Romance

  • Takis Kanellopoulos – Romantiko simeioma AKA Romantic Note (1978)

    1971-1980DramaGreeceRomanceTakis Kanellopoulos

    Synopsis
    The story of four fellow students who fall in love with the same girl (Adriana / Maria Perdiki), who has shook up their lives with her unexpected appearance as well as her enigmatic presence, and who will give them up in the same dramatic way, as if she never existed. The incurably romantic Takis Kanellopoulos returns to his favorite theme of “lost youth”.

    This autobiographical film by Takis Kanellopoulos won an honorary photography distinction at the 19th Thessaloniki Film Festival.Read More »

  • Melville W. Brown – Dance Hall (1929)

    1921-1930DramaMelville W. BrownRomanceUSA

    A dance trophy winning young couple is temporarily split up when a playboy aviator leads the girl to believe he’s in love with her.Read More »

  • Heiner Carow – Bis daß der Tod euch scheidet AKA Until Death Do Us Part (1979)

    1971-1980DramaGermanyHeiner CarowRomance

    “Bis daß der Tod euch scheidet” is the story of a couple whose mad love for each other smashes headlong into the husband’s patriarchal value system. Based on a true story.Read More »

  • Joshua Logan – Fanny (1961)

    1961-1970DramaJoshua LoganRomanceUSA

    Quote:
    Leslie Caron gets top billing and the lion share of screen time in “Fanny” but Maurice Chevalier steals the show from the first frame. Making its DVD debut, this 1961 film is based on the Tony-Award musical of the same name. Despite getting its start way back in 1954, the story is surprisingly risqué and contemporary, dealing with issues such as illegitimate children, premarital sex, cleavage and adultery. Because of Chevalier and the cast, those issues are presented in a jovial, comedic way until the third act, when the humor and levity the production is built on is jettisoned in favor of mediocre melodrama.Read More »

  • Stanley Kwan – Hong meigui, bai meigui aka Red Rose, White Rose (1994)

    2001-2010AsianHong KongRomanceStanley Kwan

    Chronicles the love life of a man, Zhenbao. He has a steamy fling with the wife of a friend, the saucy and exciting Red Rose. Even though he feels happy with her, he knows he will not end up with her. To maintain his reputation, he marries an antiseptic, frigid but classy lady of a prim and proper background (White rose). Dissonance abound when he finds his bride irritating.Read More »

  • Andreas Goldstein – Adam und Evelyn (2018)

    2011-2020Andreas GoldsteinDramaGermanyRomance

    Quote:
    ‘Adam and Evelyn’ tells the story of a couple, from the summer to the winter of 1989. It begins in the provinces of East Germany. When Evelyn catches Adam cheating on her, she leaves for Hungary on holiday. Adam travels after her. When Hungary opens its border to Austria, Evelyn wants to cross. And so Adam ends up in the West, without ever wanting to leave.

    The film is based on the novel by Ingo Schulze ‘Adam und Evelyn’ which was translated into more than 10 languages.Read More »

  • Elene Naveriani – Me Mzis Skivi Var Dedamicaze AKA I Am Truly a Drop of Sun on Earth (2017)

    Drama2011-2020Elene NaverianiGeorgiaRomance

    Original title: მე მზის წვეთი ვარ დედამიწაზე (Me Mzis Skivi Var Dedamicaze)

    Quote:
    Tbilisi, Georgia, nowadays. April aged 34, just spent a night in jail for prostitution. She is now resuming her work in the run down night life hub in the underground of a luxury hotel. There she meets Dije, a young Nigerian immigrant. He entrusts her his journey to Tbilisi. Originally, believing he was headed for Georgia, USA, he finds himself trapped in an extreme alienation in a country offering no perspective. An odd love emerges between these two human beings while they try to survive together on the margins of society.Read More »

  • Joyce Chopra – Smooth Talk [+Extras] (1985)

    1981-1990DramaJoyce ChopraRomanceUSA

    Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival 1986

    Fifteen-year-old Connie Wyatt (Laura Dern) may be too young to drive, but she’s already driving the boys crazy. Her suspicious mother (Mary Kay Place) wants to keep her safely at home, but free-spirited Connie would rather while away the languid summer days hanging out with her friends and flirting with boys at the local burger stand. But when she flirts with an older, handsome and predatory stranger (Treat Williams), she isn’t prepared for the frightening and traumatic consequences.Read More »

  • Cherd Songsri – Plae kao AKA The Scar (1977)

    1971-1980Cherd SongsriDramaRomanceThailand

    Peasant Riem loves Kwan but the love is not reprocical. He loves singing Likay. Traditional peasant way of life, watching over buffalo, rice planting, getting fish from rice fields, ceremonies where young men invite girls they like to dance, Songkran ceremony with small pagoda made of sand are gracefully shown. They finally love each other with a promise in front of the local deities tree. But Riem family refuses this love story. Choi, local gangster, injures Kwan with his sword making a scar. This scar is the symbol of their love that nothing can break…Read More »

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