Showing posts with label Romance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Romance. Show all posts

Thursday, January 13, 2011

The Enchanted Cottage

The Enchanted Cottage

Actors: Spring Byington , Herbert Marshall , Robert Clarke , Mildred Natwick , Richard Gaines , Robert Young , Dorothy McGuire , Hillary Brooke , Alec Englander , Eden Nicholas
Director: John Cromwell
IMDB Rate: 7.5 out of 10 (1152 votes)
Plot Summary:A homely maid and a scarred ex-GI meet at the cottage where she works and where he was to spend his honeymoon prior to his accident. The two develop a bond and agree to marry, more out of loneliness than love. The romantic spirit of the cottage, however, overtakes them. They soon begin to look beautiful to each other, but no one else.

Maitresse

Maitresse

Actors: Gérard Depardieu , Anny Bartanovski , Tony Taffin , Michel Pilorgé , Nathalie Keryan , Pierre Devos , Bulle Ogier , Serge Berry , Holger Löwenadler , Cécile Pochet , Roland Bertin , Jeanne Herviale , André Rouyer , Richard Caron
Director: Barbet Schroeder
IMDB Rate: 6.6 out of 10 (539 votes)
Plot Summary:A common thief (Depardieu) breaks into the house of a professional dominatrix (Ogier), and begins to help her train her clients. Though this world is alien to his experience, he finds himself falling in love with her. Eventually he discovers that she does this in order to support her son, and he attempts to help her out of this life, which she is not sure she really wants to leave.

My Best Friend Is a Vampire

My Best Friend Is a Vampire

Actors: Kathy Bates , David Warner , Rene Auberjonois , Robert Sean Leonard , Paul Willson , Cecilia Peck , Cheryl Pollak , Fannie Flagg , Kenneth Kimmins , Gary Chason , Harvey Christiansen , Evan Mirand , Erica Zeitlin , Michelle La Vigne , LeeAnne Locken
Director: Jimmy Huston
IMDB Rate: 5.5 out of 10 (1275 votes)
Plot Summary:Young student finds himself being transformed to a vampire after a night with a quite attractive female vampire. First, he does not quite believe it himself, but with the help of a 300 year old teacher and the handbook vampirism - a guide to an alternative lifestyle, he finds out that blood does not taste as bad as he expected. Of course, he does not bite women, as a good guy he sticks to pig blood which is offered by the local butcher as a special offer for vampires. Trouble rises when a vampire hunter tries to track him down with wooden sticks and silver bullets...

The Great Man

The Great Man

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck , Joel McCrea , Brian Donlevy , Lloyd Corrigan , William B. Davidson , Thurston Hall , Mary Treen , Lucien Littlefield , K.T. Stevens , John Hamilton , Lillian Yarbo , Helen Lynd , Frank M. Thomas , Fred 'Snowflake' Toones , Etta McDaniel
Director: William A. Wellman
IMDB Rate: 7 out of 10 (114 votes)
Plot Summary:In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is at last persuaded to tell her story to a girl biographer. Flashback in 1848, teenage Hannah meets and flirts with pioneer Ethan on a sudden impulse, they elope. We follow their struggle to found a city in the wilderness, hampered by the Gold Rush, star-crossed love, peril, and heartbreak. The star ages 80 years.

The Bride Wore Boots

The Bride Wore Boots

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck , Patric Knowles , Natalie Wood , Robert Cummings , Willie Best , Peggy Wood , Robert Benchley , Diana Lynn , Gregory Marshall , Mary Young
Director: Irving Pichel
IMDB Rate: 6 out of 10 (69 votes)
Plot Summary:A bookish historian is married to a steely Southern belle who raises horses, an animal that he doesnt care for. However, the cute young neighbor girl doesnt feel that way about him and makes no bones about letting him know it.

