Subgenre Sampler
Romance: 1495 Films to Buy & Rent
- Delicacy (2011)
- Dir. David Foenkinos, Stéphane Foenkinos
Feat. Audrey Tautou, François Damiens
- Audrey Tautou breezes through yet another whimsical French souffle, here playing a widowed gamine beauty who rediscovers love in the form of a…
- Falling Overnight (2011)
- Dir. Conrad Jackson
Feat. Parker Croft, Emilia Zoryan
- A shy young man spends his last night before brain surgery with a spontaneous, free–spirited artist in this modest miniature romance, a fine…
- Friends with Benefits (2011)
- Dir. Will Gluck
Feat. Justin Timberlake, Mila Kunis, Patricia Clarkson…
- Smug but sporadically amusing comedy with Timberlake and Kunis being the beneficial buddies whose agreement of course has complications.
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- Friends with Kids (2011)
- Dir. Jennifer Westfeldt
Feat. Adam Scott, Jennifer Westfeldt, Jon Hamm…
- Jennifer Westfeldt directs and stars as a Manhattanite who convinces her platonic best friend to father the child she's always wanted. An upscale…
- Goodbye, First Love (2011)
- Dir. Mia Hansen-Love
Feat. Lola Créton, Sebastian Urzendowsky
- The director of FATHER OF MY CHILDREN turns her nuanced lens on the passionate but slow–maturing romance between a couple who break up in their…
- Harvest (Stadt Land Fluss) (2011)
- Dir. Benjamin Cantu
Feat. Lukas Steltner, Kai Michael Müller
- Muted romance set against a documentary esque background, that tracks the tentative relationship between two young apprentices training on a farm…
- Here (2011)
- Dir. Braden King
Feat. Ben Foster, Lubna Azabal, Peter Coyote
- A cartographer strikes up a bond with a beautiful Armenian woman while surveying the country in this striking wanderlust romance.
- Hysteria (2011)
- Dir. Tanya Wexler
Feat. Maggie Gyllenhaal, Hugh Dancy, Jonathan Pryce…
- A buoyant, light–to–touch period romance about the 19th Century invention of the vibrator, devised as cure for the female ailment know as…
- Kiss Me (Kyss mig, aka With Every Heartbeat) (2011)
- Dir. Alexandra-Therese Keining
Feat. Ruth Vega Fernandez, Liv Mjönes, Krister Henriksson
- Heartfelt romantic drama about a woman who is engaged to be married when she finds herself falling for her soon–to–be stepmother's…
- Larry Crowne (2011)
- Dir. Tom Hanks
Feat. Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Bryan Cranston…
- Feel–good flop, with Tom Hanks as an affable Navy vet who loses his job but bounces back, predictably, by enrolling in community college and…