Search for Romance
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
By the 1990s, the movie musical has become a dead art form. Four recent revival attempts have not been met enthusiastically. The first two, Newsies and Sarafina, went to video after approximately one-week theatrical runs (even the Disney name c...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Nothing Objectionable)
Genre: MUSICAL/ROMANCE
Director: Jacques Demy
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon, ...
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, ...
Say Anything is one of the best in a long line of teen romance movies, if not the best. Unlike many of its fellow genre entries, it is not filled with crude sex jokes, nudity, a lobotomized population, and poorly-defined subplots. And, while ...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: Cameron Crowe
Cast: John Cusack, Ione Skye, John Mahoney, ...
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, ...
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, ...
Look back at all the times in your life when there was a fork in the path to the future. Some sort of decision had to be made, and, for better or worse, it irrevocably altered the course of your existence. From time-to-time, everyone thinks a...
U.S. Release Date: 1998-04-24
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations, Profanity)
Genre: FANTASY/ROMANCE
Director: Peter Howitt
Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow, John Lynch, John Hannah, ...
It's a curious thing that the best 1995 adaptation of a Jane Austen book happens to be of her worst novel. Sense and Sensibility was the author's first published work and, as is often the case with early writing efforts, displays an undeniable shal...
U.S. Release Date: 1995-12-13
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Nothing Objectionable)
Genre: DRAMA/ROMANCE
Director: Ang Lee
Cast: Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman, ...