Category: Romance
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Strauss: Die Fledermaus
Theodor Guschlbauer conducts the Chorus and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera in this lavish staging of Johann Strauss’s operetta. Recorded in 1980, the production features some of the leading performers of their day, including Lucia Popp, Edita Gruberova, Bernd Weikl, Walter Berry and Brigitte Fassbaender.
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What Girls Want
Layla refuses to get married because she believes all men are liars especially after her sister’s tragic suicide on her wedding day when her fiancé left her. Layla’s father decides to put an end to her stubbornness and sends a letter that explains her problem to Ahmed who works as an editor for the local…
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Xanadu
A beautiful muse inspires an artist and his older friend to convert a dilapidated auditorium into a lavish rollerskating club.
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The Garden of Eden
A young pick-pocket meets a sheltered teenage girl at an art museum while trying to lift her wallet. He falls in love with her and lures her to deserted strip of beach where he pretends his stolen motorbike has broken down and they are stranded. An unlikely romance follows.
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The Blue Lagoon
Two small children and a ship’s cook survive a shipwreck and find safety on an idyllic tropical island. Soon, however, the cook dies and the young boy and girl are left on their own. Days become years and Emmeline and Richard make a home for themselves surrounded by exotic creatures and nature’s beauty. But will…
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Women Joke Seriously
A lyrical comedy in three parts linked by a voice-over monologue of the protagonist, telling about three Zhenyas – three lovers, in each of whom he was looking for the dream of his post-war childhood.
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Poor Masha
Young nurse Masha tries to check her boyfriend Kolya by telling him that she’s pregnant.
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Electric Angel
A typical experimental film, in which a variety of audiovisual techniques are used to create the sense of polymorphic eroticism as developed by European and Mediterranean cinematography of the 20th century. Combining the methods of “animation” and “live action”, this intricate work embodies the idea of an “ars combinatoria”. The structure is loose, with neither…
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Errant Love
Kao Han (Kenny Bee) and Pan-yun (Xiu-ling Lu) meet for the first time as strangers in a pet shop. It is destiny that they meet a second time and Kao Han takes a chance in this second meeting to pursue Pan-yun. Pan-yun is reluctant to get involved with Kao Han because she still thinks about…
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The Wild Daisy
Born in affluent families among the Japanese mountains, two close cousins fall in love and have to suffer through the social constraints of their time.
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The Snow Wedding
A vaudeville based on a love story. Young Bela hurries by taxi to her fiance, to whom she was engaged in early childhood. A landslide in the mountains delayed the car…
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Gipsy Happiness
A story about a gypsy boy who lives with his mother in the South-Russian village.
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Blink Stefaans
Fanus is a nerdy sound technician who is never noticed by anyone, and especially not by the boss’s pretty but temperamental daughter, Linda. All this changes with the arrival of alter ego ‘Blink Stefaans’, who has plenty of advice for Fanus, from how to be more assertive to how to dress. ‘Blink’ translates to bright…
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Charlie’s Bubble
The poetry of teenagers in love is one of the most endearing and enduring traditions in cinema. Philip Chan made his solo directorial debut with a film based on his own adolescent fantasy, about a secondary school student who falls in love with his teacher. The teacher happens to be pregnant and, after the kid…
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Montenegro
Marilyn Jordan, an American, lives in Stockholm with her Swedish husband and family. Her behavior is bizarre, perhaps mad: she poisons the dog’s milk and advises the dog not to drink it; she sets the sheets afire as her husband sleeps; she crawls under the dining table to sing. While detained at airport customs for…