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Romance movies
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In Paris, detective Claude Chavasse is hired to follow a wife suspected of infidelity with the notorious American libertine Frank Flannagan. When the husband learns that his suspicions are accurate, he tells Claude of his plan to kill Flannagan. Claude's daughter Ariane overhears the threat and warns Frank of the coming trouble. She then plays the part of a worldly socialite with a list of conquests as long as Flannagan's. The bemused ladies' man returns to America the next day and Ariane, completely in love, follows his romantic escapades in the news. She sees him again in Paris the following year, and resumes her worldly guise, telling tales of former lovers when they meet at his hotel in the afternoon. Frank, amazed by the mystery girl and surprised to find himself jealous of her past, hires Claude to uncover more information about her. When the detective realizes what has happened, he asks Frank not to break his daughter's heart. |
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Two mischievous angels who were laid off by God and are given the boot. Finding themselves banned to Wisconscin, they set out for New Jersey where they find a loophole that will allow them to re-enter heaven. The only problem is it will destroy humanity. An abortion clinic worker who is a relative of Christ, a wisecracking 13th apostle, a stripper/muse, and mischievous mall rats Jay and Silent Bob band together to stop them. |
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Dear Diary: Veronica Sawyer is sick of being part of the Heathers, the most powerful clic of Westerberg High; making fun of Martha Dunnstock ("Dumptruck"), the fat girl, or doing some stupid polls is something she'll never get used to. Meanwhile she meets JD, a cool rebel guy who wouldn't mind shooting a gun at school just to make his point. Remington University's party is where Veronica has to go as a Heather, and there's where she gets her ultimatum as a Heather from Heather Chandler, the head of the Heathers. So Veronica and her lover JD "accidentally" kill Heather Chandler and manage to cover it up by making a suicide note. Will this be just the beginning of the assasination-turned-suicide serie of Westerberg High which nor the FBI, the CIA or the PTA would be able to stop? Or will Veronica be able to pull herself together and stop her psychotic lover from killing absolutely EVERYONE at school? |
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A sailor (Derek Luke) prone to violent outbursts is sent to a naval psychiatrist (Washington) for help. Refusing at first to open up, the young man eventually breaks down and reveals a horrific childhood. Through the guidance of his doctor, he confronts his painful past and begins a quest to find the family he never knew. |
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Two mid-aged divorcees Jeremy Klein (Vince Vaughn) and John Beckwith (Owen Wilson) are a pair of longtime friends who work for a law firm, helping contentious couples mediate their divorces, continuously crashing weddings to meet girls. They can get into any wedding and into the heart of every bridesmaid, for one night, of course. Suddenly one of them falls for Claire, also a bridesmaid, who is a daughter of an influential and eccentric politician, and soon guys get into spending a wild weekend at the family's palatial waterside estate and find themselves quickly over their heads. |
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A struggling Chinese-American actor, who unwittingly finds himself involved with a high school girl, learns he has inherited his grandmother's home in Shanghai. The American-raised character moves to China in an attempt to connect with his ancestry, leaving behind quite possibly the only girl who has ever loved him. |
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Jerry Maguire used to be a typical sports agent: willing to do just about anything he could to get the biggest possible contracts for his clients, plus a nice commission for himself. Then, one day, he suddenly has second thoughts about what he's really doing. When he voices these doubts, he ends up losing his job and all of his clients, save Rod Tidwell, an egomaniacal football player. Can Jerry resurrect his career while still staying true to himself? |
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Roslyn is a very beautiful woman who just got divorced. She meets two friends, Guido and Gay, who take her to Guido's house in the country to relax and forget the difficulties of the past few weeks. Everything is fine at first, but soon the two men fall in love with Roslyn and start showing some bad aspects of their characters. Soon they meet another friend of Gay's, and the four of them go to hunt some wild horses. This is when things just... explode! |
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After the end of World War II, two reserve officers Bob Wallace (Bing Crosby) and Phil Davis (Danny Kaye) create one of the most successful song-and-dance act in the USA. When fate brings the buddies and two sisters, Betty (Rosemary Clooney) and Judy Haynes (Vera-Ellen), together, Bob and Phil become attracted to the girls and decide to travel with them to a ski-resort lodge in Vermont for White Christmas. On their arrival, the guys face two big surprises: the inn is run by their former commander, Major General Thomas F. Waverly (Dean Jagger), and it's about to go under due to lack of snow and consequent lack of guests. Wallace and Davis come up with a brilliant idea to form a quartet and perform a Christmas show to benefit the struggling lodge. |
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Ted was a geek in high school, who was going to go to the prom with one of the most popular girls in school, Mary. The prom date never happened, because Ted had a very unusual accident. Thirteen years later he realizes he is still in love with Mary, so he hires a private investigator to track her down. That investigator discovers he too may be in love with Mary, so he gives Ted some false information to keep him away from her. But soon Ted finds himself back into Mary's life, as we watch one funny scene after another. |
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After being released from a mental institution, a young attractive but socially awkward woman named Lee Holloway (Maggie Gyllenhaal) returns home to live with her dysfunctional parents, Joan (Lesley Ann Warren) and Burt (Stephen McHattie). Determined to change her life for the better, she takes a typing class and eventually lands a job as a secretary for an eccentric, perfectionist attorney, E. Edward Grey (James Spader). It soon becomes apparent that Mr. Grey is not your average chief, and Lee tentatively develops a BDSM relationship with him...
