Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Romance: 165 Films to Buy & Rent
Bandolero! (1968)
- Dir. Andrew V. McLaglen
Feat. James Stewart, Dean Martin, Raquel Welch…
- Number three in James Stewart's Western repertoire centred on two brawling brothers who must find a way to work together to avoid the death sentence…
Mayerling (1968)
- Dir. Terence Young
Feat. Omar Sharif, Catherine Deneuve, James Mason…
- Austrian Crown–Prince Omar Sharif neglects the business of running the 19th Century Hapsburg empire, to have a secretive and ill–fated…
Thomas Crown Affair, The (1968)
- Dir. Norman Jewison
Feat. Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway
- Split–screen pyrotechnics accord this 60s–chic pastiche of exotic crime thriller and steamy romance. Steve McQueen is the…
Barefoot in the Park (1967)
- Dir. Gene Saks
Feat. Robert Redford, Jane Fonda
- Newlyweds Robert Redford and Jane Fonda make their bed in a five–story walk up apartment. Neil Simon pens out the funnies for the dynamic star…
Bobo, The (1967)
- Dir. Robert Parrish
Feat. Peter Sellers, Britt Ekland, Rossano Brazzi…
- Sellers chews up the scenery as 'Juan', a singing bullfighter who finally books a job with a famous theatre director on the proviso that he can…
Countess from Hong Kong, The (1967)
- Dir. Charles Chaplin
Feat. Marlon Brando, Sophia Loren, Syd Chaplin…
- None too distinguished final film for dir. Chaplin is set aboard a cruise ship, on which US diplomat Brando finds a stowaway Russian countess…
Elvira Madigan (1967)
- Dir. Bo Widerberg
Feat. Pia Degermark, Thommy Berggren, Lennart Malmer…
- Ultra–romantic story of an army officer and a tightrope dancer who sacrifice everything for each other. Filmed like a shampoo commercial, it…
Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)
- Dir. John Schlesinger
Feat. Julie Christie, Peter Finch, Terence Stamp…
- Pastoral, moody epic set in 18th Century England follows the romantic intrigues of an independent woman farmer with three men. Photography by Nic…
Young Girls of Rochefort, The (Les Demoiselles de Rochefort) (1967)
- Dir. Jacques Demy
Feat. Catherine Deneuve, Francois Dorleac, Gene Kelly
- The carrot of love is dangled in Jacques Demy's positively radiant follow–up to UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG: an unbridled, colour–saturated…
Glass Bottom Boat, The (1966)
- Dir. Frank Tashlin
Feat. Doris Day, Rod Taylor, Dom DeLuise…
- Completely transparent comedy of the fluffy 60s variety, with Doris Day, pursued by Rod Taylor and mistaken for a Soviet spy.