Romance - Movies

The Souvenir

Romance

A shy but ambitious film student (Honor Swinton Byrne) begins to find her voice as an artist while navigating a turbulent courtship with a charismatic but untrustworthy man (Tom Burke). She defies her protective mother (Tilda Swinton) and concerned friends as she slips deeper and deeper into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship that comes dangerously close to destroying her dreams. From acclaimed writer-director Joanna Hogg comes an enigmatic and personal portrait of the artist as a young woman, combining passionate emotions and exquisite aesthetics into a lush, dreamlike story of young adulthood and first love. At once enrapturing and mysteriously unsettling—and featuring a profoundly layered breakout performance by Honor Swinton Byrne—The Souvenir is an essential and enduring film from one of our most distinctive and exciting filmmakers.

Breaking & Exiting

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Breaking & Exiting is a romantic comedy about how certain decisions can impact one’s life. It tells the story of Harry, a career criminal with a knack for robbing houses and paying his rent with the used TVs and jewelry that he sells. After his partner in crime quits, Harry decides to keep his career going, with the knowledge that he doesn't need anyone but himself to survive in this lifetime. But one day during a standard robbery, Harry meets Daisy, a young woman in the midst of taking her own life. Harry must decide if he can truly find happiness on his own, or if helping save her life could end up saving his, too.

Christmas at the Holly Hotel

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A young woman living a picture-perfect city life is asked by her parents, owners of Michigan's historic Holly Hotel, to come home for Christmas. Once there she realizes she might be wrong about what a picture-perfect life truly looks like.

3 Days of Normal

Romance

When Nikki, a hard partying Hollywood It-Girl, crash lands in a tiny New Hampshire town, she sends Bill's perfectly ordered life reeling. Romance blooms, as Bill, a cop, and the only person on earth oblivious to Nikki’s fame, helps shield her from the oncoming paparazzi. Together they remind each other of the beauty of who we are when no one is looking.

Time is Up

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Time is Up with protagonists Vivien (Bella Thorne) and Roy (Benjamin Mascolo). Vivien is a highly accomplished student, with a passion for physics and keen to get into a prestigious American university. She seems to live her own life as a mathematical formula that drives her to look at her own happiness as something to be postponed into the future. Roy, on the other hand, is a troubled and problematic young man who, due to a trauma suffered as a child, sees his desires continually hindered by a past that seems to constantly haunt him. But mathematics too has its variables andas always happens, life manages to weave events together in increasingly surprising and unexpected ways. Indeed, an accident will force our protagonists to come to a stop and reclaim their lives, and finally start living in a present that perhaps will prove to be more exciting than any predefined formula.

Can We Still Be Friends

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"Can We Still Be Friends?" is centered on Digs (Gerald Anderson) – a no fuss, no frills kind of guy – and idealistic achiever Sam (Arci Muñoz) who are friends turned lovers turned exes. Their relationship as a couple lasted for almost eight years until they both decided on an amicable breakup. As they face the dating world separately, the ex-couple consistently check on each other under the guise of “friendship.” This turns into a competition on who will find a new relationship first only to find out that one of them is still in love with the other. Directed by Prime Cruz and with a screenplay written by Jen Chuaunsu, “Can We Still Be Friends?” is a love story that celebrates the indomitable millennial spirit as it attempts to ask the proverbial question: can exes really be friends?

The Deep Blue Sea

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The Deep Blue Sea stars Academy Award winner Rachel Weisz in a stunning performance that ranks as perhaps the best of her career and one of the strongest of the year, garnering a Golden Globe® nomination and New York Critics' Circle Award for Best Actress. Master chronicler of post-War England Terence Davies directs Weisz as Hester Collyer, the wife of an upper-class judge (Simon Russell Beale) and a free spirit trapped in a passionless marriage. Her encounter with Freddie Page (Tom Hiddleston), a troubled former RAF pilot, throws her life into turmoil, as their erotic relationship leaves her emotionally stranded and physically isolated.

1st Night

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Adam is a rich industrialist, who aspires to a more cultured world. Spurred on by playful jibes that he is little more than a city suit living the capitalist's dream, this frustrated amateur opera singer decides to throw an opera in his lavish country retreat. Once his friends see him belting out the notes, he feels sure it will spell the end to their shallow taunts. In fact, it might even help him win the hand of a female conductor he has been pursuing whom - it just so happens - is the first to be recruited for his showpiece.

Love Story

Romance

Love means never having to say you're sorry... Love Story. Everyone loves Love Story! One of the most romantic movies ever made also remains one of the most enduringly popular. This heartfelt 1970 tale of the love of a lifetime-the most successful Paramount movie up to that time-received seven Academy Award nominations (including Best Picture) and won one for Francis Lai's magnificent score. As filming was underway on Love Story, the filmmakers knew they had something special-so special that Erich Segal was simultaneously shaping his best-selling novel from his own screenplay. Stars Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw each received Academy Award nominations and became overnight movie sensations for their poignant portrayals of a young couple who cross social barriers, marry and ultimately face the greatest crisis of all.

