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1. 10 Things I Hate About You (1999)

PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A high-school boy, Cameron, cannot date Bianca until her anti-social older sister, Kat, has a boyfriend. So, Cameron pays a mysterious boy, Patrick, to charm Kat.

Director: Gil Junger | Stars: Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Larisa Oleynik

Votes: 385,152 | Gross: $38.18M

2. The Beguiled (2017)

R | 93 min | Drama, History, Thriller

The unexpected arrival of a wounded Union soldier at a girls school in Virginia during the American Civil War leads to jealousy and betrayal.

Director: Sofia Coppola | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, Elle Fanning, Colin Farrell

Votes: 61,734 | Gross: $10.58M

3. Emily (2022)

R | 130 min | Biography, Drama, History

"Emily" imagines the transformative, exhilarating, and uplifting journey to womanhood of a rebel and a misfit, one of the world's most famous, enigmatic, and provocative writers, who died, too soon, at age 30.

Director: Frances O'Connor | Stars: Emma Mackey, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Fionn Whitehead, Alexandra Dowling

Votes: 8,123

4. The Nanny Diaries (2007)

PG-13 | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A college graduate goes to work as a nanny for a rich New York family. Ensconced in their home, she has to juggle their dysfunction, a new romance, and the spoiled brat in her charge.

Directors: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini | Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Laura Linney, Paul Giamatti, Donna Murphy

Votes: 64,068 | Gross: $25.93M

5. Vanity Fair (2004)

PG-13 | 141 min | Drama

Growing up poor in London, Becky Sharp defies her poverty-stricken background and ascends the social ladder alongside her best friend, Amelia Sedley.

Director: Mira Nair | Stars: Reese Witherspoon, Romola Garai, James Purefoy, Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Votes: 23,503 | Gross: $16.14M

6. The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964)

Approved | 128 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A poor, uneducated mountain girl leaves her cabin in search of respect, a wealthy husband, and a better life in this fictionalized biopic of Margaret "Molly" Brown, who survived the 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic.

Director: Charles Walters | Stars: Debbie Reynolds, Harve Presnell, Ed Begley, Jack Kruschen

Votes: 4,255 | Gross: $13.17M

7. People Places Things (2015)

R | 85 min | Comedy, Romance

Will Henry is a newly single graphic novelist balancing parenting his young twin daughters and a classroom full of students while exploring and navigating the rich complexities of new love and letting go of the woman who left him.

Director: Jim Strouse | Stars: Jemaine Clement, Regina Hall, Jessica Williams, Stephanie Allynne

Votes: 10,991

8. How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life (1968)

Not Rated | 102 min | Comedy, Romance

When a carefree bachelor tries to get his best friend to drop his mistress and return to his wife, he discovers that he too has romantic problems.

Director: Fielder Cook | Stars: Dean Martin, Stella Stevens, Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson

Votes: 836

9. Phffft (1954)

Approved | 88 min | Comedy, Romance

While pursing new companions, a former married couple keep running into each other all over town.

Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon, Jack Carson, Kim Novak

Votes: 1,997

10. The Story of Three Loves (1953)

Approved | 122 min | Drama, Fantasy, Music

An anthology film consisting of three very different stories about love set in Europe and told in flashback.

Directors: Vincente Minnelli, Gottfried Reinhardt | Stars: Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Leslie Caron, Farley Granger

Votes: 1,472

11. Yuva (2004)

Not Rated | 161 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Michael, Arjun and Lallan, three men from three different strata of society, cross paths one morning in Calcutta and change one another's lives forever.

Director: Mani Ratnam | Stars: Ajay Devgn, Abhishek Bachchan, Rani Mukerji, Vivek Oberoi

Votes: 9,370 | Gross: $0.28M

12. Love in Translation (2021 TV Movie)

TV-G | 88 min | Comedy, Family, Romance

Linguistics Ph.D. student Julie, can speak almost every language you can imagine. Things turn upside down for Julie when handsome Dan, contacts her to get some French classes. Sparks soon fly - could this be their perfect match?

Director: Adrian Langley | Stars: Michelle Argyris, Corey Sevier, Elise Bauman, Deborah Grover

Votes: 573

13. Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill (1998 Video)

Unrated | 115 min | Documentary, Comedy

Executive transvestite Eddie Izzard takes his show to San Francisco to give a brief history of pagan and Christian religions, the building of Stonehenge, the birth of the Church of England ... See full summary »

Director: Lawrence Jordan | Star: Eddie Izzard

Votes: 7,515

14. The Proud and Profane (1956)

Not Rated | 111 min | Drama, Romance, War

In the Pacific during WWII, a Roman Catholic widow falls for a tough lieutenant colonel.

