A Short Film About Love (1988), Soldier's Girl (2003), Trust (1990), Comrades, Almost a Love Story (1997), Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974), Maelstrom (2000), Stroszek (1977), Our Lady of the Assassins (2000) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Unusual Romance movies.
Storyline: The seventeen year-old Hallam Foe is a weird teenager that misses his mother, who committed suicide by drowning in a lake near their house in Edinburgh after an overdose of sleeping pills. Hallam spends his spare time peeping at the locals and blames his stepmother Verity Foe, accusing her of killing his mother. After a discussion with his father Julius Foe, Hallam sneaks out from his house and travels to Edinburgh, where he sees Kate Breck and becomes obsessed with her because of her resemblance to his mother. Kate hires Hallam to work in the kitchen of the hotel where she works and they have a strange romance, while Hallam reaches his maturity in the hardest way.
Plot Keywords: teenager, father, stepmother, manager, executive, love interest, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The young Emperor Franz Joseph is on his way to his summer residence at Ischl, where his birthday will be celebrated with a big party. His mother, Archduchess Sophie, has decided that he shall marry her niece Princess Helene of Bayern, and that the engagement shall be proclaimed at the ball. Franz Joseph doesn't know Helene yet, but his mother has already prepared everything. To avoid suspicions of what is going on, her sister, Duchess Ludovika of Bavaria, brings not only Princess Helene, called Néné, to the ball, but also the somewhat younger Princess Elisabeth, called Sissi. Archduchess Sophie is particular about strict etiquette at the court, and dislikes her niece Sissi, who is a free spirit, just as her father, Duke Max of Bavaria. To keep Sissi inactive, her room in Ischl is locked from outside, but Sissi escapes through a window. She goes to the wood, and when she is fishing in a river, the Emperor Franz Joseph passes by in his royal carriage. He is immediately enamored by Sissi, who doesn't reveal her true identity. When Franz Joseph recognizes Sissi at the ball the same evening, he defies his mother, and proclaims that Sissi will become his wife and the new Empress of Austria.—Maths Jesperson {maths.jesperson1@comhem.se}
Plot Keywords: princess, duke, duchess, emperor franz josef, mother-in-law, sister, airy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Dr. Clitterhouse is fascinated with the working of the criminal mind. His interest is so deep that he finds the best way to observe criminals in action is to become one himself. Whilst robbing a safe at an exclusive party he stumbles across an organized gang trying to do the same thing. He teams up with the gang to observe them in action but one of the members, Rocks Valentine would like nothing better than to see Clitterhouse out of the way.—Col Needham <col@imdb.com>
Plot Keywords: psychiatrist, crime boss, fence, criminal, inspector, offbeat, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jenny Hayden never did get over the death of her husband. So when an alien life form decides to model "himself" on the husband, Jenny is understandably confused if not terrified. The alien, or Starman, as he is called, has a deadline to meet, and kidnaps Jenny in order to meet it.
Plot Keywords: alien, widow, government official, scientist, military officer, thrilling, tender ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Two separate people, a man and a woman, find something very stirring about the sea turtles in their tank at the London Zoo. They meet and form an odd, but sympathetic camaraderie as they plan to steal two of the turtles and free them into the ocean.—Kathy Li
Plot Keywords: author, woman, bookseller, man, zookeeper, turtle, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: With much of the world's population now an undead horde, R is a young and oddly introspective zombie. While fighting with and feeding on a human scavenger party, R meets Julie and feels an urge to protect her. What happens next is the beginning of a strangely warm relationship that allows R to begin regaining his humanity. As this change spreads through the local undead population like a virus, Julie and R eventually have to face a larger issue when the very nature of their friendship is challenged. Caught between the paranoid human forces and the ferocious "Bonies", zombies who are a mutual threat, R and Julie must find a way to bridge the differences of each side to fight for a better world no one thought possible.
