Romance

  • Susan Buice & Arin Crumley – Four Eyed Monsters (2005)

    2001-2010ComedyMumblecoreRomanceSusan Buice and Arin CrumleyUSA

    AMG: One couple’s rocky road toward togetherness is mapped in this comedy drama which melds elements of documentary and fiction. Arin (Arin Crumley) is a struggling independent filmmaker who pays the rent by shooting and editing wedding videos; he loathes the “four-eyed, two-mouthed, eight-limbed” beasts known as couples in love, but he would also prefer to be less lonely than he is. However, Arin is terrified of talking to women, and has a borderline phobia about sexually transmitted disease. On an Internet dating site, Arin meets Susan, (Susan Buice), an artist who wants to pursue a career in painting but in the meantime supports herself by waiting tables at a coffee shop. Susan’s attitudes about romance are only slightly more optimistic than Arin’s, but after exchanging photos and messages, the two sense they have something in common.Read More »

  • Khru Marut – Santi-Vina (1954)

    1951-1960DramaKhru MarutRomanceThailand

    Santi, a poor 10- year-old blind boy who lives with his father. Vina takes a pity on him and tries to protect him from the bullying of Krai. Santi’s father send him to stay with Luang Ta, a respectable monk, hopefully that he would learn the Buddhist lessons and by doing good deed, he could regain his eyesight.

    When they have grown up, Santi and Vina become lover. Krai feels jealous because he also love Vina. Krai asks his parent to make a marriage proposal to Vina. Vina decides to run away with Santi. However, they are finally caught and Santi is severe beaten.Read More »

  • Sigrid Andrea Bernardo – Kita kita AKA I See You (2017)

    2011-2020PhilippinesRomanceSigrid Andrea Bernardo

    Synopsis
    A film about a working Filipino woman working as travel guide in Sapporo, Japan who was driven to blindness due to extreme stress and heartache. While living alone, she found comfort in the company of a fellow Filipino whom served as her eyes during her times of temporary blindness.Read More »

  • Grigori Kromanov – Viimne reliikvia AKA The Last Relic (1969)

    1961-1970AdventureEstoniaGrigori KromanovRomance

    A medieval love story with lots of adventures. The times are troubled – there’s a revolt of peasants going on. To secure its safety a monastery chases for a relics of a holy Brigitte. A nobleman promises to get it if he gets beautiful Agnes as a reward. But she fells in love with a handsome adventurer. The monastery has to act shrewd now and play double game. The movie is still the best achievement of the Estonian cinema. Based on a novel.Read More »

  • Klaus Lemke – Sylvie (1973)

    1971-1980DramaGermanyKlaus LemkeRomance

    Fashion model Sylvie falls asleep drunk in the cab of Munich taxi driver Paul, and an impossible love affair beckons. Renegade director Klaus Lemke had previously startled German TV audiences with the biker drama Rocker, announcing an unprecedented, unvarnished freshness and authenticity with nonprofessional actors, real dialect and on-the-fly style. In Sylvie, he adds a disarming tenderness.Read More »

  • Wes Anderson – Hotel Chevalier (2007)

    2001-2010RomanceShort FilmUSAWes Anderson

    A short epilogue of one heartbreaking history of love and the prologue of the travel told in “The Darjeeling Limited”, starring Natalie Portman and Jason Schwartzman.
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  • Alan Zweig – Lovable (2007)

    2001-2010Alan ZweigCanadaDocumentaryRomance

    At some point, everyone has asked the question, why is it so hard to find love? In this final installment of the autobiographical trilogy that includes Vinyl and I, Curmudgeon, Alan Zweig reflects with disarming candour on why, if he longs for a partner and children, he is still single at mid-life.Read More »

  • Dino Risi – Belle ma povere AKA Pretty But Poor (1957)

    Drama1951-1960Dino RisiItalyRomance

    Scharph:
    Made right after the great success of Risi’s own Poveri ma belli, and released later the same year, here are the further adventures of Romolo, Salvatore and Giovanna.Read More »

  • Ettore Scola – Passione d amore aka Passion Of Love (1981)

    1981-1990DramaEttore ScolaItalyRomance

    Ettore Scola’s dark, romantic tale of a woman so stubborn and passionate that nothing can dissuade her from pursuing the object of her affections.

    When Captain Bachetti arrives at his new post in Northern Italy, he already resents the reassignment, which has separated him from his mistress, the exquisite Clara. And the situation becomes even more disturbing when this man with a taste for beautiful women finds himself subjected to the persistent attentions of the spectacularly ugly Fosca; everything about this brash, loud, impolite and unattractive creature fills him with horror.
    But the Captain has never before encountered the transformative power of love.Read More »

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