Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Romance: 840 Films to Buy & Rent
- Wedding Date, The (2005)
- Dir. Claire Kilner
Feat. Dermot Mulroney, Debra Messing, Jack Davenport…
- Lightweight romcom sees a successful single woman (Messing, from TV's "Will and Grace") travel to her sister's wedding in London with a paid male…
- Wendell Baker Story, The (2005)
- Dir. Luke Wilson, Andrew Wilson
Feat. Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Eva Mendes…
- Typical Wilson brother comedy fare about a scheming ex con who finds work at a retirement hotel and helps the residents get revenge on their nasty…
- White Countess, The (2005)
- Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave…
- Set in the tumult of 1930s Shanghai, when China was threatened with Japanese invasion, this final Merchant–Ivory production (producer Ismail…
- 3-Iron (Bin-jip) (2004)
- Dir. Kim Ki-Duk
Feat. Seung-yeon Lee, Hee Song Jae
- Odd, elliptical love story from the dir. SPRING, SUMMER concerns the blossoming romance between a domestic abuse victim and her savior, a…
- Ae Fond Kiss (A Fond Kiss) (2004)
- Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Eva Birthistle, Atta Taqub
- This cross–cultural Glaswegian drama finds dir. Ken Loach in a more romantic mood than usual, portraying a Scots–Asian man and Catholic…
- Alfie (2004)
- Dir. Charles Shyer
Feat. Jude Law, Marisa Tomei, Omar Epps…
- Slicked back remake of the Michael Caine original, here translated to contemporary Manhattan, with Jude Law playing the Cockney skirt–chaser on…
- Before Sunset (2004)
- Dir. Richard Linklater
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy
- Taking up some nine years after their characters met in BEFORE SUNRISE, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, now in their mid–thirties, reacquaint…
- Brides (Nyfes) (2004)
- Dir. Pantelis Voulgaris
Feat. Damian Lewis, Victoria Haralabidou, Steven Berkoff
- Through the passages of unrequited love, this bittersweet tale set on board a ship en route to the United States evokes a universal story of…
- Dear Frankie (2004)
- Dir. Shona Auerbach
Feat. Emily Mortimer, Gerard Butler
- An effectively written drama about the consequences of a mother's desire to protect her deaf son from the truth about his violent absent…
- Fida (2004)
- Dir. Ken Ghosh
Feat. Kareena Kapoor, Shahid Kapoor, Fardeen Khan
- Typically likeable Bollywood item that intercrosses two love stories with the tale of an online bank heist. Treading lightly through the genre…