Romance

  • Elia Kazan – Splendor in the Grass [+Extras] (1961)

    1961-1970DramaElia KazanRomanceUSA

    It’s 1928 in oil rich southeast Kansas. High school seniors Bud Stamper and Deanie Loomis are in love with each other. Bud, the popular football captain, and Deanie, the sensitive soul, are “good” kids who have only gone as far as kissing. Unspoken to each other, they expect to get married to each other one day. But both face pressures within the relationship, Bud who has the urges to go farther despite knowing in his heart that if they do that Deanie will end up with a reputation like his own sister, Ginny Stamper, known as the loose, immoral party girl, and Deanie who will do anything to hold onto Bud regardless of the consequences. Read More »

  • Yasuzô Masumura – Eden no sono AKA The Garden of Eden (1980)

    1971-1980DramaItalyRomanceYasuzô Masumura

    Synopsis:
    A young pick-pocket meets a sheltered teenage girl at an art museum while trying to lift her wallet. He falls in love with her and lures her to deserted strip of beach where he pretends his stolen motorbike has broken down and they are stranded. An unlikely romance follows.Read More »

  • Charles Walters – Dangerous When Wet (1953)

    1951-1960Charles WaltersMusicalRomanceUSA

    A young woman enters a contest to be the first to swim the English Channel.Read More »

  • Delbert Mann – That Touch of Mink (1962)

    1961-1970ComedyDelbert MannRomanceUSA

    Quote:
    A rich businessman and a young woman are attracted to each other, but he only wants an affair while she wants to save herself for marriage.Read More »

  • Alain Guiraudie – Ce vieux rêve qui bouge aka Real cool time (2001)

    2001-2010Alain GuiraudieFrancePoliticsQueer Cinema(s)Romance

    “Ce vieux rêve qui bouge est sans doute le meilleur film du festival de Cannes”, (Jean-Luc Godard, mai 2001)

    From Time Out Film Guide
    A young guy turns up at a rundown factory to dismantle some kind of machine before the place closes in a week. In the process, he gets to talk to the understandably morose staff about how they plan to face the future. About work, economics, class, sex, money, happiness and a whole lot more, this unassuming, sometimes funny and always surprising film has been hailed by Godard – perhaps the most sensible thing he’s done in years. It’s near perfect, without an ounce of narrative fat or stylistic gristle, and utterly relevant.Read More »

  • Alessandro Blasetti – Amore e chiacchiere (Salviamo il panorama) (1958)

    1951-1960Alessandro BlasettiComedyItalyRomance

    PLOT:
    Maria and Paolo are in love, but they are very young, and most importantly Maria is the daughter of the municipal sweeper while Paolo is the son of lawyer Bonelli, deputy mayor and leader of the opposition.
    To complicate matters there is the reconstruction of a hospice destroyed during the war. The reconstruction would obstruct the panorama enjoyable from the villa of Paseroni, big industrialist and political wheeler-dealer.
    Bonelli, great speaker, becomes mayor for the death of his predecessor, and gets bribed by Paseroni, while refusing the love of Paolo and Maria for the social differences, and because Paolo should go after Paseroni’s daughter.
    At this point, Paolo and Maria flee to kill themselves, just as Bonelli is about to give a speech on the radio for the inauguration of the villa of Paseroni…Read More »

  • Elia Kazan – The Last Tycoon (1976)

    Drama1971-1980Elia KazanRomanceUSA

    Young film producer, Monroe Stahr, is a rising star in 1930’s Hollywood due to his ability to get anything he envisions done even if it means breaking a few rules. The latest film he’s working on stars two popular actors, Rodriguez and Didi, and everyone is sure it’ll be a smashing hit when it’s done. The times are changing however, since the first guilds and unions are being formed in Hollywood, but Stahr is still sticking to his old ways of doing things in spite of that. His main opponent becomes a union organizer, Brimmer, but Stahr finds ways to deal with him as well. However, in his hubris, Stahr crosses one red line too many when he falls for a young troubled engaged woman called Kathleen Moore and neglects Cecilia Brady, the young daughter of studio executive and Stahr’s boss, Pat Brady. Read More »

  • Johnnie To – Chihuo Quan Wang AKA Chasing Dream (2019)

    2011-2020ActionChinaJohnnie ToRomance

    A young man and woman are meeting each other and establishes a special relationship due to debt problems. Him, finds that her have a singing talent and help her develop a singing career. For its part, he also strives to become the champion of the boxing championship. Both have the same state of mind and fight for their dream. Even if they burn their lives, they will have no regrets in this life.Read More »

  • Céline Sciamma – Portrait de la jeune fille en feu AKA Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)

    2011-2020Céline SciammaDramaFranceQueer Cinema(s)Romance

    Quote:
    France, 1760. Marianne is commissioned to paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has just left the convent. Because she is a reluctant bride-to-be, Marianne arrives under the guise of companionship, observing Héloïse by day and secretly painting her by firelight at night. As the two women orbit one another, intimacy and attraction grow as they share Héloïse’s first moments of freedom. Héloïse’s portrait soon becomes a collaborative act of and testament to their love.Read More »

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