Down the Shore (2011)
Drama | Romance | Thriller
Set on the Jersey Shore, the lives of three childhood friends begin to unravel when a deadly secret from their past is revealed.
Starring: James Gandolfini, Famke Janssen, Edoardo Costa, Joseph Pope, Maria Dizzia, John Magaro
Director: Harold Guskin
Anything Else (2003)
Comedy | Romance
In medias res: narrator Jerry Falk, a fledgling comedy writer with an inept agent, is about to celebrate an anniversary with his girlfriend Amanda. There's trouble in paradise: she's late (and has already eaten), she's been uninterested in sex for months, and her quixotic mother is moving in with them. Jerry looks back to meeting Amanda and dumping Brooke. A constant is his friendship with another wannabe comedy writer, a 60 year old teacher named David, prone to long walks and advice filled talks. As Amanda and Jerry's relationship founders and her mom's noisy presence makes writing difficult for him, he and David plan something different. Wouldn't anything else be better?
Starring: Woody Allen, Jason Biggs, Danny DeVito, Christina Ricci, Jimmy Fallon, Stockard Channing
Director: Woody Allen
Cabin Boy (1994)
Comedy | Music | Romance
Elliott stars as Nathaniel Mayweather, a spoiled rich kid whose plans for a ritzy Hawaiian cruise backfire, finding him lost at sea with a gang of salty old sailors. And when his crusty cabinmates get a whiff of his highfalutin' attitude, they give him every rotten chore on the boat – and take him on the wackiest adventure yet to sail the Seven Seas.
Starring: Chris Elliott, Ritch Brinkley, James Gammon, Brian Doyle-Murray, Brion James, Melora Walters
Director: Adam Resnick
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)
Action | Comedy | Romance
After five (or six) years of vanilla-wedded bliss, ordinary suburbanites John and Jane Smith (Pitt and Jolie) are stuck in a rut the size of the Grand Canyon until the truth comes out! Unbeknownst to each other, they are both coolly lethal, highly paid assassins working for rival organizations. And when they discover they're each other's next target, their secret lives collide in a spicy, explosive mix of wicked comedy, pent-up passion, nonstop action and high-tech weaponry that gives an all-new meaning to "Till death do us part!"
Starring: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Vince Vaughn, Adam Brody, Kerry Washington, Jennifer Morrison
Director: Doug Liman
Eat Drink Man Woman / Yin shi nan nu (1994)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Senior Master Chef Chu lives in a large house in Taipei with his three unmarried daughters, Jia-Jen, a chemistry teacher converted to Christianity, Jia-Chien, an airline executive, and Jia-Ning, a student who also works in a fast food restaurant. Life in the house revolves around the ritual of an elaborate dinner each Sunday, and the love lives of all the family members.
Starring: Sihung Lung, Yu-Wen Wang, Chien-lien Wu, Kuei-Mei Yang, Sylvia Chang
Director: Ang Lee
The Wedding Banquet / Xi yan (1993)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Simon and Wei-Tung are a gay couple living together in Manhattan. To defer the suspicions of Wei-Tung's parents, Simon suggests a marriage of convenience between Wei-Tung and Wei-Wei, an immigrant in need of a green card. When Wei-Tung's parents come to America for the wedding, they insist upon an elaborate banquet, resulting in several complications.
Starring: Ya-lei Kuei, Sihung Lung, May Chin, Winston Chao, Mitchell Lichtenstein
Director: Ang Lee
The Beast and the Beauty / Yasuwa minyeo (2005)
Comedy | Romance
Dong-Gun has a serious complex of sorts. He has low self-esteem about his appearance, particularly a scar that sits next to right eye-brow. His world changes when he drives down a street and is flagged down by a beautiful girl that gets into his car. The girl, named Hae-Joo, is blind and mistakes Dong-Gun’s car for a taxi cab and asks him to take drive her to another part of Seoul. He immediately falls for Hae-Joo and realizes that Hae-Joo’s blindness would be perfect for him and his low self-esteem. Dong-Gun soon becomes Hae-Joo’s eyes, taking her to various places and describes what everything looks like to her. When Hae-Joo asks Dong-Gun what he looks like, Dong-Gun inexplicably describes someone from his high school that he looked up to. His name ws Jun-Ha. They soon fall for each other and see each other day for 3 years. Everything changes once Hae-Joo receives a phone call from her doctor. The doctor tells her that a donor has been found and she can soon see again, once she has an operation. Dong-Gun again feels like the Beast and he doesn’t know what to do once the Beauty gets her vision back. Things are further complicated when Dong-Gun’s high school friend, Jun-Ha, randomly crosses path with Hae-Joo and falls for her as well.
Starring: Seung-beom Ryu, Min-a Shin, Sang-tae Ahn, Kang-woo Kim, Kil-Kang Ahn, Jong-shin Yuns
Director: Gye-byeok Lee
40 Days and 40 Nights (2002)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Matt Sullivan's last big relationship ended in disaster and ever since his heart's been aching and his commitment's been lacking. Then came Lent, that time of year when everybody gives something up. That's when Matt, a guy who's never been able to finish anything, decides to go where no man's gone before and make a vow: No sex. Whatsoever for 40 straight days. No touching. No kissing. No foreplay. No fooling around. No self-gratification. No nothing. At first he has everything under control. That is until the woman of his dreams, Erica, walks into his life. Sexy and spirited, Erica drives Matt wild. Now, with everyone betting he won't finish what he started, he's just trying to hold on, and hoping she's willing to hold out…
Starring: Josh Hartnett, Shannyn Sossamon, Monet Mazur, Paulo Costanzo, Vinessa Shaw, Adam Trese
Director: Michael Lehmann
Champion (1949)
Drama | Film-Noir | Romance | Sport
Midge Kelly, hitchhiking west with lame brother Connie, is hustled unprepared into a pro boxing match. Though he's severely beaten, manager Tommy Haley finds him promising. Arrived in California, Midge and Connie find nothing but a menial job from which Midge gets relief by seducing Emma, a lovely young waitress. One shotgun marriage later, ambitious Midge falls back on the only option he knows: boxing. Seduced by cheering crowds, money, and a succession of blondes, Midge becomes more and more of a hero in public…and a heel in private.
