Results for "Romance"

When a young man loses his wealth, he also loses his fiancee, but he is more than consoled by her younger sister.

My Chemical Romance playing live at House of Blues on Halloween 2006.

A talented young Black songwriter gets his big break in a New York Musical. His adversary tried to prevent him from auditioning for J.D. Richards, the renowned New York musical agent.

A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.

A bookish co-ed is pranked into attending a formal dance, but her stepsister refuses to help her prepare. With support from a cook and her cousin, she gets a dress, but after learning it’s a joke, she initially declines—until a charming opera star offers to escort her, leading to surprising revelations.

Lubna is a pretty young girl living in NYC. Raised conservatively by a Moslem family, she finds difficulty finding a mate to marry in the big progressive city. This leads her to search and eventually find the man of her dreams on Facebook. In her excitement not to lose him, Lubna decides to travel to Jordan to surprise her newfound love, only to discover that what she sees online may not be what's real.

From Romance to Ritual invokes and inverts the title of the 1920 book by Jessie L. Weston, as it, like the book, draws connections between pagan history and ritual and mythology.

Angela is insecure and gawky, overawed by her new job at an advertising agency. Her boss, Pam, is poised and sophisticated - the epitome of a successful career woman. Together both women share an emotional vulnerability. For while Angela falls prey to the office Romeo, Pam continues an unsatisfying affair with a married colleague. Office Romances is an engaging look at the many secrets of love and relationships that lead to tormented love. It's an honest, sensitive view of romance and human nature!

Homage to the Puerto Rican composer Rafael Hernández.

Using the syntax of daytime soap operas, Green Card tells the story of Sumie, a Japanese artist who marries an American surfer/filmmaker to enable her to remain in the United States. When the couple’s views towards the agreement move in opposite directions, cultural differences and expectations become pronounced. Casting an ironic eye on the Los Angeles lifestyle and art scene of the early 1980s, this stylised narrative asserts that the delirium of Hollywood ‘reality’ has a manipulative impact on personal relationships.

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An arranged blind date keeps a hapless bachelor guessing.

A busy travel writer goes glamping at a state park with her best friend and finds herself falling in love with one of the park rangers.

Elsa is a high school senior sent to live with her strange out of state step-relatives, Marcia Garth, and her twentysomething sons, Tab and Emery. Tab is a gifted pianist and Emery restores antiques to bring in money for the family. They suffer from Stockholm Syndrome and are forbidden to leave the house. Both Emery and Tab fall madly in love with Elsa. This shatters Marcia’s twisted control. Who will leave and run away with their step-cousin?

After his father's death, Roland Stone learns that his will stipulates that he must go to the South American country of Bunkonia and sell life insurance.

Mississippi, 1830's. Tom Rumsford comes back to Magnolia Landing, his parents'estate. Having been brought up in the North by Quaker relatives, he just hates violence and accordingly refuses a duel. As this is the only way in the South to settle a dispute between gentlemen, Tom's father is so infuriated by his behavior that Tom has no other choice but leave. Away from Magnolia Landing, Tom learns bravery and returns seven years later as "the notorious Colonel Blake", the terror of the Lower Mississippi.

Built in 1923, the Flying Scotsman was the first steam locomotive to run at 100 miles an hour and to star in its own feature film. This is the untold story of the iconic Flying Scotsman-the very best in the engineering of its time.

After a painful breakup with her ex-business partner, Dylan Harper, a talented American developer, is determined to prove herself on her next big contract - creating a luxury wellness hotel for His Royal Highness King Eduard on the breathtaking island of Ibiza. The opportunity is a dream come true for Dylan - until she comes face to face with the king's son, Prince Nicolas, a dashing bachelor with his own ideas on how to execute the hotel project.

A historical romance set in the Mughal Empire. Selima is a princess-foundling raised by a potter and loved by her brother, Shiraz. She is abducted and sold as a slave to Prince Khurram, later Emperor Shah Jehan, who falls for her, to the chagrin of the wily Dalia. When Selima is caught is Shiraz, the young man is condemned to be trampled to death by an elephant. A pendant reveals Selima's royal status and she saves her brother, marries the prince and becomes Empress Mumtaz Mahal while Dalia is banned for her machinations against Selima. When Selima dies (1629), the emperor builds her a monument to the design of the now old and blind Shiraz, the Taj Mahal.

A woman who is in love with her boss entices him to join her at a nudist camp, but his affection soon turns elsewhere.