Romance Movies of 1996
The Mirror Has Two Faces
In this romantic comedy-drama, a couple learns that the relationship between the mind and the body can take many different forms. Rose Morgan (Barbra Streisand) is a plain and pudgy middle-aged ... [ Romance movie - 1996 ]
Up Close & Personal
A story about a career television journalist who eclipses her mentor, this drama's plot ... [ Romance movie - 1996 ]
The English Patient
Anthony Minghella wrote and directed this award-winning adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's novel about a doomed and ... [ Romance movie - 1996 ]
Jane Eyre
Director Franco Zeffirelli stresses emotional ... [ Romance movie - 1996 ]
Mr. Wrong
Popular comic and television personality Ellen DeGeneres had her first starring role in a ... [ Romance movie - 1996 ]
Emma
Based on the novel by Jane Austen (who in the '90s seemed to be in the running alongside William Shakespeare and Stephen King for the honors ... [ Romance movie - 1996 ]
Carried Away
Based on the novel Farmer by Jim Harrison, this drama concerns Joseph Svenden (Dennis Hopper), a ... [ Romance movie - 1996 ]
Jerry Maguire
Combining drama, comedy, and romance, Jerry Maguire was a critical and commercial success ... [ Romance movie - 1996 ]
William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet
The classic Shakespearean romantic tragedy is updated by director Baz Luhrmann to a post-modern Verona ... [ Romance movie - 1996 ]
Twelfth Night
The classic Shakespearean comedy about mistaken identity and gender confusion is brought to the screen once again in this British production, courtesy of screenwriter-director Trevor Nunn. Nunn has ... [ Romance movie - 1996 ]
Stealing Beauty
This beautiful if ponderous soufflé of a film from director Bernardo Bertolucci ... [ Romance movie - 1996 ]
Carla's Song
British filmmaker Ken Loach blended a love story with strong political commentary in this ... [ Romance movie - 1996 ]
Feeling Minnesota
It's not unusual in the movies for a woman to be torn between two brothers, but she usually doesn't change her mind on her wedding day. Then again, hardly anything goes the way one might ... [ Romance movie - 1996 ]
One Fine Day
Even without money problems, many divorced single parents have a hard row to hoe. At the drop of a hat, a competent, responsible professional person can be reduced to a frazzled, bumbling ... [ Romance movie - 1996 ]
Moll Flanders
Written in 1712, Daniel Defoe's bawdy novel Moll Flanders was given a slick movie treatment with Kim Novak in the lead in 1965, then serialized for British television in 1975. Most 21st ... [ Romance movie - 1996 ]
If Lucy Fell
This vanity project from writer, director, and star Eric Schaeffer is a romantic comedy about a pair of New Yorkers with a suicide pact. Joe ... [ Romance movie - 1996 ]
The Truth About Cats & Dogs
In this updated and gender-reversed variation on Cyrano de Bergerac, Janeane Garofalo stars as Abby, the host of a radio talk show for ... [ Romance movie - 1996 ]
The Preacher's Wife
An angel wonders if love can be Heaven on Earth in this family-themed romantic fantasy. Rev. Henry Biggs ... [ Romance movie - 1996 ]
Mrs. Winterbourne
A poor woman is the beneficiary of a case of mistaken identity in this comedy. Luckless Connie (Ricki Lake) leaves home to move to New York, only to find herself stuck with no job, ... [ Romance movie - 1996 ]
She's the One
This is the second film by actor/director Ed Burns, his first being The Brothers McMullen. The two Fitzpatrick brothers, Mickey (Ed Burns) and Francis (Mike ... [ Romance movie - 1996 ]
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
In this story of obsessive and enduring love, David Lewis (Peter Gallagher) spends most of his time swimming, dancing, and frolicking on the beach with the spirit of his dead wife Gillian (Michelle Pfeiffer). ... [ Romance movie - 1996 ]
The Whole Wide World
A touching and unusual love story, The Whole Wide World was based on a memoir by Novalyne Price Ellis, in which she recalled her brief romance with Robert E. Howard, ... [ Romance movie - 1996 ]
Tin Cup
Roy McAvoy (Kevin Costner) is a talented golf pro, who owns his own driving range. That sounds impressive, but the reality is quite different. ... [ Romance movie - 1996 ]
Walking and Talking
A Manhattan woman struggles with loneliness in the face of her best friend's imminent marriage in this well-received independent comedy from first-time writer-director Nicole Holofcener. Amelia (Catherine Keener) feels isolated ... [ Romance movie - 1996 ]
Different For Girls
The off-beat love story between Paul and Kim provides the framework of this quirky British melodrama. The two meet after the taxi in which the attractive Kim rides ... [ Romance movie - 1996 ]
In Love and War
This romantic historical drama is based on the diaries of Agnes Von Kurowsky, who while serving as a nurse during World War I had a love affair with a young man ... [ Romance movie - 1996 ]
Moll Flanders
An orphaned young woman struggles to overcome a difficult childhood and her later experiences as a prostitute in this ... [ Romance movie - 1996 ]
Cosas Que Nunca Te Dije
Filmed in St. Helens, Oregon, this comedy-drama centers on highly educated Anne, a young woman forced by circumstance to work in a ... [ Romance movie - 1996 ]
Infinity
Actor Matthew Broderick made his directorial debut with this romantic drama based on the life of Nobel Prize-winning scientist Richard Feynman. Feynman (Broderick) grew up in New York, where, early ... [ Romance movie - 1996 ]
Dream for an Insomniac
Set in San Francisco, this romantic comedy centers on the ... [ Romance movie - 1996 ]
Love Etc.
