Oscar - winning Norwegian director Morten Tyldum is following up his Oscar - nominated film The Imitation Game with a myserious sci - fi
romance film based on a script that's been passed around and drafted for nearly a decade.
Passionflix is a stand - alone production / distribution company for original
romance films based on existing novels.
Not exact matches
Recent and upcoming releases include the
romance - horror hybrid Spring; the hotly - anticipated The Look Of Silence, Oppenheimer's companion piece to The Act Of Killing; The Connection, a 70's - set true crime epic and European flipside to William Friedkin's The French Connection starring Oscar ® winning Best Actor Jean Dujardin (The Artist); The Keeping Room, from director Daniel Barber (Harry Brown),
based on Julia Hart's acclaimed Black List screenplay, starring Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld and Sam Worthington; the multiple Cannes award winning The Tribe,
filmed entirely in Ukrainian Sign Language with a cast of deaf, non-professional actors; and a remastered re-release, in conjunction with Olive Films, of the 1981 disasterpiece Roar, the most dangerous
film ever made, starring Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith and a cast of 150 untrained lions, tigers and exotic animals.
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen: Just as intriguingly quixotic as angling in the desert is this
film (
based on a novel) itself: a
romance fueled by fisheries science.
Most of the novel
based films are is set in North Carolina, often in a picturesque small town that happens to be the perfect setting to sprinkle with
romance.
Lastly, the vampire genre has hit mainstream audiences with cheesy teenage
romance films like Twilight, making vampire
based films hard to take serious.
In 1910, director Sidney Olcott
filmed a silent 12 - minute
romance in the wheat fields and stone cottages of Ireland's County Cork for the New York -
based studio Kalem Co..
Based on a novel by Naomi Alderman, the
film chronicles a forbidden
romance between two women with ties to this London Orthodox community.
Based on the wildly popular «young adult» novel by Stephenie Meyer, Twilight is a vampire
film without any horror and a
romance with the type of unbridled, unchecked passion that only teenagers can conjure up.
Comparisons will immediately be drawn between Divergent and The Hunger Games, as both are dystopian sci - fi
film series
based on a trilogy of young adult novels written by women, featuring teenage female protagonists in an action - thriller scenario leading a rebellion against a corrupt and manipulative government force, while also engaging in a bit of
romance on the side.
LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON (1957)[TCM GREATEST CLASSIC
FILMS COLLECTION:
ROMANCE] 1/2 * / **** Image C Sound B starring Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier, John McGiver screenplay by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond,
based on a novel by Claude Anet directed by Billy Wilder
NOW, VOYAGER (1942)[TCM GREATEST CLASSIC
FILMS COLLECTION:
ROMANCE] ** 1/2 / **** Image A - Sound B Extras D starring Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Gladys Cooper screenplay by Casey Robinson,
based on the novel by Olive Higgins Prouty directed by Irving Rapper
MOGAMBO (1953)[TCM GREATEST CLASSIC
FILMS COLLECTION:
ROMANCE] * / **** Image C + Sound B starring Clark Gable, Ava Gardiner, Grace Kelly, Donald Sinden screenplay by John Lee Mahin,
based on a play by Wilson Collison directed by John Ford
The Oscar winner
romances Rooney Mara in their new
film Carol, which is
based on author Patricia Highsmith's controversial 1952 gay
romance novel...
From Richard LaGravenese, writer of acclaimed
romance films such as The Bridges of Madison County, The Horse Whisperer, and The Mirror Has Two Faces, this story of forbidden love (
based on the novel of the same name) between a witch and a human boasts playful charm and palpable chemistry.
Based on the young adult novel by Becky Albertalli and directed by superstar TV showrunner Greg Berlanti, the
film promises to flip the script on the high - school
romance with that ever - elusive blend of wit and heart.
Based on a true story, the
film is about an unlikely
romance between a folk artist and a reclusive fish peddler.
Based on the Patricia Highsmith novel «The Price of Salt,» the
film details the meeting, flirtation and
romance between two very different women; Carol is a wealthy New York City suburbanite in a rocky...
In the first year that Cannes started calling their top prize the Palme d'Or, the Delbert Mann drama and
romance based on a Paddy Chayefsky teleplay won the
film festival's highest honor — and went on to earn four Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Writing and Best Actor for Ernest Borgnine.
This bittersweet
film from Jean Renoir,
based on a story by Guy de Maupassant, is a tenderly comic idyll about a city family's picnic in the French countryside and the
romancing of the mother and grown daughter by two local men.
This week on the podcast we try to remember what podcasts sound like as we discuss a memory
based romance film from Korea over a decade old, A Moment To Remember.
The movie is
based on a true story about a late - in - life
romance between
film noir star Gloria Grahame and a 28 - year - old English actor.
INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN
FILMS Brighton Rock (Unrated) Remake of the 1947 crime thriller
based on Graham Greene's classic novel about a ruthless hoodlum (Sam Riley) who
romances the gullible waitress (Rose Riseborough) scheduled to testify after witnessing him murder a rival mobster (Sean Ellis).
In the meantime she is
filming the comedy / drama The English Teacher opposite Julianne Moore and then will segue into the lead role of «Clary Fray» in The Mortal Instruments a fantasy / mystery /
romance based on the novel by Cassandra Clare.
Both
films are obviously
based on Bram Stoker's Dracula novel, but where Stoker saw
romance, these German filmmakers saw pestilence.
NYC -
based artist Grear Patterson (b. 1988, USA) uses mixed media to create ideal locations, inspired by the 1993
film «True
Romance».