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Films with the genre "Romance", sorted by revenue
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He Laughed Last (1956)
, 1h17Directed by Blake Edwards
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Crime, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Anthony Dexter, Lucy Marlow, Richard Long, Alan Reed, Jesse White, Florenz Ames
A Runyonesque Roaring 20s musical comedy about a show girl who circumstance casts as an unlikely mob boss.
The She-Creature (1956)
, 1h17Directed by Edward L. Cahn
Origin USA
Genres Fantastic, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Chester Morris, Marla English, Tom Conway, Cathy Downs, Lance Fuller, Frieda Inescort
The plot concerns an oily carnival hypnotist (Chester Morris), whose experiments in hypnotic regression take his unwitting female subject (Marla English) to a past life as a prehistoric humanoid form of sea life. He uses the physical manifestation of the prehistoric creature to commit murders. The hypnotist's motives are never explicitly described, and the murders happen, apparently, either for revenge or notoriety.
Born Reckless (1958)
, 1h20Directed by Howard W. Koch
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance, Western
Actors Mamie Van Doren, Jeff Richards, Arthur Hunnicutt, Carol Ohmart, Don "Red" Barry, Jeanne Carmen
Kelly Cobb travels and performs in various country rodeos in order to get enough money to buy a patch of land to call his own. One day he picks up Jackie Adams, a saloon singer and trick rider whom he saves from a clutching admirer. The two travel together and Jackie begins to fall in love with Kelly. Kelly however doesn't notice because of his drive to risk his life for the dream of the land he pursues. Jackie sums up that Kelly was just born reckless and she strives to change his free roaming lifestyle.
The Facts of Life (1960)
, 1h43Directed by Norman Panama, Melvin Frank
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Ruth Hussey, Don DeFore, Louis Nye, Philip Ober
As the yearly vacation of six neighbors, the Gilberts, Masons, and Weavers, approaches, Kitty Weaver (Lucille Ball) and Larry Gilbert (Bob Hope) find themselves frustrated with the routine. When both their spouses (Ruth Hussey and Don DeFore) are kept away from the vacation, Kitty and Larry find themselves alone in Acapulco, with the Masons (Philip Ober and Marianne Stewart) bedridden with illness. Forced together, Kitty and Larry fall in love. Once the vacation is over, however, they have difficulties in either abandoning or continuing their romance.
Scarlet Sails (1961)
, 1h28Directed by Alexandre Ptouchko
Origin Russie
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Melodrama, Romance
Actors Anastasia Vertinskaïa, Vasily Lanovoy, Ivan Pereverzev, Yevgeny Morgunov, Jemma Firsova, Oleg Anofriyev
The setting is a small fishing village. The former seaman Longren (Ivan Pereverzev) raises his daughter Assol (Lena Cheremshanova/Anastasiya Vertinskaya) alone after losing his beloved wife, making a meager living by selling the toy boats he carves from wood. As a child, Assol encounters an old man (Nikolay Volkov) who claims to be a wizard and promises the girl that one day a prince will come on a ship with scarlet sails to carry her away. The villagers scoff but Assol believes her dream will come true one day.
Something Wild (1961)
, 1h52Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Romance
Actors Carroll Baker, Ralph Meeker, Mildred Dunnock, Jean Stapleton, Martin Kosleck, Clifton James
Mary Ann Robinson, a teenage girl attending college in New York City, is brutally raped while walking in a park.
Cain the XVIII-th (1963)
, 1h34Genres Fantasy, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Lidiya Sukharevskaya, Alexandre Demianenko, Erast Garine, Iouri Lioubimov, Rina Zelionaïa, Mikhaïl Glouzski
A famous inventor ("The Professor") creates an extra-powerful weapon—an explosive mosquito. King Cain XVIII dreams of conquering the world and marrying the princess, but she is also loved by Yan, a vagrant musician. Yan's love leads him to surmount many obstacles and simultaneously thwart the insidious plans of the king.
