Posts Tagged ‘unrequited-love’

Emma (1996)

Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Paltrow, Gwyneth | Cosmo, James | Scacchi, Greta | Cumming, Alan | Hawthorne, Denys | Thompson, Sophie | Northam, Jeremy | Collette, Toni | Byron, Kathleen | Law, Phyllida | Woodall, Edward | Miley, Brett | Capron, Brian | Westwood, Karen | Williamson, Paul
Directors: McGrath, Douglas
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Emma is a very beautiful young woman who decides to devote her life in finding the right mate for the people around her. But, her cause will come to contestation when she will find love in the face of a much sought after man.

Lolita (1962)

Monday, April 21st, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Irons, Jeremy | Griffith, Melanie | Langella, Frank | Swain, Dominique | Shepherd, Suzanne | Reddin, Keith | Dean, Erin J. | Glover, Joan | Perkins, Pat Pierre | Grady, Ed | Goodwin, Michael | Paton, Angela | Silverstone, Ben | Griffiths Malin, Emma | Pickup, Ronald
Directors: Lyne, Adrian
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Humbert Humbert, a divorced British professor of French literature, travels to small-town America for a teaching position. He allows himself to be swept into a relationship with Charlotte Haze, his widowed and sexually famished landlady, whom he marries in order that he might pursue the woman’s 14-year-old flirtatious daughter, Lolita, with whom he has fallen hopelessly in love, but whose affections shall be thwarted by a devious trickster named Clare Quilty.

Jackie Brown (1997)

Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Crosby, Denise | Grier, Pam | Jackson, Samuel L. | Forster, Robert | Fonda, Bridget | Keaton, Michael | De Niro, Robert | Bowen, Michael | Tucker, Chris | Hamilton, Lisa Gay | Lister Jr., Tom 'Tiny' | Winston, Hattie | Haig, David | Graham, Aimee | Williams, Ellis | Ambrose, Tangie
Directors: Tarantino, Quentin
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Jackie Brown is the name of a flight attendant who gets caught smuggling her boss’ gun money on the airline she works for. Luckily for her, the Fed Ray Nicolet and the LA Cop Mark Dargus decide to team up in order to arrest the arms dealer she works for, whose name they don’t even know. Here’s when she has to choose one way: tell Nicolet and Dargus about Ordell Robbie (the arms dealer) and get her freedom -except that if Ordell suspects you’re talking about him, you’re dead- or keep her mouth shut and do some time. That’s when she meets Max Cherry -her bail bondsman-, a late fifties, recently separated, burnt-out man, who falls in love with her. Then Jackie comes up with a plan to play the Feds off against Ordell and the guys he works with -Louis Gara and Melanie Ralston, among others- and walk off with their money. But she needs Max’s help. No one is going to stand in the way of his million dollar payoff…

Catch and Release (2006)

Friday, March 14th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Garner, Jennifer | Olyphant, Timothy | Jaeger, Sam | Smith, Kevin | Lewis, Juliette | Friesen, Joshua | Shaw, Fiona | Lifford, Tina | Craig, Georgia | Redman, Christopher | Krenz, Joyce | Bennett, Sonja | Constantine, Yorgo | Parker, Daniel A. | Hower, Nancy
Directors: Grant, Susannah
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After the sudden death of her fiancé, Gray Wheeler finds comfort in the company of his friends: lighthearted and comic Sam, hyper-responsible Dennis, and, oddly enough, his old childhood buddy Fritz, an irresponsible playboy whom she?d previously pegged as one of the least reliable people in the world. As secrets about her supposedly perfect fiancé emerge, Gray comes to see new sides of the man she thought she knew, and at the same time, finds herself drawn to the last man she ever expected to fall for.

Stardust (2007)

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Cox, Charlie | Danes, Claire | De Niro, Robert | Miller, Sienna | Pfeiffer, Michelle | Flemyng, Jason | Barnes, Ben | Burns, Mark | Buxton, Adam | Cavill, Henry | Curran, Jake | David, Elwin 'Chopper' | Ellis, Frank | Everett, Rupert | Fletcher, Dexter
Directors: Vaughn, Matthew
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“Stardust,” based on the best-selling novel by Neil Gaiman illustrated by Charles Vess, takes audiences on an adventure that begins in a village in England and ends up in a magical world. A young man named Tristan (Charlie Cox) tries to win the heart of village beauty Victoria (Sienna Miller) by promising to bring her a falling star. His journey takes him beyond the walls of his village to a mysterious and forbidden land.

