After the sudden end of his whirlwind romance with a beautiful but callous starlet, Sophia (Elena Anaya), Carter Webb (Adam Brody), a young soft-core porn screenwriter, leaves Los Angeles for his suburban Detroit home to heal his broken heart and take care of his ailing grandmother Phyllis (Olympia Dukakis). Soon after his arrival, he forms a special bond with his grandma's neighbors —charming woman Sarah Hardwicke (Meg Ryan) and her two daughters, rebellious teenage Lucy (Kristen Stewart) and precocious eleven-year-old Paige (Makenzie Vega). There, in the land of women, Carter finds himself taken into confidence regarding their fantasies, their deepest fears and their hidden desires.
Based on Ian McEwan's popular novel, the romantic drama follows Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan), a precocious preteen from an upper-class English family and fledgling writer with a great power of imagination. She knows about the mutual love between her elder sister Cecilia (Keira Knightley) and housekeeper's son Robby Turner (James McEvoy) and feels hurt as she has a fancy for Robbie too. So, when her 15-year-old cousin Lola Quincey (Juno Temple) becomes the victim of a rape, a string of misinterpretations, fueled by her vivid imagination and her jealousy, drives her to finger Robby as a rapist. He is arrested and sent to jail but Cecillia strongly refuses to believe her sister and becomes hostile towards her. Many years later, Briony (Romola Garai) writes a novel to expiate her guilt for her childish misdeed that irreversibly changed the course of all their lives.
A small town girl named Katie (Jessika Simpson) arrives in New York City to surprise her boyfriend. Instead, she gets surprised to catch him in the hay with another woman. Katie prefers living and working in the megalopolis to returning home, therefore she lands a job in a big company and unexpectedly finds herself amid a corporate tug of war when the unscrupulous vice president of the company Amber Perry (Piper Mackenzie Harris) schemes to oust the president, her ex-husband (Bill Jenkins), by any means necessary.
Set in modern-day Sacramento, California, this romantic dramedy centers on six people who decide to form a book club to discuss the beloved novels of English writer Jane Austen in order to distract themselves from a life of unrealized dreams, unrequited love, loneliness, betrayal, frustration, and other romantic problems. Among them is Bernadette (Kathy Baker), the organizer of the club who has been married six times; Jocelyn (Maria Bello Bello), a single dog breeder; Sylvia Avila (Amy Brenneman) who has been dumped by her husband for another woman; Allegra Avila (Maggie Grace), her lesbian daughter who has several lovers; and Prudie Drummond (Emily Blunt), a French teacher who is unhappily married, and drawn to one of her students. There is also Grigg Harris (Hugh Dancy), a sci-fi fan and tech support worker who joins the club out of attraction to Jocelyn. While reading and discussing one novel per month, they find their own lives resembling the plots of the books.
A meditation on love and its various incarnations, set within a community of friends in Oregon. and is described as an exploration of the magical, mysterious and sometimes painful incarnations of love.
The charming romantic comedy tells the story of a young Indian woman named Shalini Singh (Namrata Singh Gujral) who arrives in the United States only to discover that her fiancé is far from the man of her dreams. Shalini sets out to find her perfect match and crosses paths with wannabe Hollywood movie producer Rob Shorwell (Brad Raider) who does his best to teach her all about the American way of life in order to make her a celebrity. The two eventually fall in love develop cultural understanding.
Billy Crudup stars as Henry, a complex, misanthropic and overall strange author of children's books. As his soulmate and creative collaborator Rude (Tom Wilkinson) dies, Henry faces the necessity to team up with a new illustrator, Lucy (Mandy Moore). So Henry suffers a lot and deprives himself of a chance to go on, he continues to communicate (successfully) with Rudy via the Unisphere - a giant globe that was part of the World's Fair in Queens, New York, in the 1960s. However, no matter how much nuts Henry's becoming, he attempts to work with a new, by the way lovely, colleague, on a sequel to his successful children's book. As for Lucy, she's followed by her ex-boyfriend Jeremy, who left her two years ago and suddenly appears now, extremely apologetic, and dedicates his new book to her...
Rachel Wilcox (Lindsay Lohan) behaves like a typical teenage girl. She flaunts her sexuality, drinks and smokes, uses profanity and is rude to her weak-willed, long-suffering alcoholic mother, Lilly (Felicity Huffman). But the last straw comes when Rachel borrows the family car without permission and causes an accident. What can Lilly do with the regular hoodlum? She determines that the only means to tame her impulsive and uncontrollable daughter is to send her to spend a summer with her rigid, rule-obsessed grandmother, Georgia (Jane Fonda), who lives in a wretched, god-forsaken hole in Idaho.
Liam (Ken Leung), a Chinese-American Hollywood actor, meets a pretty high school girl Adelaide (Hayden Panettiere) who seems to like her new friend very much but Liam doesn't feel like flirting with such a young person. Then he inherits his grandmother's house in Shanghai and goes there to learn about his roots. He leaves the girl who could make him happy...
