Tag: marriage
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Pennies from Heaven
During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent school teacher.
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The Day the Loving Stopped
Due to her parents’ divorce, a young lady named Judy begins to doubt herself and love in general as her wedding day approaches.
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Outside Edge
The local social cricket team are up to bat and sometimes it seems they are one batsman short of of an eleven. There are good secrets and not so good secrets that come to light during the course of the day. Roger is the ultimate captain rallying his troops whilst ignoring his greatest strength, Miriam,…
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If the Violin Were a Bird
A violinist, Lefteris, is constantly running around on account of his work – from the Symphonic Orchestra to the Church. One Sunday, an incident caused by the competition between two churches sends him to prison, where he tells the story of his life to a fellow-prisoner. He has had an eventful life, rich in both…
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Is Love Sustainable?
After her mother dies, Kyoka moves in with her father, Rintaro, who begins to obsess over finding spouses for himself and his daughter.
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Wildfire
Since they met the first time in boarding school as little kids, it was obvious that the orphans Kay and Dave would become a couple. But at sixteen, Dave foolishly attempted to rob a bank with a water pistol, and ended up in jail for eight years. Meanwhile Kay was sent to foster parents, where…
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Necessary Parties
Fifteen-year-old Chris Mills isn’t too happy with his divorcing parents. In fact, he doesn’t want them to split at all, so he hires car repair shop owner — and former attorney — Archie Corelli to run interference for him and put a stop to the proceedings. It’s a match made in heaven because Chris and…
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The Marquise of O
A German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count.
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The War of the Roses
Barbara and Oliver Rose live happily as a married couple. When Barbara starts to wonder what life would be like without Oliver and likes what she sees, the two begin a campaign to force each other to leave their house, with their divorce lawyer D’Amato caught in the middle.
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Lovers: A True Story
Set in ’50s Spain, a young man leaves the army and looks for a job so he and his fiancée can get married. He rents a room from a widow, and shortly begins a torrid affair with her. The fiancée figures it out and decides to win him back by offering herself to him and…
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Ranma 1/2 the Movie: Big Trouble in Nekonron, China
When Prince Kirin of the 7 Lucky Gods shows up at the Tendo dojo looking for his bride-to-be, guess who’s accidentally holding the scroll that signifies his future mate? Why, Akane, of course, and the rest of the Ranma crew is forced to take a boat to China in order to save her from the…
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Raise the Red Lantern
In 1920s China, 19-year-old Songlian becomes a concubine of a powerful lord and is forced to compete with his three wives for the privileges gained.
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Close My Eyes
After some years of tension, Richard begins a sexual relationship with his sister Natalie. Now married, the relationship proves dangerously obsessional.
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Only Yesterday
In lyrical switches between the present and the past, Taeko contemplates the arc of her life, and wonders if she has been true to the dreams of her childhood self.
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Belle Époque
In 1931, a young soldier deserts from the army and falls into a country farm, where he is welcomed by the owner due to his political ideas. Manolo has four daughters, Fernando likes all of them and they like him, so he has to decide which one to love.
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Four Weddings and a Funeral
Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.