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Romance movies
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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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Terry (Joan Allen), a sharp-witted woman and a mother of four, had lost her husband and trying to drown her sorrows in alcohol. Once she gets acquainted with Denny (Kevin Costner), an ex-basketball player living in her neighborhood who now works at a radio-station as a DJ. With both Terry and Denny feeling down in the dumps about recent events in their lives, the two find themselves drawn to one another. Soon Denny becomes a good drinking buddy for Terry and slowly evolves into her source of strength, and, in fact, becomes like father to her daughters. But things get complicated as Danny, Terry and her daughters attempting to juggle their romantic dilemmas. |
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Two sisters, plus a dead mother, a remarried father, and a hostile step-mother. The sisters, each in her way, have perfected the art of losing. The elder, Rose, is an attorney, responsible, lonely, with a closet full of shoes. The younger is Maggie, beautiful, selfish, and irresponsible. Her drunken behavior gets her tossed by her step-mother from her dad's house; worse behavior gets her tossed from Rose's apartment. Then, while searching in her father's desk for money to filch, Maggie finds an address; the past and the future open up to her and, with any luck, may open to her sister as well. |
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The Cooler is Bernie Lootz, and THE COOLER is a love story about the changing fortunes of this down-at-heels loser who has made a career out of spreading his virulent bad luck on the floor of Las Vegas' aging Shangri-La casino. When Bernie falls for a gorgeous cocktail waitress his bad luck is thrown into reverse. |
| Funny Face
[1957,
USA]
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| Presenting a Real New Dimension in Motion Picture Entertainment. |
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Fashion photographer Dick Avery (Fred Astaire), in search for an intellectual backdrop for an air-headed model, expropriates a Greenwich Village bookstore. When the photo session is over the store is left in a shambles, much to salesgirl Jo Stockton's (Audrey Hepburn) dismay. Avery stays behind to help her clean up. Later, he examines the photos taken there and sees Jo in the background of one shot. He is intrigued by her unique appearance, as is Maggie Prescott (Kay Thompson), the editor of a leading fashion magazine. They offer Jo a modeling contract, which she reluctantly accepts only because it includes a trip to Paris. Eventually, her snobbish attitude toward the job softens, and Jo begins to enjoy the work and the company of her handsome photographer. |
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Set in China, 10th Century, the gripping epic-scale historical drama follows the tragic collapse of the Later Tang dynasty. The imperial court wallows in sin: lust, infidelity, hatred, betrayal, incest, and conspiracy, to name a few. Empress Phoenix (Gong Li) has a liaison with Crown Prince Wan (Liu Ye), her stepson from the Emperor’s first marriage, who maintains a second secret relationship with Jiang Chan (Li Man), the Imperial Doctor’s daughter, and harbours a plan to elope with her. Meanwhile, Emperor Ping (Chow Yun Fat), a man of humble origins and great ambition, doesn’t love his wife, whom he only married to succeed to the throne. He has a nefarious scheme to use a special poison to drive the Empress mad. Moreover, he senses a threat from Prince Jai (Jay Chou), his middle son, and Prince Yu (Qin Junjie), his youngest son, who he thinks may want to take the throne by force or guile. There comes the Chrysanthemum Festival during which the darkest family secrets are revealed. |
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Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern play a pair of lovers who think they're wild at heart on the run in David Lynch's surrealist road movie. Their horizons are constituted by little more than TV, and their romance sets them off on the way to sunny California. Cage's Sailor Ripley is a violent ex-con. Dern's Lula Pace Fortune, is the daughter of a rich, but mentally unstable mother. Lula's mother hates Sailor and sends for them a cop and a hitman. Along their intricate trip, Sailor and Lula have a lot of sex, relate the events of their past to date, share their obsessions for Elvis, and meet a lot of grotescue characters. Movie's atmosphere is rather typical for Lynch. |
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A mid-western farm boy reluctantly becomes a member of the undead when a girl he meets turns out to be part of a band of southern vampires who roam the highways in stolen cars. Part of his initiation includes a bloody assault on a hick bar. |
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This film, based on the novel by Arthur Golden, unfolds from the perspective of Chiyo (Zhang Ziyi), a girl who, at the age of nine, is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house in the early 1930s. Here, she goes through the training to become a geisha, and the life she leads as one. She learns that becoming a geisha can be the single path to wealth and independence for a woman. Despite a treacherous rival who nearly breaks her spirit, the girl blossoms into the legendary geisha Sayuri. She can play with the hearts of the mightiest men, but the only one she adores is beyond her reach. Sayuri must confront the possibility that history will leave all that she has worked for behind as World War II approaches, and as Japan stands at the brink of a new era. |
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The workaholic Dr. Elizabeth Masterson (Reese Witherspoon) has a car accident after twenty-six hours working in a hospital. Three months later, the landscape architect David Abbott (Mark Ruffalo) is recovering from the loss of his wife, and rents her apartment with furniture in San Francisco. While living in the place, the spirit of Elizabeth, that only he is able to see, visits and argues with him, but later they fall in love for each other. David tries to find who Elizabeth was, and is surprised with his discovering. |
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A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, driven by their family's blind ambition, compete for the love of the handsome and passionate King Henry VIII. |
