FR #38 | Movie | Romance, History | USA | English, French
Director
Michael Curtiz
Writer
Philip G. Epstein, Julius J. Epstein, Howard Koch
Cast
Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Peter Lorre
Plot
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.
FR #59 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | France, Germany | English, French
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.
FR #167 | Movie | Romance, Drama | India | Tamil, Hindi
Director
Sundar C.
Writer
Kamal Haasan, Madan, Mohan Nair
Cast
Kamal Haasan, Madhavan, Kiran Rathod, Nassar
Plot
Two men, one young and arrogant, the other damaged - physically but not spiritually - by life, are thrown together by circumstances, and find that they are in some ways bound together by fate.
FR #191 | Movie | Romance, Musical | India | Hindi
Director
Vijay Anand
Writer
Vijay Anand, Pearl S. Buck, R.K. Narayan
Cast
Dev Anand, Waheeda Rehman, Leela Chitnis, Anwar Hussain, Ulhas, Gajanan Jagirdar, Rashid Khan, Praveen Paul
Plot
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.
A law student from a lower caste begins a friendship with his classmate, a girl who belongs to a higher caste, and the men in her family start giving him trouble over this.
FR #350 | Movie | Romance | South Korea | Korean, Japanese
Director
Park Chan-Wook
Writer
Chung Seo-Kyung, Sarah Waters, 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 ...
FR #355 | Movie | 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.
A Manhattan insurance clerk tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but office politics and his own romantic hopes complicate matters.
FR #361 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Italy, UK | English, Russian
Director
David Lean
Writer
Boris Pasternak, Robert Bolt
Cast
Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness, Ralph Richardson
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.
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 ...
Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Alan Hale
Plot
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.
FR #425 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Germany, Turkey | English, German
Director
Fatih Akin
Writer
Fatih Akin
Cast
Birol Unel, Sibel Kekilli, Guven Kirac
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.
Three traumatized or physically disabled World War II veterans return home to the American Midwest to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed making readjustment difficult.
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.
FR #518 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | Ireland, UK | English, French
Director
Yorgos Lanthimos
Writer
Tony Mcnamara, Alasdair Gray
Cast
Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe
Plot
An account of the fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter.
FR #530 | Movie | 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...
FR #575 | Movie | Romance, Drama | China, Hong Kong | Chinese, Mandarin
Director
Yimou Zhang
Writer
Tong Su, Ni Zhen
Cast
Gong LI, Jingwu Ma, Saifei He
Plot
A young woman becomes the fourth concubine of a wealthy man and soon realizes there's fierce competition for his attention and the associated privileges.
FR #587 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | USA | English, German
Director
Woody Allen
Writer
Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman
Cast
Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Christopher Walken
Plot
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.
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.
FR #652 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Turkey | Turkish
Director
Atif Yilmaz
Writer
Ali Ozgenturk, Chingiz Aitmatov
Cast
Turkan Soray, Kadir Inanir, Ahmet Mekin
Plot
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...
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.
FR #688 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | Sweden | Swedish
Director
Ingmar Bergman
Writer
Ingmar Bergman
Cast
Ulla Jacobsson, Eva Dahlbeck, Harriet Andersson
Plot
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.
FR #692 | Movie | Romance, Comedy | USA | English, German
Director
Frank Capra
Writer
Julius J. Epstein, Joseph Kesselring
Cast
Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Peter Lorre, James Gleason
Plot
Mortimer Brewster, a Brooklyn writer of books on the futility of marriage, risks his reputation after he decides to tie the knot. Things grow complicated when he learns that his beloved maiden aunts Abby and Martha are serial murd...
FR #799 | Movie | Romance, Drama | USA, UK | English, French
Director
Ang Lee
Writer
Jane Austen, Emma Thompson
Cast
Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, James Fleet, Tom Wilkinson, Hugh Grant
Plot
In Georgian era England, wealthy Mr. Dashwood dies leaving his second wife and three daughters destitute. The ladies move to a modest cottage where the two older daughters vie for the attention of various suitors in search of true...
FR #812 | Movie | Romance, Drama | South Korea, Germany | Korean, Hindi
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.
FR #830 | Movie | Court-Drama, Romance | USA | English
Director
Robert Benton
Writer
Avery Corman, Robert Benton, Jay Christian
Cast
Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Jane Alexander
Plot
After his wife leaves him, a work-obsessed Manhattan advertising executive is forced to learn long-neglected parenting skills, but a heated custody battle over the couple's young son deepens the wounds left by the separation.
