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1. Incendies (2010)
R | 131 min | Drama, Mystery, War
Twins journey to the Middle East to discover their family history and fulfill their mother's last wishes.
Director: Denis Villeneuve | Stars: Lubna Azabal, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette, Mustafa Kamel
Votes: 202,610 | Gross: $6.86M
2. The Worst Person in the World (2021)
R | 128 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The chronicles of four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.
Director: Joachim Trier | Stars: Renate Reinsve, Anders Danielsen Lie, Herbert Nordrum, Hans Olav Brenner
Votes: 99,288
3. Burning (2018)
Not Rated | 148 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Jong-su bumps into a girl who used to live in the same neighborhood, who asks him to look after her cat while she's on a trip to Africa. When back, she introduces Ben, a mysterious guy she met there, who confesses his secret hobby.
Director: Lee Chang-dong | Stars: Yoo Ah-in, Steven Yeun, Jeon Jong-seo, Kim Soo-Kyung
Votes: 76,880 | Gross: $0.72M
4. The Adjustment Bureau (2011)
PG-13 | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The affair between a politician and a contemporary dancer is affected by mysterious forces keeping the lovers apart.
Director: George Nolfi | Stars: Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Lisa Thoreson, Florence Kastriner
Votes: 270,774 | Gross: $62.50M
5. What Happens Later (2023)
R | 103 min | Comedy, Romance
Willa and Bill are ex-lovers that will see each other for the first time in years when they both find themselves snowed in, in-transit, at an airport overnight.
Director: Meg Ryan | Stars: Meg Ryan, David Duchovny, Hal Liggett, Rob Gilchrist
Votes: 3,000
6. Before We Go (I) (2014)
PG-13 | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Two strangers stuck in Manhattan for the night grow into each other's most trusted confidants when an evening of unexpected adventure forces them to confront their fears and take control of their lives.
Director: Chris Evans | Stars: Chris Evans, Alice Eve, Emma Fitzpatrick, John Cullum
Votes: 64,005 | Gross: $0.04M
7. Paterson (2016)
R | 118 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A quiet observation of the triumphs and defeats of daily life, along with the poetry evident in its smallest details.
Director: Jim Jarmusch | Stars: Adam Driver, Golshifteh Farahani, Nellie, Rizwan Manji
Votes: 89,334 | Gross: $2.14M
8. The Artist (I) (2011)
PG-13 | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When George, a silent movie superstar, meets Peppy Miller, a dancer, sparks fly between the two. However, after the introduction of talking pictures, their fortunes change, affecting their dynamic.
Director: Michel Hazanavicius | Stars: Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman, James Cromwell
Votes: 248,950 | Gross: $44.67M
9. Destination Wedding (2018)
R | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The story of two miserable and unpleasant wedding guests, Lindsay and Frank, who develop a mutual affection despite themselves.
Director: Victor Levin | Stars: Winona Ryder, Keanu Reeves, DJ Dallenbach, Ted Dubost
Votes: 33,525
10. Gone in the Night (2022)
R | 90 min | Mystery, Thriller
When Kath and her boyfriend arrive at a remote cabin in the redwoods, they find a mysterious younger couple already there. Her boyfriend disappears with the young woman, and Kath becomes obsessed with finding an explanation.
Director: Eli Horowitz | Stars: Winona Ryder, Dermot Mulroney, John Gallagher Jr., Owen Teague
Votes: 5,745
11. Alice in Wonderland (1999 TV Movie)
PG | 150 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Alice falls down a rabbit hole, and finds herself in Wonderland, a fantasy land of strange characters and ideas.
Director: Nick Willing | Stars: Tina Majorino, Whoopi Goldberg, Robbie Coltrane, Ben Kingsley
Votes: 8,897
12. Last Night (I) (2010)
R | 93 min | Drama, Romance
The story follows a married couple, apart for a night while the husband takes a business trip with a colleague to whom he's attracted. While he's resisting temptation, his wife encounters her past love.
Director: Massy Tadjedin | Stars: Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington, Eva Mendes, Guillaume Canet
Votes: 50,719 | Gross: $0.10M
13. Zorba the Greek (1964)
Not Rated | 142 min | Comedy, Drama
An uptight English writer travelling to Crete, on a matter of business, finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba.
