Someone to Watch Over Me (1987)
Action | Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
A married New York cop falls for the socialite murder witness he's been assigned to protect.
Starring: Tom Berenger, Mimi Rogers, Lorraine Bracco, Jerry Orbach, John Rubinstein
Director: Ridley Scott
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El Cid (1961)
Adventure | Biography | Drama | History | Romance | War
Anthony Mann masterfully directs this classic tale of the 11th-century hero (Charlton Heston) who fought to unite Spain. Known as history's "compassionate warrior," the film follows El Cid's remarkable journey from peace-broker accused of treason to the King's fighting champion, and later from exiled hero to legendary martyr. Unequaled in scope, grandeur and adventure, EL CID is an essential part of any film lover's collection.
Starring: Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone, Geneviève Page, John Fraser, Gary Raymond
Director: Anthony Mann
Divergent (2014)
Action | Adventure | Romance | Sci-Fi
Set in a futuristic dystopia, a teenager seeks to break free from her homogeneous society that divides people based on human traits. She leaves her faction and joins a rival group, where she falls for a young man.
Starring: Shailene Woodley, Ray Stevenson, Kate Winslet, Jai Courtney, Maggie Q, Miles Teller
Director: Neil Burger
Su ve Ates / Water and Fire (2013)
Drama | Romance
A pretty young girl falls for an enigmatic, shy man who sweeps her off her feet. She becomes pregnant but is not allowed to tell him. His advisers are adamant. Back home, they have set up a wedding with the daughter of an antagonistic family and marriage will put an end to the blood feud between them.
Starring: Özcan Deniz, Yasemin Allen, Kaan Çakir, Pelin Akil, Yusuf Akgün
Director: Özcan Deniz
Moscow on the Hudson (1984)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
When a Russian circus saxophonist defects in Bloomingdale's department store in New York, he finds adjusting to American life more difficult than he imagined.
Starring: Robin Williams, Maria Conchita Alonso, Cleavant Derricks, Alejandro Rey, Saveliy Kramarov, Elya Baskin, Oleg Rudnik
Director: Paul Mazursky
Monsoon Wedding (2001)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Cultures and families clash in Mira Nair's exuberant Monsoon Wedding, a mix of comedy and chaotic melodrama concerning the preparations for the arranged marriage of a modern upper- middle-class Indian family's only daughter, Aditi. Of course there are hitches-Aditi has been having an affair with a married TV host; she's never met her husband to be, who lives in Houston; the wedding has worsened her father's hidden financial troubles; even the wedding planner has become a nervous wreck-as well as buried family secrets. But Nair's celebration is ultimately joyful and cathartic: a love song to her home city of Delhi and her own Punjabi family.
Starring: Naseeruddin Shah, Lillete Dubey, Shefali Shetty, Roshan Seth
Director: Mira Nair
The King and I (1956)
Drama | Musical | Romance
A schoolteacher goes to Siam to teach its King's children. During the course of her stay she enlightens the king to changing times and helps him reassess his relationship to one of his several wives. One of two flms shot in CinemaScope55.
Starring: Yul Brynner, Deborah Kerr, Rita Moreno, Terry Saunders, Martin Benson, Rex Thompson
Director: Walter Lang
The Lizzie McGuire Movie / Lizzie in Rome (2003)
Adventure | Comedy | Family | Music | Romance
Lizzie McGuire has graduated from middle school and takes a trip to Rome, Italy with her class. And what was supposed to be only a normal trip, becomes a teenager's dream come true.
Starring: Hilary Duff, Adam Lamberg, Hallie Todd, Robert Carradine, Jake Thomas, Alex Borstein
Director: Jim Fall
Saving Face (2004)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
In Manhattan, the brilliant Chinese-American lesbian surgeon Wil is surprised by the arrival of her forty-eight year old widow mother to her apartment. Ma was banished from Flushing, Queens, when her father discovered that she was pregnant. The presence of Ma affects the personal life of Wil, who is in love with the daughter of her boss at the hospital, the dancer Vivian Shing. Once her grandfather has promised that her mother would only return to Flushing remarried or proving that it was an immaculate conception, Wil tries to find a Chinese bachelor to marry Ma.
Starring: Joan Chen, Michelle Krusiec, Lynn Chen
Director: Alice Wu
Marty (1955)
Drama | Romance
A middle-aged butcher and a school teacher who have given up on the idea of love, meet at a dance and fall in love.
Starring: Ernest Borgnine, Joe Mantell, Karen Steele, Jerry Paris, Betsy Blair
Director: Delbert Mann
Divergent (2014)
Action | Adventure | Romance | Sci-Fi
Set in a futuristic dystopia, a teenager seeks to break free from her homogeneous society that divides people based on human traits. She leaves her faction and joins a rival group, where she falls for a young man.
