Romance

Quote:
Mahin lives alone in Tehran since her husband’s death and her daughter’s departure for Europe, until an afternoon tea with friends leads her to break her solitary routine and revitalize her love life.Read More »

Mike’s alcoholic father tells him there is only one thing that makes life worth living: “the empress”. To Mike, however, the empress is love that lasts forever, not sex that lasts for days.Read More »

A group of friends are starting their senior year at High School. A new girl is the new student of the school and one of the friends from the group falls in love with her.Read More »

Ragnar has left his family farm and works as a taxi driver in Reykjavík in the early sixties. He’s drawn to the beautiful but unhappy girl Gogo and hopes to build a better life with her. But she’s a lost soul and their brief romance results in tragedy. Hugely popular and controversial in its day, it was seen by 63.000 people in Iceland which was then around the third of the population. The film is based on the novel 79 af stöðinni by Indriði G. Þorsteinsson.Read More »

A dangerous love triangle develops among brothers and an immigrant woman hired to work the fields.Read More »

An elderly owner of a tomato farm and sauce factory, after his wife’s death, falls in love with one of the workers of the factory endangering his relationship with his daughters and in-laws. While everybody in the big family persuades the old man to abandon the relationship with the poor girl, the old man makes his final choice of love.Read More »

Andreas and Agisilaos, two rich old friends, are fascinated with young Rita, a poor girl from Plaka, who often visits their aristocratic neighborhood in Kifissia with her mother. They dream of asking for her hand and wonder if aged men have the right to fall in love. Agisilaos actually means to propose marriage whereas Andreas would rather sell his soul to the devil, like Faust, (which he actually does) so he can be young again and win Rita’s love in the traditional way. But perhaps Agisilaos’ option proves to be more …traditional than Andreas’ and finally the two men (the former in his old age and the latter in his rejuvenated version) will have to fight hard to win Rita’s affection.Read More »

The life and death of the legendary Ludwig van Beethoven. Besides all the work he is known for, the composer once wrote a famous love letter to a nameless beloved, and the movie tries to find out who this beloved was–not easy, as Beethoven has had many women in his life.Read More »

Quote:
René Clair, the most distinguished of the French motion-picture directors, is one of the great men of the cinema. His triumphant photoplays, Sous les toits de Paris, Le Million and, the finest of them all, A nous la liberté, stand among the genuine classics of the films. Now M. Clair, who has tried cheerful sentiment in Sous les toits, farce in Le Million, and brilliant social satire in A nous la liberté, gives up some of his adventurousness and returns to the quiet romantic mood of his earliest success in the new work called Quatorze juillet (“Fourteenth of July”). Read More »