The Ring (1927)
Drama | Romance | Thriller
Jack Saunders and Bob Corby are two boxers in love with Nellie. Jack and Nellie are married but their marriage is flat so she starts to look to Bob for comfort.
Starring: Carl Brisson, Lillian Hall-Davis, Ian Hunter, Forrester Harvey, Harry Terry, Gordon Harker
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Together / Tian mi mi (2012)
Drama | Romance
Min Min runs a juice stall in Taipei's Yongle Market. Her husband Bin runs a small printing business in the neighborhood. Their daughter Hsiao Lan is dating a bad boy-type that keeps her out late at night, and their youngest son Hsiao Yang is helping his best friend get a date with a local café girl. One day, neighborhood girl Hsiao Li returns home and announces her engagement to a bookseller. However, Hsiao Li is getting cold feet about the marriage and starts spending time with Bin. Meanwhile, Min Min also finds herself growing closer to Hsiang, the friendly owner of a dress-making shop in the market.
Starring: Lieh Lee, Shao-Yang Huang, Sonia Sui, Kenny Bee, Umin Boya, Gina Li, Shaio-Hwei Chang, Jain-Ho Wu
Director: Chao-Jen Hsu
The Worst Man of My Life / The Worst Guy Ever / Nae saengae choeak-ui namja (2007)
Comedy | Romance
Ju-eyon and Seong-tae have been best friends ever since they first met each other 10 years ago. But in one night their 10 year friendship comes crashing to the ground after they sleep together. The comfort and security of marriage is a siren call, and the two decide to forego their ideals to spend their first day as man and wife. However, their perfect lover soon appears right in front of them: A sexy editor appears to seduce Seong-tae and an advertising director appears to tempt Ju-yeon. With a single smile they turn the newlyweds dream into a nightmare. Even after only a few days, they soon find themselves faced with the worst choice of their lives as they struggle to reach happiness.
Starring: Jung-ah Yum, Jae-hun Tak
Director: Hyun-hee Sohn
Almost Love / Cheongchun-manhwa (2006)
Comedy | Romance
Ji-Hwan (Kwon Sang-Woo) and Dal-Rae (Kim Ha-Neul) are old friends and they have grown up in the same neighborhood. Ji-Hwan admires Hong Kong movie star "Jacky Chan" and wants to be a world action star. Dal-Rae has a desire to be an actress. They always bear grudges against each other with their private weak parts, and they quarrel everyday, however they are great friends who care for each other. One day, Dal-Rae goes out with Young-Hoon who is in the same Taekwondo group as Ji-Hwan. Young-Hoon is a student representative of the department as well as an all-round athlete. Ji-hwan is also dating a girl, Ji-Min, a gorgeous glamour girl who has a well-shaped figure. It seems that there would be no problem between the good friends Ji-Hwan and Dal-Rae, but somehow a strange atmosphere arises after they start seeing someone else. Everybody knows it is more than just a friendship, except Ji-Hwan and Dal-Rae.
Starring: Sang-woo Kwon, Ha-Neul Kim, Sang-woo Lee, Mi-ne Jang, Jin-bin Park, Gyu-su Jeong
Director: Han Lee
Le magnifique / The Magnificent One (1973)
Action | Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Francois Merlin is an espionnage-book writer. He likes to mix every-day character he can met in his book…
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jacqueline Bisset, Vittorio Caprioli
Director: Philippe de Broca
The Double Hour / La doppia ora (2009)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Guido (Filippo Timi), a former cop, is a luckless veteran of the speed-dating scene in Turin. But, much to his surprise, he meets Slovenian immigrant Sonia (Ksenia Rappoport), a chambermaid at a high-end hotel. The two hit it off, and a passionate romance develops. After they leave the city for a romantic getaway in the country, things suddenly take a dark turn. As Sonia's murky past resurfaces, her reality starts to crumble. Everything in her life begins to change – – questions arise and answers only arrive through a continuous twist and turn of events keeping viewers on edge until the film's final moments. THE DOUBLE HOUR, winner of Best Actress at the 2009 Venice International Film Festival, is directed by Giuseppe Capotondi.
Starring: Kseniya Rappoport, Filippo Timi, Antonia Truppo, Gaetano Bruno, Fausto Russo Alesi, Michele Di Mauro
Director: Giuseppe Capotondi
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Hope Springs (2003)
Comedy | Romance
Colin's a sad-eyed British artist holed up in a rundown hotel in small-town Vermont after being dumped by his fiancée. The hotel owner plays matchmaker and introduces him to a local girl. Romance ensues, though Colin's ex may be looking to reunite.
Starring: Colin Firth, Minnie Driver, Mary Steenburgen, Heather Graham, Oliver Platt, Ken Kramer
Director: Mark Herman
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Someone Like You… / Animal Attraction (2001)
Comedy | Romance
Jane Goodale has everything going for her. She's a producer of a popular daytime talk show, and is in a hot romance with the show's dashing executive producer Ray. When Ray unexpectedly dumps her, she begins an extensive study of male behavior to try to find out what makes men tick. Her "research" leads her to become an overnight sensation/guru for single women everywhere. When Jane begins to use her womanizing roommate and co-worker Eddie as fodder for her research, she finds both humor and answers where they were least expected.
