Romance Films
Displaying 105 films
1,000 Times Good Night
Rebecca (Juliet Binoche), a war photojournalist gets badly hurt on assignment in Kabul. Back home, her family gives her an ultimatum: work or family.
Director: Erik Poppe
1981
Filmmaker Ricardo Trogi recalls the events surrounding his family moving to a new neighborhood when he was 11-years-old.
Director: Ricardo Trogi
2 Autumns, 3 Winters
Over the course of two autumns and three winters, Arman, Amélie and Benjamin share the moments, accidents, love stories and memories that will define who they are.
Director: Sébastien Betbeder
A Life in Dirty Movies
A Life in Dirty Movies is a love story about legendary sexploitation director Joe Sarno and his wife and collaborator Peggy, as he struggles to get one last film on screen in an industry that's long d...
Director: Wiktor Ericsson
A Long Way From Home
A couple realise their dream of retiring to the South of France. Their life changes dramatically when they meet another, younger couple.
Director: Virginia Gilbert
A NY Thing
A French romantic follows his dream girl to NYC, but a weekend of white lies, one-night-stands and tangled love triangles prove infatuation and romance are not what they seem.
Director: Olivier Lécot
Aliyah
Drug dealer Alex finds hope for a new start when his cousin offers him a job in Israel. Now he must make the final score, while balancing a new romance, a past lover, a lifelong friendship and his bro...
Director: Elie Wajeman
All the Sins of Sodom
Henning is a fashion photographer driven by visions of artistic glory. He is encouraged by a literary agent to produce a volume of erotic nudes and works to create the perfect layout with his favorite...
Director: Joseph W. Sarno
All the Sins of Sodom, Vibrations Double Feature
"Shot back-to-back with Vibrations in 1968, All the Sins of Sodom has been hailed as “one of Sarno’s most captivating films.” (Video Watchdog)
Director: Joseph W. Sarno
All You Ever Wished For
Emmy-winner Darren Criss stars in this modern day fairy tale of a bungled kidnapping, a gypsy spell, and a love cottage that turns men into fools.
Director: Barry Morrow
Amorous
Four Londoners move to an isolated cottage to test social conventions and their own inhibitions by swapping partners and exploring unconventional sex.
Director: Joanna Coates
Amour Fou
Based on the double suicide of German romantic poet Heinrich von Kleist and Henrietta Vogel, this period piece is a wry denunciation of dying for love.
Director: Jessica Hausner
An Afghan Love Story
After Wajma discovers she’s pregnant – the result of a tryst with the gregarious Mustafa – she and her family must face societal pressure in conservative Kabul, Afghanistan.
Director: Barmak Akram
An Israeli Love Story
A love story based on actual events and people set during the turbulent period of 1947 pre-state Israel.
Director: Dan Wolman
And They Call It Summer
Emotional scars keep Dino from having sex with Anna, so he satisfies his urges with prostitutes. To rescue him from his perversion, Anna tries to ease Dino's pain.
Director: Paolo Franchi
Antares
A deadly car crash sets off three parallel stories of women at crisis points, faltering behind the doors of the same, plain Vienna apartment block.
Director: Götz Spielmann
Arranged
ARRANGED centers on the friendship between an Orthodox Jewish woman and a Muslim woman, both being subjected to arranged marriages, in Brooklyn.
Director: Diane Crespo
Ben X
As an alternative to getting bullied at school, an autistic teenager retreats into the world of online role-playing games.
Director: Nic Balthazar
Bent
In 1930s Berlin, homosexual Max (Clive Owen) flees but is sent to the Dachau concentration camp.
Director: Sean Mathias
Blush
An Israeli high school girl struggles in the pursuit of her identity due to family issues, until she falls in love with the new girl at her school.
Director: Michal Vinik
Breathe
Two teens embark on a close new friendship that quickly escalates toward an inevitable and extraordinary collapse. Directed by Melanie Laurent.
Director: Mélanie Laurent
Carmilla
An atmospheric, coming-of-age love story steeped in eerie mystery and inspired by the gothic novel of the same name.
Director: Emily Harris
Center Stage
Ruan Ling-yu (Maggie Cheung) is riding high in her acting career when the press decides to take her down a notch or two, bitterly criticizing her for an affair with a married man.
Director: Stanley Kwan
César et Rosalie
Cesar and Rosalie live comfortably together until David, Rosalie's old flame, returns igniting Cesar's jealousy and Rosalie's indecision.