Though unemployed, Pierre is buoyant, outgoing, affable, and experienced with women. This last is a point he never fails to drive home to Benoit, his gentle, hapless best friend. In an effort to compensate for his romantic failures, Benoit ... [ Romance movie - 1996 ]
Passion
A soldier learns about himself and love in this made-for-TV filmed version of the Stephen Sondheim musical. Jere Shea stars as Giorgio, a soldier who has a passionate affair with a beautiful and ... [ Romance movie - 1996 ]
Bed of Roses
Two lonely people learn to say it with flowers in this romantic drama. Lisa (Mary Stuart Masterson) is a business executive who has gotten used to being ... [ Romance movie - 1996 ]
All over Me
A teenage lesbian comes-of-age in this drama. Claude (Alison Folland) is a raw-boned girl graduating from high school. She spends all the time she can with her beautiful ... [ Romance movie - 1996 ]
Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health
This sophisticated Spanish romantic comedy charts ... [ Romance movie - 1996 ]
Danielle Steel's 'Full Circle'
Based on a book by Danielle Steel, this drama recount's a woman's struggle to learn to love and trust again after she survives a vicious rape and beating. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide [ Romance movie - 1996 ]
Puddle Cruiser
Grogan (Kevin Heffernan) and Matt (Paul Soter) get caught red-handed stealing food from the college cafeteria, but Felix (Steve Lemme) calmly ... [ Romance movie - 1996 ]
Breathing Room
David (Dan Futterman) is a language expert who knows how to say "I Love You" in ... [ Romance movie - 1996 ]
A Summer's Tale
The third film in Eric Rohmer's Tales of the Four Seasons quartet takes place in a resort town in Brittany. ... [ Romance movie - 1996 ]
Green Plaid Shirt
This story chronicles the history of a gay relationship that is torn asunder by death. In ... [ Romance movie - 1996 ]
Iris Blond
Romeo Spera (Carlo Verdone), an ordinary-looking middle-aged man, is a musician who ... [ Romance movie - 1996 ]
The Target
A young French sailor falls in love with a Russian tourist during a passion-filled three-day furlough, but is whisked away for a months worth of submarine duty ... [ Romance movie - 1996 ]
Fire
In this India-set Canadian drama, two disparate wives related by marriage and united at first by the ... [ Romance movie - 1996 ]
Danielle Steel's 'No Greater Love'
Based on a novel by Danielle Steel, this romantic made-for-television drama follows a survivor of the Titanic, who lost her fiance during the wreck, as she gradually comes out of her ... [ Romance movie - 1996 ]
Leading Man
This light romantic comedy follows the amorous backstage shenanigans ... [ Romance movie - 1996 ]
Trojan Eddie
Set in Ireland, this beautifully rendered drama offers a fascinating portrait of ... [ Romance movie - 1996 ]
Who's the Woman, Who's the Man
Following up on his wildly popular gender bending comedy He's ... [ Romance movie - 1996 ]
Marriage [Anime OVA Series]
The OVA anime release Marriage consists of two 30-minute pieces by Miki Kasamatsu on the topics of love and looking for that special someone. The first deals with a group of young women who, after ... [ Romance movie - 1996 ]