Starring: Ashley Judd, Greg Kinnear, Hugh Jackman, Marisa Tomei, Ellen Barkin
Director: Tony Goldwyn
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The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
Comedy | Drama | Romance | Western
A hobo accidentally stumbles onto a water spring, and creates a profitable way station in the middle of the desert.
Starring: Jason Robards, Stella Stevens, David Warner, Strother Martin, Slim Pickens
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Love Phobia / Domabaem (2006)
Drama | Romance
One day, a young girl named A-Ri (Byeon Ju-Yeon) appears at her new school wearing a yellow raincoat, even though it is a sunny day. Due to various incidents, all of A-Ri's classmates are frightened of her except for Jo-Kang (Park Geon-Tae). Jo-Kang develops a crush on A-Ri due to her quirky nature and cute appearance. But, just as they get closer, A-Ri disappears. Ten years later and now in high school, Jo-Kang (Cho Seung-Woo) receives a phone call from A-Ri (Kang Hye-Jung). Jo-Kang then goes to meet A-Ri who is now living at a Buddhist temple. She tells Jo-Kang about the ghosts that visits her and she also teaches Jo-Kang English. He soon falls deeper in love with A-Ri and they share their first kiss together. But, just like ten years earlier, A-Ri then suddenly disappears. Five years later, A-Ri and Jo-Kang meet again, but A-Ri informs Jo-Kang that she is leaving for America the next day. Jo-Kang drops A-Ri off at the airport the next day, but they soon meet again in the most unexpected of places.
Starring: Seung-woo Cho, Hye-jeong Kang, Ju-yeon Byeon, Geon-tae Park
Director: Ji-eun Kang
L'homme de Rio / That Man from Rio (1964)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Romance
Farce, spy spoof, and adventure. Swarthy thieves ignore jewels to steal an Amazon figurine from the Museum of Man in Paris' Trocadero Palace and kidnap the world's authority on the lost Maltec civilization. Cut to Agnes, the daughter of a murdered man who possessed one of two other such figurines. Moments after her sweetheart, Adrien, an Army private with a week's leave, arrives in Paris to see her, Agnes too is kidnapped, drugged, and loaded on a plane to Rio. Adrien is in hot pursuit, and before he can rescue her (with the help of a shoeshine boy), foil the murderous thieves, and solve the riddle of the Maltecs, he must traverse Rio, Brasília, and the Amazon heartland… all before the end of his week's leave.
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Françoise Dorléac
Director: Philippe de Broca
Forever Love / Hollywood Taiwan / A Ma De Meng Zhong Qing Ren (2013)
Comedy | Romance
Taipei, spring 2013. Hsiao Chieh (Li Yi-chieh) visits her 70-year-grandfather, Liu Chi-sheng (Lung Shao-hua), in hospital after he fell of his bike when cycling around the island. As a young man in the late '60s, Chi-sheng was the hottest scriptwriter in the local Hokkien-dialect section of the film industry, sometimes working on seven scripts simultaneously and employed by Hsiao Chih-kao (Liao Jun) at his studio Chih Kao Pictures in Peitou, a northern suburb of Taipei. Hsiao Chieh grew up watching films in a cinema, the Hollywood Theatre, that Chi-sheng owned later in life. His wife, Chiang Mei-yueh (Shen Hai-jung), is now losing her mind, imagining she is Chin Yueh-feng, a popular actress from the '60s. In hospital, Chi-sheng tells Hsiao Chieh stories from the high days of his career. Summer 1969: one of his scripts, secret-agent adventure Spy No. 7 premieres at the Hollywood Theatre, with Hokkien-dialect superstars Wan Pao-lung (Edison Wang) and Chin Yueh-feng (Tien Hsin) in attendance. Chi-sheng first meets the young Mei-yueh (Amber An) – a huge fan of Pao-lung since the hit melodrama, I Love You to My Bones, which Chi-sheng wrote – as she tries to sneak in without a ticket. Chi-sheng later re-meets her when she attends auditions held by the studio, and helps her get a part in the follow-up production, Spy No. 7 on Monster Island. When aged director Li (Chen Ping-nan) dies during production, Chi-sheng is asked to take over by his boss, and he revises the script into "a romantic espionage fantasy epic", Spy No. 7: On the Moon for Love, with Mei-yueh taking on the lead female role when Yueh-feng goes AWOL in a tiff. Chi-sheng and Mei-yueh fall in love, but the days of Hokkien-dialect movies are already numbered as the government decrees that all films should henceforth be made in the Mandarin dialect.
Starring: Cheng-Lung Lan, Amber An, Bo-Chieh Wang, Tien Hsin, Shao-hua Lung, Hairong Shen, Jun Liao, Sheng-yu Yen, Yijie Li
Director: Toyoharu Kitamura, Li-shiou Shao
Where the Heart Is (2000)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A pregnant 17-year-old rebuilds her life after being abandoned by her boyfriend at a Wal-Mart in Sequoyah, Oklahoma.