Chico and Rita

Romance

A Cuban pianist falls in love with a sultry singer, leading to a passionate but star-crossed romance that reaches across six decades, in this Academy Award-nominated musical drama.

I Believe in Unicorns

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I BELIEVE IN UNICORNS takes us on a road trip through the stunning and complex landscape of troubled young love. Davina is an imaginative and strongwilled teenage girl who often escapes into a beautifully twisted fantasy life. Having grown up quickly as the sole caretaker of her disabled mother, she looks for salvation in a new relationship with an older boy. Davina is swept into a whirlwind of romance and adventure, but the enchantment of her new relationship quickly fades when Sterling’s volatile side begins to emerge.

Para Sa Hopeless Romantic (For the Hopeless Romantic)

Romance

Becca's fairytale romance goes wrong when her Prince Charming, the athletic Nikko, breaks up with her with no reasonable explanation. Her heartache translates even to the love story she struggles to finish for the school publication. Just like in her real life, she could not give her characters Maria and Ryan a happy ending either. Will Becca have a change of heart when Nikko returns and asks for a second chance? How will Becca end her love story?

I Met a Girl

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I Met A Girl follows the story of Devon (Brenton Thwaites), an aspiring musician with schizophrenia who is dependent on his older brother, Nick (Joel Jackson) to care for him. However, when Nick’s wife, Olivia (Zahra Newman) becomes pregnant, they arrange for Devon to move out. On a downward spiral, Devon is saved by Lucy (Lily Sullivan) a mysterious girl who is just as impulsive and romantic as he is. After one day together, they fall completely in love. Devon then arranges for Nick to meet her, but Lucy doesn’t show. They try to find her but her apartment is empty. Nick suspects that Lucy is a delusion, while Devon, desperate to prove his sanity, discovers a note that she wrote him: meet me in Sydney. And Devon sets off on an epic, cross-country journey to find her; the girl of his dreams… who may be all in his head.

Metropolitan

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One of the great American independent films of the 1990s, the surprise hit METROPOLITAN, by writer-director Whit Stillman, is a sparkling comedic chronicle of a young man’s romantic misadventures while trying to fit in to New York City’s debutante society. Stillman’s deft, literate dialogue and hilariously highbrow observations earned this first film an Academy Award nomination for best original screenplay. Beneath the wit and sophistication, though, lies a tender tale of adolescent anxiety.

Marry Christmas

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After finding love, the Wright Brothers unwittingly schedule weddings for the same day. A sibling rivalry ensues for the right to wed their brides on Christmas.

Across the River and Into the Trees

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As WWII ends, Col. Cantwell, a witty war hero, confronts terminal illness. Seeking solace in Venice, he commandeers a driver for a final trip. Amid unraveling plans, a chance encounter with a countess offers hope and redemption against the backdrop of war. Hemingway's themes of love, youth, and age resonate in Across the River and Into the Trees.

Seven Lovers

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A young woman cycles through seven relationships, each one depicted in a distinct cinematic style. As she adapts all-too-seamlessly to the world of each new partner, she begins to ask herself the question: who am I when I'm not in love?

Got 2 Believe

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Toni (Claudine Barretto), a wedding planner and perennial bridesmaid, has always wanted to have a fairy-tale romance. Turning 25, she is half-afraid and half-resigned to the fact that she might have to spend the rest of her life being single. Caddish photographer Lorenz (Rico Yan) offers Toni a proposal to be the subject of his article for an exclusive magazine in exchange for setting Toni up on a date with the perfect man for her. Toni reluctantly agrees and eventually meets her ideal man in Perry (Dominic Ochoa). The only problem is that Toni is now torn between the perfect man and the man who made her heart fall in love.

Weekenders

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As summer turns to fall in rural Vermont, a scheduling mix-up at an Airbnb brings four twenty-somethings together, each navigating the open waters of where, how, and with whom they're supposed to be. As the long weekend progresses, the foursome is forced to contemplate their collective baggage, the value of prioritizing connection over convenience, and what happens when they all go home.

Map of the Human Heart

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From the acclaimed director of What Dreams May Come, Map Of The Human Heart is a visually stunning love story that would last a lifetime! When a half-Eskimo boy named Avik (Jason Scott Lee) leaves his Arctic home with a British mapmaker (Patrick Bergin) to seek medical attention in Canada, it marks the first steps in an epic personal journey. In Montreal, Avik meets Albertine (Anne Parillaud), a half-Indian girl with whom his life will be forever linked. Spanning decades and distance through war and adversity, their star-crossed relationship becomes a grand romantic adventure of never-ending intensity. Featuring a memorable appearance by big-screen favorite John Cusack, you'll agree with critics everywhere who raved about this outstanding motion picture!

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