Subgenre Sampler
Romance: 1505 Films to Buy & Rent
My Wedding and Other Secrets (2011)
- Dir. Roseanne Liang
Feat. Michelle Ang, Matt Whelan, Kenneth Tsang…
- Dir. Roseanne Liang adapts her winning documentary (BANANA IN A NUTSHELL) on the struggle to get her traditional Chinese parents to accept her Kiwi…
New Year's Eve (2011)
- Dir. Garry Marshall
Feat. Michelle Pfeiffer, Zac Efron, Robert De Niro…
- Made–to–order rom–com ensemble continues the work of star–laden date movie VALENTINE'S DAY, with New Year's celebrations in…
No Strings Attached (2011)
- Dir. Ivan Reitman
Feat. Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher, Kevin Kline…
- Bed buddies Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher do their best not to fall for each other in this frisky romantic comedy. Riffing on a similar premise…
Nothing Trivial (TV Series) (2011)
- Feat. Shane Cortese, Tandi Wright, Blair Strang…
- An agreeable and endearingly performed 'singles' comedy by way of modern day Auckland, centred on the romantic hang ups of five friends who compete…
Off Hours, The (2011)
- Dir. Megan Griffiths
Feat. Amy Seimetz, Ross Partridge, Scoot McNairy
- Downbeat, deliberately–paced indie about a directionless waitress working the night shift at a roadside diner in a small, industrial town who…
One Day (2011)
- Dir. Lone Scherfig
Feat. Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess, Patricia Clarkson…
- Tear–duct bursting romance based on the best–selling novel follows a couple's relationship as it flits between friendship and romance.
Pan Am (TV Series) (2011-2012)
- Feat. Margot Robbie, Christina Ricci, Karine Vanasse…
- Named for the iconic Pan American World Airways, this fictionalised period drama series revolves around the stories of the pilots and stewardesses of…
Red Riding Hood (2011)
- Dir. Catherine Hardwicke
Feat. Amanda Seyfried, Gary Oldman, Billy Burke…
- Amanda Seyfried plays the eponymous fairytale heroine lusted after by a sinister werewolf in this deliriously overheated horror–fantasy pitched…
Remembrance (Die Verlorene Zeit) (2011)
- Dir. Anna Justice
- A powerful, decades long Holocaust tale of two lovers who endure the horrors of concentration camps, only to be separated by the chaos of the war.
Restless (2011)
- Dir. Gus Van Sant
Feat. Mia Wasikowska, Henry Hopper, Ryo Kase…
- Languid tween romance from dir. Gus Van Sant, about a terminally ill girl (Wasikowska) who falls in love with an eccentric boy with a compulsion for…