Best Romance Movies to Watch (Page 17)

It is one of those movies in which you cannot separate fun from sincerity and poetry from pain. 100 Girls is a good teen movie, and those are becoming very rare. The beauty and diversity of the other students is presented through the eyes of a romantic young man, with their own particularities, contradictions, hopes, […]

Of course, a lovely vacation in the Italian countryside will not solve all your problems. It won’t fix marital problems, or solve financial issues, or grant you respect, or suddenly make everything feel better. But Enchanted April charmingly suggests that maybe a break in a new environment, with the sun and the waves and the […]

With a great cast, a relevant story, and a stirring romance, The Boxer is all set to be a great film, but the resulting feature feels like a letdown. Irish director Jim Sheridan has teamed up with English actor Daniel Day Lewis for a feature depicting the Troubles in Northern Ireland, and for the most […]

The only Kundera film adaptation frankly hasn’t disproven that the source novel is unfilmable, but The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a pretty decent attempt. While Kundera’s meditations aren’t tackled in full depth, director Philip Kaufman manages to retain enough of the novel’s images to rein in the unwieldy plot, such as Sabina with the […]

Slow West is a modern western about a young Scotsman (Kodi Smit-McPhee) trekking across America in search of Rose, the young woman he loves, while accompanied by a wayward outlaw named Silas (Michael Fassbender). Jay soon realizes that he is unwittingly leading a pack of nefarious bounty hunters toward Rose and her father as well, […]

A film that will make you wish you had read or known more about the comic books and will probably make you buy the video game. With an enormous amount of quick-style comedy, video game action, and the acting of Michael Cera and you have a film better than that unknown song that you heard on […]

With today’s capitalistic world, many of us identify ourselves through our jobs, but not many jobs become as personal as that of the actor, the performer, or the artist. As their work revolves around their physical bodies, their expressions, and their personality, it can be hard for some of them to figure out where the […]

Let me just preface this by saying The Best of Youth is 6 hours long. Yes, that’s 358 minutes of run time, and it puts off a lot of people. But if you’re into unusual movie premises like me and up for the challenge – the reward is tremendous. The Best of Youth tells the […]

A doorway opens at the beginning of Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring, and through this doorway you are brought into the movie’s world. Explanations or plot transitions rarely exist, and dialogue is kept at a minimum level. And yet this movie remains an incredibly simple film. Following a Buddhist master and his apprentice, it is a […]

The 1868 semi-autobiographical novels of Louisa May Alcott have been adapted into film, television and theatre so many times: 6 movies, 4 TV shows, even a broadway musical. It’s a compelling story to watch as it unfolds, and it’s easy to see why many hold this one as the best adaptation of the novels. For […]

Ethan Hawke, Uma Therman and Jude Law star in this film, set in the not-so-distant future, where humans are genetically engineered to be as close to perfect as possible. Any child who is conceived in the traditional fashion is labeled inferior and is discriminated against by the rest of society. The movie follows the life […]

When we elect people to power, they usually promise some sort of change that their constituents like, but given the nature of democracy, some places might like certain changes while others bear the brunt of the shaft. Brassed Out is specifically based on the privitization of British Coal in the 90s, so the context can […]

Directed by Roma auteur Alfonso Cuarón, this sexually charged, coming-of-age road trip film traverses the landscapes of Mexico while interspersing social commentary on the socio-economic realities of the 1990s. The film follows the adventures of two young friends, Julio and Tenoch, who embark on a trip with an older woman named Luisa. As they explore […]

Mifune is a twisted take on the found family. The father is a lying, cheating businessman, the stepmother is a call girl turned housekeeper for them, and the child isn’t even a child at all– he’s Kresten’s adult brother that has a vaguely defined mental disorder that requires special care. It’s a weird, interesting subversion […]

Betty Blue looks gorgeous. Of course, as an erotic film, there’s the beauty of the female form, but Jean-Jacques Beineix frames each moment in excellently lit, colorful frames, making each sunkissed scene a pleasure for the eyes. His approach, alongside that of Luc Besson and Leos Carax, have formed a movement titled Cinéma du look, […]

Even after browsing through the entire AGMTW this is still my favorite movie. It is the first movie that I watched where I felt so pulled in to an incredibly real, heartbreaking family drama. Not only is the movie beautifully shot, but the acting is terrific, tight and sharp. Contrary to her nice girl image, Anne […]

Stories of forbidden love are captivating, because in the face of a lover, in the face of one’s opposite, one cannot help but be challenged, hopefully for the better. This is not what happened here. Out in the Dark is a film debut that takes this idea in the Middle East, with two gay lovers […]

This movie depicts such an understated, beautiful love story. The cinematography around Cairo also made it beautiful to look at. It fully swept me away. Juliette (wonderfully played by Patricia Clarkson) travels to Cairo to meet her husband when she learns that he is blocked in Gaza and can’t meet her. Instead, he sends his friend […]

Jimmy is a smart, insensitive lone-wolf with an excess of confidence. Gretchen is a smart self-destructive other lone-wolf suffering from clinical depression. They meet. You’re the Worst is the story of their relationship, or lack thereof, as they bring both of their single attachments to friendship to the scene, Edgar, a war-veteran who suffers from […]

A French romantic comedy set in the 1950s, it’s like a “She’s All That” with Mad Men aesthetics. Sounds like an odd mix? This film is odd, but does it so well. It’s a quirky and triumphant look at women’s rise to respect in the workforce. A girl destined for a quiet life sees her true […]

The New Year’s kiss at midnight is a fun little tradition to share with your lover, but if you’re single, it’s just a reminder of your current relationship-less status. Of course, it’s not the end of the world if you can’t find someone by the 31st, but it’s this what-if, this hope, this deadline that […]

A happy-go-lucky couple who are expecting their first child travel around the U.S. in order to find a perfect place to start their family. Along the way, they have misadventures and find fresh connections with an assortment of relatives and old friends who just might help them discover “home” on their own terms for the […]

An inksetter in New York, Quoyle returns to his family’s longtime home, a small fishing town in Newfoundland, with his young daughter, after a traumatizing experience with her mother, Petal, who sold her to an illegal adoption agency. Though Quoyle has had little success thus far in life, his shipping news column in the newspaper […]

A refreshing shot in the arm to a stagnant genre, Warm Bodies takes a typical boy meets girl plot and pairs it with a paranormal and comical twist. Telling the story of R, a zombie with an insatiable need for human brains, and Julie, one of the few remaining survivors of the apocalypse, the film […]

Jason Schwartzman plays an environmentalist who teams up with a fireman (Mark Wahlberg) to tackle their metaphysical woes and the meaning of existence. Together they employ an ‘existential’ detective couple (Dustin Hoffman and Lilly Tomlin). I ♥ Huckabees is whip smart and funny, gleefully skewering being and nothingness with equal aplomb. Adults are more likely to enjoy […]

Topher Grace puts on a great show in this witty yet sadly underrated movie. Really the whole crew is casted extremely well. The story is very warm, smart, and thoughtful. It is only a bonus that it is genuinely funny and realistically romantic. It strikes the right balance between the grit of the real world and […]

Sweet Dreams is supposedly a film about Patsy Cline, one of the most influential country and pop vocalists of the 1960s. To the film’s credit, Jessica Lange does a great job emulating the singer, though the vocal performances come straight from the source recordings, and Ed Harris, portraying the husband Charlie Dick, shares a believable […]