Showing sad movies for tag "Romance"

A Moment to Remember (2004)
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A Moment to Remember (2004)

John H. Lee

A Korean love story about a young couple's enduring love, which is tested when 27 year old Sun-jin is diagnosed with a rare form of Alzheimer's disease.... [Read More]

Tags: John H. Lee, Love, Drama, Romance
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

David Fincher

On the day that Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, elderly Daisy Williams (nee Fuller) is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life, the primary unusual aspect of which was his aging backwards, being diagnosed with several aging diseases... [Read More]

Tags: David Fincher, Romance, Drama, Fantasy
Love Actually
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Love Actually

Richard Curtis

The characters are falling in love, falling out of love, some are with right people, some are with the wrong people, some are looking to have an affair, some are in the period of mourning; a capsule summary of reality. Love begins and love ends. They flirt a lot. They are all flirting with love. At all ages and social levels, love is the theme. Romantic love and brotherly love... [Read More]

Tags: Richard Curtis, Love, Romance
Just Like Heaven (2005)
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Just Like Heaven (2005)

Mark Waters

Elizabeth Masterson, a dedicated doctor in San Francisco, had almost no time for anything. When her sister with two kids set her up on a date, she gets into a tragic car crash and gets in a coma. Meanwhile, a landscape architect named David Abbott moves into San Francisco and coincidentally, into Elizabeth's apartment for rent. While at the apartment, Elizabeth's spirit haunts him. She doesn't remember who she is,... [Read More]

Tags: Mark Waters, Emotional, Romance
Sunshine (1999)
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Sunshine (1999)

István Szabó

The film follows a Jewish family living in Hungary through three generations, rising from humble beginnings to positions of wealth and power in the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire. The patriarch becomes a prominent judge but is torn when his government sanctions anti-Jewish persecutions. His son converts to Christianity to advance his career as a champion fencer and Olympic hero, but is caught up in the Holocaust. Finally, the grandson, after surviving... [Read More]

Tags: István Szabó, Drama, Romance
The Way We Were (1973)
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The Way We Were (1973)

Sydney Pollack

The movie begins with the Katie (Barbra Streisand) running into Hubbell Gardner, an All-American popular jock she went to college with, some time after World War II. Though some other summaries claim it's been about 20 years, that is not really the case. It's probably been more like 10 years since college and Hubbell has written his first novel and later joined the navy while Katie continues to work hard... [Read More]

Tags: Sydney Pollack, Drama, Romance
The Black Balloon (2008)
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The Black Balloon (2008)

Elissa Down

Thomas is turning 16. His dad's in the army and they've just moved to a town in New South Wales; his mom is pregnant; his older brother, Charlie, who's autistic, has his own adolescent sexual issues. Thomas finds Charlie an embarrassment in public, so when Thomas is attracted to Jackie, a girl in his swim class, Charlie presents any number of obstacles when she drops by their house, when the... [Read More]

Tags: Elissa Down, Drama, Romance
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
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Shakespeare in Love (1998)

John Madden

Will Shakespeare is a known but struggling poet, playwright and actor who not only has sold his next play to both Philip Henslow and Richard Burbidge but now faces a far more difficult problem: he is bereft of ideas and has yet to begin writing. He is in search of his muse, the woman who will inspire him but all attempts fail him until he meets the beautiful Viola de... [Read More]

Tags: John Madden, Romance, Drama
Talk to Her
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Talk to Her

Pedro Almodóvar

After a chance encounter at a theater, two men, Benigno and Marco, meet at a private clinic where Benigno works. Lydia, Marco's girlfriend and a bullfighter by profession, has been gored and is in a coma. It so happens that Benigno is looking after another woman in a coma, Alicia, a young ballet student. The lives of the four characters will flow in all directions, past, present and future, dragging... [Read More]

Tags: Pedro Almodóvar, Drama, Romance
Chasing Amy
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Chasing Amy

Kevin Smith

A pair of comic book authors named Holden McNeil and Banky Edwards, who live in New Jersey, have been best friends since 20 years. They spend their time working in their studio, and in the evenings they are going out. But their friendship is about to be disputed for the first time in their life, when a beautiful young lesbian woman named Alyssa Jones enters their life and Holden falls... [Read More]

Tags: Kevin Smith, Comedy, Drama, Romance