Romance

  • Raoul Walsh – The Loves of Carmen (1927)

    Raoul Walsh1921-1930ClassicsRomanceUSA
    The Loves of Carmen (1927)
    The Loves of Carmen (1927)

    Bad quality but very rare. I don’t know the source for this video, but it looks like a distant ancestor was a vhs.

    Here’s an imdb review by lugonian:
    THE LOVES OF CARMEN (Fox, 1927), directed by Raoul Walsh, reunites Walsh with his WHAT PRICE GLORY (1926) leading players of Dolores Del Rio and Victor McLaglen in a story based on Prosper Merimee’s classic story, “Carmen,” that later served as an 1875 Georges Bizet opera. For those unfamiliar with the plot, this edition, one of many, comes across as more faithful to the aforementioned properties from which it is based.Read More »

  • Kenji Misumi – Namida gawa AKA The Homely Sister (1967)

    Kenji Misumi1961-1970DramaJapanRomance
    Namida gawa (1967)
    Namida gawa (1967)

    Quote:
    In the 19th century Edo period, sisters Oshizu and Otaka have sacrificed their personal happiness to work and care for their ailing father. Otaka falls in love, but can’t accept a marriage proposal since her older sister needs to marry first. When Oshizu learns of this decision, she takes matters in her own hands.Read More »

  • Idrissa Ouedraogo – Tilaï AKA The Law (1990)

    1981-1990African CinemaBurkina FasoDramaIdrissa OuedraogoRomance

    Quote:
    Tilaï opens to a long sequence, off-axis shot of a lone traveler moving away from view as he slowly traverses the arid, featureless plain on a lumbering, overburdened mule and disappears into the desolate horizon. It is an appropriately distanced and alienated introduction for the weary, but sanguine Saga (Rasmane Ouedraogo) who, after an extended journey away from his native village, has returned to the foreboding sight of anxious villagers assembled at a clearing near the entrance of the intimate community. Greeted by his brother Kougri (Assane Ouedraogo) who heads off Saga at the footpath to the village on behalf of the family, Kougri informs him of an unforeseen (and reprehensible) development during his absence: the marriage of his beloved Nogma (Ina Cissé) to their father Nomenaba (Seydou Ouedraogo), having changed his mind and taken the reluctant young woman – once promised to Saga by the old man himself – as his second wife.Read More »

  • Nobuhiko Ôbayashi – Reibyo densetsu AKA Legend of the Cat Monster (1983)

    1981-1990HorrorJapanNobuhiko ObayashiRomance

    Quote:
    Another stunning Tuesday Suspense Theater movie from Obayashi. I love how there is some music playing almost every second of the film. That gives the movie an special feeling of drama and I think of it as another way to telling the viewer like Hey, don’t forget you’re watching a movie!

    And the fact that this is a cat monster movie about making a cat monster movie featuring Takeko Irie, also known as the cat monster actress, and her daughter playing a character inspired in herself! I will sure give a rewatch to this after I watch some of Takako Irie’s cat monster movies.Read More »

  • Silvio Soldini – Un’anima divisa in due AKA A Soul Split in Two (1993)

    Silvio Soldini1991-2000DramaItalyRomance

    A sensitive, well-observed film, beautifully lensed and acted… ~ Deborah Young, Variety

    Pietro Di Leo, security officer of a department store in Milan, where the girl he is dating also works as a make-up artist, is separated from his wife and with a son that he only sees on weekends. He is a very dissatisfied man, whose psychosomatic suffering (loss of nose bleeds, outbursts of anger, visions) reveals a situation of profound discomfort. One day, however, he meets Pabe, a young Roma who has to get rid of the warehouse and who will then let go when she is caught stealing a perfume. At first intrigued, but then increasingly fascinated, Pietro decides to help her…Read More »

  • Joseph W. Sarno – Vild på sex AKA Girl Meets Girl (1974)

    1971-1980EroticaGermanyJoseph W. SarnoRomance

    Bibi comes to her aunt Toni’s boarding house where she is seduced by lesbian women. Soon, no one is safe from her insatiable hunger.Read More »

  • Terence Davies – The House of Mirth (2000)

    Terence Davies1991-2000DramaRomanceUnited Kingdom

    Synopsis:
    Terence Davies’ The House of Mirth is a tragic love story set against a background of wealth and social hypocrisy in turn of the century New York. Lily Bart is a ravishing socialite at the height of her success who quickly discovers the precariousness of her position when her beauty and charm start attracting unwelcome interest and jealousy. Torn between her heart and her head, Lily always seems to do the right thing at the wrong time. She seeks a wealthy husband and in trying to conform to social expectations, she misses her chance for real love with Lawrence Selden.Read More »

  • Zaida Carmona – La amiga de mi amiga AKA Girlfriends and Girlfriends (2022)

    2021-2030ComedyQueer Cinema(s)RomanceSpainZaida Carmona

    A tangled five-way lesbian dramedy. A moral tale that happens in the bathrooms, the beds and the streets of Barcelona. A film that starts when Zaida returns to the city after a breakup.Read More »

  • Joseph W. Sarno – Stray Cats (1984)

    1981-1990EroticaJoseph W. SarnoRomanceUSA

    Mara and Jane, two girlfriends from college, rekindle their friendship. Jane is now married to Mara’s ex-boyfriend, but Mara still has the hots for both him and Jane.Read More »

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