Movies in the Romance genre
The title of this film, The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill but Came Down a Mountain, is so long that it can function as a plot synopsis in its own right. "The Englishman" in question is British cartographer Reginald Anson, played by Hugh Grant with...
U.S. Release Date: 1995-05-12
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: Christopher Monger
Cast: Hugh Grant, Colm Meaney, Tara Fitzgerald, ...
Sometimes it's hard to recognize the importance of seemingly inconsequential element like "tone" when it comes to a romantic comedy. This Means War is a case study in what happens when the filmmakers mess this up. The movie is being marketed as an ...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-02-17
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Content, Profanity, Violence)
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY/ACTION
Director: McG
Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Chris Pine, Tom Hardy, ...
Ticket to Paradise is a frothy concoction that will appeal to those whose movie-loving sensibilities are anchored to the rom-coms of the 1980s and 1990s. Had this movie been made 25 years ago, it likely would have been hailed for its whimsy, f...
U.S. Home Release Date: 2022-12-13
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity)
Genre: Romance/Comedy
Director: Ol Parker
Cast: George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Kaitlyn Dever, ...
Most romantic comedies make it known early in the proceedings that they intend to follow all the time-honored, tried-and-true conventions of the genre by leading us down a well-trodden path littered with formulaic plots and overused character type...
U.S. Release Date: 1997-04-25
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: ROMANCE/DRAMA
Director: Scott Winant
Cast: Jeanne Tripplehorn, Dylan McDermott, Sarah Jessica Parker, ...
The Time Traveler's Wife is a conventional adaptation of an unconventional novel. That's not necessarily a bad thing - screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin and director Robert Schwentke (Flightplan) impose structure on a story that, in Audrey Niffenegger...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-08-14
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Discreet Nudity)
Genre: ROMANCE/DRAMA
Director: Robert Schwentke
Cast: Eric Bana, Rachel McAdams, Jane McLean, ...
Short of climbing aboard a time capsule and peeling back eight and one-half decades, James Cameron's magnificent Titanic is the closest any of us will get to walking the decks of the doomed ocean liner. Meticulous in detail, yet vast in scope ...
U.S. Release Date: 1997-12-19
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity, Violence)
Genre: ADVENTURE/ROMANCE
Director: James Cameron
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, ...
Given the screenplay for The Tourist, Alfred Hitchcock would have hired Cary Grant (or Jimmy Stewart) and Grace Kelly. Then he would have applied his particular brand of magic - the one that allowed him to sell the improbable - and an engaging rom...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-12-10
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER/ROMANCE
Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Cast: Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Paul Bettany, ...
In movie theaters, January can be a month of surprises - most of them unpleasant. (I'm still trying to wash away the lasting stink from Grandma's Boy.) Fortunately, Tristan & Isolde bucks the trend, offering a tragic love story so involving that ...
U.S. Release Date: 2006-01-13
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Situations, Violence, Nudity)
Genre: ROMANCE/ADVENTURE
Director: Kevin Reynolds
Cast: James Franco, Sophia Myles, Rufus Sewell, ...
Since Edmond Rostand first committed the play to paper in 1897, Cyrano De Bergerac has become a reliable romantic formula. From the various "straight" versions to Steve Martin's Roxanne, and now The Truth About Cats and Dogs, the concept of a smar...
U.S. Release Date: 1996-04-27
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: Michael Lehmann
Cast: Janeane Garofalo, Uma Thurman, Ben Chaplin
In a statement that borders on the obvious, this review is not being written for the legions of loyal fans who have made Stephanie Meyer's novel Twilight the most popular piece of young adult literature to come along since Harry Potter left Hogwart...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-11-21
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Sexual Situations)
Genre: ROMANCE/HORROR
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke, ...