Director: George Seaton | Stars: William Holden, Deborah Kerr, Thelma Ritter, Dewey Martin

Votes: 654

15. Tokyo Fiancée (2014)

100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A young Japanophile Belgian woman in Tokyo falls into a whirlwind romance with a Francophile Japanese student.

Director: Stefan Liberski | Stars: Pauline Etienne, Taichi Inoue, Julie LeBreton, Alice de Lencquesaing

Votes: 2,220

16. A Long Way from Home (2013)

80 min | Drama, Romance

A couple realise their dream of retiring to the South of France. Their life changes dramatically when they meet another, younger couple.

Director: Virginia Gilbert | Stars: James Fox, Natalie Dormer, Paul Nicholls, Brenda Fricker

Votes: 312

17. Burning Love (1983)

96 min | Comedy, Drama

A young painter takes up French lessons with an elder lady to ensure he'll get a grant for a French arts institute. That way he meets Anna, a beautiful married woman nursing the lady's old father, and falls in love with her.

Director: Ate de Jong | Stars: Monique van de Ven, Peter Jan Rens, Ellen Vogel, Huub van der Lubbe

Votes: 494

18. Cute Girl (1980)

90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The daughter of a wealthy man takes French lessons so she can go to France with her fiancée, but ends up falling for a poor man who studies civil engineering.

Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Stars: Kenny Bee, Anthony Chan, Ping-Yu Chang, Kai-Ching Chi

Votes: 458

19. Stuck with a Perfect Woman (2016)

97 min | Comedy, Romance

Eliska's husband has left her for a younger woman. She is childless, in her early forties, yet still attractive. Till then she had taken care of her successful husband, but now she has to ... See full summary »

Director: Tomas Hoffman | Stars: Petra Hrebícková, Ondrej Vetchý, Miroslav Táborský, Jirí Langmajer

Votes: 448

20. Little Iodine (1946)

Passed | 57 min | Comedy, Family

Little Iodine does her best to break up her parents' marriage, ruin a romance between Janis and Marc, and cost her father his job, but eventually she has a change of heart and sets out to correct the wrongs.

Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Jo Ann Marlowe, Marc Cramer, Eve Whitney, Irene Ryan

Votes: 26

21. French Lesson (2000 Video)

35 min | Short, Adventure

When Dorothy visits Colette for a French lesson, Colette tells her protégé that the best way to attract men in Paris is to dress like a slut. An argument ensues and the ladies take turns tying one another throughout the rest of the film.

Director: Delores Cortez | Stars: Stella DuBois, Dorothy Laine

22. To hamini (1960)

87 min | Drama, Romance

Having only her pride, a feisty street urchin meets a charming aristocrat, and an ardent romance beyond social classes begins; however, a stubborn denial leads to a head-on confrontation. Will the gamine and the nobleman find happiness?

Director: Odysseas Kosteletos | Stars: Nikos Kourkoulos, Kakia Analyti, Hristos Tsaganeas, Nitsa Tsaganea

Votes: 23

23. Café, Croissant, French? (2014– )

Comedy

While Béa enjoys living in California, she is still startled by the Americans' lack of 'savoir vivre' and it can only show in her teaching. Her students on the other side have a different agenda.

Stars: Roxanne Alexia Sinclair, Alex Barone, Christina Stanley, Gregory Scott

24. Robert & la rousse (2011)

4 min | Short, Comedy

-Outraged, a teacher comes up against a restaurant owner who refuses to correct a spelling mistake on a poster.

Director: Patrick Aubert | Stars: Pierre-André Côté, Miguel Doucet, Marianne Paquette

Votes: 6

25. Batman (1966–1968)
Episode: Fine Feathered Finks (1966)

TV-G | 25 min | Action, Crime, Fantasy

The Penguin plots to manipulate Batman into inadvertently devising capers for him.

Director: Robert Butler | Stars: Adam West, Burt Ward, Alan Napier, Neil Hamilton

Votes: 720

26. Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode: Goodbye, Mrs. Wilder (1981)

TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance

When Mrs. Oleson demands Art and French be added to the school curriculum, Laura quits, leaving Mrs. Oleson to cover the subjects herself.

Director: William F. Claxton | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Votes: 247

27. The Simpsons (1989– )
Episode: The Way We Was (1991)

TV-14 | 23 min | Animation, Comedy

Homer and Marge tell the story of how they met and fell in love in high school.

Director: David Silverman | Stars: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith

Votes: 4,163

28. Skins (2007–2013)
Episode: Everyone (2010)

TV-MA | 49 min | Drama

As Emily, Naomi, Pandora, and Thomas make up, the gang become concerned for the absent Freddie and hold his birthday party in his absence. Cook, who has read Freddie's notebook which ... See full summary »

Director: Daniel O'Hara | Stars: Merv Lukeba, Jack O'Connell, Kathryn Prescott, Kaya Scodelario

Votes: 709