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Subgenre Sampler
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…
Walk in the Spring Rain, A (1970)- Dir. Guy Green
Feat. Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Hopkins - Ingrid Bergman and Anthony Hopkins conduct an illicit affair in their middle age. Romantic slush best enjoyed as unintentional comedy.
Walk, Don't Run (1966)- Dir. Charles Walters
Feat. Cary Grant - During the Tokyo Olympics, an American athlete shares an apartment with an amorous distraction and a wealthy businessman. Breezy comedy marks Cary…
Tall Story (1960)- Dir. Joshua Logan
Feat. Jane Fonda, Anthony Perkins - A young Jane Fonda makes her screen debut in this candy–coated comedy as a bubbly co–ed with romantic yearnings for basketballer Anthony…
World of Suzie Wong, The (1960)- Dir. Richard Quine
Feat. William Holden, Nancy Kwan - Aspiring artist William Holden courts the Chinese prostitute of the title (Nancy Kwan) in 1950s Hong Kong. Lukewarm dramatically, but with some…
Summer Place, A (1959)- Dir. Delmer Daves
Feat. Dorothy McGuire, Sandra Dee, Troy Donahue… - Lush melodrama set on a remote isle with the two couples of different generations trapped in romantic asides and anxieties.
- Forever Darling (1956)
- Dir. Alexander Hall
Feat. Lucille Ball, James Mason, Desi Arnaz - The unique talents of Lucille Ball is the strongest aspect of this 'dysfunctional marriage' comedy, starring James Mason as her Guardian Angel. Ball…
Young at Heart (1954)- Dir. Gordon Douglas
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Doris Day - Slick musical with Frank Sinatra wooing Doris Day, while trying to make it as a singer.
Gone to Earth (1950)
- Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Feat. Jennifer Jones, David Farrar, Cyril Cusack - Marvellous Technicolor evocation of the rustic Welsh border–country, set around Jennifer Jones’ entry into the world of passionate desire and…
Portrait of Jennie (1948)- Dir. William Dieterle
Feat. Joseph Cotton, Jennifer Jones, Ethel Barrymore… - An exquisite flight of fantasy, in which starving–artist Joseph Cotton is visited upon by an otherworldly Jennifer Jones. Dazzling photography…
Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer, The (1947)- Dir. Irving Reis
Feat. Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Shirley Temple… - Playboy bachelor Cary Grant is ordered by Judge Myrna Loy to escort her teenage sister (Shirley Temple), so that the ‘bobby–soxer’ might…
Uncertain Glory (1944)- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Errol Flynn, Paul Lukas, Lucile Watson - Wartime romance with Flynn playing French criminal Jean Picard who vows to make the ultimate sacrifice, only to fall in love.
- 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…
Blood and Sand (1941)- Dir. Rouben Mamoulian
Feat. Tyrone Power, Rita Hayworth - Steamy romantic tragedy with Tyrone Power as an accomplished but naive matador whose bull–ring heroics take a back–seat for brazen Rita…
- Devil and Miss Jones, The (1941)
- Dir. Sam Wood
Feat. Charles Coburn, Jean Arthur - Tycoon Charles Coburn goes undercover to investigate union activities, and instead falls for shopgirl Jean Arthur. Well–regarded social comedy.
Shop Around the Corner, The (1940)
- Dir. Ernst Lubitsch
Feat. James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, Frank Morgan… - One for the pantheon of romantic–comedy this, directed by the illustrious Ernst Lubitsch (of the famed 'Lubitsch touch') and excelling in its…
Intermezzo (1939)- Dir. Gregory Ratoff
Feat. Leslie Howard, Ingrid Bergman, John Halliday - Sweetly sentimental love story sees unhappily married violinist Leslie Howard fall for his protegee Ingrid Bergman.
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…
Hurricane, The (1938)- Dir. John Ford
Feat. Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall - A doomed South Seas romance between islander natives, provides the melodramatic prelude to an awesome special f/x typhoon. Vintage Hollywood…
Knight Without Armour (1937)- Dir. Jacques Feyder
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat, Herbert Lomas… - Visually sumptuous tale of Russian Countess Marlene Dietrich fleeing the 1917 Revolution with the help of Robert Donat. Dir. Feyder made his name as…
- Maytime (1937)
- Dir. Robert Z. Leonard
Feat. Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, John Barrymore - Love affair between opera soprano and two–bit singer in Paris. An exemplary Jeanette MacDonald/Nelson Eddy musical.
Swing Time (1936)- Dir. George Stevens
Feat. Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers - A fine example of Fred and Ginger's magical screen partnership, their sixth together, weaving the music of Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields, into…
- She Married Her Boss (1935)
- Dir. Gregory La Cava
Feat. Claudette Colbert - Pleasant romantic comedy stars Claudette Colbert, who just may regret her marital decision.
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…
- Smilin' Through (1932)
- Dir. Sidney Franklin
Feat. Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Leslie Howard - Winning tear–jerker with Norma Shearer and Fredric March in dual roles as two sets of unrequited lovers caught in a blood feud.
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