Plot Keywords: zombie, teen girl, father, friend, killer, boyfriend, offbeat ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Popular songwriter Oliver Courtney has been getting by for years using one ghost writer for his music and another for his lyrics. When both writers meet at an inn, they fall in love and then try to sell their songs under their own name. The problem is every song publisher thinks they're copying Courtney's style.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: songwriter, musician, composer, friend, airy, charming, inn ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The sensitive swordsman Cho Yi-Hang is tired of his life. He is the unwilling successor to the Wu-Tang clan throne and the unsure commander of the clan's forces in a war against foreign tribes and an evil cult. One day, he meets the beautiful Lien, a killer for the evil cult who is equally unsatisfied with her situation, but their love angers both the Wu-Tang clan and the evil cult.—Erik Gregersen <erik@astro.as.utexas.edu>
Plot Keywords: swordsman, warrior, twin, cult leader, witch, sorcerer, striking ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: During the Cultural Revolution in China in the mid-1960s, a French diplomat falls in love with a singer in the Beijing Opera. Interwoven with allusions to the Puccini opera "Madama Butterfly", a story of love and betrayal unfolds.—Michael C. Berch <mcb@postmodern.com>
Plot Keywords: diplomat, opera singer, lover, intricate, melodramatic, beijing, china ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Caroline has not had much luck in love. Boyfriends seem to either leave her or cheat on her. Then she meets a shy, introverted man at work named Adam. When leaving work one day, two men attack her. Adam comes to her rescue. Unfortunately, retaliation by the attackers sends Adam to the hospital where he finds out he has a diseased heart. Adam is an orphan and was told he had a baboon's heart. He refuses a transplant, as he believes his love for Caroline is contained in his damaged heart. Before tragedy can strike, they have a passionate but brief romance. Adam opens up to Caroline and he, in turn, heals her broken heart.
Plot Keywords: waitress, busboy, thug, outcast, orphan, mushy, quirky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Thirty-year-old Hlynur still lives with his mother and spends his days drinking, watching porn and surfing the net while living off unemployment checks. A girl is interested in him, but he stands back from commitment. His mother's Spanish flamenco teacher, Lola, moves in with them for Christmas. On New Year's Eve, while his mother is away, Hlynur finds out Lola is a lesbian, but also ends up having sex with her. He soon finds out he and his mother are sharing more than a house. Eventually he must find out where he fits into the puzzle, and how to live life less selfishly.—kwedgwood@hotmail.com/Peter Brandt Nielsen
Plot Keywords: slacker, girlfriend, mother, dance instructor, lesbian, son, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 17-year-old Judith McIntyre is waiting impatiently in an upstate New York bus station with her older brother, Wesley, when she meets Jimmy, a quirky storyteller. As the two troubled strangers create stories about their fellow travelers, they discover that in the process of fantasizing about the lives of others, they are forced to expose hidden truths about themselves.
Plot Keywords: sister, brother, stranger, teenager, gambler, loner, creative ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After countless weeks of seclusion in his laboratory, the brilliant Dr. Vaseegaran (Rajnikanth) emerges with his latest invention: Chitti (also Rajnikanth), an android created in his own image. But in the place of applause, Vaseegaran is greeted by the scornful gaze of his neglected fiancée, Sana (Aishwarya Rai). With the faithful Chitti at his side, the desperate Vaseegaran struggles to regain Sana's favor. But soon the robot-servant starts developing feelings for his master's beautiful love.
Plot Keywords: scientist, fiancée, android, gangster, police officer, hilarious, frenetic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: On election day, Count Albert Sandor, the Prime Minister of Hungary, is surprised to learn that his faithful servant, Johann Porok, has been elected to parliament. Despite their opposing political views, Johann and Sandor amicably agree to continue their butler and master relationship. Sandor's daughter, Baroness Katrina Marissey, however, is appalled to see the eloquent butler opposing her father in parliament.—L. Hamre
Plot Keywords: prime minister, butler, daughter, husband, countess, airy, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: To prove that he still is strong and powerful, Philippe Douvier decides to kill Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau. Once Clouseau's death has been announced, the former Chief Inspector, Charles Dreyfus, feels much, much better and is released from the mental hospital. Jacques Clouseau tries to take advantage of his "death" and goes under cover with Cato to find out who tried to assassinate him.
Plot Keywords: inspector clouseau, boss, servant, crime boss, woman, informant, lighthearted ...
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