There

There

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Actors: Barbara Stanwyck , Fred MacMurray , William Reynolds , Jane Darwell , Joan Bennett , Helen Kleeb , Myrna Hansen , Gigi Perreau , Paul Smith , Frances Mercer , Judy Nugent , Pat Crowley , Sheila Bromley , Jane Howard , Race Gentry
Director: Douglas Sirk
IMDB Rate: 7.4 out of 10 (470 votes)
Plot Summary:Clifford Groves, toy manufacturer, is in full charge at the factory but feels left out and taken for granted by his wife and children at home. Alone and depressed, he meets old flame Norma, and one thing leads to another. While their relationship is still fairly innocent, his son Vinnie sees them together and suspects the worst. Its time for tortured souls behind rain-streaming windows...

The Allnighter

The Allnighter

Actors: Joan Cusack , Pam Grier , Meshach Taylor , Dedee Pfeiffer , Michael Ontkean , Janelle Brady , Phil Brock , James Shanta , John Terlesky , Kelly Lynn Pushkin , Denise Dumont , Kaaren Lee , Susanna Hoffs , Mary Petrie , Will Seltzer
Director: Tamar Simon Hoffs
IMDB Rate: 3.4 out of 10 (522 votes)
Plot Summary:Molly, Val and Gina are graduating college, but on their final night, frustrations are aired. Molly is still looking for real love and Val is beginning to doubt if that is what shes found. Gina is too busy videotaping everything to really notice. When the final party at Pacifica College kicks off, things dont go exactly as planned.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

The Bridges at Toko-Ri

The Bridges at Toko-Ri

Actors: Mickey Rooney , William Holden , Charles McGraw , Willis Bouchey , Grace Kelly , Robert Strauss , Earl Holliman , Fredric March , Richard Shannon , Keiko Awaji
Director: Mark Robson
IMDB Rate: 6.9 out of 10 (2191 votes)
Plot Summary:Set during the Korean War, a Navy fighter pilot must come to terms with with his own ambivalence towards the war and the fear of having to bomb a set of highly defended bridges. The ending of this grim war drama is all tension.

Beautiful Girls

Beautiful Girls

Actors: Michael Rapaport , Uma Thurman , Timothy Hutton , Matt Dillon , Pruitt Taylor Vince , Lauren Holly , Natalie Portman , Richard Bright , Noah Emmerich , Mira Sorvino , Max Perlich , Annabeth Gish , Rosie O'Donnell , Martha Plimpton , Anne Bobby
Director: Ted Demme
IMDB Rate: 7.1 out of 10 (14859 votes)
Plot Summary:Beautiful Girls is about a group of small-town friends joining up for their first high school reunion. They find themselves evaluating their lives and their relationships. Its about growing up and facing reality.

Manhattan

Manhattan

Actors: Meryl Streep , Michael Murphy , Diane Keaton , Woody Allen , Mariel Hemingway , Helen Hanft , Victor Truro , Tisa Farrow , Charles Levin , Kenny Vance , Gary Weis , Michael O'Donoghue , Anne Byrne Hoffman , Bella Abzug , Karen Ludwig
Director: Woody Allen
IMDB Rate: 8.1 out of 10 (35941 votes)
Plot Summary:Isaac, 42, has divorced Jill. She is now living with another woman, Connie, and is writing a book in which she will reveal some very private points of their relationship. Isaac has a love affair with Tracy, 17, when he meets Mary, the mistress of his best friend Yale. Yale is already married to Emily.

Love Affair

Love Affair

Actors: Pierce Brosnan , Annette Bening , Brenda Vaccaro , Katharine Hepburn , Warren Beatty , Glenn Shadix , Harold Ramis , Kate Capshaw , Meagen Fay , Chloe Webb , Barry Miller , Garry Shandling , Paul Mazursky , Ray Girardin , Linda Wallem
Director: Glenn Gordon Caron
IMDB Rate: 5.4 out of 10 (2397 votes)
Plot Summary:Ex-football star Mike Gambril meets Terry McKay on a flight to Sydney, which is forced to land on a small atoll. Both engaged to others, they become romantic on board the ship sent to take the plane passengers to a larger island. They agree to meet in New York three months later to see if the attraction is real. One shows up, the other doesnt, but they run into each other afterwards.

