Movies in the Romance genre
James L. Brooks' movies have often been characterized by a rambling quality, and nowhere has that been more evident than in How Do You Know, the closest he has come to a conventional romantic comedy. The problem with the film has little to do with ...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-12-17
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: James L. Brooks
Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd, Owen Wilson, ...
The only holiday Hollywood is better at screwing up than Christmas is Valentine’s Day. Every year it seems that the movie industry is intent on making the Day of Love about as enjoyable as a root canal. 2016’s contribution is How to Be Si...
U.S. Release Date: 2016-02-12
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Content, Profanity, Brief Nudity)
Genre: Comedy/Romance
Director: Christian Ditter
Cast: Dakota Johnson, Leslie Mann, Alison Brie
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People is an uneasy marriage of satire and romantic comedy. The film's inability to decide whether it wants to be sweet and life-affirming or vicious and nasty creates not only a disconnect on the story level but r...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-10-03
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: COMEDY/ROMANCE
Director: Robert B. Weide
Cast: Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst, Megan Fox, ...
Hysteria's "hook" is that it chronicles the development of one of the 20th century's most popular home appliances: the vibrator. However, although the details surrounding the deplorable state of women's medicine during the Victorian era are intrigu...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-05-18
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Content)
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: Tanya Wexler
Cast: Hugh Dancy, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jonathan Pryce, ...
I Love You, Beth Cooper contains a share of effective elements wrapped around the core that, overall, isn't very good. Although masquerading as a generic teen romantic comedy, the film touches on topics that are atypically introspective for this s...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-07-10
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Brief Nudity)
Genre: COMEDY/ROMANCE
Director: Chris Columbus
Cast: Paul Rust, Hayden Panettiere, Rich, ...
Big ideas can sometimes lead to great motion pictures or, as in the case of I Origins, colossal misfires. A wannabe examination of faith versus science, Mike Cahill's follow-up to Another Earth fails to provide convincing dramatization of his thema...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-07-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA/ROMANCE
Director: Mike Cahill
Cast: Michael Pitt, Brit Marling, Astrid Berges-Frisbey
When one considers a conventional romantic comedy, it’s the details that matter since the overall course must follow a predetermined trajectory. With When Harry Met Sally, one of the best traditional rom-coms of the past four decades, there ...
U.S. Release Date: 2022-02-11
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Drugs)
Genre: Romance/Comedy
Director: Jason Orley
Cast: Charlie Day, Jenny Slate, Scott Eastwood, ...
Romantic comedies don't get more generic than this one. Imagine Me & You (beware movies that borrow their titles from pop songs…) follows the established formula with only one Sapphic deviation - the romantic leads are both female. But, for all...
U.S. Release Date: 2006-01-27
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations, Profanity)
Genre: ROMANCE
Director: Ol Parker
Cast: Piper Perabo, Lena Headey, Matthew Goode, ...
The average romantic movie is all about "happily ever after." It's about the promise of a romance that lasts for eternity, about soulmates who find each other in a world where the odds are stacked against them. In Search of a Midnight Kiss has a ...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-08-01
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations, Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: ROMANCE
Director: Alex Holdridge
Cast: Scoot McNairy, Sara Simmonds, Brian McGuire, ...
For whatever reason, the Coen Brothers' comedies (such as Raising Arizona, The Hudsucker Proxy, and The Big Lebowski) have always garnered less critical attention than the filmmakers' more serious fare (such as Blood Simple, Barton Fink, and Fargo)...
U.S. Release Date: 2003-10-10
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Situations, Profanity, Violence)
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: Joel Coen
Cast: George Clooney, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Geoffrey Rush, ...