Subgenre Sampler
Romance: 1506 Films to Buy & Rent
Anna and the King of Siam (1946)
- Dir. John Cromwell
Feat. Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell…
- The first version of the true story of an English governess (Dunne) who in the 1860s journeyed to South East Asia to look after the King of Siam's 62…
Brief Encounter (1946)
- Dir. David Lean
Feat. Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Cyril Raymond…
- Controlled rendering of Noel Coward's touching story about a romance that evolves between two happily married strangers. This much loved British…
It Rains On Our Love (1946)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Barbro Kollberg, Birger Malmsten
- Bergman experiments with this awkward combination of romance and misery, in which a couple's happiness is dogged by their criminal and vagrant past.…
Man I Love, The (1946)
- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Ida Lupino, Robert Alda, Bruce Bennett…
- Romantic drama about a New York lounge singer who becomes homesick and decides to visit her siblings on the West Coast, where she unexpectedly falls…
Notorious (1946)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant
- Sexy, suspenseful romantic thriller with Ingrid Bergman at her most radiant as an American spy who unwittingly falls in love with her contact, Cary…
Clock, The (1945)
- Dir. Vincente Minnelli
Feat. Judy Garland, Robert Walker, James Gleason…
- Judy Garland's first dramatic role (in which she did not sing) reunites her with director (and future husband) Vincente Minnelli from MEET ME IN ST.…
I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)
- Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Feat. Dame Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, George Carney
- A headstrong Wendy Hiller seeks marriage and wealth on the Scottish Hebrides, but is sidetracked by true romance. The powerful landscapes and lyrical…
Frenchman's Creek (1944)
- Dir. Mitchell Leisen
Feat. Joan Fontaine, Arturo de Córdova, Basil Rathbone…
- A faithful adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's novel about an aristocratic English woman who falls in love with a French pirate during the reign of…
Love Story (A Lady Surrenders) (1944)
- Dir. Leslie Arliss
Feat. Margaret Lockwood, Stewart Granger, Patricia Roc…
- Classy tearjerker with dying pianist Lockwood falling in love with blind pilot Granger. Treacly but satisfying with the two leads performances…
Tall in the Saddle (1944)
- Dir. Edwin L. Marin
Feat. John Wayne, Ella Raines, Ward Bond
- An action–packed John Wayne Oater in which he plays a tough, quiet cowboy who arrives at an Arizona town to find his boss has been murdered and…