Classic Romance
This is where those great old "Romantic Classics" (pre 1965) can be found. Both Classic Comedy Classics and Drama Classics are merged in this section and can be accessed by scrolling below. Contempory Romance (post 1965) is best accessed by scrolling "Romantic Comedy" and "Romantic Drama".
Right: Truman Capote's charming "Breakfast at Tiffany's" stars Audrey Hepburn.
La Ronde (1950)
7.7/10
Director: Max Ophuls
Starring: Anton Walbrook, Serge Reggiani, Simone Simon, Danielle Darrieux
Simone Signoret, Anton Walbrook, and Simone Simon lead a roundelay of French stars in Max Ophuls's delightful, acerbic adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler... Read more
Lauren Bacall: Key Largo / Blood Alley / Dark Passage / Designing Woman (1957)
9/10
Director: Delmer Daves, John Huston, Vincente Minnelli, William A Wellman
Starring: Edward G Robinson, Gregory Peck, Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne, Lauren Bacall
Lauren Bacall Box Set. 'Dark Passage' (1947) - Humphrey Bogart is a prison escapee framed for murder who emerges from plastic surgery with a new face.... Read more
Lola Montes (1955)
7.4/10
Director: Max Ophuls
Starring: Peter Ustinov, Martine Carol, Anton Walbrook, Oskar Werner
A lush romantic drama that was filmmaker Max Ophuls' last work and his only film in colour. Martine Carol is mesmerizing as the famous adventurer and... Read more
Love Story ( A Lady Surrenders ) (1944)
6.9/10
Director: Leslie Arliss
Starring: Margaret Lockwood, Stewart Granger
When concert pianist Lissa Campbell learns that she has a serious heart problem, she vows to enjoy what time she has left. On taking her first holiday... Read more
Morocco (1930)
7.3/10
Director: Josef Von Sternberg
Starring: Adolphe Menjou, Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich
As jaded cabaret Mademoiselle Amy Jolly, Marlene Dietrich falls for Tom Brown (Gary Cooper), a devil-may-care private in the French Foreign Legion. In... Read more
Mr & Mrs Smith (1941)
6.4/10
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Carole Lombard, Robert Montgomery
Mr. & Mrs. Smith is a 1941 American screwball comedy film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, written by Norman Krasna, and starring Carole Lombard and Robe... Read more
Mr Skeffington (1944)
7.8/10
Director: Vincent Sherman
Starring: Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel
A woman dreams of a picture-perfect life but finds she's close to losing everything. Gorgeous Fanny Trellis (Bette Davis) appears to have her choice o... Read more
Pat and Mike (1952)
7/10
Director: George Cukor
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Aldo Ray
Delightful screwball comedy has shy but spunky athlete Katharine Hepburn being promoted by small-time manager Spencer Tracy, as the Queen of Sports. A... Read more
Petulia (1968)
7.3/10
Director: Richard Lester
Starring: Arthur Hill, George C Scott, Joseph Cotten, Julie Christie, Richard Chamberlain,...
Dr. Archie Bollen (George C. Scott) is having a midlife crisis. He's just divorced his wife (Shirley Knight) and is establishing a new life for himsel... Read more
Pillow Talk (1959)
7.5/10
Director: Michael Gordon
Starring: Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall, Thelma Ritter
Rock Hudson and Doris Day are at their best in their first romantic comedy together. Doris is an uptight interior decorator forced to share a party li... Read more