When Tristan finds the star, he is stunned to discover that it is, not a lump of meteoric rock, but an angry, injured girl named Yvaine (Claire Danes) – who has no desire to be dragged across the world and presented to anyone’s girlfriend. But Tristan is not the only one seeking the star. A dying king’s (Peter O’Toole) four sons – not to mention the ghosts of their three dead brothers – all need the star as they vie for the throne. Three evil witches, led by the murderous Lamia (Michelle Pfeiffer) seek the star’s heart to make them young again.
Tristan and Yvaine are forced to flee together, encountering the captain of a flying pirate ship (Robert De Niro) and a shady trader named Ferdy the Fence (Ricky Gervais) along the way. As they travel Tristan discovers the meaning of true love, but does not realise he’s leading Yvaine into even more danger…

Holiday, The (2006)

Friday, October 19th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Diaz, Cameron | Winslet, Kate | Law, Jude | Black, Jack | Wallach, Eli | Burns, Edward | Sewell, Rufus | Englefield, Miffy | Pritchard, Emma | Parish, Sarah | Sossamon, Shannyn | Macy, Bill | Berman, Shelley | Hahn, Kathryn | Krasinski, John
Directors: Meyers, Nancy
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In London, Iris Simpkins write a wedding column in a newspaper and has an unrequited love for her colleague Jasper Bloom. Nearby Christmas, she is informed that Jasper is engaged and will marry another colleague, and her life turns head over heels. In Los Angeles, the movie-trailers maker Amanda Woods has just broken with her unfaithful boyfriend Ethan and wants to forget him. Amanda access a house exchange website, and impulsively swaps her mansion for Iris’ cottage in Surrey for the holiday along the next two weeks. While in Surrey, Amanda meets Iris’ widow brother and book editor Graham and they fall in love for each other. Meanwhile Iris meet her next door neighbor, the ninety year old screenplay writer Arthur, who helps her to retrieve her self-esteem, and the film composer Miles, and they fall in love for each other.

Painted Veil, The (2006)

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: China | USA
Actors: Watts, Naomi | Norton, Edward | Schreiber, Liev | Jones, Toby | Rigg, Diana | Howland, Juliet | Wong Chau-Sang, Anthony | Steed, Maggie | Laurence, Lorraine | Lee, Johnny | Feng, Li | Meiduo, Gesang | David, Alan | Voller, Lucy | Rennick, Ian
Directors: Curran, John
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This love story has Kitty meeting young, intelligent, shy and somewhat dull Dr. Walter Fane, whose forte is the study of infectious diseases, and the convenient marriage that she finds herself committed too. It is in this web of intrigue that they head for China, only after Walter discover’s Kitty’s infidelity with one dashing and witty Diplomat Charlie Townsend. So much as to hide her from herself and to help thwart a cholera outbreak, this is a marriage more than on the rocks. This is a cold, indifferent and loveless partnership in a vast unknown and deadly environment that will test both these flightless lovebirds and with the hardships and tolerances more than any had ever anticipated. A visual delight amidst the pain and suffering of a dying people and failing marriage. Will a cure be found for both, before it’s too late?

Projectionist, The (1971)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: McCann, Chuck | Balin, Ina | Dangerfield, Rodney | Kohout, Jára | Gentry, Mike | Kargo, Lucky | Holliday, David | Stewart, Sam | Stevens, Alex | Lee, Robert | Philips, Stephen | Morocco | Rosenthal, Clara | Glenn, Jacqueline
Directors: Hurwitz, Harry
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A projectionist bored with his everyday life begins fantasizing about his being one of the superheroes he sees in the movies he shows.

Sabrina (1954)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Bogart, Humphrey | Hepburn, Audrey | Holden, William | Hampden, Walter | Williams, John | Hyer, Martha | Vohs, Joan | Dalio, Marcel | Hillaire, Marcel | Walker, Nella | Bushman, Francis X. | Corby, Ellen | Ahdar, David | Bailey, Raymond | Brooks, Ralph
Directors: Wilder, Billy
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Linus and Davis Larrabee are the two sons of a very wealthy family. Linus is all work — busily running the family corporate empire, he has no time for a wife and family. David is all play — technically he is employed by the family business, but never shows up for work, spends all his time entertaining, and has been married and divorced three times. Meanwhile, Sabrina Fairchild is the young, shy, and awkward daughter of the household chauffeur, who has been infatuated with David all her life, but David hardly notices her — “doesn’t even know I exist” — until she goes away to Paris for two years, and returns an elegant, sophisticated, beautiful woman. Suddenly, she finds that she has captured David’s attention, but just as she does so, she finds herself falling in love with Linus, and she finds that Linus is also falling in love with her.

Sense and Sensibility (1995)

Friday, September 14th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Fleet, James | Wilkinson, Tom | Walter, Harriet | Winslet, Kate | Thompson, Emma | Jones, Gemma | Grant, Hugh | François, Emilie | Spriggs, Elizabeth | Hardy, Robert | Brimble, Ian | Amyes, Isabelle | Rickman, Alan | Wise, Greg | John, Alexander
Directors: Ang Lee
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When Mr. Dashwood dies, he must leave the bulk of his estate to the son by his first marriage, which leaves his second wife and three daughters (Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret) in straitened circumstances. They are taken in by a kindly cousin, but their lack of fortune affects the marriageability of both practical Elinor and romantic Marianne. When Elinor forms an attachment for the wealthy Edward Ferrars, his family disapproves and separates them. And though Mrs. Jennings tries to match the worthy (and rich) Colonel Brandon to her, Marianne finds the dashing and fiery Willoughby more to her taste. Both relationships are sorely tried. But this is a romance, and through the hardships and heartbreak, true love and a happy ending will find their way for both the sister who is all sense and the one who is all sensibility.