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Films with the genre "Romance", sorted by revenue
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Let's Make Music (1941)
, 1h24Directed by Leslie Goodwins
Origin USA
Genres Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Elisabeth Risdon, Jean Rogers, Bob Crosby, Joyce Compton, Benny Bartlett, Louis Jean Heydt
Newton High music teacher Malvina Adams (Risdon) is asked to retire since attendance in her classes keeps dropping each year. Trying to prove she's still got it, Adams composes a school fight song which finds its way into the hands of bandleader Bob Crosby (playing himself) who turns it into an overnight hit. Though her niece Abby (Rogers) protests, Malvina travels to New York to perform her song with Bob's band, while her niece falls for the bandleader. The newness of the song fades quickly though, and Malvina tries to write one more hit song before finally giving up and returning to Newton.
Colleen (1936)
, 1h29Directed by Alfred E. Green
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Jack Oakie, Joan Blondell, Hugh Herbert, Louise Fazenda
Colleen is the manager of a dress shop named "The Ames Company", owned by Donald Ames. They try to keep Uncle Cedric from working, because he'll ruin the company. Troubles start when he hires schemer Joe as his personal assistant. He later also hires Minnie, a woman who has a great passion for fashion. When he buys the dress shop for Minnie where Colleen works as a bookkeeper, a scandal is soon followed. Donald decides to shut the shop, but is stopped because of his infatuation towards Colleen. It is Colleen who eventually makes a profit out of the things that happened. Meanwhile, a man named Cedric tries to adopt Minnie. Minnie refuses and thereby causes a scandal. This angers Alicia, but the press can't get enough of it. Donald loses Colleen's affection and thus is sued by Joe.
Caught in the Draft (1941)
, 1h22Directed by David Butler, Elliott Nugent
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy, Romance
Themes Military humor in film, Political films
Actors Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Lynne Overman, Nana Bryant, Eddie Bracken, Clarence Kolb
Famous Hollywood actor Don Bolton (Hope) is a vain movie star whose biggest fear is to be drafted into the US Army. He definitely lacks the qualities of a good soldier, and he is so afraid of loud noise that he would not last a day in the service, let alone cope with hearing a single gunshot when he is on set shooting a war film at the studio. Colonel Peter Fairbanks (Clarence Kolb) visits the studio set as a consultant for the war film, and with him he has brought his beautiful daughter Antoinett, known as "Tony" (Dorothy Lamour). Don is smitten by Tony, and also realizes that his ticket out of the Army is to marry the colonel’s daughter to avoid the draft.
Sun Valley Serenade (1941)
, 1h26Directed by Malcolm St. Clair, H. Bruce Humberstone
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Sports films, Musical films, Children's films
Actors John Payne, Milton Berle, Lynn Bari, Joan Davis, William B. Davidson, Dorothy Dandridge
Ted Scott (Payne) is a band pianist whose publicity manager decides that, for good press, the band should adopt a foreign refugee. The band goes to Ellis Island to meet the girl and soon discovers that the refugee isn't a 10-year-old child, but a young woman, Karen Benson (Henie). The surprise comes right before the band is to travel to Sun Valley, Idaho for a Christmas gig. While on the ski slopes Ted soon falls for Karen's inventive schemes to win the heart of her new sponsor, much to the chagrin of his girlfriend, Vivian Dawn (Bari), a soloist with the band. Vivian promptly quits the band out of jealousy, and Karen stages an elaborate ice show as a substitute.
The Hard Way (1943)
, 1h49Directed by Vincent Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Ida Lupino, Dennis Morgan, Gladys George, Faye Emerson, Joan Leslie, Paul Cavanagh
Helen Chernen (Ida Lupino) is an ambitious woman, determined to once and for all become rich. She pushes her younger sister Katie (Joan Leslie) into a marriage with singer/dancer Albert Runkel (Jack Carson). Katie has no interest in the man, but is desperate to leave the poor conditions she and her sister live in, a dirty steel town. Runkel's partner Paul Collins (Dennis Morgan) sees what Helen's real intentions are and tries to stop her from breaking Runkel's heart.
Atlantic City (1944)
, 1h27Directed by Ray McCarey
Genres Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Constance Moore, Charley Grapewin, Jerry Colonna, Dorothy Dandridge, Adele Mara, Pierre Watkin
In 1915, Atlantic City is a sleepy seaside resort, but Brad Taylor, son of a small hotel and vaudeville house proprietor, has big plans: he thinks it can be "the playground of the world." Brad's wheeling and dealing proves remarkably successful in attracting big enterprises and big shows, but brings him little success in personal relationships. Full of nostalgic songs and acts, some with the original artists.
The Pearl (1947)
, 1h25Directed by Emilio Fernández
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Actors Pedro Armendáriz, María Elena Marqués, Alfonso Bedoya, Richard Anderson, Columba Domínguez, Guillermo Calles
In a fishing village, Kino (Armendáriz) and his wife Juana (Marqués) are in anguish because their little son Coyotito was stung by a scorpion, the local doctor (a foreigner) refuses to treat the child and the boy is taken to a curandera. Later the doctor and his brother (Wagner), a loan shark meet Kino again, after he finds an expensive pearl and decide to steal it from him.