Director: Claude Sautet
Cocoon
In the heat of a shimmering summer, Nora falls for Romy and discovers a whole new world.
Director: Leonie Krippendorff
Come Undone
Anna has a great career and a devoted husband, but when she ignites a sultry affair with married Domenico, she must confront her budding lustful cravings.
Director: Silvio Soldini
Cruel
Pierre, a day laborer living with his sick father, moonlights as a murderer until he meets a pianist and falls in love.
Director: Eric Cherrière
Curiosa
A steamy love story set against a backdrop of sexual freedom, based on the relationship between 19th-century poets Pierre Louÿs and Marie de Régnier.
Director: Lou Jeunet
Day and Night
An unreservedly matter-of-fact look at two young women who consider prostitution an adventure until reality catches up with them
Director: Sabine Derflinger
Edward II
Derek Jarman's adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's Elizabethan drama.
Director: Derek Jarman
For a Woman
On the death of her mother, Anne makes an unsettling discovery: an old photo will cast doubt on her very origins, as she uncovers a mysterious uncle her parents welcomed into their lives after World W...
Director: Diane Kurys
For My Father
A Palestinian man forced into a suicide mission, and a beautiful young Israeli woman, outcast from her orthodox family, fall in love during a desperate weekend in Tel Aviv.
Director: Dror Zahavi
Forever My Love
A compilation of the Sissi film trilogy, depicting the marriage between Austrian Emperor Francis Joseph and his cousin, Bavarian Princess Elisabeth (Romy Schneider).
Director: Ernst Marischka
Fritz Lang's Indian Epic
The lavish 2-part adventure tale from 1959, gloriously restored with special bonus extras.
Director: Fritz Lang
Garibaldi's Lovers
Through a hilarious series of coincidences, three very different characters give each other new hope for their futures - and for the city itself, so emblematic of our times.
Director: Silvio Soldini
Gigante
A supermarket security guard forms a powerful fixation on the pretty cleaning woman who scrubs the aisles during the graveyard shift in this deeply personal, comedic tale of obsession and voyeurism
Director: Adrián Biniez
Gregory's Girl
Newly restored and available in HD for the first time. Gregory is a normal teen who is infatuated with a classmate. He must work to win her affection.
Director: Bill Forsyth
Grigris
A dancer with a bum leg finds himself dangerously entwined in the black market, in an effort to save himself and the woman he loves.
Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Hana-bi (Fireworks)
Nishi leaves the police in the face of harrowing personal and professional difficulties. Spiraling into depression, he makes questionable decisions.
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Helena from the Wedding
Newlyweds Alex and Alice invite their closest friends to a secluded cabin to ring in the New Year, but when a beautiful young model arrives unannounced, all hell breaks loose.
Director: Joseph Infantolino
Hello Lonesome
With an enchanting mixture of laughter and longing, the worlds of six flawed but captivating individuals are woven together as they explore those age-old human desires: to love and be loved.
Director: Adam Reid
I Am Yours
An unhappy single mother in Norway's Pakistani expatriate community begins to ignore her young son in favor of placating a Swedish filmmaker she thinks could change her life for the better.
Director: Iram Haq
In Love We Trust
A divorced couple learns that the only way to save their terminally ill daughter is to have another child together.
Director: Wang Xiaoshuai
Jaffa
A beautiful Israeli girl plans to elope with a Palestinian mechanic, but a shocking & sadistic turn of events will change their lives forever.
Director: Keren Yedaya
Key of Life
A case of stolen identity and one determined bride-to-be intersect in this comedic escapade from famed Japanese filmmaker Kenji Uchida.
Director: Kenji Uchida
L'Important C'est d'Aimer
Servais meets a married woman, Nadine. They soon discover how important their encounter was and neither want to dismiss it as a mere fling.
Director: Andrzej Zulawski
L'innocente
Tullio Hermil is a chauvinist aristocrat who flaunts his mistress to his wife, but when he believes she has been unfaithful he becomes enamored of her again.
Director: Luchino Visconti
Les Choses de la Vie
Pierre is fatally injured in a terrible car accident. After seeing his life pass before his eyes he has a renewed appreciation for life.
Director: Claude Sautet
Little England
In the 1930s and 1940s, wives on the island of Andros find new ways to cope when their husbands go on long voyages on ships.
Director: Pantelis Voulgaris
Love Me
Sasha is an attractive young Ukranian woman who finally decides to end her dead-end relationship with a married man. Cemal, bound by tradition to marry a girl he's never met, is dragged by his uncle a...
