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Modern Romance is a 1981 American romantic comedy film directed by and starring Albert Brooks, [2] who also co-wrote the script with Monica Mcgowan Johnson. It co-stars Kathryn Harrold and Bruno Kirby.
- 35 'To All The Boys I've Loved Before'
- 34 'Only You'
- 33 'Love, Simon'
- 32 'Once'
- 31 'Southside with You'
- 30 'Deadpool'
- 29 'Secretary'
- 28 '
- 27 'Lovers Rock'
- 26 'Bridget Jones's Diary'
Directed by Susan Johnson
We couldn’t have a list of romance movies and ignore the teen subgenre. High-school-set romances can feel a bit repetitive and contrived after a while. Jock meets geeky girl, popular girl falls for the nerdy loser – we’ve seen it all before. However, Netflix's (and based on a novel by Jenny Han) To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, puts a different spin on the tired genre, focusing on the protagonist, and her relationship with her family as well as a love interest. Lara Jean Covey (Lana Condor)...
Directed by Harry Wootliff
A film that works to draw out the more realistic and somber truths of relationships, Only You follows Elena (Laia Costa) and Jake (Josh O’Connor) who meet one night while fighting over a taxi. As they fall in love, it seems that their relationship presents more challenges each day. Their 9-year age gap is something they can get past, but when they start trying for a baby, the journey of IVF, medication, and disappointment seems too overwhelming. The couple must then face the choice between ea...
Directed by Greg Berlanti
The problem with a lot of teen romances is that the heroes are, obviously, teenagers. They are young and they are inexperienced, and it’s sometimes difficult to root for their love stories to have picture-perfect endings because we know their lives will be long, and filled with heartaches and romances for decades to come. Greg Berlanti’s Love, Simondeftly evades these notions, because it’s a coming-of-age story first and foremost, and what counts is how the protagonist grows upon having his f...
Directed by John Carney
John Carney is famous the world over for making passionate, character-driven films full of awesome music, like Begin Again andSing Street. But his masterpiece is still this infectiously low-key, lovely romance. Once stars Glen Hansard as a busker in Ireland, working in his father’s vacuum cleaner repair shop when he isn’t singing songs about his latest breakup in the street. When his music catches the ear of a Czech immigrant played by Markéta Irglová, they strike up a friendship based on mut...
Directed by Richard Tanne
Richard Tanne’s intimate and absorbing Southside With You would be one of the best romantic movies of the decade if its subjects were fictional. That it’s also based on the true story of Barack Obama and Michelle Robinson’s first date is but another intriguing selling point. Southside With You follows Robinson, played by Tika Sumpter, as a young lawyer and Obama’s supervisor, who agrees to meet the summer associate for a community meeting. She hesitantly agrees to meet up earlier, but has no...
Directed by Tim Miller
Quite a lot of superhero movies have a love story to tell amidst all the costumed crimefighting, but for some reason, it’s the one about a mass murderer who knows he’s in a movie that stands out. Deadpool stars Ryan Reynolds as a mercenary who finds the love of his life, Vanessa (Morena Baccarin), a hilarious, sensitive, intelligent, and sensual partner who makes his life worth living. So when he finds out he’s dying of cancer he flees to spare her the horror of watching him die, and he runs...
Directed by Steven Shainberg
Not everybody loves each other the same way, and yet, few romantic movies seem genuinely interested in truly exploring a lifestyle of sexual kink. At least we have Steven Shainberg’s Secretary. Maggie Gyllenhaal gives an electric performance as a young woman who discovers, through an unexpected BDSM relationship with her new boss, that she’s a submissive who yearns for just the right dom. James Spaderplays her new lover, but even he doesn’t seem wholly comfortable with who he is and what he r...
Directed by Marc Webb
Easily one of the most influential and iconic romantic comedies of its era, (500) Days of Summer set the mold and status quo for many self-aware and convention-breaking rom-coms in the 2010s. The film follows the story of Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a hopeless romantic and greeting-card writer who has his life completely flipped upside down when his girlfriend, Summer (Zooey Deschanel), breaks up with him. The breakup causes him to reflect and reminisce on their 500-day-long relationship in o...
Directed by Steve McQueen
The second film in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe cycle, a collection of films exploring the lives of West Indian immigrants in the 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s, doesn’t so much tell a story as it seems to float, all on its own, throughout a brief and beautiful moment in time. Lovers Rocktakes place at a small house party where young people gather, absorb beautiful reggae music, and are swept away by their emotions… just like the audience. To watchLovers Rock is to feel a rare kind of joy, the se...
Directed by Sharon Maguire
There were a couple of great adaptations ofJane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice in the early 2000s, but it’s this charming modern update that stands out the most. Bridget Jones’s Diary stars Renée Zellweger as Bridget, a woman caught in a love triangle between the dashing Daniel, played by Hugh Grant, and the seemingly disinterested Mr. Darcy, played byColin Firth (who, in a bit of stunt casting, famously played Mr. Darcy in a straightforward Pride and Prejudiceadaptation six years prior). It’s...
- William Bibbiani
- Silver Linings Playbook (2012) David O. Russell‘s Philly-set masterpiece, about two hot messes who fall for each other as they heal from significant trauma, is an astounding blend of huge laughs, painful authenticity and a moving love story.
- Moonlight (2016) By the end of Moonlight‘s unforgettable three acts, we’ve witnessed nothing less than the birth and salvation of a human soul. Defiantly eschewing sentimentality and hand-holding, director and screenwriter Barry Jenkins tells this story of light and love in seemingly hopeless circumstances with broad strokes, gritty reality, and some of the most intoxicating audiovisual loveliness on record.
- (tie) Before Sunrise (2004) and Before Midnight (2013) In 1995’s Before Sunrise, Jesse (Ethan Hawke) convinced Céline (Julie Delpy) to hop off the train out of Budapest for a romantic stroll around Vienna.
- The Shape of Water (2017) Is any film of the modern era more intoxicating in its love of cinema? Is there any other modern love story that’s this primal?
1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. 2004 1h 48m R. 8.3 (1.1M) Rate. 89 Metascore. When their relationship turns sour, a couple undergoes a medical procedure to have each other erased from their memories forever. Director Michel Gondry Stars Jim Carrey Kate Winslet Tom Wilkinson. 2. In the Mood for Love. 2000 1h 38m PG. 8.1 (171K) Rate.
Modern Romance: Directed by Albert Brooks. With Albert Brooks, Kathryn Harrold, Tyann Means, Bruno Kirby. Albert Brooks directs himself as a successful film editor with far too many issues that affects the relationship between him and his remarkably patient girlfriend.
- (4.8K)
- Comedy, Romance
- Albert Brooks
- 1981-03-13
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