Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Classics > Romance: 238 Films to Rent on DVD
- Naughty Girl (Cette Sacree Gamine) (1956)
- Dir. Michel Boisrond
Feat. Brigitte Bardot, Francoise Fabian
- A con–artist father leaves his devious minx of a daughter in the hands of a performer who discovers the girl is bent on disrupting his life the…
- All That Heaven Allows (1955)
- Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead…
- Middle–aged widow Jane Wyman fights for the respect of her family and upscale community when she conducts an affair with her ‘gardener’…
- Love is a Many-Splendoured Thing (1955)
- Dir. Henry King
Feat. William Holden, Jennifer Jones
- Romantic splendour set in Hong Kong at the time of the Korean war about a married US war correspondent who embarks on a forbidden love affair.
- Summertime (Summer Madness) (1955)
- Dir. David Lean
Feat. Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Isa Miranda
- Katharine Hepburn, middle–aged spinster, flees to Venice on vacation, only for the romance of the city – and a dark, handsome Italian catch…
- To Paris with Love (1955)
- Dir. Robert Hamer
Feat. Alec Guinness, Odile Versois, Vernon Gray…
- Widowed aristocrat Guinness takes his estranged son to Paris where romantic entanglements await. Tepid romantic comedy fails to rise to the standard…
- 3 Coins in the Fountain (Three Coins in the Fountain) (1954)
- Dir. Jean Negulesco
Feat. Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuire, Jean Peters…
- Likeable, but modest classic in which three women throw coins into the Fountain of Trevi in Rome, to try their romantic luck. Great tourist locales…
- Beachcomber, The (1954)
- Dir. Muriel Box
Feat. Glynis Johns, Robert Newton, Donald Sinden…
- Entertaining and deeply silly romantic yarn with prim missionary Johns falling for slovenly Newton as they team up to fight a cholera outbreak on a…
- Elephant Walk (1954)
- Dir. William Dieterle
Feat. Elizabeth Taylor, Dana Andrews, Peter Finch…
- Love–triangle melodrama set on Ceylon tea plantation is a tad overblown, with thunder stolen from the good cast by a climactic elephant…
- End of the Affair, The (1954)
- Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Deborah Kerr, Van Johnson, John Mills
- Original screen adaptation of Graham Greene’s tale of unrequited wartime love, with Deborah Kerr and Van Johnson entangled in a brief but illicit…
- It Should Happen to You (1954)
- Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon
- Aspiring model Judy Holliday gets the kind of attention she hadn't bargained for when she advertises herself on a giant billboard. Jack Lemmon's…