Monday, January 10, 2011

School for Scoundrels

School for Scoundrels

Actors: Luis Guzman , Ben Stiller , Michael Clarke Duncan , Billy Bob Thornton , David Cross , DeRay Davis , Jon Heder , Sarah Silverman , Todd Louiso , Dan Fogler , Matt Walsh , Horatio Sanz , Jacinda Barrett , Paul Scheer , Jon Glaser
Director: Todd Phillips
IMDB Rate: 6 out of 10 (14601 votes)
Plot Summary:An unlucky meter reader enrolls in a confidence-building class so he can win the love of the girl of his dreams. The class turns out to be something quite different when it becomes clear to the young man that his professor has his sights set on the same girl.

Say Anything...

Say Anything...

Actors: John Cusack , Jeremy Piven , John Mahoney , Pamela Adlon , Lili Taylor , Loren Dean , Charles Walker , Ione Skye , Gloria Cromwell , Glenn Walker Harris Jr. , Jason Gould , Patrick O'Neill , Russel Lunday , Polly Platt , Amy Brooks
Director: Cameron Crowe
IMDB Rate: 7.5 out of 10 (23814 votes)
Plot Summary:High school senior Lloyd Dobler wants nothing more than to go out with beautiful and intelligent Diane Court. Lloyd attempts to win her heart over the objections of her over-protective father before Diane leaves for a scholarship in England.

Playing by Heart

Playing by Heart

Actors: Sean Connery , Anthony Edwards , Dennis Quaid , Angelina Jolie , Ellen Burstyn , Ryan Phillippe , Gena Rowlands , Gillian Anderson , Madeleine Stowe , Jay Mohr , Michael Emerson , April Grace , Christian Mills , Kellie Waymire , Tim Halligan
Director: Willard Carroll
IMDB Rate: 7 out of 10 (10260 votes)
Plot Summary:Eleven articulate people work through affairs of the heart in L.A. Paul produces Hannahs TV cooking show, and they must move beyond gentle barbs when she wants to know about an affair of his years ago. Mark is dying of AIDS, and his mother comes to his bedside they must talk truthfully. Men have scalded Meredith so she rebuffs Trents charm, but he persists. The trendy, prolix Joan tries to pull the solitary Keenan into her orbit why is he reluctant? An adulterous couple meet at hotels for evening sex, but she is unwilling for the relationship to grow. Hugh tells tall tales, usually tragic, to women in bars. By the weeks end, their parallel stories converge.

Orlando

Orlando

Actors: Tilda Swinton , Matthew Sim , Dudley Sutton , John Bott , Mary MacLeod , Quentin Crisp , Simon Russell Beale , Anna Healy , Jerome Willis , Charlotte Valandrey , Anna Farnworth , Jimmy Somerville , Viktor Stepanov , Sara Mair-Thomas , Elaine Banham
Director: Sally Potter
IMDB Rate: 6.9 out of 10 (4435 votes)
Plot Summary:Young nobleman Orlando is commanded by Queen Elizabeth I to stay forever young. Miraculously, he does just that. The film follows him as he moves through several centuries of British history, experiencing a variety of lives and relationships along the way, and even changing sex.

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Year of the Comet

Year of the Comet

Actors: Penelope Ann Miller , Ian McNeice , Tim Daly , Art Malik , Ian Richardson , Shane Rimmer , Louis Jourdan , Nick Brimble , Tim Bentinck , Arturo Venegas , Jacques Mathou , Nicholas Ward Jackson , Chapman Roberts , Julia McCarthy , Andrew Robertson
Director: Peter Yates
IMDB Rate: 5.5 out of 10 (671 votes)
Plot Summary:An extremely rare bottle of wine (bottled during the appearance of the Great Comet of 1811) is discovered. Margaret Harwood is sent to retrieve it so it can be sold at auction. Oliver Plexico is assigned as her travel guidebodyguard for the trip. However, other people desperately want the bottle and will stop at nothing to get it. A simple little trip becomes an international chase.

