Romance

  • María Luisa Bemberg – Camila (1984)

    1981-1990ArgentinaDramaMaría Luisa BembergRomance

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    In Buenos Aires of the 1840’s, a young Jesuit and a wealthy socialite fall in love and begin a torrid affair. They escape from the city, and, in disguise, set up house in a village, assuming they are safe and beyond the cares of anyone. However, both the church and Camila’s family are enraged, vowing to hunt down the lovers for a capital crime. Based on a true story.Read More »

  • Pablo Llorca – Días color naranja (2016)

    2011-2020Pablo LlorcaPoliticsRomanceSpain

    Quote:
    yjafjalla, the Icelandic volcano, has erupted. The European air traffic collapses. Álvaro has to interrupt his flight to Madrid. He decides to continue by train, starting his trip in Athens. He knows a group of people doing interrail; Berta, a young Swedish girl, among them. Álvaro initiates in a world full of new things for him: the pleasure of travelling by train, the parties at the youth hostels, love in a Croatian island…Read More »

  • Jacques Doillon – Amoureuse AKA Lover (1992)

    1991-2000DramaFranceJacques DoillonRomance

    ‘An expectant mother begins to question the identity of her unborn child’s father after entering into an extramarital affair with her sister’s lover. Marie and Antoine are living together and deeply in love when Marie voices her desire to become a mother. Unfortunately for Marie, Antoine has no interest in starting a family. Shortly thereafter, Marie meets Paul, and coolly rejects his advances. But later, when Paul begins sleeping with Marie’s sister Juliette, Marie realizes that he may in fact be the man of her dreams. Subsequently alternating between Antoine and Paul as she wrestles with her nagging conscience, Marie later learns she is pregnant and realizes that she can’t be certain which of her lovers is the father.” allmovieRead More »

  • Jae-young Kwak – Keulraesik AKA The Classic (2003)

    2001-2010DramaJae-young KwakRomanceSouth Korea

    Synopsis
    Shy Ji-hae’s friend is having problems expressing her feelings to the boy she loves, so she asks Ji-hae to write e-mails to him in her name. As the boy falls in love with her letters, Ji-hae discovers the story of her mother’s romance which is remarkably similar to her own circumstances.Read More »

  • Frank McDonald – Over the Wall (1938)

    1931-1940DramaFrank McDonaldRomanceUSA

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    Jerry Davis is a street tough and troublemaker who winds up in Sing Sing framed for murder. There he discovers he has a great singing voice, and with the help of prison chaplain Father Connor, Jerry begins to rehabilitate himself.Read More »

  • Paul Vecchiali – Corps à coeur AKA Drugstore Romance (1979)

    1971-1980DramaFrancePaul VecchialiRomance

    Synopsis:
    Pierrot, a mechanic in Paris, falls madly for an older woman, a chemist, who at first refuses his love. Finally she accepts his love when she discovers she is affected by a deadly illness. In the background we see everyday stories of a community of Pierrot’s younger and older friends.Read More »

  • Edward F. Cline – Hook, Line and Sinker (1930)

    1921-1930ComedyEdward F. ClineRomanceUSA

    Plot:

    Two fast-talking insurance salesmen meet Mary, who is running away from her wealthy mother, and they agree to help her run a hotel that she owns. When they find out that the hotel is run down and nearly abandoned,they launch a phony PR campaign that presents the hotel as a resort favored by the rich. Their advertising succeeds too well, and many complications soon arise.Read More »

  • Susanne Bier – Pensionat Oskar AKA Like It Never Was Before (1995)

    1991-2000DramaRomanceSusanne BierSweden

    Quote:
    An offbeat but very watchable black comedy about a hotel handyman who precipitates the breakup of a family, “Like It Never Was Before” could get solid box office returns both in Sweden and abroad, with careful handling.

    Pic is the first script by popular gay writer and standup comic Jonas Gardell, a well-known media personality in Sweden, whose wit targets both gays and gay-bashers. His books are always instant bestsellers.Read More »

  • Victor Fleming – Red Dust (1932)

    1931-1940DramaRomanceUSAVictor Fleming

    Synopsis:
    Conditions are spartan on Dennis Carson’s Indochina rubber plantation during a dusty dry monsoon. The latest boat upriver brings Carson an unwelcome guest: Vantine, a floozy from Saigon, hoping to evade the police by a stay upcountry. But Carson, initially uninterested, soon succumbs to Vantine’s ostentatious charms…until the arrival of surveyor Gary Willis, ill with malaria, and his refined but sensuous wife Barbara. Now the rains begin, and passion flows like water…Read More »

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