Romance

  • Michael Damian – Love by Design (2014)

    2011-2020Michael DamianRomanceRomania

    After a fashion editor is fired from her highpowered job in New York, she has no choice but to go back to her hometown, where she reconnects with her roots and rediscovers her life’s passion.Read More »

  • Shigeyuki Yamane – Totsuzen arashi no youni AKA Suddenly, Like a Storm (1977)

    1971-1980DramaJapanRomanceShigeyuki Yamane

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    21-year-old Hideo Ishida is a reckless young man. Today again, he took part in a car race with a stolen driver’s license and a car belonging to the junkyard. But unfortunately, things go wrong and after a collision with another car, the seriously injured Hideo is taken to the hospital. Here he meets the nurse Yuki Kobayashi. Yuki is the opposite of Hideo. During the day she works as a nurse and in the evening she studies hard. However, Hideo’s behavior leaves an unforgettable impression on Yuki and the two soon develop an intimate friendship …Read More »

  • Helmut Dziuba – Jana und Jan (1992)

    1991-2000DramaGermanyHelmut DziubaRomance

    Fall 1989: Jan is almost 16. Caught while trying to escape to the West, he is now in a reformatory. Here, he meets Jana … and what starts as a bet, becomes true love. When Jana gets pregnant, the situation spirals out of control. In the summer of 1990, Jana and Jan flee from the reformatory into the unknown, insecure future of a new Germany.Read More »

  • Aleksey Uchitel – Kray AKA The Edge (2010)

    2001-2010Aleksey UchitelRomanceRussiaWar

    The action takes place shortly after the end of the Second World War in the Siberian hinterland, among Russians and Germans with damaged personal stories and a strange transformation: the victors seem to be crawling into the skins of the defeated, and vice versa. Ignat, is the embodiment of the larger-than-life image of the Soviet victorious warrior who, in fact, proves to be shell-shocked, sick and broken, although not completely destroyed. Trains become fetish for the heroes of the film, and speed becomes a mania; they virtually become one with their steam engines, while the machines take on human names. The heroes set up an almost fatal race in the Siberian forest, risking their own lives and those of others.Read More »

  • Yves Robert – Courage fuyons AKA Courage – Let’s Run (1979)

    1971-1980ComedyFranceRomanceYves Robert

    At forty years old, Martin Belhomme leads a quiet life with his wife and two children. One day, he falls hopelessly in love with Eva, a cabaret singer. He decides to follow her to Amsterdam. From then on, his life becomes very eventful!Read More »

  • Péter Gárdos – A skorpió megeszi az ikreket reggelire AKA Scorpio Eats Gemini for Breakfast (1992)

    1991-2000ComedyHungaryPéter GárdosRomance

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    This is a story of a man who wants to grasp and hold his beloved one by him and a woman who insists on that her love can’t be grasped; ‘she’ only can deliver hers. It has written Comedy, Romance etc… but, this movie doesn’t include anything funny, I believe.After I see the movie, I thought that love springs through a one’s heart and it has its own spirit. It doesn’t have to have any company. The matter is if it coincides its mate; that’s it. A must see masterpiece for lovers.Read More »

  • Daniel Ribeiro – 13 Sentimentos AKA Perfect Endings (2024)

    2021-2030BrazilComedyDaniel RibeiroQueer Cinema(s)Romance

    João and Hugo end their 10-year relationship but stay best friends. As they start dating again, uncontrollable emotions arise, contrasting the planned perfection of their breakup.Read More »

  • Ho Yim – Wo ai chu fang AKA Kitchen (1997)

    1991-2000DramaHo YimHong KongRomance

    Adapted from the hugely popular novel by Japanese writer, Banana Yoshimoto, the location has been moved to Hong Kong. Orphaned at an early age, Aggie is brought up by her grandmother. When she dies of old age, she retreats into a world of her own, sleeping on her grandmother’s kitchen floor and not uttering a word. Louie and his club hostess mother Yim Wa take her in and she takes up residence in the kitchen. Under their care Aggie gradually returns to normal and understands life from a different view due the death of a relation. The trio form an unconventional but warm relationship, but the sudden loss of Yim Wa shatters Louie’s world and makes Aggie experience the same kind of pain Aggie feels. The couple form a fragile relationship based upon this understanding.Read More »

  • Shigeyuki Yamane – Wani to omu to ottosei AKA Crocodile, Parrot and Fur Seal (1977)

    1971-1980DramaJapanRomanceShigeyuki Yamane

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    Go and Merry were members of a circus that took care of Trapeze Ladder Mochi and Ossei. The troupe that came to Hawaii for a tour went bankrupt. The only thing they received in exchange for their retirement allowance was a birdcage containing Ohm. However, the two find a loan deed with 12 million yen written on it in the birdcage. The two return to Japan and start working part-time on that day to earn money for their travel expenses, with the intention of collecting the loan after completing the deed. One day, Go meets Nanako, who seems to be a traveler, and as they go on a number of dates, he becomes attracted to her. Read More »

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