Category Archives: Romance
Second Act
Release 2018
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Director: Peter Segal
Writers: Justin Zackham, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas
Stars: Jennifer Lopez, Vanessa Hudgens, Leah Remini
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2126357/
A big box store worker reinvents her life and her life-story and shows Madison Avenue what street smarts can do
Nobody's Fool
Release 2018
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Director: Tyler Perry
Writer: Tyler Perry
Stars: Missi Pyle, Tiffany Haddish, Tika Sumpter
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8097306/
A woman is released from prison and reunites with her sister. She soon discovers that her sister is in an online relationship with a man who may not be what he seems.
If Beale Street Could Talk
Release 2018
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Director: Barry Jenkins
Writers: Barry Jenkins, James Baldwin
Stars: KiKi Layne, Stephan James, Regina King
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7125860/
A woman in Harlem embraces her pregnancy while she and her family struggle to prove her fiancé innocent of a crime.
IO
Release 2019
Genre Adventure, Drama, Romance
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Director: Jonathan Helpert
Writers: Clay Jeter, Charles Spano, Will Basanta
Stars: Margaret Qualley, Anthony Mackie, Danny Huston
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3256226/
As a young scientist searches for a way to save a dying Earth, she finds a connection with a man who's racing to catch the last shuttle off the planet.
Ashes in the Snow
Release 2018
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Director: Marius A. Markevicius
Writers: Ben York Jones, Ruta Sepetys
Stars: Bel Powley, Peter Franzén, Sophie Cookson
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3759298/
In 1941, a 16 year-old aspiring artist and her family are deported to Siberia amidst Stalin's brutal dismantling of the Baltic region. One girl's passion for art and her never-ending hope will break the silence of history.
Life Itself
Release 2018
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Director: Dan Fogelman
Writer: Dan Fogelman
Stars: Oscar Isaac, Olivia Wilde, Annette Bening
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5989218/
As a young New York City couple goes from college romance to marriage and the birth of their first child, the unexpected twists of their journey create reverberations that echo over continents and through lifetimes.
Attraction
Release 2017
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Director: Fedor Bondarchuk
Writers: Oleg Malovichko, Andrey Zolotarev
Stars: Irina Starshenbaum, Alexander Petrov, Rinal Mukhametov
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4731148/
After an alien ship crash lands onto a Russian city, many who saw it and the occupants start to question their own existence while there are those who demand the aliens leave Earth.
A Star Is Born
Release 2018
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Director: Bradley Cooper
Writers: Eric Roth, Bradley Cooper, Will Fetters, Moss Hart, John Gregory Dunne, Joan Didion, Frank Pierson, William A. Wellman, Robert Carson
Stars: Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper, Sam Elliott
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1517451/
A musician helps a young singer find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Release 2018
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Director: Desiree Akhavan
Writers: Desiree Akhavan, Cecilia Frugiuele, Emily M. Danforth
Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, Steven Hauck, Quinn Shephard
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6257174/
In 1993, a teenage girl is forced into a gay conversion therapy center by her conservative guardians.
Crazy Rich Asians
Release 2018
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Director: Jon M. Chu
Writers: Peter Chiarelli, Adele Lim, Kevin Kwan
Stars: Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3104988/
This contemporary romantic comedy, based on a global bestseller, follows native New Yorker Rachel Chu to Singapore to meet her boyfriend's family.