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Love

Our Love collection highlights the range of cinematic romance from sweeping love affairs to quirky rom-coms and tales of obsessive desire.

This subscription sub-section offers a collection of classic love stories, including two of the highest placed love stories from the Sight and Sound Top 100 Greatest Films list.

A Farewell to Arms A Farewell to Arms

Romance 1932 89 mins Director: Frank Borzage

Based on the best-selling 1929 novel by Ernest Hemingway, Gary Cooper stars in Frank Borzage's Oscar-winning adaptation of the tragic Great War romance.

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The Housemaid The Housemaid

Thriller 2010 107 mins Director: Im Sang-soo

An enigmatic housemaid and her wealthy, totalitarian employer begin an affair that will have disastrous consequences for them both.

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Betty Blue Betty Blue

Drama 1986 185 mins Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix

Jean-Jacques Beineix’s story of a volatile, highly sexual relationship was one of the most successful French films of the 1980s.

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The Touch The Touch

Drama 1971 115 mins Director: Ingmar Bergman

Elliott Gould joins Ingmar Bergman regulars Bibi Andersson and Max von Sydow in this neglected classic from the great director, about infidelity and a toxic love triangle.

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Love and Death on Long Island Love and Death on Long Island

Comedy 1998 89 mins Director: Richard Kwietniowski

John Hurt stars in Richard Kwietniowski’s comedy of fame and obsession about an older man (Hurt) who becomes infatuated with a young Hollywood actor (Jason Priestley), and proceeds to track him down.

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Two Women Two Women

Drama 2014 104 mins Director: Vera Glagoleva

Beautifully shot and featuring Ralph Fiennes performing in Russian, this handsomely mounted period drama depicts romantic intrigue on a 19th century country estate.

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Amour Fou Amour Fou

Period drama 2014 92 mins Director: Jessica Hausner

Jessica Hausner’s long-awaited follow-up to Lourdes is a devilish anti-Rom-Com in which a German poet seeks mates for a suicide pact.

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Breathless [À bout de souffle] Breathless [À bout de souffle]

Film noir 1960 90 mins Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard’s extraordinary debut feature, an insouciant and iconoclastic crime film that paved the way for the French New Wave.

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L'amore L'amore

Drama 1948 80 mins Director: Roberto Rossellini

Roberto Rossellini’s controversial two-part anthology film showcasing the manifold talents of his then-wife Anna Magnani.

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All in Good Time All in Good Time

Comedy 2012 94 mins Director: Nigel Cole

A pair of newlyweds endure a honeymoon staying with the groom's parents in a comedy from East Is East writer Ayub Khan-Din.

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Brick Lane Brick Lane

Drama 2007 97 mins Director: Sarah Gavron

Sarah Gavron’s subtle and intelligent adaptation of Monica Ali’s acclaimed novel charts the experiences of a Bangladeshi woman in London.

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In the City of Sylvia In the City of Sylvia

Drama 2007 85 mins Director: José Luis Guerín

An unnamed man travels back to Strasbourg with aspirations to track down a girl he asked for directions six years earlier.

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La Belle et la Bête La Belle et la Bête

Fantasy 1946 95 mins Director: Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau’s ravishingly restored 1946 film is a cinematic classic.

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Burning an Illusion Burning an Illusion

Drama 1982 102 mins Director: Menelik Shabazz

Menelik Shabazz’s pioneering first feature traces the emotional and political growth of a young black couple in Thatcher’s London.

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The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

Drama 1972 124 mins Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fassbinder's visual and verbal extravaganza about a successful but lonely fashion designer who falls in love with a beautiful younger woman.

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Full Moon in Paris Full Moon in Paris

Drama 1984 102 mins Director: Eric Rohmer

The fourth film of Eric Rohmer's Comedies and Proverbs series is a cool, ironic yet compassionate cautionary tale of need, greed, deceit and self-delusion.

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My Girlfriend's Boyfriend My Girlfriend's Boyfriend

Romance 1987 104 mins Director: Eric Rohmer

Eric Rohmer's story of a woman's guilt-ridden relationship with her friend's lover is the concluding part to his six-film Comedies and Proverbs series.

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A Good Marriage A Good Marriage

Comedy 1981 100 mins Director: Eric Rohmer

Eric Rohmer's pleasingly precise portrait of obstinately perverse longing, with Béatrice Romand as the student determined to marry an uninterested lawyer.

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Circumstance Circumstance

Drama 2011 106 mins Director: Maryam Keshavarz

A wealthy Iranian family struggles to contain a teenager's growing sexual rebellion and her brother's dangerous obsession.

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Flames of Passion Flames of Passion

Romance 1989 17 mins Director: Richard Kwietniowski

An ingenious gay homage to Brief Encounter.

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Dark Horse Dark Horse

Comedy 2011 86 mins Director: Todd Solondz

Todd Solondz directs Selma Blair and Jordan Gelber in this delightfully dark satire as romance blooms between a toy collector and a depressed woman.

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Brief Encounter Brief Encounter

Romance 1946 86 mins Director: David Lean

Noël Coward’s tale of a love affair, thrillingly played out with tight British reserve.

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Duffer Duffer

Drama 1971 75 mins Director: Joseph Despins and William Dumaresq

A bizarre study of obsession focusing on a teenage boy who is torn between the charms of a fleshly female prostitute and the sadism of an older man.

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Madame de... Madame de...

Drama 1953 100 mins Director: Max Ophuls

Max Ophuls' intricately constructed and elegantly designed drama is a searing study of fateful passion wound up in deceits, deals and desires.

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Fear Eats the Soul Fear Eats the Soul

Melodrama 1974 93 mins Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fassbinder’s international breakthrough, this unconventional love story combines lucid social analysis with devastating emotional power.

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Of Good Report Of Good Report

Drama 2013 110 mins Director: Jahmil Xolani Thandikhaya Qubeka

Disturbing but deeply stylish South African drama about a teacher who becomes obsessed with an under-age pupil in his class, with tragic consequences.

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The Passionate Friends The Passionate Friends

Romance 1949 91 mins Director: David Lean

David Lean’s other, lesser known film about a love triangle spent too long in Brief Encounter’s shadow, but is now regarded as a fine, gripping drama.

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Mademoiselle Chambon Mademoiselle Chambon

Drama 2009 100 mins Director: Stéphane Brizé

When a happily married man decides to volunteer at his son’s school, he begins to form a romantic bond with a teacher in this intimate French drama.

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Quest for Love Quest for Love

Romance 1971 87 mins Director: Ralph Thomas

This British sci-fi comedy, adapted from a John Wyndham story, follows a man’s search to find the ideal woman whom he briefly meets in a parallel universe.

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Partie de campagne Partie de campagne

Period drama 1936 39 mins Director: Jean Renoir

On a country picnic, a young girl leaves her family for a while and succumbs to an all-too-brief romance in Jean Renoir's sensuous tribute to the countryside.

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Journey to Italy Journey to Italy

Drama 1954 86 mins Director: Roberto Rossellini

Roberto Rossellini's acerbic but finally very moving masterpiece about marital crisis boasts great performances from Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders