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Category Archives: Romance

Island in the Sun (1957)

23 Mar

119m; U.K.

Director: Robert Rossen

Cast: James Mason, Joan Fontaine, Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte 

Synopsis (IMDB): Set on a fictitious island in the Carribean during colonial British rule. It focuses on the life of a young charismatic and handsome black man with political aspirations. He finds himself confused on returning home when his romantic liaison with a white female tends to conflict with his political views. As rumor has it an interracial screen kiss caused quite a commotion in the U.S. when the film was released. The plot is further strengthened by a look at the lives of a white ex-pat family also living on the island. The family has to deal with problems of infidelity, racism and murder.

 
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Posted by on March 23, 2012 in Drama, Politics, Romance

 

I Can Get It For You Wholesale (1951)

19 Mar

91m; U.S.

Director: Michael Gordon

Cast: Susan Hayward, Dan Dailey and George Sanders

Synopsis (IMDB): A ruthless fashion designer steps on everyone in her way in order to reach the top of her profession. Eventually she is forced to choose between her ambition and the man she loves.

 

 
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Posted by on March 19, 2012 in Drama, Romance, White Collar, Women, Working Class

 

Housewarming (2005)

09 Mar

90m; Belguim

Director: Brigitte Roüan

Cast: Carole Bouquet, Jean-Pierre Castaldi and Didier Flamand

Synopsis (IMDB): Chantal, an advocate involved in defending homeless illegal immigrant, decides to refurbish her flat. Following her convictions she calls Columbian workers led by an unforeseeable architect. In the mean time a former client decides he is in love with her, her son and daughter are becoming nearly homeless since the flat’s walls are demolished, the architect has new plans every day, an irregular workers fall in love with Chantal too and dance with her daughter, Martin (the son) still continue to roller blade around… Could the works go forward in this mess

 
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Posted by on March 9, 2012 in Comedy, Immigrants/Immigration, Romance, Working Class

 

God’s Little Acre (1958)

01 Mar

118m; U.S.

Director: Anthony Mann

Cast: Robert Ryan, Tina Louise and Aldo Ray

Synopsis (IMDB): A poor farmer is obsessed with finding gold on his land supposedly buried by his grandfather. To find it he conveniently moves a marker out of his way that designates the land on which it rests as as God’s Little Acre, where anything that comes from the ground will go to God’s work. Eventually he abducts an albino to help him find the gold. Meanwhile, his daughter-in-law is suspected of fooling around with a labor activist out of work since the mill closed, and a local political hopeful actively seeks his daughter’s hand in marriage.

 
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Posted by on March 1, 2012 in Drama, Romance, Working Class

 

Grosse Point Blank (1997)

01 Mar

107m; U.S.

Director: George Armitage

Cast: John Cusack, Minnie Driver and Dan Aykroyd

Synopsis: Martin Blank is a professional assassin. He is sent on a mission to a small Detroit suburb, Grosse Pointe, and, by coincidence, his ten-year high school reunion party is taking place there at the same time.  Meanwhile, another hitman (Dan Ackroyd) attempts to form a union of assassins.

 
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Posted by on March 1, 2012 in Comedy, Romance

 

His Girl Friday (1940)

01 Mar

92m; U.S.

Director: Howard Hawkes

Cast: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell and Ralph Bellamy

Synopsis: A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.

 
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Posted by on March 1, 2012 in Comedy, Romance, Working Class

 

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Cabin in the Cotton (1932)

21 Feb

78m; U.S.

Director: Michael Curitz

Cast: Richard Barthelmess, Bette Davis and Dorothy Jordan

Synopsis (IMDB): A tenant farmer’s son is caught in the middle of owner-tenant disputes when he falls for the plantation owner’s seductive daughter.

 
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Posted by on February 21, 2012 in Drama, Farm & Food, Romance, Working Class

 

The Catered Affair (1956)

21 Feb

92m; U.S.

Director: Richard Brooks

Cast: Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine and Debbie Reynolds

Synopsis: At breakfast, Jane announces that she and Ralph are getting married the next week. All Jane and Ralph want is a small wedding with the immediate family and no reception. This is because Janes parents are poor and Jane and Ralph can borrow a car for their honeymoon. However, at dinner that night all Ralph’s parents talk about are the big weddings they gave their daughters and everything escalates. All of a sudden, it is a big wedding breakfast with hundreds of guests. The problem is that for 12 years, Tom has been saving money to buy his own cab and license, but now that he can, all of his money is going towards a wedding neither he, or Jane or Ralph really want.

 
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Posted by on February 21, 2012 in Comedy, Drama, Romance, Women, Working Class

 

Closely Watched Trains (1966)

21 Feb

93m; Czechoslovakia

Director: Jirí Menzel

Cast: Václav Neckár, Josef Somr and Vlastimil Brodský

Synopsis: An apprentice train dispatcher at a village station seeks his first sexual encounter and becomes despondent when he is unable to perform.

 
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Posted by on February 21, 2012 in Comedy, Drama, Public Sector, Romance, Transportation, Working Class

 

Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)

21 Feb

90m

Director: Dorothy Arzner

Synopsis: Judy O’Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bubbles gives Judy a thankless job as her stooge. The two eventually clash when both fall for the same man.

 
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Posted by on February 21, 2012 in Drama, Romance, Women, Working Class

 
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