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Romance Movies After A Long Week From The 80S And 90S

Romance movies after a long week from the 80s and 90s. Includes Tootsie, Dangerous Liaisons, Steel Magnolias and more, curated by Moviepiq.

Five days of relentless noise, and now this. Finally.

Tootsie movie poster
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1982 · ★★★½☆ 7.2/10

When struggling, out of work actor Michael Dorsey secretly adopts a female alter ego – Dorothy Michaels – in order to land a part in a daytime drama, he unwittingly becomes a feminist icon and ends up in a romantic pickle.

This is end-of-week cinema. You don't have to bring much. The film meets you where you are.

Dangerous Liaisons movie poster
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1988 · ★★★½☆ 7.2/10

In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for one last night with her. Yet things don't go as planned.

This is end-of-week cinema. You don't have to bring much. The film meets you where you are.

Steel Magnolias movie poster
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1989 · ★★★½☆ 7.2/10

A young beautician, newly arrived in a small Louisiana town, finds work at the local salon, where a small group of women share a close bond of friendship and welcome her into the fold.

This is end-of-week cinema. You don't have to bring much. The film meets you where you are.

Arizona Dream movie poster
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1993 · ★★★½☆ 7.2/10

Rebellious young Axel Blackmar gets caught up into the family car business when his cousin, Paul, coaxes him to come to Arizona to attend the wedding of their Uncle Leo. As Axel makes the decision to try selling Cadillacs with his family, he meets an eccentric woman named Elaine and her equally quirky stepdaughter, Grace. Their lives become inextricably intertwined through romance, dreams – and death.

This is end-of-week cinema. You don't have to bring much. The film meets you where you are.

Out of Africa movie poster
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1985 · ★★★½☆ 7.2/10

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film is based on her 1937 autobiographical novel.

This is end-of-week cinema. You don't have to bring much. The film meets you where you are.

After a long week, a film should feel like something you chose rather than endured. These do that.

Human and comforting. Good for softening the edge of a hard week.

Stepmom movie poster
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1998 · ★★★½☆ 7.2/10

Jackie is a divorced mother of two. Isabel is the career minded girlfriend of Jackie's ex-husband Luke, forced into the role of unwelcome stepmother to their children. But when Jackie discovers she is ill, both women realise they must put aside their differences to find a common ground and celebrate life to the fullest, while they have the chance.

After five hard days, this gives back more than it asks. Good trade.

The English Patient movie poster
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1996 · ★★★½☆ 7.1/10

In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics.

After five hard days, this gives back more than it asks. Good trade.

Buffalo '66 movie poster
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1998 · ★★★½☆ 7.1/10

Billy is released after five years in prison. In the next moment, he kidnaps teenage student Layla and visits his parents with her, pretending she is his girlfriend and they will soon marry.

This is end-of-week cinema. You don't have to bring much. The film meets you where you are.

Gia movie poster
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1998 · ★★★½☆ 7.1/10

Gia Carangi meteorically rises to modeling fame in the late 1970s but becomes overconsumed by persistent loneliness and drug addiction.

This is end-of-week cinema. You don't have to bring much. The film meets you where you are.

Lolita movie poster
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1997 · ★★★½☆ 7.1/10

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.

After five hard days, this gives back more than it asks. Good trade.

These films work because they match where you actually are, not where you think you should be.

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