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The Enemy (1927)
, 1h30Directed by Fred Niblo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romantic drama, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Lillian Gish, Ralph Forbes, Frank Currier, George Fawcett, Fritzi Ridgeway, Hans Joby
Newlywed Carl (Ralph Forbes) goes to war where he endures major suffering. Back home, wife Pauli (Lillian Gish) starves, becomes a prostitute to survive, and their baby dies.
Before Sunrise (1995)
, 1h45Directed by Richard Linklater
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romantic drama, Romance
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Andrea Eckert, Hanno Pöschl, Erni Mangold, Dominik Castell
The film starts on June 16, 1994 with Jesse meeting Céline on a train from Budapest and striking up a conversation with her. Jesse is going to Vienna to catch a flight back to the United States, whereas Céline is returning to university in Paris after visiting her grandmother. When they reach Vienna, Jesse convinces Céline to disembark with him, saying that 10 or 20 years down the road, she might not be happy with her marriage and might wonder how her life would have been different if she had picked another guy, and this is a chance to realize that he himself is not that different from the rest; in his words, he is "the same boring, unmotivated guy." Jesse has to catch a flight early in the morning and does not have enough money to rent a room for the night, so they decide to roam around in Vienna.
Before Sunset (2004)
, 1h20Directed by Richard Linklater
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romantic drama, Romance
Actors Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Vernon Dobtcheff, Louise Lemoine Torrès, Albert Delpy, Marie Pillet
Nine years before, Jesse and Céline had met and had a brief encounter in Vienna. Jesse's new novel, This Time, was inspired by that night, and becomes a bestseller. He does a book tour in Europe, including Paris. He does a reading at the noted bookstore, Shakespeare and Company. Flashbacks express elements of his time with Céline in Vienna. Three journalists attend the reading to interview Jesse: one is convinced the book's main characters meet again, another that they do not, and a third who wants them to but is doubtful that will occur. As Jesse speaks with the audience, his eyes wander and he sees Céline there, smiling at him.
Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003)
, 3h4Directed by Nikhil Advani
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical theatre, Romantic drama, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Jaya Bachchan, Shahrukh Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Preity Zinta, Sushma Seth, Dara Singh
Naina Catherine Kapur (Preity Zinta) is a bespectacled 23-year-old Punjabi MBA student who is quite pessimistic and cynical towards her life and relationships. The movie opens up to Naina visiting Brooklyn Bridge Park in New York City. She relates how whenever she misses her father, she comes to the park. Upon returning home, we see Jenny (Jaya Bachchan), Naina's widowed mother who is on the phone discussing a loan extension for their centrally situated restaurant which isn't doing so well. Upon Naina's father's passing, all the house's responsibilities have fallen on her. Naina begins looking through the mail to find another private and confidential letter addressed to her mother, among many others she periodically receives. She also finds a letter from a Punjabi matrimonial service, Kunwari Kudi (meaning: Single Girl) that her grandmother and her aunts have enlisted in hopes of marrying off Naina to a Sikh sardar man. Naina's grandmother Lajjo (Sushma Seth), and Naina's aunts Kammo (Shoma Anand) and Vimmo (Kamini Khanna) are religious aspiring musicians who often perform for their neighbor, Chadda (Dara Singh) and to the horror and inconvenience of many of their other neighbors. There are also Naina's younger siblings in the home, including Shiv (Athit Naik), Naina's disabled biological brother and Gia (Jhanak Shukla), Naina's adoptive sister. There is much tension in the Kapur household as Lajjo is resentful towards Gia and Jenny as she believes Jenny's decision to adopt Gia is what led to her husband's suicide and the failing financial condition of their family, thus causing her to be affectionate with Naina and Shiv, while being cold to Gia. She thinks that Gia is the main problem in the house. She believes that the problems in the house started after Gia is adopted. There is also much religious tension in the house as Jenny practices Christianity while Lajjo practices Sikhism.
Before Midnight (2013)
, 1h48Directed by Richard Linklater
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romantic drama, Romance
Actors Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, Xenia Kalogeropoulou, Walter Lassally, Ariane Labed
Nine years have passed since Before Sunset. Jesse and Céline have become a couple and parents to twin girls. Jesse struggles to maintain his relationship with his teenage son, Hank, who lives in Chicago with Jesse's ex-wife. After Hank spends the summer with Jesse and Céline on the Greek Peloponnese peninsula, Jesse drops him off at the airport to fly home. Jesse is a successful novelist, while Céline is at a career crossroads, considering a job with the French government.
Now, Voyager (1942)
, 1h57Directed by Irving Rapper
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romantic drama, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry
Actors Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Gladys Cooper, Bonita Granville, Mary Wickes
Drab Charlotte Vale (Bette Davis) is an unattractive, overweight, repressed spinster whose life is brutally dominated by her dictatorial mother (Gladys Cooper), an aristocratic Boston dowager whose verbal and emotional abuse of her daughter has contributed to the woman's complete lack of self-confidence. It is revealed that Mrs. Vale had already brought up three sons, and Charlotte was an unwanted child born to her late in life. Fearing Charlotte is on the verge of a nervous breakdown, her sister-in-law Lisa (Ilka Chase) introduces her to psychiatrist Dr. Jaquith (Claude Rains), who recommends she spend time in his sanatarium.
