The Divorcee (1930)
Drama | Romance
When a woman discovers that her husband has been unfaithful to her, she decides to respond to his infidelities in kind.
Starring: Norma Shearer, Chester Morris, Conrad Nagel, Robert Montgomery, Florence Eldridge
Director: Robert Z. Leonard
The English Patient (1996)
Drama | Romance | War
Set in North Africa and Italy during the late 1930's and early '40's, 'The English Patient' is an epic drama of two haunting love stories that unfolds against a background of international upheaval. Through the prism of war, and of love and friendship, various themes — of fidelity, adultery, nationality and betrayals — are dramatized and explored. The story, based on Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel, is told elliptically, through the histories of four characters who find themselves in a ruined monastery in Italy at the end of World War II. Slowly they reveal themselves and, in the process, the true identity of the English patient — the unknown survivor of a plane shot down over the Sahara who lies dying in the monastery — is made clear. Passion fires these stories, whether it is the raw passion between lovers, or the compulsive passion which drives men to explore remote and inhospitable regions, or to pursue across time and countries those they think have wronged them.
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Kristin Scott Thomas, Naveen Andrews, Colin Firth
Director: Anthony Minghella
Temptation of Angle / Tenshi o yûwaku (1979)
Drama | Romance
This story of the everyday life of a couple living together is made all the more powerful by the lead's real off-screen romance.
Starring: Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura
Director: Toshiya Fujita
The Wind Rises / / Untitled Hayao Miyazaki Project / Kaze tachinu (2013)
Animation | Biography | Drama | History | Romance | War
Inspired by the aesthetics of design, and the freedom of flying, Jiro Horikoshi only dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes. Nearsighted from a young age, and unable to be a pilot, Jiro joins a major Japanese engineering company in 1927. Having dreamed of creating an elegant and flight worthy plane since childhood, Jiro's life-long labor finally pays off in adulthood, when he creates the Mitsubishi A6M Zero. What Jiro never imagined, however, not even in his wildest dreams, was the fate that would befall his beloved creation – that his labor of love would eventually be used for something beyond his wildest expectation: war.
Starring: Hideaki Anno, Miori Takimoto, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Masahiko Nishimura, Steve Alpert, Morio Kazama
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Cesta do lesa / To the Woods (2012)
Comedy | Romance
To the Woods is a sequel to Vorel's successful Out of the City (2000). Having abandoned city life long ago, the Marak's live in a quaint cottage on the outskirts of a small rural village. Honza earns a very modest living as a forest laborer, while his wife Marketa works as a masseuse and alternative healer. Anyna, their nymph-like, pubescent daughter, explores the verdant landscape by night, communicating with the stags that still make the endangered woodland their home. It is in these wanderings that Anyna makes the acquaintance of locally born-and-bred forest ranger and hunter, Ludva. Meanwhile her parents are persecuted by local authorities, with her mother being taken into custody for her popular magic mushroom séance. As their financial situation becomes increasingly dire, a solution emerges following an unexpected life change.
Starring: Tomás Vorel Jr., Anna Linhartová, Bolek Polívka, Eva Holubová, Tomás Hanák, Bara Schlesingerova, Jirí Schmitzer, Marie Stípková, Milan Steindler
Director: Tomás Vorel
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans / Sunrise (1927)
Drama | Romance
A young farmer is tempted by the charms of a sophisticated city woman, who suggests to him that his dull wife might accidentally drown. He considers this plan, and imagines what his life might be like if he went to the big bad city.
Starring: George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston, Bodil Rosing, J. Farrell MacDonald, Ralph Sipperly
Director: F.W. Murnau
Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
Drama | Horror | Romance
A romance horror drama film, set against the romantic desolation of Detroit and Tangier. Adam, an underground musician, deeply depressed by the direction of human activities, reunites with his resilient and enigmatic lover, Eve. Their love story has already endured several centuries at least, but their debauched idyll is soon interrupted by Eve's wild and uncontrollable younger sister, Ava. Can these wise and fragile outsiders continue to survive as the modern world collapses around them?
