Category: Romance
Posted on May 8, 2013 |
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Valentin / Valentín (2002)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
In 1967 Buenos Aires, eight year old Valentín lives alone with his poor widowed paternal grandmother. He has not seen his mother since he was three. His grandmother tells him that his mother was unfaithful to his father. Regardless, Valentín still misses her. His womanizing father, Vincente, is on the most part absent as a traveling salesman, he who seems more concerned about his own fortunes than sending money home to take care of his mother and son. Valentín has dreams like most young boys, his primary one being to become an astronaut. He believes the work that he does building rocket models and space suits will assist the NASA space program, and he does whatever he can, such as walk around in heavy shoes to simulate zero gravity and hold his breath underwater, in his pursuit of becoming an astronaut, despite being slightly cross-eyed and near-sighted, which he believes will not hinder his chances. But without really realizing it, he wants more than anything to be part of a nuclear…
Starring: Rodrigo Noya, Carmen Maura, Julieta Cardinali, Jean Pierre Noher, Mex Urtizberea
Director: Alejandro Agresti
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Tags: Alejandro Agresti, Carmen Maura, Jean Pierre Noher, Julieta Cardinali, Mex Urtizberea, Rodrigo Noya
Posted on May 8, 2013 |
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All Over the Guy (2001)
Comedy | Romance
"All Over The Guy" is a contemporary romantic comedy about the quest to find the "one" when "the one" doesn't know he's the "one." It explores the unlikely pairing of two 20-somethings thrown together by their respective best friends in hopes of igniting their own romance. They do everything they can to NOT fall in love, but finally they overcome the dysfunction of their parents and surrender to their hearts.
Starring: Dan Bucatinsky, Richard Ruccolo, Sasha Alexander, Adam Goldberg, Andrea Martin, Joanna Kerns, Christina Ricci, Lisa Kudrow, Doris Roberts
Director: Julie Davis
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Tags: Adam Goldberg, Andrea Martin, Christina Ricci, Dan Bucatinsky, Doris Roberts, Joanna Kerns, Julie Davis, Lisa Kudrow, Richard Ruccolo, Sasha Alexander
Posted on May 7, 2013 |
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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, Jim Parrack, Carrie Preston, Alexander Skarsgård, Todd Lowe, Deborah Ann Woll, William Sanderson, Kristin Bauer
Creator: Alan Ball
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Tags: Alan Ball, Alexander Skarsgård, Anna Paquin, Carrie Preston, Chris Bauer, Deborah Ann Woll, Jim Parrack, Kristin Bauer, Nelsan Ellis, Rutina Wesley, Ryan Kwanten, Sam Trammell, Stephen Moyer, Todd Lowe, William Sanderson
Posted on May 5, 2013 |
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Lucky You (2007)
Drama | Romance | Sport
In Las Vegas, Huck Cheever is a poker player, brilliant but also prone to let emotion take over. It's the week of the poker world series, and Huck must come up with the $10,000 entry fee, which he wins, loses, borrows, and loses – and even steals part of from Billie Offer, an earnest young woman who's new in town and who catches Huck's eye. By the time the tournament starts, Huck owes everyone. Complicating things is the arrival of Huck's father, whom Huck detests for having left his mother, a champion player in town to win. Can Huck learn to play poker the way he lives and to live the way he plays poker? Or is his only flush the sound of his life going down the toilet?
Starring: Phyllis Somerville, Eric Bana, Drew Barrymore, Horatio Sanz, Joey Kern, Debra Messing, Delaine Yates, Mykel Shannon Jenkins, Robert Duvall, Charles Martin Smith, Robert Downey Jr.
Director: Curtis Hanson
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Tags: Charles Martin Smith, Curtis Hanson, Debra Messing, Delaine Yates, Drew Barrymore, Eric Bana, Horatio Sanz, Joey Kern, Mykel Shannon Jenkins, Phyllis Somerville, Robert Downey Jr., Robert Duvall
Posted on May 5, 2013 |
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Great Expectations (1998)
Drama | Romance
Modernization of Charles Dickens classic story finds the hapless Finn as a painter in New York pursuing his unrequited and haughty childhood love.
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hank Azaria, Chris Cooper, Anne Bancroft, Robert De Niro, Raquel Beaudene
Director: Alfonso Cuarón
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Posted on May 5, 2013 |
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The Next Karate Kid (1994)
Action | Drama | Family | Romance | Sport
Mr. Miyagi is back and he takes a new pupil under his wing, a troubled teenage girl.
