In 1960, director Billy Wilder took an unexpected step in his prolific film career. What about directing? Apartmentwhich is considered one of cinema’s greatest romantic films. And although Wilder had experience in this area, the story, starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine, It was more difficult than the director’s witty and sweet stories.
In contrast, the love between Bud Baxter (Lemmon) and Fran Kubelik (McLaine) is both sweet and dramatic. He is an ambitious employee, and she is his boss’s mistress. So they must both face not only the pressures of a secret affair, but also the possibility of a future together. Perhaps for the first time in American commercial cinema, the possibility that the affair might not end happily ever after was surprising. What made fans and critics cry, ask questions about the genre.
The new release brought the film a success that is still remembered today. But much more, it is the first type of cinema that can make people cry and move at the same time, leaving behind a bittersweet aftertaste. A genre that is still popular in cinema. As proof, we leave you with five dramatic melodramas that will make you cry. From the story of a failure that redeems his life through love, through an exploration of loss, to a rare vision of science fiction. The selection presents all sorts of options for hopeless romantics, which you can find right now on Disney+.
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good year
In 2006, Ridley Scott abandoned science fiction to explore romance. But he chose to tell not just a romance – which he does – but a deep and well-crafted story of redemption. finding purpose and emotional maturity.
Just like the book of the same name by Peter Mayle, which it adapts, good year tells how Max Skinner (Russell Crowe) must grapple with the catastrophe of his life as he knows it. What, when you become bankrupt and find yourself with no clear idea of how to continue living despite feeling like He lost everything that made life worth living.
So he leaves everything in London, flies to Provence (France), sells the vineyard where he grew up, and starts all over again. What he doesn’t expect is that between the vines and the annual harvest, with Fanny (Marion Cotillard), a woman who believes that earth and good wine can heal a broken heart.
Walking Among the Clouds
In 1995, before he became an Internet darling, Keanu Reeves starred in this morbid romance that made him a romantic icon for years. It’s from veteran Mexican director Alfonso Arau.alongside Spanish actress Aitana Sánchez-Gijón in one of her Hollywood roles.
A Walk Among the Clouds is a story of misunderstandings. Set in the idyllic landscape of a 1940s Mexican vineyard, Paul Sutton (Reeves) is a man looking to start a new life when he stumbles upon Victoria Aragon (Sanchez-Gijon). A young pregnant woman returns to her parents’ home.
And not knowing how to tell her parents that she will be a single mother. Soon, the two reach a strange agreement in which he will pretend to be the child’s father to save his honor and prevent shame. And although any lover of romance knows how this story ends, the director has enough skill to make this experience sweet and sweet. A treat for fans of morbid dramas that you can find right now on Disney+.
We are all strangers
Andrew Haigh explores pain and loss in this wrenching novel that will make even the most callous person weep. Adam (Andrew Scott) is a lonely writer struggling to overcome his painful past. So when you fall in love with Harry (Paul Mescal), his life seems to be changing direction and direction.
Especially when love shows you a way of understanding the world that will surprise you and give you a sense of identity that you thought you had lost until now. But before he can love, Adam must heal his wounds and, in the course of this long process, understand that even the possibility of love It can support you in the worst moments.
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With exquisite execution and exquisite visual effects, We are all strangers It is an elegant work, carefully and delicately telling a romantic story. But much more, it explores the darkest, densest and most moving points. The best of this 2023 movie you can enjoy right now on Disney+.
Anna and the King
Director Andy Tennant has taken Margaret Landon’s biographical novel Anna and the King of Siam and turned it into a tragic novel of astonishing sensitivity. And it’s no surprise. The story of a 19th-century schoolteacher and her experiences at the palace. King Mongkut of Siam, amaze not only with their exotic sound.
At the same time, for delving into the idea of love as a universal theme, capable of bringing together two people who are destined to be separated by their very special place in the world. Such is the case with Anna (Jodie Foster), a widowed teacher who travels to Siam to educate the children of King Mongkut (Chow Yun-Fat). The latter is a brilliant man who wants to modernize his country to avoid colonization.
Soon Anna finds herself in front of a court full of attractions and the charming personality of the king. Both will end up falling in love in the worst possible circumstances. Which will turn their story into a painful romance that can only have one ending. Despite this, Anna learns that love sometimes overcomes seemingly insurmountable distances and differences.
another planet
This is one of those cases where science fiction is the perfect setting for an emotional story. Rhoda Williams (Brit Marling) dreams of studying astrophysics and dedicating her life to science. So when you get accepted to MIT, you believe that all your expectations have been met. On the other hand, John Burroughs (William Mapother) is a successful composer at the peak of his career. Both will eventually unite due to a terrible tragedy.
Their lives will intersect when an impossible cosmological event changes the history of our planet forever. But while the consequences of realizing we are not alone in the universe will find their way into the future, these two survivors must learn to cope with their pain. Including, of course, a love story.
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