Main Jatti Punjab Di (1964)
Genres Romance
Actors Prem Nath, Tun tun (Uma Devi Khatri), Jeevan, Achala Sachdev, Manmohan Krishna Chadha
Preetop (Nishi)is a beautiful girl of handicapped father, her mother is dead. She loves her father and takes responsibility of farming in their fields. She falls in love with handsome boy Prem (Premnath). Ramlal the villain of film becomes rival of Prem and he also wants to marry with Preeto. Ramlal complains to Prem's father about love affair of Prem and Preeto. After a drama Preeto's father considers it matter of dishonour and gets angry with his daughter and dies after falling from stairs. Prem's father (Jeevan) fixes Prem's marriage with a rich girl. Ramlal kidnaps Preeto and Prem mistakes his father as kidnapper and after searching Preeto he finds truth. In climax Ramlal takes Prem and Preeto on target of gun, then Prem's father shoots Ramlal and becomes agree for marriage of Prem and Preeto.
Samurai Spy (1965)
, 1h40Directed by Masahiro Shinoda
Genres Drama, Action, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films, Samurai films
Actors Tetsurō Tanba, Eiji Okada, Jun Hamamura, Seiji Miyaguchi, Misako Watanabe, Shintarō Ishihara
Au début du XVIIe siècle, la tension monte entre les clans Toyotomi et Tokugawa, qui menacent d'entrer en guerre une nouvelle fois. Sasuke Sarutobi, un ninja de légende, est chargé d'observer les deux camps.
Katzelmacher (1969)
, 1h28Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Origin German
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about immigration, Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Hanna Schygulla, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Harry Baer, Irm Hermann, Katrin Schaake
Jorgos, émigrant grec, rejoint une communeauté très soudée. Dès son arrivée, il suscite la jalousie et songe à repartir chez lui.
The Betsy (1978)
, 2h6Directed by Daniel Petrie
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
Actors Laurence Olivier, Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Duvall, Clifford David, Katharine Ross, Jane Alexander
A fading family-owned automobile manufacturer and its owners pin their hopes for a return to profitability on a new model named for the great-granddaughter of the firm's founder.
The Panic in Needle Park (1971)
, 1h50Directed by Jerry Schatzberg
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Al Pacino, Kitty Winn, Richard Bright, Raúl Juliá, Kiel Martin, Joe Santos
In New York City, soft-spoken Helen returns to the apartment she shares with her boyfriend Marco after enduring an unhygienic and inept abortion. Although Helen becomes ill from the procedure, Marco is satisfied because he was able to procure the abortion through bartering, and thus did not have to expend any money. When Marco leaves briefly to collect some cash, Bobby, an amiable small-time drug dealer to whom Marco owes money, shows unexpected gentleness and concern for Helen. Soon after, when Helen is hospitalized for profuse bleeding, Bobby sneaks in after visiting hours and tells her that Marco has gone away. Briefly, Helen considers returning to her dysfunctional family in Fort Wayne, Indiana. However, after she is released from the hospital, she moves in with Bobby. As they are walking together, Bobby steals a television out of a parked van and pawns it for money to buy drugs. At his apartment, Bobby declines Helen's invitation to have sex until she feels better. When she awakens to find him taking drugs, he explains that he is not an addict, but only "chipping.
Quintet (1979)
, 1h58Directed by Robert Altman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Romance, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
Themes Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Disaster films
Actors Paul Newman, Vittorio Gassman, Fernando Rey, Bibi Andersson, Brigitte Fossey, Nina, Baroness van Pallandt
The story takes place during a new ice age. The camera tracks a blank, frozen, seemingly deserted tundra until two blurry, distant figures can just be made out. They are the seal hunter Essex (Paul Newman) and his pregnant companion, Vivia (Brigitte Fossey), the daughter of one of Essex's late hunting partners. They are traveling north, where Essex hopes to reunite with his brother, Francha (Thomas Hill).
Red Rose (1980)
Directed by P. Bharathiraja
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime, Romance
Actors Rajesh Khanna, Poonam Dhillon, Satyen Kappu, Aruna Irani, Janagaraj, Om Shivpuri
Anand (Rajesh Khanna) is a successful businessman with a dark side. He preys on nubile girls and rapes and kills them. These proceedings are video-recorded and watched by his adoptive father and mentor, another deranged woman-hater who, as with Anand, had a disillusioning experience with the female sex in his past. The old man stays holed up in a far corner of Aanand's mansion watching his son carry out what he is too infirm to do. The murdered girls are buried in Anand's garden and a rosebush is grown above.