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While in the burial of Countess Torlato-Favrini, her friend Harry Dawes and her acquaintance Oscar Muldoon recalls parts of her past. When the wealthy Kirk Edwards hires director and screenplay writer Harry Dawes, they travel to Spain with the public relations Oscar Muldoon to see the dancer of a nightclub Maria Vargas and invite her for an audition, since they need a new face for their next movie. Maria, a naive woman with simple origins, is convinced by Harry to go to Hollywood and becomes a famous star and a close friend of Harry and his girlfriend Jerry. Along her successful career, Maria lives personal dramas including lack of adaptation for her new lifestyle, is unable to love and is disputed by the powerful millionaires Kirk Edwards and Alberto Bravano. When she meets the noble and handsome Count Vincenzo Torlato-Favrini in the French Riviera, she believes that she found her prince charming and her life becomes a fairy tale. But after the wedding, she sees that her Cinderella's castle of dreams has become a pumpkin. |
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A 32-year-old British woman named Bridget Jones (Renee Zellweger) indulges in bad habits, especially smoking, drinking and overeating, and has no scruple in saying what crosses her mind. The worst thing is that she is single and can't find the right man. Her caring parents (Gemma Jones and Jim Broadbent) try to bring her into contact with their neighbors' modest son, Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), but Bridget is attracted to her handsome boss, Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant). She eventually arrives at a decision to turn over a new leaf, to work off her excess weight and to keep a diary in which she will record her achievements. However, making dreams come true and finding true love turns out to be much more difficult than expected... |
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Eighteen-year-old Matthew Kidman (Emile Hirsch), an aspiring high school student with big dreams of being a politician, is still inexperienced in matters of love and sex. But everything changes when a fascinating, seemingly innocent 19-year-old girl, Danielle (Elisha Cuthbert), moves in next door. They fall wildly in love with each other and begin dating. Besotted, Matthew considers her to be the girl of his dreams and gets stunned to find out that Danielle is a former porn star. From that point on, he finds his life turned upside down. Matthew decides to help her cut the strings of her past but he faces a variety of obstacles he is not prepared for. All in all, it is Danielle who helps him deal with the problems and teaches him that he should be willing to risk everything for the sake of love. |
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Landon Carter (Shane West), the most popular hunk at Beaufort high school, is an independent, restless and rebellious guy who likes nothing more than playing pranks on his school's outcasts. It goes without saying that he pays no attention to Jamie Sullivan (Mandy Moore), an outwardly plain, studious and responsible girl. When a harmless prank goes terribly wrong leaving a boy in hospital, Landon is held responsible and forced to tutor a young student at a poor school and participate in the school drama production in which Jamie is also involved. As Landon can't act, he asks her for help with his lines. The girl agrees to cooperate with Landon if he promises not to fall in love with her. The self-assured guy willingly vows but soon he comes to realize that keeping his word is no easy matter... |
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The energetic film adaptation of the popular Broadway musical is about American teens in love in the 1950s. During her summer vacation goody-two-shoes Australian girl Sandy Olsen (Olivia Newton-John) visits America and meets leader of the greaser gang Danny Zuko (John Travolta) at the beach. Despite social differences, the two fall in love and spend time together until the summer ends. Sandy is upset to return home as she never expects to see her love interest again. But fortunately for her, her parents decide to stay in America and Sandy begins to attend the same high school. |
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While looking for an apartment, Jeanne, a beautiful young Parisienne, encounters Paul, a mysterious American expatriate mourning his wife's recent suicide. Instantly drawn to each other, they have a stormy, passionate affair, in which they do not reveal their names to each other. Their relationship deeply affects their lives, as Paul struggles with his wife's death and Jeanne prepares to marry her fiance, Tom, a film director making a cinema-verite documentary about her. |
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Movie trailer editor, Amanda of Los Angeles, CA and journalist Iris of Surrey, England live five thousand miles apart and have never met, but are dealing with the same problem: men. Amanda having just broken up with her cheating boyfriend, Ethan and Iris having pined for her ex, Jasper, becoming engaged to the woman he left her for decide to take a vacation during Christmas. They come upon a website called home exchange and swap houses for two weeks both with a goal to forget their troubled love lives. But love ends up finding them anyways. Amanda starts a romance with Iris' older brother, Graham, a book editor and Iris starts a romance with a movie composer named Miles. With new found romance, both their lives change forever. |
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The most emotional adventure of his career begins for James Bond on a deserted beach where a young woman tries to drown herself. He rescues the girl and for his trouble is attacked by two toughs - the girl's bodyguards. It soon becomes much bigger for 007 - the girl is Teresa Draco, daughter of crime boss Marc Ange Draco, who wants James to marry his wayward daughter, and in return he can provide 007 with information on an even more dangerous criminal leader - Ernst Stavro Bloefeld of SPECTRE. But both James and Teresa find more than they ever bargained for when their paths collide in a vicious pursuit in the snow-capped mountains of Switzerland, an enormous avalanche, and a smuggling ring for germ warfare against the West by Blofeld, who proves most difficult to kill and who exacts a revenge that James can never forget - or forgive. |
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On her sixteenth birthday, Samantha Baker (Molly Ringwald) feels that she is the unhappiest girl in the world because he parents, who are preoccupied with her older sister's wedding, completely forget the momentous occasion. To add insult to injury, her irksome grandparents bring along an odd Japanese exchange student, Long Duk Dong (Gedde Watanabe), and force her to take him with her to the school dance. On top of it all, Sam can hardly get rid of an obnoxious freshman named Ted (Anthony Michael Hall) who has a crush on her and insistently tries to bed her. Nevertheless, she nourishes hope that she will capture the attention of the boy of her dreams, Jake Ryan (Michael Schoeffling)... |
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