Showing posts with label romance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label romance. Show all posts

Meet Me In St Louis

Wednesday, August 5, 2009 comments (0)



Release Date: 1945




St. Louis 1903. The well-off Smith family has four beautiful daughters, including Esther and little Tootie. 17-year old Esther has fallen in love with the boy next door who has just moved in, John. He however, barely notices her at first. The family is shocked when Mr. Smith reveals that he has been transfered to a nice position in New York, which means that the family has to leave St. Louis and the St. Louis Fair. Written by Mattias Thuresson

For All Time

Sunday, August 2, 2009 comments (0)

Starring Mark Harmon Mary McDonnell Catherine Hicks
Release Date: 2000
Run Time: 95 min.
Genre: Drama Time Travel
Director: Steven Schachter

Charles Lattimer taking the train to work every day he journeys across time and finds a simpler time and his one true love. But will he leave behind everything he's known to be with her forever?
Written byHal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Also on this DVD "Time Shifters"[see next post]

A Stolen Life

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Release Date: 1946
Genre: Drama
Black & White

BETTE DAVIS IN HER GREATEST OF ALL HER TRIUMPHS: Kate Bosworth and her twin sister Patricia fall in love with Nantucket lighthouse inspector Bill Emerson.Written by Ed Stephan {stephan@cc.wwu.edu

One of 2 Bette Davis movies on DVD 3






All This And Heaven Too

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Release Date: 1940

Genre: Drama Romance
Director: Anatole Litvak
Black & White

DVD Set 2 of 4 Bette Davis Movies



Bette Davis, playing Henriette Deluzy-Desportes, is first seen as a French schoolteacher in a 19th century American seminary. When her supervisor, Reverend Henry Mortyn Field (Jeffrey Lynn), has questions to ask about her tainted past, Henriette relates her story in flashback. She had been hired by French duke De Praslin (Charles Boyer) to be the governess for his children






The Old Maid

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Release Date: September 1939

Genre: Drama

Director: Edmund Goulding

Black & White


DVD Set 2 of 4 movies of Bette Davis


Delia marries Jim, not Joe After Delia breaks her engagement to Clem and marries Jim, Clem promises to marry Delia's cousin Charlotte, but he dies at the battle of Vicksburg leaving Charlotte an unwed mother.

The Great Lie

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Release Date: 1941

Run Time: 107 min.

Genre(s): Drama


Director(s) Edmund Goulding

Black & White


After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is now pregnant with his child

DVD Set 1 contains 4 Bette Davis Movies

Now Voyager

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Release Date: 1942
Run Time: 117 min.
Themes: Ship Cruises, Sexual Awakening, Haunted By the Past, Doctors and Patients, Mothers and Daughters
Director(s): Irving Rapper
Black & White

DVD SET 1 contains 4 Bette Davis Movies

Davis plays repressed Charlotte Vale, dying on the vine thanks to her domineering mother (Gladys Cooper). All-knowing psychiatrist Dr. Jaquith (Claude Rains) urges Charlotte to make several radical changes in her life, She has a make over and then goes on a cruise and falls in love.

Somewhere in Time

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Release Date: 1980

Run Time: 103 min.

Genre(s): Drama Romance, Time Travel

Director(s): Jeannot Szwarc


Christopher Reeve got away from Superman and related costume roles in this dramatic fantasy film, adapted from Richard Matheson's 1960s vintage novel Bid Time Return. A young playwright, Richard Collier (Reeve), is approached by an elderly woman on the occasion of his first triumph in 1972 -- all she says to him is "Come back to me" and leaves him with a watch that contains a picture of a ravishing young woman. Eight years later, he visits the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island and comes upon a photograph of the same woman






The Lake House

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Release Date: 2006

Run Time :105 min

Genre:Drama,Romance Time Travel


Dr. Kate Forster (Sandra Bullock) abandons her peaceful lakeside dwelling to work in a Chicago emergency room. To her surprise, when checking in on her old home, an unusual lakeside house, she begins exchanging love letters with its newest resident, Alex Burnham (Keanu Reeves) a frustrated architect. When they discover they're actually living two years apart, they must try to solve the mystery behind their unique romance before they miss their chance at love.









The Love Letter

Friday, July 31, 2009 comments (0)


Starring Campbell Scott, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Release Date: 1998
Genre: Fantasy Romance
Director:Dan Curtis



In this romantic fantasy based on the short story by Jack Finney, Scotty Corrigan (Campbell Scott) is a young man who is engaged to be married, but is having second thoughts about his upcoming wedding. Scotty buys an antique desk and -- hidden in a secret compartment -- he finds a letter from a woman named Elizabeth Whitcomb (Jennifer Jason Leigh), who lived during the 19th century. Fascinated by the letter, Scotty writes her a reply, using antique writing materials and old stamp. He takes the letter to the old post office and mails it. and is shocked when he finds a reply in the antique desk .

Meet Me In St Louis

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Release Date: 1945



St. Louis 1903. The well-off Smith family has four beautiful daughters, including Esther and little Tootie. 17-year old Esther has fallen in love with the boy next door who has just moved in, John. He however, barely notices her at first. The family is shocked when Mr. Smith reveals that he has been transfered to a nice position in New York, which means that the family has to leave St. Louis and the St. Louis Fair. Written by http://www.imdb.com/SearchPlotWriters?Mattias%20Thuresson%20%7Bmattias.thuresson@mbox300.swipnet.se%7D

Wuthering Heights

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Wuthering Heights.
04/13/1939
Run Time:
103 min.
Director:William Wyler
The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns from a trip to the city, bringing with him a ragged little boy called Heathcliff. Earnshaw's son, Hindley, resents the child, but Heathcliff becomes companion and soulmate to Hindley's sister, Catherine. After her parents die, Cathy and Heathcliff grow up wild and free on the Moors and despite the continued enmity between Hindley and Heathcliff they're happy-- until Cathy meets Edgar Linton, the son of a wealthy neighbor. Written by http://www.imdb.com/SearchPlotWriters?Marg%20Baskin%20%7Bmarg@asd.raytheon.ca%7D