Subgenre Sampler
Romance: 1505 Films to Buy & Rent
Threesome (1994)
- Dir. Andrew Fleming
Feat. Lara Flynn Boyle, Stephen Baldwin, Josh Charles
- Despite its prurient title, there is much more meat and maturity in this this 'Gen–X' romantic sandwich than the higher profile REALITY BITES.…
Tom and Viv (1994)
- Dir. Brian Gilbert
Feat. Willem Dafoe, Miranda Richardson
- A moving exploration of the intense yet painful relationship between Nobel prize–winning poet T.S. Eliot (Willem Dafoe) and his lovably…
Age of Innocence, The (1993)
- Dir. Martin Scorsese
Feat. Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder
- Scorsese's adaptation of the novel by Edith Wharton is a extravagant period costumer that makes Merchant–Ivory look downright paltry. Stellar…
Bodies Rest and Motion (1993)
- Dir. Michael Steinberg
Feat. Tim Roth, Bridget Fonda, Phoebe Cates…
- Suburban aimlessness underlies this entertaining, stylish 'gen–X' romancer with an appealing twentysomething quartet.
Especially On a Sunday (1993)
- Dir. Giuseppe Tornatore, Giuseppe Bertolucci, Marco Tul
Feat. Jean-Hugues Anglade, Patricia Arquette, Nicoletta Braschi…
- Three stories of love and loss from the pen of Tonino Guerra brought to screen life by three directing talents. Sublime fare in the finest European…
Ethan Frome (1993)
- Dir. John Madden
Feat. Liam Neeson, Patricia Arquette
- Liam Neeson and Patricia Arquette are master and housekeeper who fall in love after he suffers years of emotional estrangement from his wife.…
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1993)
- Dir. Mike Newell
Feat. Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, John Hannah…
- Hugh Grant plays a loveable bachelor who is forever celebrating the romantic union of his friends, but is dreadfully reluctant to take the plunge…
Groundhog Day (1993)
- Dir. Harold Ramis
Feat. Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott…
- Bill Murray is perfectly cast as a cranky TV weatherman who gets stranded in a tin–pot town, where he wakes every day in the same day, over and…
Heartbreak Kid, The (1993)
- Dir. Michael Jenkins
Feat. Alex Dimitriades
- Alex Dimitriades plays a hunky college student who becomes romantically entangled with his 22–year–old teacher. Sensitively drawn…
Like Water for Chocolate (1993)
- Dir. Alfonso Arau
Feat. Marco Leonardi, Lumi Cavazos, Regina Torne
- Certifiable foreign–language block–buster blends the irresisistible ingrediants of primal female desire with old–fashioned…