Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama > Romance: 69 Films to Rent on VHS
- Purple Hearts (1984)
- Dir. Sidney J Furie
Feat. Ken Wahl, Cheryl Ladd, R. Lee Ermey…
- Vietnam War set romance with Wahl and Ladd as love struck medics.
- Baby, It's You (1983)
- Dir. John Sayles
Feat. Rosanna Arquette, Vincent Spano
- High–school sweethearts Rosanna Arquette and Vincent Spano undergo the trials of the late 60s counter–culture America. Characters and…
- Independence Day (1983)
- Dir. Robert Mandel
Feat. Kathleen Quinlan
- Kathleen Quinlan yearns to leave her hometown and fulfil her dreams as a photographer, but is unable to come unstuck from her boyfriend.
- Chapter Two (1979)
- Dir. Robert Moore
Feat. James Caan, Marsha Mason, Valerie Harper
- Neil SImon's hit play is competently adapted for the big screen. James Caan in a rare romantic role plays a man recently widowed who falls for a…
- Touch of Class, A (1972)
- Dir. Melvin Frank
Feat. George Segal, Glenda Jackson, Paul Sorvino
- George Segal and Glenda Jackson (in an Oscar–winning performance) strike up the right chemistry in this British romantic comedy in which their…
- Persuasion (1971)
- Dir. Howard Baker
Feat. Ann Firbank, Richard Vernon, Bryan Marshall
- Circumspect heroine Anne Elliot has the opportunity to rekindle a long–abandoned love–affair, in this BBC adaption of Jane Austen's final…
- Eternel Retour, L' (1942)
- Dir. Jean Delannoy
Feat. Jean Marais, Madeleine Sologney, Yvonne de Bray…
- (Love Eternal) A contemporary take on the legend of Tristan and Isolde, lovers united after death. Jean Cocteau's script is realised with the…
- Jour Se Leve, Le (Daybreak) (1939)
- Dir. Marcel Carne
Feat. Jean Gabin, Arletty
- A renowned example of 'poetic realism', Jean Gabin gives another consummate performance as a doomed anti–hero. His tragic story is told in…
- Liebelei (1933)
- Dir. Max Ophuls
Feat. Arthur Schnitzler
- An early work from the German maestro of the tracking shot, whose tale of doomed romance between a young soldier and fraulein (taken from a play by…