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This screen interpretation of vampire literature classic is the most well-known and, more to say, brilliant one. Set in London, this spectacular picture closely follows the book, but is even more dramatic. This eye-catching movie tells about Johnathan (Keanu Reeves) and Mina (Wynona Ryder), young pair which soon will face the ancient vampire - count Dracula (Gary Oldmen). When John heads to Transylvania for the business travel, he has to communicate with the famous Count and the monster accidentally sees John's medallion with the picture of Mina. This film is not simply an eye-candy due to its exquisite visual aesthetics, but it is also a profound story, which tells what it takes to be an immortal monster... and to love forever, hopelessly. |
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Follows a group of high school students growing up in southern California, based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe. Stacy Hamilton and Mark Ratner are looking for a love interest, and are helped along by their older classmates, Linda Barrett and Mike Damone, respectively. The center of the film is held by Jeff Spicoli, a perpetually stoned surfer dude who faces off with the resolute Mr. Hand, who is convinced that everyone is on dope. |
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Lorelei and Dorothy are just "Two Little Girls from Little Rock", lounge singers on a transatlantic cruise, working their way to Paris, and enjoying the company of any eligible men they might meet along the way, even though "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend." Based on the Broadway musical based on the novel. |
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Jessy (Parminder Nagra), a young girl loves football very much. Despite her orthodox Indian parents want their daughter to be a lawyer, she desires to play professional football and accepts no half-ways. Along with her friend Jules (Keira Knightley) who share her football passion Jessy became obsessed by training in order to join the semi-pro team. Perspectives seem to be rosy when your team coach is handsome and when the first goals scored, but one should work really hard to succeed. To bend it like Beckham. |
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This romantic comedy revolves around Henry Roth (Billy Crudup), one of the most successful New York authors. He writes books for kids but oddly enough he dislikes them and mankind in general and bonds only with his longtime friend Rudy Holt (Tom Wilkinson), a collaborator and illustrator. When Rudy suddenly becomes ill and passes away, Henry is forced by his publisher Arthur Planck (Bob Balaban) to team up with an attractive young female artist named Lucy Reilly (Mandy Moore). He reluctantly begins to work with Lucy on a sequel to his successful book "Marty the Beaver" and soon finds himself romantically involved with her. |
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The moving story of a Hungarian mapmaker and his dying memories of the romance that tragically alters his life. Burned horribly in a fiery plane crash while crossing the Sahara Desert during WWII, he is tended to by a Canadian nurse with ghosts of her own and haunted by a thief seeking answers for a crime from his past. |
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John Marion Stryker is the ultimate Marine, a tough rifle squad leader who in 1943 is assigned a squad of new recruits saddled with three veterans and an old enemy of Stryker's from previous duties in the Far East. One recruit in particlar is a source of friction with Stryker, Peter Conway, whose father was Stryker's CO at Guadalcanal and who felt his son was too soft and cowardly to be a Marine. The squad grows more and more resentful at Stryker's increasingly brutal training regimen and his lack of sympathy for the varied personal problems of the recruits, but his determination to mold them into fighting men helps save their lives when the squad is landed at Tarawa in November 1943 and Stryker risks his life to blow up a Japanese bunker that has slaughtered Marines trapped at a log wall. The now battle-tested squad becomes more closely-knit and Stryker's relationship with the men warms as the squad eventually finds itself in the bloodiest island battle of the war, at Iwo Jima. |
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'Rent' tells the story based on Puccini's 'La Boheme' and on Jonathan Larson's award-winning Broadway musical. It's about of one year in the life of friends living the Bohemian life in modern day East Village, New York City, 1989-1990. They struggle to express themselves through their art and strive for success and acceptance while enduring the obstacles of poverty, illness and the AIDS epidemic. The story centers around Mark (Anthony Rapp) and Roger (Adam Pascal), two roommates. Will this year change their lives or all the things will stay the same? Former and actual junkies, gays, computer and music geniuses are the modern day's bohemia, but did the human changed novadays? |
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This historical drama presents us one of the greatest romantic stories of doomed love. After the fall of the Roman Empire, King of Ireland (David O'Hara) has in fact taken control over England. While Tristan dreams of banishing Ireland's presence in England, he harbours a secret he's been hiding from his patron Marke - after suffering serious wounds, he was rescued and nursed back to health by Isolde (Sophia Myles), King Donnchadh's daughter, and the two fell deeply in love. Still seeking to throw the English tribes back into chaos, King Donnchadh gives away his daughter as the prize in a tournament between all the champions of England. Tristan wins the princess' hand for Lord Marke, whose vision of a united England may finally be realized. Tristan is horrified to see that the woman he has won for his Lord, the woman whom Marke will marry, is his Irish savior Isolde. |
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