Starring: Tom Hiddleston, Tilda Swinton, Mia Wasikowska, John Hurt, Anton Yelchin, Jeffrey Wright
Director: Jim Jarmusch
White Love / Howaito rabu (1979)
Romance
A pimp has an adulterous affair with a Japanese girl who studies flamenco dancing.
Starring: Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura, Keiju Kobayashi, Kazuo Kitamura
Director: Tsugunobu Kotani
Butterfly Lovers / Mo hup leung juk / Jian die (2008)
Action | Fantasy | Romance
Life is fleeting as the butterfly, beautiful yet transient. As legends has it, a pair of butterfly lovers reappears once more after having gone through three lifetimes of repeated pain and tears. This time, they find each other in the world of martial arts. Liang is highly skilled in martial arts and resides in the mountains. When his master tasks him to take care of Zhu, a girl from a wealthy family who disguises as guy to herself from revenge, it sparks off the painful journey that they must go through once again. Zhuâ's father, in order to pay the kindness shown to him, has betrothed her to a General Ma, although Zhu is in love with Liang. Love can fester into hate in some while in the selected few, it can lead to undying love that survives one lifetime after another.
Starring: Charlene Choi, Chun Wu, Ge Hu
Director: Jingle Ma
Péril en la demeure / Peril / Death in a French Garden (1985)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
A magnate and his younger wife hire David to teach guitar to their teenage daughter. The wife quickly seduces David, and simultaneously he strikes up an acquaintance with the family's inquisitive neighbor. One night, David is mugged but rescued from injury by a stranger, Daniel, who also becomes David's friend and admits to being a hit man. Video tapes of their activities appear in the lovers' mail; David thinks they're from the neighbor, Daniel is sure the husband is onto the affair and hired the mugger. After Daniel tells David that he's been hired to kill the husband, an elaborate manipulation plays out, with murder, suicide, a payoff, more videos, and a surprise pairing.
Starring: Anémone, Richard Bohringer, Nicole Garcia, Christophe Malavoy, Michel Piccoli
Director: Michel Deville
Who's Afraid of Vagina Wolf? (2013)
Comedy | Romance
In this eccentric all-female romantic comedy, charismatic filmmaker Anna faces a midlife crisis. She has neither job nor girlfriend, and lives in her friend's garage in Los Angeles. Just when she's about to throw in the towel, she meets Katia (Janina Gavankar, "The L Word," "True Blood") who becomes her muse, inspiring her to write and direct an all-female remake of Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? Surrounded by beautiful women as cast and crew including, Guinevere Turner (Go Fish, "The L Word") in a tour-de-force performance, Carrie Preston ("True Blood," "The Good Wife"), and gorgeous ingénue, Agnes Olech as her smitten cinematographer, Anna destroys everything to get to the bottom of what is truly stopping her from love and life.
Starring: Anna Margarita Albelo, Guinevere Turner, Janina Gavankar, Agnes Olech, Carrie Preston, Celeste Pechous, Drew Droege, Joel Michaely, Jacqulynn Schmitz
Director: Anna Margarita Albelo
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Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
Drama | Family | History | Musical | Romance
Film version of the stage musical, based on the stories of Sholom Aleichem. Tevye the Milkman is a Jewish peasant in pre-Revolutionary Russia, coping with the day-to-day problems of 'shtetl' life, his Jewish traditions, his family (wife and daughters), and state-sanctioned pogroms.
Starring: Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon, Paul Mann, Rosalind Harris
Director: Norman Jewison
Flying Tigers (1942)
Action | Drama | Romance | War
Capt. Jim Gordon's command of the famed American mercenary fighter group in China is complicated by the recruitment of an old friend who is a reckless hotshot.
Starring: John Wayne, John Carroll, Anna Lee, Paul Kelly, Mae Clarke, Addison Richards
Director: David Miller
Four of Hearts (2013)
Drama | Romance
Stuck in a six-month sexual 'dry spell,' a young husband and wife decide to rekindle their love life by having a one-night stand with another couple. But all four soon find themselves unprepared for the complicated web of lies, jealousy, and forbidden attractions that follow.
