Search for Romance
Since the demise of Friends, Jennifer Aniston has been desperately striving to find her motion picture niche. Despite having started her fifth decade of life (in an industry that is not kind to actresses over 40), she remains a bankable name, even...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-05-15
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations, Profanity)
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: Stephen Belber
Cast: Jennifer Aniston, Steve Zahn, Margon Martindale, ...
Once upon a time, there was an actress named Jennifer Lopez, whose performances in films like Out of Sight and Selena opened eyes and excited comment with their depth and authenticity. But Lopez wasn’t a one-trick pony and, as her multimedia pop...
U.S. Release Date: 2022-02-11
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Drugs)
Genre: Romance/Comedy
Director: Kat Coiro
Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Owen Wilson, Maluma, ...
The production notes trumpet The Matchmaker as "a romantic comedy for people who hate romantic comedies." This statement implies that the film has something exceptionally original or daring to offer those who are tired of screen love affairs that ...
U.S. Release Date: 1997-10-03
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: Mark Joffe
Cast: Janeane Garofalo, David O'Hara, Milo O'Shea, ...
For anyone who wept hopelessly at the tragic romance of The English Patient, Message in a Bottle is the movie you have been waiting for. In addition to being a beautifully-photographed motion picture with a solid (albeit melodramatic) storyline an...
U.S. Release Date: 1999-02-12
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Situations, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA/ROMANCE
Director: Louis Mandoki
Cast: Kevin Costner, Robin Wright Penn, Paul Newman, ...
It's refreshing to see a movie in which there are no special effects, no camera tricks, and no incidental music to strum on a viewer's emotional strings. These are some (but certainly not all) of the tenets of Dogma 95, the much-ballyhooed "cinema...
U.S. Release Date: 2000-02-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Violence)
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
Cast: Iben Hjejle, Anders W. Berthelsen, Jesper Asholt, ...
Moscow, Belgium is a romantic comedy with a different flavor. Although it follows many of the familiar patterns that characterize movies of this genre, it does enough things differently to allow it to step outside of the norm. While some elements...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-12-19
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Sexual Situations, Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: Christophe Van Rompaey
Cast: Barbara Sarafian, Jurgen Delnaet, Johan Heldenbergh, ...
Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge is a rigorously accurate historical account of events that occurred during the period between 1899 and 1900 in Paris' infamous Moulin Rouge nightclub. Luhrmann's meticulously researched motion picture uncovers several s...
U.S. Release Date: 2001-05-18
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Situations)
Genre: MUSICAL/ROMANCE
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo, ...
It’s hard to imagine a more generic wilderness adventure-turned-romance than Hany Abu-Assad’s The Mountain Between Us. Saved from the cinematic purgatory of direct-to-video by the screen presence of Idris Elba and Kate Winslet and some spe...
U.S. Release Date: 2017-10-06
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Scenes of Peril, Sexual Content, Profanity)
Genre: Adventure/Romance
Director: Hany Abu-Assad
Cast: Idris Elba, Kate Winslet
Mr. Malcolm’s List feels a lot like a watered-down version of Netflix’s hit streaming series, Bridgerton (although, to be fair, Mr. Malcolm’s List is based on a short film that came into being before Bridgerton went before cameras). Both are...
U.S. Release Date: 2022-07-01
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Romance/Drama
Director: Emma Holly Jones
Cast: Freida Pinto, Zawe Ashton, Sope Dirisu, ...
Must Love Dogs is a product - a pre-packaged, easily-digestible motion picture designed with one particular audience in mind. You know the kind of film. You have seen it before, usually with names like Nancy Myers or Nora & Delia Ephron involved....
U.S. Release Date: 2005-07-29
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Situations, Profanity)
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: Gary David Goldberg
Cast: Diane Lane, John Cusack, Elizabeth Perkins, ...