Category Archives: Romance
Life as We Know It
Release 2010
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Director: Greg Berlanti
Writers: Ian Deitchman, Kristin Rusk Robinson
Stars: Katherine Heigl, Josh Duhamel, Josh Lucas, Alexis Clagett, Brynn Clagett
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1055292/
Two single adults become caregivers to an orphaned girl when their mutual best friends die in an accident.
Remember Me
Release 2010
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Director: Allen Coulter
Writers: Will Fetters
Stars: Caitlyn Rund, Moisés Acevedo, Noel Rodriguez, Kevin P. McCarthy, Chris Cooper
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1403981/
A romantic drama centered on two new lovers: Tyler, whose parents have split in the wake of his brother's suicide, and Ally, who lives each day to the fullest since witnessing her mother's murder.
Flipped
Release 2010
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Director: Rob Reiner
Writers: Rob Reiner, Andrew Scheinman, Wendelin Van Draanen
Stars: Madeline Carroll, Callan McAuliffe, Rebecca De Mornay, Anthony Edwards, John Mahoney
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0817177/
Two eighth-graders start to have feelings for each other despite being total opposites. Based on the novel "Flipped" by Wendelin Van Draanen.
Blue Valentine
Release 2010
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Director: Derek Cianfrance
Writers: Derek Cianfrance, Joey Curtis, Cami Delavigne
Stars: Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams, Faith Wladyka, John Doman, Mike Vogel
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1120985/
The film centers on a contemporary married couple, charting their evolution over a span of years by cross-cutting between time periods.
Dear John
Release 2010
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Director: Lasse Hallström
Writers: Jamie Linden, Nicholas Sparks
Stars: Channing Tatum, Amanda Seyfried, Richard Jenkins, Henry Thomas, D.J. Cotrona
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0989757/
A romantic drama about a soldier who falls for a conservative college student while he's home on leave.
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Release 2010
Genre Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
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Director: Edgar Wright
Writers: Michael Bacall, Edgar Wright, Bryan Lee O'Malley
Stars: Michael Cera, Alison Pill, Mark Webber, Johnny Simmons, Ellen Wong
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0446029/
Scott Pilgrim must defeat his new girlfriend's seven evil exes in order to win her heart.
Breathe In
Release 2013
Genre Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
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Director: Drake Doremus
Writers: Drake Doremus, Ben York Jones
Stars: Guy Pearce, Amy Ryan, Felicity Jones, Mackenzie Davis, Matthew Daddario
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1999987/
When a foreign exchange student arrives in a small upstate New York town, she challenges the dynamics of her host family's relationships and alters their lives forever.
Water for Elephants
Release 2011
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Director: Francis Lawrence
Writers: Richard LaGravenese, Sara Gruen
Stars: Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson, Christoph Waltz, Paul Schneider, Jim Norton
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1067583/
A veterinary student abandons his studies after his parents are killed and joins a traveling circus as their vet.
One Day
Release 2011
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Director: Lone Scherfig
Writers: David Nicholls
Stars: Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess, Tom Mison, Jodie Whittaker, Tim Key
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1563738/
After spending the night together on the night of their college graduation Dexter and Em are shown each year on the same date to see where they are in their lives. They are sometimes together, sometimes not, on that day.
The Grey
Release 2011
Genre Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
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Director: Joe Carnahan
Writers: Joe Carnahan, Ian Mackenzie Jeffers
Stars: Liam Neeson, Frank Grillo, Dermot Mulroney, Dallas Roberts, Joe Anderson
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1601913/
After their plane crashes in Alaska, six oil workers are led by a skilled huntsman to survival, but a pack of merciless wolves haunts their every step.