Category Archives: Romance
Adrift
Release 2018
Genre Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
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Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Writers: Aaron Kandell, Jordan Kandell, David Branson Smith, Tami Ashcraft, Susea McGearhart
Stars: Shailene Woodley, Sam Claflin, Jeffrey Thomas
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6306064/
A true story of survival, as a young couple's chance encounter leads them first to love, and then on the adventure of a lifetime as they face one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history.
Book Club
Release 2018
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Director: Bill Holderman
Writers: Bill Holderman, Erin Simms
Stars: Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6857166/
Four lifelong friends have their lives forever changed after reading 50 Shades of Grey in their monthly book club.
On Chesil Beach
Release 2017
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Director: Dominic Cooke
Writers: Ian McEwan
Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Emily Watson, Anne-Marie Duff
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1667321/
Based on Ian McEwan's novel. In 1962 England, a young couple find their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night.
Andover
Release 2018
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Director: Scott Perlman
Writer: Scott Perlman
Stars: Jonathan Silverman, Jennifer Finnigan, Richard Kind
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5605076/
A genetics professor clones his dead wife, over and over, in a desperate attempt to get her back exactly as she was.
Overboard
Release 2018
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Director: Rob Greenberg
Writers: Leslie Dixon, Bob Fisher, Rob Greenberg
Stars: Anna Faris, Eva Longoria, Eugenio Derbez
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1563742/
A spoiled, wealthy yacht owner is thrown overboard and becomes the target of revenge from his mistreated employee.
Siberia
Release 2018
Genre Crime, Romance, Thriller
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Director: Matthew Ross
Writers: Stephen Hamel, Scott B. Smith
Stars: Keanu Reeves, Boris Gulyarin, Ashley St. George
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6494418/
When an American diamond trader's Russian partner goes missing, he journeys to Siberia in search of him, but instead begins a love affair.
Disobedience
Release 2017
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Director: Sebastián Lelio
Writers: Sebastián Lelio, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Naomi Alderman
Stars: Rachel Weisz, Rachel McAdams, Alessandro Nivola
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6108178/
A woman returns to her Orthodox Jewish community that shunned her for her attraction to a female childhood friend. Once back, their passions reignite as they explore the boundaries of faith and sexuality.
Kings
Release 2017
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Director: Deniz Gamze Ergüven
Writer: Deniz Gamze Ergüven
Stars: Halle Berry, Daniel Craig, Lamar Johnson
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5843850/
The life of a foster family in South Central Los Angeles, a few weeks before the city erupts in violence following the verdict of the Rodney King trial.
Midnight Sun
Release 2018
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Director: Scott Speer
Writers: Kenji Bando, Eric Kirsten
Stars: Bella Thorne, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Rob Riggle
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4799066/
A 17-year-old girl suffers from a condition that prevents her from being out in the sunlight.
Sherlock Gnomes
Release 2018
Genre Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
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Director: John Stevenson
Writers: Ben Zazove, Andy Riley, Kevin Cecil, Emily Cook, Kathy Greenberg, Rob Sprackling, John Smith, Kelly Asbury, Steve Hamilton Shaw
Stars: Kelly Asbury, Mary J. Blige, Emily Blunt
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2296777/
Garden gnomes, Gnomeo & Juliet, recruit renowned detective Sherlock Gnomes to investigate the mysterious disappearance of other garden ornaments.