Splendor in the Grass (1961)
, 2h4Directed by Elia Kazan, Ulu Grosbard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romantic drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about suicide, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle, Audrey Christie, Joanna Roos, Gary Lockwood
1928 Kansas: Wilma Dean "Deanie" Loomis (Natalie Wood) is a teenage girl who follows her mother's advice to resist her desire for sex with her boyfriend, Bud Stamper (Warren Beatty), the son of one of the most prosperous families in town. In turn, Bud reluctantly follows the advice of his father, Ace (Pat Hingle), who suggests that he find another kind of girl with whom to satisfy his desires.
Mr. Skeffington (1944)
, 2h25Directed by Vincent Sherman, Irving Rapper
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romantic drama, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel, George Coulouris, Richard Waring, John Alexander
In 1914, spoiled Fanny Trellis (Bette Davis) is a renowned beauty, with many suitors. She loves her brother Trippy (Richard Waring) and would do anything to help him. When Fanny learns that Trippy has embezzled money from his stockbroker employer Job Skeffington (Claude Rains), she marries the lovestruck businessman in order to save her brother. Disgusted by the arrangement, in part because of his prejudice against Skeffington being Jewish, Trippy leaves home to fight in the Lafayette Escadrille in World War I.
One Way Passage (1932)
, 1h8Directed by Tay Garnett
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic drama, Romance
Themes Films about capital punishment
Actors William Powell, Kay Francis, Aline MacMahon, Frank McHugh, Warren Hymer, Frederick Burton
Dan Hardesty (William Powell) is an escaped murderer, sentenced to hang. In Hong Kong, he meets Joan Ames (Kay Francis), a terminally-ill woman, in a bar. They share a drink, then Dan breaks his glass, followed by Joan. Police Sergeant Steve Burke (Warren Hymer) captures Dan when he leaves (though out of sight of Joan) and escorts his prisoner aboard an ocean liner crossing the Pacific to San Francisco. On board, Dan jumps into the water in a bid to escape, dragging a handcuffed (and non-swimmer) Steve with him, but spots Joan among the passengers and changes his mind. Once the ship is underway, he persuades Steve to remove his handcuffs. Dan and Joan fall in love on the month-long cruise, neither knowing that the other is under the shadow of death.
Out in the Dark (2012)
Origin Israel
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romantic drama, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Films about Jews and Judaism, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films about religion, LGBT-related film
Le film raconte les amours contrariées entre Roy, un jeune avocat israélien, et Nimer, un Palestinien qui étudie la psychologie un jour par semaine à Tel Aviv, ce qu’il voit au départ comme un tremplin pour les États-Unis. Le frère de Nimer, Nabil, est un activiste violent et homophobe qui stocke des armes dans la maison familiale à Ramallah.
Liebelei (1933)
, 1h22Directed by Max Ophüls
Origin German
Genres Drama, Romantic drama, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Magda Schneider, Abel Tarride, Wolfgang Liebeneiner, Gustaf Gründgens, Olga Tschechowa, Luise Ullrich
A love affair between a young lieutenant and a musician's daughter ends tragically when the lieutenant is killed in a duel, and the girl commits suicide.
The Light of the World (1931)
, 2h4Directed by Ardeshir Irani
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Romantic drama, Fantasy
Themes Films about magic and magicians
Actors Zubeida, Master Vithal, Prithviraj Kapoor, L. V. Prasad
The film is a love story between a prince and a gypsy girl, based on a Parsi play written by Joseph David. David later served as a writer at Irani's film company. The story centres on an imaginary, historical royal family in the kingdom of Kumarpur. The main characters are the king and his two warring wives, Dilbahar and Naubahar. Their rivalry escalates when a fakir predicts that Navbahar will bear the king's heir.
Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
, 2h5Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romantic drama, Romance
Actors Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard, Victor Francen, Walter Abel, Rosemary DeCamp
Georges Iscovescu (Boyer) recounts his story to a Hollywood film director at Paramount. He is a Romanian-born gigolo who arrived in a Mexican border town seeking entry to the US. He endures a waiting period to obtain a quota number of up to eight years with other hopeful immigrants in the Esperanza Hotel. After six months he is broke and unhappy. He runs into his former professional "dance partner" Anita Dixon (Goddard) who explains she obtained US residency by marrying an American, who she then quickly divorced.
Lilting (2014)
, 1h31Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romantic drama
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Ben Whishaw, Cheng Pei-pei, Morven Christie, Peter Bowles
Lilting tells the story of a mother’s attempt at understanding who her son was after his untimely death. Her world is suddenly disrupted by the presence of his lover. Together, they attempt to overcome their grief whilst struggling against not having a shared language.
, 1h24Directed by Robert Bresson
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romantic drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Maria Casarès, Élina Labourdette, Lucienne Bogaert, Paul Bernard, Jean Marchat, Yvette Etiévant
Hélène and Jean have pledged their love to each other, but are not engaged to marry. Their love affair allows dalliances with others, but they have promised to put each other first above all others. Hélène has been warned by a friend that Jean's love for her has cooled and fears this is correct. She tricks him into confessing, by pretending her own feelings for him have cooled to a friendship. She hides her shock and dismay when he enthusiastically accepts her as now just a friend instead of a lover. After he leaves her apartment, it is clear that she is devastated. But instead of mourning her love, she decides to exact a cruel revenge on him.