Following the events of Jean de Florette, Manon, the daughter of Jean, is living in the countryside of Provence near Les Romarins, the farm that her father once owned. She has taken up residence with an elderly Piedmontese squatter couple who teach her to live off the land, tending to a herd of goats and hunting for birds and rabbits. Ugolin Soubeyran, also called Galinette (only by his uncle César), has begun a successful business growing carnations at Les Romarins with his uncle, César Soubeyran—also known as Papet—thanks to the water provided by the spring there.Read More »
Romance
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Claude Berri – Manon des sources AKA Manon of the Spring (1986)
1981-1990Claude BerriDramaFranceRomance -
Victor Nunez – Ruby in Paradise (1993)
1991-2000DramaRomanceUSAVictor Nunez -
Jan Prusinovský – Chyby AKA Emma in Love (2021)
2021-2030Czech RepublicDramaJan PrusinovskýRomanceSynopsis:
Emma is a lively 25-year-old shop assistant living in a small town. Tomas is a 30-year-old roofer living in a village nearby the capital. They spend a night together, with no expectations. However, it becomes the start of a relationship, love, living together. Emma decides to unburden herself and is ready to tell Tomas about her tainted background. Tomas doesn’t want to hear it as he wants to live “here and now”. A random episode unveils Emma’s past and starts off a series of incidents which turn their lives upside down.Read More » -
Jean-Pierre Dougnac – Un amour interdit aka A Strange Passion (1984)
1981-1990DramaFranceJean-Pierre DougnacRomanceRomantic melodrama set in 18th century plague-ridden Italy. Elvire (Brigitte Fossey) enters a loveless marriage with the elderly Piacchi (Fernando Rey) and finds herself becoming attracted to their adopted son Nicolo, who reminds her of a man who once sacrificed his life for her.Read More »
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Nicol Ruiz Benavides – La Nave del Olvido AKA Forgotten Roads (2020)
2011-2020ChileDramaNicol Ruiz BenavidesRomanceSynopsis
Claudina is a traditional woman from the countryside. After the pass away of her husband, she gets into a lonely routine. Having a difficult economic situation, Claudina has to move with her dearest grandson Cristóbal, and her daughter Alejandra, knowing that both women have a distanced relationship. Living together, Claudina meets the neighbor Elsa, an independent and married woman who sings on a hidden bar called “Porvenir” (The Future.) Claudina starts a relationship with Elsa, getting in love. Since then, she develops a journey of self-knowledge to be free, under the judgment of her daughter and friends on a religious and conservatory little town, obsessed with UFO sighting.Read More » -
Jean Aurel – Lamiel (1967)
1961-1970DramaFranceJean AurelRomance

Synopsis:
‘Lamiel (Anna Karina) is a poor orphan girl who climbs her way to the social elite in this 19th-century costume drama. A doctor (Michel Bouquet) lives vicariously through Anna as he oversees the progress of his female protege. Lamiel finds love with a young thief who steals into her bedroom after her marriage to a penniless count (Jean-Clause Brialy), and the two experience a romantic rendezvous of forbidden love after Lamiel goes from being a poor peasant woman to living a life of comparative luxury.’
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Gregory La Cava – Unfinished Business (1941)
1941-1950ClassicsGregory La CavaRomanceScrewball ComedyUSASynopsis
In Unfinished Business, a light romantic comedy directed by Gregory La Cava, Irene Dunne plays a young woman worried she’s “going to seed” after spending her life in small-town Messina Ohio caring for her sister and father and having no love or adventure for herself. After her sister marries, she spontaneously takes the train ride to New York she’s always fantasized about to seek a career as a singer. On the train she meets a womanizer (Preston Foster) who sweeps her off her feet and leaves her flat at the station. She marries on the rebound (Robert Montgomery) but remains torn between two lovers — who happen to be brothers.Read More » -
Jean-François Adam – Retour à la bien-aimée AKA Return to the Beloved (1979)
1971-1980DramaFranceJean-François AdamRomanceJulien seeks to reconquer Jeanne, his ex-wife, of whom he is separated and who lives with another man. He is prepared to go far to make it happen.Read More »
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Yimou Zhang – Wo de fu qin mu qin AKA The Road Home (1999)
1991-2000ChinaDramaFifth Generation Chinese CinemaRomanceYimou ZhangPlot: Prompted by the death of his father and the grief of his mother, a man recalls the story of how they met in flashback.Read More »