Director: Michael Cacoyannis | Stars: Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates, Irene Papas, Lila Kedrova
Votes: 24,176
14. Smoke (1995)
R | 112 min | Comedy, Drama
A Brooklyn smoke shop is the center of neighborhood activity, and the stories of its customers.
Director: Wayne Wang | Stars: Harvey Keitel, William Hurt, Giancarlo Esposito, José Zúñiga
Votes: 38,284 | Gross: $8.35M
15. Enchanted April (1991)
PG | 95 min | Drama
Four English women, after World War I, who are unhappy with their lives, and their time away on vacation in a beautiful Italian villa.
Director: Mike Newell | Stars: Alfred Molina, Joan Plowright, Miranda Richardson, Polly Walker
Votes: 7,164 | Gross: $13.20M
16. Comet (2014)
R | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Set in a parallel universe, Comet bounces back and forth over the course of an unlikely but perfectly paired couple's six-year relationship.
Director: Sam Esmail | Stars: Justin Long, Emmy Rossum, Kayla Servi, Eric Winter
Votes: 19,700
17. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021)
121 min | Drama, Romance
An unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction trap and an encounter that results from a misunderstanding, told in three movements to depict three female characters and trace the trajectories between their choices and regrets.
Director: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi | Stars: Kotone Furukawa, Ayumu Nakajima, Hyunri, Kiyohiko Shibukawa
Votes: 9,929
18. Mother (II) (1996)
PG-13 | 104 min | Comedy, Drama
A neurotic, twice-divorced sci-fi writer moves back in with his mother to solve his personal problems.
Director: Albert Brooks | Stars: Albert Brooks, Debbie Reynolds, Paul Collins, Laura Weekes
Votes: 6,837 | Gross: $19.12M
19. The Wedding Veil (2022 TV Movie)
TV-G | 84 min | Drama, Romance
Follows longtime friends who find a mysterious, antique veil fabled to unite its bearer with her true love.
Director: Terry Ingram | Stars: Lacey Chabert, Kevin McGarry, Autumn Reeser, Alison Sweeney
Votes: 2,432
20. The Sun Is Also a Star (2019)
PG-13 | 100 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A hopeless romantic ambivalent about his future in medical school falls for a hard-luck young woman who doesn't believe in love.
Director: Ry Russo-Young | Stars: Yara Shahidi, Anais Lee, Charles Melton, John Leguizamo
Votes: 8,186 | Gross: $4.95M
21. Viceroy's House (2017)
Not Rated | 106 min | Biography, Drama, History
The final Viceroy of India, Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (Hugh Bonneville), is tasked with overseeing the transition of British India to independence, but meets with conflict as different sides clash in the face of monumental change.
Director: Gurinder Chadha | Stars: Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Manish Dayal, Huma Qureshi
Votes: 8,577 | Gross: $1.11M
22. Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong (2015)
Not Rated | 78 min | Comedy, Romance
An attraction forms when a Chinese American girl visiting Hong Kong for the first time meets an American expat who shows her the way, but timing may not quite be on their side. A ... See full summary »
Director: Emily Ting | Stars: Jamie Chung, Bryan Greenberg, Richard Ng, Sarah Lian
Votes: 6,228
23. The Secret Ingredient (2020 TV Movie)
TV-G | 82 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Small-town baker, Kelly, gets a big surprise when she is invited to compete on a Valentine's Day baking show in New York City - and an even bigger surprise when she runs into her ex-fiancé.
Director: Tibor Takács | Stars: Erin Cahill, Brendan Penny, Maneet Chauhan, Gwynyth Walsh
Votes: 1,444
24. Make Mine Music (1946)
Passed | 75 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Animation done to contemporary popular music.
Directors: Robert Cormack, Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney, Hamilton Luske, Joshua Meador | Stars: Nelson Eddy, Dinah Shore, Laverne Andrews, Maxene Andrews
Votes: 4,978
25. The Kid with a Bike (2011)
PG-13 | 87 min | Drama
Abandoned by his father, a young boy is left in a state-run youth farm. In a random act of kindness, the town hairdresser agrees to foster him on weekends.
Directors: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne | Stars: Thomas Doret, Cécile de France, Jérémie Renier, Fabrizio Rongione
Votes: 28,691 | Gross: $1.38M
26. Moment by Moment (1978)
R | 102 min | Drama, Romance
Trisha Rawlings, a Beverly Hills socialite suffers from loneliness following the separation of her womanizing husband Stu. Strip, a young drifter, became infatuated with her and, develops a May/December relationship with her.