Dan Burns is a single father who dedicates his life to his children, but one day he meets Marie at a bookstore. They get to know each other, but then Dan finds out that Marie is actually dating his brother, Mitch Burns.
Princess Giselle (Amy Adams) becomes a victim of dark Queen Narissa (Susan Sarandon) who has pushed her out of the magic kingdom. Giselle finds herself in the middle of a busy street of modern New York City. She must return back to her realm as quickly as possible to marry Prince Edward (James Marsden) but for the present she needs some help to orient herself in the real world with its lack of magic. Robert (Patrick Dempsey), a divorced lawyer, comes to the pretty stranger's aid.
In his Hollywood debut, Wong Kar-Wai tells a story of a suffering young woman named Elizabeth (Norah Jones) who sets out from New York City and leaves her friend Jeremy (Jude Law) behind. She travels across the States and gets a waitress job in small cafes during her journey. Befriending with casual people such as a gambler (Natalie Portman), a cop (David Strathairn) and his estranged wife (Rachel Weisz), each of whom is miserable in a different way, leads Elizabeth to an understanding of her own personality.
Based on the medieval novel by Giovanni Boccaccio, this period comedy presents ten young Italian nobles who decide to wait till the dark time of plague is over and move to the countryside near Florence. They entertain themselves by telling spicy stories while beautiful Pampinea (Mischa Barton) makes a choice between her admirers including Lorenzo (Hayden Christensen) and Gerbino (Tim Roth).
Four storylines symbolize the main principles of life – love, joy, pleasure and sadness (according to a Chinese proverb). A clerk (Forest Whitaker) decides to bet on horse-races thinking that the winnings are guaranteed. After the failure he owes a lot of money and is trapped by a gangster named Fingers (Andy Garcia). Fingers knows the results of the races very well as his buddy can foresee the future. The gangster's another victim is a pop star (Sarah Michelle Gellar) whose career may go down.
Marriages are made in heaven! Ben Murphy (John Krasinski) and Sadie Jones (Mandy Moore) can't have known it. When Ben offers Sadie his hand and heart, she wants to get married at the family church. But the lovebirds come across an obstacle: the over-the top pastor Reverend Frank (Robin Williams) wants to check them out for compatibility. Ben and Sadie will receive the pastor's grace and blessing on their marriage if they take and pass his Marriage Preparation Course. Frank's grueling tests involve couples counseling, preserving chastity before marriage, apartment surveillance, and caring for two robotic babies, just to name a few.
A young man named Tristan Thorne (Charlie Cox) lives in the small English village of Wall bordering on a supernatural parallel world. Trying to win the heart of Victoria (Sienna Miller), the most beautiful but selfish girl in the village, Tristan makes a reckless promise to retrieve a fallen star by crossing the forbidden old wall and entering the magical realm. In the kingdom of Stormhold, Tristan finds more than he has bargained for: the fallen star turns out to have been transformed into a striking young woman, Yvaine (Claire Danes). Moreover, he is not the only one in search of the luminous star. Yvaine is hunted by the King's (Peter O'Toole) four scheming sons, who are desperate to use her cosmic powers to succeed the throne, and the villainous old witch, Lamia (Michelle Pfeiffer), who yearns to devour her heart to achieve eternal youth and beauty. On his odyssey, Tristan has an incredible encounter with a sky pirate named Captain Shakespeare (Robert De Niro), faces a life-and-death struggle with Yvaine's nemeses, and discovers the secret to his own identity and the meaning of true love.
Zach has put aside his aspirations for a career in art to take care of his family, a romance with a surfing buddy one summer forces him to make important decisions about his life
Forced to give up his dreams of art school, Zach spends his days working a dead-end job and helping his needy sister care for her son. In his free time he surfs, draws and hangs out with his best friend, Gabe, who lives on the wealthy side of town. When Gabe's older brother, Shaun, returns home, he is drawn to Zach's selflessness and talent. Zach falls in love with Shaun while struggling to reconcile his own desires with the needs of his family.
Gary Shaller (Martin Freeman) who achieved tremendous success as a guitarist of the band "On The One" now lives a dull and ordinary life writing the jingles for his ex-companion (Simon Pegg). Once he discovers that he has a lucid dream about a woman named Anna (Penelope Cruz), and falls in love with her. He is eager to know more about lucid dreaming and he suddenly finds out that the woman he is dreaming about really exists. But when he meets her, Gary gets disappointed as she fails to fulfil his imaginary expectations. He sinks deeper and deeper into his lucid dream to spend more time with the fictitious woman, but his girlfriend Dora (Gwyneth Paltrow) does not want to lose him completely...
A New York schoolteacher (Hunt) hits a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband leaves, her adoptive mother dies and her real one, an eccentric talk show host, materializes and turns her life upside down as she (April) begins a courtship with the father (Firth) of one of her students.
In 1943, A dying gunner, who was in a crash involving a United States B-17, gives a ring to a local to return to his girlfriend in the USA. Fifty years later, a man finds the ring and tracks down the girlfriend and the history of this ring. Set in Belfast and North Carolina.