A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.
Salvatore, a famous film director, returns to his hometown for the funeral of the local theater's film projectionist, Alfredo. He reminisces about his life as a young boy falling in love with cinema.
Movie | Comedy, Romance | France, Germany | French, Russian
Director
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Writer
Guillaume Laurant, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Cast
Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus
Plot
Despite being caught in her imaginative world, young waitress Amelie decides to help people find happiness. Her quest to spread joy leads her on a journey during which she finds true love.
Margaret Mitchell, Sidney Howard, Oliver H.P. Garrett
Cast
Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Thomas Mitchell
Plot
A sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.
A former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed.
Movie | Drama, Romance | Brazil, France | English, Italian
Director
Luca Guadagnino
Writer
James Ivory, Andre Aciman
Cast
Timothee Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg
Plot
In the summer of 1983, 17-year-old Elio is spending the days with his family at their villa in Lombardy, Italy. He soon meets 24-year-old Oliver, an intern working for Elio's father. They discover the heady beauty of awakening des...
A rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way.
When mistaken to be a sage by some villagers, an ex-tour guide reflects on his past and lost love to search for spiritual wisdom to guide the villagers.
The history of the United States from the 1950s to the '70s unfolds from the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, who yearns to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart.
Movie | Drama, Romance | South Korea | Korean, Japanese
Director
Park Chan-wook
Writer
Sarah Waters, Chung Seo-kyung, Park Chan-wook
Cast
Kim Min-hee, Ha Jung-woo, Cho Jin-woong
Plot
In 1930s Korea, a girl is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress who lives a secluded life on a countryside estate. But the maid has a secret: She is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler to help seduce the Lady and steal her ...
Movie | Drama, Romance | Hong Kong, France | Cantonese, Shanghainese
Director
Wong Kar-Wai
Writer
Wong Kar-Wai
Cast
Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Ping-Lam Siu
Plot
Two neighbors form a strong bond after both suspect extramarital activities of their spouses. However, they agree to keep their bond platonic so as not to commit similar wrongs.
Movie | Drama, Romance | Italy, UK | English, Russian
Director
David Lean
Writer
Boris Pasternak, Robert Bolt
Cast
Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin
Plot
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
Three World War II veterans, two of them traumatized or disabled, return home to the American midwest to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.
Divya, a woman grieving over the death of her lover, is convinced into an arranged marriage with Chandra Kumar. Over a year the couple attempt to adjust to each other's presence and live with each other.
Alvy Singer, a divorced Jewish comedian, reflects on his relationship with ex-lover Annie Hall, an aspiring nightclub singer, which ended abruptly just like his previous marriages.
Movie | Drama, Romance | Hong Kong, China | Mandarin
Director
Yimou Zhang
Writer
Tong Su, Ni Zhen
Cast
Gong Li, Jingwu Ma, Saifei He
Plot
China in the 1920s. After her father's death, Songlian is forced to marry the wealthy Master Chen. With three wives already, each living in a separate house, there is fierce competition for his attention and the privileges that ar...
Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire and to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adèle grows, seeks herself, loses herself, and ...
Movie | Drama, Romance | South Korea, Germany | Korean
Director
Kim Ki-duk
Writer
Kim Ki-duk
Cast
Kim Ki-duk, Oh Yeong-su, Jong-ho Kim
Plot
In the midst of the Korean wilderness, a Buddhist master patiently raises a boy while teaching wisdom and compassion through experience and endless exercises.
Movie | Drama, Romance | Ireland, UK | English, Latin
Director
John Crowley
Writer
Nick Hornby, Colm Taiban
Cast
Saoirse Ronan, Emory Cohen, Domhnall Gleeson
Plot
An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.
A man and a woman embark on an on-again/off-again romance that starts at school and continues through college, testing their relationship as they explore different versions of themselves.
Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Barbara Valentin
Plot
A lonely widow meets a much younger Moroccan worker in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies.
Movie | Drama, Romance | Poland | Polish, Portuguese
Director
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Writer
Krzysztof Kieslowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz
Cast
Grazyna Szapolowska, Olaf Lubaszenko, Stefania Iwinska
Plot
A naive inexperienced young man spies on a woman who lives across the courtyard, and falls in love with her. He starts using tricks which he hopes will lead to them meeting.
Going through his daily routine in a stereotypical neighborhood, a street cleaner falls in love with a charwoman. Unfortunately for him, so does his boss.
A Hindu man and a Muslim woman fall in love in a small village and move to Mumbai, where they have two children. However, growing religious tensions and erupting riots threaten to tear the family apart.
A young woman regresses to childhood after suffering a head injury in a car crash. Lost, she ends up trapped at a brothel before being rescued by a lonely school teacher who falls in love with her.
