Film Theme: Love Triangles

1.

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

2010 film by David Slade

Overview: The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, commonly referred to as Eclipse, is a 2010 American romantic fantasy film based on Stephenie Meyer's 2007 novel Eclipse and the 2010 companion novella The Short Second Life ...

Release date: 24 June 2010

Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Thriller, Drama, Adventure

Director: David Slade

Cast: Xavier Samuel, Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke, Justin Chon, Anna Kendrick

Producer: Bill Bannerman, Marty Bowen

Writer: Melissa Rosenberg, Stephenie Meyer

As a string of mysterious killings grips Seattle, Bella, whose high school graduation is fast approaching, is forced to choose between her love for vampire ...

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Golden Raspberry Award winning films 242T

American werewolf films 108T

American vampire films 232T

2.

Gossip Girl

2007 American teen drama television series

Overview: Gossip Girl is an American teen drama television series based on the novel series of the same name written by Cecily von Ziegesar. The series, developed for television by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage ...

Director: Mark Piznarski, Norman Buckley

Cast: Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Penn Badgley, Chace Crawford, Ed Westwick, Kelly Rutherford

Producer: Josh Schwartz, Jonathan C. Brody

Writer: Stephanie Savage, Josh Schwartz

Privileged teens living on the Upper East Side of New York can hide no secret from the ruthless blogger who is always watching.

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Television shows set in Manhattan 37T

Coming-of-age television shows 75T

Television shows filmed in New York City 221T

3.

Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love

1996 film

Overview: Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love is a 1996 Indian historical erotic romance film co-written, co-produced, and directed by Mira Nair. It takes its title from the ancient Indian text, the Kama Sutra and serves ...

Release date: 11 September 1996

Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Romance

Director: Mira Nair

Cast: Indira Varma, Sarita Choudhury, Ramon Tikaram, Naveen Andrews, Rekha, Khalid Tyabji

Producer: Caroline Baron, Lydia Dean Pilcher

Writer: Helena Kriel, Mira Nair

Two female friends become sexual rivals at maturity.

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1990s English-language films 3,883T

English-language Japanese films 68T

English-language German films 842T

4.

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

5.

Dawson's Creek

American teen drama television series

Overview: Dawson's Creek is an American teen drama television series about the lives of a close-knit group of friends in the fictional town of Capeside, Massachusetts, beginning in high school and continuing into ...

Release date: 20 January 1998

Genre: Drama, Romance

Director: Gregory Prange, David Semel

Cast: James Van Der Beek, Katie Holmes, Michelle Williams, Joshua Jackson, Mary Beth Peil, Kerr Smith

Producer: Tom Kapinos, Gregory Prange

Writer: Kevin Williamson, Gina Fattore

Four friends in a small coastal town help each other cope with adolescence.

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Television shows filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina 3T

1990s American LGBT-related drama television series 17T

Coming-of-age television shows 75T

6.

The Notebook

2004 American romantic drama film directed by Nick Cassavetes

Overview: The Notebook is a 2004 American romantic drama film directed by Nick Cassavetes, written by Jeremy Leven and Jan Sardi, based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Nicholas Sparks. The film stars Ryan ...

Release date: 20 May 2004

Genre: Drama, Romance

Director: Nick Cassavetes

Cast: Tim Ivey, Gena Rowlands, Starletta DuPois, James Garner, Anthony-Michael Q. Thomas, Ed Grady

Producer: Toby Emmerich, Lynn Harris

Writer: Jeremy Leven, Jan Sardi

A poor yet passionate young man (Ryan Gosling) falls in love with a rich young woman (Rachel McAdams), giving her a sense of freedom, but they are soon ...

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2000s coming-of-age drama films 121T

Films scored by Aaron Zigman 60T

Films about interclass romance 14T

7.

Some Like It Hot

1959 comedy film directed by Billy Wilder

Overview: Some Like It Hot is a 1959 American black-and-white romantic comedy film directed and produced by Billy Wilder, starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon. The supporting cast includes George ...

Release date: 29 March 1959

Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Family, Music, Romance, Thriller

Director: Billy Wilder

Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E. Brown

Producer: I.A.L. Diamond, Doane Harrison

Writer: Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond

After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.

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Polish-Americans in fiction 3T

1950s English-language films 1,582T

1959 romantic comedy films 23T

8.

Pearl Harbor

2001 film by Michael Bay

Overview: Pearl Harbor is a 2001 American romantic war drama film directed by Michael Bay, produced by Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer and written by Randall Wallace. It stars Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, Josh Hartnett ...

