The Tempest (2010)
Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
The sorceress Prospera spirals through vengeance to forgiveness as she reigns over a magical island, cares for her young daughter, Miranda, and unleashes her powers against shipwrecked enemies.
Starring: Helen Mirren, Felicity Jones, Djimon Hounsou, Jude Akuwudike, Reeve Carney, David Strathairn
Director: Julie Taymor
Water for Elephants (2011)
Drama | Romance
A veterinary student abandons his studies after his parents are killed and joins a traveling circus as their vet.
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Reese Witherspoon, Christoph Waltz, Paul Schneider, Jim Norton
Director: Francis Lawrence
Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
Drama | Romance
An avowed alcoholic, Ben drank away his family, friends and, finally, his job. With deliberate resolve, he burns the remnants of his life and heads for Las Vegas to end it all in one final binge. On the strip, Ben picks up a street-smart hooker named Sera in what might have been another excess in his self-destructive jag. Instead their chance meeting becomes a respite on the road to oblivion as something connects between these two disenfranchised souls.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands, Richard Lewis, Valeria Golino
Director: Mike Figgis
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)
Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Celebrity photographer Connor Mead loves freedom, fun and women… in that order. A committed bachelor who thinks nothing of breaking up with multiple women on a conference call, Connor's mockery of romance proves a real buzz-kill for his kid brother, Paul, and a houseful of well wishers on the eve of Paul's wedding. Just when it looks like Connor may single-handedly ruin the wedding, he is visited by the ghosts of his former jilted girlfriends, who take him on a revealing and hilarious odyssey through his failed relationships– past, present and future. Together they attempt to find out what turned Connor into such an insensitive jerk and whether there is still hope for him to find true love…or if he really is the lost cause everyone thinks he is.
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Michael Douglas, Lacey Chabert, Emma Stone
Director: Mark Waters
The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)
Comedy | Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Thomas Crown (Pierce Bronson) is a self-made billionaire who can buy anything he wants and is irresistible to women. But there are some things that money can't buy. Thomas Crown has run out of challenges. When an alarm sounds at a a world class museum and someone walks out with a priceless Monet, Crown is the last person the New York police suspect. Who would steal something he could easily afford to buy and why would he? But one person suspects him: Catherine Banning (Renne Ruso), the brilliant female investigator hired to retrieve the painting no matter what it takes. Catherine loves the chase as much as he does and she's on to his game. Crown has found his challenge. The Thomas Crown Affair is based on the 1968 movie with the same title starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunnaway.
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Rene Russo, Denis Leary, Ben Gazzara, Frankie R. Faison
Director: John McTiernan
Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009)
Comedy | Romance
Rebecca Bloomwood is a sweet and charming New York City girl who has a tiny, little problem that is rapidly turning into a big problem: she's hopelessly addicted to shopping and drowning in a sea of debt. While Rebecca has dreams of working for a top fashion magazine, she can't quite get her foot in the door — that is, until she snags a job as an advice columnist for a new financial magazine published by the same company. Overnight, her column becomes hugely popular, turning her into an overnight celebrity, but when her compulsive shopping and growing debt issues threaten to destroy her love life and derail her career, she struggles to keep it all from spiraling out of control–and is ultimately forced to reevaluate what's really important in life.
Starring: Isla Fisher, Hugh Dancy, Krysten Ritter, John Goodman, Joan Cusack, John Lithgow
Director: P.J. Hogan
Blindness (2008)
Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine
Starring: Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Gael García Bernal, Yoshino Kimura, Yûsuke Iseya
Director: Fernando Meirelles
Missing / Sam hoi tsam yan (2008)
Drama | Fantasy | Romance | Thriller
A man who plans ask his girlfriend to marry him hides an engagement ring in Japan's ancient undersea ruins off Yonaguni Island.
Starring: Angelica Lee, Isabella Leong, Chen Chang, Isabella Leong, Alice Lee, Xiaodong Guo, Tony Leung, Chen-Yue Chang
Director: Hark Tsui
Rachel Getting Married (2008)
Drama | Romance
When Kym returns to the Buchman family home for the wedding of her sister Rachel, she brings a long history of personal crisis and family conflict along with her. The wedding party's abundant cast of friends and relations have gathered for an idyllic weekend of feasting, music and love, but Kym — with her black-comic one- liners and knack for bombshell drama — is a catalyst for long-simmering tensions in the family dynamic.
Starring: Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, Debra Winger, Sebastian Stan, Roslyn Ruff, Bill Irwin, Anna Deavere Smith, Annaleigh Ashford
Director:Jonathan Demme
Bride Wars (2009)
Comedy | Romance
Two best friends become rivals when they schedule their respective weddings on the same day.
Starring: Anne Hathaway, Kate Hudson, Candice Bergen, Kristen Johnston, Chris Pratt
Director: Gary Winick
Carmen (2003)
Drama | Romance
On a journey through Spain, the French writer Prosper Merimee (Jay Benedict) is forced by fate to be the witness of a story of passion. The free, enigmatic nature of a woman called Carmen (Paz Vega), her southern beauty, her passionate, impulsive character turn the sergeant, Jose (Leonardo Sbaraglia), into the victim and protagonist of a fatalistic chain of extraordinary events, turbulent loves, uncontrollable passions, jealousy and bloodshed. Aranda brilliantly casts Spains manliest actress of the moment Paz Vega to play Carmen in the kind of steamy role she revels in, with one of the most popular actors in Latin American Cinema today, Leonardo Sbaraglia (Intacto, Utopia) playing the role of Jose.