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 .
FR #847 | Movie | Romance, Drama | 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.
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.
When Prince Wilhelm transfers to a prestigious boarding school, he finally gets to explore his true self. But when he unexpectedly becomes next in line for the throne, he has to make a choice: love or duty.
FR #910 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Poland, France | Polish, French
Director
Andrzej Wajda
Writer
Jerzy Andrzejewski, Andrzej Wajda
Cast
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.
FR #914 | Movie | Romance, Mystery | USA | French, German
Director
Stanley Donen
Writer
Peter Stone, Marc Behm
Cast
Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau, James Coburn, George Kennedy
Plot
Romance and intrigue ensue in Paris as a woman is pursued by several men who want to get their hands on a fortune her murdered husband had stolen. She soon loses trust in those who claim they want to help her.
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.
The Kozcuoglu family, who have lived on their farm in Hatay for generations, faces challenges when Demir, a successful businessman, moves to the city. Demir has a purpose for revenge regarding his mother's suicide in the Asi River.
FR #1014 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Canada, Ireland | English, Latin
Director
John Crowley
Writer
Nick Hornby, Colm Toibin
Cast
Saoirse Ronan, Emory Cohen, Domhnall Gleeson, Jim Broadbent
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.
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.
Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Frank Sinatra, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Warden
Plot
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.
FR #1176 | Movie | Romance, Musical | India | Hindi
Director
Sooraj R. Barjatya
Writer
Sooraj R. Barjatya, S.M. Ahale
Cast
Salman Khan, Bhagyashree Patwardhan, Alok Nath, Reema Lagoo
Plot
After Suman's father leaves her in the care of another family while he travels abroad, she falls in love with Prem. However, in order to for them to marry, Prem has to prove to Suman's father that he is not the same as his own dad.
Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Cedric Hardwicke, Thomas Mitchell, Edmond O'Brien
Plot
In 15th-century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.
FR #1215 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | USA | Russian, French
Director
Ernst Lubitsch
Writer
Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Walter Reisch
Cast
Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire, Sig Ruman
Plot
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.
A rich man named Adnan marries Bihter, who is younger than him. A poisonous forbidden love begins between Adnan's nephew Behlül and Bihter who lives in the same mansion.
FR #1267 | Movie | Romance, Drama | USA, Austria | English, German
Director
Richard Linklater
Writer
Richard Linklater, Kim Krizan
Cast
Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Andrea Eckert
Plot
A young man and woman meet on a train in Europe, and wind up spending one evening together in Vienna. Unfortunately, both know that this will probably be their only night together.
FR #1283 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | USA, Russia | English, Russian
Director
Sean Baker
Writer
Sean Baker
Cast
Mikey Madison, Paul Weissman, Lindsey Normington
Plot
A young stripper from Brooklyn meets and impulsively marries the son of a Russian oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairy tale is threatened as his parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.
FR #1288 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | Norway, France | Norwegian, English
Director
Joachim Trier
Writer
Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier
Cast
Renate Reinsve, Anders Danielsen Lie, Herbert Nordrum
Plot
The chronicles of four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.
FR #1301 | Movie | Drama, Romance | South Korea, USA | English, Korean
Director
Celine Song
Writer
Celine Song
Cast
Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, John Magaro
Plot
Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrested apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Twenty years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny.
FR #1311 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Japan, Taiwan | English, Mandarin
Director
Edward Yang
Writer
Edward Yang
Cast
Nien-Jen Wu, Elaine Jin, Issei Ogata
Plot
Portrait of a middle-class family in Taipei. A man in his forties, his teenage daughter and his eight-year-old son experience life, navigating between remorse, hope and disappointment.
FR #1385 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Germany | German, Arabic
Director
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Writer
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast
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.
Suchitra Sen, Sanjeev Kumar, Om Shivpuri, Manmohan, A.K. Hangal, C.S. Dubey
Plot
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...
FR #1440 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | Czech, France | Czech, English
Director
Milos Forman
Writer
Jaroslav Papousek, Milos Forman, Ivan Passer
Cast
Hana Brejchova, Vladimir Pucholt, Vladimir Mensik
Plot
Factory manager gets army reserves to boost female workers' morale. Local beauty spurns them for jazz pianist who seduces her. She leaves for Prague to find him but his parents are displeased when she arrives.
