Ridicule (1996)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
In the periwigged and opulent France of Louis XVI, an unwitting nobleman soon discovers that survival at court demands both a razor wit and an acid tongue.
Starring: Charles Berling, Jean Rochefort, Fanny Ardant, Judith Godrèche, Bernard Giraudeau
Director: Patrice Leconte
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Gattaca (1997)
Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi | Thriller
In the 21st century, genetic engineering makes possible the creation of biologically superior human specimens ("valids"), who then grow to positions of power and prestige. Would-be astronaut Vincent born the old-fashioned way, can only hope for a janitorial position at the elite Gattaca Corporation – until he buys the blood, urine, and identity of a perfect but paralyzed athlete. But a murder in the company's ranks attracts the attention of a detective who threatens to sniff Vincent out.
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law, Gore Vidal, Alan Arkin
Director: Andrew Niccol
High Fidelity (2000)
Comedy | Drama | Music | Romance
Rob Gordon is the owner of a semi-failing record store in Chicago where he sells music the old fashioned way- on vinyl. He's a self-professed music junkie who spends his days at Championship Vinyl with his two employees Dick and Barry. Although they have an encyclopedic knowledge of pop music and are consumed with the music scene and creating their all-time favorite top-five lists of subject specific songs, it's of no help to Rob whose needle skips the love groove when his long-time girlfriend Laura walks out on him. As Rob examines his failed attempts at romance and happiness the process finds him being dragged kicking and screaming into adulthood.
Starring: John Cusack, Iben Hjejle, Todd Louiso, Jack Black, Lisa Bonet, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Tim Robbins
Director: Stephen Frears
April Snow / Oechul (2005)
Drama | Romance
A man and a woman meet in the hospital after their respective partners are involved in a car accident. After learning that their spouses have been having an affair, the two begin one of their own.
Starring: Yong-jun Bae, Ye-jin Son
Director: Jin-ho Hur
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Street Dance 2 / StreetDance 2 (2012)
Drama | Music | Romance
After suffering humiliation by the crew Invincible, street dancer Ash looks to gather the best dancers from around the world for a rematch.
Starring: Falk Hentschel, Sofia Boutella, George Sampson, Tom Conti, Ella Wragg, Joanna Jeffrees
Director: Max Giwa, Dania Pasquini
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Rio Grande (1950)
Romance | Western
A Calvary unit on the Mexican border in the 1880s conducts a vain campaign against marauding Indians.
Starring: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Ben Johnson, Claude Jarman Jr., Harry Carey Jr.
Director: John Ford
Fire with Fire (1986)
Drama | Romance
A young woman from a Catholic school and a young man from a nearby prison camp fall in love and must run away together to escape the law, the church and their parents.
Starring: Virginia Madsen, Craig Sheffer, Jon Polito, J.J. Cohen, Kate Reid, Jean Smart
Director: Duncan Gibbins
Knocked Up (2007)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Allison Scott (Katherine Heigl) is an up-and-coming entertainment journalist whose 24-year-old life is on the fast track. But it gets seriously derailed when a drunken one-nighter with slacker Ben Stone (Seth Rogen) results in an unwanted pregnancy. Faced with the prospect of going it alone or getting to know the baby's father, Allison decides to give the lovable doof a chance. An overgrown kid who has no desire to settle down, Ben learns that he has a big decision to make with his kid's mom-to-be: will he hit the road or stay in the picture? Courting a woman you've just Knocked Up, however, proves to be a little difficult when the two try their hands at dating. As they discover more about one another, it becomes painfully obvious that they're not the soul mates they'd hoped they might be. With Allison's harried sister Debbie (Leslie Mann) and hen-pecked brother-in-law Pete (Paul Rudd) the only parenting role models the young lovers have, things get even more confusing. Should they raise the baby together? What makes a happy lifetime partnership after all? A couple of drinks and one wild night later, they've got nine confusing months to figure it out…
Starring: Seth Rogen, Katherine Heigl, Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann, Jay Baruchel
Director: Judd Apatow
The Mask (1994)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Fantasy | Romance
Jim Carrey stars as mild mannered bank clerk Stanely Ipkiss, who discovers a mysterious ancient mask which brings his inner most desires screaming to life! Now together with his sidekick dog, Milo, this wise cracking, love-crazy, crime-fighting green tornado is taking Edge City by storm, in an unstoppable action comedy that will leave you smokin'!
Starring: Jim Carrey, Cameron Diaz, Peter Riegert, Peter Greene, Amy Yasbeck
Director: Chuck Russell
Joyful Reunion / Yin shi nan nü – Hao yuan you hao jin (2012)
Comedy | Romance
Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, the present day. Master chef Tang Shizhe (Kenneth Tsang) tells his two daughters, the careerist Wa'er (Huo Siyan) and teenage Xiaolan (Jiang Mengjie), that he has decided to sell his upscale vegetarian restaurant, the centre of his life for 30 years. Wa'er manages a luxury health resort and is dating Chang Chuan (Blue Lan), a computer-games designer from Taiwan. Chang Chuan goes to Taipei to visit his aunt, Pai Ping (Rose Kuei), who effectively raised him, and she ends up accompanying him back to Hangzhou, where she originally grew up but hasn't re-visited since leaving for Taiwan in her teens. Pai Ping meets Wa'er but her forthrightness often proves embarrassing in the sophisticated circles Wa'er moves in. Pai Ping notices, however, that Bei Ming (Chang Hsiao-chuan), general manager of the luxury health-resort group, is also romancing Wa'er, who feels neglected by Chang Chuan in favour of his work. One day Pai Ping tells Wa'er her story – how she was born in Hunan province, moved when young to Hangzhou where she worked in the restaurant business, and finally moved to Taiwan – and the two women bond. When Shizhe reveals the real reason for selling his restaurant, Wa'er resigns from her job to help him out and be with him. Meanwhile, Shizhe, who has not yet met Pai Ping, decides to cook a special meal to welcome her.
Starring: Hsiao-chuan Chang, Siyan Huo, Ya-lei Kuei, Cheng-Lung Lan, Kenneth Tsang
Director: Jui-Yuan Tsao
All Good Things (2010)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
A love story and murder mystery set against the backdrop of a New York real estate dynasty in the 1980s, inspired by the most notorious missing person's case in New York history. Robert Durst, scion of the wealthy Durst family, was suspected but never tried for killing his wife Kathie who disappeared in 1982 and was never found.
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst, Frank Langella, Lily Rabe, Philip Baker Hall
Director: Andrew Jarecki
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The Soul of Bread / Ai De Mian Bao Hun (2012)
Comedy | Romance
A love triangle between a handsome young baker and a local bread maker.
Starring: Han Dian Chen, Michelle Chen, Anthony Neely
Director: Pin-Chuan Kao
Love Exposure / Ai no mukidashi (2008)
Action | Comedy | Drama | Romance
Three emotionally abused individuals from the fringes of society get locked in a convoluted love triangle. Yuu, a Catholic boy searching for true love ends up taking "panty shot" photos of women in public until he discovers Yoko, whom he sees as his Virgin Mary. Yoko, an anti-family, misandrist girl finds that her foster mother will be marrying Yuu's father. Koike, an "original sinner" and the regional leader of a brainwashing cult, co-ordinates a plan to convert Yuu's family to her cult. Under her careful direction, their lives come crashing together in one fateful street fight.
Starring: Takahiro Nishijima, Hikari Mitsushima, Sakura Andô, Yutaka Shimizu, Hiroyuki Onoue, Tasuku Nagaoka, Sô Hirosawa
Director: Shion Sono
Ishaqzaade (2012)
Action | Drama | Romance
Rising from the ashes of hooliganism and small town wars, comes a passionate love story ignited by hatred. A story of two people who were born to hate but destined to love. One kingdom. One throne. Two wild animals. One totally unpredictable and the other… ferocious! A battle… deafened by the sounds of hate, revenge, bullets and deceit. A story about two fiery bloods played by Arjun Kapoor and Parineeti Chopra, and their fight for power and supremacy. A love story brewing in a small town… burning with hatred.
Starring: Meeta Bandhu, Akash Bathija, Pravin Chandra, Parineeti Chopra, Aradhana Dhawan
Director: Habib Faisal
Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Romance | Thriller
Martin Blank is a freelance hitman who starts to develop a conscience, which causes him to muff a couple of routine assignments. On the advice of his secretary and his psychiatrist, he attends his 10th year High School reunion in Grosse Pointe, Michigan (a Detroit suburb where he's also contracted to kill someone). Hot on his tail are a couple of over-enthusiastic federal agents, another assassin who wants to kill him, and Grocer, an assassin who wants him to join an "Assassin's Union."
Starring: John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Dan Aykroyd, Alan Arkin, Joan Cusack, Hank Azaria
Director: George Armitage
Memoria de mis putas tristes (2011)
Romance
Chronicles the romantic enchantment of a 90 year old reporter with a girl 70 years younger than himself.
Starring: Geraldine Chaplin, Ángela Molina, Dominika Paleta, Alejandra Barros
Director: Henning Carlsen
Downton Abbey (TV Series 2010-2015)
Drama | Romance
The Crawleys have been the Earls of Grantham since 1772. In the drawing rooms and library and beautiful bedrooms, with their tall windows looking across the park, lives the family, but below stairs are other residents, the servants, as fiercely possessive of their ranks as anyone above. Some of them are loyal to the family and are committed to Downton as a way of life, others are moving through, on the look out for new opportunities or love or just adventure. The difference being that they know so many of the secrets of the family, while the family knows so few of theirs…
Starring: Hugh Bonneville, Laura Carmichael, Jim Carter, Brendan Coyle, Michelle Dockery, Joanne Froggatt, Phyllis Logan, Elizabeth McGovern, Sophie McShera, Lesley Nicol, Maggie Smith, Penelope Wilton, Rob James-Collier, Kevin Doyle, Allen Leech, David Robb
Creator: Julian Fellowes
Downton Abbey (TV Series 2010-2015)
Drama | Romance
The Crawleys have been the Earls of Grantham since 1772. In the drawing rooms and library and beautiful bedrooms, with their tall windows looking across the park, lives the family, but below stairs are other residents, the servants, as fiercely possessive of their ranks as anyone above. Some of them are loyal to the family and are committed to Downton as a way of life, others are moving through, on the look out for new opportunities or love or just adventure. The difference being that they know so many of the secrets of the family, while the family knows so few of theirs…
Starring: Hugh Bonneville, Laura Carmichael, Jim Carter, Brendan Coyle, Michelle Dockery, Joanne Froggatt, Phyllis Logan, Elizabeth McGovern, Sophie McShera, Lesley Nicol, Maggie Smith, Penelope Wilton, Rob James-Collier, Kevin Doyle, Allen Leech, David Robb
Creator: Julian Fellowes
Clash of the Families / Wi-heom-han Sang-gyeon-rye (2011)
Comedy | Romance
When cartoonist Hyun-joon (Song, Sae-Byeok) falls in love with Da-hong (Lee, Si-young), one of his fans, it sets up the archetypal battle between their two families, who are from rival regions. Hyun-joon comes from the politically liberal Honam region (North and South Jeolla) while Da-hong comes from the conservative Yeongnam region (North and South Gyeongsang). When the two declare their intention to marry, they are confronted with a seemingly endless number of barriers that threaten their happiness.
Starring: Sae-Byeok Song, Si-young Lee, Yun-shik Baek, Su-mi Kim, Eung-soo Kim
Director: Jin-yeong Kim
Adventures in Babysitting (1987)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Family | Romance | Thriller
Chris Parker agrees to babysit after her "dread" date stands her up. Expecting a dull evening, Chris settles down with three kids for a night of TV…and boredom. But when her frantic friend Brenda calls and pleads to be rescued from the bus station in downtown Chicago, the evening soon explodes into an endless whirl of hair-raising adventures.
Starring: Elisabeth Shue, Maia Brewton, Keith Coogan, Anthony Rapp, Calvin Levels, Penelope Ann Miller
Director: Chris Columbus