Director: Jane Wagner | Stars: Lily Tomlin, John Travolta, Andra Akers, Bert Kramer
Votes: 1,341 | Gross: $10.96M
27. Brief Encounter (1974 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 74 min | Drama
Two strangers, both married to others, meet in a railroad station and find themselves in a brief but intense affair.
Director: Alan Bridges | Stars: Richard Burton, Sophia Loren, Jack Hedley, Rosemary Leach
Votes: 705
28. Between Two Worlds (2021)
106 min | Drama
It is based on French journalist Florence Aubenas's bestselling non-fiction work Le Quai de Ouistreham, investigating rising precarity in French society through her experiences in the northern port city of Caen.
Director: Emmanuel Carrère | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Louise Pociecka, Steve Papagiannis, Aude Ruyter
Votes: 2,357
29. Back Street (1961)
Passed | 107 min | Drama, Romance
In Lincoln, the ambitious aspirant-designer Rae Smith has an incident with a wolf department store businessman and is rescued by the Marine Paul Saxon. They immediately fall in love with ... See full summary »
Director: David Miller | Stars: Susan Hayward, John Gavin, Vera Miles, Charles Drake
Votes: 1,300
30. Sunday in New York (1963)
Approved | 105 min | Comedy, Romance
On a Sunday, Eileen Tyler, still a virgin, leaves Albany to visit her airline pilot brother in New York but a chance encounter with a man on a city bus threatens to derail her upcoming marriage to boyfriend Russ.
Director: Peter Tewksbury | Stars: Rod Taylor, Jane Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Robert Culp
Votes: 3,391
31. Spy Intervention (2020)
Not Rated | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
When the world's greatest spy meets the woman of his dreams, he abandons his adventurous existence and settles into the security of suburbia.
Director: Drew Mylrea | Stars: Drew Van Acker, Poppy Delevingne, Blake Anderson, Max Silvestri
Votes: 2,027
32. 3 Hearts (2014)
PG-13 | 108 min | Drama, Romance
A tax inspector, his new bride and her sister become entwined in a love triangle.
Director: Benoît Jacquot | Stars: Benoît Poelvoorde, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve
Votes: 2,637 | Gross: $0.15M
33. Quantum Love (2014)
PG | 81 min | Drama, Romance
A family man's encounter with a beautiful woman develops into a mutual fascination.
Director: Lisa Azuelos | Stars: Sophie Marceau, François Cluzet, Lisa Azuelos, Alexandre Astier
Votes: 3,626
34. The Sleeping Car Murder (1965)
95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The witnesses of a train murder must take the investigation into their own hands if they want to survive.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Catherine Allégret, Jacques Perrin, Simone Signoret, Michel Piccoli
Votes: 2,252
35. Wedding Every Weekend (2020 TV Movie)
TV-G | 84 min | Comedy, Romance
Nate and Brooke are going to the same four weddings, four weekends in a row. To avoid set-ups, they go together as "wedding buddies." But what starts as a friendship soon deepens.
Director: Kevin Fair | Stars: Kimberley Sustad, Paul Campbell, Brandi Alexander, Jaime M. Callica
Votes: 1,418
36. Someone Is Bleeding (1974)
R | 105 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
On a beach in Nice, François meets the mysterious Peggy and falls in love with her. Following her to a villa, he meets Marc, a lawyer who has a strange relationship with the girl. Marc tells François that Peggy is a drug addict: she kills men who approach her.
Director: Georges Lautner | Stars: Alain Delon, Mireille Darc, Claude Brasseur, Fiore De Rienzo
Votes: 1,044
37. Aurora (I) (2019)
106 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Aurora, a commitment-phobic party animal, meets Iranian Darian one night at a hot-dog stand in Lapland. Darian is running from death and Aurora is running from love. They need each other in order to finally stop running.
Director: Miia Tervo | Stars: Mimosa Willamo, Amir Escandari, Elá Yildirim, Oona Airola
Votes: 1,855
38. The Bakery Girl of Monceau (1963)
Not Rated | 23 min | Short, Romance
A law student regularly visits a Paris bakery to flirt with a brunette employee.
Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Barbet Schroeder, Claudine Soubrier, Michèle Girardon, Fred Junck
Votes: 5,468
39. Mann - Soul's Heart (1999)
Not Rated | 160 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman falls in love with a handsome playboy, while aboard a Singapore to India cruise. They make plans to meet again, but fate may have other plans...