Starring: Paz Vega, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Antonio Dechent, Joan Crosas
Director: Vicente Aranda
Thirst / Bakjwi (2009)
Drama | Horror | Thriller
Through a failed medical experiment, a priest is stricken with vampirism and is forced to abandon his ascetic ways.
Starring: Kang-ho Song, Ha-kyun Shin, Ok-bin Kim, Hae-sook Kim, In-hwan Park, Mercedes Cabral, Eriq Ebouaney
Director: Chan-wook Park
Meet Monica Velour (2010)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
When an awkward teen meets his favorite porn star, whose career peaked in the '80s, an unexpected friendship follows as the young man gets a glimpse inside Monica Velour's current life as a single mom struggling to make ends meet.
Starring: Kim Cattrall, Dustin Ingram, Brian Dennehy, Keith David
Director: Keith Bearden
The Rules of Attraction (2002)
Comedy | Drama | Romance | Teen | Thriller
During a semester at New England's exclusive and ultra-expensive Camden College, a sexual triangle emerges between Sean Bateman, the all-American looking guy who deals drugs on the side, Paul Owen, who's bisexual, and Paul's ex-girlfriend, Lauren. Sean grows obsessed with the pure Lauren because he thinks she's passing him passionate, anonymous love notes. At the same time, Paul keeps trying to get Sean into bed, while Lauren pines for Victor, who she believes is her dream man despite the fact he is studying abroad in Europe.
Starring: James Van Der Beek, Ian Somerhalder, Shannyn Sossamon, Jessica Biel, Kip Pardue
Director: Roger Avary
Letters to Juliet (2010)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
When Sophie travels to Verona in Italy, she stumbles upon an age-old superstition whereby people seeking advice in matters of the heart leave letters in the courtyard of the fictional Juliet, which are then answered by a group of volunteers known as the 'secretaries of Juliet'. When Sophie replies to one letter that has remained unanswered for 50 years, she is amazed when its author, Claire, arrives in Italy with her grandson Charlie to track down the fiance she left behind decades before. Sophie joins them on their quest through the hills of Tuscany as they search for Lorenzo, Claire's long-lost love – and soon finds herself tumbling headlong into a romance of her own.
Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Gael García Bernal, Vanessa Redgrave, Franco Nero, Christopher Egan
Director: Gary Winick
Deep End (1970)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
15-year-old Mike takes a job at the local swimming baths, where he becomes obsessed with an attractive young woman, Susan, who works there as an attendant. Although Susan has a fiancé, Mike does his best to sabotage the relationship, to the extent of stalking both her and her fiancé. Mike becomes increasingly desperate to have Susan for himself, with tragic results.
Starring: Jane Asher, John Moulder-Brown, Karl Michael Vogler, Christopher Sandford, Diana Dors
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
The Lickerish Quartet (1970)
Drama | Romance
A jaded, wealthy couple watch a blue movie in their castle home along with her adult son. The son is testy, so they go into town and watch a circus-like thrill ride. The daredevil woman in the show looks exactly like one of the women in the movie, so the man invites her to join them for a nightcap. Tensions among the family seem to rise. She stays overnight, and during her 24 hours in the castle, each of its three residents involves her in a fantasy. She, in turn, keeps asking, "Who has the gun?" Will there be violence before it's over?
Starring: Silvana Venturelli, Frank Wolff, Erika Remberg, Paolo Turco
Director: Radley Metzger
The Forbidden Kingdom / Gong fu zhi wang (2008)
Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Romance
While hunting down bootleg kung-fu DVDs in a Chinatown pawnshop, Jason Tripitikas makes an extraordinary discovery that sends him hurtling back in time to ancient China. There, Jason is charged with a monumental task: he must free the fabled warrior the Monkey King, who has been imprisoned by the powerful Jade War Lord. Jason is joined in his quest by wise kung fu master Lu Yan and a band of misfit warriors including Silent Monk. But only by learning the true precepts of kung fu can Jason hope to succeed – and find a way to get back home.
Starring: Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Collin Chou, Liu Yifei, Li Bingbing
Director: Rob Minkoff
Batman Forever (1995)
Action | Crime | Fantasy | Romance | Thriller
As two new forces of evil–Two-Face, formerly known as District Attorney Harvey Dent until a courtroom accident left him disfigured by chance and fueled by vengeance, and the Riddler, who was previously Edward Nygma, an overlooked employee of Wayne Enterprises before his transformation into the most quizzical and dangerous of tricksters–join together to overtake the minds of Gotham's citizens and destroy Batman, their mutual enemy. In return for financing the mass production of his devious mind-controlling invention, the Riddler commits to helping Two-Face solve the biggest mystery of all–who is Batman?–not knowing that Two-Face's caped quarry and his own rival, billionaire philanthropist Bruce Wayne, are one and the same.
Starring: Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey, Nicole Kidman, Chris O'Donnell
Director: Joel Schumacher
Postman to Heaven (2009)
Drama | Fantasy | Romance
"Postman to Heaven" is a romance fantasy involving a special man and a love lorn woman.
Starring: Jae-joong Kim, Hyo-ju Han, Chang-wan Kim
Director: Hyeong-min Lee
