Film Class: Romantic Epic

1.

Titanic

1997 American romantic disaster film directed by James Cameron

Overview: Titanic is a 1997 American epic romance and disaster film directed, written, produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. Incorporating both historical and fictionalized aspects, it is based on accounts of ...

Release date: 1 November 1997

Genre: Drama, Romance, Adventure, History

Director: James Cameron

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Gloria Stuart

Producer: James Cameron, Pamela Easley

Writer: James Cameron

A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.

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Romantic drama films based on actual events 9T

1990s American films 4,704T

1990s English-language films 6,298T

2.

Gone with the Wind

1939 film by Victor Fleming

Overview: Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American epic historical romance film adapted from the 1936 novel by Margaret Mitchell. The film was produced by David O. Selznick of Selznick International Pictures and d ...

Release date: 15 December 1939

Genre: Drama, Romance, War

Director: Victor Fleming, George Cukor

Cast: Thomas Mitchell, Barbara O'Neil, Vivien Leigh, Evelyn Keyes, Ann Rutherford, George Reeves

Producer: David O. Selznick

Writer: Margaret Mitchell, Sidney Howard

A sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of ...

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Films shot at Culver Studios 11T

Films about Lost Cause of the Confederacy 6T

1930s American films 5,554T

3.

Amaya

Philippine television series

Overview: Amaya is a Philippine television drama period series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Mac Alejandre, it stars Marian Rivera in the title role. The series is set in the pre-colonial period of the 1500s ...

Release date: 1 May 2011

Genre: Romance, Action, Adventure, Drama, History

Director: Mac Alejandre

Cast: Marian Rivera, Sid Lucero, Mikael Daez, Gina Alajar, Lani Mercado, Gardo Versoza

Producer: Camille Gomba-Montaño, Lilybeth G. Rasonable

Writer: Angeli Delgado, Suzette Doctolero

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GMA Network telenovelas 337T

Filipino-language television shows 1,397T

Television shows set in the Philippines 570T

4.

Cleopatra

1963 historical drama film by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Overview: Cleopatra is a 1963 American epic historical drama film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, with a screenplay adapted by Mankiewicz, Ranald MacDougall and Sidney Buchman from the 1957 book The Life and Times ...

Release date: 12 June 1963

Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Pamela Brown, George Cole, Hume Cronyn

Producer: Peter Levathes, Walter Wanger

Writer: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Ranald MacDougall

Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt experiences both triumph and tragedy as she attempts to resist the imperial ambitions of Rome.

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1963 romantic drama films 10T

1960s American films 1,966T

1960s English-language films 3,309T

5.

Mausam

2011 film by Pankaj Kapur

Overview: Mausam (transl.) is a 2011 Indian romantic drama film written and directed by Pankaj Kapur under the Vistaar Religare Film Fund banner. The film stars Shahid Kapoor, opposite Sonam Kapoor in the lead roles ...

Release date: 22 July 2011

Genre: Romance, Drama

Director: Pankaj Kapur

Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor, Anupam Kher, Supriya Pathak, Aditi Sharma, Manoj Pahwa

Producer: Vivek b Agrawal, Crispin Buxton

Writer: Carl Austin, Pankaj Kapur

A war, religious conflicts, and misunderstandings create obstacles for a couple of different faiths.

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Indian war drama films 57T

2011 war drama films 30T

Films set in Kargil 7T

6.

In Your Name

2003 film by Satish Kaushik

Overview: Tere Naam (transl.) is a 2003 Indian Hindi-language romantic drama film directed by Satish Kaushik. Written by Bala and Jainendra Jain, the film stars Salman Khan and Bhumika Chawla in her Bollywood film ...

Release date: 15 August 2003

Genre: Romance

Director: Satish Kaushik

Cast: Salman Khan, Bhoomika Chawla, Sachin Khedekar, Savita Prabhune, Ravi Kishan, Anang Desai

Producer: Jitender K. Bagga, Navneet S. Jha

Writer: Bala, Vijaysinh Gol

Problems arise when Radhey Mohan, a delinquent falls in love with a girl named Nirjara.

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2003 romantic drama films 85T

Films directed by Satish Kaushik 13T

Indian romantic action films 207T

7.

Legends of the Fall

1994 US epic historical drama Western film by Edward Zwick

Overview: Legends of the Fall is a 1994 American epic historical drama Western film directed by Edward Zwick and starring Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Aidan Quinn, Julia Ormond and Henry Thomas. Based on the 1979 ...

