Strong word is Joe Wright has emerged as a front - runner and has an established relationship with Focus and Universal having directed period dramas PRIDE & PREJUDICE, ANNA KARENINA, as well as
romantic war drama ATONEMENT and action - thriller HANNA.
He will also star in Alan Rickman's A Little Chaos, which will close the Toronto film festival in September;
romantic war drama Suite Francaise; and novel adaptation Far from the Madding Crowd, directed by Thomas Vinterberg and starring Juno Temple, Michael Sheen and Carey Mulligan.
Not exact matches
A
romantic drama concerning a young couple separated by
war, The Notebook found McAdams in a notably more sympathetic role.In 2005, she pulled off an impressive triple - feat with roles in three very different movies.
An epic
romantic drama about two Czech pilots, serving together in the U.K.'s Royal Air Force during World
War II, who fall in love with the same woman.
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.
Meanwhile, Mother's day weekend welcomes Suite Française, the
romantic second world
war drama starring Michelle Williams, Matthias Schoenaerts and Kristin Scott Thomas.
Even though it's made in a style that feels familiar, this World
War II
romantic drama takes a much more complex approach to the period, most notably in the way that it refuses to let...
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.
Sam Claflin forgoes his usual
romantic - leading - man role for a muddy cerebral one in the trenches of this World
War I
drama.
Also opening this week: Lay the Favorite from director Stephen Frears with Bruce Willis and Rebecca Hall, The Comedy (at SIFF Film Center), Dutch coming - of - age
drama North Sea Texas (Harvard Exit), the Chinese
war drama Back to 1942 (Pacific Place), and the South Korean
romantic fantasy A Werewolf Boy (Alderwood Mall).
Then what seems like a snoozy
romantic drama about a reformed criminal (Mad Max: Fury Road's Nicholas Hoult) whose girlfriend (Star
Wars:...
Then what seems like a snoozy
romantic drama about a reformed criminal (Mad Max: Fury Road's Nicholas Hoult) whose girlfriend (Star
Wars: Rogue One's Felicity Jones) needs a kidney transplant suddenly takes a compelling turn when a gun - wielding, bare - chested Ben Kingsley (Sexy Beast) appears on screen and starts barking out dialogue in an accent of unknown origin.
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.