Waking Up in Reno (2002)
Comedy | Romance
A romantic comedy about two trashy couples traveling to Reno to see a monster truck show.
Starring: Natasha Richardson, Billy Bob Thornton, Patrick Swayze, Charlize Theron, Holmes Osborne, Penélope Cruz
Director: Jordan Brady
Twice Upon a Yesterday / The Man with Rain in His Shoes (1998)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A shambling, out-of-work actor, desperate to win back the affections of his ex-girlfriend, unexpectedly stumbles upon a way to turn back the clock.
Starring: Douglas Henshall, Lena Headey, Penélope Cruz, Charlotte Coleman, Mark Strong, Neil Stuke
Director: Maria Ripoll
Sylvia (2003)
Biography | Drama | Romance
Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Daniel Craig, Jared Harris, Michael Gambon, Blythe Danner, Amira Casar
Director: Christine Jeffs
All the Pretty Horses (2000)
Drama | Romance | Western
Always wanting to live the cowboy lifestyle, young John Grady (Matt Damon) sets off for a Hacienda in Mexico. While there, John enters into a passionate romance with the spellbinding Alejandra (Penelope Cruz), much to the displeasure of her powerful father. Doomed from the start, their illicit affair will culminate in murder and betrayal and young John will have to confront the ultimate test of inner strength and resilience.
Starring: Matt Damon, Penélope Cruz, Henry Thomas, Lucas Black, Rubén Blades, Robert Patrick
Director: Billy Bob Thornton
6 Years (2015)
Drama | Romance
A young couple bound by a seemingly ideal love, begins to unravel as unexpected opportunities spin them down a volatile and violent path and threaten the future they had always imagined.
Starring: Taissa Farmiga, Ben Rosenfield, Lindsay Burdge, Joshua Leonard, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson
Director: Hannah Fidell
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The Hidden Blade / Kakushi ken oni no tsume (2004)
Drama | Romance
An honest, low-ranking samurai, Munezo Katagiri finds himself buffeted by the confusion of old and new in mid-19th century Japan. Facing outside pressure, the Shogunate is trying to open Japan to the West and some carefully selected Western ways, while maintaining its fragile political base. Munezo, and his colleague Samon Shimada try to maintain their footing, paying heed to the demanding moral code of the samurai while also learning new military strategies, particularly the mastery of Western artillery. But Munezo also has a personal complication. He is secretly in love–so secretly, he may not even admit it to himself–with his family's maid, the sweet and beautiful country girl, Kie. His passion leads him to rescue Kie from a loveless marriage after she leaves his household; the samurai even shocks propriety by carrying away the low-caste young woman on his back. Just as Munezo starts to get his domestic situation in something to resembling order, Munezo hears devastating news. A comrade, Yaichiro Hazama, has been caught up in a plot in Edo. Their clan has sent the rebellious samurai home in the humiliating transport of a "prisoner's basket." Munezo comes under suspicion because he and Yaichiro, the clan's best swordsmen, shared a famed instructor, but Munezo refuses to cooperate with the chief retainer's witch hunt. Tension finally leads Munezo to confess his growing affection to Kie, a development that the young woman begins to hope will lead to the abandonment of caste structures. But before Munezo can realize his romantic destiny, Yaichiro escapes. Munezo is ordered to kill him, and the loyal, honorable samurai is faced with one final challenge to his principles.
Starring: Masatoshi Nagase, Takako Matsu, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Yukiyoshi Ozawa, Sachiko Mitsumoto, Tomoko Tabata
Director: Yôji Yamada
Be with You / Ima, ai ni yukimasu (2004)
Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Widower Takumi lives a quiet life with his six-year-old son, Yuji. His wife, Mio, promised before her passing that she'd be with them again when the rainy season starts. On the first anniversary of her death, Takumi and Yuji comes across a woman in the woods taking shelter from a monsoon downpour. She bears an uncanny resemblance to Mio, but has no recollection of who she is or what she's doing there.
Starring: Yûko Takeuchi, Shidô Nakamura, Akashi Takei, Karen Miyama, Yôsuke Asari, Yûta Hiraoka
Director: Nobuhiro Doi
Jefferson in Paris (1995)
Biography | Drama | History | Romance
During one man's unforgettable visit to liberal and socially permissive France, he meets and falls in love with a worldly and mysterious woman! But when the alluring charms of another prove irresistible, he finds himself courting scandal in a heated triangle of passion and desire!
Starring: Nick Nolte, Gwyneth Paltrow, Greta Scacchi, Estelle Eonnet, Thandie Newton, Seth Gilliam
Director: James Ivory
Enduring Love (2004)
Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Two strangers become dangerously close after witnessing a deadly accident.
Starring: Daniel Craig, Samantha Morton, Rhys Ifans, Bill Weston, Jeremy McCurdie, Lee Sheward
Director: Roger Michell
A Kid in King Arthur's Court (1995)
Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Romance
Young Calvin Fuller is pulled into King Arthur's court by Merlin to save Camelot.