Starring: Natalie Portman, Ashley Judd, Stockard Channing, Joan Cusack, James Frain, Dylan Bruno
Director: Matt Williams
My Son the Fanatic (1997)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Parvez was born in Lahore, Pakistan, and as a child was asked to study the Holy scriptures through a Maulvi. When the Maulvi started his sermon, Parvez would fall asleep, this lead to the Maulvi devising a unique punishment, which ultimately compelled Parvez to stop attending. When he grew up, his marriage was arranged with Minoo and they immigrated to a small town in Britain, where Parvez started to make a living driving a taxi, and found himself free from all religious activity. 25 years later, Parvez is an alcoholic, still driving a cab, while people who had immigrated after him have their own businesses and are wealthier. Parvez now has a grown son, Farid, who is the apple of his eye, and is to be engaged to Madeleine Fingerhut, who is the daughter of the local Chief Inspector. After the two families' meet, Farid has a sudden change of heart when he notices that the Chief Inspector detests his family, and it slowly dawns on him that he and his girlfriend are quite different, and he cannot be part of a culture that relies solely on filth, porn, is soaked in sex, along with a mix of Caucasian (white) and Jewish propaganda against Islam. He starts reciting the Holy Quran, and asks permission from his dad to invite some religious leaders from Pakistan, after receiving consent, they do arrive to live in Parvez's home. It is here that Parvez will find that Farid has broken off the forthcoming engagement with Ms. Fingerhut, and has become a born again Muslim. His wife, Minoo, has taken to wearing the Hizaab, remains in the kitchen all day, and is not even permitted to sup or dine with her family, while Parvez finds that he cannot even sleep in his bedroom. Things start to heat up when Farid finds out that his dad has been patronizing a prostitute by the name of Beltina, whose real name is Sandra, and he also notes that his dad is her pimp. Then he and his colleagues set about to cleanse this town of its prostitutes – leading to a confrontation between him and his dad – a confrontation that may well split this family forever.
Starring: Om Puri, Rachel Griffiths, Akbar Kurtha, Stellan Skarsgård, Gopi Desai, Harish Patel
Director: Udayan Prasad
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Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A recently-widowed man's son calls a radio talk show in an attempt to find his father a partner.
Starring: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Ross Malinger, Rita Wilson, Victor Garber, Carey Lowell
Director: Nora Ephron
The Winter of the Year was Warm / Naega Gobaekeul Hamyeon (2012)
Drama | Romance
A movie director who also produces films, goes to Gangneung on the weekends to get away from his tiring Seoul life. Meanwhile, a woman who works as a home health nurse in Gangneung travels to Seoul on the weekends for its culture. These two people then meet.
Starring: Tae-Woo Kim, Ji-won Ye, Beom-sik Seo, Young-mi, Ahn, Seung-soo Ryu, Sang-soon Lee
Director: David Cho
Lost and Delirious (2001)
Drama | Romance
Three schoolgirls learn about the joys, sorrows, and varieties of love in this drama based on the novel The Wives of Bath by Susan Swan.
Starring: Mischa Barton, Piper Perabo, Jessica Paré, Jackie Burroughs, Graham Greene, Mimi Kuzyk
Director: Léa Pool
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Crazy Kind of Love (2013)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
While re-evaluating her life as a newly single mother, a woman relies on her carefree son and his awkward brother to keep their lives interesting. When an unlikely romance blossoms between the youngest son and the new girl in town, she realizes the key to her happiness can be found where she least expects it, and there's only one kind of love worth living for – the crazy kind.
Starring: Virginia Madsen, Graham Rogers, Amanda Crew, Zach Gilford, Sam Trammell, Madeline Zima
Director: Sarah Siegel-Magness
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I Give It a Year (2013)
Comedy | Romance
After a year of marriage a pair of newlyweds begin to suspect that they've made the wrong choice in this British comedy from first-time director Dan Mazer. Nine months after the wedding that all their friends thought wasn't such a great idea, Nat (Rose Byrne) and Josh (Rafe Spall) are beginning to recognise that perhaps the naysayers were right after all. But as they both agree to try and make a go of it, neither wanting to be the one to admit defeat, Nat begins to fall for the charms of Guy (Simon Baker), one of her clients, whilst Josh realises that he still has the hots for his ex, Chloe (Anna Faris).
Starring: Simon Baker, Rose Byrne, Rafe Spall, Anna Faris, Minnie Driver, Stephen Merchant
Director: Dan Mazer
Evening (2007)
Drama | Romance
A drama exploring the romantic past and emotional present of Ann Grant and her daughters, Constance and Nina. As Ann lays dying, she remembers, and is moved to convey to her daughters, the defining moments in her life 50 years prior, when she was a young woman. Harris is the man Ann loves in the 1950s and never forgets.
Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, Toni Collette, Claire Danes, Meryl Streep, Patrick Wilson, Hugh Dancy, Natasha Richardson, Mamie Gummer, Eileen Atkins, Glenn Close
Director: Lajos Koltai
