The Gold Rush (1925)
Adventure | Comedy | Family | Romance | Western
The Tramp goes the Klondike in search of gold and finds it and more.
Starring: Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, Tom Murray
Director: Charles Chaplin
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
Drama | Romance
Tomas is a doctor and a lady-killer in 1960s Czechoslovakia, an apolitical man who is struck with love for the bookish country girl Tereza; his more sophisticated sometime lover Sabina eventually accepts their relationship and the two women form an electric friendship. The three are caught up in the events of the Prague Spring (1968), until the Soviet tanks crush the non-violent rebels; their illusions are shattered and their lives change forever.
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin
Director: Philip Kaufman
Warm Bodies (2013)
Comedy | Horror | Romance
A funny new twist on a classic love story, WARM BODIES is a poignant tale about the power of human connection. After a zombie epidemic, R (a highly unusual zombie) encounters Julie (a human survivor), and rescues her from a zombie attack. Julie sees that R is different from the other zombies, and as the two form a special relationship in their struggle for survival, R becomes increasingly more human – setting off an exciting, romantic, and often comical chain of events that begins to transform the other zombies and maybe even the whole lifeless world.
Starring: Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, John Malkovich, Dave Franco, Analeigh Tipton, Rob Corddry
Director: Jonathan Levine
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Love's Kitchen (2011)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Rob Haley (Dougray Scott), an up-and-coming chef and restaurateur in London, is grief-stricken when he loses his wife. With encouragement from his infamous friend and real life TV Chef Gordon Ramsay, Rob decides to spice up his life by turning a run-down country pub into a gourmet restaurant. His food catches the eye – and taste buds – of beautiful American food critic Kate Templeton (Claire Forlani) and they soon both write a recipe for love that leaves both their hearts – and their stomachs – in full.
Starring: Dougray Scott, Sarah Sharman, Katrine De Candole, Lee Boardman, Michelle Ryan, Gordon Ramsay, Claire Forlani
Director: James Hacking
Claire's Knee / Le genou de Claire (1970)
Drama | Romance
Cultural attache Jerome spends his last holidays as a bachelor at Lake Annecy where he meets Aurora, an Italian writer and old friend. She talks him into a flirt with his landlady's teenage daughter, Laura, but he falls for Laura's half-sister Claire and develops a desire to caress her knee.
Starring: Jean-Claude Brialy, Aurora Cornu, Béatrice Romand, Laurence de Monaghan, Michèle Montel, Gérard Falconetti, Fabrice Luchini
Director: Eric Rohmer
Amélie / Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001)
Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Bursting with imagination and having seen her share of tragedy and fantasy, Amélie is not like the other girls. When she grows up she becomes a waitress in a Montmartre bar run by a former dancer. Amelie enjoys simple pleasures until she discovers that her goal in life is to help others. To that end, she invents all sorts of tricks that allow her to intervene incognito into other people's lives, including an imbibing concierge and her hypochondriac neighbor. But Amélie's most difficult case turns out to be Nino Quicampoix, a lonely sex shop employee who collects photos abandoned at coin-operated photobooths.
Starring: Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus, Yolande Moreau, Artus de Penguern, Urbain Cancelier
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Before the Rains (2007)
Drama | Romance | Thriller
Malayalam-speaking T.K. Neelan, Rajat, Manas and his sister, Sajani, live in Kalpetta Township in Kerala, India, during the British Raj. As children they used to play in the woods where Manas and T.K. used to play Bhagwan Shri Ram and Shri Lakshman respectively, and rescue Sita (Sajani) from Lord Ravan's (Rajat) clutches. Now the year is 1937, all are grown up, while Manas is a laborer, Sajani is married to Rajat, and T.K. works for his British employer, Henry Moore, who lives there with his wife, Laura, and their son, Peter. Sajani is also employed as a maidservant in the Moore household. T.K.'s headmaster asks him to join the freedom movement and ask the British to quit India, but T.K. feels that India has made a lot of progress under the British rule and they should continue with this partnership. His headmaster cautions him that partnership is only between equals, but T.K. disregards this, and it is this attitude that will compel him to re-examine his way of thinking when he finds out that Henry is having a steamy affair with Sajani.
Starring: Linus Roache, Rahul Bose, Nandita Das, Jennifer Ehle, Leopold Benedict
Director: Santosh Sivan
Divorce Invitation (2012)
Comedy | Romance
'Divorce Invitation' centers on Mike Christian, a happily married man who runs into his high school sweetheart Alex, and after all these years, sparks still fly. When Mike is determined Alex is his true soul mate, he realizes he has a huge problem-he signed an iron-clad pre-nuptial agreement and his wife will not let him out of the marriage.
Starring: Jonathan Bennett, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Elliott Gould, Lainie Kazan, Nadia Bjorlin, Andrea Bowen, Keith Robinson, Ian Alda, Paul Sorvino, Richard Kind
Director: S.V. Krishna Reddy
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Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons / Xi you: Xiang mo pian (2013)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Romance
Tang Sanzang, an aspiring Buddhist hero tries to protect a village from three demons. He develops complex feelings for Miss Duan, the demon hunter who repeatedly helps him, and finally quests to meet the legendary Monkey King.
Starring: Qi Shu, Zhang Wen, Bo Huang, Show Luo, Shing-Cheung Lee, Bingqiang Chen
Director: Stephen Chow, Chi-kin Kwok
Latter Days (2003)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Aaron Davis and Christian Markelli are the two most opposite people in the world. Aaron is a young Elder (or a Mormon missionary) who wants to do his family proud and is quite passionate about his religion and film. Christian is a shallow WeHo waiter/party boy who only looks forward to bedding a new guy every night. After Aaron and three other missionaries move into the apartment across from Christian, his friends bet him $50 that he can't get one of them to jump into the sack, so he instantly latches onto Aaron. There are two problems, though – Christian is falling in love with Aaron and the Mormons are not the biggest fans of the homosexual community.
Starring: Steve Sandvoss, Wes Ramsey, Mary Kay Place, Jacqueline Bisset, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rebekah Johnson
Director: C. Jay Cox
Missed Connections (2012)
Comedy | Romance
Love is not luck…it’s strategy. In a city of 19 million people, love at first sight happens every second, doesn’t it? When IT guy Josh finds out that his secret office crush has posted a “missed connections” ad to find the ideal man she bumped into for a minute, he decides to post his own ad to woo her. When that idea goes all wrong, Josh’s mistake unexpectedly brings him closer to his beloved than he ever dreamed. Jon Abrahams (Hitchcock), Mickey Sumner (Frances Ha, CBGB), and Julia Jones (The Twilight Saga: Eclipse) star in this vibrant romantic comedy about the lengths New Yorkers go to find love. The film also stars Malcolm Barrett and Waris Aluwahlia. A FilmBuff Presentation.
Starring: Jon Abrahams, Mickey Sumner, Malcolm Barrett, Waris Ahluwalia, Julia Jones, Jamie Belman, Anastasia Ganias
Director: Martin Snyder
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The Devil and Miss Jones (1941)
Comedy | Romance
Department store owner J.P. Merrick finds that several of his employees are unionizing to get more money and better working conditions. In order to find out who the organizers are, he gets a job at the store as a shoe salesman. Not realizing his true identity, he's befriended by Mary Jones and Joe O'Brien, the two ringleaders, and Elizabeth Ellis, a charming older woman with whom he develops a romance.
Starring: Jean Arthur, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn, Edmund Gwenn, Spring Byington, S.Z. Sakall
Director: Sam Wood
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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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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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
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
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
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
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
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