Crisis (1946)
, 1h33Directed by Ingmar Bergman
Origin Suede
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Inga Landgré, Stig Olin, Dagny Lind, Marianne Löfgren, Allan Bohlin, Ernst Eklund
Jenny, patronne d'un institut de beauté à Stockholm, arrive dans une petite ville de province pour récupérer sa fille Nelly, maintenant âgée de 18 ans, qu'elle avait confiée à une autre femme, Ingeborg Johnson, dès sa naissance... Celle-ci, qui vient de découvrir qu'elle est gravement malade, vit modestement, de quelques cours de piano et en louant une chambre à Ulf, un jeune vétérinaire amoureux de Jenny...
Cinderella (1947)
, 1h24Directed by Nadejda Kocheverova
Origin Russie
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about children, Films about magic and magicians, Films about the labor movement, Musical films, Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors Ianina Boleslavovna Jeïmo, Erast Garine, Faïna Ranevskaïa, Vasili Merkuryev, Alekseï Konsovski, Varvara Miasnikova
Dans le royaume des fées vivent la belle-mère, ses filles maléfiques, Anna et Maryana, un mari bûcheron et handicapé et sa fille issue de son premier mariage, Cendrillon. La belle-mère exploite la pauvre fille comme une bonne à tout faire. Avec l'aide de sa marraine, la fée, Cendrillon se rend au bal royal, où un beau et très gentil prince tombe amoureux d'elle. A minuit, la magie s'arrête, la pauvre Cendrillon doit retourner à son ancienne vie et perdra une de ses chaussures cristal lors de sa fuite du palais. Le prince partira alors à sa recherche en utilisant cette chaussure.
The Woman on the Beach (1947)
, 1h11Directed by Jean Renoir
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about disabilities, La cécité
Actors Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan, Charles Bickford, Walter Sande, Irene Ryan, Nanette June "Nan" Leslie
Scott (Robert Ryan), a mounted Coast Guard officer, suffers from recurring nightmares involving a maritime tragedy. He sees himself immersed in an eerie landscape surrounded by a shipwreck and walking over skeletons at the bottom of the sea while a ghostly blond woman beckons him from afar. He thinks he is going mad. But at the same time, he decides to propose to Eve (Nan Leslie), a young woman working at Geddes, a local shipyard catering to the Coast Guard. She accepts. Eve has a strong resemblance to the ghostly blond of his nightmares.
Roughshod (1949)
, 1h28Directed by Mark Robson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Romance, Western
Actors Gloria Grahame, Robert Sterling, John Ireland, Claude Jarman Jr., Martha Hyer, Jeff Donnell
Three escaped convicts led by Lednov kill three cowboys in Nevada and steal their clothes. They ride on looking for revenge against a rancher, Clay Phillips, who is warned by friend Jed Graham to get out of town.
The Baron of Arizona (1950)
, 1h37Directed by Samuel Fuller
Genres Drama, Historical, Crime, Romance, Western
Actors Vincent Price, Ellen Drew, Vladimir Nikolayevich Sokoloff, Beulah Bondi, Reed Hadley, Robert Barrat
The notorious attempt by swindler James Reavis to claim the entire territory of Arizona as his own before it was granted statehood in 1912 is recounted years later by John Griff, who works for the Department of the Interior.
The Girls of Pleasure Island (1953)
, 1h35Directed by F. Hugh Herbert, Alvin Ganzer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Don Taylor, Leo Genn, Gene Barry, Elsa Lanchester, Philip Ober, Audrey Dalton
In 1945, Roger Halyard is a stiff-upper-lipped British gentleman who lives on a South Pacific island with his three nubile, naive daughters, Violet, Hester and Gloria. Hoping to shelter the girls from the lascivious advances of the opposite sex, Halyard is thwarted when 1,500 Marines arrive to transform the island into an aircraft landing base. Despite the best efforts of Halyard, his housekeeper Thelma, and Marine Colonel Reade, romance blossoms between the three girls and a trio of handsome leathernecks.
The Million Pound Note (1954)
, 1h30Directed by Ronald Neame
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Gregory Peck, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Ronald Squire, Joyce Grenfell, Jane Griffiths, Bryan Forbes
In 1903, American seaman Henry Adams (Gregory Peck) is stranded penniless in England and gets caught up in an unusual wager between two wealthy, eccentric brothers, Oliver (Ronald Squire) and Roderick Montpelier (Wilfrid Hyde-White). They persuade the Bank of England to issue a one million pound banknote, which they present to Adams in an envelope (only telling him that it contains some money). The reason for this is that Oliver believes that the mere existence of the note will enable the possessor to obtain whatever he needs, while Roderick contends that it would actually have to be spent for it to be of any use.