Starring: Pat Morita, Hilary Swank, Michael Ironside, Constance Towers, Walton Goggins
Director: Christopher Cain
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Posted on May 5, 2013 |
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The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
Drama | Romance | War
A young Australian reporter tries to navigate the political turmoil of Indonesia during the rule of President Sukarno with the help of a diminutive photographer.
Starring: Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt, Michael Murphy, Bill Kerr
Director: Peter Weir
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Posted on May 3, 2013 |
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Running on Empty (1988)
Crime | Drama | Music | Romance
The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effort to hinder the government's Vietnam war campaign. Ever since then, the Popes have been on the run with the authorities never far behind. Today, their eldest son wants a life of his own although he is aware that would mean that his parents would either get caught or he will never see them again.
Starring: River Phoenix, Christine Lahti, Judd Hirsch, Martha Plimpton, Steven Hill
Director: Sidney Lumet
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Posted on May 2, 2013 |
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Crazy/Beautiful (2001)
Drama | Romance
At Pacific Palisades High, a poor Latino falls hard for a troubled girl from the affluent neighborhood.
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Jay Hernandez, Bruce Davison, Herman Osorio, Miguel Castro, Tommy De La Cruz, Rolando Molina
Director: John Stockwell
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Tags: Bruce Davison, Herman Osorio, Jay Hernandez, John Stockwell, Kirsten Dunst, Miguel Castro, Rolando Molina, Tommy De La Cruz
Posted on May 2, 2013 |
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Can't Buy Me Love (1987)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A nerdy outcast secretly pays the most popular girl in school one thousand dollars to be his girlfriend.
Starring: Patrick Dempsey, Ami Dolenz, Seth Green, Courtney Gains, Dennis Dugan, Sharon Farrell
Director: Steve Rash
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Posted on April 30, 2013 |
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Beautiful Creatures (2013)
Drama | Fantasy | Romance
A young man is drawn to a mysterious young girl who moves to his small town and stumbles on a crypt of her family secrets in this adapation of Kami Carcia and Margaret Stohl's series of novels.
Starring: Alden Ehrenreich, Alice Englert, Emmy Rossum, Jeremy Irons, Emma Thompson, Thomas Mann, Viola Davis, Kyle Gallner
Director: Richard LaGravenese
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Tags: Alden Ehrenreich, Alice Englert, Emma Thompson, Emmy Rossum, Jeremy Irons, Kyle Gallner, Richard LaGravenese, Thomas Mann, Viola Davis
Posted on April 29, 2013 |
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Wuthering Heights (1939)
Drama | Romance
The story of unfortunate lovers Heathcliff and Cathy who, despite a deep affection for one another, are forced by circumstance and prejudice to live their apart. Heathcliff and Cathy first meet as children when her father brings the abandoned boy to live with them. When the old man dies several years later Cathy's brother, now the master of the estate, turns Heathcliff out forcing him to live with the servants and working as a stable boy. The barrier of class comes between them and she eventually marries a rich neighbor, Mr. Edgar Linton, at which point Heathcliff disappears. He returns several years later, now a rich man but little can be done.
Starring: Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Flora Robson, Donald Crisp, Geraldine Fitzgerald
Director: William Wyler
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Posted on April 27, 2013 |
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Together / Soi Yat Hei / Zai Yi Qi (2013)
Drama | Romance
When one's memory is wiped out, where will love be stored? If your loved one forgets you, would you have the courage to face it? Traffic police Cool (Donnie Yen) suffers from a disease that prevents him from smiling. He meets the amnesiac Jojo (Michelle Chen), her shared experience of being sick leads her to build trust in Cool, while igniting his concealed yet delicate love. Cool's revelation angers his girlfriend (Chrissie Chau) which leads to their break-up. However, an amnesiac episode occurs when Jojo's fiance reappears, which completely wipes out Jojo's memory of Cool. Cool slowly understands loving someone is not to possess her, but to wish her happiness.
Starring: Zhendong Ke, Angelababy, Michelle Chen, Donnie Yen, Bosco Lam, Chrissie Chow, Cheung-Ching Mak
Director: Clarence Fok
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Posted on April 27, 2013 |
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Amphibian Man / Chelovek-Amfibiya (1962)
Romance | Sci-Fi
It is an almost fable-like story based upon the eponymous novel by Alexander Beliaev. It focuses on a boy named Ichtyandr who was surgically altered to survive under the sea. The story is set in a seaside port, largely among a community of pearl fishers. The protagonist is the son of a doctor/scientist who was sometime in the past forced to save his son's life by implanting him with gills. Thus he is able to live under water, but must keep his secret from the world. The conflict arises from his falling in love with a pearl-fisher's beautiful daughter. His secret is discovered and the girl's stern father attempts to exploit Ichtyandr for his ability.
