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Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
This is the story of family-man, Yuval, who realizes that the closet in which he has lived for so long is starting to fall apart. How far can you run from yourself? Eventually the past will come to knock on your door and force you to deal with who you really are.. Nominated for the Short Film Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Winner of Best Short Feature Film at the Israeli Film Academy Awards.
2) Postcards
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
A long-distance love affair is prolonged through a series of postcards in Mark Rappaport’s short film, one of the director’s first experiments in video. The "deliciously ironic" (according to the Los Angeles Times) POSTCARDS tracks a romance played out entirely on assorted mailings written by a separated couple. American tourist spots on one side; heaving romance, misunderstandings, paranoia and sadly-fading passions on the other.. "Mark Rappaport’s...
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic) at the Sundance Film Festival, PETER AND VANDY is a unique take on the exhilaration and frustration love can bring.. Most movie romances end when the relationship is beginning. Peter and Vandy's love story goes much further than that. The story shifts back and forth in time, whipping between their romantic beginnings and the inevitable struggles that follow.. With star-making performances by Jason Ritter...
4) Red Knot
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Newlyweds Peter (Vincent Kartheiser, Mad Men) and Chloe (Olivia Thirlby, Juno) jump at the chance to satisfy their wanderlust by taking a belated honeymoon aboard a research vessel bound for Antarctica. Once on board, Peter, a writer, occupies his time documenting the work of whale biologist Roger Payne (playing himself), leaving little time for Chloe.. Feeling increasingly neglected by her husband, Chloe begins to drift closer to the enigmatic Captain...
Pub. Date
1946.
Language
English
Description
In this Academy Award- nominated film (Best Writing, Original Story), young Martha (Barbara Stanwyck) inadvertently causes the death of her cruel, authoritarian aunt. Martha lies to the cops, and Walter (Kirk Douglas), who saw the crime, corroborates the girl's story. Eventually, they wed out of convenience; the meek Walter is genuinely in love, and Martha thinks that her secret is safe since she has married the one witness to her aunt's death.. However,...
Pub. Date
1941.
Language
English
Description
In this classic, heart-wrenching melodrama, Roger Adams (Cary Grant) and Julie (Irene Dunne) are married and deeply in love. Their dreams of starting a family are tragically put on hold when Julie suffers a miscarriage that leaves her unable to carry another child.. Determined not to let this prevent their parenthood, the couple adopts a little girl, Trina. However, when Roger's newspaper folds, they are forced to convince the court that they are...
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
An intimate portrait of a cross-cultural married couple Jia and Lee. While they share a great and enduring love, they come from vastly different backgrounds and have contrasting perspectives. The film follows their journey back to Jia's homeland giving a personal account of globalization.. Winner of Best Self-Funded Film at the New Zealand International Film Festival.. "The limpid evocation of existential mysteries that director Alyx Duncan achieves...
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Disenchanted with the dreary conventions of English life, 25-year-old Julia (Oscar-winner Kate Winslet, Titanic, The Reader) heads to Morocco with her children -- six-year-old, Lucy, and precocious eight-year-old, Bea.. Living at a low-rent Marrakesh hotel, the trio survives on the sale of hand-sewn dolls and a few checks from the girls' estranged father. After the girls match their mother with gentle Moroccan acrobat and con man Bilal (Said Taghmaoui,...
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
An award-winning romance from Australia starring Golden Globe and Emmy winning actress, Toni Collette.. Sandy, a geologist, finds herself stuck on a field trip to the Pilbara desert with a Japanese man she finds inscrutable, annoying and decidedly arrogant. Hiromitsu's view of her is not much better. Things go from bad to worse when they become stranded in one of the most remote regions on earth. JAPANESE STORY is a journey of change and discovery...
Pub. Date
1946.
Language
English
Description
From the memoirs of François Eugène Vidocq, the elegant thief turned chief of police of all Paris, comes this rediscovered classic of melodrama and romance.. George Sanders is at his debonair best as we see him climb from clever criminal through the ranks of French society in the early 1800's, with seemingly nothing to stop him from the biggest heist of his career ... except, perhaps, the charms of a young lady.. "With a display of suave images...
