Movies in the Romance genre
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, ...
Pre-Victorian writer Jane Austen, who died in 1817, has had more books adapted for film in the last twelve months than prolific contemporary authors Michael Crichton and John Grisham. In a very real sense, the movie world is undergoing an "Austen ...
U.S. Release Date: 1996-01-14
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Nothing Objectionable)
Genre: DRAMA/ROMANCE
Director: Simon Langton
Cast: Jennifer Ehle, Polly Maberly, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, ...
Richard Linklater, the creator of Slackers and Dazed and Confused, has succeeded where many before him have failed -- in fashioning a modern-day romance that is both original and enthralling. Before Sunrise is nothing short of movie magic, and the...
U.S. Release Date: 1995-01-27
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations)
Genre: ROMANCE
Director: Richard Linklater
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy
For those who have forgotten the depth of romance and passion that the movies are capable of conveying, Anthony Minghella's The English Patient can remedy the situation. This is one of the year's most unabashed and powerful love stories, using...
U.S. Release Date: 1996-11-15
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations, Nudity, Profanity, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA/ROMANCE
Director: Anthony Minghella
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Juliette Binoche, ...
Low, gray clouds scud across the sky while the grass of a seemingly-endless plain ripples in response to the prompting of a spring breeze. Thunder rumbles in the distance. On another day, a bright sun gazes down on those same fields while cattl...
U.S. Release Date: 1998-05-15
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Mature Themes)
Genre: DRAMA/ROMANCE
Director: Robert Redford
Cast: Robert Redford, Kristin Scott Thomas, Sam Neill, ...
Last week, the American Film Institute released its list of the 100 best American films of all time. Not surprisingly, Gone with the Wind placed in the Top 10 (#4, in fact). However, although this epic romantic melodrama is undoubtedly one of...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "G" (Nothing Objectionable)
Genre: DRAMA/ROMANCE
Director: Victor Fleming
Cast: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, ...
Prelude to a Kiss convinced me that Meg Ryan possesses the acting chops to be in more than light romantic fare - a distinction that her best-known movie at the time (When Harry Met Sally) had not claimed. In fact, her performance in this 1992 prod...
U.S. Release Date: 1992-07-10
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: DRAMA/ROMANCE
Director: Norman René
Cast: Alec Baldwin, Meg Ryan, Sydney Walker, ...
Frank Capra's It Happened One Night represents one of the great romantic comedy "templates." Although the film has officially been remade a handful of times (most not in English), its opposites-attract melding of screwball comedy and the road trip...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR"
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: Frank Capra
Cast: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, ...
The Big Sick is a Judd Apatow special. Although Apatow is accorded only a producer credit on the Michael Showalter-directed film, the movie contains the hallmarks of Apatow’s romantic comedies: a ribald, edgy sense of humor; more “real” ...
U.S. Release Date: 2017-06-30
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Content, Profanity)
Genre: Comedy/Romance
Director: Michael Showalter
Cast: Kumail Nanjiani, Zoe Kazan, Holly Hunter, ...
Every time I think Hollywood has slipped beyond redemption, someone in the system produces a film like Jerry Maguire that renews my faith. Apparently, creativity is not dead in the mainstream movie market -- not entirely, at least. This is th...
U.S. Release Date: 1996-12-13
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: ROMANCE/DRAMA
Director: Cameron Crowe
Cast: Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr., Renee Zellweger, ...