Steve1776 Posted June 18, 2008 Report Share Posted June 18, 2008 Seeking lists of romantic movies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myself Posted June 18, 2008 Report Share Posted June 18, 2008 I'll add one that I saw recently and blew me away. It's Before Sunrise starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy as an American tourist in Europe who meets a young French college girl on a train. There is no plot. The entire movie consists of the two characters walking and talking through the streets of Vienna before they go their seperate ways the next morning. It's charming, insightful, realisticaly stylized, and incredibly romantic -- if you consider the meeting of two minds a romantic event. A word of caution. There is a sequel to the movie called Before Sunset that was released nine years the original movie. If you like Sunrise, don't bother renting Sunset unless you'd like to have two characters you've probably become very fond of get ruined for you by the way they're presented in the sequel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMERICONORMAN Posted June 18, 2008 Report Share Posted June 18, 2008 Here's two movies that I really enjoyed: 1. August Rush - Jonathan Rhys Myers (Tudors) - It has a naturalistic theme, that if fate is on your side then never give up hope because everything will turn out right in the end. However, the character are romantic, there is plot, and the idea that man can be happy and that people's value choices have consequences, makes this movie romantic. Besides this, the way they integrate sound and music into this film, it is unusual, very eloquent, and out of the ordinary, so that it seems to have a romantic style. And besides this, it is very economical in its use of its scenes. 2. Vitus - a foreign film - a man's value choices governs the story line, the main character is extraordinary, and the benevolent and man can achieve happiness aspect as a metaphysical outlook is there. It is a story about a giant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K-Mac Posted June 18, 2008 Report Share Posted June 18, 2008 I love The Notebook, Chocolat and Under the Tuscan Sun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laure Posted June 18, 2008 Report Share Posted June 18, 2008 (edited) Groundhog Day, Sabrina, and Hitch. Edited June 18, 2008 by Laure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qwertz Posted June 18, 2008 Report Share Posted June 18, 2008 Never one to pass up a chance to plug my favorite movie, I should like to mention Gattaca, which is extremely romantic, even though romance is not the main theme. ~Q Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KendallJ Posted June 18, 2008 Report Share Posted June 18, 2008 Pride and Prejudice, Dangerous Beauty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~Sophia~ Posted June 19, 2008 Report Share Posted June 19, 2008 P.S I love you Man facing death planned ahead the means by which he could help the love of his life get over her own grief (after his death), find herself, and move on. Very touching. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
softwareNerd Posted June 19, 2008 Report Share Posted June 19, 2008 (edited) Kendall told me about this movie, but didn't mention above, so I'll list it for him :"Painted Veil.", Edited June 19, 2008 by softwareNerd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruveyn ben yosef Posted June 19, 2008 Report Share Posted June 19, 2008 Groundhog Day, Sabrina, and Hitch. I thought -Groundhog Day- was an existentialist romp. Very entertaining. ruveyn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Topliner Posted June 19, 2008 Report Share Posted June 19, 2008 Dae Jang Geum. No, it isn't a movie. But it is a highly Romantic story, told in 54 gripping episodes. You can read detailed reviews of it here and here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KendallJ Posted June 19, 2008 Report Share Posted June 19, 2008 Kendall told me about this movie, but didn't mention above, so I'll list it for him :"Painted Veil.", Ooh, yeah, forgot that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
athena glaukopis Posted June 19, 2008 Report Share Posted June 19, 2008 i assume you mean "romantic" in the sense of "romance" not "Romantic (with a capital R)" Amelie, His Girl Friday, Funny Face, and My Fair Lady... not only are they romantic, but they are Romantic, heart-warming, laugh-out-loud fun and generally enjoyable. I also consider the Illusionist to be romantic, and on top of that, it is literally the most Romantic Realist film i've ever seen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intellectualammo Posted June 19, 2008 Report Share Posted June 19, 2008 P.S I love you Man facing death planned ahead the means by which he could help the love of his life get over her own grief (after his death), find herself, and move on. Very touching. And very interesting... It's an adaptation of a novel by Cecelia Ahern with the selfsame title. Sophia, have you read it? I'm thinking of reading the novel first and then perhaps watching it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrock3215 Posted June 19, 2008 Report Share Posted June 19, 2008 And very interesting... It's an adaptation of a novel by Cecelia Ahern with the selfsame title. Sophia, have you read it? I'm thinking of reading the novel first and then perhaps watching it. I have not read the novel but my wife did and was nuts about it. We did both see the movie together when it came out in theatres. According to her, the book is much better and is worth the read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K-Mac Posted June 19, 2008 Report Share Posted June 19, 2008 My Fair Lady... Aww, how could I have left that one off my short list? "C'mon, Dover...c'mon, Dover...c'mon, Dover, move your bloomin' arse!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~Sophia~ Posted June 19, 2008 Report Share Posted June 19, 2008 Sophia, have you read it? I'm thinking of reading the novel first and then perhaps watching it. I have not but that is almost always a good idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