Release date: 21 May 2001

Genre: Action, Romance, War, Drama, History

Director: Michael Bay

Cast: Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale, William Lee Scott, Greg Zola, Ewen Bremner

Producer: Kenny Bates, Michael Bay

Writer: Randall Wallace

A tale of war and romance mixed in with history. The story follows two lifelong friends and a beautiful nurse who are caught up in the horror of an infamous ...

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2000s English-language films 4,356T

Films set on aircraft carriers 20T

Films about the Doolittle Raid 6T

9.

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

10.

Bathing Beauty

1944 film by George Sidney

Overview: Bathing Beauty is a 1944 musical film starring Red Skelton, Basil Rathbone, and Esther Williams, and directed by George Sidney.

Release date: 27 June 1944

Genre: Comedy, Musical

Director: George Sidney

Cast: Red Skelton, Esther Williams, Basil Rathbone, Bill Goodwin, Jean Porter, Nana Bryant

Producer: Jack Cummings

Writer: Kenneth Earl, M.M. Musselman

A contrived misunderstanding leads to the breakup of a songwriter and his fiancée. She returns to work as a gym teacher at an all-girls school, but a legal ...

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1944 romantic comedy films 34T

1944 musical comedy films 45T

1944 comedy films 216T

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XX/XY

2002 American film

Overview: XX/XY is a 2002 American romantic drama film written and directed by Austin Chick and starring Mark Ruffalo, Kathleen Robertson, and Maya Stange. The title refers to the different chromosome pairings ...

Release date: 11 January 2002

Genre: Drama, Romance

Director: Austin Chick

Cast: Mark Ruffalo, Maya Stange, Kathleen Robertson, Kel O'Neill, Ben Tolpin, William Keeler

Producer: Allen Bain, Richard J. Burns

Writer: Austin Chick

Three friends begin a dangerous three-way relationship that spirals out of control, leading to dire consequences that haunt them ten years later.

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2000s English-language films 4,269T

2002 romantic drama films 82T

2002 drama films 483T

12.

Threesome

1994 film by Andrew Fleming

Overview: Threesome is a 1994 American comedy erotic drama film, written and directed by Andrew Fleming and starring Lara Flynn Boyle, Stephen Baldwin and Josh Charles. It is an autobiographical comedy mixed in ...

Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama

Director: Andrew Fleming

Cast: Lara Flynn Boyle, Stephen Baldwin, Josh Charles, Alexis Arquette, Martha Gehman, Mark Arnold

Producer: Tracie Graham-Rice, Bradley Jenkel

Writer: Andrew Fleming

A girl named Alex is by mistake housed with 2 guys, Stuart and Eddy, in a college dorm suite. After initial problems they become friends. Stuart has the ...

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1990s English-language films 3,955T

American erotic drama films 110T

1994 LGBT-related films 45T

13.

The Vikings

1958 film by Richard Fleischer

Overview: The Vikings is a 1958 epic historical fiction swashbuckling film directed by Richard Fleischer and filmed in Technicolor. It was produced by Jerry Bresler and stars Kirk Douglas. It is based on the 1951 ...

Release date: 11 June 1958

Genre: Action, Adventure

Director: Richard Fleischer

Cast: Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Janet Leigh, James Donald, Alexander Knox

Producer: Jerry Bresler, Tony Curtis

Writer: Calder Willingham, Dale Wasserman

A slave and a Viking prince fight for the love of a captive princess.

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1950s English-language films 3,485T

Curtleigh Productions films 5T

Cultural depictions of Ragnar Lodbrok 5T

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The Piano

1993 romantic drama film directed by Jane Campion

Overview: The Piano is a 1993 period drama film written and directed by Jane Campion and starring Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, and Anna Paquin in her first acting role. The film is based on the novel ...

Release date: 15 May 1993

Genre: Drama, Romance, Music

Director: Jane Campion

Cast: Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin, Kerry Walker, Geneviève Lemon

Producer: Jan Chapman, Alain Depardieu

Writer: Jane Campion

In the mid-19th century a mute woman is sent to New Zealand along with her young daughter and prized piano for an arranged marriage to a farmer, but is ...

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Films about Māori people 32T

1990s historical romance films 15T

Fictional elective mutes 9T

15.

