83.4% from 3 members
Brief Encounter
Just sublime, in a very stiff upper lip sort of way.
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Brief Encounter
on DVD
(1945)
Starring: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway
Director: David Lean
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David Lean adapts Noel Coward's heartbreaking tale of two ordinary people caught up in the extraordinary power of love. Laura (Celia Johnson) is a seemingly happy, middle-class housewife who meets the equally married physician Alec (Trevor Howard) at a London railway station, and so begins a chaste ..read more »
73%
from 10,206 members
The Way We Were
The way she touches his hair gets me every time. As does Robert Redford in uniform.
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The Way We Were
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Robert Redford, Barbra Streisand, Bradford Dillman
Director: Sydney Pollack
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Sydney Pollack directs Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand in this sensitive and moving tale of the romance of two individuals whose political ideologies are exact opposites. Streisand won an Academy Award nomination for her performance as Katie Morosky, a Jewish student radical who falls in love ..read more »
62%
from 5,109 members
The Bridges Of Madison County
Heartbreaking, with a terrific performance from Meryl Streep.
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The Bridges Of Madison County
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Meryl Streep, Annie Corley
Director: Clint Eastwood
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Robert Kincaid is a romantic drifter on his way to photograph an historic covered bridge for National Geographic magazine. When he stops at a farmhouse to ask directions, he meets Francesca Johnson, whose passionate nature has long been denied. Their innocent friendship evolves into a tender, ..read more »
68%
from 6,597 members
The Painted Veil
Beautiful and moving and starring two of my favourite actors.
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The Painted Veil
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber
Director: John Curran
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China, 1925: Bacteriologist Dr. Walter Fane (Norton) jealously ends his spoilt wife Kittys (Watts) adulterous affair by making her accompany him to a remote province where a cholera epidemic rages. Amid hostility and disease, the couple rediscover purpose, and each other.
71%
from 28,995 members
Crossing Delancey
Peter Riegert's pickle guy is just great.
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Crossing Delancey
(1988)
Starring: Amy Irving, Peter Riegert
Director: Joan Micklin Silver
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Isabelle's life revolves around the New York bookshop she works in and the intellectual friends of both sexes she meets there. Her grandmother remains less than impressed and decides to hire a good old-fashioned Jewish matchmaker to help Isabelle's love-life along. Enter pickle-maker Sam who ..read more »
66%
from 21 members
Moulin Rouge
Love it to bits. Fantastically gorgeous and romantic.
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Moulin Rouge
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Nicole Kidman, Jim Broadbent
Director: Baz Luhrmann
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Cross LA BOHEME with CABARET, throw in a little bit of RENT, and you might almost begin to describe Baz Luhrmann's visually opulent, fast-paced, funny, heartrending MOULIN ROUGE. The film, which premiered as the opener to the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, is a musical set in 1899 Paris at the ..read more »
66%
from 28,074 members
Doctor Zhivago
That bit at the end when he sees her from the tram just yanks your heart out.
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Doctor Zhivago
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Geraldine Chaplin, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay
Director: David Lean
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PLEASE NOTE: THE FEATURE DISC MAY ARRIVE AS A DOUBLE-SIDED DISC OR AS TWO DISCS TOGETHER. PLEASE CHECK THE DISCS BEFORE RETURNING. David Lean's DOCTOR ZHIVAGO is an exploration of the Russian Revolution as seen from the point of view of the intellectual, introspective title character (Omar ..read more »
72%
from 6,523 members
It Could Happen To You
You're so with Bridget all the way.
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It Could Happen To You
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Bridget Fonda, Rosie Perez
Director: Andrew Bergman
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When a New York police officer offers half of a lottery ticket as a tip for a waitress in a diner, the gratuity ends up being worth over $2 million in this wacky romantic comedy.
64%
from 3,786 members
Romeo And Juliet
Great film, great casting, lots of tissues.
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Romeo And Juliet
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, Brian Dennehy
Director: Baz Luhrmann
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This ambitious undertaking, adapting William Shakespeare's classic tale of star-crossed lovers and setting the story in a glossy music-video style in 1990s Florida. Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes play the famous lovers kept apart by rival industrialist families. Bookended by newscastsers ..read more »
69%
from 21,129 members
Moonstruck
Enchanting and uplifting.
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Moonstruck
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Cher, Nicolas Cage, Vincent Gardenia
Director: Norman Jewison
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In this glowingly atmospheric comedy, a young Italian-American woman, bitter after having been widowed by a speeding bus, makes a practical decision to marry a longtime friend for stability and security, even though her feelings for him are tepid at best. But when she falls in love with her fiance'..read more »
63%
from 3,402 members
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