Subgenre Sampler
Romance: 1494 Films to Buy & Rent
- Room 212 (Chambre 212, On a Magical Night) (2019)
- Dir. Christophe Honore
Feat. Chiara Mastroianni, Vincent Lacoste, Camille Cottin…
- Playful French rom–com from acclaimed writer–director Christophe Honore (MA MERE, DAN PARIS).
Set over the course of one night, where…
- Summerland (2019)
- Dir. Jessica Swale
Feat. Gemma Arterton, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Lucas Bond…
- A love–story set in the timeless and enchanting world of Summerland; sun–dappled days by the sea over one achingly beautiful summer.…
- Top End Wedding (2019)
- Dir. Wayne Blair
Feat. Miranda Tapsell, Gwilym Lee, Kerry Fox
- Charming Australian rom–com with impressive actress Miranda Tapsell playing a woman who is in love and and newly engaged, but before her dream…
- Weathering with You (2019)
- Dir. Makoto Shinkai
- Touching Japanese animated romance doubling as an eco–fable, about a high school boy who befriends a girl who can manipulate the weather. From…
- What Men Want (2019)
- Dir. Adam Shankman
Feat. Taraji P. Henson, Aldis Hodge, Richard Roundtree…
- A mildly raunchy, gender–switched remake of the 2000 romantic comedy, WHAT WOMEN WANT, following a woman who, after drinking a potent…
- Yesterday (2019)
- Dir. Danny Boyle
Feat. Himesh Patel, Lily James, Kate McKinnon…
- Another smash hit from writer Richard Curtis which, like ABOUT TIME, works a fantasy element into his patented brand of well–scrubbed English…
- A Discovery of Witches (TV Series) (2018)
- Dir. Juan Carlos Medina
Feat. Teresa Palmer, Matthew Goode, Malin Buska…
- A romantic thriller series adapted from Deborah Harkness' trilogy of novels that uncovers a secret underworld of vampires, witches and daemons hiding…
- A Faithful Man (L'homme fidèle) (2018)
- Dir. Louis Garrel
Feat. Louis Garrel, Laetitia Casta, Lily-Rose Depp
- Romantic farce with a whimsical, French new–wave sensibility directed by and starring Louis Garrel. A dashing journalist finds his life…
- A Star is Born (2018)
- Feat. Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper, Sam Elliott…
- Bradley Cooper debuts impressively as director while sparking the right chemistry in front of the camera with real–life pop…
- Book Club (2018)
- Dir. Bill Holderman
Feat. Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen…
- Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, and Mary Steenburgen play four life–long friends who read Fifty Shades of Grey as part of their…