Sentences with phrase «romantic drama set»

Gina Prince - Bythewood's Beyond the Lights makes our social - media - driven celebrity culture such a centerpiece of its story that this old - fashioned romantic drama set in the world of showbiz seems more topical than it actually is.

A department store clerk (Rooney Mara) falls for an older, married woman (Cate Blanchett) in Todd Haynes» romantic drama set in 1950s New York.

Terence Rattigan's romantic drama set in a repressive postwar Britain is brought to the big screen superbly by Terence Davies, writes Philip French

A light romantic drama set on the horse racing circuit, Harlow is a socialite back from Europe, where he's picked up a lot of aristocratic attitude and a swell of a beau (Walter Pidgeon as a high society bachelor with old family money), and Clark Gable is a race track bookie and friend of the family who alternately competes with her and for her.

Such is the feat Holly Hunter pulled off with her role in Jane Campion's romantic drama set in 17th century New Zealand.

Composed by James Newton HowardSony Classical / 2011 / 60:15 Another of those circus - based romantic dramas set during the great depression, Water for Elephants is based on the novel by Sarah Gruen and di

Another of those circus - based romantic dramas set during the great depression, Water for Elephants is based on the novel by Sarah Gruen and directed by Francis Lawrence, changing pace considerably from his previous film, I Am Legend.

Not exact matches

Of course it would take more than a small independent film to truly set Washington apart from the pack, and many saw her performance in the 2001 romantic drama Save the Last Dance as one of the few redeeming qualities in the otherwise forgettable teen drama.

Set in the city of Montreal, Alan Rudolph's romantic comedy - drama Afterglow paints a wryly comic portrait of two modern marriages drifting toward the rocks.

Interspersed with these are green - tinted installments of a science - fiction side - story inspired by Flash Gordon (one iteration of which includes an apparent Star Wars parody — the Flash Gordon serials were among Ruiz's childhood favorites); a Columbo - inspired detective story set at a country manor; a black - and - white romantic costume drama; a touch of musical comedy; and a Western - style shootout inside the movie theater.

In the land of the costume drama, truly, films about Marie Antoinette are Queen, promising lavish sets, romantic intrigue and shocking decadence — but they don't always deliver.

She won the Costume Design Oscar for A Room with a View in 1985; an early 20th century set romantic drama, quintessentially English yet directed by James Ivory, a Californian with Polish extraction, and produced by Ismail Merchant, who was born in Bombay.

I Am Love writer - director Luca Guadagnino follows up with The Reliable Wife, a romantic period drama set in 1908 Wisconsin about a widower and his mail - order bride who both get more than they bargained for.

Written by Michael Powell (who went on to direct The Red Shoes), Perfect Understanding is a sophisticated romantic comedy - drama about marriage and infidelity, sexual harmony and discord, in a posh setting of cocktail parties and weekends in the country.

Kate Winslet, center, stars with Jennifer Ehle in the 17th - century - set romantic drama «A Little Chaos.»

The set features eight films all together, including two of his early British thrillers (the classic Sabotage with Sylvia Sidney and lighter and lesser Young and Innocent), his World War II drama Lifeboat and all four films made for David Selznick: the Gothic classic Rebecca (Hitchcock's only film to win an Oscar for Best Picture), the Gregory Peck films Spellbound and The Paradine Case, and the romantic masterpiece Notorious.

The concept for this young adult romantic drama is fairly novel, though its treatment — despite its setting on not one but two planets — tends to fall back on teen romance cliches.

Actress Scarlett Johansson is reportedly set to play Zelda Fitzgerald in upcoming romantic drama «The Beautiful and the Dammed».

Maika Monroe and Jeremy Allen White have been set to star in Shotgun, a romantic drama / offbeat comedy indie film that was written and will be directed by Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency co-star Hannah Marks and Joey Power in their feature directorial debuts.

Scarlett Johansson is reportedly set to play Zelda Fitzgerald in upcoming romantic drama «The Beautiful and the Dammed».

In the romantic drama, set in 1946, Wilson plays an American soldier who makes a profound personal connection with a Polish widow, despite language & cultural barriers.

After setting such a great pace, with laughs, pathos and «romantic drama», why go in this direction?

In that write - up, Theron was in talks to join the African - set romantic drama, but now it looks like the trio of principal cast members are set.

Set in 1682 France, the romantic drama (which opened earlier this year in Australia, England and other foreign markets to mixed reviews) stars Kate Winslet as Sabine, a strong - willed landscape designer who is grieving the deaths of her husband and daughter and who is hired by landscape artist André Le Notre (Matthias Schoenaerts) to build one of the gardens at Louis XIV's (Rickman) new Palace of Versailles.

James Marsden's new romantic drama The Best Of Me is set for a Bollywood makeover, just two days after the movie premiered in India.The actor walked...

Lionsgate has released a UK poster and trailer for the upcoming romantic drama Brooklyn, which stars Saoirse Ronan, Emory Cohen, Domhnall Gleeson, Jim Broadbent and Julie Walters... Set in the early 1950s, BROOKLYN is the story of a young woman, Eilis (Saoirse Ronan) who moves from small town Ireland to Brooklyn, NY where, unlike home, she -LSB-...]

Before the lineup for this year's Cannes Film Festival was announced, many were hoping that Terrence Malick's romantic drama starring Ben Affleck and Rachel McAdams (previously referred to as The Burial) would be among the films set to premiere.

Betsy Bozdech: This 1940s - set romantic drama about a white Southern woman who falls in love with a Japanese man just before the attack on Pearl Harbor has themes that, unfortunately, are still very relevant today.

Open Road Films has released another new official trailer for the historical romantic drama The Promise, set during the last days of the Ottoman Empire.

Malick is currently in post-production on his upcoming untitled film starring Ben Affleck, set for a 2012 release with Rachel McAdams and Rachel Weisz also starring which is described as a romantic drama.

Save The Date: A film that opens with acclaimed graphic novelist Jeffrey Brown's delightfully childlike drawings of cast members Lizzy Caplan, Alison Brie, Martin Starr, Mark Webber, and Geoffrey Arend set to Wilco's «Heavy Metal Drummer» ostensibly has nowhere to go but down, but Michael Mohan's romantic comedy - drama Save The Date somehow manages to sustain that level of high - voltage charm throughout.

Amour Fou (Unrated) Costume drama, set in Berlin in the Romantic Era, about a young poet (Christian Friedel) who enters a suicide pact with a terminally - ill socialite (Schnoeink) after failing to convince his kissing cousin (Sandra Hueller) to do so.

Set amid the icy old - world charm of Vienna, the fragmentary romantic drama builds into a hallucinatory thriller, as Harvey Keitel's police detective — sans accent but with killer shoulder - length John the Baptist locks — begins to question Garfunkel over Russell's abortive suicide attempt and forces us to reconsider all that's gone before.

The latest from Bertrand Tavernier («Round Midnight), this period drama is set in the 1500's, during the reign of Charles IX, when France was decimated by religious wars, as Catholics and Protestants slaughtered one another.Tavernier skillfully manages a romantic roundelay, in which three suitors vie for the love of the Princess of Montpelsier who, of course (it's a French film, after all), is already married.

There is lots «o» drama and passion and romantic settings in this epic story; this is the kind of book that makes you want to curl up in bed and read while you're drinking a glass of wine on a Friday night — and not put it down'til Sunday.

Whether it is girls becoming too model thin, boys being too rambunctious on and off the football field or the drama of romantic heartbreaks, high school students pose a unique set of problems to high school teachers.