Release date: 16 December 1994

Genre: Drama, Romance, War, Western

Director: Edward Zwick

Cast: Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Aidan Quinn, Julia Ormond, Henry Thomas, Karina Lombard

Producer: Jane Bartelme, Sarah Caplan

Writer: Susan Shilliday, William D. Wittliff

In the early 1900s, three brothers and their father living in the remote wilderness of Montana are affected by betrayal, history, love, nature, and war ...

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Western (genre) epic films 10T

1990s English-language films 3,880T

1994 romantic drama films 36T

8.

Jodhaa Akbar

2008 film by Ashutosh Gowariker

Overview: Jodhaa Akbar is a 2008 Indian historical romance film, co-written, produced and directed by Ashutosh Gowariker. It stars Aishwarya Rai and Hrithik Roshan in the lead roles, with Sonu Sood, Kulbhushan ...

Release date: 13 February 2008

Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, History, Musical, Romance, Drama

Director: Ashutosh Gowariker

Cast: Hrithik Roshan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Sonu Sood, Komal, Suhasini Mulay, Ila Arun

Producer: Lawrence D'Souza, Ashutosh Gowariker

Writer: Haidar Ali, Ashutosh Gowariker

A sixteenth century love story about a marriage of alliance that gave birth to true love between a great Mughal emperor, Akbar, and a Rajput princess ...

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Indian war drama films 57T

2008 biographical drama films 35T

2008 romantic drama films 80T

9.

Australia

2008 film by Baz Luhrmann

Overview: Australia is a 2008 epic romantic historical drama film directed by Baz Luhrmann and starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman. The screenplay was written by Luhrmann and screenwriter Stuart Beattie, with ...

Release date: 18 November 2008

Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War, Western

Director: Baz Luhrmann

Cast: Shea Adams, Eddie Baroo, Ray Barrett, Tony Barry, Jamal Bednarz-Metallah, Damian Bradford

Producer: G. Mac Brown, Catherine Knapman

Writer: Stuart Beattie, Baz Luhrmann

Set in northern Australia before WWII, an Englishwoman who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to drive 2,000 head of ...

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Australian historical adventure films 1T

2008 romantic drama films 80T

2000s historical romance films 29T

10.

War and Peace

1956 historical drama film by King Vidor

Overview: War and Peace (Italian: Guerra e pace) is a 1956 epic historical drama film based on Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel of the same name. It is directed and co-written by King Vidor, and produced by Dino De Lau ...

Genre: Drama, Romance, War

Director: King Vidor

Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer, Vittorio Gassman, Herbert Lom, Oskar Homolka

Producer: Dino De Laurentiis, Carlo Ponti

Writer: Lev Tolstoy, Bridget Boland

Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia, including his disastrous 1812 invasion, serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two arist ...

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1950s English-language films 3,538T

1956 romantic drama films 23T

English-language Italian films 707T

11.

The English Patient

1996 romantic drama film directed by Anthony Minghella

Overview: The English Patient is a 1996 British-American epic romantic war drama film directed by Anthony Minghella from his own script based on the 1992 novel of the same name by Michael Ondaatje and produced by ...

Release date: 6 November 1996

Genre: Romance, Drama, War

Director: Anthony Minghella

Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Kristin Scott Thomas, Naveen Andrews, Colin Firth

Producer: Steve E. Andrews, Scott Greenstein

Writer: Michael Ondaatje, Anthony Minghella

At the close of World War II, a young nurse tends to a badly-burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a ...

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1990s English-language films 3,955T

American World War II films 142T

British World War II films 97T

12.

Out of Africa

the 1985 film based in part on the memoir by Danish author Karen Blixen

Overview: Out of Africa is a 1985 American epic romantic drama film directed and produced by Sydney Pollack, and starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford. The film is based loosely on the 1937 autobiographical book ...

Release date: 10 December 1985

Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance

Director: Sydney Pollack

Cast: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Michael Kitchen, Malick Bowens, Joseph Thiaka

Producer: Anna Cataldi, Terence A. Clegg

Writer: Karen Blixen, Judith Thurman

In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.

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1980s American films 3,365T

1980s English-language films 3,470T

1985 romantic drama films 29T

13.

Indochine

1992 film by Régis Wargnier

Overview: Indochine is a 1992 French period drama film set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 1950s. It is the story of Éliane Devries, a French plantation owner, and of her adopted Vietnamese daughter ...

Release date: 15 April 1992

Genre: Drama, Romance

Director: Régis Wargnier

Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Vincent Perez, Linh-Dan Pham, Jean Yanne, Dominique Blanc, Henri Marteau

Producer: Alain Belmondo, Gérard Crosnier

Writer: Erik Orsenna, Louis Gardel

Eliane adopts Camille, whose Vietnamese parents were friends. In 1930, a French navy officer is interested in Eliane (owns 60km2 plantation) and later ...