Director: Maryna Gorbach
McLintock!
The classic 1963 western with Maureen O'Hara and John Wayne.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Miss Conception
A 33-year-old woman realizes that her partner doesn't want children, but is still determined to reproduce.
Director: Eric Styles
My German Friend
After the war, Nazis and Jews alike fled to Argentina to escape war crime tribunals and the horrendous persecution of the past, respectively. Each brings with them an intense dislike of the other, try...
Director: Jeanine Meerapfel
My King
Acclaimed auteur Maïwenn's magnum opus about the real and metaphysical pain endured by a woman who struggles to leave a destructive relationship with a charming yet extremely self-centered lothario.
Director: Maïwenn
My Love, Don't Cross that River
A couple who have lived together for 76 years faces the last moment of their marriage.
Director: Jin Moyoung
My Mistress
What starts as a beautiful and strangely innocent affair between a vulnerable teenage romantic and a French S&M mistress soon becomes more dangerous.
Director: Stephen Lance
Never Ever
Benoît Jacquot returns with a story of an unraveling romance in NEVER EVER, starring Mathieu Amalric, who falls for a beautiful artist.
Director: Benoit Jacquot
Nights with Theodore
Two young Parisians fall in love amid the dreamlike topography of a hillside public garden.
Director: Sébastien Betbeder
Nina
NINA is a LGBTQ debut feature, painting a sensitive portrait of a strong yet confused woman trapped in her role as a wife and daughter.
Director: Olga Chajdas
Not Another Happy Ending
Publisher Tom finds a sleeper hit in first-time author Jane, but success makes her too happy to finish her second novel.
Director: John McKay
Nude Area
Two teenage girls and their mutual fascination and attraction.
Director: Urszula Antoniak
Nurse.Fighter.Boy
An urban love story about the soul of a mother, the heart of a fighter, and the faith of a child.
Director: Charles Officer
Once Were Warriors
A family descended from Maori warriors is bedeviled by a violent father and the societal problems of being treated as outcasts.
Director: Lee Tamahori
Prairie Love
While traveling through North Dakota, a vagrant finds a near-frozen man, assumes his identity and steals the man's prison pen-pal girlfriend.
Director: Dusty Bias
Protektor
A Czech journalist joins a Prague radio station that broadcasts Nazi propaganda in order to protect his Jewish wife.
Director: Marek Najbrt
Puppylove
A lonely teen's friendship with a free-spirited British neighbor pushes her to break free of the bonds of childhood.
Director: Delphine Lehericey
Puzzled Love
Sun and Lucas fall head over heels in love while they are exchange students in Barcelona, and they try not to think about being separated at the end of the term.
Director: Gaby Amione
Ritual - A Psychomagic Story
The fragile Lia, and the sadist Viktor, have a very strong and passionate relationship.
Director: Guilia Brazzale
Saint-Narcisse
Salvo
A hitman for the Sicilian Mafia spares the life of the blind sister of one of his victims, and their lives become inextricably linked.
Director: Fabio Grassadonia
Sensation
A call girl meets an Irish farmer (Domnhall Gleeson) online and plans to use his money to start her own brothel.
Director: Tom Hall
Seven Minutes in Heaven
Galia survives a suicide bombing on a bus and has a hard time remembering that day until someone sends her a necklace; a gift that sets her off on a journey to find the missing pieces of the puzzle fr...
Director: Omri Givon
Shun Li and the Poet
A Chinese barmaid and a Slavic fisherman find friendship and more in an Italian fishing village.
Director: Andrea Segre
Sissi
In the first installment of the Sissi trilogy, the young vibrant princess catches the eye of her sister's fiancé, Emperor Franz Josef.
Director: Ernst Marischka
Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress
In Vienna, young Austrian Empress Sissi (Romy Schneider) is fatigued from the pressures of having to hold court. Though happily married to Emperor Franz Joseph, Sissi must endure the familial machinat...
Director: Ernst Marischka
Sissi: The Young Empress
A young woman (Romy Schneider) tries to adapt to her new life as Austria's empress.
Director: Ernst Marischka
Somewhere in the Middle
Four lovers find themselves caught in a tangle of intersecting relationships in this engaging, New York-set romantic drama that explores the ripple effects of love and obsession.
Director: Lanre Olabisi
Swung
Swung is a graphic, touching and funny romance that delves deep into the secret underside of a very modern relationship taken to its emotional and sexual limits.
