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Meet Joe Black(1998)

FSK: 6+ years
| 2h 58min | Fantasy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 2,150 votes)

When the grim reaper comes to collect the soul of megamogul Bill Parrish, he arrives with a proposition: Host him for a "vacation" among the living in trade for a few more days of existence. Parrish agrees, and using the pseudonym Joe Black, Death begins taking part in Parrish's daily agenda and falls in love with the man's daughter. Yet when Black's holiday is over, so is Parrish's life.

Directed by Martin Brest - With Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Claire Forlani, Jake Weber, Marcia Gay Harden, Jeffrey Tambor, ...
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Breakfast at Tiffany's(1961)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 54min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.8/5 (with 1,912 votes)

Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. But when young writer Paul Varjak moves into her apartment building, her past threatens to get in their way.

Directed by Blake Edwards - With George Peppard, Audrey Hepburn, Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam, Mickey Rooney, ...
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45 Years(2015)

1h 35min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 331 votes)

There is just one week until Kate Mercer's 45th wedding anniversary and the planning for the party is going well. But then a letter arrives for her husband. The body of his first love has been discovered, frozen and preserved in the icy glaciers of the Swiss Alps. By the time the party is upon them, five days later, there may not be a marriage left to celebrate.

Directed by Andrew Haigh - With Charlotte Rampling, Tom Courtenay, Geraldine James, Dolly Wells, David Sibley, Richard Cunningham, ...
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Open Hearts(2002)

1h 53min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 42 votes)

Cecilie and Joachim are about to get married when a freak car accident leaves Joachim disabled, throwing their lives into a spin. The driver of the other car, Marie, and her family don’t get off lightly, either. Her husband Niels works in the hospital where he meets Cecilie and falls madly in love with her.

Directed by Susanne Bier - With Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Paprika Steen, Niels Olsen, Ulf Pilgaard, Stine Bjerregaard, ...

Priceless(2006)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 44min | Drama, Comedy, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 328 votes)

A beautiful young gold-digger mistakes a lowly hotel clerk as a rich and therefore worthwhile catch.

Directed by Pierre Salvadori - With Gad Elmaleh, Audrey Tautou, Marie-Christine Adam, Vernon Dobtcheff, Annelise Hesme, Blandine Pélissier, ...
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Dolls(2002)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 54min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.8/5 (with 130 votes)

Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among those tales is the story of Matsumoto and Sawako, a young couple whose relationship is about to be broken apart by the former's parents, who have insisted their son take part in an arranged marriage to his boss' daughter.

Directed by Takeshi Kitano - With Miho Kanno, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Kyoko Fukada, Kayoko Kishimoto, Ren Ōsugi, Yūko Daike, ...

Apur Sansar(1959)

1h 45min | Drama, Romance / Love
4.1/5 (with 93 votes)

Apu is a jobless ex-student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer. An old college friend talks him into a visit up-country to a village wedding...

Directed by Satyajit Ray - With Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore

Sweet Charity(1969)

2h 29min | Comedy, Music, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 30 votes)

Taxi dancer, Charity continues to have faith in the human race despite apparently endless disappointments at its hands, and hope that she will finally meet the nice young man to romance her away from her sleazy life.

Directed by Bob Fosse - With Shirley MacLaine, Stubby Kaye, Barbara Bouchet, Ricardo Montalbán, Sammy Davis Jr., Chita Rivera, ...

The Men(1950)

1h 25min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 29 votes)

Ken, an ex-WWII GI, returns home after he's paralyzed in battle. Residing in the paraplegic ward of a veteran's hospital and embittered by his condition, he refuses to see his fiancée and sinks into a solitary world of hatred and hostility. Head physician, Dr. Brock cajoles the withdrawn Ken into the life of the ward, where fellow patients Norm, Leo and Angel begin to pull him out of his spiritual dilemma.

