Category Archives: Romance
Legend
Release 2015
Genre Adventure, Biography, Crime, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
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Director: Brian Helgeland
Writers: Brian Helgeland, John Pearson
Stars: Colin Morgan, Tom Hardy, Christopher Eccleston, Joshua Hill, Emily Browning
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3569230/
The film tells the story of the identical twin gangsters Reggie and Ronnie Kray, two of the most notorious criminals in British history, and their organised crime empire in the East End of London during the 1960s.
Carol
Release 2015
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Director: Todd Haynes
Writers: Phyllis Nagy, Patricia Highsmith
Stars: Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Kyle Chandler, Jake Lacy, Sarah Paulson
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2402927/
Set in 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.
Brooklyn
Release 2015
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Director: John Crowley
Writers: Nick Hornby, Colm Tóibín
Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Hugh Gormley, Brid Brennan, Jim Broadbent, Maeve McGrath
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2381111/
An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a new romance. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.
The Lobster
Release 2015
Genre Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Writers: Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthymis Filippou
Stars: Jacqueline Abrahams, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Jessica Barden, Olivia Colman, Anthony Dougall
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3464902/
In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.
The Girl King
Release 2015
Genre Biography, Drama, Romance
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Director: Mika Kaurismäki
Writers: Michel Marc Bouchard
Stars: Malin Buska, Sarah Gadon, Michael Nyqvist, Lucas Bryant, Laura Birn
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1254322/
THE GIRL KING paints a portrait of the brilliant, extravagant Kristina of Sweden, queen from age six, who fights the conservative forces that are against her ideas to modernize Sweden and who have no tolerance for her awakening sexuality.
Miss You Already
Release 2015
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Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Writers: Morwenna Banks
Stars: Drew Barrymore, Toni Collette, Dominic Cooper, Paddy Considine, Tyson Ritter
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2245003/
The friendship between two life-long girlfriends is put to the test when one starts a family and the other falls ill.
Crimson Peak
Release 2015
Genre Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
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Director: Guillermo del Toro
Writers: Guillermo del Toro, Matthew Robbins
Stars: Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Hunnam, Jim Beaver
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2554274/
In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds - and remembers.
By the Sea
Release 2015
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Director: Angelina Jolie
Stars: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Mélanie Laurent, Melvil Poupaud, Niels Arestrup
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3707106/
Set in France during the mid-1970s, Vanessa, a former dancer, and her husband Roland, an American writer...
Love
Release 2015
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Director: Gaspar Noé
Stars: Aomi Muyock, Karl Glusman, Klara Kristin, Ugo Fox, Juan Saavedra
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3774694/
Murphy is an American living in Paris who enters a highly sexually and emotionally charged relationship with the unstable Electra. Unaware of the effect it will have on their relationship, they invite their pretty neighbor into their bed.
Shelter
Release 2014
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Director: Paul Bettany
Stars: Adolfo Mendez-Nouel, Anthony Mackie, Kevin Hoffman, Teddy Cañez, Steve Cirbus
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3136112/
Hannah and Tahir fall in love while homeless on the streets of New York. Shelter explores how they got there, and as we learn about their pasts we realize they need each other to build a future.