softwareNerd Posted August 16, 2008 Report Share Posted August 16, 2008 I compiled a list of the movies recommended above, and added one new one. My wife and I have watched 11 of these, and not one has been disappointing. So, thank you all for the recommendations, and keep them coming. Amelie August Rush Before Sunrise Chocolat Dae Jang Geum Dangerous Beauty Funny Face Gattaca Groundhog Day His Girl Friday Hitch My Fair Lady P.S I love you Partition Painted Veil Pride and Prejudice and (the TV version) Sabrina and (the 1954 version) The Notebook Under the Tuscan Sun Vitus The movie I added is called "Partition". It is based in 1947, when India and Pakistan were split in two and there was a lot of genocide-like killing on either side. It is a love story, but far from light-hearted; so, be warned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myself Posted August 16, 2008 Report Share Posted August 16, 2008 You could try Darren Aronofsky's The Fountain. Be warned that this isn't a conventional film. It uses narrative structure and and symbolic imagery in ways you're not accustomed to seeing on screen. It's garnered very much a love/hate reaction. Some call it one of the best films in decades -- others the worst. I fall squarely in the former. I personally think that Aronofsky is the first director in a new type of filmmaking, a modern pioneer, and the best filmmaker working today. If you go in with an open mind, you'll enjoy a very beautiful love story, innovatively told. It requires full focus when watching it, but it'll reward the effort. I highly recommend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kori Posted August 16, 2008 Report Share Posted August 16, 2008 When Harry Met Sally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IchorFigure Posted August 16, 2008 Report Share Posted August 16, 2008 The Legend of 1900. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Topliner Posted August 16, 2008 Report Share Posted August 16, 2008 I compiled a list of the movies recommended above, and added one new one. My wife and I have watched 11 of these, and not one has been disappointing. So, thank you all for the recommendations, and keep them coming. Amelie August Rush Before Sunrise Chocolat Dae Jang Geum Dangerous Beauty Funny Face Gattaca Groundhog Day His Girl Friday Hitch My Fair Lady P.S I love you Partition Painted Veil Pride and Prejudice and (the TV version) Sabrina and (the 1954 version) The Notebook Under the Tuscan Sun Vitus Dae Jang Geum is romantic in both senses, small "r" and big "R." But, it is unavailable to rent, and expensive to buy - roughly $200 for all three box sets that comprise the 54 episodes of the story. However, it can be watched for free, in the original Korean with English subtitles, on an Asian tv website, here. It was also discussed in the Favorite TV Show thread on this page. It is worth the effort to see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IdeaSave Posted August 17, 2008 Report Share Posted August 17, 2008 "Stealing Heaven" - the story of Heloise and Abelard. This is one of the most philosophic movies I've seen, with its main theme being the conflict between the religious view of love and sex and the secular view. Mark Peters Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intellectualammo Posted August 18, 2008 Report Share Posted August 18, 2008 (edited) According to her, the book is much better and is worth the read. That books idea with the envelops being opened the way that they were, I thought had the potential to be a very interesting book, but it in fact did not at all give me what I thought I'd get from it - my eyes first looked, walked, ran, skimmed, skipped, then took off...from its lines. The movie is now out of the question for me. I'll pass. I'd put Jane Eyre on the list having just watched it a few weeks ago. I don't really watch many movies. About four or five a year, if that. Next one I'm going to watch is Romeo and Juliet after I read it first. It interests me because, I remember reading that it's like the plot from Ovid's Pyramus and Thisbe (from his Metamorphoses), a story of which I liked. Not sure if it was actually written along those plot lines or not though. [edit: I also want to at least mention two Kate Winslet were in that I enjoyed: Titanic, and Sense and Sensibility) Edited August 18, 2008 by intellectualammo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazariun Posted August 19, 2008 Report Share Posted August 19, 2008 I was just thinking the other day that The Fifth Element is rather romantic in the contemporary and aesthetic definitions. Of course, you'll also have to like action movies. :> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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