Directed by Fred Zinnemann - With Marlon Brando, Teresa Wright, Everett Sloane, Jack Webb, Richard Erdman, Dorothy Tree, ...
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The Devil to Pay!(1930)

1h 12min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 8 votes)

Spendthrift Willie Hale again returns penniless to the family home in London. His father is none too pleased, but Willie smooth-talks him into letting him stay. At the same time he turns the charm on Dorothy Hope, whose father is big in linoleum and who, before Willie's arrival, was about to become engaged to a Russian aristocrat.

Directed by George Fitzmaurice - With Ronald Colman, Loretta Young, Frederick Kerr, Myrna Loy, David Torrence, Paul Cavanagh, ...

Women & Sometimes Men(2017)

1h 27min | Drama, Romance / Love
1.9/5 (with 3 votes)

Sara is in crisis. Engaged for one day, she decides to call off her marriage. Quirky, beautiful, and tender, she is working on being bold. Having had a short relationship with a woman in college, Sara seeks that feeling again. How can she have a woman’s touch without giving up men entirely? This question launches Sara on a bittersweet journey filled with self discovery, sexual awakening, beautiful women and sometimes men.

Road to Perth(2021)

1h 22min | Drama, Romance / Love, Comedy
3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

Rejected after a marriage proposal, Alex finds himself alone on a journey from Los Angeles to Melbourne, Australia, on what was supposed to be a happy vacation with his new fiancée. Stuck in a mild state of shock, Alex crosses paths with Ronnie - a woman on an adventure of her own - and together they take a grand road trip across Australia's Nullarbor Plain, on their way to Perth.

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The Golden Demon(1954)

1h 35min | Drama

Tokyo, 1890. Through avarice, a series of misunderstandings, and failures of courage, the engagement of Kan-ichi (a student) and Miya (the daughter of Kan-ichi's debtor) is canceled to enable Miya to marry Tomiyama, a wealthy banker's son. In bitter despair, Kan-ichi breaks with his friends, drops his studies, and declares he has ceased to be human. He apprentices to a money-lender, and he's soon ruthless and wealthy. Several years later, Miya's in misery, her husband mistreats her. She goes to Kan-ichi to beg forgiveness; he pushes her away. He's now pursued by Akagashi, herself a cold-hearted loan shark. Can anything free Kan-ichi's hard heart from the golden demon.

Directed by Koji Shima - With Fujiko Yamamoto, Jun Negami, Kinzō Shin

Örlogsmän(1943)

1h 32min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The trio Erik, Arne and Ingrid have been friends since childhood, the two boys always competing for the affection of Ingrid. At the naval academy Erik gets into a fistfight and is expelled, to instead become a captain of a trading ship. Before he leaves Ingrid and Erik are engaged in secret. Later, when Erik is believed to be lost at sea, Ingrid instead gets engaged with Arne.

Directed by Börje Larsson - With Nils Kihlberg

Riot Squad(1941)

1h | Crime

Crime drama starring Richard Cromwell as a young medic who becomes the private physician to an underworld gang.

Directed by Edward Finney

Zimtstern und Halbmond(2010)

1h 29min | Drama, Comedy, Romance / Love, TV Movie
2.2/5 (with 2 votes)

German ship captain Gottfried Hinrichs reluctantly retires to his Bavarian home, hoping to find comfort when his daughter Barbara moves back home, convenient now she has become a commercial pilot. So he dishes out the usual objections when she tells to have found her mate, while ma Lisbeth tries to shush. When the lovers turn up for Christmas Eve, a culture shock follows, for her dream prince is Palestinian unemployed would be-pilot Kamal Abu Khalil, and neither 'liberal' parent extends effective tolerance to Islamic in-potential laws. Ultimately Gottfried is worn down, but then the incompatible religious marriage norms seem to break up the couple itself. It gets even worse when his parents found out and fly in, while she feels neglected as Kemal starts an electronic muezzin Internet firm with a friend.

Directed by Matthias Steurer

The Witness(1969)

1h 40min | Drama

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Directed by Anne Walter, Louis Duchesne - With Claude Jade, Gérard Barray, Jean-Claude Dauphin, Claude Vernier, Jeanne Pérez