Film Index

American cinema: Romance

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 Gatsby (1974)
Jack Clayton

In 1922, Nick Carraway, a young bachelor who earns a modest income selling bonds, moves into a bungalow between two mansions on Long Island in New York...   [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...]

The Half Naked Truth (1932)
Gregory La Cava

With Colonel Munday's carnival facing ruin, Jimmy Bates comes up with an idea that might just save the day. By promising to reveal the identity of the father of carnival's dancer, Teresita, Bates stirs up public interest, but he also unwittingly attracts the police...   [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...]

Hello, Sister! (1933)
Alan Crosland

Millie, Peggy and Mona are three friends who live in a cheap New York apartment. Each dreams of hooking the perfect man, but their experiences with men to date have left them disillusioned...   [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...]

High Society (1956)
Charles Walters

On the eve of her wedding to businessman George Kittredge, Rhode Island socialite Tracy Samantha Lord receives an unexpected, and unwelcome visit from her first husband, the jazz musician C.K...   [More...]

His Girl Friday (1940)
Howard Hawks

Newspaper editor Walter Burns is known for his ruthlessness and cunning but when he learns that he is about to lose his ex-wife and star reporter Hildy Johnson he surpasses himself...   [More...]

The History of Love (2016)
Radu Mihaileanu

In the late 1930s, a young Polish man named Léo falls in love with a Jewish girl named Alma. They are deliriously happy together but then the war comes and they are separated...   [More...]

Holiday (1938)
George Cukor

On his return to New York after a vacation, Johnny Case breaks the news to his dearest friends Nick and Susan Potter that he is about to get married to a girl he met at Lake Placid, Julia Seton...   [More...]

Holiday Inn (1942)
Mark Sandrich

Jim Hardy and Ted Hanover are a star New York song and dance act, but their partnership is about to end when Jim makes up his mind to drop out of the entertainment business so that he can run a farm in Connecticut...   [More...]

Horse Feathers (1932)
Norman Z. McLeod

When he takes over the position of dean of Huxley College, Professor Quincy Wagstaff decides that academic success is distinctly démodé and declares that the college should work on enhancing its sporting prowess...   [More...]

How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)
Jean Negulesco

The enterprising Schatze Page is determined to make her fortune the only way she knows - by hooking a millionaire husband for herself or her two friends Loco Dempsey and Pola Debevoise...   [More...]

How to Steal a Million (1966)
William Wyler

Charles Bonnet is one of France's leading art forgers and makes a comfortable living by auctioning off his fake works of art, much to the chagrin of his daughter Nicole, who is certain that one day this scam will be uncovered...   [More...]

Human Desire (1954)
Fritz Lang

When railway worker Carl Buckley is fired by his foreman, he compels his seductive wife Vicki to ask Mr Owens, a senior railway official, to have him reinstated...   [More...]

Humoresque (1946)
Jean Negulesco

A moment of personal tragedy prompts concert violinist Paul Boray to re-evaluate his life. He recalls happier times when, as a small boy, his mother gave him a violin for his birthday...   [More...]

Husbands and Wives (1992)
Woody Allen

Gabe and Judy are a happily married middle-aged couple living in New York City. He is a respected writer and university professor; she is an editor on an art magazine...   [More...]

I Married a Witch (1942)
René Clair

During the Salem witch trials of the early 1690s, Massachusetts landowner Jonathan Wooley has an alleged witch, Jennifer, and her father Daniel burned at the stake for witchcraft...   [More...]



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