Director: Indra Kumar | Stars: Aamir Khan, Manisha Koirala, Sharmila Tagore, Deepti Bhatnagar
Votes: 5,882
40. I Rena einai 'off-side' (1972)
85 min | Comedy, Musical
An undelivered silk ball gown will unite a famous football player and a forthright dressmaker. Now, all Premier League Clubs implore her to convince him to accept a lucrative transfer; but, will she make the right decision?
Director: Alekos Sakellarios | Stars: Rena Vlahopoulou, Nikos Galanos, Dimitris Nikolaidis, Vasilis Tsivilikas
Votes: 340
41. East of Sweden (2018)
104 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
The lives of three troubled people are connected by accident when they are faced with moral questions.
Director: Simo Halinen | Stars: Samuli Vauramo, David Nzinga, Laura Birn, Andreas af Enehielm
Votes: 628
42. Dear Inspector (1977)
PG | 105 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Parisian detective Lise meets her childhood sweetheart Antoine by chance. Extremely happy about the reunion, the two arrange to meet. But Lise's duties as an inspector thwart their plans.
Director: Philippe de Broca | Stars: Annie Girardot, Philippe Noiret, Catherine Alric, Hubert Deschamps
Votes: 1,143
43. A Stranger to Love (1996 TV Movie)
PG | 96 min | Drama, Romance
Alan is a normal middleaged man with a wife and two kids. One night he is attacked and loses his memory. His family believes that he is dead when a dead body is found in the river.
Director: Peter Levin | Stars: Beau Bridges, Pam Dawber, Tess Harper, Erik von Detten
Votes: 271
44. Nick and Jane (1997)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Romance
N.Y. corporate Jane discovers her boyfriend John in bed with another woman, leaves building enraged and jumps into cab. Her driver is Nick. Jane and her friend Vickie have a plan - to make ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Mauro | Stars: Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, James McCaffrey, John Dossett, LisaGay Hamilton
Votes: 245
45. Fifis, o aktypitos (1966)
76 min | Comedy
A manly naval officer decides to marry his long-term fiancée; however, the impossible sighting of his effeminate lookalike performing at a nightclub will complicate matters, as no one knows the existence of his twin brother. Was it he?
Director: Kostas Lyhnaras | Stars: Stavros Paravas, Niki Linardou, Sotiris Moustakas, Christos Doxaras
Votes: 82
46. Lucrèce Borgia (1953)
Not Rated | 120 min | Action, Drama, History
In the early 16th century, Italy is ruled by the powerful Borgia family, led by César Borgia and his sister Lucrètè. In a ruthless power play, César plots to have his sister's husband ... See full summary »
Director: Christian-Jaque | Stars: Martine Carol, Pedro Armendáriz, Valentine Tessier, Arnoldo Foà
Votes: 205
47. Rantevou ston aera (1966)
93 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A hopeful Miss Europe 1966 and her girlfriends fall for an aircraftman and his friends. To be together, they take advantage of their commander's adoration for the famous actress, Rena Vlahopoulou. Who says no to a rendezvous with love?
Director: Giannis Dalianidis | Stars: Rena Vlahopoulou, Kostas Voutsas, Martha Karagianni, Andreas Douzos
Votes: 489
48. Nobody's Children (1951)
102 min | Drama, Romance
The tragic love story between marble-quarry owner Mario and Luisa, daughter of one of his employees.
Director: Raffaello Matarazzo | Stars: Yvonne Sanson, Amedeo Nazzari, Françoise Rosay, Folco Lulli
Votes: 418
49. Never Have I Ever (IV)
Thriller | Post-production
Sam is having a terrible day. He is late delivering a screenplay and the threat of being forced to repay his advance looms ominously over him as he simply doesn't have the money left. But ... See full summary »
Director: Damon Rickard | Stars: Andrew Lee Potts, Amber Doig-Thorne, Graham Skipper, Matt McClure
50. Pinocchio (2012)
PG | 75 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
In this dazzling, delightful re-imagining of the classic family legend, a playful puppet comes to life and experiences incredible adventures in his struggle to become human.
Director: Enzo D'Alò | Stars: Gabriele Caprio, Mino Caprio, Maricla Affatato, Lucrezia Marricchi
Votes: 387