Subgenre Sampler
Romance: 1505 Films to Buy & Rent
Celeste and Jesse Forever (2011)
- Dir. Lee Toland Krieger
Feat. Rashida Jones, Andy Samberg, Ari Graynor…
- Two best friends struggle to reconcile lingering feelings despite being divorced from one another in this smart, unexpected romantic comedy.
Coming & Going (2011)
- Dir. Edoardo Ponti
Feat. Rhys Darby, Sasha Alexander, Fionnula Flanagan
- Rhys Darby plays a luckless gynecologist who ends up temporarily in a wheelchair, only to attract the sympathy of a red hot lawyer looking to change…
Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011)
- Dir. Glenn Ficarra, John Requa
Feat. Steve Carell, Julianne Moore, Ryan Gosling…
- Steve Carell plays a hapless recent divorcee co–piloted by a handsome wingman (Ryan Gosling) back into the dating game in this fresh scented…
Deep Blue Sea, The (2011)
- Dir. Terence Davies
Feat. Rachel Weisz, Tom Hiddleston, Simon Russell-Beale…
- Post–war romantic drama in which Rachel Weisz plays the wife of a British Judge caught in a self–destructive love affair with a Royal Air…
Delicacy (2011)
- Dir. David Foenkinos, Stéphane Foenkinos
Feat. Audrey Tautou, François Damiens
- Audrey Tautou breezes through yet another whimsical French souffle, here playing a widowed gamine beauty who rediscovers love in the form of a…
Falling Overnight (2011)
- Dir. Conrad Jackson
Feat. Parker Croft, Emilia Zoryan
- A shy young man spends his last night before brain surgery with a spontaneous, free–spirited artist in this modest miniature romance, a fine…
Friends with Benefits (2011)
- Dir. Will Gluck
Feat. Justin Timberlake, Mila Kunis, Patricia Clarkson…
- Smug but sporadically amusing comedy with Timberlake and Kunis being the beneficial buddies whose agreement of course has complications.
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Friends with Kids (2011)
- Dir. Jennifer Westfeldt
Feat. Adam Scott, Jennifer Westfeldt, Jon Hamm…
- Jennifer Westfeldt directs and stars as a Manhattanite who convinces her platonic best friend to father the child she's always wanted. An upscale…
Goodbye, First Love (2011)
- Dir. Mia Hansen-Love
Feat. Lola Créton, Sebastian Urzendowsky
- The director of FATHER OF MY CHILDREN turns her nuanced lens on the passionate but slow–maturing romance between a couple who break up in their…
Harvest (Stadt Land Fluss) (2011)
- Dir. Benjamin Cantu
Feat. Lukas Steltner, Kai Michael Müller
- Muted romance set against a documentary esque background, that tracks the tentative relationship between two young apprentices training on a farm…