Friday 16 November 2012

Random Must-Watch Romance Films

1. Sweet Jane

Jane, an HIV-positive heroin addict, meets Tony, a young AIDS victim with no family, and the two form a bond. Tony helps her get out of dangerous situations which she places herself in and she returns the favour by taking care of him on his deathbed.







2. Ruby Sparks

A novelist struggling with writer's block finds romance in a most unusual way: by creating a female character he thinks will love him, then willing her into existence.





3. Happenstance

Audrey Tautou plays shop assistant Irène, who on the way to work takes a seat on the Paris metro opposite an older woman who tries to interview her for a marketing survey. On hearing that Irène's birthdate is 11 March 1977, the woman reads her horoscope : today she'll meet her true love, but she must be patient. After she leaves the metro, a young man sitting alongside tells the older woman he was born on the same day and asks her to read the rest of the horoscope.



4. Moonrise Kingdom

An ex boy scout and a depressed girl flee their New England town, which causes a local search party to fan out and find them.






5. One Day

After spending the night together on the night of their college graduation Dexter and Em are shown each year on the same date to see where they are in their lives. They are sometimes together, sometimes not, on that day.


6. Big Love

This sexually explicit art movie jumps back and forth between two story lines, one tracing the obsessive affair between a teenage music student and a biochemist some ten years her senior, and the other chronicling the police investigation that ensues after the man has murdered the girl.



7. Leap Year

Anna Brady plans to travel to Dublin, Ireland to propose to her boyfriend Jeremy on February 29, leap day, because, according to Irish tradition, a man who receives a marriage proposal on a leap day must accept it.

Anna Brady plans to travel to Dublin, Ireland to propose to her boyfriend Jeremy on February 29, leap day, because, according to Irish tradition, a man who receives a marriage proposal on a leap day must accept it.