Category Archives: Romance
Nina Forever
Release 2015
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Director: Ben Blaine, Chris Blaine
Stars: Fiona O'Shaughnessy, Abigail Hardingham, Cian Barry, David Troughton, Elizabeth Elvin
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2885628/
After his girlfriend Nina dies in a car crash, Rob unsuccessfully attempts suicide. As he begins to overcome his grief...
The Veil
Release 2016
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Director: Phil Joanou
Writers: Robert Ben Garant
Stars: Jessica Alba, Thomas Jane, Lily Rabe, Shannon Woodward, Reid Scott
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3533916/
Thirty years after members of a religious cult committed mass suicide, the lone survivor returns to the scene of the tragedy with a documentary crew in tow.
Freeheld
Release 2015
Genre Biography, Drama, Romance
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Director: Peter Sollett
Writers: Ron Nyswaner
Stars: Steve Carell, Julianne Moore, Michael Shannon, Ellen Page, Josh Charles
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1658801/
New Jersey police lieutenant, Laurel Hester, and her registered domestic partner, Stacie Andree, both battle to secure Hester's pension benefits when she is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Knight of Cups
Release 2015
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Director: Terrence Malick
Stars: Natalie Portman, Teresa Palmer, Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Imogen Poots
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2101383/
A screenwriter living in LA tries to make sense of the strange events occurring around him.
The Diary of a Teenage Girl
Release 2015
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Director: Marielle Heller
Writers: Phoebe Gloeckner, Marielle Heller
Stars: Bel Powley, Domino The Cat, Kristen Wiig, Alexander Skarsgård, Christopher Meloni
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3172532/
A teen artist living in 1970s San Francisco enters into an affair with her mother's boyfriend.
Anomalisa
Release 2015
Genre Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
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Director: Duke Johnson, Charlie Kaufman
Writers: Charlie Kaufman
Stars: David Thewlis, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Noonan
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2401878/
A man crippled by the mundanity of his life experiences something out of the ordinary.
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.