Category Archives: Romance

Blue Valentine

Release 2010

Genre Drama, Romance

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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

Genre Drama, Romance, War

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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

Genre Drama, Romance

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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

Genre Drama, Romance

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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.

The Three Musketeers

Release 2011

Genre Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance

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Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Writers: Alex Litvak, Andrew Davies, Alexandre Dumas père
Stars: Matthew Macfadyen, Milla Jovovich, Helen George, Christian Oliver, Luke Evans
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1509767/

The hot-headed young D'Artagnan along with three former legendary but now down on their luck Musketeers must unite and defeat a beautiful double agent and her villainous employer from seizing the French throne and engulfing Europe in war.

Something Borrowed

Release 2011

Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance

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Director: Luke Greenfield
Writers: Jennie Snyder, Emily Giffin
Stars: Ginnifer Goodwin, Kate Hudson, Colin Egglesfield, John Krasinski, Steve Howey
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0491152/

Friendships are tested and secrets come to the surface when terminally single Rachel falls for Dex, her best friend Darcy's fiancé.

In Time

Release 2011

Genre Action, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller

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Director: Andrew Niccol
Stars: Justin Timberlake, Olivia Wilde, Shyloh Oostwald, Johnny Galecki, Colin McGurk
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1637688/

In a future where people stop aging at 25, but are engineered to live only one more year, having the means to buy your way out of the situation is a shot at immortal youth. Here, Will Salas finds himself accused of murder and on the run with a hostage - a connection that becomes an important part of the way against the system.