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Romance Movies When Youre Bored That Will Mess With Your Mind
ROMANCE · WHEN YOU'RE BOREDThere's a specific restlessness that only a genuinely good film can address. The right film can shift everything. This list was put together for that specific occasion.
The best romantic films are the ones where the obstacle is internal, not external. Every film here was chosen with that standard in mind.
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Some Like It Hot
In Prohibition-era Chicago, musicians Joe and Jerry witness a mob hit, and flee the state in an all-female band disguised as Josephine and Daphne, but further complications set in.
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The Shop Around the Corner
Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.
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Scenes from a Marriage
Johan and Marianne are married and seem to have it all. Their happiness, however, is a façade for a troubled relationship, which becomes even rockier when Johan admits that he's having an affair. Befo...
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To Live
Married couple Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in mid-20th century mainland China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy landownership to peasantry.
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A Special Day
Two neighbours — a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife — forge a strong bond on the day of Adolf Hitler's historic 1938 visit to Rome.
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Pride & Prejudice
A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he dies their h...
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Children of Paradise
In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans, theater mime Baptiste is in love with the mysterious actress Garance. But Garance, in turn, is loved by thr...
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Purple Hearts
An aspiring musician agrees to a marriage of convenience with a soon-to-deploy Marine, but a tragedy soon turns their fake relationship all too real.
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The Best of Youth
After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lifepaths of two brothers from a middle-class Roman family diverge, intersecting with some of the most significant events of postwar Italian histor...
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Love Hurts
Family and friends try to sabotage the budding romance between a young upper class girl and a humble student.
Films that destabilise your assumptions about what you're watching are doing something technically precise.
Every one of these has a coherent internal logic. The disorientation is the point, not a side effect. The romance films that last are the ones with something underneath the love story. These have it.