Refine search

Romance247 (11 titles)

Not all romantic comedies were made in Hollywood.

by: A customer from London

Sabrina to Watch Now (1954)
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden
Director: Billy Wilder
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Run time: 113 minutes
Sabrina is the daughter of a chauffeur, almost a member of his employer's family which has two sons, Linus and David. Sabrina has a crush on free and easy younger son David. She goes to Paris for two years and when she comes back attracts the attention of both brothers. Who will she pick?
- Rate this
- 80
- from 876 members

Sabrina on DVD (1995)
Starring: Harrison Ford, Randy Becker, Nancy Marchand
Director: Sydney Pollack
Certificate:
A remake of a 1954 Billy Wilder romance, this updated version of the play Sabrina Fair was directed by Sydney Pollack. Julia Ormond stars as Sabrina Fairchild, the daughter of a kindly chauffeur (John Wood) at the Long Island estate of the upper-crust Larrabee family. Sabrina has grown up enchanted ..read more »
- Rate this
- 60
- from 4792 members

Love And Basketball on DVD (2000)
Starring: Alfre Woodard, Dick Vitale, Monica Calhoun
Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood
Certificate:
Romantic sports drama tracing the intersecting paths of two young basketball players. Growing up together in 1980s California, Quincy (Omar Epps) and Monica (Sanaa Lathan) both have a strong love for the game, and, when they attend university on sports scholarships, gradually develop a love for ..read more »
- Rate this
- 70
- from 2047 members

Calamity Jane on DVD (1953)
Starring: Chubby Johnson, Philip Carey, Paul Harvey
Director: David Butler
Certificate:
Doris Day looks no more like the real Calamity Jane than you or I do, but this 1953 film is intended as a lighthearted musical, not a historical tract. As portrayed by the freckled Ms. Day, Jane is a rootin', tootin' shootin' hoyden in the western town of Deadwood. When she isn't tearing up the ..read more »
- Rate this
- 70
- from 5088 members

The Wood on DVD (1999)
Starring: Duane Finley, Sean Nelson, Trent Cameron
Director: Rick Famuyiwa
Certificate:
A story of wedding nerves and deep-rooted friendship in a black middle-class suburb of LA. Roland (Taye Diggs) is due to get married in three hours time, but he's now having second thoughts about the whole thing. His two best friends (Richard T. Jones and Omar Epps) help him decide whether he ..read more »
- Rate this
- 70
- from 1064 members

Soul Food on DVD (1997)
Starring: Nia Long, Irma P. Hall, Vivica A. Fox
Director: George Tillman Jr.
Certificate:
Every Sunday young Ahmad's (Brandon Hammond) family gathers for Sunday dinner at his grandmother's (Irma P. Hall) house. When Ahmad's grandmother falls into a coma, however, the family begins to splinter. Ahmad's Uncle Lem loses his job, Aunt Teri (Vanessa L. Williams) witnesses her husband having ..read more »
- Rate this
- 70
- from 1032 members

The Best Man on DVD (1999)
Starring: Nia Long, Morris Chestnut, Terrence Howard
Director: Malcolm D. Lee
Certificate:
Novelist Harper (Taye Diggs) has agreed to be the best man at the wedding of his college friends Mia (Monica Calhoun) and Lance (Morris Chestnut) and is looking forward to being reunited with his other old friends at the weekend celebration. However, as the big day approaches, word gets out that ..read more »
- Rate this
- 70
- from 1460 members

Pretty In Pink on DVD (1986)
Starring: David Sutton, Andrew McCarthy, Jim Haynie
Director: Howard Deutch
Certificate:
John Hughes crafts an exemplary '80s Brat Pack romance out of the standard Cinderella story in Pretty in Pink. Andie Walsh (Molly Ringwald) is a teenager who lives in the dingy part of town with her terminally underemployed dad (Harry Dean Stanton). She works at a record store with eccentric Ionia (..read more »
- Rate this
- 70
- from 8970 members

Sweet Home Alabama on DVD (2002)
Starring: Josh Lucas, Patrick Dempsey, Reese Witherspoon
Director: Andrew Tennant
Certificate:
New York fashion designer Melanie Carmichael suddenly finds herself engaged to the city's most eligible bachelor. But Melanie's past holds many secrets, including Jake, the redneck husband she married in high school, who refuses to divorce her. Bound and determined to end their contentious ..read more »
- Rate this
- 70
- from 18,621 members

Pretty Woman - Blu-ray (1990)
Starring: Richard Gere, Julia Roberts, Ralph Bellamy
Director: Garry Marshall
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
Lonely businessman Edward Lewis (Richard Gere) hires L.A. prostitute Vivian Ward (Julia Roberts) to give him directions when he gets lost, and later to be his escort while he goes wheeling and dealing for a week. He buys her clothes, she softens his heart and the unlikely couple fall head over ..read more »
- Rate this
- 70
- from 1090 members