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American cinema: Romance

The Fugitive Kind (1960)
Sidney Lumet

Having run into trouble with the law in New Orleans, a 30-year-old drifter named Val Xavier leaves town determined to turn over a new leaf...   [More...]

Funny Face (1957)
Stanley Donen

Fashion magazine editor Maggie Prescott is convinced that the next glamour look will combine beauty with intellect. Dissatisfied with her leading model, she arranges a photo-shoot in a Greenwich Village bookshop with her faithful photographer Dick Avery...   [More...]

Funny Girl (1968)
William Wyler

New York City, circa 1910. Fanny Brice, a girl from the slums, has ambitions to be a star of vaudeville, and it is her wild enthusiasm that lands her her first stage job with a theatre company...   [More...]

The Gay Divorcee (1934)
Mark Sandrich

After a brief stay in Paris, the celebrated American dancer Guy Holden travels to England with his friend, Egbert Fitzgerald, a lawyer who has agreed to temporarily take the reins at his father's London law firm...   [More...]

The General (1927)
Clyde Bruckman

America, 1861. Train driver Johnnie Gray has two loves in his life - his locomotive, named The General, and his sweetheart, Annabelle Lee...   [More...]

Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
Elia Kazan

Shortly after moving to New York City with his ten-year-old son and mother, journalist Phil Green accepts a commission from magazine proprietor John Minify to write a series of articles on anti-Semitism in the United States...   [More...]

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
Howard Hawks

Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw are showgirls who think of nothing but catching the man of their dreams. Lorelei believes she has already landed her man, a wealthy heir named Gus Esmond who can't help showering her with expensive presents...   [More...]

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Recently widowed, Mrs Lucy Muir decides to leave her in-laws in London and start a new life, with her young daughter, by the seaside...   [More...]

Giant (1956)
George Stevens

In the 1930s, Bick Benedict is the owner of a mammoth Texan cattle ranch which has made him one of the wealthiest men in the state...   [More...]

Gigi (1958)
Vincente Minnelli

Paris, 1900. The wealthy man of leisure, Gaston Lachaille, is bored with society women - unlike his ageing uncle Honoré, who has lost none of his enthusiasm for playing the field...   [More...]

Gilda (1946)
Charles Vidor

Not long after his arrival in Buenos Aires, crooked gambler Johnny Farrell is hired by the wealthy entrepreneur Ballin Mundson to work in his illicit casino...   [More...]

The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955)
Richard Fleischer

New York in the early 1900s. As soon as he catches his first glimpse of Evelyn Nesbit, a dazzling young actress, Stanford White finds he is irresistibly drawn to her...   [More...]

Give a Girl a Break (1953)
Stanley Donen

Broadway producer Felix Jordan has a crisis on his hands when his temperamental lead actress walks out of his latest show Give a Girl a Break...   [More...]

Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
Busby Berkeley

The staff at the Wentworth Plaza, a high class hotel at Lake Waxapahachie, are used to handsome tips from their well-heeled clients...   [More...]

The Gold Rush (1925)
Charles Chaplin

An anonymous tramp makes the journey to Alaska, hoping to make his fortune in the gold rush. Caught in a snow storm, he takes refuge in a log cabin in which he confronts an escaped convict, Black Larsen, and another prospector, Big Jim McKay...   [More...]

Gone with the Wind (1939)
Victor Fleming

In 1861, Scarlett O'Hara is celebrating her sixteenth birthday at her family home, a plantation in the southern US state of Georgia...   [More...]

Goodbye Again (1961)
Anatole Litvak

Paula Tessier is an interior designer who lives and works in Paris. Although she is still beautiful, she knows that the flower of her youth is rapidly fading...   [More...]

The Graduate (1967)
Mike Nichols

20 year old Ben returns to his parents' home after graduating and wonders what to do with his life. Before he realises what is happening, he is seduced by Mrs Robinson, the middle-aged wife of his father's business partner and is drawn into a compulsive but passionless love affair...   [More...]

Le Grand bleu (1988)
Luc Besson

Jacques Mayol and and Enzo Molinari are two men who have shared an intense passion for the sea since their childhood. Molinari, the current world free diving champion, coerces Mayol into competing against him in the next tournament...   [More...]

Grand Hotel (1932)
Edmund Goulding

Nothing ever happens at the Grand Hotel in Berlin - so says the disfigured, world-weary Dr Otternschlag. How wrong he is...   [More...]

The Great Lie (1941)
Edmund Goulding

Peter Van Allen has been married to Sandra Kovak, a renowned concert pianist, for only a few days when he learns that the union is not legal...   [More...]

The Great Sinner (1949)
Robert Siodmak

In 1860, during a long train journey to Paris, a Russian writer named Fedja gets to know an attractive young woman, Pauline...   [More...]

Groundhog Day (1993)
Harold Ramis

Phil Connors, an arrogant, self-absorbed weather forecast presenter, is far from happy about being forced to report on the annual Groundhog Day in the small town of Punxsutawney...   [More...]

Guys and Dolls (1955)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz

New Yorker Nathan Detroit is struggling to make a dishonest living organising crap games for his gambling-addicted buddies...   [More...]

Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Woody Allen

Hannah is a successful stage actress who has recently taken an extended career break so that she can raise a family with her second husband, Elliot, a financial adviser...   [More...]

Hans Christian Andersen (1952)
Charles Vidor

Hans Christian Andersen earns his living making shoes, but his real talent is telling stories, something which makes him a magnet for all the children of his town...   [More...]

Heaven Can Wait (1943)
Ernst Lubitsch

After a life of dissolute pleasure-seeking, Henry Van Cleve considers he has earned his place in Hell. But when he arrives in the entrance hall to Satan's fiery domain, he encounters an imposing figure who is less certain of his credentials...   [More...]

The Heiress (1949)
William Wyler

In the 1840s, Dr Austin Sloper, a successful medical practitioner, lives with his daughter Catherine in New York's affluent Washington Square...   [More...]

Hello, Dolly! (1969)
Gene Kelly

In the 1890s, Dolly Levi is the talk of New York, a merry widow who is all too willing to lend her services as a marriage broker, for a modest fee...   [More...]

Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
Alexander Hall

Prize fighter Joe Pendleton is fooling about in his private aeroplane when he loses control and crashes into the ground. Just before impact, his soul is snatched from his body by an overly enthusiastic angel, Messenger 7013, and taken to the transit point to the next world...   [More...]



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