Starring: Thomas Ian Nicholas, Joss Ackland, Art Malik, Paloma Baeza, Kate Winslet, Daniel Craig
Director: Michael Gottlieb
Purple Violets (2007)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Patti Petalson (Blair) struggles with the pressure of becoming the next important American writer.
Starring: Selma Blair, Edward Burns, Debra Messing, Patrick Wilson
Director: Edward Burns
The White Countess (2005)
Drama | History | Romance | War
Todd is an American expatriate living in Shanghai in the late 1930s. Once an idealistic diplomat, politic conflict and military violence has left him disillusioned. He has also lost most of his sight and retreated into Shanghai's decadent underworld of bars and brothels. His heart softens, however, as he becomes acquainted with Sofia, a Russian countess who fled her home during the revolution and now lives in Shanghai, supporting her family as a dance-hall girl and prostitute.
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave, Lynn Redgrave, Hiroyuki Sanada, Madeleine Potter
Director: James Ivory
The Winslow Boy (1999)
Drama | Romance
When a young boy claims he was expelled for something he didn't do, his father sacrifices everything to defend his family's honor.
Starring: Gemma Jones, Nigel Hawthorne, Rebecca Pidgeon, Sarah Flind, Aden Gillett
Director: David Mamet
72 Hours (2015)
Romance
The story revolves around Chef Cleavon"Von" Burkett (TimonKyle Durrett), a former ladies' man who was living the good life with a beautiful wife (Erica Hubbard)-until one day he wasn't. A heart attack brings Von face to face with God (Harry Lennix), and God offers Von a second chance at life, IF he atones to ALL of his exes. With the help of his best friend (Brian Hooks) and the determination to live, Von embarks on a hilarious journey to seek redemption. Von soon realizes that hell hath no fury like the women he's scorned.
Starring: Timon Kyle Durrett, Erica Hubbard, Harry Lennix, Terri J. Vaughn, Brely Evans, Tangi Miller
Director: Christopher Nolen
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Peter and Vandy (2009)
Drama | Romance
'Peter and Vandy' is a love story told out of order. Set in Manhattan, the story shifts back and forth in time, juxtaposing Peter and Vandy's romantic beginnings with the twisted, manipulative, regular couple they become. The film explores the question most couples ask themselves… 'How the hell did we get this way?.
Starring: Jason Ritter, Jess Weixler, Jesse L. Martin, Tracie Thoms, Noah Bean, Bobby Aiello
Director: Jay DiPietro
Oscar and Lucinda (1997)
Drama | Romance
In 19th-century England, Oscar is a youthful Anglican priest, a misfit, and an outcast, but he has the soul of an angel. As a child, even though part of a strict Pentecostal family, he felt God told him to leave his father and his faith and instead join the Church of England. Lucinda is a spirited Australian heiress determined to liberate her sex from the confines of the male-dominated culture of the Australia at the time. She purchases a glass factory and has a dream of building a church made almost entirely of glass and then transporting it to the Australian outback. Oscar and Lucinda meet on a ship bound for Australia; both are passionate gamblers, and Lucinda bets Oscar her entire inheritance he cannot transport the glass church to the remote bush safely. Oscar agrees to her wager, and this leads to events which change both of their lives forever.
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Cate Blanchett, Ciarán Hinds, Tom Wilkinson, Richard Roxburgh, Clive Russell
Director: Gillian Armstrong
Jersey Girl (1992)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Sal is a wealthy and triumphant yuppie who normaly would not do everything in order to get a woman. But this time it is something special and he is about to give up his position for his love.
Starring: Jami Gertz, Dylan McDermott, Sheryl Lee, Aida Turturro, Molly Price, Joseph Mazzello
Director: David Burton Morris
How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Stella is a highly successful, forty-something San Francisco stock broker who is persuaded by her colorful New York girlfriend Delilah to take a well deserved, first-class vacation to Jamaica. As she soaks in the beauty of the island, she encounters a strapping, young islander, Winston Shakespeare. His pursuits for her turn into a hot and steamy romance that forces Stella to take personal inventory of her life and try to find a balance between her desire for love and companionship, and the responsibilities of mother and corporate executive.
Starring: Angela Bassett, Whoopi Goldberg, Taye Diggs, Regina King, Richard Lawson, Glynn Turman
Director: Kevin Rodney Sullivan
Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights / Wuthering Heights (1992)
Drama | History | Romance
Heathcliff is Cathy Earnshaw's foster brother; more than that, he is her other half. When forces within and without tear them apart, Heathcliff wreaks vengeance on those he holds responsible, even into a second generation.
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Ralph Fiennes, Janet McTeer, Sophie Ward, Jeremy Northam, Simon Shepherd
Director: Peter Kosminsky
Corrina, Corrina (1994)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
When Manny Singer's wife dies, his young daughter Molly becomes mute and withdrawn. To help cope with looking after Molly, he hires sassy housekeeper Corrina Washington, who coaxes Molly out of her shell and shows father and daughter a whole new way of life.
Starring: Ray Liotta, Whoopi Goldberg, Tina Majorino, Don Ameche, Larry Miller, Joan Cusack
Director: Jessie Nelson