Starring: Shailene Woodley, Ray Stevenson, Kate Winslet, Jai Courtney, Maggie Q, Miles Teller
Director: Neil Burger
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Good Sam (1948)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Sam Clayton has a good heart and likes to help out people in need. In fact, he likes to help them out so much that he often finds himself broke and unable to help his own family buy the things they need–like a house.
Starring: Gary Cooper, Ann Sheridan, Ray Collins, Edmund Lowe, Joan Lorring, Clinton Sundberg
Director: Leo McCarey
Chasing Amy (1997)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Best friends Holden McNeil and Banky Edwards are enjoying success as the creators of the cult comic book 'Bluntman and Chronic.' When they meet fellow comic book artist Alyssa Jones, Holden's desire for the beautiful charmer is immediate. Alyssa, however, has set her romantic sights elsewhere but decides, nevertheless, to pursue a friendship with Holden. This presents Holden with a dilemma: feeling the way he does, can he merely be friends with this woman? Banky, who knows Holden best, doesn't think so. As the friendship deepens, so do Holden's affections for Alyssa. And cautiously, yet effortlessly, so do Alyssa's for him. With their relationship strugging to define itself, Banky grows more and more frustrated at the notion of losing his best friend to emotional adulthood.
Starring: Ben Affleck, Joey Lauren Adams, Jason Lee, Kevin Smith, Jason Mewes, Casey Affleck
Director: Kevin Smith
Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid (1948)
Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
As told to a psychiatrist: Mr. Peabody, middle-aged Bostonian on vacation with his wife in the Caribbean, hears mysterious, wordless singing on an uninhabited rock in the bay. Fishing in the vicinity, he catches…a mermaid. He takes her home and, though she has no spoken language, falls in love with her. Of course, his wife won't believe that thing in the bathtub is anything but a large fish. Predictable complications follow in rather tame fashion.
Starring: William Powell, Ann Blyth, Irene Hervey, Clinton Sundberg, Andrea King, Art Smith
Director: Irving Pichel
Absolute Giganten / Gigantics (1999)
Action | Comedy | Drama | Romance
In the port town of Hamburg, Germany, Floyd decides that he's shipping out to South Africa and Singapore now that his two-year probation for an unspecified juvenile offense has been completed. When he shares the news with his devoted friends Chubby, a mechanic, and Ricco, a fast-food cook and would-be b-boy, they can't comprehend their thoughtful friend's willingness to trade camaraderie for a wider view of the world. Overcoming their anger and bewilderment, the guys decide to spend one last night with Floyd, but the problem, as always, is how to find some fun. A succession of fast-food restaurants, parking garages, and local watering holes chronicles the inherent boredom of life in the provinces. But a run-in with a convention of dragster-racing Elvis impersonators sends the boys and their friend Telsa Julia Hummer on a series of adventures that veers from the farcical to the almost-tragic.
Starring: Frank Giering, Florian Lukas, Antoine Monot Jr., Julia Hummer
Director: Sebastian Schipper
The Other Woman (2014)
Comedy | Romance
After realizing she is not her boyfriend's primary lover, a woman teams up with his wife and plots mutual revenge.
Starring: Leslie Mann, Cameron Diaz, Kate Upton, Nicki Minaj, Taylor Kinney, Don Johnson
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Jack et la mécanique du coeur / Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart / The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart (2013)
Adventure | Animation | Drama | Fantasy | Musical | Romance
Edinburgh, late 19th century. Little Jack is born on a day so cold that his heart remains frozen. Madeleine the midwife replaces his heart with a cuckoo-clock. It will work, as long as Jack follows the rules, mainly not falling in love. But his encounter with a fiery-eyed girl singing on a street corner and his decision to chase after her will test the resistance of his makeshift heart to the breaking point.
Starring: Mathias Malzieu, Olivia Ruiz, Grand Corps Malade, Jean Rochefort, Rossy de Palma, Babet
Director: Stéphane Berla, Mathias Malzieu
The Virgins (2014)
Comedy | Romance
A comedy about a young Christian couple who have a wild adventure on their wedding night, as one surprise after another foils their attempts to consummate the marriage.
Starring: Blake Webb, Conner Marx, Sonya Davis, Phillip Keiman, Jesse Putnam
Director: Matthew Wilson
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Le hussard sur le toit / The Horseman on the Roof (1995)
Adventure | Drama | Romance | War
In 1832, cholera ravages Provence (South of France). After several misadventures, Angelo, young Italian officer hunted by the Austrian secret police, meets Pauline de Theus, a young lady. After a second accidental meeting, both will start the search of Pauline's husband in a chaotic country.
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Olivier Martinez, Pierre Arditi, François Cluzet
Director: Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Mad Dog and Glory (1993)
Comedy | Crime | Drama | Romance
After his life is saved by a lonely cop, a mobster who moonlights as a standup comic, provides the cop with a friend: a beautiful woman.
Starring: Robert De Niro, Uma Thurman, Bill Murray, David Caruso, Mike Starr
Director: John McNaughton
