
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1870’s Read More »
Romance
Key Exchange (1985) Barnet Kellman, Brooke Adams, Danny Aiello, Seth Allen, Comedy, Romance

A young woman wants to get her boyfriend to commit to her, but the most she can get him to do is exchange apartment keys.
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The Devil Is a Woman (1935) Josef von Sternberg, Marlene Dietrich, Lionel Atwill, Edward Everett Horton, Comedy, Drama, Romance

Film told in flashbacks of an older man’s obsession for a woman who can belong to no-one but can frustrate everyone. Read More »
Hamlet liikemaailmassa / Hamlet Goes Business (1987) Aki Kaurismäki, Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Esko Salminen, Kati Outinen, Comedy, Drama, Romance

A bizarre black-and-white film noir reworking of Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’. After the death of his father, young Hamlet inherits a seat on the board of a company controlled by his uncle that decides to move into the rubber duck market. But Hamlet is suspicious of the circumstances surrounding his father’s death…
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Fado, História d’uma Cantadeira / Fado, Story of a Singer (1947) Perdigão Queiroga, Amália Rodrigues, Virgilio Teixeira, Vasco Santana, Drama, Musical, Romance

Ana Maria loves a modest guitar player, Júlio; when she herself in a ‘retiro’ (typical fado tavern), public andcritics rend major applause. Read More »
Hiroshima mon amour (1959) Alain Resnais, Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Drama, Romance

A French woman and a Japanese man have an affair while she is in Japan making a film about peace and the impact of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, The man, an architect, lost his family in the bombing. Read More »
College Dormitory (1984) Pierre Unia, Maureen Legrand, Raphaele Henault, Myriam Soumare, Drama, Romance, Erotic

Story about a girl who, tired of her step-mother and her step-mothers gigolo, goes to a boarding-school and falls in love with the woman who runs it. Read More »
Operator 13 (1934) Richard Boleslawski, Marion Davies, Gary Cooper, Jean Parker, Drama, History, Romance

Gail Loveless, a spy known as Operator 13 working for the Union and Federal cause during the Civil War, posing as a Confederate woman named Anne Claybourne, meets and falls in love with Confederate Captain Jack Galliard. Dusguised as an octoroom maid at a Confedarate military ball, she learns and relays secrets to the Union forces that are devastating to the Rebel cause. Assigned to the case to track down and kill the spy maid, Galliard learns she is also the woman he loves, but proceeds with his assignment. He captures her but is in danger of being captured himself as Federal forces are approaching. Gail/Anne saves him and they part to wait until peace comes to resume their romance.
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Out in the Dark (2012) Michael Mayer, Nicholas Jacob, Michael Aloni, Jamil Khoury, Drama, Romance, Thriller

Nimer and Roy are two gay men on opposing sides of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict who fall for each other. Much as they’d like to be left alone, both political conflict and orthodox beliefs will not leave their budding relationship untouched, with most of the egregious circumstances befalling Nimer, whom security forces pressure into helping them by stripping his access to education and threatening to leave him without family. Through his eye-witnessed death of a friend, Nimer knows he can’t oblige. Can love find a way through this no-win situation?
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Irwol / The Sun and the Moon (1967) Seong-gu Lee, Park Cheol, Eun-jin Han, Moon Hee, Drama, Romance

An architecture student and a daughter of a bank branch manager are in love with each other. The love cools down as she gets to know his family ancestors were butchers. Read More »