Subgenre Sampler
Romance: 1506 Films to Buy & Rent
In the Good Old Summertime (1949)
- Dir. Robert Z. Leonard
Feat. Judy Garland, Van Johnson, S.Z. Sakall
- Judy Garland and Van Johnson star in this musical adaptation of the 1940 film, The Shop Around the Corner, with the locale changed from 1930s…
My Dear Secretary (1949)
- Dir. Charles Martin
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Laraine Day
- Underrated comedy concerning an aspiring young writer (Laraine Day) hired as the new secretary for a top author (Kirk Douglas) who is bitterly…
Orpheus (Orphee) (1949)
- Dir. Jean Cocteau
Feat. Jean Marais, Maria Casares, Marie Dea…
- Cocteau's surrealist retelling of the classical tragedy stars Jean Marais as Orphee, the writer who retrieves his wife Eurydice from the dead. A…
Passionate Friends, The (1949)
- Dir. David Lean
Feat. Ann Todd, Trevor Howard, Claude Rains
- A wistful Ann Todd divides her loyalty between a secure, older husband (Rains) and a free–spirited toff (Howard) in this rich, unrequited…
We Were Strangers (1949)
- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Jennifer Jones, John Garfield, Pedro Armendariz…
- Adventure drama with Jennifer Jones playing a woman who joins the Cuban Underground and helps devise a plot to bring down the country's corrupt…
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
- Dir. Max Ophuls
Feat. Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan
- Joan Fontaine waxes regretfully in a letter to her object of infatuation, a womanizing concert pianist (dishy Louis Jourdan) in late 19th Century…
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…
Daisy Kenyon (1947)
- Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Joan Crawford, Dana Andrews, Henry Fonda…
- Joan Crawford gives one of her greatest performances in this surprisingly compelling soap opera, finding herself torn between Fonda and Andrews.…
Golden Earrings (1947)
- Dir. Mitchell Leisen
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Ray Milland, Murvyn Vye
- Romantic spy film set the eve of World War II in which Ray Milland plays an English officer on an espionage mission in Nazi Germany to recover a…