Suresh Sinha, a famous director, discovers star potential in Shanti, a woman he stumbled into one rainy evening, and casts her as the lead in a film. In a twist of fate, Shanti becomes a superstar and Suresh faces a decline in his...
A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects a young housewife to an older man in the dusk of his life as they build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox.
Movie | Drama, Romance | France, Japan | French, Japanese
Director
Alain Resnais
Writer
Marguerite Duras
Cast
Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas
Plot
A French actress filming an anti-war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a married Japanese architect as they share their differing perspectives on war.
Venkateswarlu, aka Venky, comes Hyderabad to his father's friend's house where he meets an engaged girl . Things turn upside down when she expresses her love for him .
On a fog swept chilly hill station, a terminally ill young man (Prakash) meets a boisterous girl (gitanjali). Love blossoms, but there's a shadow behind the light she radiates.
Movie | Drama, Romance | Germany, Turkey | German, Turkish
Director
Fatih Akin
Writer
Fatih Akin
Cast
Birol aœnel, Sibel Kekilli, Gaven Kiraa§
Plot
With the intention to break free from the strict familial restrictions, a suicidal young woman sets up a marriage of convenience with a forty-year-old addict, an act that will lead to an outburst of envious love.
As the feudal Japan era draws to a close, a widower samurai experiences difficulty balancing clan loyalties, 2 young daughters, an aged mother, and the sudden reappearance of his childhood sweetheart.
Story of a dilemma between a woman's love and her logic. Asya, a young girl with a strict mother, meets Ilyas, who is a womanizer city man, and they quickly fall in love. They get over the hardships and have a happy marriage. Howe...
In 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied North Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.
At a U.S. Army base in 1941 Hawaii, a pugilistic private is cruelly punished for refusing to join his unit's boxing team. Meanwhile, his commanding officer's wife and top NCO are indulging in a torrid love affair.
Hotel manager J.K. (Sanjeev Kumar) works there. One day, he bravely steps in to save Aarti, the drunken daughter of a politician (Suchitra Sen). Aarti and J.K. have a small ceremony to celebrate their marriage after falling in lov...
A stern Soviet woman sent to Paris to supervise the sale of jewels seized from Russian nobles finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
Movie | Drama, Romance | UK, USA | English, French
Director
Ang Lee
Writer
Jane Austen, Emma Thompson
Cast
Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, James Fleet
Plot
Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her three daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. The older two daughters are the title opposites.
An elderly man reads to a woman with dementia the story of two young lovers whose romance is threatened by the difference in their respective social classes.
Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Brenda Blethyn
Plot
When Elizabeth Bennet meets the handsome Mr. Darcy, she believes he is the last man she could ever marry, but as their lives become intertwined, she finds herself captivated by the man she has sworn to hate forever.
A woman from a village in Tamil Nadu marries a sophisticated city dweller and moves with him to Kashmir, where all is rosy - until he gets kidnapped by militants.
Kutty is a good-hearted soul, but unfortunate incidents tend to portray his ruffian side whenever he encounters the girl he loves. A bizarre incident brings them closer and yet keeps them apart.
In Sweden at the turn of the century, members of the upper class and their servants find themselves in a romantic tangle that they try to work out amidst jealousy and heartbreak.
Chandan and Gunja, who hails from a village across the river, fall in love with each other. After her sister dies, Gunja is compelled to marry her brother-in-law who is Chandan's brother.
The adopted son of a legendary actor, and an aspiring star himself, turns to his infant brother's wet nurse for support and affection - only for her to give up everything for her beloved's glory.
Tale of a female nurse trying to maintain a balance between her professional life and her emotions who falls victim to the natural feeling of love and compassion when a person takes care of another person.
Aspiring film actress Penny moves into a Pasadena apartment across the hall from brilliant, but socially awkward, physicists Sheldon Cooper and Leonard Hofstadter and shows them how little they know about life outside of the lab.
While the arrival of wealthy gentlemen sends her marriage-minded mother into a frenzy, willful and opinionated Elizabeth Bennet matches wits with haughty Mr. Darcy.
While Balu falls in love with Anu at first sight, she is unaware of his emotions. The difficulties that he needs to face to win her heart, form the rest of the story.
A young woman meets a vital young man, but their love affair is doomed because of the man's materialistic nature.
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Madame de...aka The Earrings of Madame De...(1953)
Movie | Drama, Romance | France, Italy | French, Turkish
Director
Max Ophals
Writer
Louise de Vilmorin, Marcel Achard, Max Ophals
Cast
Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica
Plot
When an aristocratic woman known only as "Madame de . . ." sells a pair of earrings given to her by her husband in order to pay some debts, she sets off a chain reaction of financial and carnal consequences that can end only in de...
Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyzewska, Waclaw Zastrzezynski
Plot
As World War II and the German occupation ends, the Polish resistance and the Soviet forces turn on each other in an attempt to take over leadership in Communist Poland.