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Marilyn Maxwell, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart, Ruth Roman, Luis Van Rooten
Director: Mark Robson
Ghost / Gôsuto (2010)
Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
A man tries to solve his lover's murder by communicating with her spirit through the help of a medium.
Starring: Nanako Matsushima, Seung-heon Song, Kirin Kiki, Sawa Suzuki, Satoshi Hashimoto
Director: Tarô Ohtani
Singularium (2011)
Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi | Short
During the final years of the contracting Universe, Kevin goes to meet up with his on-again, off-again ex-girlfriend, Claire, one last time in their now dilapidated old house, but gets trapped in the ensuing collapse and has to escape from the mysterious appearance of a growing army of her doppelgangers.
Starring: Andrew Donnelly, Shawn Hambright, Kirsten Riiber
Director: Joey Tran
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An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
Drama | Romance
Once in a great while a movie comes along that truly grips and uplifts its audiences. Such a movie is An Officer And A Gentleman, a timeless tale of romance, friendship and growth. Loner Zack Mayo (Richard Gere) enters Officer Candidate School to become a Navy pilot and in thirteen tortuous weeks he learns the importance of discipline, love and friendship. Louis Gossett, Jr. won an Academy Award for his brilliant portrayal of the tough drill instructor who teaches Zack that no man can make it alone. And while Gossett tries to warn the young officer about the local girls who will do anything to catch themselves pilot husbands, Zack eventually learns to love one (Debra Winger) while his fellow candidate, a memorable character portrayed by David Keith, struggles with a very different fate. An Officer And A Gentleman is a rich and satisfying story with moving performances that will stay with you long after the film has ended.
Starring: Richard Gere, Debra Winger, David Keith, Robert Loggia, Louis Gossett Jr., Lisa Blount
Director: Taylor Hackford
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2004)
Drama | Romance
In early 19th Century Peru an old Inca rope bridge collapses, plunging five travelers to their deaths in the Andean chasm below. Brother Juniper, who was within minutes of being on the bridge himself, becomes obsessed with discovering how five people of differing class and circumstances came to be on the bridge at that moment. The Catholic friar wants to know if it was mere existential happenstance or part of God's cosmic plan. After researching the lives of the victims for five years and publishing his findings in a book, he is accused of heresy by the worldly Archbishop of Lima and is put on trial for his life by the Inquisition.
Starring: Kathy Bates, Gabriel Byrne, Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, F. Murray Abraham, Geraldine Chaplin, Émilie Dequenne
Director: Mary McGuckian
I Was a Male War Bride (1949)
Comedy | Romance | War
Captain Henri Rochard is a French officer assigned to work with Lieut. Catherine Gates. Through a wacky series of misadventures, they fall in love and marry. When the war ends, Capt. Rochard tries to return to America with the other female war brides. Zany gender-confusing antics follow.
Starring: Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan, Marion Marshall, Randy Stuart, Bill Neff
Director: Howard Hawks
Paper Moon / Zhi yue liang (2013)
Drama | Romance
Paper Moon is inspired by the popular The Iron Lady which has won 5 Golden Awards. The movie is centered around The Iron Lady who has showcased her iron fist in winning the race in business world. Song, a boy from a poor family which produced kites had a crush on a girl from a wealthy family, who later become the iron lady. The pure love between young couple subsequently evolved into a romantic yet dreary epic.
Starring: Tedd Chan, Chrissie Chow, Ka Tung Lam
Director: Stanley Law
Dave (1993)
Comedy | Romance
To avoid a potentially explosive scandal when the U.S. President goes into a coma, an affable temp agency owner with an uncanny resemblance, is put in his place.
Starring: Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Frank Langella, Kevin Dunn, Ving Rhames, Ben Kingsley
Director: Ivan Reitman
Houseboat (1958)
Comedy | Drama | Family | Romance
Tom Winston, a widower, is trying to understand and raise three precocious children alone. He gets a little unexpected help from Cinzia, when the children decide she is be the new maid. She is actually an Italian socialite who is trying to get away from her overprotective father.
Starring: Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer, Harry Guardino, Eduardo Ciannelli, Murray Hamilton
Director: Melville Shavelson
Play It Again, Sam / Aspirins for Three (1972)
Comedy | Romance
A recent divorce gets romantic advice from the ghost of Humphrey Bogart.
Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Jennifer Salt, Joy Bang, Susan Anspach
Director: Herbert Ross
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)
Action | Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi
In the year 2670, an orangutan called the Lawgiver tells a story to a group of human and ape children about an early 21st century ape leader named Caesar.
Starring: Roddy McDowall, Claude Akins, Natalie Trundy, Severn Darden, Lew Ayres, John Huston
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Mystery | Romance | Sci-Fi
Three astronouts after a crash landing find themselves stranded in an upside-down planet–a place where talking apes are in charge and mute humans are hunted and enslaved by the tyrannical primates.
Starring: Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, James Whitmore, James Daly
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