11) Identicals
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Brand New-U is an organization that identifies networks of IDENTICALS -- people who walk like you, talk like you, but are walking through different, better lives. They help their customers make a life upgrade by eliminating the better-life donor and relocating their client to that brand new life.. Slater seems to have the perfect life, perfect job, and perfect girlfriend. But when Slater's girlfriend is abducted by Brand New-U and a corpse is left...
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Set in the autumn of 1941 in Salty Creek, a fishing village in South Carolina, this film tells the dramatic story of interracial lovers swept up in the tides of history.. As World War II rages in Europe, a wounded Asian stranger, Mr. Ohta, appears in the town under mysterious circumstances. Sophie, a native of Salty Creek, quickly becomes transfixed by Mr. Ohta and a friendship born of their mutual love of art blossoms into a delicate and forbidden...
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This third and final film of the Falls trilogy revisits former Mormon missionaries Chris and RJ, six years after they first fell in love and were disciplined for it, who are struggling to make their relationship work amid conflicts with their families and their faith.. Determined to finally find closure and put the past behind them, the two men set in motion a quest for unconditional love that ultimately leads to the very top of the Mormon leadership....
14) Road to Nowhere
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
There is a tenuous balance between reality and fiction, particularly when it involves a beautiful young woman, murder, a powerful politico, a missing fortune, and suicide. A passionate filmmaker, creating a film based upon a true crime, casts an unknown and mysterious young woman who bears a disturbing resemblance to the femme fatale in the story.. He finds himself unsuspectingly drawn into a complex web of haunting intrigue and a growing obsession...
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
English
Description
This production is part of a famous series produced by BBC of all of William Shakespeare's plays. The resulting films, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilized the best theatrical and television directors and brought highly praised performances from leading contemporary actors. This romance revolves around a theme that occupied Shakespeare later in life: reconciliation. Wrongs committed by one generation -- here a wife unjustly accused of...
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In a small town in Paraguay, Virgilia, a shy and innocent chipa seller, spends her days daydreaming about Walter, her best friend from childhood and current toll post official. Her friend Juanita encourages to confess her love but Virgilia is afraid of being rejected. But when letters and financial support from her brother Anselmo stop arriving from Spain, Virgilia must leave aside the illusion of love, to support her family without the help of anyone...
17) Viaje
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Nominated for “Best Narrative Feature” at the Tribeca Film Festival, VIAJE follows two strangers, Pedro and Luciana, on a spontaneous trip into the Costa Rican forest.. Pedro and Luciana meet at a party and end up spending the night together. The next day, Pedro decides to make a trip up to Rincon de la Vieja, a volcano area in Costa Rica, where he’s working on his scientific thesis project. Since Luciana is leaving on a trip soon, they may...
18) Compulsion
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Awakening to the experience of his first romantic connection, Ian’s trust in girlfriend Kelly is thrown into doubt by rumour. As his emotions swing between aggression and tenderness, he feels compelled to react. A study in the vicissitudes and intensity of love in adolescence.. Best New Short Film - London Short Film Festival 2012
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Joy, a young woman living in Tel Aviv, has a love-hate relationship with the city's casual sex scene. As it stands, she lives in the same neighborhood as her ex, making it nearly impossible for her to move on. And when her new hook-up buddy tells her flatly not to fall in love with him, she's stuck suspended, just out of reach of something meaningful. This is a story about young people who yearn for intimacy but are scared to get too close.. Winner...
20) Parting Glances
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Heroic, funny and romantic, Parting Glances is a triumph for everyone who has ever been in love-straight or gay. The story revolves around two men, Michael and Robert, who have been lovers for years. Robert is being transferred out of the country for two years, leaving Michael behind. Their best friend Nick, who is also Michael's former lover, is dying of AIDS. So begins a surprisingly funny, wonderfully acted love story set in the gay scene of Manhattan....