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1990s French-language films 320T

Films set in French Indochina 8T

1992 romantic drama films 43T

14.

Far and Away

1992 film by Ron Howard

Overview: Far and Away is a 1992 American epic Western romantic adventure drama film directed by Ron Howard from a script by Howard and Bob Dolman. It stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. This was the last cinem ...

Release date: 22 May 1992

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western

Director: Ron Howard

Cast: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Thomas Gibson, Robert Prosky, Barbara Babcock, Cyril Cusack

Producer: Larry DeWaay, Bob Dolman

Writer: Bob Dolman, Ron Howard

A young Irish couple flee to the States, but subsequently struggle to obtain land and prosper freely.

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1990s English-language films 3,891T

1992 Western (genre) films 5T

American boxing films 239T

15.

Doctor Zhivago

1965 film by David Lean

Overview: Doctor Zhivago (Italian: Il dottor Živago) is a 1965 epic romantic drama film directed by David Lean with a screenplay by Robert Bolt. It is set in Russia between the years prior to World War I and the ...

Release date: 22 December 1965

Genre: Drama, Romance, War

Director: David Lean

Cast: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness, Tom Courtenay

Producer: Arvid Griffen, Carlo Ponti

Writer: Boris Pasternak, Robert Bolt

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during ...

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Political controversies in film 12T

1965 war films 15T

1960s war drama films 84T

16.

Atonement

2007 British film

Overview: Atonement is a 2007 romantic war drama film directed by Joe Wright and starring James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, Saoirse Ronan, Romola Garai, Benedict Cumberbatch and Vanessa Redgrave. It is based on Ian ...

Release date: 29 August 2007

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, War

Director: Joe Wright

Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Ailidh Mackay, Brenda Blethyn, Julia West, James McAvoy, Harriet Walter

Producer: Tim Bevan, Liza Chasin

Writer: Ian McEwan, Christopher Hampton

Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a 13-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime ...

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German World War II films 54T

French World War II films 46T

British World War II films 93T

17.

Anna and the King

1999 film

Overview: Anna and the King is a 1999 American biographical period drama film directed by Andy Tennant and written by Steve Meerson and Peter Krikes. Loosely based on the 1944 novel Anna and the King of Siam, which ...

Release date: 6 December 1999

Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance

Director: Andy Tennant

Cast: Jodie Foster, Chow Yun-Fat, Bai Ling, Tom Felton, Syed Alwi, Randall Duk Kim

Producer: Eric Angelson, Lawrence Bender

Writer: Anna Leonowens, Steve Meerson

The story of the romance between the King of Siam and widowed British schoolteacher, Anna Leonowens, during the 1860s.

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Film controversies in Thailand 5T

Works based on Anna and the King of Siam 2T

1990s English-language films 3,879T

18.

Wu ji

2005 film

Overview: The Promise is a 2005 Chinese epic fantasy film directed by Chen Kaige, starring Jang Dong-gun, Hiroyuki Sanada, Cecilia Cheung, and Nicholas Tse. It is loosely adapted from The Kunlun Slave, a wuxia ...

Release date: 15 December 2005

Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy

Director: Kaige Chen

Cast: Jang Dong-Gun, Hiroyuki Sanada, Cecilia Cheung, Nicholas Tse, Ye Liu, Hong Chen

Producer: Hong Chen, Sanping Han

Writer: Kaige Chen, Charcoal Tan

Empowered by the love of a slave (Jang), a royal concubine (Cheung) is given the chance to make an extraordinary decision.

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Chinese New Year films 49T

2000s fantasy adventure films 129T

Chinese romantic fantasy films 12T

19.

Reds

1981 historical drama film epic by Warren Beatty

Overview: Reds is a 1981 American epic historical drama film, co-written, produced, and directed by Warren Beatty, about the life and career of John Reed, the journalist and writer who chronicled the Russian Re ...

Release date: 3 December 1981

Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, History

Director: Warren Beatty

Cast: Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Edward Herrmann, Jerzy Kosinski, Jack Nicholson, Paul Sorvino

Producer: Dede Allen, Warren Beatty

Writer: Warren Beatty, Trevor Griffiths

A radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia, and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States ...

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Films scored by Stephen Sondheim 2T

Films shot at EMI-Elstree Studios 141T

1980s Russian-language films 91T

20.

Raintree County

1957 film by Edward Dmytryk

Overview: Raintree County is a 1957 American epic historical romance film adapted from the 1948 novel by Ross Lockridge Jr. The film was directed by Edward Dmytryk and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Set in ...