Date Movie (2006)
Comedy | Romance
Two of the six writers of Scary Movie return to parody romantic comedies (Meet the Parents, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Napoleon Dynamite) mixed with pop culture references.
Starring: Alyson Hannigan, Adam Campbell, Sophie Monk, Fred Willard, Eddie Griffin, Meera Simhan
Director: Aaron Seltzer, Jason Friedberg
In the Realm of the Senses / Ai no korîda (1976)
Crime | Drama | History | Romance
A graphic portrayal of insatiable sexual desire, this film, set in 1936 and based on a true incident, depicts a man and a woman consumed by a transcendent, destructive love while living in an era of ever escalating imperialism and governmental control. Less a work of pornography than of politics, In the Realm of the Senses is a brave, taboo-breaking milestone.
Starring: Tatsuya Fuji, Eiko Matsuda, Aoi Nakajima, Yasuko Matsui, Meika Seri, Taiji Tonoyama
Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Robots (2005)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Romance | Sci-Fi
In a wondrously clanky universe populated solely by mechanical beings live memorable robots Rodney Copperbottom, a young genius inventor who dreams of helping robots everywhere; Cappy, a beautiful, dynamic and savvy bot with whom Rodney is instantly smitten; the nefarious corporate tyrant Ratchet who locks horns with Rodney; Bigweld, a master inventor who has lost his way; and a group of misfit a-bots known as the Rusties, led by Fender and Piper Pinwheeler. Fenderas head, arms, and legs routinely fall off at the most inopportune moments. As Rodney fulfills Fenderas ongoing need for repairs, the two become fast friends. Piper is Fenderas tomboy kid sister, who surprises everyone with her determination and strength.
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Halle Berry, Robin Williams, Greg Kinnear, Mel Brooks, Drew Carey
Director: Chris Wedge
The Art of Getting By (2011)
Drama | Romance
George, a lonely and fatalistic teen who's made it all the way to his senior year without ever having done a real day of work, is befriended by Sally, a beautiful and complicated girl who recognizes in him a kindred spirit.
Starring: Freddie Highmore, Emma Roberts, Michael Angarano
Director: Gavin Wiesen
Love and Other Drugs (2010)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Maggie is an alluring free spirit who won't let anyone – or anything – tie her down. But she meets her match in Jamie, whose relentless and nearly infallible charm serve him well with the ladies and in the cutthroat world of pharmaceutical sales. Maggie and Jamie's evolving relationship takes them both by surprise, as they find themselves under the influence of the ultimate drug: love.
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, Judy Greer, Hank Azaria, Oliver Platt
Director: Edward Zwick
Crossing Hennessy / Yut mun Hinneisi (2010)
Comedy | Romance
Two shopkeepers are set up on a blind date by well-meaning relatives, despite the fact that they both have somebody else on their minds.
Starring: Jacky Cheung, Wei Tang, Ekin Cheng, Maggie Cheung, Wai Lam, Danny Lee, Lowell Lo, Andy On, Hee Ching Paw
Director: Ivy Ho
One Day (2011)
Drama | Romance
After one day together — July 15th, 1988, their college graduation — Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew begin a friendship that will last a lifetime. She is a working-class girl of principle and ambition who dreams of making the world a better place. He is a wealthy charmer who dreams that the world will be his playground. For the next two decades, key moments of their relationship are experienced over several July 15ths in their lives. Together and apart, we see Dex and Em through their friendship and fights, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears.
Starring: Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess, Patricia Clarkson
Director: Lone Scherfig
Love Actually (2003)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Everywhere you look, love is causing chaos. From the bachelor Prime Minister of the United Kingdom who, on his first day at 10 Downing Street, falls in love with the girl who brings him his tea, to a hopeless sandwich delivery guy who doesn't think he has a chance with the girls in the U.K., so he heads for Wisconsin. From aging rock stars, to a stony headmistress, to a monolingual Portuguese housemaid–love arrives in many forms, shapes and sizes. Here, ten separate–but intertwining–stories of love all lead up to a big climax on Christmas Eve, proving that love is the driving force in all of these people's lives.
Starring: Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Colin Firth, Laura Linney, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Keira Knightley, Rowan Atkinson
Director: Richard Curtis
Howl's Moving Castle / Hauru no ugoku shiro (2004)
Action | Adventure | Animation | Fantasy | Romance
Sophie, a diligent teenage girl working in her family's hat shop, finds her life thrown into turmoil when she is literally swept off her feet by a handsome-but-mysterious wizard named Howl. This innocent encounter engages the vain and conniving Witch of the Waste, who transforms into a 90-year-old woman. Sophie's efforts to break the curse bring her to Howl's magical moving castle, where she befriends Markl, Howl's apprentice, and the hot-headed fire demon Calcifer. Her love and support have a major impact on Howl, who can be maddeningly self-indulgent and singularly noble: He defies royal orders to participate in a meaningless war and risks his life to bring peace to the kingdom.
Starring: Chieko Baishô, Takuya Kimura, Tatsuya Gashûin, Akihiro Miwa, Ryûnosuke Kamiki
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Friends with Benefits (2011)
Comedy | Romance
The relationship between two friends gets complicated when they decide to get romantic.
Starring: Justin Timberlake, Mila Kunis, Patricia Clarkson
Director: Will Gluck
Cilada.com / Trap.com (2011)
Comedy | Romance
Exposed by his girlfriend through a video on the Internet, Bruno tries to revive his reputation, but all he can do is get into a series of traps (Cilada, in Portuguese). Cilada.com is a comedy about love and betrayal that shows the power of the Internet to transform small intimacies and slips in fame and constraints globalized.
Starring: Bruno Mazzeo, Fernanda Paes Leme, Augusto Madeira, Carol Castro, Fabiula Nascimento, Fúlvio Stefanini, Sérgio Loroza, Thelmo Fernandes
Director: José Alvarenga Jr.
The Quiet American (2002)
Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller | War
Saigon, 1952, a beautiful, exotic, and mysterious city caught in the grips of the Vietnamese war of liberation from the French colonial powers. New arrival Alden Pyle, an idealistic aid worker from the US, befriends London Times correspondent Thomas Fowler. When Fowler introduces Pyle to his beautiful young Vietnamese mistress Phuong the three become swept up in a tempestuous love triangle that leads to a series of startling revelations and finally – murder. Nothing, and no one, is as it seems, in this adaptation of Graham Greene's classic and prophetic story of love, betrayal, murder and the origin of the US war in Vietnam.
Starring: Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Do Thi Hai Yen, Rade Serbedzija, Tzi Mam, Robert Stanton, Holmes Osborne
Director: Phillip Noyce
Beyond Borders (2003)
Adventure | Drama | Romance
Beyond Borders is an epic tale of the turbulent romance between two star-crossed lovers set against the backdrop of the world's most dangerous hot spots. Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie stars as Sarah Jordan, an American living in London in 1984. She is married to Henry Bauford son of a wealthy British industrialist, when she encounters Nick Callahan a renegade doctor, whose impassioned plea for help to support his relief efforts in war-torn Africa moves her deeply. As a result, Sarah embarks upon a journey of discovery that leads to danger, heartbreak and romance in the far corners of the world.
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Clive Owen, Teri Polo, Linus Roache, Noah Emmerich, Yorick van Wageningen
Director: Martin Campbell
Shortbus (2006)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Numerous New York City-dwellers come to the exclusive club Shortbus to work out problems in their sexual relationships. Rob and Sophia are a happily married couple, except for the fact that she has never experienced sexual climax. This irony follows her to work, because she is a couples counselor who frequently has to deal with the sexual issues other couples have. Two of her patients are Jamie and James, a gay couple who have been monogamous for five years and counting. James wants to bring other men in to the relationship, and his own history with depression may hint at an ulterior motive. Ceth (Pronounced like Seth) may be the perfect addition to their family, but Caleb, a voyeur from across the street, may have his own ideas about that. Sophia visits Severin, a dominatrix with secrets of her own to reveal.
Starring: Sook-Yin Lee, Peter Stickles, PJ DeBoy, Paul Dawson, Lindsay Beamish, Raphael Barker
Director: John Cameron Mitchell
An Invisible Sign (2010)
Comedy | Drama | Family | Romance
Mona Gray is a 20-year-old loner who, as a child, turned to math for salvation after her father became ill. As an adult, Mona now teaches the subject and must help her students through their own crises.
Starring: Jessica Alba, Bailee Madison, J.K. Simmons, Chris Messina, Sonia Braga, Blythe Auffarth
Director: Marilyn Agrelo
Atonement (2007)
Drama | Mystery | Romance | War
In 1935, 13-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan) and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. On the warmest day of the year, the country estate takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, stoking Briony's vivid imagination. Robbie Turner (James McAvoy), the educated son of the family's housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony's headstrong older sister Cecilia (Kiera Knightley). Cecilia, he hopes, has comparable feelings; all it will take is one spark for this relationship to combust. When it does, Briony – who has a crush on Robbie – is compelled to interfere, going so far as accusing Robbie of a crime he did not commit. Cecilia and Robbie declare their love for each other, but he is arrested – and with Briony bearing false witness, the course of three lives is changed forever. Briony continues to seek forgiveness for her childhood misdeed. Through a terrible and courageous act of imagination, she finds the path to her uncertain atonement, and to an understanding of the power of enduring love.
Starring: James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, Saoirse Ronan, Vanessa Redgrave
Director: Joe Wright
Subway (1985)
Comedy | Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Paris Metro where he finds an entire community of outlandish punks living underground. He then becomes involved with the bored housewife of the businessman he ripped off, leading a double life while staying one step ahead of the police.
Starring: Christopher Lambert, Isabelle Adjani, Richard Bohringer, Michel Galabru
Director: Luc Besson
How To Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)
Comedy | Romance
A British writer struggles to fit in at a high-profile magazine in New York. Based on Toby Young's memoir "How to Lose Friends & Alienate People".
Starring: Simon Pegg, Megan Fox, Gillian Anderson, Jeff Bridges, Kirsten Dunst
Director: Robert B. Weide
Black Butterflies (2011)
Drama | Romance
She searched for a home, she searched for love. Confronted by Apartheid and a father who was Minister of censorship. With men like Jack Cope and Andre Brink she found much love, but no home. In his first speech to the South African Parliament Nelson Mandela read her poem "The Dead Child of Nyanga" and addresses her as one of the finest poets of South Africa.
Starring: Rutger Hauer, Carice van Houten, Liam Cunningham, Grant Swanby, Graham Clarke
Director: Paula van der Oest
Gigi (1958)
Comedy | Musical | Romance
Set in Paris at the turn of the century, this delightful Lerner and Loewe musical, based on a story by Collette, follows a precocious French girl as she is groomed into a would-be courtesan, blossoming into a stunning woman. The story provides plenty of opportunity for Minnelli and MGM to pull out all the stops in its first musical production shot on location.
Starring: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold, Eva Gabor
Director: Vincente Minnelli
