Under the Hawthorn Tree / Shan zha shu zhi lian (2010)
Drama | Romance
A love history between a capitalist's young daughter, sent to re-education during the China's Cultural Revolution, and the son of a communist party member.
Starring: Dongyu Zhou, Shawn Dou, Meijuan Xi, Ruijia Jiang, Xuejian Li, Taisheng Chen, Rina Sa
Director: Yimou Zhang
The Great Gatsby (2013)
Drama | Romance
An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's highly acclamed novel set during the Roaring Twenties in 1922. Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his millionaire neighbor, Jay Gatsby, on Long Island. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await.
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Isla Fisher, Joel Edgerton, Elizabeth Debicki
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Un Plan Parfait / Fly Me to the Moon (2012)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Romance
A successful woman in love tries to break her family curse of every first marriage ending in divorce, by dashing to the alter with a random stranger before marrying her boyfriend.
Starring: Diane Kruger, Dany Boon
Director: Pascal Chaumeil
L'arnacoeur / Heartbreaker (2010)
Comedy | Romance
Alex and his sister run a business designed to break up relationships. They are hired by a rich man to break up the wedding of his daughter. The only problem is that they only have one week to do so.
Starring: Romain Duris, Vanessa Paradis, Julie Ferrier, François Damiens, Héléna Noguerra, Andrew Lincoln
Director: Pascal Chaumeil
Carried Away (1996)
Drama | Romance
Joseph and Rosalee are teachers in a small town turned upside down by the arrival of an enticing 17-year-old, the precocious daughter of a newly-retired major.
Starring: Dennis Hopper, Amy Irving, Amy Locane, Julie Harris, Gary Busey
Director: Bruno Barreto
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Madame de… / The Earrings of Madame de… (1953)
Drama | Romance
The most cherished work from French master Max Ophuls, The Earrings of Madame de… is a profoundly emotional, cinematographically adventurous tale of deceptive opulence and tragic romance. When an aristocratic woman known only as Madame de (the extraordinary Danielle Darrieux) sells a pair of earrings given to her by her husband (Charles Boyer) in order to pay a debt, she sets off a chain reaction of financial and carnal consequences that can end only in despair. Ophuls's adaptation of Louise de Vilmorin's incisive fin de siècle novel employs the elegant and precise camera work for which the director is so justly renowned, to ravishing effect.
Starring: Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica, Jean Debucourt
Director: Max Ophüls
Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986)
Comedy | Romance | Thriller
Terry works for a bank, and uses computers to communicate with clients all over the world. One day she gets a coded message from an unknown source. After decoding the message, Terry becomes embroiled in an espionage ring. People are killed, and Terry is chased.
Starring: Whoopi Goldberg, Stephen Collins, John Wood, Carol Kane, Annie Potts, Roscoe Lee Browne
Director: Penny Marshall
Father Goose (1964)
Adventure | Comedy | Romance | War
During WW2, a man persuaded to live on an isolated island and spot aircraft finds himself responsible for a teacher and several students, all female.
Starring: Cary Grant, Leslie Caron, Trevor Howard, Jack Good
Director: Ralph Nelson
Jab Tak Hai Jaan / J.T.H.J. (2012)
Drama | Romance
A young immigrant falls in love with a NRI who wanted to marry any British person, not a typical brown Indian. But she falls in love with that young musician, but this love story ends with a breakup. Then that man, fed up with life with vast emotion joins Indian army bomb squad, where he flirts with death everyday. A young discovery channel journalist approaches his team to cover bomb squad story but falls in love with him.
Starring: Shah Rukh Khan, Katrina Kaif, Anushka Sharma, Anupam Kher, Rishi Kapoor
Director: Yash Chopra
Gangster / Gangster: A Love Story (2006)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Daya Shankar lived with his family in Kashmir, but then subsequently re-located to Bombay where he took to crime as a career. One day while on the run from the Police, he holes up in a small room with a young bar dancer, Simran. She shields him from the Police, and he falls in love. He finds out the bar she dances in and comes in silently to watch her perform. He had come to her rescue when she was being molested and thereafter asked her to move in with him, which she did. For sometime it was as though they seemed to be living in bliss, then all of a sudden, they were on the run again. Then Daya decided that it was time to settle down, and they adopted a young boy, Bittu, made different passports, and decided to re-locate to Dubai. That did not happen, instead Bittu gets killed, and a heart-broken Simran and Daya are forced to live apart, with Simran moving to Seoul, Korea. It is here that she meets with Akash and both fall in love, get intimate and Simran gets pregnant. Then Daya re-enters her life, disrupting it completely, beating Akash to a pulp. It is now that Simran has to decide whether to stay with Akash, get married, and have her baby, or continue to live a life on the run with Daya – who is not only on the run from the Police, but also from the underworld Don, Khan. What the three players do not known that two of them are going to be betrayed – a betrayal so shocking that none of them may be able to survive it.