Four Christmases

Four Christmases

Actors: Robert Duvall , Jon Voight , Mary Steenburgen , Colleen Camp , Reese Witherspoon , Jon Favreau , Vince Vaughn , Sissy Spacek , Kristin Chenoweth , Dwight Yoakam , Tim McGraw , Jack Donner , Katy Mixon , Jeanette Miller , Steve Wiebe
Director: Seth Gordon
IMDB Rate: 5.7 out of 10 (12597 votes)
Plot Summary:Brad and Kate have been together three years, in love, having fun, doing all sorts of things together with no intention of marriage or children. Christmas morning, theyre on their way to Fiji, having told their two sets of divorced parents that theyre off to do charity work. Through a fluke, they have no choice but to visit each of their four idiosyncratic parents. As the day progresses, Brad and Kate remember growing up, each learns more about the other, and Kate realizes that her life may not be as good as it could be. Do they know each other well enough to weather the storms families bring? HD 1080p PC, Mac, PS3 and XBOX 360 COMPATIBLE

Footloose

Footloose

Actors: Kevin Bacon , John Lithgow , Sarah Jessica Parker , Chris Penn , Dianne Wiest , Timothy Scott , John Laughlin , Jim Youngs , Frances Lee McCain , Arthur Rosenberg , Alan Haufrect , Elizabeth Gorcey , Lynne Marta , Douglas Dirkson , Lori Singer
Director: Herbert Ross
IMDB Rate: 5.9 out of 10 (14758 votes)
Plot Summary:Classic tale of teen rebellion and repression features a delightful combination of dance choreography and realistic and touching performances. When teenager Ren and his family move from big-city Chicago to a small town in the West, hes in for a real case of culture shock. Though he tries hard to fit in, the streetwise Ren cant quite believe hes living in a place where rock music and dancing are illegal. There is one small pleasure, however Ariel, a troubled but lovely blonde with a jealous boyfriend. and a Bible-thumping minister, who is responsible for keeping the town dance-free. Ren and his classmates want to do away with this ordinance, especially since the senior prom is around the corner, but only Ren has the courage to initiate a battle to abolish the outmoded ban and revitalize the spirit of the repressed townspeople. Fast-paced drama is filled with such now-famous hit songs as the title track and Lets Hear It for the Boy.

Whatever She Wants

Whatever She Wants

Actors: Richard Roundtree , Elimu Nelson , Gary Jenkins , Denee Busby , Anthony McKinley , Sam Logan , Julie Dickens
Director: Je'Caryous Johnson
IMDB Rate: 2.5 out of 10 (38 votes)
Plot Summary:Whatever She Wants is the story about one woman s determination to rediscover who she really is... Vivian Wolf (Vivica A. Fox) has suffered one heartbreak too many and has no room left for unfulfilling relationships. Now she has come up with the solution to every woman s problem, a private club called Whatever She Wants where men have to qualify to get in.

Redwoods

Redwoods

Actors: Matthew Montgomery , Simon Burzynski , Caleb Dorfman , Laurie Burke , Brendan Bradley , Cole Panther , Tad Coughenour , Clara Brighton , Elinor Bell , Libby Zilber
Director: David Lewis
IMDB Rate: 4.7 out of 10 (181 votes)
Plot Summary:Both original and incredibly romantic, Redwoods tells the story of an already-partnered man whose love is tested when a mysterious drifter passes through his small Northern California town. Everett (Brendan Bradley) and Miles (Tad Coughenour) are in a comfortably platonic relationship, which is held together by raising their son. While his family travels out of town, introverted Everett finally has time to himself that is until Chase (Matthew Montgomery), a striking writer, pulls up in front of his house. Shot amidst ancient Redwoods, David Lewis (Rock Haven) film is a stunning ode to the power of love.