Starring: Vladimir Korenev, Anastasiya Vertinskaya, Mikhail Kozakov, Anatoliy Smiranin, Nikolai Simonov, Vladlen Davydov
Director: Vladimir Chebotaryov, Gennadi Kazansky
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Tags: Anastasiya Vertinskaya, Anatoliy Smiranin, Gennadi Kazansky, Mikhail Kozakov, Nikolai Simonov, Vladimir Chebotaryov, Vladimir Korenev, Vladlen Davydov
Posted on April 27, 2013 |
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Lovestruck: The Musical (2013)
Comedy | Fantasy | Musical | Romance
A choreographer (Jane Seymour) tries to stop her daughter's (Sara Paxton) wedding after an elixir magically turns her into a young woman (Chelsea Kane).
Starring: Chelsea Kane, Drew Seeley, Sara Paxton, Adrienne Bailon, Jane Seymour, Tom Wopat
Director: Sanaa Hamri
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Posted on April 27, 2013 |
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Fools Rush In (1997)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
After a one night stand with Isabel, Alex realizes that she is pregnant and they decide to get married. However, along with the marriage comes compromise of one's own cultural traditions.
Starring: Matthew Perry, Salma Hayek
Director: Andy Tennant
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Posted on April 26, 2013 |
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See Girl Run (2012)
Romance
A young adult woman decides to revisit her past relationships in order to find some guidance in her current life.
Starring: Robin Tunney, Adam Scott, Jeremy Strong, William Sadler, Josh Hamilton, Marylouise Burke, Aubrey Dollar, Larry Pine
Director: Nate Meyer
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Tags: Adam Scott, Aubrey Dollar, Jeremy Strong, Josh Hamilton, Larry Pine, Marylouise Burke, Nate Meyer, Robin Tunney, William Sadler
Posted on April 26, 2013 |
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Stomp the Yard: Homecoming / Stomp the Yard 2 (2010)
Drama | Music | Romance | Teen
In the countdown to a national step-off, rivalries at Truth University run red hot. The Theta Nus are counting on new pledge Chance Harris to lead the team to victory. But he's too caught up in his own problems to focus. At odds with his father, caught up in romantic problems and targeted by a street gang for an unpaid debt, Chance tries to solve all his problems on his own.
Starring: Collins Pennie, Pooch Hall, Jasmine Guy, Keith David, David Banner, Columbus Short
Director: Rob Hardy
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Posted on April 26, 2013 |
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Stomp the Yard (2007)
Drama | Music | Romance | Teen
When DJ (Columbus Short), a troubled youth from Los Angeles, moves to Atlanta to attend Truth University, he discovers "stepping," the age-old style of dance traditionally done in African-American Fraternities, where teams demonstrate complex moves and create rhythmic sounds by using their bodies. DJ's raw talent and hip-hop inspired moves quickly place him at the center of a fierce rivalry between two fraternities, the winner of which will be determined in front of a sold-out arena at the annual stepping championships. But before he can help his teammates, he must battle his own demons and learn the true meaning of brotherhood.
Starring: Columbus Short, Meagan Good, Ne-Yo, Darrin Henson, Brian White
Director: Sylvain White
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Posted on April 26, 2013 |
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Love In Time / Da Ai Zhi Da Ren / Deng Wo Ai Ni (2013)
Comedy | Romance
Cho is a slacker who spends his day selling ice cream with his best friend/roommate Beer. Even though his ice cream truck business is failing, he still has a roof over his head because his apartment belongs to his uncle. When his cousin Tina decides to return to Hong Kong, Cho and Beer are forced to share their home with her, creating an antagonistic relationship between the three. However, Cho and Tina begin to bond over time, though they won't admit to having feelings for each other. When Tina's charismatic boss Machi enters the picture, Cho realizes that he may already be too late.
Starring: Bosco Wong, Stephy Tang, Sammy Leung, Sita Chan
Director: Ka Wing Lee
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Tags: Bosco Wong, Ka Wing Lee, Sammy Leung, Sita Chan, Stephy Tang