Director: Colin Kennedy
Teddy Bear
Desperate for true love, painfully shy bodybuilder Dennis escapes the watch of his domineering mother and travels to Thailand in search of the love of his life.
Director: Mads Matthiesen
The Best Intentions
Scripted by Ingmar Bergman, The Best Intentions is a multilayered backwards glance at the courtship of Bergman's own parents.
Director: Bille August
The Charmer
A NY Times critics pick, THE CHARMER is a slow-burning thriller about Esmail an Iranian man seeking a Danish bride.
Director: Milad Alami
The Days of Abandonment
Olga's life is shattered when her husband abandons her. Adapted from the novel by Elena Ferrante.
Director: Roberto Faenza
The French Way
The incomparable Josephine Baker, dances and sings her way through a thought-lost French classic.
Director: Jacques de Baroncelli
The Grocer's Son
Antoine Sforza, a thirty-year-old young man, left his village ten years before in order to start a new life in the big city, but now that his father, a traveling grocer, is in hospital after a stroke,...
Director: Eric Guirado
The Maneater
Jezabel, a rebellious young woman, lives for extreme life experiences until she almost hits rock bottom. She hides her fragility and fear of love until she crosses paths with a young priest.
Director: Natalie Saracco
The Marquise of O...
Legendary filmmaker Eric Rohmer adapts Heinrich von Kleist’s epic tale of virtue and mistaken identity in this 1976 Cannes Film Festival Special Jury Prize winner
Director: Eric Rohmer
The Pillow Book
Peter Greenaway’s erotically-charged drama follows a young woman who finds pleasure having calligraphy pained on her, and the revenge she seeks on the man who exploited her father.
Director: Peter Greenaway
The Real Thing
A man falls for a woman he saves at the train station and slowly becomes involved in a very dangerous relationship.
Director: Koji Fukada
The Republic of Love
Based on a novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carol Shields, a romantic comedy about the barriers facing the lucky and the unlucky-in-love in the 21st century.
Director: Deepa Mehta
The Sissi Collection
The beautiful Romy Schneider stars in three captivating films (plus a prequel) based on the tumultuous life of the beloved Austrian Empress, Sissi.
Director: Ernst Marischka
The Sower
When the men of their village are taken, the women swear an oath that if a man should come, he will become their shared husband.
Director: Marine Francen
The Tall Blond Man With One Black Shoe
A frothy French farce, THE TALL BLOND MAN WITH ONE BLACK SHOE is the blockbuster 1972 madcap comedy about mistaken identity and mixed signals.
Director: Yves Robert
The Three-Way Wedding
Relationships begin to unravel during a playwright's latest production, thanks to his ex-wife and a pretty assistant (Julie Depardieu).
Director: Jacques Doillon
To The Night
Norman (Caleb Landry Jones), who survived a fire as a child, is obsessed with light and haunted by its powers.
Director: Peter Brunner
Troubling Love
Two Films by Claude Sautet, featuring Romy Schneider
Two films featuring the legendary Romy Schneider, directed by Claude Sautet.
Director: Claude Sautet
Un Amor
Childhood friends Bruno and Lalo are inseparable, until Lisa enters their lives. Beautiful and free-spirited, she quickly turns both their heads, igniting a passionate but heartbreaking love triangle ...
Director: Paula Hernández
Victoria in Dover
After claiming the throne following King William IV's death, Queen Victoria struggles to choose a husband.
Director: Ernst Marischka
Viva Cuba
In a tale akin to Romeo and Juliet, the friendship between two children is threatened by their parents' socioeconomic differences.
Director: Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
Oscar-winning director Ryūsuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car) presents an enchanting triptych that spins mundane encounters into a world of infinite possibilities.
Director: Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Where I Belong
The politics of the Third Reich drove thousands into exile. For many, England was the first safe haven. When the war came to an end the world as they knew it had changed forever and many would not ret...
Director: Fritz Urschitz
Where I've Never Lived
Director: Paolo Franchi
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?
Introvert Weichung sets off to discover his true self in this lighthearted comedic romp.
Director: Arvin Chen
Wondrous Boccaccio
In the 13th century, 10 children escape an outbreak of the black death and seek shelter in the countryside. To pass the time, each child tells a story that helps them cope with the uncertainties of li...
Director: Paolo Taviani
XXY
The story of an intersexual fifteen-year-old and the challenge presented by her medical condition.
Director: Lucia Puenzo