Starring: Michelle Krusiec, Darrin Dewitt Henson, Victoria Gabrielle Platt, Nadine Ellis, Gabriel Olds
Director: Eric Haywood
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The End of the Affair (1999)
Drama | Romance
On a rainy London night in 1946, novelist Maurice Bendrix has a chance meeting with Henry Miles, husband of his ex-mistress Sarah, who abruptly ended their affair two years before. Bendrix's obsession with Sarah is rekindled; he succumbs to his own jealousy and arranges to have her followed.
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore, Stephen Rea, James Bolam
Director: Neil Jordan
The Heartbreak Kid (2007)
Comedy | Romance
Ben Stiller stars as Eddie, the 40-year-old confirmed bachelor who finally says "I do" to the beautiful and sexy Lila (Malin Akerman). But during their honeymoon in Mexico, the woman of his dreams turns out to be a total nightmare, and the guy who could never pull the trigger realizes he's jumped the gun. Take home the Farrelly Brothers' hysterical twist on boy-meets-girl, The Heartbreak Kid, and prepare to have a blast!
Starring: Ben Stiller, Michelle Monaghan, Jerry Stiller, Malin Akerman, Rob Corddry, Carlos Mencia
Director: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
About a Boy (2002)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
In London, wealthy bachelor Will Freeman and introverted, sad 12-year-old Marcus forge an unexpected friendship. Will inspires Marcus to gain confidence and style while the mature-beyond-his-years Marcus helps the carefree Will mature and embrace the responsibility of adulthood in a way he never has before.
Starring: Hugh Grant, Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, Rachel Weisz, Natalia Tena, Sharon Small
Director: Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz
True Blood (TV Series 2008-2014)
Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
The series follows Sookie Stackhouse, a barmaid living in Louisiana who can read people's minds, and how her life is turned upside down when the Vampire Bill, walks into her place of employment two years after vampires 'came out of the coffin' on national television.
Starring: Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Sam Trammell, Ryan Kwanten, Rutina Wesley, Chris Bauer, Nelsan Ellis, Carrie Preston, Alexander Skarsgård, Todd Lowe, Deborah Ann Woll, Kristin Bauer van Straten
Creator: Alan Ball
Dances of Flame / Honoo no mai (1978)
Drama | Romance
Takuji spies a house on the hill while wandering on the beach. He is invited in and treated as an honoured guest, especially by the lovely young Kiyono. They soon marry, but as the year is 1940, the oncoming war threatens. Takuji disappears, then returns, then is enlisted.
Starring: Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura, Toshio Hosokawa, Michiyo Kogure, Michiko Araki, Ichirô Arishima, Midori Kanazawa
Director: Yoshisuke Kawasaki
Highway (2014)
Drama | Romance
The story begins on the eve of the wedding of Veera Tripathi (Alia Bhatt), the daughter of a rich business tycoon. She is on the highway with her fiance when she is abducted. The gang who kidnaps her panics when they find out that her father has links in the government. However, Mahabir Bhati (Randeep Hooda), one of her abductors, is willing to do whatever it takes to see this through. They continuously move to different cities, to avoid being tracked by police. As the days go by, Veera finds peace in her bondage to the point that she confides in him of her troubled childhood. Her fear of abduction is taken over by a sense of freedom. At one point while crossing a check post, the police forcefully search the truck, but Veera, surprisingly even to herself, hides. Veera confesses to Mahabir about her home where her uncle molested her, a fact which was hushed up by her mother. She concludes that she loves the journey and doesn't want to go back to her life. Mahabir can't help but care for Veera and his anger fades though slowly, he decides to let her go. Veera refuses and insists on staying with Mahabir. They both take shelter in a hilltop house. The following morning, a shootout starts as police has tracked them down. Mahabir is shot dead on the spot, while a shocked Veera is returned to her parents. Disturbed by the incident, Veera tells her family the truth about her abusive uncle and her desire of not living with them anymore. It ends with Veera shown working and living on a hill station on her own, with memories of the days she spent with Mahabir.
Starring: Alia Bhatt, Randeep Hooda, Durgesh Kumar, Pradeep Nagar, Saharsh Kumar Shukla
Director: Imtiaz Ali