Starring: Emraan Hashmi, Shiney Ahuja, Kangana Ranaut, Gulshan Grover, Vicky Ahuja
Director: Anurag Basu
Man of La Mancha / L'uomo della Mancha (1972)
Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Musical | Romance
This musical version of Don Quixote is framed by an incident allegedly from the life of its author, Miguel de Cervantes. Don Quixote is the mad, aging nobleman who embarrasses his respectable family by his adventures. Backed by his faithful sidekick Sancho Panza, he duels windmills and defends his perfect lady Dulcinea (who is actually a downtrodden whore named Aldonza).
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Sophia Loren, James Coco, Harry Andrews, John Castle
Director: Arthur Hiller
Bus Stop (1956)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A naive but stubborn cowboy falls in love with a saloon singer and tries to take her away against her will to get married and live on his ranch in Montana.
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray, Arthur O'Connell, Betty Field, Eileen Heckart, Hope Lange
Director: Joshua Logan
Chungking Express / Chung Hing sam lam (1994)
Drama | Mystery | Romance
Acclaimed Hong Kong New Wave director Wong Kar-Wai presents a kinetic, offbeat look at his city in these two stories. The first concerns a young woman who has been double-crossed in a heroin deal and her budding romance with a lovelorn cop. The second deals with another officer whose girlfriend has left him and the young waitress who tries to help him without his knowledge.
Starring: Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung, Faye Wong, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Valerie Chow
Director: Kar Wai Wong
Behind the Yellow Line / Yuen fan (1984)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
The Chinese title for this entertaining romantic drama is 'Destiny', which is fitting because it features remarkable new talent whose destiny was to become some of Hong Kong's most important filmmakers. There then 20-year-old Miss Hong Kong Pageant first runner-up Maggie Cheung. There's Leslie Cheung, before he became an award-winning singer/actor icon. There's Anita Mui ('The Chinese Madonna'), who won the Hong Kong Film Best Supporting Actress Award for her performance. And there's co-scripter Gordon Chan, destined to become a top writer/director.
Starring: Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Anita Mui, Anthony Chan
Director: Taylor Wong
Kicking and Screaming (1995)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
After college graduation, Grover's girlfriend Jane tells him she's moving to Prague to study writing. Grover declines to accompany her, deciding instead to move in with several friends, all of whom can't quite work up the inertia to escape their university's pull. Nobody wants to make any big decisions that would radically alter his life, yet none of them wants to end up like Chet, the professional student who tends bar and is in his tenth year of university studies.
Starring: Josh Hamilton, Olivia d'Abo, Parker Posey, Chris Eigeman, Cara Buono, Eric Stoltz
Director: Noah Baumbach
Congratulations (2012)
Comedy | Drama | Family | Romance
JIM and BRIDGET are on a road trip to visit Jim's mother on the anniversary of his father's death. Along the way, Jim proposes and Bridget says no. When they arrive at his mother's house, she showers them with congratulations. Caught up in the moment, they pretend to be engaged for the weekend.
Starring: Brian Dietzen, Abby Miller, Debra Jo Rupp, Kevin Rankin, Terryn Westbrook, Blaise Miller, Parvesh Cheena
Director: Juan Cardarelli, Eric M. Levy
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Love Me Not / Sarang-ttawin piryo-eopseo (2006)
Romance
Julian (Kim Ju-Hyeok) has lived off with the money he lures from his rich female customers. But now he faces usurious debts from a hasty expansion of his business, and he will be killed unless he clears the debt in one month. The only way to save himself is to pretend to be the long-lost brother of an heiress and kill her to get her huge fortune. Ryoo Min (Moon Geun-Young), the blind heiress, cold-hearted like Julian, slowly opens herself to him, and he, too, falls for her. But Julian has to pay his creditor and what makes it worse for him is that the illness that took Ryoo Min’s eyesight relapsed, threatening her life.
Starring: Ju-hyuk Kim, Geun-Young Moon
Director: Cheol-ha Lee
Hatari! (1962)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Romance
Adventure, camaraderie, love and laughs combine against the breathtaking vistas of Africa in this 1962 treat as an American game catcher and a photographer who strikes a deal to travel with his trapping crew.
Starring: John Wayne, Hardy Krüger, Elsa Martinelli, Red Buttons, Bruce Cabot, Gérard Blain
Director: Howard Hawks
Nowhere to Run (1993)
Action | Drama | Romance
An escaped prisoner hiding from authorities, Sam always manages to be in the wrong place at the right time. Risking his hard-fought freedom, he aids a beautiful young widow against a ruthless developer who wants her land. Hunted by the police and the developer's hired killers, Sam pulls no punches in his furious fight for survival.
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Kieran Culkin, Rosanna Arquette, Ted Levine, Joss Ackland, Allan Graf
Director: Robert Harmon
McLintock! (1963)
Comedy | Romance | Western
A cattle baron fights to tame the West and his estranged wife.
Starring: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Patrick Wayne, Chill Wills, Jack Kruschen, Yvonne De Carlo
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
