, Paul Campbell
Director: John Duigan
Surviving Picasso (1996)
Biography | Drama | Romance
The life of Pablo Picasso told from the 1940s to the 1950s as witnessed by his mistress Francoise Gilot.
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Natascha McElhone, Julianne Moore, Diane Venora, Joss Ackland, Dominic West
Director: James Ivory
Milk Money (1994)
Comedy | Romance
In MILK MONEY, when 12-year-old Frank Wheeler (Carter) and his two buddies save up their milk money and head into the city in search of a woman who will let them see her naked body, they think they’ve died and gone to heaven when V (Griffith) agrees to disrobe for them. Now stuck in the city and out of their element, the boys seek refuge in V who agrees to drive them back to the suburbs and away from the city’s chaos. But, when V’s car breaks down outside of his house, Frank decides that V would make a good step mom, and proceeds to play matchmaker for his dad, Tom (Harris). Thanks to Frank, Tom thinks that V is a math tutor, while V thinks that Frank knows the truth about her occupation. What ensues is a long, hilarious conversation that revolves around this comical misunderstanding.
Starring: Melanie Griffith, Ed Harris, Michael Patrick Carter, Malcolm McDowell, Anne Heche, Casey Siemaszko
Director: Richard Benjamin
Gardens of Stone (1987)
Drama | Romance | War
A poignant look at stateside military life during the Vietnam War.
Starring: James Caan, Anjelica Huston, James Earl Jones, D.B. Sweeney, Dean Stockwell, Mary Stuart Masterson
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Forget Paris (1995)
Comedy | Romance
Love is such sweet misery in the witty story of when basketball referee Mickey (Billy Crystal) met airline employee Ellen (Debra Winger).
Starring: Billy Crystal, Debra Winger, Joe Mantegna, Cynthia Stevenson, Richard Masur, Julie Kavner
Director: Billy Crystal
84 Charing Cross Road (1987)
Biography | Drama | Romance
While searching for rare English books, New York writer Helene Hanff's letter to a London bookstore, run by Frank Doel, begins a relationship between the two that spans two decades and two continents. Although their personalities and cultures are miles apart, their friendship blossoms into a deeper affection.
Starring: Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, Judi Dench
Director: David Hugh Jones
Paradise in Service / Jun zhong le yuan (2014)
Drama | History | Romance
Army rookie Andy to Kinmen and chosen into the elite of the amphibious forces, accept the harsh training Sergeant devil long Zhang, ready to become lean dragon frog soldier. Because the natural fear of water, Andy was distributed to known as the "military paradise" said special room work. Here the special tea, is a surrounded by barbed wire to paradise, secret and lies, loyalty and justice, together, they have been imprisoned in this beautiful island, ready to face the fate and time absurd ruthless.
Starring: Ethan Juan, Jianbin Chen, Regina Wan, Ivy Chen, Bo-Chieh Wang
Director: Doze Niu
Cinderella (2015)
Drama | Family | Fantasy | Romance
The story of "Cinderella" follows the fortunes of young Ella whose merchant father remarries following the tragic death of her mother. Keen to support her loving father, Ella welcomes her new stepmother Lady Tremaine and her daughters Anastasia and Drizella into the family home. But, when Ella's father suddenly and unexpectedly passes away, she finds herself at the mercy of a jealous and cruel new family. Finally relegated to nothing more than a servant girl covered in ashes, and spitefully renamed Cinderella since she used to work in the cinders, Ella could easily begin to lose hope. Yet, despite the cruelty inflicted upon her, Ella is determined to honor her mother's dying words and to "have courage and be kind." She will not give in to despair nor despise those who abuse her. And then there is the dashing stranger she meets in the woods. Unaware that he is really a prince, not merely an employee at the Palace, Ella finally feels she has met a kindred soul.
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Lily James, Richard Madden, Stellan Skarsgård, Holliday Grainger, Derek Jacobi
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Brown Sugar / Seven Days (2002)
Comedy | Drama | Music | Romance
A hot ensemble cast featuring Taye Diggs, Sanaa Lathan, Queen Latifah and Mos Def shines in this romantic comedy about love and laughter in the world of hip-hop. Sydney (Lathan) and Dre (Diggs) are childhood friends who share a passion for music and an unsung love for each other. But when Dre marries the wrong woman, Sydney must make her move or risk losing her soulmate forever.
Starring: Taye Diggs, Sanaa Lathan, Queen Latifah, Mos Def, Nicole Ari Parker, Boris Kodjoe
Director: Rick Famuyiwa
The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Rose, who still lives with her mother, is a professor of Romantic Literature who desperately longs for passion in her life. Gregory, a mathematics professor, has been burned by passionate relationships and longs for a sexless union based on friendship and respect.
Starring: Barbra Streisand, Jeff Bridges, Lauren Bacall, George Segal, Mimi Rogers, Pierce Brosnan
Director: Barbra Streisand
The Razor's Edge (1984)
Drama | Romance | War
Bill Murray makes an unforgettable dramatic debut as Larry Darrell, the free-spirited seeker, in this gripping adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's classic novel. When Larry returns from World War I disillusioned with Jazz Age values, he undertakes a quest which leads him to reject his rich fiancée (Catherine Hicks) and his superficial lifestyle to go search for truth in the Himalayas. But Larry learns that the path to enlightenment is as difficult as treading "the sharp edge of a razor" and returns to civilization, where he tastes life's dark side when he tries to save a hometown girl turned prostitute (Theresa Russell). The provocative story and Murray's brilliant acting make The Razor's Edge an extraordinary film that cuts a clear path to the heart.
Starring: Bill Murray, Theresa Russell, Catherine Hicks, Denholm Elliott, James Keach, Peter Vaughan
Director: John Byrum
