Raffaele, a Neapolitan student, get the news that his beloved grandmother Sabella is dying. He immediately goes to Pollena to be beside her.
Based on the novel of the same name written by Pasquale Festa Campanile. The film won the Golden Shell at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. It was followed by La nipote Sabella.Read More »
Romance
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Dino Risi – La nonna Sabella (1957)
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Banmei Takahashi – Ai no shinsekai AKA New Love in Tokyo (1994)
Banmei Takahashi1991-2000DramaJapanRomanceSynopsis
A look a the lives of two sex workers in Tokyo: Rei, who works as an S&M dominatrix, and Ayumi, in the more straightforward profession of call girl. In addition to their working life, the film also looks at their private lives. Rei is acting in an amateur theatre company (along with the receptionist from Ayumi’s escort service), while Ayumi is living with her student-boyfriend as he struggles to finally get accepted to college.Read More » -
Emilio Fernández – Enamorada AKA In Love (1946)
Emilio Fernández1941-1950DramaMexicoRomanceIn Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries mistreat the town’s riches, Armendáriz falls for beautiful and wild Beatriz Peñafiel, the daughter of one of the town’s richest men.Read More »
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Umberto Lenzi – Orgasmo AKA Paranoia [+Commentary] (1969)
Umberto Lenzi1961-1970DramaItalyRomanceSynopsis
A rich and lonely American widow befriends two young people whose motives become suspect.Read More » -
Gennady Shpalikov – Dolgaya schastlivaya zhizn AKA Long Happy Life (1967)
1961-1970DramaGennady ShpalikovRomanceUSSRSynopsis:
Little moments in the course of a very brief romance make up the bulk of this tender, lyrical film, the only one ever directed by Gennady Schpalykov, better known as a screenwriter. On a bus filled with young people going for an outing to the theater, Victor (K. Lavrov), a scruffy geologist, and Lena (I. Gulaya), a young factory worker, strike up a conversation. He has traveled to many interesting places, she is young, recently divorced, and has a child. When she invites him to join the group at the theater, he says that he’s too grungy to go there. However, after he gets off the bus, he rushes around getting himself cleaned up, somehow manages to make it into the sold-out theater, and finds Lena. They leave during intermission, and he walks her home. The next day, she brings her daughter along to meet him where he has been staying, and they share a nice lunch together, until he abruptly leaves.Read More » -
Hadas Ben Aroya – Anashim Shehem Lo Ani AKA People That Are Not Me (2016)
Hadas Ben Aroya2011-2020DramaIsraelRomanceQuote:
Joy can’t let go of her ex, but doesn’t seem to be able to fall for the new guy. In the meantime she keeps having casual sex with strangers.Read More » -
Robert Ellis Miller – The Girl from Petrovka (1974)
Robert Ellis Miller1971-1980ComedyRomanceUSAQuote:
A graceful Russian ballerina falls in love with an American news correspondent in this comedy-drama. The KGB is most displeased and does everything it can to break them up and eventually, tragically, they succeed. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie GuideRead More » -
Shingo Matsumura – Koi to sayonara to Hawai AKA Love and Goodbye and Hawaii (2017)
2011-2020DramaJapanRomanceShingo MatsumuraA woman slowly coming to the realization that a relationship with her ex-boyfriend may well and truly be dead and she faces the decision of whether to resurrect it or move on.Read More »
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Éric Rohmer – Présentation ou Charlotte et son steak AKA Presentation, or Charlotte and her Steak (1960)
Eric Rohmer1951-1960FranceRomanceShort FilmPrésentation ou Charlotte et son steak (1960)
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Two young people, Walter and Charlotte, are walking through a small village in Switzerland a snowy winter day. Walter introduces Charlotte to Clara, hoping to make Charlotte jealous. After saying good-bye to Clara, Walter accompanies Charlotte into her house, although she doesn’t want him to. Charlotte is hungry and cooks a steak. She asks Walter if he wants a piece of it. He says no, but she gives him a small piece anyway. He wants a kiss, and she says no. She starts to compare herself with Clara, who Walter agrees is more beautiful. In spite of this, Walter says he likes Charlotte much more, but she thinks he is lying. She notices that he is cold and shivering. She hugs him, he kisses her, and she starts kissing him. After leaving the house he accompanies her to the train.Read More »