The Other Boleyn Girl

2008 film by Justin Chadwick

Overview: The Other Boleyn Girl is a 2008 historical romantic drama film directed by Justin Chadwick. The screenplay by Peter Morgan was adapted from Philippa Gregory’s 2001 novel of the same name. It is a fict ...

Release date: 15 February 2008

Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance

Director: Justin Chadwick

Cast: Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Eric Bana, Jim Sturgess, Mark Rylance, Kristin Scott Thomas

Producer: Mark Cooper, Alison Owen

Writer: Peter Morgan, Philippa Gregory

Two sisters contend for the affection of King Henry VIII.

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Romantic drama films based on actual events 28T

2000s British films 1,502T

2000s American films 7,222T

16.

The Dreamers

2003 film by Bernardo Bertolucci

Overview: The Dreamers is a 2003 romantic drama film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. The screenplay is by Gilbert Adair, based on his own novel The Holy Innocents. An international co-production by companies from ...

Release date: 1 September 2003

Genre: Drama, History, Romance

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci

Cast: Michael Pitt, Eva Green, Louis Garrel, Anna Chancellor, Robin Renucci, Jean-Pierre Kalfon

Producer: Hercules Bellville, John Bernard

Writer: Gilbert Adair

A young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister. Set against the background of the '68 Paris ...

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English-language Italian films 699T

French erotic drama films 95T

British erotic drama films 25T

17.

The Black Dahlia

2006 film

Overview: The Black Dahlia is a 2006 neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Brian De Palma, written by Josh Friedman, and starring Josh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson, Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, and Mia Kirshner ...

Release date: 9 August 2006

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, History, Romance

Director: Brian De Palma

Cast: Josh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson, Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Mia Kirshner, Mike Starr

Producer: T. Rafael Cimino, Rudy Cohen

Writer: Josh Friedman, James Ellroy

Two policemen see their personal and professional lives fall apart in the wake of the "Black Dahlia" Elizabeth Short murder investigation.

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English-language German films 842T

German detective films 8T

French detective films 23T

18.

The Age of Innocence

1993 film directed by Martin Scorsese

Overview: The Age of Innocence is a 1993 American historical romantic drama film directed by Martin Scorsese. The screenplay, an adaptation of the 1920 novel The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, was written by ...

Release date: 31 August 1993

Genre: Drama, Romance

Director: Martin Scorsese

Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder, Linda Faye Farkas, Michael Rees Davis, Terry Cook

Producer: Barbara De Fina, Bruce S. Pustin

Writer: Edith Wharton, Jay Cocks

A tale of nineteenth-century New York high society in which a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to ...

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1990s English-language films 3,955T

1990s historical romance films 15T

1993 drama films 332T

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Summer Lovers

1982 American romantic comedy film by Randal Kleiser

Overview: Summer Lovers is a 1982 American romantic comedy film written and directed by Randal Kleiser and starring Peter Gallagher, Daryl Hannah and Valerie Quennessen. It was filmed on location on the island of ...

Release date: 16 July 1982

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Randal Kleiser

Cast: Peter Gallagher, Daryl Hannah, Valérie Quennessen, Barbara Rush, Carole Cook, Hans van Tongeren

Producer: Joel Dean, Mike Moder

Writer: Randal Kleiser

A young American couple and a French woman engage in a threesome in the Greek Islands.

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1980s English-language films 3,425T

Films shot in Crete 20T

Filmways films 40T

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Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam

1999 film by Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Overview: Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (transl.) is a 1999 Indian Hindi-language romantic drama film directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. It was released internationally as Straight From the Heart. The film stars Aishwarya ...

Release date: 18 June 1999

Genre: Comedy, Romance, Musical, Drama

Director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Cast: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Salman Khan, Ajay Devgn, Zohra Sehgal, Vikram Gokhale, Smita Jaykar

Producer: Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Ibrahim Desai

Writer: Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Amrik Gill

Nandini has to choose between Sameer, the man who taught her to fall in love; and Vanraj, the man from whom she learnt how to abide and fulfill promises ...

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1999 romantic drama films 65T

1999 drama films 431T

Films whose production designer won the Best Production Design National Film Award 41T

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The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

Gossip Girl

Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love

Gone with the Wind

Dawson's Creek

The Notebook

Some Like It Hot

Pearl Harbor

Cleopatra

Bathing Beauty

XX/XY

Threesome

The Vikings

The Piano

The Other Boleyn Girl

The Dreamers

The Black Dahlia

The Age of Innocence

Summer Lovers

Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam